Chapter 42: You tell me what the truth is

What video?

It looks like it's related to Xie Qingcheng.

He Yu glanced calmly at the rapidly moving code, it would take some time for the other side to catch up with him, just a short time, and this kind of video who knows if it was sent to disturb his attention?

He closed the message window and paid no further attention. No distractions.

But then, a second message jumped out of nowhere.

"Edward, I know you're a rare psychopath, and while you were breaching our firewalls, we investigated your secret files."

He Yu's hand lurched.

Although his illness is confidential, but the consultation information in the private hospital and private doctors have kept files, the other side of the hacking technology is very high, according to some clues, in a short period of time to lock his real identity and retrieve important information, is not impossible.

A third was sent immediately after the other.

"That Xie Qingcheng is deceiving you, using you, don't you wonder why he suddenly stopped being a doctor?"

"......"

Article IV.

"Stop shilling for him and watch this video."

The video frame reappeared, serpentine in its pursuit of him.

He Yu's willpower wasn't that weak, and he still didn't click on it.

But the serpent's teeth did engage his flesh, and he hesitated for a moment.

For the opponent to destroy his attention barrier in a short period of time, the point of entry was bound to be very tricky.

Needless to say, the content of the other hacker's pop-up box was indeed the thing that had been bothering him the most.

--

Xie Qingcheng Why do you have to go?

He was bent on leaving, and even when he put down his face and asked to stay, Xie Qingcheng only said, "I am employed by your father.

I'm the one you can't afford to hire.

It's hard for He Yu to forget how he felt at that time.

There were only two closely related people in his life, Xie Qingcheng and Xie Xue, and on that day, that night, they both turned into phantoms that never existed.

He tried so hard to live, to live like a normal person, never giving in to his demons, trying for seven whole years.

At that moment he was actually broken inside.

But in the end, he didn't really resent Xie Qingcheng. He Yu was used to being alone, and used to understanding all kinds of people, and he thought later that he could understand Xie Qingcheng's choice.

After all, it's just a simple doctor-patient relationship.

It's just a job where you get paid.

They are neither relatives nor friends, Xie Qingcheng has every reason to leave at any time, and Xie Qingcheng did not lie to him and swindle him before he left, explaining his reasoning very clearly.

He had nothing to resent.

It's true that he couldn't get over Xie Qingcheng's sudden departure, but--

Then he thought, at least this person had come and brought him a clear creed that gave him the courage to live well. At least this man, once told him that the mentally ill needed to rebuild bridges with society, that they shouldn't be isolated, that he wasn't a heretic in society.

He Yu thought that just for that, he should also understand him.

Xie Qingcheng is always able to convince people's hearts and gain their understanding.

Just like the conversation between Xie Qingcheng and Lu Yuzhu just now, He Yu also vaguely listened to some of it, Xie Qingcheng's eloquence has always been very good, after so many years, he is still able to convince people with reasoning, and move people's hearts.

Thinking about this, He Yu glanced at Lu Yuzhu's expression, and he clearly saw that Lu Yuzhu's heart was shaken. Though she was too deeply rooted in the mud, this short conversation was no match for the pain she had suffered for more than ten years.

But she did falter.

Xie Qingcheng convinced Lu Yuzhu to learn the truth about his parents' deaths, but what did he do to himself?

Is it all sincere again, with nothing to hide?

He Yu didn't click on the video, but his eyes did wander a bit, landing on Xie Qingcheng, who was confronting Lu Yuzhu.

And just this momentary lapse of concentration, the other party's code command actually chased straight up, in the moment He Yu returned to his senses, had already broken through the defense threshold!

"Drip-drip-drip..."

The countdown to detonation was back to normal and had begun to move away at a much faster rate, the technicians on the other side had re-compressed the five-minute readings to a minimum threshold per second interval, and instead of a five-minute countdown, the explosion was now just a minute and a dozen seconds!

He Yu snapped back to his senses and cursed, now is really not the time to think about these things.

