At half past ten at night, the car stopped in the underground garage of Yu Jianqiang's company:
"We shouldn't be stuck in the same day."
Zhou Luoyang remembered the movie about time loop that he had seen, and suddenly felt a burst of fear.
Du Jing hadn't slept for nearly forty-eight hours in a row, but he was still in good spirits, and replied, "This day is not over yet."
Zhou Luoyang: "Why only you and me?"
Until now, Zhou Luoyang was still full of shock and doubt, as if he was in a dream.
"I don't know." Du Jing answered him succinctly.
Zhou Luoyang suddenly took Du Jing's hand and looked at him suspiciously. Du Jing read what he wanted to say from his eyes:
are you real
They have had too much tacit understanding with each other, and even if they have been separated for several years, this tacit understanding has not been reduced by half over time.
"Yes," Du Jing said solemnly, "I think all this is true, at least now, you and I are real."
"But why..." Zhou Luoyang had too many doubts.
Du Jing took him into the elevator and looked up at the monitor on the ceiling: "Supernatural power? This is very important? Can you go back and study it slowly?"
Zhou Luoyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "What now? What are you going to do?"
The elevator floor numbers kept changing, Du Jing replied, "Go back to the company and get something."
Zhou Luoyang said: "If you confirm that Yu Jianqiang will commit suicide, wouldn't it be time to accompany your boss and enlighten him well..."
Du Jing: "After I left the warehouse, I became a suspect for the first time. They suspected that I pushed him downstairs."
Zhou Luoyang: "…"
Zhou Luoyang began to realize the seriousness of the matter. What occupation is Du Jing engaged in? I haven't seen him for three years, and from the moment he reappeared, he was full of mysteries without any explanation.
Du Jing took out his work card, swiped it on the floor of the general manager's office, and went straight into the company.
"I don't have an alibi." Du Jing said, "I wanted to buy you a lunch, but the police took me into the car as soon as I came out. When I got off, I don't know why, the time suddenly returned to twenty-four hours. before."
Zhou Luoyang: "What were you doing when he committed suicide?"
Du Jing didn't answer, he led Zhou Luoyang past the station and said, "Go this way, this is a dead end for monitoring."
Zhou Luoyang finally couldn't bear it anymore and forced him to ask, "What exactly are you doing?! You can't be Yu Jianqiang's assistant!"
Du Jing still didn't answer, let Zhou Luoyang sit on a chair, took out a folder from the cabinet, and said, "This is my desk, wait here, I'll open the door of his office, don't walk around randomly. ."
Zhou Luoyang said: "Answer my question first, otherwise I'll leave now, and Le Yao is still at home waiting for me to go back and help him take a bath."
As soon as Du Jing took a few steps, Zhou Luoyang stood up and said, "You don't believe me?"
Du Jing stopped, did not look back, was silent for three seconds, and then replied:
"Beginning at nine o'clock, downstairs from your house, I sat on a chair in the community all night until dawn."
Zhou Luoyang was silent, Du Jing put on gloves, wiped the combination lock on Yu Jianqiang's office door, and the numbers lighted up one by one.
Du Jing opened the folder and compared the photos above to identify the fingerprints.
Zhou Luoyang frowned, staring at Du Jing's standing back, with a few "didi" sounds, the light from the digital lock dimmed, and the door failed to open.
Zhou Luoyang turned his attention to Du Jing's desk. The desk was very clean. There was only a laptop plugged in to charge, a can, a little soil in the can, and a small green plant planted in the soil. The cans are marked with a key with a sense of design: "DZ", the turning of "Z" and the letter "D" are stacked on top of each other.
"This kind of electronic lock can usually only be wrong three times," Zhou Luoyang reminded after hearing the second error report, "If you want to enter your boss's office to steal something, you have to come back another day."
Du Jing pondered for a moment, frowning, he pieced together the six-digit password to open the door by resetting his fingerprints, but it was difficult to find its order. After two months of observation, he had to take a risk today.
Because Yu Jianqiang will commit suicide soon, and at that time, the office will be sealed and he will no longer be able to enter.
"There's no need for another day, what if it happens again on September 7th?" Du Jing said lightly.
"Don't say that!" Zhou Luoyang suddenly stood up all over his body.
The door lock made a sound of music and opened, Du Jing was relieved, and then he would face the second test.
"Come on," Du Jing said, "it's up to you."
