Half past eight in the evening.
Lu Wen and Wei Boyan were sitting in a food stall by the sea.
After a week of purging, most of the fugitives have been caught. The owners of these barbecue stalls are opening their doors one after another. They can't stop making money just because they are afraid.
Wei Boan went for two large lobsters and put them on the barbecue grill.
The temperature of the grill slowly increases.
"I have now made a general profile of the murderer. Do you want to know what it looks like?" Lu Wen looked at Wei Boyan.
"Let's see." Wei Boyan was concentrating on grilling the lobster and holding on to the time.
"High IQ, high education, understands poetry, strong body, once joined the army, and later joined the Executive Bureau. He has a high status in the Executive Bureau, so he can get information that most people don't know. He suffered some kind of trauma in his childhood and has been suppressing it. , until he grew up and witnessed too many unfair events, and finally broke out one day, and it might be that day when he lost a relative, most likely a child. "
The summer night breeze is soothing.
Lu Wen spoke very slowly, making every word clear.
Wei Boyan listened very carefully, and his hands seemed to move slower than the lobster.
"Your parents died when you were very young, and it must be an accident if they died at the same time. Just like Xia Chuluo's parents, the possibility of a car accident is relatively high, but... I searched online for a long time, but I didn't see the second one. That car accident report in District 10, there’s nothing to hide about a car accident report, so maybe it’s not District 10.”
Lu Wen connected all the guesses in his mind and the information he obtained bit by bit.
All clues and guesses ultimately point to the same person.
This person had been ignored by him for a long time.
Until Wei Boan accidentally revealed last time that he was the president of the school's poetry and painting club in college.
"More than thirty years ago, due to the design of Hanjiang Company, Desheng Company had several shipwreck accidents. Later I checked and found out that one of them was a couple. Their child, who was seven years old at the time, was piled up on the beach. Mu, saw his parents being swallowed up by the sea water with his own eyes. Perhaps even worse, sharks surrounded them and the whole sea water was dyed red. "
This report is not easy to check.
At least Lu Wen didn't find out.
Perhaps because District 15 was worried about affecting the development of tourism, or perhaps for other reasons, someone deleted the report.
It wasn't until a week ago that Lu Wen asked Fatty Jiang for help that he found out.
"The child was later raised by relatives. He got excellent grades and was admitted to a very good university. His grade points have always been ranked second in the department. But in fact, he is very smart and can definitely take the first place. It's just that he likes the first place. That girl even joined the poetry and painting club because she had the same interests."
Many lives do not develop in the best direction, so they have regrets.
As a child, Xia Chuluo never believed that her parents would die in a car accident so easily, so she joined the Executive Bureau after graduation.
The same goes for Wei Boyan.
He always thought there was something wrong with the capsize.
Therefore, he did not confess his love to the girl, and chose to leave after graduation to train himself in the military.
"After you ended your military career, you joined the Executive Directorate, and that girl is already married."
Lu Wen once asked Wei Bo'an why he hadn't started a family yet in his forties.
Wei Boyan said that he once had a girl he liked.
Just got cancer and died.
"Twelve years ago, when you were already a second-level executive officer, a case occurred in the 10th District."
It was an unjust case.
in that case.
The wife woke up in the morning and found her husband dead. A homeless man on the street testified that he saw his wife go into the kitchen and get a knife. The neighbor next door said he heard a quarrel. The doctor at the pharmacy also testified that his wife had bought sleeping pills from him. .
"The wife was sentenced to life imprisonment and later died in prison. I wondered at the time that she was only in her early thirties when she was imprisoned, so she would not have died a few years later. Later I checked and found out that she was cancer."
That was the girl Wei Boyan once liked.
Later he married someone else.
"At that time, you were still tracking a murderer in another area. You didn't sleep for three days and two nights. By the time you came back, the final verdict had been pronounced."
At that time, Wei Boan, who was still a second-level executive officer, did not have the authority to investigate so much.
But he knew that the girl he once liked could not be a murderer.
He watched helplessly as justice was distorted and the truth was buried.
"At that time, you must have felt powerless."
Lu Wen looked at Wei Boyan.
"That child, that unjust case, his father died, and his mother went to jail. Maybe you regarded him as your own flesh and blood. Maybe you also wanted to adopt him, but he refused and chose to go to an orphanage."
Just two years ago, that child turned eighteen and left the orphanage.
Not long after, he jumped off the building.
At that time, Wei Boyan, who had just become the executive director of the 10th District, heard the news.
…
The little boy who was stacking blocks on the beach in District 15 actually stayed at that dusk.
A tall fortress of blocks kept him safe on the beach.
He watched his parents being buried in the scarlet water.
Watching one unjust, false and wrong case after another in the Executive Bureau, watching the real murderers go unpunished, and looking at this rotten world.
He was trapped in the fortress he had built. Day after day, too many things were weighing on him. Those cumbersome rules were like chains, entangling him and preventing him from moving.
Until the boy jumped off the building.
Scarlet blood pierced his hazy eyes, finally making him wake up, and he broke free from the chains.
The fortress on the beach collapsed.
The seawater swept away the scattered blocks.
He stood up in the ruins of truth and grew up overnight.
"Actually, I envy Xia Chuluo. She and Clever, after Luo Ruyan took the bait, it took only a week or two to investigate the cause of her parents' death, but I can't."
Wei Boyan took a sip of beer.
"It took me a good two years."
In the eyes of outsiders, becoming the director of the executive bureau of a region in his early forties is already considered a gift, but Wei Boyan is not satisfied.
"Actually, I should have thought that only you can keep track of the progress of all cases and kill subsequent targets based on the progress of the cases." Lu Wen sighed.
One last question remains.
Lu Wen thought about this question for a long time, but looking at 'Wei Boyan' in front of him, he already knew the answer.
"You have been with me all the time. Logically speaking, there is no time to commit crimes, but if... you have a bionic man that you can control."
Lu Wen quickly picked up the knife from his dinner plate and instantly cut it across Wei Boyan's right arm.
The blade passed through the skin of his right arm.
The wound bleeds…
blue blood.
…
Good night, fellow book friends!
Thanks to book friends 20190621193143515 and Cambridge 123 for their tips.
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