five minutes.
Lu Yuzhu thought, in just five minutes, everything will be over.
The ticking sound of the detonator echoed in the basement, like the pendulum clock in the old county house many years ago, in her still peaceful life, ticking.
At that time, she thought she could live her life peacefully and smoothly.
Sudden-
It was as sudden as the Maotou reporter who broke her life back then.
The countdown to death actually stopped.
At the same time, Lu Yuzhu heard the muffled roar of the elevator cabin behind him.
She turned around abruptly, and saw that the warehouse door slowly opened, and a tall man with broad shoulders and long legs stood inside. There are a pair of beautiful peach eyes, which are splashed with sharp firelight.
Xie Qingcheng came out of the silver-gray elevator cabin, his eyes were like wedges, and his heart was pierced.
What He Yu guessed was correct.
Lu Yuzhu is here. Before he entered the archives, the mirror software downloaded on his mobile phone triggered a high-intensity signal reminder. He Yu conducted a connection scan and found that there were even detonators.
More than one.
Fortunately, these detonators can be controlled by mirror software, which enables He Yu to break through the other party's firewall before entering, preventing the countdown.
They did not notify the police before breaking in and time was running out. Moreover, they have determined that the police also have internal ghosts, and the notification will only make it easier to change.
It is now clear that Lu Yuzhu will take suicidal actions to "clean up" all the evidence on the file for her benefactor.
"I know the countdown is only five minutes. But it has stopped now." Xie Qingcheng stared at the woman's face, "Can we talk."
"The countdown has stopped... how can the countdown be..."
"Then I have to thank your boss for his love of high technology." A soft and satin voice sounded behind Xie Qingcheng.
Only then did Lu Yuzhu realize that there was still a person standing deep in the elevator.
Xie Qingcheng's aura just now was so impactful, stepping out of the slowly opened warehouse door seemed to be standing upright, and every step seemed to be walking in her heart. So much so that she didn't notice the young man hiding in the dark of the large elevator for a while.
The young man was wearing a simple black autumn turtleneck, looking very casual and peaceful, and even when he walked out, he was still playing with his mobile phone casually. If the archive room was replaced by a bookstore or a club, his eyebrows and eyes would not be lost. Not inconsistent at all.
The young man smiled at her: "Mr. Lu, technology is indeed a good thing."
But he didn't talk to Lu Yuzhu too much, the other party's technicians were frantically hacking the program system he just kidnapped. He Yu said hello gently and considerately, and then leaned against the wall to continue the silent procedural battle with the other party. His eyes settled down, and he gathered his spirits. He never cared about the relationship between Xie Qingcheng and Lu Yuzhu. dialogue.
Lu Yuzhu is a woman who has experienced strong winds and waves. Even in such a situation, she regained her composure after a brief shock.
"You are not the police." She looked at them, her tense muscles relaxed slightly.
"no."
"The dogs haven't even smelled it yet, so you can come first." Lu Yuzhu narrowed her eyes, "Who are you?"
Xie Qingcheng didn't intend to talk nonsense with her, and went straight to the point: "Nineteen years ago, my parents died in a car accident. A driverless car hit the car, and the front of the car ignited spontaneously after the collision, destroying the effective evidence, the method was the same as the one just now. Your people killed Zhang Yong exactly the same way."
"..." Lu Yuzhu said, "So your parents are traitors who should be swept away, or are they two police dogs?"
Xie Qingcheng: "They are the police."
"That's a good death, and it's not wrong at all. Chasing a martyr, right?" Lu Yuzhu twisted a smile mockingly.
"no."
Lu Yuzhu's smile froze.
"They didn't die in the mission, and there is no direct evidence to prove that they were killed for vendetta. Although all the colleagues around them understand that this is not a coincidence or an ordinary car accident, as long as they can't prove themselves, it is an accident. ."
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes dimmed slightly, as if thinking of her past experience.
"I've seen your profile. I know what happened to you."
Xie Qingcheng paused: "I know what it's like to not get a fair response for so many years. Lu Yuzhu, not all police officers are guilty of heinous crimes."
"… "
"My parents died when I was thirteen years old. In my impression, they didn't do anything that was ashamed of their conscience. In fact, they were punished by constantly seeking the truth for people like you and clearing up their grievances. brutally murdered."
"Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, "I know you hated the reporters, economic investigators, and all relevant personnel who framed you at the time. You left your hometown and suffered so much. It was too late for you to overturn the case three years ago. Nothing can be changed.”
"But do you know how many unknown reporters, police officers, and prosecutors are doing their best, even their lives, in order to bring justice to you and those who have been charged with trumped-up charges? Why did they sacrifice their blood, youth, and even their lives for the things that have been settled in the past, for those things that the parties may no longer be able to forgive after the case is overturned? "
"Because the belated truth cannot change the past."
Xie Qingcheng's voice was trembling slightly. He seemed to be not only talking to Lu Yuzhu, but also tearing at himself who had been stuck for nearly 20 years—
"But at least, the future can be put back on the right track."
"It can make the living people who have been wronged raise their heads again. It can make the martyrs who died without a name, Jiuquan buried. It can remove the heavy shackles on the shoulders of the victims, and it can let people outside the legal network know what it means to be clear."
"It can't heal the wounds of the past, Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, his voice was calm and his emotions were suppressed, but his red eyes revealed his broken heart, "But it's not meaningless. The truth is never meaningless."
