Chapter 240: Death of a Lark

He slowly, recalls something related to Yun Li -

When Wen Duan was in the police academy, he offended many people because he pretended to be too upright, and the only person who was close to him among his roommates was Yun Li, who was also not very popular.

Only Wen Duan because it looks too righteous, over the same suspicion of clean world.

Yun Li, on the other hand, looks too evil and arrogant to be jealous of people with high talent.

Two people who are somewhat at odds with the collective, then together they became dining friends when they were in college, often going to eat together on Garbage Street.

That street is chaotic, fire control has not been too in place. The day before Labor Day, Wen Duan and Yun Li went to a barbecue restaurant together after class, the two sat down not long, there was an accident, next to a dozen meters away from the kitchen of a stir-fry restaurant gas suddenly exploded/exploded.

Yun Li and he were sitting at a small outdoor table outside when the explosion occurred, and Yun Li was standing up to get two sodas from the fridge next to them. The explosion rippled through all the stores around them, sending a wave of air into their direction, toppling a huge neon sign outside the store, under which Wen Duan happened to be standing.

Yun Li looked quite lazy and selfish, then suddenly rushed over, dragging Wen Duan to protect him, resulting in the neon sign crashing and the iron frame hitting him hard in the back, the sharpest corner piercing Yun Li's leg.

In that position, if Yun Li had not pushed him away, the sharp corner of the iron frame would have hit the back of Wen Duan's head.

Wen Duan, who was still Lisheng Chen at the time, froze, watching Yun Li's face pale with pain as he lay on top of him, blood gushing out constantly, and he said, "What are you ...... you doing ......? ?"

"Bullshit ...... isn't that fucking instinctive?"

He remembers Yun Li saying this to him at that time.

Instinct?

But his instinct is to avoid it himself, not to care about anyone's life or death. Wen Duan knew that if he was standing in that position, he would never protect Yun Li, and he would leave Yun Li behind to hide himself.

The so-called sense of justice, pretend to pretend to be enough, do not really have to take their lives to protect another person, that is too stupid.

"It hurts ......" Yun Li huffed softly over him and said annoyedly before passing out, " Lisheng Chen , you said... . will I limp like this ......?"

He finally did not limp, fortunately did not hurt the vital organs, but the bones were broken for a hundred days, Yun Li had a long time in a cast, and for a while, he was carried by Wen Duan to and from class, and Wen Duan also helped with changing the medicine in the dormitory.

Heartbroken roommates always look like they have to pretend.

Wen Duan thought so.

He also thought at that time, how Yun Li usually looks quite ruthless and arrogant a person, surprisingly so afraid of pain, changing the medicine a little heavier will frown leaning on the bed and softly humming, that voice and cat-like, very soft.

" Lisheng Chen ...... you fucking gently, it hurts."

"...... Sorry."

Why can he curse so fiercely when his voice is so soft and lazy?

Wen Duan thought again, still no answer.

But they are after this incident, gradually, getting closer and closer. Although both of their personalities are somewhat light, in the outsider's view is only an ordinary relationship, but for each other, they have indeed been considered rare.

They studied together, interned together, and later worked together in a police department, and also worked with the same teacher ......

They are always together.

Until Ping Xie, the teacher, died.

It was not until Wen Duan finally could no longer live under the identity of Lisheng Chen that he faked his death and left.

After the death of Lisheng Chen and Ping Xie, the young police officer Yun Li, still never gave up the search for the truth, he used all the means inside and outside the framework, all the way to chase the murderer, the more investigation is the more frightened, he refused to turn back, carrying a little fire in his heart, a black road also want to go to the end. In the end, he intercepted the mastermind in a nightclub box, who had just finished meeting with Zhilong Huang alone.

At that time, Wen Duan was no longer Lisheng Chen.

He has long since finished his facial plastic surgery, and there is no sign of the former Lisheng Chen, only a few biometric details remain to be completed, such as fingerprints.

