The flames were burning and the circuits were crackling. When he climbed out of the overturned car, his vision was a little blurry.
At night, in the park by the river, the dense lights of the city sway like fire on the opposite side, like a huge city floating on the water. The prosperous scene contrasts with the remoteness and loneliness of the park here. Remember the park
The development project was presided over by him more than ten years ago.
"It's a failed development..."
The wind blew over, and he sighed, staggering towards the blurry water. Suddenly, there was a huge explosion from the car behind him, flames rose, and a heat wave swept from behind, as if to drown him.
Generally, there was the sound of a helicopter in the sky, followed by a bright beam of light that brightened the field of vision. Someone was shouting from high in the sky. The chasing vehicles on both sides of the park had also arrived. Most of them were police cars with various lights.
Chaos.
His head was still groggy and blood was flowing from his forehead. He stretched out his hand to wipe it and tightened his windbreaker. On both sides of the river, hovercrafts and speedboats swarmed in to prevent him from jumping into the water and escaping.
"Really...I'm not a killer..."
The dense surroundings of sea, land and air made him feel a little bored, and his vision was not clear anymore. He knew in his heart that there might not be much chance of luck this time. The cold wind blew over, and what came to mind in his mind were some insignificant things. This
It was the city where he grew up. At that time, the city was not so good. Standing on the river bank, you couldn't see the city's splendid palace-like prosperity, but you felt warm. The river bank was also full of soil slopes, a strip of loess.
It's a small road. When I go to school from home, I often ride my bicycle there with a few friends.
"I want to build a park here in the future to make it more beautiful, so that there will be high-rise buildings everywhere in the city, and we can all live in them..."
He was still young at that time, and he made this ambition after going to the prosperous provincial capital. What a high-spirited age. In the next twenty or thirty years, he was like a primitive man who had just invented the stone knife and stone axe, forging ahead with amazing courage.
, overcoming countless thrilling difficulties that others could not imagine, and establishing a huge financial empire that is one of the best in the world. Sometimes when he thinks about it, even he himself feels like a dream.
In the eyes of others, he was already a financial giant who could not be defeated at all, and he himself thought so. However, when he returned to his hometown at this moment, he gradually realized that this park had failed after all.
Its original intention was to make everyone happy...
The failed development project was not irreversible later, as long as a large amount of money was invested - for him now, this small amount of money was nothing - but why has it not been done? The reason why he still wanted to do it was because
It’s not easy, and now, I deliberately bypass it because it’s not profitable. Now that I think about it, there are many things I thought I remembered, but I actually forgot them, and many things I thought I forgot, but actually I remembered them again…
Those friends and partners back then, the expectation of making the world a better place, and the path that the wishes had taken. He sat down on the stone bench on the river embankment. The light was dazzling, and his mood was complicated. He reached into his pocket.
I touched it a few times. At this time, I really needed a cigarette, even though I had quit smoking for a long time...
Someone handed over the cigarette.
The man in a suit and gold-rimmed glasses was standing nearby. You didn't even have to look up to know it was him. He took the cigarette, and the man in the gold-rimmed glasses took out a lighter, blocked the wind with his hand, and lit it for him.
"Remembering things from the past, we rode bicycles to school together from here, you, me, Qingyi, A Kang, Ruoping... Qingyi died two years ago, and I couldn't attend his funeral..." He
He took a puff of cigarette and when he exhaled it, the cold wind immediately blew it away, "How is Ruoping?"
"I have two children and are doing well." The man wearing glasses sat down.
"Ah... you told me, I almost forgot..." He thought for a moment, then laughed, "She is the most beautiful among the girls. I remember that I have always had a crush on her, but I didn't dare to confess."
The man next to him was silent for a while, then he also took out his lighter and lit a cigarette: "I know you like her. I confessed my love to her before you, but was rejected... She said she likes you."
"I never heard you say anything about this..."
"What else can I do? Later, when I was working hard for the future, you forgot about her. She can't always wait for you. She got married without you confessing her love."
"Yeah, I missed a lot of things..."
"You always strive for perfection."
"You know, right? When you reach the top..." He thought for a moment and raised his hand to indicate a height, "When you reach the top, you will find that there is nothing except a moment of sense of accomplishment. You will always feel
...Regrettably...the path we are taking now may not be what we originally wanted to achieve..."
"Yes." The man wearing glasses said.
After a moment of silence, he looked at the cigarette in his hand. It was already very short: "It will be very troublesome to deal with the loss of more than 10 billion. I knew it a few months ago and have made a plan.
In my computer... I just didn't expect your reaction to be so violent. The company's change of government can indeed transfer the losses to some people, which makes it a lot easier. Please make some changes to the plan and try not to affect too many people.
, after all, we have worked hard together for so long."
"...I." The man next to him hesitated for a while, as if he wanted to explain something, but in the end he just said, "I'm sorry."
"It's nothing. We've been together so far, and I've always been standing in front. Brothers, it's time for you to give it a try... This game is well set up. The company will give it to you. You can't fail it, but... you'll get it later.
Spend some money and really develop the park. I've always wanted to do it, and I always thought I remembered it, but when I think about it, I feel like I'm not in a hurry, and it's always delayed..."
"I told them over there that you can still live a good life after this incident..."
"Cut the grass without eradicating the roots. The spring breeze will blow and it will grow again. Let the tiger return to the mountain..." He turned his head, with a kind of sternness in his calm eyes, "Who do you think you are?"
"As long as I live, I can threaten you!" He paused, threw the cigarette butt to the ground and stamped it out, "It's cold at high places. It's enough to get to this point in my life. Even if I have to do it all over again, I will
I hope I can do it all over again without any worries, and those messy dirty things, intrigues... If I can do it again..."
He smiled and stood up: "If I could do it again, I think I would confess to her..."
Helicopters were hovering in the sky, boats were speeding on the water, and the park was surrounded by vehicles. On the embankment where the lights were focused, the man who stood up suddenly pulled out his gun and pointed it at the man wearing glasses next to him, and witnessed his actions.
, the man wearing glasses also stood up at the same time, raised his hands, and waved to the people around him: "Don't shoot--"
Gunshots rang out intensively, and blood bloomed on his back. After a long while, he turned around and looked at the body lying in a pool of blood. He took off his glasses in a daze, wiped them a few times, and then put his eyes back on again.
Put it on and pick up the gun in the corpse's hand.
"I told you not to shoot...there are no bullets..."