People have been role-playing since they were born. When you were young, you were your son or daughter. After you went to school, you were a student. After you graduated, you were an employee. After you fell in love, you were your boyfriend or girlfriend. After you got married,
You are a husband and wife. After you have children, you are a father and mother. When you are working, you are an employee to the top and a leader to the bottom. After retirement, you are both a father and a mother, and possibly grandparents, until you die.
At that moment, you really take off all the masks. You are just a dead person who has to sleep for a long, long time. Living is very tiring, because death will be comfortable for a long, long time.
It was already late at night. Xu Lang stood by the window of the ward for a long time, watching the lights of the houses outside go from on to off, and the streets outside from bustling to quiet, bustling and bustling during the day.
As the night deepens, the city gradually returns to calm, and most people have taken a rest. However, all members of CSY, including comrades from various public security bureaus, are still sticking to their respective posts.
Ten minutes ago, Xu Lang received a call from Lai Pi, who told Xu Lang good news and bad news at the same time.
The good news is that Sun Jianying was rescued and arrested, and he is still alive; the bad news is that the person who kidnapped Sun Jianying escaped capture and is missing.
When he heard the news, Xu Lang felt happy and frustrated at the same time. After all, Xu Lang felt a little regretful that he had not caught the two people who had hidden the deepest secrets. However, the result was good after all.
At least Sun Jianying was arrested.
If it were in the past, after Xu Lang learned the news, he would have immediately returned to CSY to conduct a surprise interrogation of Sun Jianying. However, Xu Lang did not do this. He just told Lai Pi on the phone to take Sun Jianying with him.
After returning to CSY, a surprise interrogation was immediately launched, while Xu Lang continued to stay in the ward, waiting for Wang Wenruo to wake up.
Time passed by minute by second. During the day, the noisy hospital also fell into silence at this time. The silence was terrifying, so silent that it was hard to breathe. No one spoke. Occasionally, the slightest sound of a nurse patrolling the ward could be heard in the corridor.
The sound of footsteps, which was not that loud originally, seemed so clear at this time.
Xu Lang was still standing by the window, looking at the dark night outside. Here, looking towards the sky, everything he could see was pitch black, with no moon and no stars. Xu Lang looked at the night, and he thought of what he saw when he was a child.
When he lived at his grandmother's house, he was still very young. He would nestle in her arms, sit in the yard with his sisters, look up at the sky, and count the stars in the sky. While his grandmother held Xu Lang, she gave him two
A child told some stories that had been passed down for a long time. Those stories were old and toothless, but Xu Lang and Xu Chan listened with gusto.
Once upon a time, Xu Lang had been away from Zhangjiazhuang for a long time. He had not appreciated the stars in the sky for many years. His grandmother passed away and his sister also passed away. Xu Lang had lived alone for a long time and he felt very tired. Fortunately, that
Shu Yue sometimes accompanied him and spent countless lonely nights with him. After that incident happened six years ago, Shu Yue also left him, and his cheap twin brother also left him. They left completely
He killed himself and left an infant baby to him.
Six years ago, Xu Lang chose to take Xiao Yueyue to leave S City and live in Zhuxi County. During the nearly six years of living there, Xu Lang also told Xiao Yueyue about those old things like his grandmother did when he was a child.
The story of tooth loss, perhaps, this is the transmission of life and the inheritance of culture.
"snort......"
Just when Xu Lang was wandering thousands of miles while looking at the night sky outside, a painful groan sounded from behind.
Xu Lang retracted his thoughts instantly, turned his head and looked at Wang Wenruo who had woken up in the hospital bed, and Wang Wenruo also looked at Xu Lang.
"Where am I?"
After Wang Wenruo and Xu Lang looked at each other for a few seconds, he shifted his gaze, looked around, and asked in a hoarse voice.
"Hospital." Xu Lang said calmly.
"oh."
Hearing what Xu Lang said, Wang Wenruo looked at the snow-white ceiling with a complicated look on his face. He didn't know what he was thinking. Maybe he was glad that he was still alive. Maybe he was regretting that he didn't die. As for what he was thinking about, only
He knows it himself.
Xu Lang stared at Wang Wenruo, who was staring at the ceiling in a daze. Xu Lang did not immediately ask Wang Wenruo anything. He walked to Wang Wenruo's bedside, stretched out his hand and pressed the bedside pager, and then Xu Lang pulled it over.
He sat down on the chair beside the hospital bed and looked at Wang Wenruo.
The nurse at the nurse station came over not long after hearing the sound of the pager, followed by a doctor on duty. After they examined Wang Wenruo carefully, the doctor said to Xu Lang:
"It's nothing serious. I can rest in the hospital for a few days and then be discharged."
Xu Lang nodded, expressed his gratitude to the medical staff, and sent them out of the ward.
After the medical staff left, Xu Lang closed the door, sat down next to the hospital bed again, and looked at Wang Wenruo. He and Xu Lang were now the only two people left in the ward.