He quickly refocused his attention, typing in commands hardened to isolate the video interference, fine sweat seeping out of his bare forehead, a pair of almond eyes staring at the screen, his fingers flipping like shadows, so fast that one could not even see the movements.

And on the other side, Lu Yuzhu made sure that it was him.

This young man, who looks so young, is interfering with the organization's remote control with his cell phone. That Xie Qingcheng is not the most important thing, what's important is this young man.

She didn't move, slowly pacing over, her eyes locked on Xie Qingcheng as if she was circling him, but her afterglow was actually focused on He Yu.

Slowly, getting closer, she unbolted the pistol's safety, which held eleven rounds.

He Yu quickly enters a string of commands and presses the confirmation button.

Red light jumped out.

Intercepted!

The frantic countdown was strangled once again.

He Yu breathed a sigh of relief and raised his head, and was just about to give Xie Qingcheng a no-problem gesture when his eyelids suddenly fluttered, and the sixth sense of mankind made him feel a prickle in his neck, and he jerked his head around-

At the same time, Lu Yuzhu pulled his pistol from behind his waist and pressed the trigger hard towards He Yu!

"BANG!!!"

The bullet discharged, Lu Yuzhu was shocked by the recoil of the pistol, his arm was numb, staggered back two steps, her shot was too crooked, hit the information file cabinet, the whole cabinet surface was dented by the impact, the shrapnel burst through the glass window, spiderweb-like chaffing and then exploded.

"He Yu!"

Xie Qingcheng suddenly turned pale and lunged forward!

Lu Yuzhu was Xie Qingcheng directly pounced on the ground suppressed, but the hand of the gun never let go, she struggled, and rushed with her short combat Xie Qingcheng hissed, Xie Qingcheng's chest is so close to the muzzle of her gun, at any time there is a risk of gunfire, but he did not let go.

"You get out of the way!" She screamed at him with her hair disheveled and her eyes wide open. The blackened muzzle of the gun was pointed right at Xie Qingcheng's chest, but for some reason it didn't shoot him, "Or I'll take your life too!"

"You can take my life. Lu Yuzhu, but you can't do it to him, to a child."

Xie Qingcheng deadpanned her, gritting his teeth in a low voice.

These words were spoken very softly, in the confusion, in a low voice to Lu Yuzhu, but unfortunately, in the midst of Lu Yuzhu's frantic shouts, He Yu did not hear them after all.

Lu Yuzhu lets out a roar of inhuman fury.

The inner taboo was opened, the first shot killed the last trace of hesitation and softness in her heart, and the sanity and warmth that belonged to Lu Yuzhu drained away faster and faster.

The tearful eyes of the mother in the sky were slowly becoming invisible to her; she herself was meant to be a woman abandoned by her children.

She was abandoned ......

All sorts of past events rubbed before his eyes.

The adoration of the people of the county, the joy of taking office--

"Lu Yuzhu is awesome, the first female graduate student in our county! Graduated from a major university, she came back to the village to become a secretary, and she's the first female secretary! That's great! You should do more good things for the county!"

"Secretary Lu, thank you for helping our village repair the road and build the Hope Primary School, after dragging their feet for so many years before, they just refused to do it."

"Secretary Lu, thank you, if it weren't for you, my mom would definitely be forcing me to marry someone, I, I want to study ...... Thank you for helping me, so I can have a book to study ...... Thank you, really thank you ......"

"Secretary Lu, why don't you accept our thanks ...... So many secretaries have taken up their posts, and no one has ever been like you, who really takes the lives of our townspeople into account and has done so much for us ...... "

"Thank you."

Thanks ......

Suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, the clouds fell into the abyss.

"Lu Yuzhu, there's been a report! Someone has reported you for corruption and bribery, please come with us to the police station."

"Jade Pearl ......"

"Mom ...... Ma ...... Mom ...... Ma ...... Ma ...... "

It was as if there had been a toothy child at the end of the great abyss, shouting indistinctly, and the child looked at her with outstretched hands and tears.

Keep calling out to her, "Ma ...... mom ......"

She came back a few years later, and the girl with the outstretched hand stood timidly behind another young woman, afraid to approach her.