That summer night, Yun Li's ambush was successful. He captured Wen Duan and locked him in the box, his chest heaving, staring hard at Wen Duan's face.

Wen Duan had a very subtle feeling at that time, he felt that looking at Yun Li's expression, as if the police officer had a hidden suspicion deep inside that he did not want to face.

At that time, Yun Li had a fingerprint library verification machine on his hand, which was able to match the extracted fingerprint pattern with all the police officers in the public security library. Yun Li stared him in the eye and the first thing he did was to press his thumb compulsively on the checker.

And just as the checker popped up with a green light that the search was successful, Wen Duan's men arrived and after a vicious fight, Yun Li ended up with two fists against four hands and was pinned to the ground with his head bleeding.

Wen Duan smashed the fingerprint matching machine, raised his hand to wipe away the blood that dripped from the corner of his lips during the fight, lowered his dark eyes and looked askance at the policeman who fell at his feet.

Yun Li, at that moment, looked very numb.

That is the numbness that must flow from a normal person when faced with the betrayal of an intimate relationship.

Wen Duan is all too familiar with this expression, which he has seen countless times on his mother's face since he was a child ......

The light and shadow inside the box cut Yun Li's face into two halves. One half is in the light and the other half is in the dark.

Wen Duan saw the half of his face in the light lift up and look towards himself from the legs of those men □□□ wrong.

Then he heard Yun Li call out to him:

" Lisheng Chen ."

The voice is naturally soft, like that of a wounded kitten.

--

That was the last time he heard Yun Li call him by that name.

"I later took him away." Wen Duan finished his account and continued, "I took him back to this island and held him in a room."

"I didn't want him dead, so I asked him if he would like to be recruited, after all, he is a very capable person, and Dela Man can open the door to any kind of talent. He is actually considered a very low moral ground in the police, you understand? He can break the rules in order to achieve the purpose of the case, can break the customs, and even dare to hang out with prostitutes, I thought to him with reason and emotion, he can come to my side. But after I captured him, I used all the methods I could think of - I promised him money, power, fame and money in the world, and offered him the benefits that people are eager to get, but he was not moved. I tried torture and beatings, even gave him a drip, and the cop still didn't want to bow down to me."

Wen Duan looked at Qingcheng Xie with indifference: "He never even called me Lisheng Chen so softly anymore."

"I asked him why he was so stubborn, justice in this world is not absolute, there is no great change that does not come with sacrifice and bloodshed, not to mention that he has always walked the line between black and white, and even talked to me when he was studying about many ideas that only bandits have? How can he be stubborn like this."

"So what did he say."

"He said ......" Wen Duan quietly, sneering, "he said that or your father and he said - heroes are not always Hero, is exactly evil, the great good and evil, sometimes only in a thought. The key is to keep the idea of not keeping well. He said he originally had no bottom line, he was guarding the dead line of people, this idea is his last boundary, after this line, he is not a police, so this thing he does not do."

"I locked him up for more than forty days month ...... He did not eat or drink for more than forty days, all by infusion of nutrients alive, soon thin off the shape of ...... this time Ya Zhuo said to me, this person is definitely not able to stay. Why not give him to her and make a violent killing? There is so a complete body, still alive, must be able to make a very perfect replica to. I didn't say yes to her right away, I was still hesitant and hadn't completely given up on recruiting, what I didn't know was that the conversation I was having with Ya Zhuo outside the door at the time was overheard by him."

At this point the conversation pauses again.

Wen Duan took a moment before saying, "He chose death."

"......" Although I already knew the result, Qingcheng Xie's heart sank hard when he heard this.

"That night I went to see him as usual, I pushed into the room ...... I do not know where he got the sharp objects from, and when I saw him, he had little room for resuscitation. I thought he was afraid of pain, he used to scream in pain when he changed a medicine on his thigh in the dormitory, I raised like this will not be a big deal. But that day he cut his own neck with his own hands, and blood flowed all over the place ......"

Wen Duan did not go into further detail.

