Born in the dark, Ended in the dawn

A thick stack of files was placed on the table, and the sealed bag was spotless, as if it had been well preserved.Wei Lan unpacked the packaging line with trembling hands, with some anticipation and some fear.

After experiencing grief, helplessness, and bewilderment, I have unknowingly gotten used to bearing it alone, and I have already accepted the arrangement of fate. After countless times of searching to no avail, I finally locked it firmly in my heart, no longer Look forward to it, and there will be no more pain.

The picture recorded in the photos is like a purgatory on earth, the long streets are full of broken corpses and blood, which is very similar to the tragedy caused by Lu Jing that happened not long ago, but the facts recorded in the documents are somewhat different from the imagination, Wei Lan pointed out Looking at the corpses in the photo, "Uncle Xiao, was there really only one person who did the murder? Didn't these bitten corpses get up again?"

"No." Xiao Chengan knew what Wei Lan wanted to ask, and he was very clear about the horrible incident caused by Lu Jing. The two seemed the same, but they were different.

"Those corpses that were bitten to death just died like that, and they didn't get up like those controlled by Lu Jing, and there was only one murderer at that time. She killed everyone she met on that road, and there were as many as 47 victims. , There are more than 30 people who were slightly or seriously injured, including police officers."

"The murderer is..."

Couldn't bear to see such a sad expression on that sunny face, Xiao Chengan began to question whether his son's actions were correct, would it be better if he didn't dig out the truth and let Wei Lan live forever in lies full of expectations Woolen cloth?But things have been pushed to this point, and there is no way out if they don't want to face it.Xiao Chengan nodded helplessly, "That's right, it's your mother."

I still remember that it was a midsummer afternoon, my father was still at work, and Wei Lan and her mother stuck together every day due to the idleness of the summer vacation. The gentle and introverted mother became a full-time housewife because of her poor health, and the house was always kept spotless. , The food is always so fragrant and attractive. In those days, the happiest thing is to prepare meals with my mother and wait for my father to come home from work.

Such a happy life, like a fairy tale, ended in the afternoon when the rainstorm suddenly started. The mother who was preparing dinner suddenly fell to the ground in pain. Wei Lan wanted to help her in panic, but was pushed away. The mother looked at her eyes full of struggle and depression, as if she was trying to restrain herself.

The mother rushed out of the door just like that, and the little Wei Lan chased after her desperately, but still failed to find her mother in the crowded crowd. He was sent back home by the nearby police. From that day on, that home became his home alone. place to live.

Wei Lan didn't know what was going on outside until a few days later, when he was dying of hunger and dehydration, he was picked up by an uncle in uniform. He couldn't quite understand what the uncle meant. Will you come back again?Why not come back?Because he is too disobedient?

In the end, can't even go back to that home?Wei Lan lived in a place called an orphanage. He didn't like it. The children who liked to cling to him always started to alienate after a few days. He didn't know what he did wrong. When he realized it, he found himself Has been isolated in a dark corner and ignored.

The mother is a monster, and the child is certainly not normal.

Where did you hear that sentence?It seems that several women are whispering, they are still instilling such remarks to his last little friend, so is this the reason why he is alienated?What is a monster?Why do you say that?The only remaining friend of his was the old watchdog in the guardhouse.

Bearing sarcasm, endured unfair treatment, a year of loneliness, a year of depression, a year of emptiness, a year of hesitation, year after year, his mood also changed accordingly, when he found that he suddenly began to get used to When all this happened, he smiled happily again, because no one could touch his emotions anymore, only him was left in the whole world, so who should he show his sadness to?

No one will show mercy, you can only bury all the negative emotions in your heart and force yourself to forget them. As time goes by, it seems that you really can't remember that dark place in your heart anymore.

During those gloomy days, the only thing that was remembered in my heart was the back figure who came to visit occasionally but never showed up. Who could it be?

"The person who shot Dongmei in the forehead was not Wei Chen, but me." Xiao Chengan calmly stated a shocking fact. "I have no choice but to. If I don't do this, Wei Chen won't wake up."

"I can understand, and Uncle Xiao, you don't have to blame yourself so much." The docile smile is the product of tearing the soul into two halves, one half was forcibly stripped and sealed, and the other half was exposed to the world as a disguise.Wei Lan comforted the guilty Xiao Chengan, "My mother is already dead. What you did was to protect innocent passers-by from being hurt. There is no need to be so concerned."

Xiao Chengan waved his hand, "Don't make me so noble, in the end I still made a choice I shouldn't have made."

"What choice? Did you put them..."

"I let them go. I took advantage of the chaos and asked Wei Chen to take Dongmei's body away. In order to explain myself to the bureau, I forced Wei Chen to hurt my leg." The guilt in Xiao Chengan's eyes deepened.

"I'm very confused now, whether the original choice was right or wrong. If I hadn't let Wei Chen leave, would Wei Lan be different now, have a completely different life, and at least have a relative by her side."

Another kind of life may not be better than the current one. Wei Lan never makes such meaningless imaginations or comparisons, "I have relatives, and I know that the Xiao family has always supported my life and studies, so you and Aunt Sun is my parents, and it will be the same in the future. But I really want to know, have they never contacted you since then?"