"When the prosecutor found you and everyone bowed and apologized to you, did you have a kind of happiness that finally disappeared in your heart after being blocked for more than ten years? Although that happiness is accompanied by boundless pain, but At that moment you can finally breathe."
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes moved slightly.
"You've waited, Lu Yuzhu. I've been waiting for almost twenty years, and I haven't waited yet."
Lu Yuzhu: "..."
Xie Qingcheng: "Where you can't see, there are many people who shed blood for your grievances. You don't even know their names. But they have been seeking justice to make up for their mistakes, so that they didn't commit the crimes. For the sake of the living and the dead, to seek justice... Do you think this is meaningless?"
"It's been more than ten years, even if your husband betrayed you, your children don't know you anymore, even if you don't even remember what Lu Yuzhu, the county party secretary of Qingli County, looks like, but those who have never lived with you But the people in your life haven't put down your case, do you think they are doing this just to say sorry to you?... At least my parents are not. They become police officers to make money, to support their families, and to It's a profession. But they say so, and in the end, die for it, have no money, and don't raise their children. I was thirteen when they left."
"Lu Yuzhu, you are also a mother. Can you imagine what my mother was thinking when she died?"
Lu Yuzhu was only silent before, but when she heard this sentence, her body trembled fiercely, as if there were a pair of weeping eyes in the sky, just like her, she was a woman who was forced to leave her child, watching silently She looks at her.
"Half of her was crushed. I saw it with my own eyes."
"By your people."
"… "
"What did she do wrong, Lu Yuzhu? She never said anything great in her life. She only said something solemnly, which I still remember. She said that every ordinary person longs for a The truth, in this world, people must believe in something bright, in order to survive."
"She wanted the badge on her shoulder to be bright, something that could be trusted by everyone who was helpless. But your companions, your organization, your people, killed her."
"Her epaulets were crushed to pieces."
Lu Yuzhu's fingertips trembled slightly.
Xie Qingcheng said: "It's not the police that you should hate, but the criminals who frame you and slander you. ... Come back, Lu Yuzhu. Some things shouldn't be like this."
Lu Yuzhu looked like a wandering soul, with more than ten years of intricate life twisting and turning in her body. Finally, she raised her head and opened her mouth to Xie Qingcheng, her voice hoarse: "...I'm sorry."
"… "
"I'm sorry..." she murmured.
but-
However, she added:
"Do you know... This sentence is the most repeated sentence when the prosecutor who overturned the case for me found me."
Lu Yuzhu said softly, "I thought at the time, what did I mean by regret? You had a miserable life, but it has nothing to do with me."
She looked at Xie Qingcheng with very complicated eyes.
After a pause for a few seconds, she went on: "But now I'm telling you, I'm sorry. I felt it, and I was thinking, maybe... maybe he didn't mean anything to me at the time. He did. Really, really embarrassed me. It's just—"
The conversation turned.
Under the cold basement light, Lu Yuzhu said slowly, "...Some things can't go back."
"Maybe our people were forced to implicate innocent people. Or maybe it was indeed guilt and wrong, but when I was most desperate and unable to persist, it was our people who saved me. They gave me a place to live."
"… "
"Without them, I may have committed suicide during this long retrospective and waiting. It's too painful. I can't wait for the day when the case is overturned."
Lu Yuzhu said slowly to Xie Qingcheng: "I can't say that you are wrong, and I know that I am wrong. But as a person, I already belong to darkness. Light is unfamiliar to me."
"Whether it's wrong or right, he gave me my life. I won't betray him even if I die."
Xie Qingcheng: "...Do you think he was not using you to save you? For this day, for someone to risk their life, he must keep his mouth shut for them! The countdown to death is five minutes, and it can be controlled remotely. Why didn't they take you away? To let you die in an explosion with what they're going to destroy?"
Lu Yuzhu smiled: "You underestimate him."
"… "
"He said he wanted to take me away, but he didn't plan to leave me. It was I who wanted to stay, because the matter was getting bigger and the warning was enough. He always wanted to keep a few people from the country for the police to close the case." Lu Yuzhu said, "If I want to live, I can escape after pressing the button. He even gave me time to go back."
"But I don't want to," she said.
"I don't want to fall into the hands of the police, I don't want to go back to the place where I have been locked up for too many years. I don't want to accept any more torture, I don't want to cooperate any more. Death is not scary to me at all."
"Being alive makes people feel long and hopeless."
Lu Yuzhu said, and slowly retreated deep into the basement, out of the light, and into the darkness.
She didn't want to step forward.
She couldn't come forward any more.
She turned her hands away and had a pistol/gun on her back waist.
She didn't move the gun, it was the last thing the organization gave her, it was just in case, she wasn't sure if she could really aim, but she had to give it a try...
Her eyes fell on the black-clothed youth who was silent all the time and quickly clicked on the screen of his mobile phone.
Yes.
She can no longer remember the appearance of Lu Yuzhu, the former county secretary of Qingli County.
Her heart clenched, she gritted her teeth silently, and shuddered as she unbuckled the gun...
suddenly-
A message of "ding" sounded.
He Yu, who was fighting a program battle, had a meal.
He set up a message block, but this message was sent by the technician of the other party who broke through the barrier. During the confrontation between the two, the other party sent him an anonymous message.
is a video.
Anonymous message: "Edward, I found out the identities of you and him. You should look at this first, and then consider whether to do this for him."