Time-Limited Hunt

Residents watching through the rain in the distance exclaimed, watching the murderer who took the hostages leap from the roof of the building.That "boom" was her last heartbeat, as if she was responding powerfully to the world.Although only for a short second.

The live broadcast has ended.

The number of messages on Liu Chen's homepage is increasing crazily.The clicking sound is like raindrops, gathering into waves of layers, covering the entire area.

The scene was a bit chaotic, and when the action team rescued Liu Chen, they found that Chen Xiulian was tied up.They looked down from the roof and saw Chen Xiulian stuck outside the falling body carrying equipment.The personnel ambushing near the residential building rushed out, checked Chen Xiulian, and finally told Jiang Lian with a communicator: "The target is dead."

The rain wrinkled the world outside the car window. Yan Junxun opened his eyes and looked at the gray parking area.He heard Jiang Lian answer "deal with the scene", but his thoughts seemed to fall into the sewer, and the dirty swill flowed deep, and finally became pitch black.

***

Yan Junxun sat in front of the small blackboard, this was his seat.He seems to have been sitting here since birth, both physically and consciously, existing only in front of the blackboard.

Artemis owns a garden, but there is never a sunny day here, and there is always rain outside the glass.Yan Junxun had never seen flowers, so Artemis wrote "flowers" on the blackboard and told him that there was a garden outside the glass.He got up and lay down on the glass, and for a long time, he regarded the rain as flowers.

"Are we living among the crowd?" Yan Jun asked Artemis.

"We live among the crowd all the time." Artemis replied.

"Why can't I see the others?"

"Because you don't have 'eyes' yet," Artemis turned back from the blackboard, "You won't be able to see them until you grow up. But don't be afraid of Jun Xun, you stay with them."

"What about you?" Yan Junxun turned his face to the side and pressed against the glass.He likes all kinds of touch, and the touch makes him realize that his existence is not a dream.

"I will stay with you," Artemis said, "Junxun, I will always stay with you."

"Are you my mother?"

"I'm not."

"Then who is my mother?"

"anyone."

Yan Junxun's eyes were reflected on the glass, listening to the rain quietly.It has always been very quiet here, "Quiet" seems to live here, as long as Yan Junxun is willing, he can stay with it until he falls asleep.

"Anyone can be my mother," Yan Junxun said, "Who gave birth to my body?"

Artemis does not answer, it is often silent, and silence is also its skill.It observes Yan Junxun most of the time, whether Yan Junxun is awake or asleep.Yan Junxun was used to its silence, and he no longer expected it to answer.

Yan Junxun's thinking will not stop, otherwise he will fall into blank anxiety.He longed for a companion, a companion other than Artemis, but all he had was endless rain.Artemis didn't tell him how to identify emotions, and what was surging in his heart was the unknown.

Is this protection?

maybe.

Yan Junxun avoids pain because he doesn't even know what "pain" is.His thoughts are like small bridges that are closely connected, extending to the lonely sound of rain, becoming floating boats, floating on the water beyond his control.

***

The bell woke Yan Junxun up, and he woke up frowning, only to find that Shi Shanyan had put the communicator close to his ear.

"Good morning," Shi Shanyan said bluntly, "someone is looking for you."

Yan Junxun forgot when he fell asleep, they were still in the rest area of ​​the Inspectorate.He took the communicator and connected it while propping his forehead, with a bad tone: "Who?"

"It's me," Pu Lin was overwhelmed by Yan Junxun's tone, and answered after about two seconds, "Brother Jiang asked if you left?"

"Getting ready." Yan Junxun covered his eyes with his palm.The sequelae of not sleeping well are headaches.

"Okay, then let's go. I will send you the follow-up summary of the case directly." Park Lin tidied up the papers on the desktop, thought for a while, and said, "... Thank you for your hard work."

Yan Junxun gave an "um" and hung up the phone, too lazy to be polite.He put the communicator back into his pocket, stood up, and said to Shi Shanyan, "Go back to sleep."

"Where are you going?" Shi Shanyan asked knowingly.

Yan Junxun walked out and said, "Go back wherever you love."

He came out of the rest area, and when he went down the stairs, he saw the central light screen in the lobby of the Inspectorate Bureau, on which Chen Xiulian's case was still playing.He stood on the stairs for a moment watching.