"You, who are you ......?"

Who are you?

Lu Yuzhu thought, who is she?

Dirty hotel dishroom with stained tablecloths and dishes in the center-

"Lu Yuzhu, be sharp, aren't you from the countryside? You're so slow at this job."

"She's a graduate student."

"Huh? Graduate student to do the dishes?"

"Reading what still seems to be a very trendy major, computer information security ...... That's weird, so what's she in for?"

"Lu Yuzhu, the Personnel Department rechecked your dossier, you have been in jail before! Such a thing cannot be concealed when applying for a job, you can leave, this month's salary will be settled for you, and you don't have to come back to work tomorrow."

Between the men's intimate faces in the fishy massage room--

"The little beauty is quite embarrassed."

"What's the point of posing? Bitch! Aren't you just a prostitute? I'm paying you and you're still talking nonsense! I'm giving you face by looking at you! How dare you bite me-!!!"

"Slap."

A slap, another slap.

Voiced, voiceless, tangible, intangible, slapping her cheeks from the darkness, from all sides.

She fell to her knees and howled, her fingers clawing and gouging at the ground, her hands full of blood, as if trying to dig a little bit of light and truth out of it and hold it up for those people to see.

She was wrong.

She made a mistake, she did collect the money ...... but it was just a pig's money, it was an unwritten rule in the countryside, it wasn't even collected by her personally, she didn't even know it ......

Why be reduced to a broken home, alone and lonely, with no place to stay!

Why ......

A hundred mouths are silent, and the net of heaven is dim.

She looked forward to someone who could go and make her trust, who could give her hope, but she waited for a long time, waited until her heart was withered, and waited for one disappointment after another.

"My last name is Duan. Your name is Lu Yuzhu, right? It's a graduate student."

Suddenly there was a spark.

It was a male guest's lighter that led to the light.

The male guest just came to take a break, figure a fresh, casually follow the fox friends to have fun, and did not want to give vent to desire, he also has no interest in this kind of cheap place of women. He looked at her to find interesting, just in that star of light, slowly spit out a little smoke and mist.

"Read all those books." He tossed the lighter toward the coffee table and looked at her, "Why did you come to do this."

"......"

Perhaps it was the man's gaze that was so peaceful, that it was not laced with any sense of looking down on anyone, or even focused, serious, harboring a genuine interest in getting to know her.

Lu Yuzhu's precarious city of the heart was suddenly hit by a heavy impact at that moment.

She held back for a few seconds, or maybe a dozen, but she finally couldn't hold back, and she fell to her knees in a flash, covering her face right in front of Nana's guest and losing her voice ......

His own yesterday's cries, yesterday's despair, as if right in front of his eyes, Lu Yuzhu toward Xie Qingcheng roared:

"Don't you dare try to stop me from protecting him!!!"

Human potential was terrifying, and with a surge of strength that came from nowhere, she violently raised her suppressed hand and pointed it at He Yu next to her.

He Yu did not run away, on the contrary, He Yu realized the danger of Xie Qingcheng and came up to help his companion. In the past, Lu Yuzhu would have appreciated such a young man.

But--

With all her might, she lifted her wrist up, twisted it, turned ...... it as hard as she could at He Yu, clutched the gun, and pulled, hold, the trigger--!

"BANG!!!"

It pierces the ears and shakes the heart!

One blow missed, Lu Yuzhu's eyes went red, his face was broken, the veins at the corners of his forehead bulging, his teeth showing, like a human being, like a bred beast, she was pounced on the ground by Xie Qingcheng, but her hands wouldn't let go, and swept madly all over He Yu--

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"

Xie Qingcheng had no regard for his own danger, and refused to let go of his hand at such close range, but Lu Yuzhu exploded with a strength that seemed to come from a human being's near-death struggle, and he was unable to take her gun away from her in such a short period of time, and in such a chaotic situation.

Lu Yuzhu didn't waste a single bullet on Xie Qingcheng, only a flurry of shots at He Yu, who had prevented her from detonating the archive.

