please don't believe me

"To be honest, my dear, I'm afraid you have added to the insurance premium."

In the dim room, Dai Bowen was almost lying on his back on the sofa with the remote control in one hand, his long legs crossed on the coffee table.Directly in front of him was an empty white wall, on which a projector projected images, surrounded by surround sound.

This sounds like a configuration for a private theater, but in fact, the content of a teenager's conversation is played on the screen.

"Really?" Shen Xiuyuan handed a glass of soda to Dai Bowen, and sat down beside him, "Tell me."

"Look here." Dai Bowen moved his fingers, and the video went back a few minutes, and then played again.

The teenager on the screen is of mixed race, but his facial features are more westernized.This is normal, Shen Xiuyuan himself is of mixed race, and so is his sister.And his nephew's father was from country A, which made the boy's blood in country C even thinner.

Plus he grew up in country A, he would look no different from other local kids.

He was sitting at the table next to a middle-aged woman with short blond hair and a plump figure.She is the boy's aunt and his current guardian.According to the law, when a minor is questioned, his guardian must be present.

"Matthew, did you plan this kidnapping?" Someone asked the boy outside the screen.

Matthew put his hands in his pockets, leaned back in the chair and raised his chin slightly, his face full of impatience: "Why do you always ask this kind of question? I have explained it many times."

Dai Bowen pressed the pause button.

"Avoid the point and deviate from the topic." He said something, and then continued to play.

"Listen." The young man stood up straight, put his elbows on the edge of the table, pointed his index finger at the opposite side and looked to the left casually, then turned to look at the opposite side, "I absolutely, not, organize and plan the leader This prank was conceived by everyone."

Dai Bowen paused again.

"When you stretch out your finger, it doesn't match the direction you're looking at, the negative sentence is too formal, repeat the other party's sentence, and replace 'us' with 'everyone'." Dai Bowen commented, "Simply put, he is probably lying, And subconsciously want to pick myself out."

The screen continues.

The voice-over continued to ask: "You mean, all of you discussed this plan together?"

Before the boy could speak, Dai Bowen paused the playback again.

"I didn't stop well, but you may have seen it." Dai Bowen said, "He just had a very slight pick up at the corner of his mouth, which is a sign of self-confessed victory. No one doesn't like victory, especially 15-year-old teenagers .”

Shen Xiuyuan squinted his eyes and said, "...he thinks he has tricked the police."

"One more digression." Dai Bowen raised his finger and pointed at the woman next to him, "His aunt looked away and looked down when he said these words. It means that she doesn't believe what her nephew said. It seems that in the In her eyes, Matthew's usual behavior fully bears this kind of 'accusation'."

"...It sounds really unfavorable." Shen Xiuyuan looked at the image projected on the wall, "Is there any other evidence?"

Dai Bowen turned his head to look at him, and then called up another video.The scene of this video is different, several teenagers are sitting around a long table, one of them is Shen Xiuyuan's nephew.A police officer and a worker from a child protection organization sat at the door not far away, watching the teenagers but not speaking to them.

"Supervision and protection clips. These little boys are waiting for their guardians to arrive. Only when the guardians are present can the police conduct inquiries." Shen Xiuyuan asked, "What?"

"Look carefully, the performance of these children now." Dai Bowen said, and then fast forwarded with the remote control, "Look at this again."

Shen Xiuyuan said: "...one person is missing?"

The fast-forwarding screen shows that a police officer came to call away one of the children, and his guardian probably arrived first, so he was called out for questioning alone.

Dai Bowen didn't say whether Shen Xiuyuan mentioned the important point, but just continued to fast forward: "And this."

"Matthew has gone out too." Shen Xiuyuan's gaze swept across the big screen, "What exactly do you want me to see?"

"Collective action." Dai Bowen said, "After Matthew went out, the eye contact of these little boys increased significantly, and before that, they hardly looked up—including after the last child went out."

"this means……?"

"This means that they dare not look at Matthew." Dai Bowen took a big sip of soda water, "Matthew is their 'leader'."

Dai Bowen woke up again, it was already noon.

This is Shen Xiuyuan's room, the heavy curtains block the bright sunlight, and the air conditioner quietly stabilizes the indoor temperature.Dai Bowen opened his eyes on his back, soft pillows and soft air-conditioned quilts, everything was suitable for a peaceful sleep.

However, Dai Bowen didn't plan to go back to sleep.He sat up, climbed out of bed, and moved his waist and legs.There is still a bit of soreness, but overall it's not a big problem.When I took a shower in the bathroom in the room, I could still see the green and red mark on the back from the mirror.

There is no way, it is normal for two big men to "meet each other from a thousand miles away", a little excited.Especially for Shen Xiuyuan, it seems that being pointed at the head by a gun in "Russian Roulette" still brought him some psychological fluctuations.

After Dai Bowen took a shower, he found the suitcase in the room and opened it to find a change of clothes.Shen Xiuyuan had already carried all his things into his room, it seemed that the man didn't intend to let him go back to the guest room for the next two days.