As Xu Lang closed the door and walked to sit next to him, Wang Wenruo no longer stared blankly at the ceiling, but turned to look at Xu Lang. The two men, who were not much different in age, looked at each other. However, Wang Wenruo
Although he is only a thirty-eight-year-old middle-aged man,
The young man looked like he was in his forties or nearly fifty, while Xu Lang, although he had long snow-white hair, looked like a man who was not yet thirty years old.
The two looked at each other for a long time, but neither one spoke first. Too many things happened today, and Xu Lang had too many questions in his heart that needed Wang Wenruo to answer. Now, Wang Wenruo woke up, but Xu Lang didn't know what to do for a moment.
He asked, and in the end, it was Wang Wenruo who spoke first, and his first words made Xu Lang frown.
"Xu Lang, Officer Xu, we finally meet."
Xu Lang frowned and looked at Wang Wenruo, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Do you know me?"
Wang Wenruo looked at Xu Lang, smiled, and said slowly: "As the ancients said, if you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger. If you don't know your opponent, how can you do it? Not only do I know you, but I also understand you very well."
"Oh? Really? Then tell me, how much do you know about me?"
Xu Lang looked at Wang Wenruo with great interest and asked. On the surface, Xu Lang seemed calm, but his thoughts began to surge in his heart.
As if to prove that what he said was true, Wang Wenruo said slowly: "Xu Lang, male, from S City, 32 years old, his father Xu Yuan was a policeman, and his mother Zhang Lan is a surgeon at the Third Hospital
, you also have a sister who is three years older than you, and a twin brother. When you were five years old, both of your parents died. When you were fifteen, your sister was killed. In the same year, your grandmother who raised you siblings also passed away.
, when you were twenty-eight, your brother and girlfriend passed away, and you now have a six-year-old daughter, probably named Xu Yueyue, right?"
"After the college entrance examination, you chose the police academy. When you were nineteen, you received an undercover mission and went undercover to a criminal group. Finally, you successfully completed the task and wiped out the criminal gang. Afterwards, you returned to the police academy to continue
After going to school and graduating, under the recommendation of Lu Ye, the former director of the S City Public Security Bureau, you served as the captain of the Second Criminal Investigation Team. Three years later, you were suspended for beating a prisoner. Soon after, you resigned and established a detective agency.
The agency was called Langge Detective Agency. In the same year, you served as the criminal investigation consultant of the General Bureau of Public Security, assisting the public security organs in solving numerous cases. Two years later, a shooting case occurred that shocked the country. In that case, you suffered
Seriously injured, your girlfriend and twin brother were killed for saving you. Half a year later, you left S City with your daughter and settled in Zhuxi County, Beihu Province. More than a month ago, Ning, deputy director of the Public Security Bureau of S City
Yanran came to find you. You returned to S City from Zhuxi County. After you came back, you solved the train murder case. Soon after, CSY was established. You served as the leader of the CSY criminal investigation team and solved the perfect suicide case and the perfect murder case one after another. "
At the end of the sentence, Wang Wenruo looked at Xu Lang and asked, "Officer Xu, am I right?"
Hearing what Wang Wenruo said, Xu Lang did not answer. Although he did not admit it, his expression told Wang Wenruo that Wang Wenruo was right. In just a few sentences, he told Xu Lang's experience in the past thirty years.
When they came out, it seemed that Wang Wenruo and Xu Lang were friends who had known each other for a long time and had a very good relationship. They didn't look like two people who had never met. Xu Lang's face was very gloomy and his eyes were narrowed.
Flashing with dangerous light.
After Wang Wenruo said these words, a half-smiling expression appeared on his face. He looked at Xu Lang with interest and said nothing.
Silence, another suffocating silence, Xu Lang's body exuded an extremely dangerous aura, and his eyes when he looked at Wang Wenruo became more and more unfriendly, but Wang Wenruo didn't seem to notice, just looking at Xu Lang, the corner of his mouth
Draw up a curve.
"How do you know this? Do you know what is going on outside even if you are in prison?" Xu Lang narrowed his eyes and looked at Wang Wenruo and asked in a deep voice.
Wang Wenruo looked at Xu Lang, and he was sure that Xu Lang must be very angry at this moment and wanted to kill himself. However, Xu Lang didn't make any move, he just looked at himself.
Wang Wenruo was a little disappointed that his goal was not achieved, but he was not too disappointed. At least, he succeeded in angering Xu Lang.
"I only learned about this after I was released from prison, and it was only after I came to S City that I really got to know you. To be honest, you are a very good policeman. At least, you are very capable. I admire you very much.
You." Wang Wenruo said calmly.
"Why do you want to know me?" Xu Lang looked at Wang Wenruo and asked.
"As I said just now, you are my opponent. Who do I know?"
"After you were released from prison, were you ready to commit crimes?" Xu Lang asked again.
Wang Wenruo no longer looked at Xu Lang, but turned his head and looked at the ceiling above his head. He thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "Yes."
"So, you killed both Zhang Jinzhong and Sun Qihang?"