He picked up the last cigarette he was going to give to Qingcheng Xie and lit it, the faint glow of the fire lighting up in the tower cell.

Wen Duan said, "He ...... was still too naive to think he would be spared if he died, not realizing that we could still use his corpse for experiments as long as he had such an intact and undamaged brain in place."

"When he was dying, he asked me for only one thing - that I not make a move on the master's son. He said he knew it was useless to beg me for more, and on that point, asked if I could do it."

"I looked into his dying but shining eyes with such an intense light, and I thought maybe I had gotten something wrong. Maybe that all-encompassing technology wasn't the most powerful thing, the concept of immortality that had bowled over all our collaborators but Yun Li. There must have been something in him that allowed him to overcome the technological force that Taiwha had once described to me as the pinnacle of power. I was curious to know, so I asked him why."

"He told me that if I could agree to his request and always remember this promise, I might one day be able to experience that power." Wen Duan said, "So after you were brought back to life by Ciyan Qin, although I wanted to cut off the future, I never took the initiative to kill you again because of Yun Li's dying request, and I would not kill you until I had to - you have been such a threat to us I will not kill you unless I have to - you have been such a great threat to us that I still keep you in this world. Twenty years have passed, and I still remember that vow."

After listening to his account, Qingcheng Xie remained silent for a while and asked, "So now do you think you have experienced the power that made him unyielding?"

After a while, he answered, "It's love, I guess."

"Do you know what love is."

"I think I know." Wen Duan says, "at least better than a lot of people on the island know."

"You don't know." Qingcheng Xie said, "All your knowledge is superficial, you have not experienced what real love is. You don't have to compare yourself to the people on the island. In a class where all the exams are failed, just because you get 59 points doesn't mean you passed. Wen Duan , the fact that you haven't looked back shows that you still don't know anything about what he said to you in the first place."

"......" Wen Duan took a strong puff of his cigarette and said, "Actually, the ignorant one is not necessarily me, maybe it's you, Qingcheng Xie."

" Yun Li and I could have been great companions once, only he was too stuck in this mundane world of justice and stood opposite me. After so many years of trying to analyze his brain thinking, I finally managed to make an exact replica, I kept all his ideas, except for the belief piece, covering his beliefs into mine. So he became my closest companion again."

Wen Duan said, "It turns out that he could have been less obsessive and changed his mind so he wouldn't have to die. People are sometimes victimized by their own preconceived notions - and so are you."

Qingcheng Xie raised his eyes: "...... what does it mean."

Wen Duan said, "Do you remember that night, when I invited you to talk, I repeatedly invited you to have a cup of tea? But you were afraid of the poison in that tea because you were going to work for the Dream Breakers the next day, so you insisted on refusing."

"......"

"That tea is actually the antidote." Wen Duan said, "The incense I have lit on my desk is the latest generation of listening water - or listening incense."

"!!!"

"After close inhalation, the effect of the medicine can reach twenty-four hours, within these twenty-four hours, as long as the person holding the controller in his hand gives you orders, you will be unable to resist. But this incense also has its flaws, the potency is so great that the human body will be immune after only one use."

Wen Duan paused and continued, "In fact, if you had not been weak-minded and drank the tea at that time, Yun Li would not have been able to control you instead. But you refused my tea, and Yu He had the same situation when he was on the side of the Tai Nan, and he also refused the Tai Nan's tea. This is the result of your being victimized by the inherited concept."

"......"

" Yun Li was once willing to block falling steel plates and block explosions/blasts for me, only to end up in that position because of his inherent beliefs. I don't want to see the same thing happen to you and Yu He."

"You really don't have to be as stubborn as Yun Li, Qingcheng Xie. Justice is never absolute either."

Qingcheng Xie was quiet for a moment and said, "Do you know that if it wasn't for his justice, he wouldn't have protected you when that steel plate came down. You wouldn't be standing in front of me saying these things."

