Chapter 239: Meeting an old friend

Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes, his chest barely rising and falling as he said these next words.

"Or maybe I should just call you, Chen Lisheng?"

Duan Wen heard this, and was silent for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, but he laughed abruptly.

His smile was shallow at first, like a snow-white cocoon breaking open, revealing little shrugs of black claws, and then expanding suddenly, spreading all over his no longer young but still very handsome face, like a transforming moth or butterfly biting its cocoon and struggling to break out of its cage, its phosphorus-powdered, horrified wings molting out of the dried-up, slurpy remains of its chrysalis and exposing itself to the light of day.

"Haha......" Duan Wen tilted his head back, smiling with a smile that was finally free of pretense, even as if it was the pleasure of reuniting with an old friend, "You really haven't disappointed me at all, Xie Xingcheng."

Xie Qingcheng slowly lowered his eyelashes.

He did not rejoice at all in the praise, much less in the fact that he had hit upon the identity of Duan Wen.

There was indifference on his face, a numbness that could be described as an infinite coldness.

Xie Qingcheng : "It's really you."

Duan Wen : "It's really me."

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

Xie Qingcheng lifted his eyes as if he were looking at a stranger, at the man he had sacrificed himself to for nearly twenty years, and his lips opened and closed, "First you tell me how He Yu is doing."

"Him." Duan Wen said, "It's okay. He's not dead."

Xie Qingcheng's eyes were fierce, "What exactly are you planning to do to him?"

"I think you should have guessed it all already." Duan Wen said slowly, "I took him at this juncture, of course, because he can be made into a weapon against the attack of the Dreambreakers - don't worry, he can't die, it's just that after we process him, he'll accept our ideas and concepts through and through ...... He will still remember you and your past, but he will think it was wrong, we call this ......"

Duan Wen paused and said, "Conceptual transformation."

"So don't feel bad, Xie Qingcheng, he's just had a change in perception, as long as you're willing to defect to us, you'll be on the same side as him again, and I'm sure he'll still want to treat you like he did in the old days." Duan Wen said, shallowly hooking up the corners of his lips, "But of course, if you stick to your current camp, I think he will treat you with disdain."

"......"

"The truth is that people are all just limited by their own vision, fighting for what they think is right. But what is right in your eyes is not yet wrong in the eyes of others." Duan Wen, under the protection of two bodyguards, spoke very leisurely to Xie Qingcheng, "You don't have to reject me in a hurry, you can think about it again. Now--"

He inclined his face, and two bodyguards immediately stepped forward, one holding Xie Qingcheng down while the other began to conduct a carpet search on Xie Qingcheng's body.

Duan Wen said lightly, "Let's just get your God of wind system first."

"Mr. Duan! Found a suspicious one!"

Not long after, one of the bodyguards searched for the bracelet leather cord from Xie Qingcheng's clothes.

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

"It's exquisitely done ......" he said slowly, "as if it were just an ordinary piece of jewelry ...... no interface, no electronic response ...... But ......"

The force in his hand increased so steeply that the leather cord snapped, revealing the thin, cow-hair-like cables beneath.

Duan Wen gave an expression of "I see", then raised his eyes to Xie Qingcheng: "I'm glad you only had time to pick it and hide it in your pocket, so I don't have to have you stripped of your clothes or cut open your flesh and blood to find it. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't very eager to hurt you."

Xie Qingcheng was being held down by the beefy as an ox bodyguard, and his face was an extremely icy look.

"Are you trying to say there is still humanity in you, Chen Lisheng."

Duan Wen tossed the broken bracelet to another bodyguard behind him and said, "Yeah. I spared Chen Man, and I hope I can spare you, too."

"You let Chen Man go?" Xie Qingcheng's face was still stained with blood, he stared at Duan Wen who was at ease in front of him, his voice was hoarse and low, "If I'm not mistaken, in order to get rid of Huang Zhilong's forces, you sent that videotape to Chen Man, didn't you? If I'm not mistaken, in order to get rid of Huang Zhilong's power, it was you who sent that videotape to Chen Man, wasn't it? In order to make him believe, you even went so far as to make yourself look like you were still alive, and as a result, he almost took his life because he was desperate to investigate that case for you, and you call this, sparing him, right?!"

Duan Wen did not think so, and listened to Xie Qingcheng's speech in a bland manner.

