Case File Compendium

Chapter 239 Encountering an old friend

Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes, and when he said the next sentence, his chest hardly rose or fell.

"Or, should I call you directly, Chen Lisheng?"

Duan Wenwen said, silent for a long time.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly smiled.

His smile was very shallow at first, like a snow-white silkworm cocoon breaking open, revealing little by little black claws, and then suddenly expanded, all of which were spread on his no longer young but still very handsome face, like moths that had transformed The butterfly bit the cocoon, struggled to break through the cage, and the terrified wings of phosphorous powder sloughed out of the chrysalis drenched with slurry, and were exposed to the blue sky and bright sun.

"Haha..." Duan Wen raised his head, and there was some joy in his smile that finally no longer had to be faked, even when old friends reunited, "You have never disappointed me at all, Xie Qingcheng."

Xie Qingcheng slowly lowered her eyelashes.

He was not at all happy about this praise, let alone that he was hit by Duan Wen's identity.

His face was indifferent and numb, and it could also be said to be filled with boundless coldness.

Xie Qingcheng: "It's really you."

Duan Wen: "It's really me."

He said again, "Can you tell me why you guessed it was me?"

Xie Qingcheng raised his eyes, as if he was staring at a stranger, staring at the man he had worshiped for nearly 20 years, his lips parted: "Tell me first, how is He Yu doing."

"He." Duan Wen said, "It's all right. He's not dead."

Xie Qingcheng looked fiercely: "What are you planning to do to him?"

"I think you should have already guessed it." Duan Wen said slowly, "I captured him at this juncture, of course, because he can be made into a weapon against the attack of the dream breaker—don't worry, he is dead. No, just after we deal with it, he will completely accept our thoughts and concepts... He will still remember you and your past, but he will think it is wrong, we call this... ..."

Duan Wen paused, and said, "Concept reform."

"So don't feel sad, Xie Qingcheng, he just changed his mind, as long as you are willing to join us, you will be on the same front with him again, I believe he will still treat you as before." Duan Wen said, Qian Qian raised the corner of her lips, "But of course, if you insist on your current camp, I think he will dismiss you."

"..."

"In fact, people are only limited by their own vision, fighting for what they think is justice. But what is right in your eyes is wrong in the eyes of others." Duan Wen, under the protection of two bodyguards, spoke to Xie very leisurely. Qingcheng said, "You don't have to rush to reject me, you can think about it carefully. Now—"

He turned his face away, and two bodyguards stepped forward immediately, one held down Xie Qingcheng, and the other started a carpet search on Xie Qingcheng.

Duan Wendan said: "Let's find out your Fengbo system first."

"President Duan! We found a suspicious one!"

Not long after, a bodyguard found a leather bracelet from Xie Qingcheng's clothes.

Duan Wen took it, held it in his hand, and examined it carefully.

"It's really exquisite..." He said slowly, "It seems to be an ordinary accessory... There is no interface, no electronic response... But..."

The strength in his hand increased sharply, and the leather rope broke, exposing the cable as thin as a cow's hair underneath.

Duan Wen showed a "really so" expression, and then looked up at Xie Qingcheng: "I'm glad you only had time to take it off and hide it in your pocket. There is no need for me to have your clothes stripped or dissected." Open your flesh and blood to find it. To be honest, I don't really want to hurt you."

Xie Qingcheng was held down by the strong bodyguard, with an extremely cold expression on his face.

"Are you trying to say that you still have humanity in you, Chen Lisheng?"

Duan Wen threw the broken bracelet to another bodyguard behind him, and said, "Yes. I let Chen Man go, and I hope I can let you go too."

"You let Chen Man go?" Xie Qingcheng's face was still stained with blood, he stared at Duan Wen who was sitting in front of him, his voice was hoarse and low, "If I'm not mistaken, in order to get rid of Huang Zhilong's influence, You sent that videotape to Chen Man, right? In order to convince him, you even pretended that you were not dead yet, but in the end he desperately wanted to investigate the case for you, and almost cost his life. You care about this, it’s called letting him go, right?!”

Duan Wen didn't take it seriously, and calmly listened to Xie Qingcheng's words.

Then he said: "I really didn't care about his life and death, I just treated him as a toy, a pawn."

