Chapter 239: Meet an old friend

Qingcheng Xie closed his eyes, and his chest barely rose and fell when he said the next sentence.

"Or should I just call you, Lisheng Chen?"

When Wen Duan heard that, he was silent for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, but he smiled abruptly.

His smile was first very shallow, like a snow-white cocoon breaking open, revealing a little shrug of black finger claws, and then suddenly expanded, all spread on his no longer young but still very handsome face, as if the metamorphosis of the moth butterfly bite cocoon out, struggling to break the cage, phosphorus powder horror wings from the dried up pupa in the remains of the molten chrysalis, exposed to the blue sky and white.

"Haha ......" Wen Duan tilted his head, smiling with the pleasure of finally not having to disguise it anymore, even as if he was reunited with an old friend, "You really haven't disappointed me at all, Qingcheng Xie."

Qingcheng Xie slowly drops his eyelashes.

He did not rejoice in the praise at all, much less in the fact that he had hit on the identity of Wen Duan.

His face is very indifferent, very numb, but also can be said to be suffused with boundless cold.

Qingcheng Xie : "It's really you."

Wen Duan : "It's really me."

And again, "Can you tell me why you guessed it was me?"

Qingcheng Xie raised his eyes, as if looking at a stranger, looking at this man whom he had been sweeping for nearly twenty years, his lips opened and closed: "You tell me first, how is Yu He."

"He's..." Wen Duan said, "It's okay. He's not dead."

Qingcheng Xie's eyes were ruthless: "What exactly do you plan to do to him?"

"I think you should have guessed it all." Wen Duan said slowly, "I took him at this juncture, of course, because he can be made into a weapon against the Dreambreakers' attack - don't worry, he can't die, just after our treatment, he will accept our thoughts and ideas through and through ...... he will still remember you and your past, but he will think it was wrong, we call this ......"

Wen Duan paused and said, "Perception transformation."

"So don't feel bad, Qingcheng Xie, he just had a change of heart, as long as you are willing to defect to us, you will be on the same front as him again, I believe he will still want to treat you as well as before." Wen Duan said, shallowly hooking the corners of his lips, "But of course, if you stick to your current camp, I think he will treat you with disdain."

"......"

"In fact, people are only limited by their own vision, fighting for what they think is right. But what is right in your eyes is not yet wrong in the eyes of others." Wen Duan, blessed by two bodyguards, said to Qingcheng Xie very leisurely, "You don't have to reject me in a hurry, you can think it over again. Now--"

He deflected his face and two bodyguards immediately stepped forward, one holding Qingcheng Xie down while the other began a carpet search on Qingcheng Xie's body.

Wen Duan lightly said, "Let's just get your Feng Bo system out of the way first."

"Mr. Duan! Found a suspicious one!"

Within a few moments, a bodyguard found the bracelet leather cord from Qingcheng Xie's clothes.

Wen Duan took it, held it in his hand, and looked at it carefully.

"It's exquisitely made ......" he said slowly, "It seems to be an ordinary trinket ...... with no interface and no electronic response ...... but ......"

The force on the hand increased steeply, and the leather rope broke, revealing the thin cable like cow hair underneath.

Wen Duan showed a "really" look, and then raised his eyes to Qingcheng Xie: "I'm glad you only had time to take it off and hide it in your pocket, so I didn't have to have someone strip your clothes or cut open your flesh to find it. To be honest, I don't really want to hurt you."

Qingcheng Xie was held down by the sturdy bull-like bodyguard, and his face was extremely cold.

"Are you trying to say there's humanity in you, Lisheng Chen."

Wen Duan tossed the broken bracelet to the other bodyguard behind him and said, "Yeah. I spared Man Chen, and I hope I can spare you, too."

"You spared Man Chen?" Qingcheng Xie's face was still stained with blood, he stared at Wen Duan, who was relaxed in front of him, his voice was hoarse and low, "If I am not mistaken, in order to get rid of Zhilong Huang's power, it was you who sent that video tape to Man Chen, right? You even went to the extent of acting as if you were still alive in order to convince him, and as a result, he almost took his life for your sake in order to investigate the case, and you call this, letting him off the hook, right?

Wen Duan did not care and listened indifferently to Qingcheng Xie finish his speech.

Then he said, "I really didn't care about him originally, I only saw him as a toy, a pawn."

