On July 12, Yi Zejun went to the police station to go through the entry procedures, and by the way, he retrieved the electronic file of the case of the girl who accidentally fell into the water.
Without special means, the National Police Agency’s electronic database has certain permissions to use:
If it was a major criminal case, he, a newly recruited police officer, was not qualified to check it. He could only check these small cases that were closed due to various accidents.
When Yi Zejun saw the photo of the girl's body attached to the electronic file, he felt nothing at all.
He took a look at the name recorded in the file: Jing Baiyu.
...that last name again?
Yizerun sighed: He himself is an undercover agent of the Immigration Team. Before setting off, he met the members of the Immigration Team's family. The day before yesterday, he saw Jing Baiye with that family's iconic black hair and red eyes at the boss's place. Today, he ran into it again while checking the files...
Wait a moment.
The triple undercover agent, who did things in a leisurely manner and was used to handling all matters calmly, reacted belatedly and looked at the photo of the girl's body again.
Even though her eyes were closed, she could still see that she looked very cute, and her facial features were very similar to that of the boy named Jing Baiye.
The same surname, similar age, similar appearance, and they also come from Ekoda Town, which is far away from the main family of the overseas group... Are they related by blood?
Izarun didn't have time to think too much. It was almost time for him to leave. He would go to the boss in the afternoon.
He wrote down the names and facial features of several police officers responsible for the case, and made some manipulations on the computer browsing records to completely erase the records of his access to the case.
If someone is suspicious and looks through the records, he will only see that he is investigating a kidnapping case of a teenager with a successful outcome six years ago, and that the person involved was himself.
Yi Zejun completed the entry procedures in the morning, sent an email to Liu Jishun to inform him of the names of the police officers, and drove to the boss in the afternoon.
The boss will change his residence every once in a while, some are luxurious villas far away from the city, and some are an inconspicuous house in a prosperous area of the city. This time the time interval is very short, and he still stays in the mansion on the top of the mountain.
.
Izarun parked the car at the same place and took the elevator to the underground.
He came today not to report on the task, but simply to meet the boss. This is the privilege of people like them who have also worked in the human body laboratory... He will be very busy after he officially joins the job, and the number of times he can meet the boss will increase.
Come less and less.
The road was very empty. When passing by the shooting training area, Yi Zerun saw Jing Baiye struggling to put his feet up to touch the touch screen of the performance recording instrument, which was very high for him.
"..."
Izarun stopped.
He looked around and found that only Jing Baiye was in the training area. Belmode and Gin were not there, so he walked over, put his hands on Jing Baiye's armpits, picked him up, and lifted him to a height where he could easily touch the screen.
.
"Can we touch each other like this?"
The boy weighs less than his peers, and his summer clothes are thin. It's like you can touch his bones with this hug.
Yi Zerun looked at Jing Baiye's cheeks with obvious baby fat suspiciously... Wouldn't all the flesh on his body have grown to his face?
"Thanks."
Jing Baiye thanked him obediently, and his voice made Yi Zerun feel as if he heard the boss calling him. The boy stretched out his finger and touched the screen lightly a few times, then patted the back of his hand: "Okay, Jerez
.”
Yizerun put him down, looked at the record displayed on the instrument curiously, and said with some surprise: "Not bad."
Jing Baiye lowered his head and muttered: "It's not that good, I hit it wrong a lot."
"Given your age and physical condition, you are already very good."
Yi Zerun comforted him, saying that he did not believe in stick education or mental suppression, so he should be praised when he should be praised.
He bent down and touched Jing Baiye's head. Remembering the actions of Belmode and Gin the day before yesterday, he also touched his face itchingly and pinched it a few times.
It feels really good in the hand. It feels like you can pinch it and pull it out for a long time. When you let go, it will snap back to its original shape.
But Izawa Jun just thought about it, children are fragile, and no matter how cute they look, you can't pinch their faces at will... This is what Ryuji Junichi specially reminded him in the children's related course, because he pinched a few squealing ones.
On the faces of the children's models, their heads were accidentally screwed off.
It's not that he hates children, it's that he doesn't like noisy, naughty children who are cute and obedient and don't cry. For example, he won't reject someone like Jing Baiye in front of him.
Yi Zejun touched his mobile phone. He sent an email to Liu Jishun in the morning, but he has not responded yet.
"..."
Thinking of his friend from the same period, he also thought of the accident involving a girl that he had asked him to investigate... the accidental drowning case, and his eyes fell on Jing Baiye's face.
The more Izerun looked at her, the more he felt that he was similar to that girl, so he couldn't help but ask - but he didn't mention the girl directly. If they were really relatives, asking would be a sore point.
"Bai Ye...can I call you that?" Seeing Jing Baiye nodding, Yi Zerun asked: "Do you still remember where your home is?"
