The grief of being powerless is not enough for outsiders.
In fact, Lin Chen has too many questions to ask Xing Conglian. For example, why did the criminal police of the city-level organs participate in the investigation of international cases such as genocide, or, in other words, what kind of slaughter was it that kept the dynasty from going out? The shadow, and even the question comes down to the end, it will become the simplest two questions, who is he, and who are you
But in the end, he didn't ask anything, just like Xing Conglian had always done to him.
The next morning, he was still woken up by a scream.
"Ahhh!!!"
The young comrade Wang Dynasty woke up at an unknown time and was lying on the carpet, staring at the furnishings in the room with a shocked expression on his face.
Lin Chen walked up to the boy with bare feet, and reached out to touch his forehead. Fortunately, it wasn't hot.
It wasn't until the cold fingertips touched his forehead that the young man shuddered and came back to his senses: "Grand Hotel, damn Grand Hotel!"
Lin Chen pinched his soft face and asked, "Are you okay?"
"So high-end, so high-end, so high-end!" Wang Chao jumped up, ran to the window, and opened the floor-to-ceiling curtains, but the curtain hooks remained motionless.
"Oh, oh, it's electric!" The boy started rummaging around the room for the remote control again.
Lin Chen folded his arms and stood aside, Xing Conglian rubbed his head, walked out of the second bedroom, and asked sleepily, "What's wrong, little bunny?"
"Probably the disturbance of sympathetic nerve activity during the self-healing process of childhood shadows?"
Xing Conglian: "..."
"Boss, have you finally become a rich man!"
Dynasty finally found the remote control, turned around and saw Xing Conglian, he was excited to press the switch.
The curtains were slowly moved to both sides, revealing the thousands of pouring water outside the window.
Xing Conglian yawned and pointed at the back of the dynasty's head, just a scalp: "Nonsense, I have always been rich!"
"Can that be called breakfast? Big lobster!"
He was scalped, but the young man didn't realize it. Before Xing Conglian agreed, he threw himself on the coffee table and began to search for the breakfast menu.
Australian lobster, of course, is not served for breakfast.
But fluffy baby croissants and delicious chicken and mushroom soup can still soothe the stomach and hurt the soul.
Dynasty ordered all the food on the menu, and ordered three types of drinks, and then began to devote himself to eating. Lin Chen made a cup of black tea and sat beside him.
The morning light is very good, and the satisfied smile on the boy's face is also very good.
Xing Conglian ate two loaves of bread, as if remembering something, and suddenly asked, "Have you thought about finding someone to replace you?"
Dynasty stuffed his mouth full of baked bacon, didn't react for a moment, just stared at him dully.
"I heard that BlackJack is very famous, why not replace him?"
"Fuck, that cowardly kid can't even type the keyboard smoothly, okay?" The boy swallowed his food and said angrily.
"Didn't you say that if it's about Deepweb, you won't check it?"
"When did I say that?"
"Yesterday, during dinner."
"But Ah Chen has cured me!"
"You are really powerful..."
"Okay, okay, boss, don't talk nonsense, you can rest assured to hand over the case to a fool like BJ." Comrade Wang Chao waved his hand, bit his croissant, and rushed to the computer, "I'm going to start work. , isn't it just a broken video!"
Xing Conglian shrugged, but saw Lin Chen looking at him with an intriguing look.
"You're bluffing him." Consul Lin took a sip of tea and said in a low voice.
"My child, I have to spur it every now and then. If I encounter a small problem, what should I do?" Captain Xing said sternly and righteously.
Like a wiped baguette or a creamy soup with no bottom left, the haze of yesterday seems to have been swallowed hard.
At the end of the breakfast, Lin Chen received a call from Fu Hao and asked him to meet at the school office.
"Senior brother, come early, remember to pack the Wangji egg cake at the gate of the school for me!"
"Have the files been found?"
"certainly!"
Lin Chen could almost imagine that Fu Hao patted his chest on the other end of the phone, pretending to be relaxed.
"But why did you call me until now?"
Fu Hao's tone was really not right, Lin Chen thought about it for a while, and then asked.
"It was too late yesterday!"
After Fu Hao finished speaking, he shut up neatly.
Lin Chen put down the tea cup. When most people lie, they will become chatty, but his junior brother is a little special.
Sure enough, the children are all grown up and have their own little secrets...
Then, as a democratic parent, of course, he can't ask everything in detail.
"Then call Xu Haozhen together." Lin Chen raised his eyes and said.
"Why?"
"Watch the video together."
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Yongchuan University maintains the good custom of recording the self-introduction of freshmen, although it is for file building, but more for scientific research tracking.
When the sample size is large enough, these freshman enrollment data can not only represent the general characteristics of a certain generation of students, but also can be used as a time starting point for longitudinal research to observe that those college students who look like a blank sheet of paper, after four years, ten years, or even What will it look like in a few decades.
The initiator of this research is Mr. Su Anzhi, the president of Yongchuan University and Lin Chen's teacher, which is why he first thought of checking the freshmen's files after encountering Wang Shishi's question.
Xing Conglian was captured by Vice Captain Jiang to search for Jiang Liu, the missing girl in the video, and Lin Chen came to Professor Fu's office alone.
I have to say that although Professor Fu delayed for a night, the information he found was very complete.
Among them are not only the self-introduction videos of the freshmen, the medical examination reports, and even the mental health test reports at the time of admission, all of which are very complete.
Lin Chen opened the files of Wang Shishi, Xu Haozhen, and Jiang Liu, extracted the profiles of the Minnesota Multiple Personality Test (MMPI), and placed them on the table in turn.
