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"I'm so convinced! It's harder to get a chicken leg than to get a shoe!"

The canteen in Xicheng is small, and there are many people who come to eat at noon every day. Song Yao queued for more than 20 minutes to get a stewed chicken leg, but it happened to be gone when he arrived, and the limited edition big chicken leg was sold out.

Sitting across from him, Bai Aize raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is it difficult?"

"Why isn't it difficult? After listening to the training in the morning, I rushed to line up, and I never got it—where did I get it?"

Song Yao caught a glimpse of a fat, smooth, rich-flavored, plump and tender chicken leg lying in Bai Aize's bowl, couldn't help swallowing, his eyes glowed green with envy.

But I didn't see Bai Aize crowded in line just now, where did he get such a good thing?

"Calling." Bai Aize said.

"No!" Song Yao smacked his lips, "Which window did you call from?"

Bai Aize raised his chin: "No. 3."

Song Yao looked in the direction he pointed. Window No. 3 serves cold dishes, and Bai Aize has a mild taste. He would go there almost every day to order cold fungus or blanched okra. The little chef who served them looked this way. , his cheeks burned, and he immediately looked away in embarrassment.

"So that's how it is-" Song Yao smashed the bar with an unusual taste, and said meaningfully, "The little brother has taken a fancy to you? When did it happen? Yes, you Bai Aize, we have only been here for a few days Oh my god, you captured someone's heart before you arrived in a week, and you even left a chicken leg for you by virtue of your position, and it's still so big, damn it, I'm going to the logistics side to hook up with a little lover!"

"Support." Bai Aize nodded.

"With my suave manner, I will get a chicken leg bigger than you sooner or later!" Song Yao was indulging in narcissism, when he saw Bai Aize was still looking in the direction of window No. Looking at them, he suddenly caught Song Yao's eyes, shook the iron spoon in his hand, and shook out more than half of a spoonful of dried bamboo shoots.

Song Yao thought it was not good, could it be that Lao Bai really saw eye to eye with this little brother?In front of the public, they just put their eyebrows here and flirted with each other. How long have he and Ah Chu been separated?

"Hey, let me ask you." Song Yao decided to inquire about it in a roundabout way, "What do you think of him?"

With a not-so-obvious smile on Bai Aize's face, he looked at Song Yao jokingly and said, "That's right, what do you think?"

"I'll say what I say!" Song Yao put down his chopsticks and said seriously, "Old Bai, let me tell you, this matter is very serious, even though you are talking about it theoretically—I mean theoretically. Single, but you and Ah Chu..."

The corner of Bai Aize's mouth froze, he put the chicken leg into Song Yao's bowl, and interrupted, "It's for you."

Song Yao blinked and said in a low voice, "It was given to you, why don't you just give it to me?"

Bai Aize said, "It's not for me."

"Ah? Didn't it come for you?" Song Yao asked with his mouth open.

"Let me pass it on to you," Bai Aize smiled at him, "He said that you have been waiting at window No. 1 for four days in a row, but you haven't been in line once, so he specially reserved one for you from the kitchen."

"Give it to me?" Song Yao looked at the fat and tender chicken leg in the bowl, and suddenly felt very complicated. He turned his head and looked at the little master again, and half of the food in the spoon was shaken off.

Bai Aize laughed, knocked on the table and said, "Don't look at it, his hands will shake if you look at it again."

"Don't watch it, don't watch it," Song Yao turned his head back, and after thinking about it, he still felt uncomfortable, and approached Bai Aize and asked in a low voice, "What do you think he thinks?"

"I don't know." Bai Aize shrugged his shoulders, "By the way, he asked me to tell you to eat more vegetables."

Song Yao choked.

Bai Aize put a chopstick of fungus into his mouth, smiled and said, "It tastes good, you can try it for dinner."

Song Yao, a fledgling rogue on the lips, who had never been in a relationship before, sighed sadly, thinking how could this happen, how could his own charm be so great, there might be more in this world A sad teenager who is sad for him.

He and Bai Aize chatted while eating, and they separated after a few days of training together. Bai Aize followed the criminal investigation, and Song Yao went to the physical evidence side. not much.

Two colleagues with dinner plates sat down at the table next to them. Song Yao had sharp ears, and happened to hear them talking about this class of interns.