"I don't have a home now. My previous home was at No. 24, 6-chome, Ekoda-cho." Sakai Byakuya's voice was clear and fluent, "It was rented, but the landlord thought it was unlucky and has already sold it."
"..."
Of course Izawa Jun knew where it was. The 25th lot next door was Junichi Ryuyoshi's home.
There were only surveillance cameras in the training area and no bugs. He squatted down with his back to the surveillance camera so that his eyesight was level with Jing Baiye's.
He stared at the boy's only exposed red eye and continued to ask softly: "Then do you know a person named 'Yu Jijunyi'?"
With Liu Jishun's love and concern for children, if there were any cute children living next door to his house, he would definitely not ignore them. He remembered that he had always regretted that he was an only child and wanted younger siblings.
Jing Baiye's eyes did not change, as if he just heard a stranger's name. He shook his head calmly: "I'm sorry, I don't know."
Yi Zejun was stunned. It wasn't "I don't remember", it wasn't "I don't know"...but "I don't know"?
He wanted to ask again, but a voice interrupted him: "Come here, Jerez."
He raised his head and looked there, only to see the boss standing at the door at some point.
The temperature inside the villa is lower than outside, about 24 degrees Celsius. The boss today only wore a black suit, and rarely put on the coat of the same color.
"You continue to practice here and come to me in five minutes." The boss said to Jing Baiye.
When the two of them were talking face to face, Izarun suddenly had the absurd feeling that someone was talking to his other self in the mirror.
Izarun followed the boss to the office. After the boss sat down, the crow with deformed feet and three legs flew from the bird stand next to his shoulder, and made several strange sounds in its mouth that were different from ordinary crows.
Call.
"You can ask me anything you want to know." The boss looked at him calmly.
"...This kid must have met my friend from the police academy, right? Why did he say 'I don't know'?"
Izawa Jun asked directly and openly. There were some things that he couldn't tell Rum or Gin. They would exclude him from making friends with the police academy students, but the boss wouldn't care.
"Because he really doesn't know. That's someone he knew in the past. It has nothing to do with him now. He doesn't have that memory."
The boss's words made Yi Zejun confused. Could it be that the boy lost his memory?
"——Sold his soul to the devil, and a devil put on his skin and lived on his behalf." The boss supported his chin with his hands, "This is how Gin described me back then, and it also applies to him now.
"
Izarun felt a chill creeping up his back bit by bit from his tailbone. By the time he recovered, cold sweat had soaked the clothes on his back.
The triple undercover agent who thought he was ordinary sighed and adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose.
"Sir, please don't tell me such important things in the future..."
He just wants to work normally and get three cents of salary as an ordinary person. He has no long-term ambitions and is completely satisfied with his current status and treatment. He doesn't want to know such secrets involving the boss at all.
Belmode said that the boss is both God and devil. That boy is also a devil, so what is his other side?
Boom, boom, boom.
There was a knock on the door, and Yi Zerun realized that it was Jing Baiye from next door who was coming.
He subconsciously looked towards the boss to ask for his opinion. When the boss nodded, he went over and opened the door.
"Are you discussing something? If you have something to say, I can continue waiting for you outside." Jing Baiye looked at them.
"It's okay, I've finished talking." The boss said in a gentle tone, "Don't you have something to ask Jerez for help? You can talk now."
...I asked for help when I asked for help. I didn’t say it just now, but now I say it in front of the boss. Is it necessary to help me even if I don’t want to help?
Yi Zerun sighed in his heart and watched Jing Baiye walk up to him and raise a mobile phone to him. The mobile phone did not lock the screen. On the screen were several images of faces drawn with professional software. He immediately recognized the faces on them.
people.
——They were the police officers he had seen in the morning who were in charge of the Ekota Town case.
"I would like to ask you to find their addresses." Jing Baiye raised his face, and the way he looked up at people had the unique sense of ignorance and innocence of a child.
But what he said the next second made Izarun open his eyes wide.
"It's been more than half a month, and my shooting results are still not good, so I want to find some human targets for practice..." He pointed at the portraits on the phone with his finger, "They are very suitable. Can you find them?"
"…………"
Yi Zerun was silent.
He looked down at the hand that he had squeezed just now and fell into deep remorse.
This person seemed to be an outright little devil. He pinched him just now, so he wouldn't be retaliated against, right? He remembered that in fairy tales, devils would put people who didn't like him into a frying pan and cook them until medium-rare, or disembowel them and eat their internal organs raw.
, It seems a pity that life ends with such a bad end...
If I had known better, I would have pinched it a few more times and pulled it to see if it could spring back. The undercover comrade who likes to sigh sighed again in his heart.
…
Yi Zerun spent two days to find out the current residence of those people, and asked a few low-level members to put sacks on them in the middle of the night, kidnap them, and send them to the boss.
In the past two days, he understood Jing Baiye's family background and the reason why he did what he did, and also remembered why he felt familiar to Jing Baiye when he first met him.