"There is no more news, as if the world has evaporated. I have tried to search secretly for many years, but there is no result."

Subconsciously flicking through the documents in his hand, Wei Lan's attention was drawn to the inscription at the bottom of a page of the form. He pulled out the form, read the contents of the form carefully, it was the certificate and declaration document for him to enter the Ningcheng Orphanage, and signed The person turned out to be Guo Wen? "Uncle Xiao, were all my related matters handled by this person named Guo Wen?"

"Yes, after that incident, I also used my leg injury as an excuse to resign, and secretly brought out these materials." Xiao Chengan touched the signature at the signing office, feeling a lot, "At that time, the person we trusted the most was Guo Wen, he didn't directly participate in that matter, and won't be so closely watched by the upper echelon, so he can only be entrusted to handle your arrangements."

Where did those disgusting faces in memory come from?If the mother was dead when that happened, when did she first die?The people in the orphanage would have such an attitude towards themselves, maybe they knew something?Will Lao Guo's death be related to this?

"Brother Xiao, can you take a day off tomorrow? I want to go to the orphanage."

"I'll accompany you."

When Sun Xueling opened the door with joy, she was met with an inexplicably heavy atmosphere, "What did you say when I was away? Why are you so stern? Did you two bully Wei Lan?"

Xiao Chengan seemingly inadvertently put away the documents on the table and pushed them towards Wei Lan, "What are you talking about, Wei Lan is such a good boy, who would be willing to bully him. I have some summaries of old cases from the early years in my hand. If they are interested, please give them Look, I'm old, and it's a waste to hold it."

"Then how can you make the atmosphere so serious? It's scary." Sun Xueling carried the lively shrimp into the kitchen, "It's a bit late, come and help, I have to stew the ribs quickly."

At the same time, Liu Anke's life was not so pleasant. The long-term suspension and vacation made him extremely irritable, and he was threatened by Xu Xin one after another. Yesterday, he finally went to Xiao Zixian's house and pissed on Wei Lan. I'm angry, I'm not happy enough, Xu Xin, the bastard, knocked on the door in the middle of the night to ask the teacher, and he hasn't left yet.

Liu An angrily sat down at the dining table with two bowls of instant noodles, and stopped Xu Xin impatiently, "Aren't you hungry? I only have this, eat it."

Xu Xin would not be swayed by such a way of chasing customers. He generously took the paper bowl and ate the noodles, and added angrily, "You should fry an egg for me and put it in the noodles."

"There's so much nonsense, I'll give you something to eat." Liu An glared at Xu Xin angrily, with a pair of delicate phoenix eyes that carried a hint of wildness, "What on earth do you want? Threats are enough, right? Now They already know what I did, so there is no need for me to be coerced by you, right? Why are you still here endlessly. "

"You really don't remember?" After drinking the last sip of soup, Xu Xin asked unhurriedly, "We met each other as early as the day when the snake catch operation closed the net."

that day?Didn't it start with Xu Xin's sudden appearance in the West District Forensic Medicine Laboratory later? How could he forget the shame of the day 'Snake Catch' was collected!The basement was surrounded by the police, and the dimly lit hall was in chaos. Liu An noticed a man wearing a mask moving towards the bathroom with vigilance, and he followed closely behind him with a rifle raised.

He suddenly kicked open the wooden door of the bathroom, pointing the gun at the empty sink.That person must have entered here, there is no mistake, Liu An walked cautiously towards the compartment, when he heard the door behind him being closed heavily, he had a bad premonition, bad!Careless.

The moment he was about to turn around, the people behind him were moving so fast, Liu An could only feel his whole body being tightly bound in another embrace, his wrist was tingling, and he had no strength to hold it tight anymore.

"Don't move, I won't hurt you." A carefree voice whispered in my ear, "Just lend me your clothes."

Without a chance to resist, he was firmly pressed on the cold and hard tiled floor, with a large ball of rags stuffed into his mouth, his uniform was stripped from the inside out, leaving only a pair of underwear to hide his shame, Liu An's hands were covered Tied behind his back, his joints ached from the floor tiles, he let out an angry whine.

He watched helplessly as the man changed into his uniform. The sleeves and trouser legs were all shortened a lot. The jacket and trousers that were originally very loose on him were now worn on this man, but the buttons could barely be fastened, but they were strangled. He made a funny look out of breath, for a moment, he actually forgot his fear, and burst out laughing.

And the robber was also attracted by this unexpected laughter. Would anyone laugh in such a situation?This guy lying on the ground powerless to resist is really quite interesting, don't you know what a sense of crisis is?

Xu Xin took out the passport from the tight uniform pocket, opened the certificate, and kept the name on it firmly in his heart, "Liu An? If the certificate and the gun are lost, it will be troublesome, right? I will kindly put them away. Give it back to you."

As he spoke, Xu Xin picked up the edge of Liu An's underwear, and stuffed his ID and gun against his soft buttocks into the underwear as a prank, and patted him a few times to feel the elasticity, which caused Liu An's throat to choke in satisfaction. A series of roars in the room, "Don't worry, I will find you."

Liu An came back to reality from the memory, and stared at Xu Xin's wry smile in front of him in astonishment, "That person is you?"

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This chapter can be regarded as an explanation for Xiao Anan~~