"But ...... he surprised me a little. I did not expect him to see the so-called brotherly feelings so deeply, after seeing a glimmer of hope, a long time can not walk in the fantasy that I am still alive. When everyone had given up, he still harbored this little extravagant hope. I admit that I originally had the intention of toying with him in it, and I was curious about how deep the so-called brotherly love really was."

After a few seconds' pause, he said, "In the end, his performance was with me and took high marks."

"So even though I still don't take him too seriously, but since there's an opportunity to let him live, let him live once. Consider it a reward from his brother."

"So that video was really sent by you ......" Qingcheng Xie said through clenched teeth.

"Yes, waste." Wen Duan coldly smiled with a show of hands, " Man Chen is a waste in my eyes."

"So now what are you trying to use on me."

Wen Duan's smile, which could be described as wanton, was restrained.

He stared at Qingcheng Xie, and after a while, looked away, fished out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and lit up. He smoked the cigarette, but never answered Qingcheng Xie's words.

Until the smoke has burned out.

Wen Duan discarded the cigarette butt, and in the mist of the unbroken green haze, he reopened his mouth--

"I did not kill you for the purpose of exploitation. Rather, it is because, I promised someone."

The man said, his eyelashes dropping slightly, which made his already difficult to figure out eyes become even more obscure and difficult to understand. He went on to put the words down: "I promised him I would try not to kill you."

"...... my father?"

Wen Duan did not answer.

After a while, he staggered the topic and smiled slightly, "Professor Xie, let's be fair, I've said so much, but you don't seem to have answered my question. Tell me first, how did you guess that I am Lisheng Chen."

"...... a lot. You chose to put up Man Chen. Yun Li's sudden appearance. Yu He's blood compulsion is ineffective against Yun Li, and there's ......"

"Hmm?"

"What you said to me the other night when you met with me."

Wen Duan slightly frowned black eyebrows, crossed fingers: "What did I say to you ......?"

"You said after all, the word police, not the clothes on the body shoulder title, not the prestige and power, but the heavy responsibility and shackles."

Wen Duan's face changed abruptly, realizing the problem.

Qingcheng Xie said, "These are the words of my father. He often said it to me, and often to his disciples. And the only disciples he ever took were you and Yun Li."

"......" Wen Duan's lips twitched and he lost his smile, "What a blunder ...... I didn't expect you to remember your father's words so well ."

Qingcheng Xie said, "I didn't expect you to remember your master's words so well."

Wen Duan : "......"

"After I heard that, I also mentioned that Jingfeng Zheng and my parents had been teammates since the internship. Zheng's mouth is tight, very few people know about this, even I only learned about it before I went to the island, but you heard it without any surprise. My parents and the Zheng team will not say anything more to the next person, can learn these details, I am afraid that only their apprentice."

"In fact, after I talked to you that night, the person I suspected more was Yun Li." Qingcheng Xie said, "But then Yun Li showed up, so the only one left was you."

"As for that Yun Li, I'm afraid it's not real either. He should be a transformed human, because Yu He's blood compulsion is usually only ineffective in two situations, one is when the other wears the Clear Heart Ring, and the other, when the other is a living dead person whose brain is controlled by a chip. I prefer the latter, because he doesn't feel right to me, not like a normal person."

Wen Duan lit a cigarette: "I underestimated you, Qingcheng Xie. Now that we're at this point, why don't you take another guess as to who begged me not to kill you? I think you're close to knowing the answer to that one."

Qingcheng Xie slowly raised his eyes in this silence: "Not my father's words, is it - Yun Li?"

Wen Duan looked at him sideways: " Qingcheng Xie, you are indeed... very suitable to be a police officer."

After he finished, he added lightly, "That's right, it's because of him."

He could see that Wen Duan had a lot of things on his mind, things that had been on his mind for too many years, and from Wen Duan's look at the moment, it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about it, but because none of the people on the island were really his friends.

They are like the companions in the furnace, gathered together because of their ruthlessness, a gang but not a group, and even if they are not careful, they will be swallowed by other companions down to their bellies.

Perhaps the moment he took off his mask in front of Qingcheng Xie was the most relaxing time for Wen Duan in the past twenty years.

As it happens, after several minutes, Wen Duan slowly spoke up.