According to the conversation, the two people are in charge of the files. They said that this year, there is a supernatural man named Bai who is the chief police officer. He was recommended by No.1. There was an exam this morning on the criminal investigation side, and there are so many top talents from all over the country. No one can touch his side, Captain Guan and he showed off in the group as if he had won a baby, and said that he has decided on this kid, and he will come to Xicheng directly after graduation, and he will cultivate it himself.

They didn't know that Bai Aize was sitting next to him, and then gossiped about the family background of this god-named Bai, and then talked about the chief police officer who seemed to have another top student who was also capable of competing for the first place. I don't know where it went.

"Ah Chu, right?" Song Yao glanced at Bai Aize, seemingly inadvertently bringing out Shang Chu's name.

For so many days, he never dared to mention Shang Chu in front of Bai Aize once.

After that high fever, Bai Aize seemed to have fully recovered. He was as strong, confident, self-disciplined and calm as ever, as if he had never been to that dark and dirty corridor, never knocked on that crumbling wooden door, and never blushed. Eyes dial over and over again that no one will answer the phone.

The calmer he was, the more abnormal Song Yao felt.

"Maybe." Bai Aize responded lightly, and picked out a green onion from the stewed winter melon.

Song Yao sighed in his heart, and asked in a low voice, "Are you still angry with him?"

Bai Aize didn't answer, but concentrated on picking the chopped green onions in the bowl.

Just when Song Yao thought he was going to keep silent, Bai Aize suddenly said, "Ah Yao, I have no choice but to be angry."

Song Yao didn't expect him to be so frank, and was taken aback when he heard the words.

Bai Aize looked up at him, and said lightly, "Sorry, but can we not mention him for now?"

"Old Bai, I'm also angry," Song Yao pursed his lips, "But he must have his own difficulties in doing so, you—"

"Please forgive me," Bai Aize took his words, looked down at the plate in front of him again, "I understand, but I can't do it yet."

Song Yao heard an imperceptible tremor in his calm voice.

"I haven't found a way to control my emotions yet." Bai Aize paused, took a light breath, and then continued, "After all, I was the one who was left behind."

Difficulties, everyone is saying that Shang Chu has his own difficulties; difficulties, everyone wants him to understand Shang Chu's difficulties.

Why doesn't he know Shang Chu's difficulties and difficulties? No one understands Shang Chu's situation better than him, and no one wants to drag Shang Chu up from the cliff more than he does. Cutting the whole body apart, even trying to put Shang Chu into his body, he was reluctant to let Shang Chu get wet in the rain, and he would consider it a big deal if Shang Chu broke a little skin, but why did Shang Chu still want to Walk?

Ye Su said that falling in love is not about keeping pets. Bai Aize thought about it for many days but still didn't understand, because it hurts when he thinks about it.

"Eat, eat," Song Yao picked up the chopsticks, and patted Bai Aize's arm, "Don't talk about this, eat quickly, it's cold!"

After lunch, he went back to his seat. The intern next door said that the old manager asked him to go. Bai Aize nodded and said thank you. The intern gave him a strange look and asked, "It's been so long since we've dialed together. , the old manager has only looked for you alone, and this has been three times, why does he value you so much?"

Knocking on the door and entering the chief criminal investigation's office, Guan Qiping was reading an autopsy report that had just been handed in, and motioned Bai Aize to sit aside for a while, and wanted to drink tea by himself.

Bai Aize nodded without disturbing him, and stood by the bookcase, looking at the certificates and medals in the glass window.

"Ai Ze, come and sit down."

Guan Qiping quickly scanned the report, and called the forensic doctor to ask a few questions before freeing his hand to greet Bai Aize.

"Guard, are you looking for me?" Bai Aize asked.

"How are you feeling these few days?" Guan Qiping lit an electronic cigarette, "Do you mind?"

Bai Aize shook his head to show that he didn't mind, thought for a while and replied, "I learned a lot of new things. The seniors in the team are very experienced and take good care of us."

"Hi!" Guan Qiping waved his hand, "If you want me to say, I shouldn't take too much care of you yellow-haired boys! I said earlier that the interns are recruited to be cows and horses, and it took so much effort to select them. What's the point of listening to lectures in an air-conditioned room? It's called training, training, learning and learning. What kind of boring farts can we learn from the PPT all day long in the front line? Don't let me say that you are too young, if you see a murder scene and get scared out of your wits, it will be enough for our bureau to drink a pot!"