Then he said, "It is true that I did not care about him originally, but only treated him as a toy, a pawn."

"But ...... he surprised me a little. I didn't realize he took his so-called brotherly feelings so deeply, and couldn't walk away from the illusion that I was still alive long after he saw a glimmer of hope. When everyone had given up, he still harbored this little bit of extravagant hope. I admit that I originally meant to toy with him in it, and I was curious as to how deep the so-called brotherly love really goes."

After a few seconds' pause, he said, "In the end, he got high marks for his performance with me."

"So even though I still don't take him too seriously, since there's an opportunity to let him live, let him go once. Consider it a reward from his brother."

"So that roll of video was really sent by you ...... " Xie Qingcheng gritted his teeth.

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

"And now what are you trying to use on me."

Duan Wen's smile, which could be called a wanton smile, was restrained.

He stared at Xie Qingcheng, after a while, don't look away, touch a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit up. He smoked the cigarette and never answered Xie Qingcheng's question.

Until the smoke burns out.

Duan Wen discarded the butt, and in the unbroken green mist he reopened his mouth--

"I do not kill you, not for the purpose of exploitation. Rather, it is because, I promised someone."

The man said, his eyelashes dropping a little, which made his already hard to figure out eyes even more obscure. He then brought the words down, "I promised him that I would try not to kill you."

"...... my father?"

Duan Wen did not answer.

After a while, he misplaced the topic and smiled slightly, "Professor Xie, let's be fair, I've said so much, but it seems like you haven't answered my question yet. Tell me first, how did you guess that I am Chen Lisheng."

"...... a lot. You chose to release Chen Man. Li Yun's sudden appearance. He Yu's blood compulsion is ineffective against Li Yun, and then there's ......"

"Hmm?"

"What you said to me when you met with me the other night."

Duan Wen frowned slightly with a black brow and interlocked his fingers, "What ...... did I say to you?"

"You say after all the word police is not the clothes on the body and the title on the shoulder, not the prestige and power, but the heavy responsibility and shackles."

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

Xie Qingcheng said, "These are my father's words. He often said it to me, and he often said it to his disciples. And the only disciples he ever took were you and Li Yun."

"......" Duan Wen's lips quivered as he lost his smile, "What a blunder ...... I didn't realize that you remembered your father's words so fondly ."

Xie Qingcheng, however, said, "I also didn't expect you to remember your master's words so fondly."

Duan Wen: "......"

"After I heard that, I also mentioned that Zheng Jingfeng and my parents had been teammates since their internship. Zheng Jingfeng's mouth is so tight that very few people know about this, even I only learned about it before I went to the island, but you weren't surprised at all when you heard about it. Both my parents and Team Zheng won't say anything more to the others, and I'm afraid that the only people who can learn these details are their apprentices."

"In fact, after I talked to you that night, the person I was more suspicious of was Li Yun," Xie Qingcheng said, "but then Li Yun appeared, so the only one left was you."

"As for that Li Yun, I'm afraid he's not real either. He should be a reformed person because He Yu's blood compulsion is usually only ineffective in two situations, one is when the other person is wearing a clear heart ring, and the other is when the other person is a living dead person with a chip-controlled brain. I'm leaning more towards the latter, because he doesn't feel right to me, not like a normal person."

Duan Wen lit a cigarette, "I have underestimated you, Xie Qingcheng.Since we have come to this point, why don't you take another guess as to who actually begged me not to kill you? I think you're close to knowing that answer too."

Xie Qingcheng slowly raised his eyes in the silence, "Not my father's words, is it-- Li Yun?"

Duan Wen looked at him sideways, "Xie Qingcheng, you are indeed... very well suited to be a police officer."

When he finished, he added faintly, "Yes, it's because of him."

Xie Qingcheng's intuition told him not to say anything at this time, he could see that Duan Wen had a lot of things weighing on his mind, things that had been weighing on him for too many years, and judging from Duan Wen's expression at the moment, it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about it, it was because none of the people on the island were people he could really have a heart to heart with.

They were like the parasites in the Dan furnace, clustered together because of their ruthlessness, a gang but not a group, and even if they were not careful, they would be devoured by other parasites in their stomachs.

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

As expected, after several minutes, Duan Wen slowly spoke.

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

"Li Yun and I were both your father's students in the beginning ......"

