Because the truth is never meaningless

Five minutes.

Lu Yuzhu thought, just five minutes and it would all be over.

The ticking of the detonator echoed through the basement like a pendulum clock in an old county mansion many years ago, ticking away in her still-peaceful life.

At the time, she thought she could live out her life in peace and quiet.

Suddenly--

It was as sudden as when that hairy reporter had broken her life.

The countdown to death surprisingly stopped.

At the same time, Lu Yuzhu hears the muffled roar of the elevator shaft behind him.

She twisted around and turned back to see the barn door slowly open, and inside stood a tall, broad-shouldered, long-legged man with a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes. He had a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, which splashed with sharp fire.

Xie Qingcheng stepped out of the silver-gray elevator shaft, his gaze like a wedge, killing into the heart cavity.

He Yu's guess was right on the money.

Lu Yuzhu is here, and before he enters the archive, the mirroring software he downloaded on his cell phone triggers a high-intensity signal alert. He Yu scans the connection and realizes there are even triggers.

More than one.

Unfortunately, the triggers can be manipulated by the mirroring software, which allows He Yu to break through the other side's firewalls before entering, stopping the countdown.

They didn't notify the police before they broke in. Time was running out. Besides, they were sure the police had a mole, so informing them would only make things worse.

It is now clear that Lu Yuzhu is going to "clean up" the file for her benefactor in a suicide mission.

"I know the countdown was only five minutes. But now it has stopped." Xie Qingcheng stared into the woman's face, "Can we talk."

"The countdown has stopped ...... countdown how ......"

"That's thanks to your boss's love of high technology." A gentle satin-like voice sounded behind Xie Qingcheng.

Lu Yuzhu realized there was someone else standing in the depths of the elevator.

Just now, Xie Qingcheng's aura was too impactful, stepping out from the slowly opening barn door, as if it was topsy-turvy, each step was like walking on her heart. So much so that she didn't notice the young man hiding in the shadows of the large elevator for a moment.

The young man was wearing a simple black autumn turtleneck, looking casual and calm, even playing with his cell phone absently as he walked out, and if the archive room were to be replaced with a bookstore or a clubhouse, he would not be out of place at all in this outfit with this set of eyebrows.

The youth smiled at her, "Ms. Lu, technology is indeed a good thing."

But he didn't say too much to Lu Yuzhu, the other party's technician was madly attacking the program system he had just kidnapped. He Yu greeted him gently and sweetly, then leaned back against the wall and continued to fight the silent program battle with the other party, his eyes calm and focused, no longer caring about the conversation between Xie Qingcheng and Lu Yuzhu.

Lu Yuzhu is a woman who has been through a lot, and even in this situation, she regained her composure after a short period of shock.

"You're not cops." She surveyed them, her tense muscles relaxing slightly.

"No."

"The dogs haven't even sniffed here yet, and you guys get to come first." Lu Yuzhu narrowed his eyes, "What kind of people are you."

Xie Qingcheng did not intend to talk much nonsense with her and went straight to the point: "Nineteen years ago, my parents died in a car accident. An unmanned vehicle crashed through it, and the front of the car spontaneously combusted after the impact, destroying valid evidence, in exactly the same way as your people killed Zhang Yong just now."

"......" Lu Yuzhu said, "So are your parents betrayers who deserve to be swept away, or two guard dogs?"

Xie Qingcheng: "They are police officers."

"That was a good death, not at all unjust. Posthumously decorated as a martyr, right?" Lu Yuzhu mockingly twisted out a smile.

"No."

Lu Yuzhu's smile froze for a moment.

"They didn't die on a mission, and there is no direct evidence of a vendetta. Despite the fact that all the colleagues around them understood that the incident was not a coincidence or an ordinary car accident, as long as they could not prove themselves, it was an accident."

"......" Lu Yuzhu's eyes dimmed slightly, as if thinking of what he had experienced.

"I've read your profile. Know what has happened to you."

Xie Qingcheng paused, "I know what it's like to not get a fair response for so many years. Lu Yuzhu, not all police officers are guilty as sin."

"......"

"My parents died when I was thirteen, and as far as I can remember they did nothing to clear their conscience. In fact they were brutally murdered because they were constantly pursuing the truth and clearing the names of people like you."

"Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, "I know you hate the reporter who framed you at the time, the investigators, all the people involved, you uprooted from your hometown, suffered a lot, three years ago, it's too late for you to overturn the case, the past can not be changed. "

"But do you know, in order to give you, to those who carry a trumped-up charge of justice, and how many you can not see, you do not know the reporter, the police, the prosecutor, in the best of their efforts, and even the last even the life has been sent in? They are why for the past has been settled things, for those ...... perhaps overturned the parties can no longer forgive things, to pay their blood, youth, and even life?"

"For the belated truth though cannot change the past."

Xie Qingcheng's voice was trembling slightly, as if he was not only dialoguing with Lu Yuzhu, but also tearing himself apart after nearly twenty years of being trapped-

"But at least, it will put the future back on the right track."

"It can make the living, who have suffered injustice, raise their heads again. It can let the martyrs who died without a name, be buried in nine springs. It can remove the heavy shackles from the shoulders of the victims, and it can let those outside the net of the law know what is meant by heavenly justice."

"It can't heal the wounds of the past, Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, his voice calm and his emotions suppressed, but his red eyes revealed how broken and fragmented he actually was, "But it's not meaningless. The truth is never meaningless."