"Bang Bang Bang!!!"

There was a cold, muffled thud.

Xie Qingcheng's eyes widen, he turns around, his pupils shrink--

"He Yu!!!"

The youth was still wounded, because he refused to leave, because he had not left Xie Qingcheng to escape until this moment, and he was hit.

He Yu covers his shoulder and leans heavily on his side against the wall, the blood is not initially obvious as it pours from his injury as he is dressed in all black, the red intertwined with the black, and the hot blood is not distinct in the dim light.

But ......

He raised his hand to cover the gunshot wound, and as soon as his cold white five fingers covered the wound, they were soaked with large spurts of blood, the red seeping through the pale fingers, and it was instantly shocking.

Xie Qingcheng's field of vision seemed to be colored red.

Lu Yuzhu saw that she had hit and gasped roughly, she maintained the position of being pressed to the ground by Xie Qingcheng, looking at He Yu's gushing blood, suddenly threw back her head and laughed loudly, the laughter was so harsh and horrible that it pierced through her eardrums, and as she laughed and laughed, the tears flowed down her cheeks and flowed into her disheveled hair.

"hahahahahaha ...... hahahahahahaha ............"

The hand loosened and the gun fell to the floor.

Xie Qingcheng got up and immediately ran towards He Yu, whose injured hand was still trying to pick up the cell phone again, trying to finish the unfinished instructions, but he tried twice, and his hand was shaking so badly that the cell phone slammed on the ground with a loud bang, and the screen was covered with blood.

"He Yu, you ......"

"...... I'm fine. We have to go, Xie Qingcheng."

He Yu's eyes were cold, staring at Lu Yuzhu's face, which was pale and sweaty, but his words were directed at Xie Qingcheng.

"You won't get anything out of her. This one is in too deep."

"...... I know you'll be sorry to miss this live one, but it's too late if you don't go."

As if verifying his words, after He Yu was no longer able to enter the program, the other side's technicians quickly broke through the defensive wall and once again had control of the detonator in their hands.

He Yu frowned.

He wasn't that afraid of getting hurt, blood was even more of a rare thing for him, but the scary part was that he couldn't grip anything anymore with the injured hand.

Everything is out of control.

"Come on."

"276......275......274......"

The countdown was fast and compressed as Xie Qingcheng picked up He Yu, turned his head sideways, and with those blood-red peach blossom eyes, took one last look at the woman who had collapsed limply within the network of detonating wires.

Lu Yuzhu is like a moth stuck in a spider's web, now and then he trembles with laughter, but tears fall all over his face.

She raised her arms and covered her eyes, the top half of her face weeping while the bottom half was laughing madly.

Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes heavily, and the moment he turned his head was like slow motion-

Like taking his eyes, away from the cold corpses of his parents nineteen years ago.

But--

Lu Yuzhu, there's still one last bullet in that pistol!

She cried, laughed, had a seizure, and when she heard they were leaving, she instinctively picked up the gun, which she had just let go of, and aimed it at them ......

"Get down!"

Xie Qingcheng was so determined to pay attention to He Yu's wound that he again turned his back completely to Lu Yuzhu, and this time it was He Yu who realized it more quickly.

"BANG!!!" The sound!

He Yu didn't know what he was thinking, maybe he wasn't thinking at all, it was just an evil dragon's instinct to protect his belongings. He violently pressed Xie Qingcheng down! That final bullet had actually struck the same spot where he was already injured once again -

It's just a little bit on the up side.

This time, He Yu's body directly trembled with pain and softened in Xie Qingcheng's arms, and blood splashed out right in front of Xie Qingcheng's face.

Xie Qingcheng head is numb, he a doctor, he this moment is so unable to face the drenching hot blood ......

"Why are you ......!!!"

He Yu doesn't say a word, his dark eyes staring blankly at his wounds as if he, too, is wondering why he went through with it.

Yes ......

Why? ......

The countdown continued frantically, Xie Qingcheng could not delay any longer, he picked up He Yu, carrying the injured boy, ran out of the building entrance ......