"Master is very kind to me." Duan Wen looked at the sky outside the window and said lightly, "He was much better to me than to Li Yun, when he was split up and could only take on one apprentice, he chose me and suggested that Li Yun turn to follow another old economic investigator to learn, and even bluntly told Li Yun that with a character like his, he wasn't suited to working on the front line. "

This is not surprising. Xie Ping is a man of one word, who does not avoid relatives in internal affairs or hatred in external affairs, and it is only natural that he would say such offensive things to Li Yun.

"As far as anyone can remember, he's always had a problem with Li Yun, and I'm afraid you do too."

Xie Qingcheng : "Isn't it."

"Originally that was indeed the case." Duan Wen said, "Originally, Master really disliked him, thinking that he was sinister, good at disguise, and two-faced, but then his thoughts changed."

Xie Qingcheng with wariness, "He never told me."

"Because it happened very late, almost shortly before he and his master's mother were killed." Duan Wen said, "Actually, the misunderstanding between them could have been resolved much earlier. However, Li Yun was very reluctant to talk about his family, and it could even be said that he was deliberately hiding some of his past."

Xie Qingcheng frowned, the police academy enrollment is required to political examination, like the infernal kind of parents are the big brother of the youth gang, but they conceal the sea to become a police officer is almost impossible to happen.

Duan Wen saw what he was thinking and lit another cigarette, taking a drag, "It's not a bad background, so the police academy won't record the file in detail, so Master he naturally wouldn't be aware of it. To be honest, if it were anyone else, they wouldn't necessarily hide it, and would even be dying for their comrades who worked together to know."

"What background." Xie Qingcheng asked.

"Informant." Duan Wen said, "His father was an informant for the narcotics police. He's been doing it for more than ten years. But on all the materials he turned in, when he filled out the father's column, he put in fruit and vegetable merchant."

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

"He's not lying." Duan Wen dusted off his ash and exhaled a puff of smoke, "His father was a veggie and fruit merchant-he's been living with this vegetable and fruit-selling stepfather since grade school, when his mother got divorced and he was condemned to her. The real father looks just like a hobo, no one can stand it, but he's actually an informant."

The ashes of the cigarette rustled and fell as if they were ghosts of the past drifting down into the darkness.

"Li Yun only learned the true identity of his biological father when he was in high school, when his biological father died. It was during a meeting with a cop that a drug dealer found out and there was a shootout. The cop had to choose one or the other in order to save his comrade, and by the time he tried to turn back to save his informant again ...... his dad was no longer breathing."

Xie Qingcheng listened to the hands and feet slightly cold.

He recalled the scene he had seen when he was a young boy, Li Yun's ruthless and cold-eyed approach to extracting confessions from drug traffickers by means of unusual interrogation techniques before he had even obtained a police officer's license.

The original ......

"The reason why his father wanted to be this informant even though his wife and family were separated was because his father was a complete idealist, as a native of the Golden Triangle, his father had seen too many families and lives ruined by drugs, he once wanted to be a police officer, but unfortunately his physical fitness wasn't that good and he was screened out of the medical examination, but he never gave up either, and if he couldn't be a police officer he would be an informant, Li Yun and his mother came to know these truths when they saw a diary among the belongings handed over to them by the police."

Duan Wen paused and continued, "You can imagine how mixed Li Yun's feelings were when she read that diary."

Duan Wen said as he lazily leaned back in his chair and smoked a cigarette.

His tone was bland, and the blood and rain was as calm in his mouth as when he used to tell stories to Xie Qingcheng.

But Xie Qingcheng could not see through the color of his eyes.

"Li Yun is immensely resentful of his biological father, who left him and his mother behind for the sake of an ideal, and who resolutely chose the latter between family and righteousness. He feels extreme anger, resentment, and pain. However ......"

Taking another drag on his cigarette, Duan Wen said, "In that year's college entrance examination, Li Yun gave up his original examination for the art school and enrolled in the police academy instead."

Xie Qingcheng : "......"

"I and he four years in college dormitory, his character is more lonely, I am considered and he is the most compatible one, but four years in the middle of the year, he has never mentioned these past events with me. So later we entered the public security system, your father as the first master of the two of us, but also on his family background, no understanding, that he is not too eager to make quick success, can be said to be unscrupulous. I think your father must have regretted it after he realized the truth, and he and Li Yun had a private talk once, and I think that conversation between them was about this very thing."

"...... Why this speculation."