"However...he surprised me. I didn't expect him to take the so-called brotherhood so deeply. After seeing a glimmer of hope, he couldn't get out of the fantasy that I was still alive for a long time. When everyone gave up , He still has this extravagant hope. I admit that I originally meant to play with him in it, and I am curious about how deep the so-called brotherhood is."

He paused for a few seconds and said, "In the end, his performance is in my opinion, and he got a high score."

"So even though I still don't pay much attention to him, since there is a chance to let him live, then let him go. It's his brother's reward."

"So you really sent that video..." Xie Qingcheng gritted his teeth.

"Yes, waste utilization." Duan Wen sneered and spread his hands, "Chen Man is a waste in my eyes."

"Then what do you want to use on me now?"

Duan Wen's so-called willful smile stopped.

He stared at Xie Qingcheng, after a while, turned his head away, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and lit it.He smoked that cigarette, but never answered Xie Qingcheng's words.

until the smoke burns out.

Duan Wen threw away the cigarette butt, and in the thick mist that hadn't dissipated, he opened his mouth again——

"I don't kill you, not for the purpose of using it. It's because I promised someone."

As the man said, his eyelashes drooped slightly, which made his already elusive eyes even more obscure.He went on to say: "I promised him, I will try not to kill you."

"...my father?"

Duan Wen didn't answer.

After a while, he changed the topic and said with a slight smile, "Professor Xie, let's be fair. I've said so much, but you still haven't answered my question. Tell me first, how did you guess my question?" It belongs to Chen Lisheng."

"...a lot. You chose to let Chen Man go. Li Yun's suddenly appeared. He Yu's blood gu has no effect on Li Yun, and there is..."

"Ok?"

"What you said to me when you met me that night."

Duan Wen frowned slightly, and crossed his fingers: "What did I tell you...?"

"You said that after all, the word police is not the title on the shoulders of the clothes on the body, not the prestige and power, but the heavy responsibility and shackles."

Duan Wen's face changed suddenly, realizing the problem.

Xie Qingcheng said: "This is my father's original words. He often tells me and his apprentices. The only apprentices he has taught are you and Li Yun."

"..." Duan Wen's lips trembled, and he laughed, "What a mistake... I didn't expect you to remember your father's words so deeply."

Xie Qingcheng said: "I didn't expect you to remember your master's words so deeply."

Duan Wen: "..."

"After I heard this sentence, I also mentioned that Zheng Jingfeng and my parents have been teammates since the internship. Team Zheng is strict. Few people know about this matter. Even I only knew about it before I went to the island. But you were not surprised when you heard it. Neither my parents nor Captain Zheng would share anything with others, and the only ones who can know these details are probably their apprentices."

"Actually, after I finished talking with you that night, the person who was more suspicious was Li Yun." Xie Qingcheng said, "But then Li Yun appeared, so you are the only one left."

"As for that Li Yun, I'm afraid it's not true. He should be a reformer, because He Yu's blood gu is usually ineffective in two situations. , but the other party is a living dead whose brain is controlled by a chip. I am more inclined to the latter, because he feels wrong to me, not like a normal person."

Duan Wen lit a cigarette: "I underestimated you, Xie Qingcheng. Now that you've reached this point, why don't you guess again, who is begging me not to kill you? I think you can quickly answer that answer." knew."

Xie Qingcheng slowly raised his eyes in the silence: "It's not my father's words, but Li Yun?"

Duan Wen looked at him sideways: "Xie Qingcheng, you are indeed...very, very suitable to be a policeman."

After he finished speaking, he said lightly, "That's right, it's because of him."

Intuition told Xie Qingcheng not to say anything at this time. He could see that Duan Wen had many things on his mind. Those things had been suppressed for too many years. Judging from Duan Wen's expression at the moment, it wasn't that he didn't want to talk, but that he Because none of these people on the island is something he can really talk to.

They just think of the Gu worms in the alchemy furnace, who gather together because of their cruelty and cruelty. They are a group but not a group, and they will be swallowed by other Gu worms if they don't pay attention.

Perhaps the moment when Xie Qingcheng took off his mask in front of Xie Qingcheng was actually the most relaxing time for Duan Wen in the past 20 years.

Sure enough, after several minutes, Duan Wen spoke slowly.

He no longer used the tone of talking about big things, but very peaceful, even like how many years ago, when he was still Chen Lisheng, he came to Xie Qingcheng's house to chat as a guest.