He Yu's blood was hot, dripping down the back of his shoulder. Xie Qingcheng ran all the way forward, not caring about the past, not caring about the fact that he had missed the last survivor.

He ran out with He Yu in his arms, holding him in his arms, and he said to He Yu, "It's all right, I'll take you."

"......Don't mind ......I'm not afraid of any of this, Xie Qingcheng." He Yu's voice sounded softly beside him in the footsteps-strewn walkway of the archive building, the then to the lobby.

He Yu is still calm.

"I'm not afraid of death, I'm not afraid of blood, and I care about pain, you remember."

"......"

"Probably just too unafraid of death to go that far just now."

He Yu's lip color is starting to fade. He said.

"It's okay."

But Xie Qingcheng feels cared for, feels pain.

Xie Qingcheng hugged him tightly, and He Yu's face turned a little white because he lost too much blood in one moment.

A kid that young, only nineteen years old.

Normal children are still asking their parents for pocket money, happily playing games, reading books without any distractions, carefree feeling the vigorous life sprouting inside them and looking forward to the infinite light.

What about He Yu?

He knew full well that there was nothing but darkness before him, and that in front of him there were only three long-gone mental Ai Bola patients grinning at him, telling him that there would be no dawn in his life, only a long night, no exit, only death.

But he still gritted his teeth, trying to struggle and crawl toward the future that might hold hope.

Childhood, innocence, laughter, no worries.

None of these words have anything to do with He Yu.

He is only nineteen years old ...... No matter how powerful and omnipotent he is, in the end he is a child.

Xie Qingcheng finally snapped out of the chaos brought on by his father's hatred of his mother at this moment, and he finally realized exactly what his previous sense of impropriety was due to-

He shouldn't have gotten He Yu involved.

On what grounds?

Who is He Yu to him?

This child has already tried hard enough, he actually only gave him a little bit of the most basic, as a private doctor should have the care, how is it worth this child to take the risk of life to accompany his own jump into the fire pit.

Xie Qingcheng's hand covering He Yu's wound is trembling slightly.

He had never felt much pain for He Yu before, it was more of a duty, a care, a pity, but at this moment, the hot blood of the youth felt like it was going to run down his skin, his backbone, into his heart, and carve into the depths of his bone marrow.

Yes ......

They are just a doctor-patient relationship, an employment relationship in the clearest sense of the word, and if he himself should still report a slightly unique concern for He Yu because of his human entanglements and the special nature of his mental Ai Bola disease, He Yu is different.

He Yu doesn't owe him anything. He viewed him, and really shouldn't have any feelings outside of facing the doctor.

Nevertheless, He Yu came along.

Only because Xie Qingcheng said he wanted to know the truth about his parents' deaths.

He'd love to find the killer.

But that's irrelevant to He Yu ......

Xie Qingcheng took He Yu and ran out, he covered the wound on He Yu's shoulder with a dead hand and said hoarsely, "I'll take you to the hospital right away, don't talk much more."

He Yu is very quiet.

After a moment of silence, the young man only smiled softly and said, "I'm really fine. But--"

"But I just wanted to ask you something. Dr. Shea."

"......"

His breath was in Xie Qingcheng's ear.

It was hot, yet seemed to carry some cold.

"I'm curious to know why you, back then, suddenly stopped wanting to be a doctor. Was it really as simple as your contract expiring?"

"......"

"Why don't you want me no matter how much I keep you."

"......"

"It's been seven years Xie Qingcheng, my dad all said that there are human feelings outside the employment relationship. I ...... really want to ask you today." Blood is still flowing, He Yu does not look at a glance, his black eyes in the long to ghastly night, only unblinking at Xie Qingcheng.

That look in his eyes was exactly the same as the kid who was so helpless that he was suddenly childish, so childish that he tried to retain him with his allowance that year.

Even if that kid is pain tolerant and his senses are numb, he's still going to hurt after two gunshot wounds.

He Yu's voice is very light, perhaps running in a hurry, sounds a little hoarse: "Xie Qingcheng ...... you at that time to me, there is really no extra favor?"