Bai Aize didn't expect the captain's style of painting to be so rough, he was not sure what his attitude was, so he didn't speak.

"I'm looking for you today to talk about this. I have an assignment. I want you to go with your Brother Feng and go out to exercise." Guan Qiping said.

"Expatriate?"

Bai Aize was a little surprised, he was just an intern with no qualifications, Guan Qiping was probably under some pressure to give him this opportunity.

"Don't panic, it's nothing serious, and it's not dangerous," Guan Qiping smiled, and flipped through the stack of files at hand a few times, "Recently, the higher-ups are going to improve the missing persons archives, and our side has been in charge of it for nearly ten years. As for the trafficked people, a few years ago we and Nanfang jointly cracked a major case, and some important materials are kept with them, so this time it’s for a handover.”

Many disappearance cases are reported every year, and they are also one of the most troublesome cases for the police. Due to the lack of clues, they often have to be ignored in the end.Bai Aize remembers what he said in class that there are nearly 60 missing cases that have been recorded and have not given up on searching, of which human trafficking accounts for nearly one-fifth of them.

However, it is not easy to investigate abduction and trafficking cases, and the results are often unsatisfactory after a lot of time-consuming and labor-intensive work. Therefore, the corresponding research system is lacking, and the textbooks are only a few words. This assignment is indeed a deep understanding of this aspect. good opportunity.

"Okay." Bai Aize nodded and said, "I'll go."

"Okay." Guan Qiping had expected that he would agree, and handed him the information at hand.

Bai Aize took over the stack of materials, but Guan Qiping didn't arrange the files according to the number of pages after flipping through them. The first page was not the cover, but the personal information of a criminal suspect.He took a rough look, this is a male Alpha, in the side profile, he could vaguely see a black thing behind his ear, maybe it was a scar.

"You look at it for a few days, and leave for Xinyang next weekend." Guan Qiping said.

Xinyang?

Bai Aize paused with his fingertips: "The materials to be handed over are in Xinyang?"

"Yes, in their city bureau." Guan Qiping thought he felt that Xinyang was too far away, and comforted him, "Their team leader is called Xie Jun, he is my good buddy, and he is also a good hand from the chief police officer. I fought with him. Say hello first, let him take care of you when you go over."

Bai Aize looked down at the stack of papers in his hand, his thoughts were confused for a while, he didn't know how to answer.

"By the way, I heard that there is also an intern in your school who went to Xinyang this year, right?" Guan Qiping said cheerfully, "What do you think this kid is like Xie Jun, who is the first police officer? I don’t want to stay in the capital to show off my skills. What is the purpose of going to such a far place? I haven’t figured it out until now..."

Xie Jun brewed a pot of tea, walked back from the tea room with it in his hand, and met the boy again at the door of the office.

"Thank you, Team." Shang Chu caught him and asked directly, "When will I be able to get out the mission?"

The glass teapot in his hand was steaming, Xie Jun opened the door with his foot, Shang Chu followed him in, and asked anxiously again: "When will you send me a task?"

Xie Jun poured out a cup of hot tea: "Then what rules..."

"Memorize it," Shang Chu took out a small book from his pocket, opened it and threw it in front of him, "Regulations and Regulations of the Xinyang City Bureau, Internal Affairs Regulations of the People's Police, Disciplinary Regulations of Public Security Organs, I have finished studying the Regulations on the Procedures for Handling Criminal Cases, and the notes are here, so you can memorize whatever you want.”

Xie Jun glanced at the book full of dangdang handwriting, his eyes flickered slightly, and he was a little surprised to think that this kid really studied hard.

These interns have been here for more than a week, and on the third day, many people came to him asking for tasks. He sent a sentence saying that he should learn those rules and disciplines first, thinking about sharpening the spirit of these little brats, otherwise he would still be in trouble. I really thought that anyone could do their job.

Xie Jun originally disapproved of letting this group of students enter the game so early. Judging from the quality of the interns sent in the past, they were all empty-bellied idiots. They will show their original shape as soon as they go out to foreign affairs, don't expect to make any contribution, it will be difficult not to hold back.