After tidying himself up, Dai Bowen walked out of the room and went downstairs.

The TV in the living room was playing the news, but there was no one on the sofa in front.Dai Bowen looked into the dining room, and Shen Xiuyuan, who was sitting at the dining table, was already looking at him leisurely: "Are you awake? Are you hungry?"

The man seemed to have expected his arrival a long time ago, and placed a set of clean tableware opposite him.

"Why do we have to use this kind of dialogue instead of 'good morning'?" Dai Bowen laughed, walked to sit opposite Shen Xiuyuan, took a piece of toast, dipped in the soup, "You don't have to go to work?"

"Work at home for two days." Shen Xiuyuan stood up, "Coffee or tea?"

"Coffee, thanks."

Shen Xiuyuan turned around and walked to the desk, and stood in front of the coffee machine.The machine had been running all morning, and the coffee ground from the beans was more than enough to fill a cup.Shen Xiuyuan put the full coffee cup on the saucer and put some sugar on the side before handing it to Dai Bowen.

Dai Bowen took a sip slowly, then poked a few mouthfuls of salad with a fork, crunching in his mouth.

"I have already told Lin Tong the result of your judgment on those videos." Shen Xiuyuan sat back in his seat.

Dai Bowen still stuffed his mouth with lettuce leaves: "Huh?"

"Howling, helpless, but at least I have resigned to my fate." Shen Xiuyuan described Lin Tong's reaction, propped his chin and smiled, "She said, since it was her idol who made the conclusion, there is nothing I can do. At least I can do something about it first." Get ready."

Dai Bowen wiped his mouth with a tissue: "Sensible girl, as smart as ever."

Shen Xiuyuan gave Dai Bowen a slice of toasted bread as a side dish according to his own taste, and put it on his dinner plate: "Are you so confident that the polygraph agency will get the same result as you?"

"If they are a truly professional polygraph agency, Matthew will not be able to escape their eyes. After all, your nephew's lying skills are not very good." Dai Bowen threw two cubes of sugar into the coffee, stirred it, Then he picked up the slice of bread that Shen Xiuyuan personally made, "Unless... you plan to solve this matter in another 'way'?"

He made a "money" gesture with his empty hand, intending to express "a bribe in exchange for a satisfactory result".

"It's impossible." Shen Xiuyuan smiled, "A 15-year-old child is lying, and the public can probably accept it; if a big family wants a little insurance premium, they will not hesitate to use bribery to solve the matter... unless the company under its name Want to fall to the suspension at the speed of light."

Dai Bowen swallowed the food in his mouth, raised his eyebrows and said, "I hope you can speak so righteously when you see the conclusion report of the polygraph agency."

"As long as they are indeed fair." Shen Xiuyuan pointed to the slice of bread in the other party's hand, "How?"

"Good taste." Dai Bowen swallowed the bread and side dishes and licked his fingers. This was the highest compliment to Shen Xiuyuan.After wiping his hands, Dai Bowen picked up the coffee cup and took a sip slowly: "A child at the age of two or three can tell a lie casually, and at the age of five or six, he can perfect it. When a person reaches the age of ten, He has been able to make up a 'perfect' story without changing his face." Dai Bowen said with a nostalgic smile, "You'd better not underestimate those lie detector agencies, they are stricter than you imagined. Rigid and meticulous, and I just understand, the strength is not there."

"This humble tone... sounds like there is a story in it?"

"Wow, what's going on? Could it be that we met this time to introduce our past to each other?"

"As a man, I respect your right to keep all secrets." Shen Xiuyuan smiled, "But as a boyfriend, I have to be frank... I want to know everything about you."

The end of his words was slow and low, indescribably sexy.

"You talk like that, it's hard for me to resist." Dai Bowen sighed softly, pulling the corners of his mouth helplessly, "Well, if you insist..."

"Don't worry." Shen Xiuyuan interrupted him, "Finish the meal first, then speak slowly."

Dai Bowen raised his eyebrows.

"Breaking news." The TV suddenly started playing a five-second special title. After the screen turned back, the anchor who was still casually introducing anecdotes from the world suddenly became very serious, "A school shooting happened again in country A!"

The two men at the dining table couldn't help but stop talking and both looked at the TV.

The TV screen has been cut from the anchor station to the campus scene.The cordon blocked people from the scene of the crime, and the voice-over explained: "According to a report from a TV station in country A, at 10:24 pm on October [-], local time, the campus of S. University in XX state suddenly Attacked by gunmen..."

The reporter was interviewing at the scene, and Shen Xiuyuan looked at the terrified witnesses and murmured, "Damn it, I really have to take Matthew away...he lives in that city!"

Oh...then you have to thank Matthew for his good habit of playing truant.The boy's face flashed across Dai Bowen's mind, but what he said was something else: "I think you should ask Lin Tong if they are all right."