Du Jing turned on the desk lamp in the office, closed the door behind him, motioned Zhou Luoyang to look at a safe under the bookshelf, and said, "Help me open it."
Zhou Luoyang: "..."
The two stared at each other for a long time, and Zhou Luoyang finally knew why Du Jing asked about a safe inexplicably at noon yesterday.
"I have to go back and get the manual." Zhou Luoyang said.
"You can do it," said Du Jing, "without the manual."
Zhou Luoyang: "…"
"You have a good memory for the things I asked you to pay attention to." Du Jing said again.
Zhou Luoyang finally said: "Give me a glass."
Du Jing flipped a glass for him from under the table, took off the gloves from his hands, and threw them together.
Zhou Luoyang had to kneel in front of the bookshelf and put on gloves, which were very thin, with Du Jing's scorching body temperature on them, and even a little smell of his skin.
"Have you changed your career to become a thief?" Zhou Luoyang put the glass on the safe and listened to the sound inside.
Zhou Luoyang knelt down on one knee, he had to turn sideways to recognize the mechanical sound in the safe, while Du Jing came over and sat on the chair with his long legs just a little apart, sitting in front of him.
Du Jing faced Zhou Luoyang, leaned slightly and looked into his eyes.
"I thought about being a thief," Du Jing said. "It's a pity that many things in the world, even if you have the ability to reach the sky, you can't steal them."
"You stole a full twenty-four hours."
Zhou Luoyang turned the cipher wheel and raised his eyes to look at Du Jing. The light of the desk lamp was half-bright and half-dark, and cast on Du Jing's side face. He is more mature and more reserved than he was three years ago.
"For me, time is not the most important thing." Du Jing replied casually.
"So what do you want to steal?" Zhou Luoyang had a hunch that there must be something very, very important in the safe, otherwise Du Jing wouldn't take such a big risk and choose to sneak into Yu Jianqiang's office at the last moment.
Du Jing's lips moved slightly and replied.
"your heart."
Zhou Luoyang didn't answer, let alone pay attention to him, just listened carefully to the sound in the safe.
After a long period of silence, Zhou Luoyang couldn't help but speak.
Zhou Luoyang: "What more? I'm so sleepy that I almost fell asleep."
Du Jing: "I'm afraid of disturbing you."
Zhou Luoyang: "Who is Lao Tzu? Look down on me so much?"
Du Jing said seriously: "What do you want to talk about?"
In the middle of the night, under the light of the table lamp, there is a different kind of romantic atmosphere.
"Kneeling toward you makes me very uncomfortable." Zhou Luoyang struggled to find the sound in the safe.
Du Jing got up and knelt down in front of Zhou Luoyang. Zhou Luoyang knelt on one knee and Du Jing knelt down on both knees.
"So?" Du Jing looked at Zhou Luoyang's expression.
"It's still too high." Zhou Luoyang frowned.
Even if Du Jing was kneeling, he was a little taller than Zhou Luoyang, and when he heard the words, he bowed slightly, and his face was closer.
Zhou Luoyang looked at him intently and said, "Have you been doing well in the past few years?"
"Very bad," Du Jing replied, "It's worse than you can imagine."
"Have you thought about suicide?"
"No, I promised you that even if you leave, you will say goodbye seriously and politely. You must do it."
"So it's time to say goodbye now?"
"Not in time."
"That's good." Zhou Luoyang was satisfied after hearing this answer.
Du Jing said, "You just want me to suffer in this world."
"Yes," said Zhou Luoyang, "I feel good when I see you suffer."
"It's 'imagining me suffering'," Du Jing corrected.
Zhou Luoyang replied: "It's almost the same."
Du Jing: "Are you tired? Change your posture?"
For a long time, Du Jing stopped talking again, and Zhou Luoyang said casually: "Your confidence in me is slowly shaking as time passes by."
Du Jing replied: "It doesn't matter, we still have a lot of time. I'm willing to kneel until the morning. This is something with a password. It always takes patience. I didn't have much hope."
Zhou Luoyang: "As long as there is a device with a password in the world, be prepared for the password to be forgotten. Most safes have a way to reset it, but many people don't know it."
He had a hunch that he was about to do it, until he heard a very faint sound in the safe.
Then, he put down the cup, Du Jing immediately illuminated the turntable with his mobile phone, Zhou Luoyang found the corresponding small gap and began to reset, and the safe was opened.
Du Jing reached out and took out a thick file bag with his fingers from the safe.
"What is this?" Zhou Luoyang asked.