Sure enough, from the fourth day onwards, the number of people bothering him gradually decreased, and from the sixth day onwards, there was no one at the door of his office, except for the Omega named Shang Chu who came from the chief police officer.

"So when can I have something to do?" Shang Chu asked eagerly again.

He has been here for nearly ten days, and one-sixth of the internship has passed, but he has never left the city bureau. The intern next door is already free enough to start playing minesweeping. Shang Chuyue is getting more and more flustered, especially listening to Song Yao said that Xicheng asked them to do some interesting experiments and some realistic simulation exercises, and he became more and more anxious.

This burning feeling and burning fire roasted him. He was afraid that he would be exhausted like this. If he went on like this, when he returned to school in two months, would he still be able to catch up with the progress of other students?

He is not as good as Bai Aize, what if... What if he is completely left behind?

After leaving the capital, Shang Chu always felt that his feet were so empty that he could not step on the ground, as if everything was empty, as if no one needed him or valued him anymore, he desperately hoped to catch something to prove that he was still worthy, To let myself feel that he is real and exists.

"What do you want to do?" Xie Jun put down his water glass and asked.

Shangchu supported the wooden table with both hands, and said with burning eyes: "I want to file a case with the team, I want to go to the front line, I want to solve the case."

Xie Jun smiled lightly, he had heard this kind of answer too much, which novice is not ambitious to say that he wants to solve major cases, a passionate child like Shang Chu can graduate thousands of students every year from the police academy, but the real How many serious cases can you encounter in a year?

They imagined that the police are facing the darkest crimes, such as murder, arson, robbery, human trafficking, rape... However, in reality, most of them are sent to the grassroots, because of the trivial work day after day It didn't meet the expectations, and in the end, my ambition died, and my blood was cold. I was more addicted to smoking than my job. The best skill I learned was making tea, and I wasted my monthly salary.

"Xiao Shang," he tapped on the table with his fingers, and said bluntly, "Have you ever thought about it, in terms of experience and ability, why do you go to the front line to solve cases now?"

Shang Chu clasped his fingers on the table, and said in a deep voice, "I'm not experienced enough, but I can learn, and I will study hard. Thank you, you give me a chance, I can."

Xie Jun stared fixedly at Shang Chu, the child pursed his lips, he had a bad temper and was stubborn enough.

He seemed to see something different from other people's eyes in Shang Chu's eyes. After thinking for a moment, he waved his hand: "Understood, let's go out."

"Then when will I..."

"I will consider it." Xie Jun said.

Shang Chu gradually smiled, said "Thank you, thank you team" and ran away.

Thank you team?

It sounds like a tongue twister, what the hell!

Xie Jun shook his head, dug out the information of this year's interns from the folder, found the page of Shang Chu, and read it carefully.

Captain Xie said he would consider it, and asked Shang Chu to follow him on a mission that afternoon.

Shang Chu's heart beat fast along the way, full of excitement and anticipation. When he arrived at the scene, he saw that a thief who stole a shared bicycle was caught on the spot.

The person who brought Shang Chu here was Xu Long from the bureau. He probably got instructions from Xie Jun and asked Shang Chu to deal with it after showing his ID.

Before Shang Chu could react, he was put on the shelf, and asked bravely, "Why did you steal the car?"

"I didn't steal it," the man looked like a gangster, chewing gum and argued, "Officer, did you see me steal it?"

"Surveillance captured it, and there were witnesses at the scene." Shang Chu said.

"Why did I steal it?" The little gangster didn't look at Shang Chu at all, "Isn't this shared? Doesn't sharing mean that everyone can use it?"

"Then why don't you take the normal way to scan the code," Shang Chu said, "What do you do for picking the lock?"

"I can't get it out," the little gangster snorted, and then glanced at Shang Chu with obscene eyes, "Little police officer, you look small enough, how old is it? I think your waist is thin enough. , what kind of policeman are you with your looks and figure, what a pity..."

Shang Chu frowned displeasedly, and asked sharply, "Do you know that stealing a car is illegal?"

"I don't know!" The little gangster shrugged, "I didn't graduate from elementary school, how could I know this, by the way, little police officer, leave a WeChat account, let's make friends, I like you when I look at you, my heart is pounding Here!"

He babbled, Shangchu formally ran out of patience, and said with a cold face: "Your behavior has already broken the law."