"Li Yun and I were both your father's students at first..."

"Master is very good to me." Duan Wen looked at the sky outside the window and said calmly, "He treated me much better than Li Yun. When he had no skills and could only take one apprentice, he chose me. Instead, I suggested that Li Yun go to study with another old economic detective, and even told Li Yun bluntly that his character is not suitable for working in the front line."

This is not surprising, Xie Ping is a man who speaks his own words, he does not avoid his relatives when he speaks internally, and does not avoid enemies when he speaks externally, it is only normal for him to say such offensive words to Li Yun.

"In everyone's impression, he has always had opinions on Li Yun. I'm afraid you think so too."

Xie Qingcheng: "Isn't it."

"That's true at first." Duan Wen said, "Master really didn't like him at first, thinking that he was cruel, good at disguising, and double-faced, but later his thoughts changed."

Xie Qingcheng was on guard: "He never told me."

"Because this incident happened very late, almost shortly before he and his wife died." Duan Wen said, "Actually, the misunderstanding between them could have been resolved earlier. However, Li Yun doesn't like to mention herself. It can even be said that he is deliberately concealing some of his past."

Xie Qingcheng frowned. Police schools require political review when recruiting students. It is almost impossible for the situation in Infernal Affairs to become a policeman with parents who are gang leaders.

Duan Wen saw what he was thinking, lit another cigarette, took a puff and said, "It's not a bad background, so the police academy won't record the files in detail, and Master naturally doesn't know. To be honest, if you change it to another People don't necessarily hide it, and they even wish their comrades in arms know."

"What background?" Xie Qingcheng asked.

"Informant." Duan Wen said, "His father is an informant for the anti-narcotics police. He has worked for more than ten years. But in all the materials he submitted, when he filled in the father's column, he filled in the greengrocer."

"...The police academy didn't verify it?"

"He didn't lie." Duan Wen dusted off the cigarette ash and exhaled smoke, "His father is a greengrocer - he has lived with this stepfather who sells vegetables and fruits since elementary school, his mother divorced, and he was sentenced to Mother. The biological father looks like a vagrant, no one can stand it, but he is actually an informant."

Ashes fell, like ghosts from the past floating in the darkness.

"Li Yun only found out the true identity of his biological father when he was in high school. His biological father died at that time. He was discovered by a drug dealer when he was meeting with the police, and a shootout broke out. The police had to choose between the two in order to save his comrades. First, when you want to go back to rescue the informant...his father is no longer breathing."

Xie Qingcheng's hands and feet felt slightly cold when he heard it.

He remembered the scene he saw when he was young. Before Li Yun obtained his police certificate, he used abnormal interrogation methods to extract a confession from a drug trafficker. His methods were cruel and his eyes were cold.

original……

"The reason why his father wants to be this informant is because his father is an idealist through and through. As a native of the Golden Triangle, his father has seen too many families and lives destroyed by drugs. He used to be He wanted to be a policeman, but unfortunately his physical fitness was not that good. He was screened out in the physical examination, but he never gave up. If he couldn't be a policeman, he became an informant. It was only in a diary that I learned the truth."

Duan Wen paused, and continued: "You can imagine how complicated Li Yun's mood was when he read that diary."

While talking, Duan Wen lazily leaned on the chair, smoking a cigarette.

His tone was very calm, with a bloody wind in his mouth, just as calm as he used to tell stories to Xie Qingcheng.

But Xie Qingcheng still couldn't see the color in his eyes.

"Li Yun was very resentful towards his biological father. For an ideal, his father abandoned both him and his mother. Between family and righteousness, his father resolutely chose the latter. He felt extremely angry, unwilling, and painful. However……"

After taking another puff of cigarette, Duan Wen said: "In the college entrance examination that year, Li Yun gave up her original art school examination and filled in the police academy instead."

Xie Qingcheng: "..."

"I shared the dormitory with him for four years in college. He has a rather lonely personality. I can be regarded as the one who got along with him the most. But during the four years, he never mentioned these past events to me. So we entered the public security system later, As the first master of the two of us, your father also has no understanding of his family background. He thinks that he is eager for quick success and quick gain, and he is unscrupulous. I think your father must regret it after knowing the truth. He talked with Li Yun in private. Once, I think that conversation between them was about that."