"Because not long after that Shifu was murdered by design by Mandela's organization. And at that time, there were two people who insisted on investigating the cause of Master's death, one made a lot of noise so that everyone would know that it was me. The other was cautious, he sensed that there seemed to be a mole present within the Bureau, and he thought that his bad relationship with Xie Ping was the best cover instead - that person was Li Yun."

"!!!"

"Yes, Xie Qingcheng, Li Yun didn't get into trouble for investigating my case, he stepped into the middle of this field of death long before he investigated my case." Duan Wen said, "In fact, he was the officer who insisted on giving his life for the sake of your parents' innocence."

Xie Qingcheng had thought that after He Yu's incident, there would not be anything else that could cause his mind to be greatly stimulated, but at this moment, he knew that he had misjudged himself and had to try his best to calm down his breathing.

The whole thing has come to a head, and no move can be wrong.

"He was pretending so much that no one knew that he had cleared the air with Xie Ping and had even become an ungrateful friend. He fooled everyone, including me at the time."

Another cigarette is almost burned out.

Duan Wen didn't smoke again, put the cigarette in his hand and watched the filter paper slowly curl up in the fire and turn into black ash: "Xie Ping was a very good policeman, but he did two wrong things in his life, one was to misunderstand Li Yun, Li Yun was wrong, not because of the nature of the poison, but the good thing is that this mistake was corrected before he died. The first is to misunderstand Li Yun. And the second wrong thing ......"

Duan Wen said, "It was he who believed in me wrongly."

Xie Qingcheng seemed to have cold blood, and he looked at Duan Wen blankly: "Was it Duan Cuizhen who arranged for you to enter the police station from the very beginning?"

"I had an interest myself, not exactly an arrangement." Duan Wen said, "But I did start out as a Mandela person. Ever since I was a kid."

He gazed into Xie Qingcheng's eyes, which were cold but no longer surprised.

"It looks like you're well aware of that, too." Duan Wen said, "I am a descendant of Duan Cuizhen, and I embraced her ideas wholeheartedly at a very young age."

"From when."

Duan Wen said calmly, "From the first time I met her. At that time my mother and I were living a very unhappy life."

Xie Qingcheng knew a little bit about Duan Wen, that is, Chen Lisheng's family.

Chen Lisheng's father originally had a wife, a highly educated man, but gave up his studies and career for his family and later died of an illness.

After she passed away, Chen's father formed a family with another woman, who was Chen Man's mother. However, Chen Man's mother was very kind to Chen Lisheng, and there should be no gap between stepmother and stepson, not to mention any mistress on the throne.

Duan Wen said, "My mother's unfortunate marriage really has nothing to do with Chen Man's mom. My stepmother, like my birth mother, is the kind of person who will be easily overwhelmed by her feelings. My father was also born handsome and they both liked him ...... My birth mother at least once liked him."

"And what happened after that."

"Later?" Duan Wen smiled faintly, "He was different from her. My mother was deeply affectionate, but he got tired of her early."

"She was actually a very smart person." Duan Wen's expression remained calm when he mentioned his birth mother, as if he was mentioning an unrelated object, "My mother inherited the mind of my great-grandmother-also known as Duan Cuizhen. She was admitted to Shanghai University with excellent grades. According to Taifa, she would have had a limitless scientific future, but unfortunately, at the university, she met my father and fell into a love affair."

"Their marriage was fiercely opposed from the start by her great-grandmother, who wanted her to have a farther vision and not to be stuck above petty personal love; human energy is limited, and it is by so-called love, friendship, and affection that the vulgar are divided up in their time, and thus fail to reach the peak of their abilities. That's what my great-grandmother taught her when she was a child, and she lived by that creed until love overtook her clever mind." Duan Wen yodelled, "She became a prisoner of dopamine."

"The great-grandmother had put a lot of effort into cultivating her, and she eventually chose to go and be a housewife for a man, which made the great-grandmother very angry. She told my mother that if this was her pattern, then sooner or later, she would regret it. My mother is a very stubborn person, and the more the dowager woman said this, the more she insisted on doing what she wanted to do, so after this conversation, they parted ways for good, with the dowager woman banishing my mother, and my mother resolutely marrying my father."

Duan Wen continued, "She could have been a tree, but she chose to be a vine. My father may have aspired to the kind of marriage that was evenly matched, or perhaps he was restless by nature; in short, he soon grew tired of the kind of life he had with my mother after marriage."

