This roar did not vent the depression in Ren Yi's heart, but instead affected his old and new wounds, causing his face to turn pale from the pain.
Zheng Pei looked indifferently at Ren Yi's stooped back, panting with difficulty, and when he recovered, he continued to shoot soft knives: "Captain Ren, you are a good person, everyone says so, you may be a smart person, but you Compared with Gong Yingxian, he is too stupid. I don’t know if you are confused by his profession, his background, or his appearance, but you believe everything he says and do whatever he tells you , is this the behavior of a normal adult?"
Ren Yi opened his mouth to raise his voice and wanted to defend himself, but Zheng Pei said first: "I have heard some rumors about your relationship, and I have no opinion on sexual orientation, but if it is true, it will help me understand better. Your various behaviors when facing him even took the risk of illegally harboring, sheltering, and assisting wanted criminals for him."
Zheng Pei's eyes, tone, and words made Ren Yi's whole face burn. Even if he was asked to come out in the street, I'm afraid it would not be more embarrassing than this moment.
And Zheng Pei still said mercilessly: "About the cases 19 years ago and these cases now, 80% of the information you get comes from him, right, you never thought he would lie to you ?"
Ren Yi's lips trembled, and he said awkwardly: "I did my own investigation..."
"But how much of your investigation is based on preconceived predictions based on the information he gave you?" Zheng Pei said sharply, "Until now, you are still defending him subconsciously. In fact, you are also defending yourself, because During the time you trust him and pay for him, there are too many sunk costs, and you are more afraid than anyone else that he is lying to you, using you, and making everything you do wrong."
Ren Yi glared at Zheng Pei with red eyes: "It's not the first time I suspect him. I have my own judgment on many things. How long have you been involved in this case, and how much do you know?"
Zheng Pei's aggressiveness made Ren Yi feel deeply humiliated. In Zheng Pei's mouth, he seemed to be a fool who had no brains and no bottom line, and would help his lover to do evil at all costs. He also had a very big dispute with Gong Yingxian in the past because of a crisis of trust, but they finally reconciled. It was because the trust between them was established after several life and death experiences. It was solid and thick, and it was deeply rooted Even he can hardly tell the love, appreciation, trust, and sympathy, let alone Zheng Pei, an outsider!
But while he was angry, he had to face the reality, which was that Zheng Pei's doubts were not without reason.
Gong Yingxian did what he was unable to justify, which killed Qiu Yan and made him miserable. He knew that waiting for him was not only to be expelled from the fire protection system, but also to bear criminal responsibility.
However, there was another voice in his heart arguing bitterly. That is Gong Yingxian sacrificed his life several times to save himself. The choices made at the moment of life and death are the most instinctive choices, and they can never be false.
He didn't believe that Gong Yingxian didn't care about him at all, maybe, it's just that Gong Yingxian cared about him far less than the obsession that had entangled him for nineteen years.
Zheng Pei saw the conflict on Ren Yi's face: "I'm asking you a simple question. I told you on the phone that Gong Yingxian knew Zhang Wen's identity a long time ago, but he chose to hide it from everyone. Did you ask him something?"
Ren Yi was silent.
Zheng Pei showed an expression of "as expected", and he shook his head: "You have degenerated from being deceived by him to self-deception. Why? Don't tell me why it is because of great love. If the shot he let Huang Yan didn't fire On the bulletproof vest, but on the head, you don’t even know how you died. Is it him you are running away from, or is it your own doubts?”
"What do you want to prove?" Ren Yi stared at Zheng Pei, bared his teeth, "Prove that I was cheated by him, yes, I admitted it, and then what? What do you want, you want me to go to court and sue him for cheating?" Me? Is that how you investigate cases?"
"I want to prove that all your protection for him is not worth it. You should be sober and assist me without reservation, so that you can leave yourself a way out and give Captain Qiu justice."
Ren Yi's lips pursed into a line.
Zheng Pei leaned on his lower body, supported the edge of the bed with both arms, and looked at Ren Yi: "Do you know what you are going to face? Once the case is filed, you will not only be fired from public office, but also locked up in a detention center. Can you bear this?" ?From a respected and promising squadron leader of the special service fire brigade, to living in a steel and concrete tank with murderers, rapists, fraudsters, whores, drug addicts, robbers, punks, etc. , leading a life of darkness."
Ren Yi's eyes were burning, and his fists were clenched tightly.