As soon as the mood rises, the smell of Omega pheromones unconsciously radiates a little, but in fact it is only a very faint smell. Because Shang Chu has been taking medicine all the year round, he has already had problems with his physique, and his own pheromones are so weak that they can be ignored, but The little gangster happened to be in the susceptible period, and he was very close to Shang Chu. His eyes lit up when he smelled the smell, and he deliberately put his lower body on Shang Chu's body: "Little police officer, why are you an Omega? Then tell me earlier! I promise Obediently listen to your words... You said you are such a sweet Omega, my brother loves you the most..."

"Damn you," Shang Chu's forehead twitched, he knelt down on his lower abdomen, grabbed his wrist and broke it with his backhand, and said coldly, "You're looking for death."

"The police beat someone!" The little gangster yelled while screaming in pain, "The police beat someone! Hurry up and take a picture and post it on the Internet! A policeman is going to kill someone!"

Hearing him yelling, Shang Chu was impatient for a moment, and kicked his knee: "Shut up!"

"Let go!" Seeing this, Xu Long hurried up to hold Shang Chu, and whispered in his ear, "Hurry up!"

The little gangster looked at Shang Chu with provocative eyes, sticking out his tongue obscenely in a licking gesture, Shangchu tightened his five fingers, and the little gangster yelled louder, people gradually looked towards him on the street, Xu Long again Said: "Xiao Shang, let go quickly!"

Shang Chu knew the seriousness, and let go of the gangster who stole the car with a cold snort. Xu Long waved his hand, and the two policemen who were waiting followed him, pressing him into the police car.

"No matter what you do," Xu Long heaved a sigh of relief, and reprimanded Shang Chu, "you can't do anything to him."

Shang Chu was still somewhat unconvinced: "He is a suspect."

"Didn't the chief police officer teach you that the use of force must be controlled to the extent necessary," Xu Long emphasized the word "necessary", "was it necessary just now?"

Shang Chu pursed his lips and remained silent.

This was too different from what he had imagined. It was just a petty thief who was caught stealing a bicycle on the spot. Why did he have to use them to solve it himself?

This is not the case he wants to handle, not the front line he wants to be on the front line, what he wants to face is not a thief who can only glib, or a scene where he has to be cautious when making every move in full view.

No matter how many such cases are handled, what value can they have?

What will he say when he returns to the first police report two months later?Said he caught an idiot who pried shared bicycles in the street?He was almost shot by the crowd and posted on the Internet for beating the suspect?Then what?Then others will say that they thought Shang Chu, this forceful bastard, was really going to do something big when he went to Xinyang, so that’s what he did. He deserves to be "the only Omega in the police academy over the years". It's really ambitious, no wonder so Awesome.

Even he himself thought it was a big joke.

"Aren't you convinced?" Seeing that he was silent all the time, Xu Long knew that he was upset, so he said with a straight face, "Are you not convinced?"

Shang Chu replied blankly: "Yes."

"You're quite straightforward," Xu Long laughed, and asked again, "Why are you unconvinced, tell me."

"I......"

Shangchu's lips murmured, and he got stuck just as he uttered a syllable.

What can he say?

Said that he felt that he was overqualified for coming to such a trivial scene?

Hold!How do you say this?

Shang Chu closed his eyes forcefully, and then took a deep breath.

He knew that something was wrong with him, that he had a bad mentality, and he knew that he needed to adjust urgently, but he didn't have time, he was very anxious, and he urgently needed to prove himself.

Bai Aize is too bright, he can't accept himself who is gloomy and lifeless beside Bai Aize, so after leaving Bai Aize, he tries his best to shine, he wants to wear off all the rust, he wants others to see how sharp he is, he still That radiant sword.

He wanted that self back so much, he wanted Bai Aize to see that self too much.

"Can't tell, can you?" Xu Long looked at Shang Chu, sighed and said, "If you can't tell, go back and write a review for me! Two thousand words!"

Shang Chu didn't speak.

"Did you hear that!" Xu Long roared.

"I heard." Shang Chu replied.

On the way back to the Municipal Bureau, Xu Long answered a phone call, hung up and stopped the police car by the side of the road, and said to Shang Chu: "The bureau received a report. In Lane [-], Shanglong Street, there was an old man whose cat climbed a tree and couldn't get down. Yes, you go."