The tone he uses is no longer one of talking about big things, but rather calm, even as he did when he was a guest at Qingcheng Xie's house many years ago when he was still Lisheng Chen.

"Yun Li and I, both of us, started out as students of your father's ......"

"Master is very good to me." Wen Duan looked at the sky outside the window, faintly said, "he is much better to me than to Yun Li, when he is divided, can only take a disciple, he chose me, and suggested Yun Li go to follow another old economic investigation to learn, and even bluntly told Yun Li, he such a character, not suitable for front-line work. "

It's not surprising that Ping Xie is a man of one voice, who does not shun relatives and enemies, and it's only natural that he would say such offensive things to Yun Li.

"Everyone has the impression that he's always had a problem with Yun Li, and I'm afraid you do too."

Qingcheng Xie : "Isn't it."

"Originally it was true." Wen Duan said, "Originally, Master was really uncomfortable with him, thinking he was sinister, good at disguise and two-faced, but then his mind changed."

Qingcheng Xie with wariness: "He never talked to me."

"Because it happened very late, almost shortly before he and his mother were killed." Wen Duan said, "In fact, the misunderstanding between them could have been resolved earlier. However, Yun Li did not like to mention his family, and it could even be said that he was deliberately hiding something about his past."

Qingcheng Xie frowned, the police academy admissions are required political / trial, like the infernal road in the kind of parents are the youth gang boss, but they conceal the situation to become a police officer is almost impossible to happen.

Wen Duan saw his thoughts, lit another cigarette, took a drag and said, "Not a bad background, so the police school will not record the file in detail, the master he naturally does not know. To be honest, if it were anyone else, they wouldn't necessarily hide it, and would even be eager for their comrades who worked together to know."

"What's the background." Qingcheng Xie asked.

"An informant." Wen Duan said, "His father was an informant for the narcotics/drug cadre. He's been doing it for more than a decade. But on all the materials he turned in, when he filled in the column for his father, he filled in the column for fruit and vegetable merchant."

"...... The police academy didn't verify it?"

"He's not lying." Wen Duan dusted off his cigarette and exhaled a haze of smoke, "His father is a vegetable and fruit merchant - he's been living with this stepfather who sells vegetables and fruits since elementary school, his mother got divorced and he was sentenced to her. The real father looks just like a hobo, no one can stand it, but he's actually an informer."

Ashes rustled down, like ghosts of the past floating down in the darkness.

" Yun Li only learned the true identity of his biological father when he was in high school, when his biological father died. It was during the meeting with the police when the drug dealers found out and a shootout took place. That police officer had to choose one of the two in order to save his comrades, and when he tried to turn back to save his informant again ...... his father had no breath."

Qingcheng Xie heard the hands and feet slightly cold.

He remembered the scene he saw when he was young, Yun Li, before he had obtained his police officer's license, using unorthodox interrogation methods to extract confessions from drug traffickers, with ruthless methods and cold eyes.

Original ......

"The reason why his father had to do this informant even though his wife was separated is because his father is a complete idealist, as a local of the Golden Triangle, his father has seen too many families and lives ruined by drugs, he once wanted to be a police officer, but unfortunately his physical fitness was not so good, the medical test was screened down, but he never gave up either, when he couldn't be a police officer he became an informant, Yun Li and his mother only learned these truths when they saw a diary among the relics handed over to them by the police."

Wen Duan paused and continued, "You can imagine how mixed feelings Yun Li had when she read that diary."

Wen Duan said while lazily leaning back in his chair and smoking a cigarette.

His tone was bland, the blood and rain in his mouth, as calm as the stories he used to tell Qingcheng Xie.

But Qingcheng Xie could never see through the colors in his eyes.

" Yun Li resented his biological father immensely. For an ideal, his father left him and his mother behind, and between home and righteousness, his father resolutely chose the latter. He felt extreme anger, resentment and pain. However ......"

After another puff, Wen Duan said, "In that year's college entrance exam, Yun Li gave up her original art school exam and applied for the police academy instead."

Qingcheng Xie : "......"

"I and his four years in the same dorm room, his personality is more arrogant, I am considered to be the most compatible with him, but four years, he never mentioned these past events with me. So later we entered the public security system, your father, as the first master of both of us, also had no understanding of his family background, that he was not too eager to get what he wanted and could be described as unscrupulous. I think your father must have regretted after knowing the truth, he and Yun Li talked once privately, and I think that conversation between them, talking about this matter."