"I know." Wen Duan said, "that should be the most regretful thing he did. Time rewind, if the same explosion/explosion happened, the steel plate smashed down, he will definitely not help me again."

He lowered his eyelashes and faintly dropped, "He ended up hating me so much."

Just finished this sentence, his always paired with the headset suddenly came to the voice, is Cuizhen Duan fell ill painful need him to go over.

Wen Duan's brow was slightly wrinkled, Cuizhen Duan's condition was already very bad, this was something he was very worried about in recent days, if Cuizhen Duan really can't, then in an emergency, I'm afraid they can only use Weian Wei's body and perform a third brain transplant on her, but Weian Wei's body is really not what Good Choice ......

His face was slightly sunken and he was ready to check the condition of the grandmother immediately.

Yun Li's perfect replica had only just been made ...... he had waited so long, and he didn't want any surprises at this point.

Therefore the island's energy supply must never be stopped, and he must do his best to protect Cuizhen Duan's safety.

" Qingcheng Xie , you are not the same as Yun Li, you still have a choice. Think about it well, you don't have to be a pearl, after the Dreambreaker battle is defeated, I will come and ask you once again to see if you want to join our camp."

At this point, what he wanted to say was almost done, and Wen Duan got up and summoned the Yuzhu Lu clone in, instructing her to watch Qingcheng Xie more closely.

But before he left, he suddenly thought of something else and stopped in his tracks, "By the way."

He took something out of his trench coat pocket and gently, placed it on the desk next to Qingcheng Xie.

That ......

It was an intact little fire dragon!

Qingcheng Xie suddenly looked up at Wen Duan.

Wen Duan said, "This is the last thing Yu He wanted to give you. He went to the lab the day before your plan was executed and used the special materials on the island to fix it as good as new. I think he was looking for an opportunity to give it to you all along."

He looked at the small dragon, which barely showed any signs of breaking, and put his hand back into his trench coat pocket.

" Qingcheng Xie , once you said to Yu He that if he chose darkness, you would definitely stand against him ...... I wonder after these three years, have you changed your mind and are willing to stand on the side of having him."

"Wait a minute ......" Qingcheng Xie's heart is still cone of pain for this lost and found fire dragon, the next second but suddenly realized what, slowly pale face, a few difficult to breathe, he lifted the red eyes, looking at Wen Duan --

"How did you know I said that to him?!"

"It's like Dongni An knows about both of your pasts. Wen Duan says, "Don't you know? During Yu He's treatment, Dongni An hypnotized him over and over again, so he told a lot of personal things about you two."

"!!!"

"It's a pity that you really thought that he hated you so much that he voluntarily told Dongni An."

"......"

"Yu He had never done this before," Wen Duan said. Wen Duan said, "Even those hypnosis, Dongni An are very difficult to carry out, when Yu He slightly regained some self-consciousness, Dongni An will not be able to get anything out of his mouth. Even when he was most disappointed with you and hated you the most, he never thought of betraying you. Therefore I think highly of him and I respect him."

Wen Duan's words were like a sharp weapon for the soul, and Qingcheng Xie felt his limbs stiffen and all his bones freeze.

He remembered Yu He's seemingly cold and indifferent face when he reunited with Yu He.

That face below is actually yesterday's tenderness in the mass unwilling to disperse, even if he died once, that tenderness is still deep in the shell, like a brand.

But he could not see how at that time.

"I hope you can pity him for once." Wen Duan lowered his eyes to look at this man who was in a wretched situation, but still in a solemn police uniform, for some reason, his gaze slowly drifted a bit, and finally he said softly, "Drop your position and stand by his side."

"Among those righteous people who are missing you, there will naturally be others to fill in. But there are those who have lost you, and there is nothing left to fill that gap in their hearts."

Wen Duan said, finally flexing his knuckles and pushing the little fire dragon to the edge of the table, closer to Qingcheng Xie. His voice was calm, even gentle.

"Think about it, I'll give you time. I hope you, in the end, don't let us down. Lark."