"Cats can't come down the tree?" Shang Chu seemed to have heard some joke, "Is this going too?"

"What? You can't handle it alone, right? Do you need to send an armed team to you?" Xu Long said.

"No, this kind of why..."

Just as Shang Chu wanted to refute, Xu Long lowered his face and asked, "This is an order, do you want to go? If you don't go, I'll transfer someone else."

In addition to catching the shared bicycle thief, there is another item in the report to save the cat.

Shang Chu thought to himself mockingly, opened the car door and jumped out: "I'll go."

"Hurry up!" Xu Long said to him while sitting in the car, "Come back within an hour, points will be deducted for overtime."

Shang Chu frowned: "Where did this rule come from..."

"The timer has started." Xu Long glanced at the phone, "Eight seconds have passed."

"Hold!"

Shang Chu cursed in a low voice, turned around and ran away.

"Little bunny!"

Xu Long smiled at his back, and said, "Drive."

"Brother," said Xiao Li, the policeman in the front seat, "he is a top student of the chief police officer. I have read his file, and his grades are top-notch. He is going to work on big cases in the future, so you send him to do this? No wonder he The child is not convinced, I am not worth it for him."

"You know fart," Xu Long kicked on the back of the chair, "This kid is too hostile, he can't help it."

"Arrogance?" Xiao Li asked suspiciously, "I didn't see it, isn't this quite aggressive?"

Xu Long touched a piece of Hongtashan, held it in his mouth, and said while lighting the fire: "It's not the same, you can tell by looking at his eyes, and Captain Xie also meant the same thing. You can only see it when you throw it out to frustrate the fierce energy in him." What kind of material is inside, whether it is good or bad is not certain."

Xiao Li didn't understand: "How could it be bad? This is a top student from the chief police officer! Besides, with Captain Xie and you leading him, can he still turn bad?"

"It's up to him," Xu Long blew out a puff of white smoke, "Whether the seedling is a good seedling, whether it grows in the sky or burrows into the ground, it's all up to him."

Xiao Li still didn't understand, scratched his head and said: "By the way, someone from the capital will come to handle the handover next week, why don't you give Xiao Shang a try?"

Xu Long thought about it, it seems that there is such a thing, Xicheng said that he would come to hand over the human trafficking case seven or eight years ago, it is not impossible for Shang Chu to deal with such a small matter.

By the way, the suspect seemed to have confessed that he was not the first offender. He had sold Omega 20 years ago, but it was too long, and he had forgotten the details. He only said that he sold it to a man named Shang. .

Surname Shang?Shang Chu is also surnamed Shang, and also from Xinyang. Is it such a coincidence?

The acuity honed by a criminal policeman for many years moved Xu Long, and asked Xiao Li, "What is Shang Chu's father's name?"

"Ah?" Xiao Li muttered, "How do I know that, who would remember the name of an intern's father..."

"Then what's his mother's name?" Xu Long asked again.

"Brother, don't embarrass me!" Xiao Li begged for mercy, "But I remember that his mother died a long time ago, and it has been many years."

Xu Long pondered for a moment, and felt that he might be overthinking, how could such a coincidence happen.

"It's alright, alright, I'll take a nap and call me." He waved his hand at Xiao Li.

When the police car drove through the Hongfu intersection, it almost ran into a man who ran a red light. Shang Lijun got up from the ground cursing, spit on the car's buttocks, and walked into the alley step by step with his slippers on.

He touched his trouser pocket to make sure that the note with the address was still there.He went out to inquire about some things just now, and asked for an address. He pressed his pocket tightly, for fear that the note would fall out, as if he was clutching some great treasure.

He knew he was dying, and he had to use this last moment to do something for his son.

Shang Lijun staggered into the rental house, climbed up the steps with difficulty while holding on to the railing, and found a man standing at the door of the house when he went up the stairs. There was no light in the corridor, and his face could not be seen.

He thought it was Shang Chu who came, and said with a happy smile: "I didn't say anything when I came, I didn't even know you were here, so go into the house quickly, go in..."

"Brother Jun, it's really you!"

When a man's voice came, Shang Lijun was taken aback: "Who are you?"

"I heard people say that someone lives in this house. I wondered who it was, but I didn't expect it to be you!"

The man slowly descended two steps. Shang Lijun looked up. From his angle, he could just see a black birthmark under the man's ear.