"...Why guess like that."

"Because Master was murdered by the Mandela organization soon after. At that time, there were two people who insisted on investigating the cause of Master's death. One made a lot of noise to let everyone know that it was me. The other was very cautious. He sensed that there seemed to be an insider in the game, and he thought that his bad relationship with Xie Ping was the best cover—that person was Li Yun."

"!!"

"Yes, Xie Qingcheng, Li Yun didn't have an accident to investigate my case. He had stepped into this realm of death long before investigating my case." Duan Wen said, "Actually, he is the The police officer who insisted on giving his life for your parents' innocence."

Xie Qingcheng originally thought that after what happened to He Yu, there would be nothing else that could greatly stimulate his mood, but at this moment, he knew that he had made a mistake in his prediction, so he had to try his best to calm down his breathing.

The whole matter has reached the most critical moment, and any move cannot be wrong.

"He acted like that at the time. No one knew that he and Xie Ping had settled their feud, and even became close friends. He deceived everyone, including me at the time."

Another cigarette was almost gone.

Duan Wen didn't smoke any more, held the cigarette in his hand, and watched the filter paper slowly curl up in the spark, turning into black ash: "Xie Ping is a very good policeman, but he did the two worst things in his life. First, I misunderstood Li Yun. Even if Li Yun made a mistake, it was not because of his vicious nature. Fortunately, he corrected this mistake before he died. And the second mistake..."

Duan Wen said: "He believed me wrongly."

Xie Qingcheng seemed that even his blood was cold, he looked at Duan Wen blankly: "Duan Cuizhen arranged for you to enter the police station from the beginning?"

"I'm also interested, so it can't be considered a complete arrangement." Duan Wen said, "But I have been Mandela's person from the very beginning. I have been since I was a child."

He stared at Xie Qingcheng's eyes, those eyes were cold, but he was not surprised.

"It seems that you are also very aware of this." Duan Wen said, "I am Duan Cuizhen's junior, and I fully accepted her thoughts when I was very young."

"Since when?"

Duan Wen said calmly: "From the first time I saw her. At that time, my mother and I were very unhappy."

Xie Qingcheng knew a thing or two about Duan Wen, that is, Chen Lisheng's family affairs.

Chen Lisheng's father originally had a wife who was a high-ranking intellectual, but he gave up his studies and career for the sake of the family, and later fell ill and passed away.

After she passed away, Chen's father formed a family with another woman, and that woman was Chen Man's mother.But Chen's mother was very kind to Chen Lisheng, there should be no gap between stepmother and stepson, and there should be no such thing as a junior mistress.

Duan Wendao: "My mother's unfortunate marriage has nothing to do with Chen Man's mother. My stepmother, like my biological mother, is the kind of person who is easily carried away by emotions. My father was born handsome, and they all Liked him a lot... at least my biological mother used to like him."

"And then what?"

"Later?" Duan Wen smiled lightly, "He is different from her. My mother is affectionate, but he got tired of her early on."

"She is actually a very smart person." When Duan Wen mentioned his biological mother, his expression was still very calm, as if he was mentioning an innocuous object, "My mother inherited the mind of my grandmother—that is, Duan Cuizhen. She was admitted to Shanghai University with excellent grades. According to my grandmother, she would have a bright future in scientific research, but unfortunately, she met my father in college and fell in love."

"Their marriage has been strongly opposed by the grandmother from the very beginning. The grandmother hopes that she can have a longer vision and not stick to personal petty love. Human energy is limited. Ordinary people are called love. Friendship, friendship, and family affection took time away, and thus failed to reach the peak of ability. My mother-in-law taught her this way since she was a child, and she has always taken this as her creed, until love dazzled her clever mind." Duan Wen leisurely, "She became a captive of dopamine."

"The grandma put in a lot of effort to cultivate her, but she finally chose to be a housewife for a man, which made the grandma very angry. She told my mother that if this is her pattern, then sooner or later, She will regret it. My mother is very stubborn. The more the grandmother said that, the more she insisted on doing what she wanted to do. So after this conversation, they parted ways completely. The grandmother expelled my mother, and My mother took it upon herself to marry my father."

Duan Wen went on to say: "She could have been a tree, but she chose to be a vine. My father may yearn for that kind of marriage that is evenly matched, or maybe he is unstable by nature. I soon got tired of living with my mother."