Just then, someone pushed open the wooden door of the office.
A white shirt, a short black sheepskin skirt, small high heels, and long hair draped over one shoulder. The girl was dressed simply and intellectually, perhaps with light makeup. She looked brighter and more attractive than the day before yesterday.
Lin Chen looked up at Xu Haozhen, the girl's hand had already reached out.
"Senior Brother Lin Chen, hello, we meet again."
The scallion-like jade hand hangs halfway in front of his eyes, and there is a slender silver chain on the wrist, and there are no traces of nail polish on those round nail flaps.
"Don't be polite, I came here specially for you." Lin Chen did not shake hands with the girl, but pointed to the seat beside him, signaling for the girl to take her seat.
Xu Hao was really embarrassed. After all, a girl like her had not been treated so rudely by a boy for a long time.
It's just that a person like Lin Chen can only be more straightforward and straightforward than Xu Haozhen imagined. He ignored Professor Fu who was winking at him, turned on the office computer on the desk, and clicked on the word "Xu Haozhen". video file.
The stumbling female voice preceded the picture and came out through the sound.
"Big... Hello everyone, my name is Xu Haozhen... Graduated from Fuxing No. 3 Middle School... "
Every year, the school starts in September, but the girl in the video is wearing a thick long-sleeved coat. Her complexion is yellowish, and she almost covers her eyes when she stays in the sea. If it wasn't for the three characters Xu Haozhen on the file name, Lin Chen couldn't believe it. The girl in the video who dare not look directly at the audience is the same person as the intellectual beauty beside her.
"... I hope to find like-minded good friends in college."
The self-introduction was very short. After the girl finished speaking, she quickly fled from the stage.
Xu Haozhen kept staring at the screen, her eyes were burning, and she did not show any embarrassment or shame, until the screen turned completely black, and her gaze shifted to Lin Chen's face.
"Brother, what do you mean by showing me this?" The girl's voice was cool, and she sounded a little angry.
"Do you know Wang Shishi?" Lin Chen said, and opened another video labeled "Wang Shishi".
The player unfolded the screen. In the video, Wang Shishi lowered her head slightly and her voice was barely audible. She was wearing an ankle-length white skirt and a rude chiffon shirt. She looked the same as Xu Haozhen many years ago, timid. Shy.
Lin Chen glanced across the screen and turned to Xu Haozhen.
"Do you know Wang Shishi?" he asked.
"I... I'm very happy to be admitted to Yongchuan University... to become... a classmate with everyone... "
The volume was turned to the maximum, and Wang Shishi's voice came out intermittently.
Xu Hao really didn't answer.
"Do you know that she and Jiang Liu have made a sex video?"
Lin Chen's question was very straightforward and sudden, but such a sudden question did not make Xu Hao really lose his temper. She straightened her hair on the temples, then respectfully turned towards Lin Chen, and said with a light smile, "I know Wang Shishi."
Hearing Xu Hao really answer, Lin Chen's expression froze, as if the person sitting opposite was not a beautiful woman, but a stone that was about to be weathered.
"Both Wang Shishi and I have participated in the literary club. Because I am a senior, Wang Shishi often sticks to me, and Jiang Liu, who is the secretary of the student union, used to be my subordinate. The three of us know each other."
"Wang Shishi is a very good girl. She is very beautiful and has many admirers, so she is often ostracized by other girls in the dormitory, but she is a very upright girl and won't mess with the relationship between men and women."
Lin Chen listened quietly, he was so close to the girl that he could almost see the shape of each other's pupils and the anger that filled them.
"Senior brother, because he found out about my relationship with Wang Shishi, that's why he suspects me?" The girl straightened her spine, with a condescending arrogance, "I know them, but I also know hundreds of other people in this school. "
"I don't know what videos they have made. I don't believe that Wang Shishi and Jiang Liu would do such a thing, and I have never filmed such a video. Senior brother should know that your question just now is the biggest insult to a girl. ." Xu Haozhen said.
"You talk too much." Lin Chen said seriously, "I didn't ask you those questions, you just need to answer me, know or not, know or not know."
"I have answered your question for the first time, I don't know, but I know it."
Xu Hao really answered very sharply, and Lin Chen seemed to be on the tip of a needle with Maimang.
Lin Chen looked at the girl's jade-like face and nodded. He turned off Wang Shishi's self-introduction, reopened Xu Haozhen's video, and began to watch it seriously.
"Senior brother, I'm leaving." Xu Haozhen got up and left, and when she reached the door, she suddenly turned around, the corners of her lips were slightly raised, and her tone changed: "Senior brother, goodbye."
she said with a smile.
Looking at the girl's fleeting smile, Lin Chen had a bad feeling in his heart.
She comes and goes like the wind, and when faced with questions that are too harsh and inhumane, she still behaves properly, making it impossible to pick out the slightest mistake.
After Xu Haozhen left, Fu Hao hurriedly rushed to him: "Senior brother, you are too fierce, that's the little junior sister!"
"I know."
Lin Chen pressed the pause button. In the picture, there was Xu Haozhen, who was young a few years ago. She lowered her head and her eyes flickered. She was completely different from the beautiful woman who was still confident and proud in the face of sharp questions.
"Then you were so rude just now."
"Do you think that university can really change a person perfectly?"
University education and small-scale social interactions can really make the timid gradually bold, the timid become confident, and even turn the ugly duckling into a golden phoenix
Lin Chen said in a low voice, as if asking Fu Hao, but also as if muttering to himself.