"...... why this speculation."

"Because shortly afterwards Master was murdered by the Dela Man organization by design. And there were two people who insisted on investigating Master's death at that time, one made a lot of noise and drums so that everyone would know that it was me. The other was so cautious that he sensed what appeared to be the presence of a mole within the Bureau, and he thought his bad relationship with Ping Xie was the best cover instead - that person was Yun Li."

"!!!"

"Yes, Qingcheng Xie, Yun Li didn't have an accident to investigate my case, he stepped into this field of death long before he investigated my case." Wen Duan said, "In fact, he was the officer who insisted on giving his life for the sake of your parents' innocence."

Qingcheng Xie had thought that after Yu He's incident, there would be nothing else that could cause him great excitement, but at this moment, he knew he had misjudged and had to calm his breathing as much as possible.

The whole thing has come to the most critical time, any move can not be wrong.

"He was pretending to be so good that no one knew that he and Ping Xie had broken up and had even become best friends. He fooled everyone, including me at the time."

A cigarette is almost burnt out again.

Wen Duan did not smoke again, the cigarette in his hand, watching the filter paper in the star fire slowly curled up, turning into black ash: " Ping Xie is a very good police officer, but he did two of the most wrong things in his life, one is a misunderstanding of Yun Li, Yun Li, even if there is a mistake, but not because of the nature of the evil, the good thing is that this mistake he corrected before he died. And the second mistake And the second wrong thing ......"

Wen Duan said, "It is he who believes in me wrongly."

Qingcheng Xie seems even the blood is cold, he looked at Wen Duan: "you from the beginning into the police station, is Cuizhen Duan arranged?"

"I have my own interests, and it can't be considered a full arrangement." Wen Duan said, "But I've really been a Dela Man guy from the beginning. Since I was a kid."

He looked into Qingcheng Xie's eyes, which were cold, but there was no longer any surprise.

"It looks like you're well aware of that, too." Wen Duan says, "I'm a descendant of Cuizhen Duan, and I embraced her ideas wholeheartedly when I was very young."

"From when."

Wen Duan said calmly, "From the first time I met her. I was living a very unhappy life with my mother at that time."

Qingcheng Xie knows a little bit about Wen Duan, or Lisheng Chen's family.

Lisheng Chen's father originally had a wife who was a high achiever, but gave up his studies and career for his family and later became ill and passed away.

After she passed away, Chen's father formed a family with another woman, that woman is Man Chen's mother. But Chen's mother is very good to Lisheng Chen, there should be no gap between the stepmother and stepson, let alone any third party to take over.

Wen Duan said, "My mother's unhappy marriage really had nothing to do with Man Chen's mother. My stepmother, like my birth mother, is the kind of person who can easily be overwhelmed by emotions. My father was born handsome again and they both liked him ...... My birth mother at least used to like him."

"And then what happened."

"Later?" Wen Duan smiled lightly, "He was different from her. My mother was deeply in love, but he got tired of her early."

"She's actually a very smart person." Wen Duan still looks calm when she mentions her birth mother, as if she is mentioning an unrelated object, "My mother inherited the mind of my great-mother-in-law, also known as Cuizhen Duan. She got into Huzhou University with honors. According to my grandmother, she would have had a boundless scientific future, but unfortunately, at the university, she met my father and fell in love."

"Their marriage was fiercely opposed from the very beginning by my great-grandmother, who wanted her to have a farther vision and not to be stuck on top of personal petty love; human energy is limited, and the common people are the ones who have their time divided by the so-called love, friendship and affection, and thus fail to reach the peak of their abilities. That's what my grandmother taught her as a child, and she kept this as her creed until love overtook her wise mind." Wen Duan yodels, "She became a prisoner of dopamine."

"The grandmother was very angry that she had put a lot of effort into cultivating her, and she eventually chose to go and become a housewife for a man. She told my mother that if this was her pattern, then sooner or later, she would regret it. My mother was very stubborn, and the more the grandmother said, the more she insisted on doing what she wanted to do, so after this conversation, they went their separate ways completely, the grandmother expelled my mother, and my mother resolutely married my father."