"Ah," Shi Shanyan seemed to have just remembered, and turned his body towards Yan Junxun, "The video of Chen Xiulian jumping off the building is now being sold as a resource for 20 yuan, and the girls in the investigation room are so angry that they can't eat. , Jue said that the main management system will handle it.”

Yan Junxun asked an irrelevant question: "Did Fu Chenghui not look for you?"

"Who knows," Shi Shanyan looked at him, "I rarely answer the phone."

The members of the Inspectorate below walked around, and they looked very strange amidst the sound of the news broadcast.Yan Junxun turned his head to look at Shi Shanyan, and said, "You talk through the phone."

"Did your thoughts go to me again?" Shi Shanyan pointed, "Well, why don't you guess what we talked about."

"He asked you about the lunatic, asked about my emotional changes in detail, and tried to figure out if I was with the lunatic." Yan Junxun looked away and continued downstairs.

Shi Shanyan was next to him and asked, "How do you think I answered?"

Yan Junxun didn't answer this question, he glanced at Shi Shanyan again, smiled provocatively, as if it didn't matter what Shi Shanyan answered.

This laugh was so appropriate that Shi Shanyan wanted to whistle.He admired it for a while and asked, "Are you in pain?"

"I'm not in pain," Yan Junxun replied, "This kind of emotion doesn't exist."

Shi Shanyan raised his finger and pointed to his own eyes, his eyes were deep: "It's still raining here."

The surrounding sounds mixed together and became the background board, only Shi Shanyan was different.Yan Junxun couldn't stop Shi Shanyan from approaching, it was an ethereal feeling.He felt that he was being invaded by Shi Shanyan.But the scary thing is that he doesn't know how to resist.

Shi Shanyan does not have the quality of comforting people, he never knows the true strokes of "gentleness".He just keenly captured the scattered light spots in Yan Junxun's smile, and finally pieced together a complete picture, and interpreted it against the mood table.

"Chen Xiulian makes you feel the impact more than a madman."

Yan Junxun looked away, but couldn't find anything to comfort him in his empty pocket.His heart was also a little empty, maybe he hadn't woken up yet.He can not answer this question, there is no need, he is also good at silence anyway.But his eyes drifted around, and finally replied: "It's not impact."

Maybe the lunatic really drove Chen Xiulian crazy, he made Chen Xiulian crazy with the aid of a communicator, but Yan Junxun still thinks that it was Chen Xiulian herself in the end.

She jumps, that's all.Even if it was just a last token option, she still made a decision.She belongs to herself.

She belongs to herself.

Yan Junxun turned off the sound of rain in his ears, thinking in a moment of daze.

This is life force.

***

While Jiang Lian was on the phone, Pu Lin said to Jue, "Remember our agreement."

Jue was dealing with the case, and upon hearing this, he replied, "We have to get off work first...someone called Jiang Lian."

Jiang Lian could only hang up this one first, and then pick up that one.He said to the communicator, "Hello?"

Opposite silence.

Jiang Lian leaned back a little, looked at the number on the light screen, and asked again: "Hello?"

The person on the other side swallowed his saliva hastily, as if he was ashamed to speak.He was a little excited, as if he didn't expect the phone call to work.He didn't come to chat with Jiang Lian, he just wanted to listen to the light-screen broadcast of the Inspectorate, and then he hung up.

"Who made harassing calls to the Supervision Bureau?" Pu Lin bent over and memorized the number on the light screen, "Crazy."

"Check this number." Jiang Lian wanted to not be too sensitive, but he still had a bad feeling.He put the communicator back, turned his head and saw Yan Junxun and Shi Shanyan went downstairs, and then said: "...Give Junxun some time off as well."

The author has something to say: Volume 01 ends here.

For hunting, I think it is not a criminal investigation from the beginning to the end. It does not have such a strong theoretical basis, but it is just a little attempt close to the edge.The four hunting cases were revised repeatedly during the preparation of the outline, but the final results were still quite different from what was imagined.I want to give each killer a shot, I don't want them to hide behind the intricate information, this is the basis for conceiving the book Hunting, I want to write it like this from the beginning, it doesn't matter if there is no mystery, I don't need them to remain mysterious, I want They stand in front of the camera.The background of the world and the case constitute each other, and in my opinion they are indispensable.

The next three volumes may have this tone, thank you for your support for the book.

Volume 02: Charon's Ferry