Chapter 43 Faith (Thanks to Ye Da for secretly rewarding the leader (quietly bb))
"So, what exactly do you want to say."
Ai Liang asked back: "You came to me just to find someone to talk to?"
"If there's nothing else, I'll go back first."
"Wait! Wait a minute!"
Jin Pingan looked at Ai Liang's back, took out two banknotes from his wallet, slapped them on the table, and hurriedly chased after him.
Ai Liang did not stop because of his cry, so Jin Pingan had no choice but to walk beside Ai Liang and talk.
"If you ruin their plan, they will definitely attack you in the end. Why don't we join forces first?"
Facing Ai Liang who was walking faster and faster, Jin Pingan could only speed up his pace, so his tone of voice was a little hasty.
"I hope you can help me find the real mastermind and those who are missing..."
"I refuse. I don't need you to interfere with my safety. If you hadn't involved me, I wouldn't have encountered these bad things at all."
Ai Liang stood still under the street lamp.
Aita slapped away Jin Ping'an's hand on his shoulder and said with cold eyes: "I was held hostage by robbers in the bank. I can consider myself unlucky, but now, you have to drag me into the quagmire."
"I saved your life, and how did you repay me? Even though you knew that investigating something would be life-threatening, you still wanted to drag me along. Don't you have any sense of shame?"
"I...I just want to..." Jin Ping'an took a half step back, with a struggling look on his face.
"What you think is your business. I have no reason and no obligation to cooperate with your actions."
Ai Liang walked towards Jin Ping'an with overwhelming momentum: "Don't give orders to others from the moral high ground in the name of saving people.
For the sake of one's own ideas, casually dragging unrelated people into dangerous actions is ultimately just to satisfy one's own so-called sense of justice.
It doesn't matter to you, but have you ever considered what will happen to the people you involve?
Reality is not a fairy tale, and there will not be a perfect happy ending. If the truth is still not revealed in the end, in the face of the enemy's revenge, can you protect those who are involved in it?"
Ai Liang's words were not loud, but to Jin Pingan, they were thunderous.
This was the first time anyone had said these words to him.
"Don't imagine that just by raising your arms, there will be righteous people who will unconditionally help you fight against the evil forces. This is reality, not a fairy tale world."
The reason why Ai Liang said this was because he felt that Jin Pingan was very similar to his former self. From him, Ai Liang saw a trace of the hermit.
Ai Liang, who had just gained superpowers ten years ago, acted just like him to satisfy his own sense of justice.
But after listening to Jin Pingan's statement, Ai Liang was a little disappointed.
Although the former hermit also acted to satisfy his sense of justice, at least he knew the basics of human nature and had the ability to investigate the truth alone without involving innocent people.
Jin Ping'an, on the other hand, is a little confused about himself. He insists on taking the porcelain job without diamonds, and naively thinks that others will help him unconditionally after hearing about the dark side.
This is just a young boy immersed in the detective game.
All in all, I have received too few beatings from society.
After Ai Liang said these words, he turned and left.
"I understand what you are saying!"
A crackling sound came from behind.
The light from the street lamp is so strong that it looks like a conical white cover from a distance.
Jin Pingan stood directly under the street lamp with red eyes, while Ai Liang's body was buried in the shadow outside the light. He slowly turned sideways, and the street lamp illuminated half of his indifferent face.
"I know I'm a loser! I don't have the reasoning ability like Lao Tian, nor the information gathering ability like Le Jia. My physical fitness is average. I will be out of breath after running three thousand meters."
Jin Pingan clenched his fists and his voice was trembling.
"I used to not want to accept the identity of a criminal police consultant. I just wanted to be an ordinary student and occasionally go to the detachment to help out."
"But I can't let it go!"
Jin Pingan raised his head, his bloodshot eyes were a little moist.
"I can't turn a blind eye to those victims!"
"I know no one wants to meddle in other people's business, especially about the Black Zone."
"People can feel at ease and hand over the disappearance of those people to the police, but if the police are unable to investigate immediately due to various reasons, what should the victims do?"
"Lao Tian and the others are being deployed and have no time to conduct investigations. What about me?"
"Because I am young, I can remain silent and pretend not to know, and let the victims be tortured by criminals in a corner?"
"While the victims are in hell, praying hard for someone to save them.
But they don’t know that no one cares about their life or death, and no one is taking action for them. If you are the victim, can you accept it?"
Jin Ping'an stepped forward and grabbed Ai Liang's shoulders with both hands, turning him towards him.
"I saw your information in the police information database not long ago. In order to monitor the murderer, you stayed downstairs for a day and a night. If you are really the kind of person who doesn't want to meddle in other people's business, why do you do this?
Do?"
"What I want to do has nothing to do with you. This is not the reason for you to involve me."
Ai Liang's entire face was in shadow.
Jin Pingan's eyes, which had been stimulated by strong street lights for a long time, could not see Ai Liang's expression at this time.
"I know I shouldn't involve you, I know...but there's nothing I can do..."
Jin Pingan lowered his head. Under the influence of alcohol, his emotions began to gradually lose control.
"Le Jia went overseas and couldn't be contacted. Lao Tian, who promised to help me investigate, was urgently transferred to other areas by the detachment to handle the case.
Everyone else in the criminal police team made excuses to avoid me, and even my informant cut off contact with me."
"I don't resent them for not helping me, because they all have their own families and worries, and what I'm doing now is like a moth chasing a flame, but ah."
Jin Ping'an's nose mixed with tears. His hands on Ai Liang's shoulders slowly dropped, and his knees gradually bent until he knelt down in front of Ai Liang.
Jin Pingan continued with a sob: "But... I can't do anything. With my own strength... I can't even fly to the side of the fire..."
"I am also desperate, and I tried my best, so I came to you who I just met. Please help me... help the victims... please..."
The surroundings were eerily quiet.
Even the cicadas in the green belt are no longer chirping.
The two of them were obviously on the road near a residential building, but they couldn't see a pedestrian or a car.
Only Jin Pingan's sobs echoed in Ai Liang's ears.
Ai Liang silently stared at Jin Pingan who was kneeling on the ground.
I take it back, you are nothing like the person I used to be.