"Don't think how long your detachment can protect you. This is a society ruled by law. I can apply to arrest you at any time."
Ren Yi moved slightly closer to Zheng Pei, staring fearlessly into his eyes: "How much evidence do you have?"
"Enough." Zheng Pei said, "It depends on your cooperation."
"You said that you came to supervise their case of dereliction of duty. Obviously, I can do it without me, but you are so eager to dig something out of my mouth. For this reason, you have to sow discord and intimidate." Ren Yi said coldly, "The more you behave like this, the more untrustworthy I think you are."
Zheng Pei's face darkened: "You are obsessed."
"What you want to know, I have tried my best to cooperate, I don't know what else you want, why don't you just say it, how do you want me to cooperate."
"It's not what I want you to do, but what you should do. Do you really want to go to prison? Whether you were coerced or assisted, directly determines where and how you will live your next life."
Ren Yi had already guessed that Zheng Pei wanted him to identify Gong Yingxian. Zheng Pei's position made this approach understandable, but he couldn't cooperate—when the truth was still ambiguous. He said: "There are so many suspicious points that haven't been clarified yet, Zi Yan and his X cult members haven't been caught yet, and Gong Yingxian hasn't been caught yet, shouldn't you be concerned about more important cases?"
"I didn't delay anything." Zheng Pei stood up and tapped Ren Yi with his index finger, "But you are delaying yourself."
Ren Yi lowered his head, remained silent for a moment, and asked, "Are there any arrangements for Captain Qiu's funeral?"
"I haven't received the notification yet." Zheng Pei put away his notebook, "Captain Ren, I'll give you some time to think about it, anyway, you can't be discharged from the hospital yet, I hope the next time we meet, we won't be in the detention center. "
After Zheng Pei left, Ren Yi lay down on the bed, his heart felt like being thrown into boiling oil, anxious, panicked, and tormented every second.
Gong Yingxian, where are you and what have you done? For revenge, can you really destroy your conscience and do whatever it takes!
You abandoned Qiu Yan with no regard for life and death, you put me in a situation of eternal doom, you, are you still you!
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This time the situation was too serious, and Ren Yi was completely under control. There were police guards outside his ward. When the doctor allowed him to leave the hospital, he would be taken back to the Hongwu branch for formal custody.
However, he has had a personal relationship with the doctors here for many years, so he probably won't be able to leave the hospital in the short term.
This time, Chen Xiaofei didn't come to see him, probably because he was completely disappointed with him, and he also had doubts about Chen Xiaofei in his heart, it would be best not to see him.
Even after Zheng Pei left that day, other people who came to visit him had to apply to the police, but the result of the application was naturally rejected. He listened to Qu Yangbo scolded a few words in the ward, and after he had to leave, he felt uncomfortable. Had a bad night's sleep.
In order to help Gong Yingxian, he has implicated the entire detachment. He can't remember the last time he led a normal police team as the fire squadron leader. He misses his squadron and his brothers so much, but he still... What face do you have to meet them
He was ashamed of his brother, his father, and even more ashamed of Qiu Yan. If it wasn't for him, Qiu Yan would not have been in danger and would not have died.
And all these pains, guilt, remorse, and fear were injected on him by his loved ones.
As early as when Gong Yingxian used his father, he should have been vigilant and re-examined this person, but he softened under the apology, and he couldn't resist the fatal attraction. He attributed it to the fact that Gong Yingxian made a mistake once, who can not make a mistake, so he ignored Gong Yingxian's lack of empathy and his almost cold and rational character to maximize benefits.
However, even when he was the most angry, if someone told him what happened today, he would definitely not believe it, and he would never believe that Gong Yingxian would let them feed the gangsters' bullets.
He thought that Gong Yingxian had irreparable personality flaws due to childhood shadows, but he was always backed by justice and kindness.
Is he wrong
The price of this mistake was too great and too great, and he could not let go of such guilt and regret in his life.
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In the past two days, he fell asleep several times and woke up several times. Ren Yi felt as if he was useless. Even if no one was watching outside, he hardly left the hospital bed.
At dusk, the nurse came in to fetch water for him as usual.
He could feel the noise outside, but didn't want to react at all—until the nurse put a hand over his mouth.
Ren Yi was startled and was about to struggle immediately, but the nurse put the mobile phone in front of his eyes. He looked at the picture on it and his whole body became stiff.