Wen Duan continued, "She could have been a tree, but she chose to be a vine. My father may have aspired to an evenly matched marriage, or he may have been unstable by nature.

"He didn't cheat, he kept a worldly bottom line, however his eyes and heart were not on my mother anymore, he was endlessly entertaining, participating in big and small drinking parties, leaving all the chores of life to his wife, who became a 24-hour babysitter for him, and the kind that doesn't need to be paid. But when it comes to the outside world, no one would think that my father was at fault in that social environment. He can provide for the family to make money, can manage themselves not to find a mistress, has been considered an excellent husband, the man is the main female, even in many women's view is also impeccable. As for love and communication, that kind of thing is vague and nebulous, said only to attract those knitting sweaters and washing dishes housewives laugh. The mother felt that the home no longer felt like a home, but more like a cold grave. But she couldn't even find anyone who could really understand her."

"Tropical fish do not survive in the Arctic. My mother was so out of place with the housewives around her that she became an island, living every day in emptiness and loneliness. She wanted to go back to college and study again, but it was no longer possible ...... Eventually my mother became severely depressed and passed away in depression."

Qingcheng Xie : "...... haven't you ever given her any encouragement?"

To my surprise, Wen Duan laughed.

He was very indifferent: "Encouragement? That's her own choice."

"When people have feelings, they have desires, and when they have desires, they have strife, and there is no need for molehills to exist - this is what my grandmother told me since I was a child."

"Yes." Seeing Qingcheng Xie's unexpected look, Wen Duan said, "Tai Nan disappeared from my mother's life and they never saw each other again until she died. But in fact, for as long as I can remember, she could appear whenever my mother was not at home, and she disappeared when my mother returned. It was like we were playing some kind of game of keep-away, and I knew my mother must have sensed this, and once I unintentionally let slip that I had said something that the great-grandmother used to say - 'things are not to be replaced, no species is irreplaceable' - and she looked at me with That look ...... was as fearful as if she had seen a ghost. But there was nothing she could do to stop it."

Wen Duan said, "A grandmother to an ordinary housewife is like a god to a mortal, completely crushing. Every single thing that my mother did, she couldn't prevent even if she knew."

"In this way, I lived and grew up like an ordinary person on the surface, but in fact I had already made my choice. My great-grandmother exposed me to real scientific research when all the other children were still immersed in those foolish games of enlightenment, I learned to plot and calculate before they had learned the multiplication tables, and I learned to have a lot of social experience before I had learned master ambition. As I grew older, I began to help her refine her organization, research drugs, network wealth, and scout for talent."

His voice was like a spider, weaving the veins of that year, and as he spoke these words, his gaze was lighter than the haze of cigarette smoke.

"It's not really hard to do these things. As long as there are needs in this world, there are diseases, there are mundane love and hate ...... we will never lack collaborators. They can be high government officials, intellectuals, lucrative businessmen, peddlers ...... feelings are the invisible threads in a person, and anyone who can't cut their feelings may become our puppet."

Qingcheng Xie : "...... such as Ya Zhuo ?"

"You don't think you're sympathizing with her, do you."

"I just think you guys are far more crazy than Yu He." Qingcheng Xie said, "You have read a lot of books, you should have heard the axiom - to be able to feel pain means you are still alive, to be able to feel the pain of others is what makes you a person. Wen Duan ......"

He doesn't even call him Lisheng Chen anymore.

"Cuizhen Duan teaches you those things and is completely making you extinct. She is like this she wants you to be like this ...... But you are like this, even if you have established the Dela Man meta-universe and gained the status of ruler and the ability to think immortality what can you do? Are you considered alive? Are you still considered alive?"

Wen Duan knocked out the last two cigarettes in the box, one for himself and one for Qingcheng Xie.

"......"

Qingcheng Xie did not answer.

Wen Duan also did not force, he put the cigarette on the table, low clicked the lighter and took a puff.

"That's funny. That's what he said back then."

He, of course, refers to Yun Li.

Qingcheng Xie : " Yun Li before he died did he find out your identity."

"Yeah." Wen Duan exhaled a smoke ring and said, "Like I said, he's smart, just like you are. The reason I had to fake my own car accident and explosion to fake my own death by Rong Wei's hand back then was forced by him."

When he said this, his eyes finally showed some emotions that belong to a normal person.