——When he was in the police academy, Liu Jishun showed him a photo with Jing Baiye.
The boy in the photo smiled happily, sitting on Liu Jishun's shoulder like an angel. He held his head and carefully leaned against him. It was completely different from Jing Baiye, who has a more reserved expression now, so he didn't immediately
Recognize it.
Jun Izawa did not go to watch the human targets, but went to Ekoda Town to visit Junichi Yanagi.
Liu Ji and his wife happily accepted him and told him that Liu Jishun was watching TV in the bedroom on the second floor. He had not left the house since he returned from the police academy and ignored calls from the Metropolitan Police Department or the National Police Agency to invite him to join the job.
Izawa Jun was very surprised. Could it be that this police academy number one, whose brain power has no rival in this class, wants to degenerate into a stay-at-home guy?
"Shunyi was hit hard because of what happened to the two children next door." Mrs. Liu Ji was about to cry because of her son. "Except for one of his junior students calling him these days, he has only talked to you.
After communicating with him, can you go and persuade him?"
Hearing the two children from the house next door, Yi Zerun was silent for a moment. He looked up the stairs: "I'll go take a look."
He knew Liu Jishunyi's home address, but this was his first time here. It was full of the atmosphere of normal people's life, which he had not experienced in many years.
Izarun knocked on the closed bedroom door, but no one responded; he tried to open the door directly, but the door was locked from the inside. He leaned in and listened for a while, but there was only the sound of the TV inside.
Considering that there were two innocent people downstairs, he did not force the door open. He took out a paper clip from his pocket, broke it open and picked the lock on the spot.
The door opened with a click, and Yi Zerun walked in.
Liu Jishun, who was sitting on the bed, heard the sound and turned to look at him. He didn't say anything about his intrusion and silently used the remote control to lower the volume of the TV.
The mysterious disappearance of the police was being broadcast on TV. In the lower right corner were several photos, and their appearance was exactly the same as the ones Jing Baiye gave him.
The person who made the case came to his friend's side. Before he could speak, he felt something stepped on his feet.
——It's a police uniform, which they wore on their graduation day.
The police uniform was torn to pieces by sharp blades, and the cherry blossom emblem on it was torn off violently, hanging there precariously and ready to fall off at any time.
"..."
Isawa Jun looked at the police uniform and then at Ryu Gil Junichi.
The ridiculous case of a girl "accidentally falling into the water", the photo with the boy, the conflict with the instructor during the police academy, plus his understanding of his character... He roughly understood the reason why he was in so much pain and lost his mind.
Ryuji Junichi didn't look at him, he looked towards the open window; Izawa Jun followed his line of sight and saw the cherry blossom tree in the courtyard next door.
"I promised them... that after becoming a police officer, I would definitely come back to save them."
His voice was hoarse and his eyes were red, swollen and bloodshot. He looked as miserable as a homeless street man who hadn't had a good rest for several days.
Izarun put the police uniform aside and looked at some tools in the corner: "...So, do you want to take revenge on those guys who neglected their duties for that girl?"
Liu Jishunyi didn't wonder how he knew. He laughed, and the laughter was more harsh than crying.
"...I almost did that."
He looked at the TV screen with an expression that seemed both happy and sad.
"You know? The moment I saw the news, I was happy in my heart. I even wished these guys would die. I thought such people were not worthy of being police officers... But after I came to my senses,
I found that I was the one who didn’t deserve it.”
"They have neglected their duties, but their crimes are not worthy of death; and I almost want to commit a crime, want to kill those few people, and become the criminal I despise most. Who can I save?
"
"I can't save anyone at all."
Liu Jishun smiled distortedly, smiling and laughing, tears rolling down his face. He whimpered, his voice became louder and louder, and finally turned into howling.
The pain of not being able to save the two children, the self-blame of not completing the agreement, the shame of almost desecrating the Sakura emblem... all these negative emotions have been accumulated for several days, and now they have finally been vented.
Ryu Gil Soon-il is nineteen years old now, but he was eighteen when he made the promise. He was just a teenager when he made the promise - with pure passion and the most sincere feelings, he wanted to help and save others.
This kind of kindness that does not ask for anything in return, but only wants others to be well, eventually came to nothing, and even almost fell into darkness.
"..."
Izarun chose to stand beside him, while Jerez Brandy looked on coldly.
The mouth of the triple undercover agent who was also nineteen years old moved. He really wanted to tell him Jing Baiye's location and tell him that the child you like is fine. He is alive and well, although he can't see in one eye.
, but he will grow up well... and become a criminal you despise.
In the end, he didn't say anything, but waited patiently for his friend to vent his emotions.
He didn't want to comment on whether it was good or bad to capture living people as targets in Jing Baiye. He only realized one thing -
The child whom he regarded as a little devil protected an originally pure soul from being stained by sin.