"He did not cheat on his wife, keeping a secular bottom line, however, his eyes and heart were not on my mother, he endlessly socialized, participated in large and small drinking games, leaving all the trivialities of life to his wife, who became a 24-hour babysitter for him, and still do not have to pay the kind of salary. But to the outside to comment, in that social environment at that time, no one will think my father has any fault. He can provide for the family to earn money, can manage his own not to find a mistress, has been considered an excellent husband, the man outside the woman, even in many women's view is also impeccable. As for love and communication, that kind of thing is vain and indistinct, said out will only lead to those knitting sweater washing dishes housewives laugh. Mother felt that this home no longer felt like a home, but more like a cold grave. But she couldn't even find anyone who could truly understand her."

"Tropical fish don't survive in the Arctic. My mother didn't fit in with the housewives around her; she became an island, living each day empty and alone. She wanted to go back to college again, but it was no longer possible. ...... Eventually my mother developed major depression and passed away in a state of depression."

Xie Qingcheng : "...... you haven't given her any encouragement?"

Unexpectedly, Duan Wen laughed.

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

"When people have feelings, they have desires, and when they have desires, they have strife, and there is no need for a molehill of human life to exist-this is the truth that Tai-Pa told me from my childhood."

"Yes." Seeing Xie Qingcheng's unexpected look, Duan Wen said, "Taifa disappeared into my mother's life, and until she died, they never saw each other again. But in fact, for as long as I can remember, whenever my mother wasn't at home, Granny could appear at any time, and she disappeared again when my mother returned. It was like we were playing some kind of game of keep-away, and I know my mother must have sensed this, and once I unintentionally slipped up, and I said what the dowager woman used to say - 'Things change, and there is no species that is irreplaceable' - and she looked at me with that look ...... as fearfully as if she had seen a ghost. But there was nothing she could have done to stop it."

Duan Wen said, "A grandmother is to an ordinary housewife what a heavenly god is to a mortal, completely crushing her. My mother could not defend herself against everything she did, even if she knew about it."

"And so it was that I lived and grew up outwardly like an ordinary man, but in fact I had made my choice; Tai-chan had exposed me to real scientific research when all the other children were still immersed in those foolish games of initiation, I had learned to plot and calculate before they had learned the multiplication tables, and I had not yet learned much of the lessons of social mastery of ambition. As I grew older, I began to help her refine her organization, research drugs, net wealth, and scout for talent."

His voice was like a spider's thread, weaving the veins of the year, and he spoke the words with a gaze fainter than the smoke of a cigarette.

"It's really not that hard to do these things. As long as there are needs, diseases, and mundane loves and hates in this world ...... we will never be short of collaborators. They can be high government officials, intellectuals, lucrative businessmen, and peddlers ...... Emotions are the invisible silk strings on a person's body, and anyone who can't cut off their feelings can become our puppets."

Xie Qingcheng: "...... like Zhuo Ya 吗."

"I don't suppose you're sympathizing with her."

"I just think you guys are far more crazy than He Yu." Xie Qingcheng said, "You've read a lot of books, you should have heard of an aphorism - being able to feel pain means you're still alive, and being able to feel the pain of others means you're a human being. Duan Wen ......"

He didn't even call him Chen Lisheng anymore.

"Duan Cuizhen is teaching you those things that are complete and utter to make you genocidal. She's like this she wants you to be like this ...... But with you like this, even if you establish the Mandela meta-universe and gain the status of ruler and the ability to think forever, what can you do? Are you considered alive? Are you even considered alive?"

The last two cigarettes were left in the box, Duan Wen knocked them out, one for himself and one for Xie Qingcheng.

"......"

Xie Qingcheng didn't pick up.

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

"That's funny. He said the same thing back in the day."

This he, naturally, refers to Li Yun.

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

"Yeah." Duan Wen exhaled a smoke ring and said, "Like I said, he's smart, just like you. The reason why I had to fake Wei Rong's hand to create a fake death case of my own car accident and explosion back then was because he forced me to."

As he spoke, some emotions that belonged to a normal person finally showed in his eyes.

But the emotion was strange, not one of sadness or despondency, but surprisingly one of pleasure, as if recalling a great athletic contest.