"He didn't cheat, he kept a secular bottom line, but his eyes and hearts were no longer on my mother. He socialized endlessly, participated in large and small wine parties, and left all the trivial matters in life to his wife. Wife For him, it became a 24-hour nanny, and it was still unpaid. But when I took it out to comment, in the social environment at that time, no one would think that my father was at fault. He can support the family and make money If he can control himself well and not find a mistress, he is already considered an excellent husband. Even in the eyes of many women, he is impeccable. As for love and communication, that kind of thing is illusory and ethereal. It will make the housewives who are knitting sweaters and washing vegetables laugh. My mother feels that this home is no longer like home, but more like a cold grave. But she can’t even find anyone who can really understand her.”

"Tropical fish can't survive in the Arctic. My mother didn't fit in with the housewives around her. She became an island, living empty and lonely every day. She wanted to go back to college, but it was impossible...In the end my mother Suffered from severe depression and passed away in depression."

Xie Qingcheng: "...Didn't you give her any encouragement?"

Unexpectedly, Duan Wen actually laughed.

He was very indifferent: "Encouragement? That's her own choice."

"If people have feelings, they will have desires, and if they have desires, there will be disputes. There is no need for human lives like ants - this is the truth that my grandmother told me since I was a child."

"Yes." Seeing Xie Qingcheng's surprised eyes, Duan Wen said, "The grandma disappeared from my mother's life, and they never met again until she died. But in fact, from the time I can remember , as long as my mother is not at home, the grandmother may appear at any time, my mother comes back and she disappears. We are playing some kind of secret game, I know my mother must be aware of this, once I accidentally said slipped , I said something that my grandma used to say-'Natural selection, there is no species that cannot be replaced', the look in her eyes when she looked at me...was as frightening as seeing a ghost. But she didn't Anything can stop this."

Duan Wendao: "A grandma is to an ordinary housewife, just like a god is to a mortal, completely crushing. Everything my grandma does, even if my mother knows it, she can't prevent it."

"In this way, on the surface, I lived and grew up like an ordinary person, but in fact I have made a choice. My grandmother let me get in touch with real scientific research when other children were still immersed in those stupid enlightenment games. , I learned intrigue and calculation before they learned the multiplication table, and I learned to master ambition before I learned a lot of social experience. As I grew older, I began to help her improve her organization and research drugs , to collect wealth and search for talents.”

His voice is like a spider's thread, weaving the veins of the past. When he said these words, his eyes were lighter than the smoke of cigarettes.

"It's actually not difficult to do these things. As long as there are needs, diseases, and common people's love and hatred in this world... we will never lack collaborators. They can be high-ranking government officials, intellectuals, or businessmen driven by profit, They can be peddlers... Feelings are invisible threads on a person, and anyone who can't give up their feelings may become our puppet."

Xie Qingcheng: "...For example, Zoya."

"Don't you feel sorry for her?"

"I just think you guys are far more crazy than He Yu." Xie Qingcheng said, "You have read a lot of books, you should have heard a proverb - the ability to feel pain means that you are still alive It means that you are a person. Duan Wen..."

He didn't even call him Chen Lisheng anymore.

"Duan Cuizhen taught you those things, it is completely dehumanizing you. She wants you to do the same... But you are like this, even if you have established the Mandela metaverse and gained the status of rulers And what about the ability to think forever? Are you alive? Are you still alive?"

There were two last cigarettes left in the cigarette case, Duan Wen knocked them out, kept one for himself, and handed the other to Xie Qingcheng.

"..."

Xie Qingcheng did not answer.

Duan Wen didn't force it either, he put the cigarette on the table, lowered his head, clicked the lighter, and took a puff.

"That's interesting. That's what he said back then."

This him, of course, refers to Li Yun.

Xie Qingcheng: "Did Li Yun find out your identity before he died?"

"Yes." Duan Wen exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "I said before that he is very smart, just like you. The reason why I had to use Wei Rong's hands to create a fake death case of my own car accident and explosion was that Forced by him."

When he said this, some emotions that belonged to normal people finally appeared in his eyes.

But that emotion was strange, not sad or melancholy, but a kind of joy, as if recalling a wonderful competitive game.