"The moment you were found by the prosecutor and everyone bowed to you and apologized, did you have a kind of ...... pain that had been blocking your breath for more than a decade and finally went up in smoke in your heart? Even though that ache was accompanied by boundless pain, at that moment you were finally able to catch your breath."

"......" Lu Yuzhu's eyes moved slightly.

"You've waited, Lu Yuzhu, and I've waited almost twenty years, and I haven't waited."

Lu Yuzhu: "......"

Xie Qingcheng : "Where you cannot see, there are many people who have bled and sacrificed for your grievances. You don't even know their names. But they have been pursuing justice to make up for the wrongs, to get justice for the wrongs they didn't commit, for the living and the dead. ...... Do you think this is meaningless?"

"More than ten years, even if your husband betrayed you, your children no longer know you, even if even you yourself do not remember what Lu Yuzhu, the county party secretary of Qingli County, looks like, but those who have never met you have not yet been willing to put down your volume of the case, do you think that they are doing all this, just really just to say sorry to you? ...... At least my parents aren't. They became police officers to make money, to support their family, they saw it as a career. But they said they did, and then they ended up going to their deaths for the sake of that career, with little money, without raising their children. I was thirteen when they left."

"Lu Yuzhu, you are a mother too, can you imagine what my mother was thinking the moment she died?"

Lu Yuzhu had only been silent before, but on hearing these words, her body trembled fiercely, as if there were a pair of tearful eyes in the sky, like hers, a woman who had been forced to leave her child, looking at her silently to see her.

"Half her body was crushed. I saw it with my own eyes."

"By your people."

"......"

"What did she do wrong Lu Yuzhu?She never said anything very remarkable in her life, she only solemnly said one sentence, I still remember it to this day. She said that every ordinary person longs for a truth when they are stuck, and that one has to have a little bit of light to believe in this world in order to have something to live for."

"She wanted the badge on her shoulder to be bright, something that could be trusted by everyone who was helplessly asking for help. But your fellow officers, your organization, your people, killed her."

"Her epaulettes were crushed to pieces."

Lu Yuzhu's fingertips were trembling slightly.

Xie Qingcheng said, "It's not the police you should hate, it's the criminals who framed you and slandered you. ...... Come back Lu Yuzhu. Some things shouldn't be like this."

Lu Yuzhu looks like a wandering soul, more than ten years of the intricacies of life in her body tearing and spinning. Finally she raised her head and opened her mouth to Xie Qingcheng, her voice actually had some hoarseness, "...... I am sorry."

"......"

"I'm sorry ......" she murmured.

But--

But then she adds:

"You know ...... this phrase was the most repeated phrase when the prosecutor who reversed my case found me."

Lu Yuzhu said softly, "I was like, I'm sorry about the implication, what is it? It's that you're having a miserable time, but it has nothing to do with me."

She looked at Xie Qingcheng with very complicated eyes.

After a few seconds' pause, she then continued on, "But now I'm talking to you, and I'm sorry. I feel it, and I'm thinking that maybe ...... maybe he didn't mean to have nothing to do with me at the time. He did, indeed, really feel stifled for me. It's just that--"

The conversation turned.

Lu Yuzhu said slowly in the pale, cold basement light, "...... There are things you can't go back to."

"Perhaps our people were compelled to implicate the innocent. Then again, perhaps it is true that there is guilt and fault, but when I was at my most desperate and unable to hold on, it was our people who saved me. Gave me a piece of shelter."

"......"

"Without them, I might have killed myself in this long backtracking and waiting, it's too painful, I can't even wait for the day when the case is overturned."

Lu Yuzhu said slowly to Xie Qingcheng, "I cannot say that you are wrong, and I know that I am wrong. But I, for one, have belonged to the darkness through and through. Light is foreign to me."

"Wrong or right, he gave me this life. I won't betray him even if I die."

Xie Qingcheng : "...... Do you think he wasn't using you to save you? For this day, for someone to give up their life to keep their mouth shut for them! The countdown to death has five minutes and can be manipulated remotely, why didn't they take you? To let you die in the explosion with what they were going to destroy?"

Lu Yuzhu laughed a little, "You belittle him."

"......"

"He said he was taking me with him and had no intention of leaving me behind. I was the one who wanted to stay, because after all the fuss and warnings, he had to leave a few people in the territory for the police to close the case." Lu Yuzhu said, "If I wanted to live, I could have fled after pressing the button, and he even gave me time to back out."

"But I don't want to." She said.

"I don't want to be in the hands of the police, I don't want to go back to the place that held me for too many years. I don't want any more torture, I don't want any more cooperation. Death doesn't scare me at all."

"It's living that feels long and desperate."

Lu Yuzhu said, slowly backing deeper into the basement, out of the light and into the darkness.

She didn't want to walk up.

She couldn't walk up again either.

She had a pistol at her back with her hand behind her back.

She hadn't touched the gun, it was the last thing the organization had given her, and it was originally just a precautionary measure, she wasn't sure if she could actually aim it, but it was always worth a try ......

Her gaze fell on the young man in black who never said a word and tapped the screen of his cell phone rapidly.

Yes.

She can no longer remember what Lu Yuzhu, the former county clerk of Qingli County, looked like.

Her heart pumped and tightened, wordlessly gritting her teeth and shakily snapping the gun open ......

Suddenly--

"A message dinged.

He Yu, who was fighting a program battle, took a beat.

He had set up a message block, but this message was sent by the other technician through the barriers. Between the two's exchanges, however, the other sent him an anonymous message.

It's a video.

Anonymous message, "Edward, I found out who you are with him. Take a look at this before you consider whether or not you want to do this for him."