Du Jing replied: "Ledger and company financial details."
Then, Du Jing took Zhou Luoyang's hand, reached in and felt it around. There was nothing in it, so he closed the safe door.
In the distant place, there was a slight "drip" sound.
Zhou Luoyang turned his head and looked around for where the sound came from, but Du Jing recognized that it was the sound of a card puncher.
He made a judgment in an instant, pulled up Zhou Luoyang, stuffed the document bag into his arms, rolled the glass into the bottom of the bookshelf at the same time, jumped at the doorknob when he got up, twisted the door, and left the office, while covering Zhou Luoyang with one hand mouth to prevent him from making a sound.
Zhou Luoyang stumbled, his feet felt numb after kneeling for too long, Du Jing immediately noticed, hugged him, drifted outside the workstation, slid along the carpet, pushed Zhou Luoyang under his desk, and immediately lay down on the table.
Just a second after he sat up, all the lights on the floor of the general manager's office turned on.
Yu Jianqiang walked into the office with a fitness long bag on his back, and was immediately taken aback by Du Jing. He didn't expect that there were still people in the office around twelve o'clock.
"What are you doing here?"
Du Jing raised his head, stood up with blank eyes, Yu Jianqiang made a gesture, and Du Jing sat down again.
"Come back and think about something," Du Jing said, "I fell asleep thinking about it."
Yu Jianqiang nodded, did not ask more, turned around and swiped his card, and entered his office with a heavy heart.
Zhou Luoyang was curled up at the bottom of the table, pinched by Du Jing's long legs, unable to move around, and unable to stick his head out to look at it, he began to untie the tether on the document bag, making a little noise.
Du Jing immediately kicked off his shoes and stepped lightly in Zhou Luoyang's arms, signaling him not to take the file bag without authorization. Zhou Luoyang locked Du Jing's ankle and was about to scratch him when Du Jing shrank his foot, reached down from the table, and handed him a wireless earphone.
Zhou Luoyang: "?"
Zhou Luoyang stopped harassing him, put on the wireless earphone, Du Jing put on the other one, and the voice of Yu Jianqiang's phone conversation came from the earphone installed in the office.
"How much do you want?"
Yu Jianqiang suppressed his anger and said, "Over and over again, my patience is limited!"
Zhou Luoyang thought to himself, he was blackmailed
Yu Jianqiang replied: "This is the last time, take your things with you."
Zhou Luoyang listened to Yu Jianqiang's call, put on Du Jing's shoes, put his right hand still wearing thin leather gloves on Du Jing's thigh, and patted it lightly.
Du Jing put his hand on the back of Zhou Luoyang's hand, stretched out his fingers, hooked into the edge of the glove, took it off gently, and put it into his suit pocket.
Yu Jianqiang came out with his bag, Du Jing asked, "Send you back?"
"No need." Yu Jianqiang said, "Go back to sleep early."
Du Jing didn't speak anymore, Yu Jianqiang's expression was very unnatural, and he left the office. After a while, Zhou Luoyang got out from under the table and looked at Du Jing.
"What if he said 'OK'? Did he mean to let me walk home?" Zhou Luoyang sighed.
Du Jing put one foot on the desk, tying the leather shoes and shoelaces, still with that expressionless and indifferent face: "He won't let me deliver it, the bag is full of cash, five or sixty thousand."
"Oh?" Zhou Luoyang put the document bag on the table, Du Jing still wrapped the rope, got up and said, "Send you home first."
Zhou Luoyang said: "And then sit downstairs in my community for another night?"
Du Jing didn't say a word. He went to the security office to delete the elevator surveillance. After getting in the car, Zhou Luoyang said, "I suddenly changed my mind again."
Du Jing: "How long has it been since you slept, not sleepy at all?"
Zhou Luoyang replied, "You haven't slept for several days, and you're not sleepy either."
"I'm sick, you're not." Du Jing replied simply.
Zhou Luoyang said, "You want to take me home and follow Yu Jianqiang."
Du Jing turned the steering wheel and turned without answering.
Zhou Luoyang: "I'll accompany you, sleep in the car for a while, and call me when you arrive."
Du Jing still didn't answer.
Zhou Luoyang finally said: "The suit fits well."
"The company issued it, including shirts, shoes and socks." Du Jing heard Zhou Luoyang's overtones and replied, "I'm still single, and I didn't go to harm people."
"OK."
Zhou Luoyang closed his eyes, leaned on the side of the car window, and replied.