Zhang Yichi couldn't stand this kind of probing, and he said with a hint of impatience: "Can you tell me something directly? Don't beat around the bush, it's boring."
"It's nothing." Li Xiangnian smiled, and the atmosphere in the car suddenly relaxed a little, "I just want to have a casual chat with you. I think your kid is quite interesting."
Zhang Yichi said nothing.
"Before, I was a policeman with a bright future." Li Xiangnian changed the topic and talked about his past, "At that time, I had a happy family. But everything... changed thirteen years ago."
Zhang Yichi frowned and listened to Li Xiangnian's story.
"My wife was hit by a car on her way to get off work at night," Li Xiangnian said.
When he said this, Zhang Yichi couldn't help but glance at him again. Li Xiangnian's tone was calm and his expression did not change, but his hands seemed to be holding the steering wheel tighter.
"At that time, surveillance cameras had not yet been widely used, and no one knew who the murderer was. I refused to accept it, so I went to find it myself. I looked for clues at the crime scene and checked the maintenance records of the city's car repair shops over the past few days... I finally found it.
A suspicious young man. I checked his itinerary and found that on the night of my wife’s accident, he went to a hotel for a party and came home around ten o’clock. When he returned to his home from that restaurant, he happened to pass by where my wife’s accident happened.
Location." Li Xiangnian's hoarse voice was devoid of any emotion. He slowly parked the car in front of the zebra crossing and waited for the green light. "The time, location, and maintenance records all match. It's a pity that we can't catch him."
"Why?"
"None of this information can directly prove that the person is the perpetrator. In the eyes of others, this information at most lists that person as a suspect. If no other direct evidence can be found, the person cannot be arrested." The green light is on.
Starting, Li Xiangnian pushed down the gear hard, stepped on the accelerator and continued driving, "But I still caught him. I detained him without permission from my superiors and interrogated him overnight. My intuition told me that he was the murderer. I
I could also feel that his psychological defense was about to collapse. Unfortunately, before the results came out, his family came to the bureau to make trouble. Under pressure, the director let him go. That person went out and reported that I was not handling the case.
I abide by the rules and regulations, and the director worked hard to ensure that I was not fired, but was only demoted."
"After all this time, do you think he is really the murderer?" Zhang Yichi asked.
Li Xiangnian shook his head: "He is living a good life now. For him, that incident was just a brief deviation in his life. Does it matter if we ask him if he is the murderer thirteen years later? Can he be brought to justice?
Is it legal? Can my wife be resurrected? And looking back now, it was indeed just speculation at that time. I was too eager to find the murderer, so I ignored many logical flaws... In fact, the truth also has a time limit.
After that deadline, the truth is really meaningless and no one will care."
"..."
"I don't want something like this to happen again. We have to let the truth surface while it still retains meaning. It's still too late. Although some people can't be resurrected, it's still important whether they are murderers. What he does next
The choice you make is also very important." There happened to be another red light, Li Xiangnian stopped the car and looked at Zhang Yichi.
Zhang Yichi could feel Li Xiangnian observing his expression. He turned his head and looked at Li Xiangnian: "Do you really not care about your wife's death or whether the murderer can be brought to justice?"
Zhang Yichi knew that Li Xiangnian was hinting at his surrender at the end, but he was still not sure whether Li Xiangnian had all the evidence and wanted to give him another chance for forgiveness at the last moment, or whether he had only part of it and was just testing it now.
He did not choose to respond directly, but changed the subject and brought it back to the original point. On the one hand, he was also adjusting his emotions and state to ensure that he did not reveal any flaws.
Li Xiangnian was stunned. It wasn't that he hadn't tested Zhang Yichi, but that he was stabbed in his heart by Zhang Yichi's questions. Thirteen years have passed, and his life has become a mess. He worked hard in pain and fear.
I have managed to face my soon-to-be-death. But is my wife, the murderer, really relieved?
When you said those words, did you really think so, or were you paralyzing your incompetent self?
"drop--"
A whistle sounded from behind.
Zhang Yichi reminded: "The light is green."
After coming back to his senses, Li Xiangnian drove forward. He was silent all the way.
After sending Zhang Yichi back to the downstairs of his house, Li Xiangnian looked solemn. When Zhang Yichi entered the corridor, he finally couldn't help but cough violently. He covered his chest and curled up into a ball. He opened the medicine bottle and poured out a few
He drank the pills in a hurry. Now his coughs became more and more frequent, and each time he felt that he was one step closer to death.
Standing at the corner of the corridor on the second floor, Zhang Yichi looked at Li Xiangnian's miserable appearance in the car through the corridor window, pursed his lips and fell into silence, melting into the darkness.
Not long after, Li Xiangnian drove away. Zhang Yichi also turned around and continued to go upstairs, but before he could take a few steps, his brain felt severe pain again. He leaned sideways against the wall, and a large number of memories poured in again.
…
"What's the password for your mobile phone?" One day after school, Zhang Yichi's mobile phone ran out of power and turned off, so he asked Lu Tao to borrow his mobile phone.
"124816." Lu Tao replied.
…
The memory this time was very brief, taking less than ten seconds. But Zhang Yichi had a vague feeling that the memory this time was not that simple, and it had a disturbing direction.
He went upstairs and returned home, found Lu Tao's cell phone hidden in his bedroom, and thought about whether to open it.
So far, a total of three memories have been unlocked. The first two paragraphs have overturned Zhang Yichi's guesses about the case itself, and the third paragraph is bound to be more important. Perhaps all the truth is hidden in Lu Tao's mobile phone.
But Zhang Yichi didn't dare to open Lu Tao's cell phone because he was a little wary. Today, Li Xiangnian almost had a close encounter with him and confirmed that there was a huge ulterior secret between him and Lu Tao. According to Li Xiangnian's vigorous and resolute work style, he
I'm afraid that even if I turn it on once, there is a small chance that it will be detected.
He can leave this damn world tomorrow afternoon. Before that, is it necessary to take risks for the truth?
Zhang Yichi thought deeply and decided to take the risk.
There is no big reason, but it is just influenced by what Li Xiangnian said before. Perhaps, the truth really has a time limit, and after that time limit, it will be meaningless.
Open Lu Tao's mobile phone, enter "124816", and the phone is successfully unlocked. Fortunately, Lu Tao's mobile phone does not have the habit of cleaning it regularly, so many important information is saved and available for reference.
As a result, Zhang Yichi revealed the story behind this tragedy.