But the emotion was strange, not sadness nor melancholy, but surprisingly a pleasure, as if recalling a great athletic competition.

"After the death of both our masters, I pretended to investigate, but in reality I was sweeping up the evidence whose constant absence aroused Yun Li's suspicions. Of course, he didn't suspect me at first; he trusted me and I knew he saw me as his only friend in his lonely life. He even warned me specifically to be careful about this."

"...... how ridiculous. If he did not have feelings for me and believed that I was not a mole and thus told me about these clues that only he had investigated at the time, I would not have even realized that he had investigated so deeply."

"Can you imagine the image of him showing me all that evidence I exposed in the commission of the crime without knowing that I was the one behind it? Both of our masters were right - a man like him is brilliant, but really not suited to be a front-line detective. He looks vicious and malicious, but in reality he's too willful."

"And his impetuousness led him to expose himself directly to me. Exposed himself to the head of the enemy organization."

Wen Duan spoke here, paused, cigarette in the lips not smoking, said: "And you just said that the video tape identifying Zhilong Huang Entertainment basement crime, the earliest is actually Yun Li found."

"!!!"

"He didn't show it to anyone, only to me. He seemed to perceive that he was in danger at the time, and when he handed me the tape, he told me that if anything happened to him, he hoped I could continue to pursue the case and return justice to the teacher."

He said here, holding his forehead and snickered: "So many people in the police department, how do you think he picked me as his partner?"

"As soon as I saw the tape, which even mentioned Australia Overseas, I knew things couldn't be delayed any longer." Wen Duan said, "With his ability to continue the investigation, I will be exposed sooner or later. At that time, there were only two ways in front of me, one was to directly plan to kill Yun Li, and the other was to fake my own death, so that he would not end up investigating me."

Qingcheng Xie asked, "Why didn't you choose one."

"......" Wen Duan did not answer.

After a while, he simply skipped the question directly and continued: "At that time, I cloth the social relations line has almost, Lisheng Chen this good old identity of the justice police, I am also tired of tired, I took the opportunity to get rid of this life - Rong Wei thought she had really killed Lisheng Chen, but she was just a dowry for my deliverance. After 'Lisheng Chen' died in a car bombing, I returned to Dela Man Island and spent time changing my appearance, body type and even my voice with the help of my grandmother ...... Not many people have been able to guess my identity over the years, except for you. Do this only two people. Those two among another person is a blind cat touching the dead rat messed up, he is also not sure."

Qingcheng Xie : "One is Yun Li."

"Yes, he still refused to give up after my death, and eventually found Wen Duan's identity and met me after changing my appearance." Wen Duan paused, "As for the blind cat, you have also seen."

Qingcheng Xie was silent for a while, and his mind went through a lot of people he had contacted, remembering all the things they had done.

Finally he raised his eyes: " Zhilong Huang ."

Wen Duan applauded and laughed: "I was right to keep you here. Qingcheng Xie, after Yun Li's death, I haven't experienced this kind of chess match for a long time."

"-Yeah." He said, "It's Zhilong Huang. How did you guess?"

Qingcheng Xie cold face: "He had Man Chen arrested in the basement incident, and if it is only used to blackmail Political Commissar Wang, the success rate is not high. Zhilong Huang had contact with the Wang political commissar, should know very well that the Wang political commissar is a person who is not recognized in front of the big picture, then it is possible that he thought at that time, in addition to the Wang political commissar, he held this card, there is another object to coerce."

Wen Duan smiled and nodded: "...... So it is. It is indeed so. Zhilong Huang once inadvertently bumped into the conversation between me and the Tai Nan, he didn't listen to the whole thing, but he began to suspect that I was Lisheng Chen ...... To be honest, but if he had a brain like yours, he shouldn't have held Yan Chen hostage to me. For me, Yan Chen's death or life is no different from that of an ant."

"But you just let him go."

"I told you." Wen Duan said, "After he perceived that I might still be alive, he had been obsessing over the one-in-a-million possibility of my survival. Just because of that, I finally decided to let him live."

After a pause, he said, "But you're different, Qingcheng Xie."

Wen Duan's eyes blurred slightly as he spoke here.

He looked at Qingcheng Xie in uniform, as if from a simulation of the bright silk flower, see a summer night blooming and shedding white blossoms.

Slowly, he recalls something related to Yun Li -