"After the deaths of both of our masters, I pretended to investigate, but I was actually clearing away the evidence, and the constant lack of that evidence aroused Li Yun's suspicions. Of course, he didn't suspect me at first; he trusted me, and I know he considered me his only friend in his lonely life. He even specifically warned me to be careful about this."

"...... How ridiculous. If he hadn't had feelings for me and believed that I wasn't a mole, and thus told me these clues that only he had investigated at the time, I wouldn't have even realized that he had looked into it so deeply."

"Can you imagine the image of him showing me all that evidence that I exposed in my crimes without realizing that I was the one behind it all? The master of the two of us was right - someone like him is talented, but really not suitable to be a frontline criminal police officer. He looks sinister and vicious, but in reality, he's too intentional."

"And his intentionality led him to expose himself directly to me. Exposed to the head of the enemy organization."

Duan Wen spoke here, paused for a moment, his cigarette unsmoked on his lips, and said, "And the videotape you just mentioned that identified the crime in the basement of Huang Zhilong Entertainment Company was actually first discovered by Li Yun."

"!!!"

"He didn't show it to anyone but me. It was as if he sensed that he was in danger, and when he gave me the tape, he told me that if anything happened to him, he hoped that I would continue to pursue the case and bring justice to the teacher."

He snorted as he said this, holding his forehead, "Of all the people in the police department, why do you think he picked me as his partner?"

"As soon as I took a look at that videotape, which even mentioned the Australian Overseas Organization, I knew that things couldn't be delayed any longer." Duan Wen said, "With his ability to continue the investigation, sooner or later I would be exposed. At that time, there were only two paths in front of me, one was to directly plan to kill Li Yun, and the other, was to fake my own death so that he wouldn't end up investigating me."

Xie Qingcheng asked, "Why didn't you pick one."

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

After a while, he simply skipped over the question directly and continued, "At that time, the social relationship threads that I had laid out had pretty much run their course, and I was tired and fed up with Chen Lisheng, the good old Justice Police officer, so I took this opportunity to get rid of this life-- Wei Rong thought that she had really killed Chen Lisheng, but she had only done so as a dowry for my deliverance. After ' Chen Lisheng ' died in the car bombing, I returned to Mandela Island, and spent time changing my appearance and body shape and even my voice with the help of my wife....... Not many people could have guessed my identity over the years, and apart from you, there were only two people who were able to Except for you, there were only two people who could do that. And of those two, there was one who was blindly confused, and he wasn't sure."

Xie Qingcheng: "One is Li Yun."

"That's right, he still refused to give up after my death, and he eventually followed the trail to find the identity of Duan Wen, and met me after changing my appearance." Duan Wen paused, "As for that blind cat, you've seen it before."

Xie Qingcheng remained silent for a while, his mind going through a number of related objects he had come into contact with, recalling the various things they had done.

Finally he raised his eyes, "Huang Zhilong."

Duan Wen stroked his palm and laughed, "I was right to leave you behind. Xie Qingcheng, after Li Yun's death, I haven't experienced this kind of chess rivalry for a long time."

"--Yes." He said, "It's Huang Zhilong. He said, "It's Huang Zhilong. how did you guess?"

Xie Qingcheng coldly said: ''He had Chen Man arrested in the basement incident, and if it was only used to blackmail Wang Zhengwei, the success rate was not high. Huang Zhilong has been in contact with Wang Political Commissar and should know very well that Wang Political Commissar is a person who does not recognize his own family in front of the big picture, so it is possible that he thought at that time that besides Wang Political Commissar, there is still another object that he can coerce when he pinches this card."

Duan Wen smiled and nodded, "...... So it is. Indeed. Huang Zhilong once inadvertently stumbled upon a conversation between me and Taifa, he didn't listen to the whole thing, but he began to suspect that I was Chen Lisheng ...... To be honest, but if he had a brain like yours, he shouldn't have used Chen Yan to blackmail me. For me, the death or life of Chen Yan is no different from the death or life of an ant."

"But you just let him go."

"I told you." Duan Wen said, "After he perceived that I might still be alive, he has been obsessing over my one-in-a-million chance of survival. It was only because of that that I finally decided to let him live."

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

Duan Wen's eyes blurred slightly as he spoke.

He looked at the uniformed Xie Qingcheng as if he had seen from a simulated brightly colored silk flower the white blossom that bloomed on a summer night one year.

Slowly, he recalled something related to Li Yun-