"After the death of our two masters, I pretended to investigate, but in fact I was cleaning up the evidence, and the continuous lack of evidence aroused Li Yun's suspicion. Of course, he didn't doubt me at the beginning, he trusted me, we Knowing that he sees me as the only friend in his lonely life. He even specifically reminded me to be careful about it."

"...How ridiculous. If he hadn't had feelings for me and believed that I was not an insider, so he told me these clues that only he had investigated at that time, I would never have realized that he had investigated so deeply."

"Can you imagine that when he showed me the evidence that I exposed in committing the crime, he didn't know that I was the one behind the scenes? Our master was right—a person like him is brilliant, but really It's not suitable to be a front-line criminal policeman. He looks vicious and vicious, but he is really too high-spirited."

"And his impulsiveness caused him to directly expose himself to me. He exposed himself to the leader of the enemy organization."

Duan Wen paused for a moment, with the cigarette still on his lips, and said, "And the videotape you just mentioned that identified crimes committed in the basement of Huang Zhilong Entertainment Company was actually discovered by Li Yun at the earliest."

"!!"

"He didn't show it to anyone, but to me. He seemed to realize that he was in danger at the time. When he handed the video tape to me, he said to me that if something happened to him, he hoped that I could continue to bring this case forward. Check it out, and give the teacher justice."

When he said this, Fu forehead sneered: "There are so many people in the police station, why do you think he chose me as his partner?"

"When I saw the video, and even mentioned overseas organizations in Australia, I knew that the matter could not be dragged on any longer." Duan Wen said, "If he continues to investigate with his ability, I will be exposed sooner or later. What was in front of me at the time There are only two ways, one is to directly plan to kill Li Yun, and the other is to fake my own death, lest he find me in the end."

Xie Qingcheng asked, "Why didn't you choose one?"

"..." Duan Wen didn't answer.

After a while, he simply skipped the question and continued: "At that time, the social relationship line I established was almost done. I was tired of Chen Lisheng's status as a righteous policeman and a good man, so I took this opportunity to get rid of it." This life - Wei Rong thought she really killed Chen Lisheng, but she just made a wedding dress for my relief. After 'Chen Lisheng' died in a car bombing, I returned to Mandela Island and spent Time changed my appearance, body shape and even my voice with the help of my grandma... No one can guess my identity these years. Except you, there are only two people who can do this. One of the two is a blind cat. Rats are all over the place, and he's not sure."

Xie Qingcheng: "One is Li Yun."

"That's right, he still refused to give up after my death, and finally found Duan Wen's identity by following the vines, and saw me after my changed appearance." Duan Wen paused, "As for the blind cat, you I've seen it too."

Xie Qingcheng was silent for a while, his mind revolving around many related objects he had contacted before, recalling all kinds of things they did.

Finally he raised his eyes: "Huang Zhilong."

Duan Wen clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "I was right to keep you here. Xie Qingcheng, after Li Yun's death, I haven't experienced this feeling of meeting my opponent for a long time."

"—Yes." He said, "It's Huang Zhilong. How did you guess it?"

Xie Qingcheng said with a cold face: "He had someone arrest Chen Man in the basement incident, and if he just used it to blackmail Political Commissar Wang, the success rate is not high. Huang Zhilong has contacted Political Commissar Wang, so he should be very clear that Political Commissar Wang is a In front of the big situation, if the six relatives do not recognize the person, then it is possible that he thought at the time that besides Political Commissar Wang, he held this card and had another target to intimidate."

Duan Wen nodded with a smile: "...So that's the case. It's true. Huang Zhilong once ran into the conversation between me and my mother-in-law by accident. He didn't listen to it completely, but he began to suspect that I was Chen Lisheng... To be honest, as long as he has With a brain like yours, he shouldn't use Chen Yan to threaten me. To me, Chen Yan's life and death are no different from that of an ant."

"But you let him go just now."

"I said it." Duan Wen said, "Ever since he realized that I might still be alive, he has been obsessed with the possibility of my [-]/[-] life. Just because of this, I finally decided to let him die."

After a pause, he said, "But you are different, Xie Qingcheng."

When Duan Wen said this, his eyes were slightly blurred.

He looked at Xie Qingcheng who was dressed in uniform, as if he saw the white tan that bloomed and withered on a certain summer night from a simulated bright silk flower.

Slowly, he recalled some things related to Li Yun——