Wang Wenruo nodded again and said, "Yes."
"Why do you do this?"
Wang Wenruo turned his head and looked at Xu Lang with a sarcastic smile. He grinned and laughed. The smile was very unpleasant and the smile was also very bitter.
"Ha ha......"
"Why? Haha...you ask me why?"
Wang Wenruo's eyes were moist and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. He looked at Xu Lang and said slowly: "You lost
There are more than one loved one. You chose the police profession in order to avenge your loved ones, and I, like you, have also lost loved ones. You have a clean background and connections, so you can become a police officer, but I am just a person with a criminal record.
I’m destined not to be a police officer, I don’t know what I did wrong, why my relatives left me one by one, I don’t understand what I did wrong?”
"I was born in a rural area. My parents had high expectations for me since I was a child. I also knew that it was not easy for my parents, so I chose to study hard and study harder than others. I thought that as long as I was admitted to university, I would be able to
After graduation, I can change the status quo. When I was in college, I met her. She was so beautiful and touching. When I saw her for the first time, I couldn't help but fall in love with her."
Xu Lang knew who Wang Wenruo was talking about, she was Wang Wenruo's fiancée Li Jingqi.
"For her, I gave up my plan to return to my hometown immediately and stayed in S city. In this strange city, I have no relatives or friends. The only ones I have are her and her family, but...
"
Speaking of this, Wang Wenruo closed his eyes, his chest heaved violently, his tone became choked, and tears flowed out again.
"Did you know? Before she had the car accident, we were ready to get married. However, just before the wedding, she died, and she was hit and killed. When I saw her cold body,
My first thought was to kill the bastard who killed him. That bastard was caught, but he was only sentenced to seven years. Seven years, only seven years. Li Jingqi’s mother raised her for two years.
He died like this after more than ten years, but the culprit was only sentenced to seven years. Is this fair? It's not fair."
Having said this, Wang Wenruo looked at Xu Lang and said excitedly.
Xu Lang was silent. Xu Lang had also experienced Wang Wenruo losing the person he loved most. When Shu Yue was killed, Xu Lang's thoughts were actually the same as Wang Wenruo's. He wanted to kill those bastards.
However, Xu Lang did not do this, and reality did not allow him to do so. Perhaps because of the same experience, or perhaps because of the same illness, Xu Lang felt a sense of sympathy and pity for Wang Wenruo.
Wang Wenruo continued.
"Actually, I really wanted to kill that bastard and avenge her, but her mother was ill at that time and needed a lot of money, but we didn't have that much money. When facing reality,
I had to bow my head and accept compensation that made me feel ashamed. Seeing him go to jail, I no longer wanted to live in this city, so we returned to our hometown and prepared to start a new life."
"A new life has begun. I married her sister and had my own son. Originally, I thought that my life could really start again, but those bastards hurt them. Not only did they rape-
They violently assaulted my wife and killed my son. My son was less than one year old when he died. How could they be so cruel as to do it?"
Wang Wenruo closed his eyes again, with a painful look on his face.
Wang Wenruo closed his eyes, opened them again, and then closed them again. He repeated this several times before he continued: "Yes, those bastards were caught and sentenced, but except for one of them
In addition to people being sentenced to death, others are still alive and only sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. Why can they still live after they kill someone and commit a crime, while I, just for revenge, have to go to jail? This is what is called
The law? Is this what is called fairness? Haha..."
Wang Wenruo sneered.
"So, you had the idea of killing someone at this time?" Xu Lang asked.
Wang Wenruo nodded and said: "Yes, when I was serving my sentence in prison, I thought that when I got out, I would kill all these bastards. Since the law cannot judge them, it cannot give me justice."
, then I will do it myself."
When Xu Lang heard this, he frowned and said, "According to our investigation, you didn't harm their relatives after you were released from prison?"
Wang Wenruo looked at Xu Lang with an idiotic look, and said angrily: "It was them who committed the crime, not their family members. The ancients also said that the trouble does not affect the family, and I am not a criminal."
Crazy, whoever hurt me will have to pay the price. Of course, I have had this thought. After I was released from prison, I secretly visited their parents and saw that they and my father had
Just like my mother-in-law, she is a pitiful person, so I gave up."
"Then you came to S City from Xingchuan City just to kill Sun Qihang, who once killed your fiancée?" Xu Lang asked again.
Wang Wenruo nodded and said: "Yes, I know that he was released from prison, and I also know that he lives a very good life. Not only did he take over the company, but he also married a wife and had children. Haha... The reality is so ridiculous,
He killed someone, but only served seven years in prison, but I injured someone, but had to go to prison for several years. Is this fair? Why can he live a normal life after he is released from prison, but after I am released from prison?
, everyone looks like they are seeing a god of plague when they see me? Why? Is it because his family has money?"
Hearing Wang Wenruo ask himself why many times, Xu Lang didn't know how to explain this to Wang Wenruo. The legal trials of Sun Qihang and others were all based on legal provisions. There was no inside story, and it was not because of whether Sun Qihang's family had any