Lan Yu felt that the next thing would not go well, so she couldn't help holding her breath.

Officer Liu wiped away the tears from the frame, his voice trembling slightly: "On July 24 last year, there were still two months before our reunion. I had a week's vacation, and I couldn't wait to get on the starship delivering supplies. Go to the main star and meet him."

The huge starship slowly landed on the military landing pad of Star Sasu. Liu Zhao carried his simple luggage and waited at the exit port early.

"Officer Liu, you're so active, the starship hasn't stopped yet." A starship soldier who was familiar with him greeted with a smile.

Liu Zhao explained kindly: "I haven't been back to the main star for a long time, so I'm a little excited."

"Understood, understood." The starship soldier winked at him again, "Do you need me to introduce you to some bars? The omega and beta there are very exciting."

This starship soldier often handed over with Liu Zhao when transporting supplies or prisoners, so he was familiar with him, knowing that he was very soft-tempered, so he made a joke.

Liu Zhao waved his hands repeatedly and said, "No need, no need, I'm not interested in these things."

The starship trooper laughed.

After the starship came to a complete stop, the cabin door opened, and the long gangway dropped to the ground. Liu Zhao was the first to step out of the cabin, trot down the gangway, and board the ferry.

It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and the shipyard was very remote, so he managed to call a taxi at the terminal.As a result, the car hadn't come to a complete stop when a person who rushed out from the slanting stab opened the door first.

If it was normal, Liu Zhao would never fight for it, and would wait patiently for the next one.But not today, every minute and every second before seeing Xu was so long and unbearable.

He couldn't wait any longer.

Liu Zhao blocked the door of the car, preventing the man from getting into the car, and said, "This is the car I called, you can call another one yourself."

The man looked Liu Zhao from head to toe.

He didn't wear a police uniform today, just a very ordinary overcoat. The style was outdated and old-fashioned, but he ironed it straight, and the few small hairballs worn out on the cuffs were also carefully cut off before departure.

Leather shoes are the kind of leather shoes that middle-aged men love most. They have no special features. They are popular brands. Although there are a few wrinkles on the leather surface, they are very shiny.

The man glared at Liu Zhao fiercely, trying to scare the ordinary man away, but he was not afraid, and there was even a kind smile on his chubby face.

"Unlucky..." The man muttered, his hands left the car door, and he took two steps back.

Liu Zhao got into the taxi and closed the door.

"No. 12, Changda Street, Luya District, next to the Black Crow Bar." He couldn't wait to read the place name that he had memorized in his heart.

This is Xu's rented place in Sasu Xing. He found a job in a nearby bar and waited for Liu Zhao's term of office to end.

The taxi was heading towards the destination, and Liu Zhao sat in the car, looking forward to and excited.Today Xu is working on day shift, and he is already at home, probably sitting on that old single sofa, drinking beer and watching today's news program.

He touched his pocket, found the hard room card, and held it in his hand.

He will quietly open the door, then stand at the door and look at his lover with a smile.So when Xu saw him for the first time, his face must have been in disbelief, and then he laughed.

——Like smiling like usual, the eyes start to bend from the end of the eyes, full of surprises.

Looking at the neon lights on the street outside the window, Liu Zhao couldn't help laughing.

"Sir, are you going to meet your omega? You are smiling so happily." The taxi driver looked at him from the rearview mirror and asked.

Although Liu Zhao is no longer young, the longing and joy on his face can be seen by countless drivers at a glance.

Liu Zhao wanted to say that it was his alpha lover, but felt that there was no need to explain so clearly, so he nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, go see my lover."

The taxi drove into Luya District, then entered a relatively narrow street, and stopped by the side of the road.

The driver turned around and asked: "Sir, we have arrived at Changda Street, and No. 12 is inside, but the road is too narrow, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to turn around later after driving in, or you can get off here and walk for a few minutes ?”

Liu Zhao agreed very well, paid the money and got out of the taxi.

In front is the place where Xu works, the Black Crow Bar, and the house he rents is also next to the bar.

When Liu Zhao passed the bar, he saw two security guards in black suits at the door. Someone was pushing the door in and out, and the loud music wafted out.

Xu worked as a cleaner in the bar. Liu Zhao thought it was too messy and asked him not to do it or change jobs, but Xu refused.

"We need money. We need to go to Zha Yaxing to buy boats and wooden houses. Your salary alone is not enough. I need to save more. The wages paid by the bar are high, and ordinary people are not my opponents at all. They should be afraid of me." That's right, don't worry about it." Xu comforted him.

Liu Zhao looked sideways at the bar and continued to walk forward, almost colliding with a person oncoming.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He hastily apologized and took a step back.

The person who collided with him did not make a sound, and continued to move forward without looking back.Liu Zhao went to pick up the luggage that had slipped on the ground, and subconsciously glanced at the man when he looked up.

It was a tall and thin man, wearing an off-white trench coat, with perfect body proportions.

When he passed the Black Crow Bar, he turned his head slightly to look there, and Liu Zhao saw his profile, with a high nose bridge, casting a shadow on half of his face.

Although I can't see the specific appearance, but based on this blurred outline, it can be seen that this person looks very good.

This was just a small episode, Liu Zhao didn't care, the small building that Xu rented had appeared in front of his eyes, and his heart started beating, full of anticipation and excitement.

He ran a few steps, arrived at the small downstairs, and walked lightly up the old iron escalator next to him to the second floor.

The second floor is a passage with single suites on both sides. Liu Zhao couldn't suppress the smile on his face, and stopped at the door of Xu's room.

He changed the luggage and took out the room card from his pocket. Before he put the identifier on, the door creaked slightly and opened a crack.

The sweet voice of the female news anchor came out from the crack of the door. Liu Zhao shook his head helplessly and put the room card away.

Xu was still so careless, living in an unsafe place like Changda Street, he even forgot to lock the door.

He gently opened the door, and everything in the small room was clear at a glance.

On the left side of the room is a three-dimensional projection, playing today's Sasu main city news, and the female anchor is explaining a car accident behind the scene.

The sofa in front of the projection is empty, and there is a cup of hot tea on the coffee table in front of it, with white smoke still curling up.

On the floor between the sofa and the coffee table, there was a person lying face down.

Liu Zhao's luggage fell on the ground, he rushed over quickly, turned the man over, and Xu's bloodless face appeared in front of him.

"Xu, Xu, what's wrong with you?" Liu Zhao patted his face lightly with his hands, his voice trembling with fear.

His gaze swept across the floor where Xu was lying on his stomach just now, there was a puddle of thick blood there, shockingly red.

Liu Zhao's gaze moved down slowly, and he saw a peanut-sized bullet hole in the heart of Xu's left chest.

The gun hole was still oozing blood, and the surrounding clothes had been soaked, a dazzling blood color.

At that moment, Liu Zhao felt his whole body was icy cold, as if he had fallen into an extremely cold ice cave, and his heart stopped beating, covered with thick hoarfrost.

"Xu, Xu..." He trembled incoherently, and then dialed the terminal on his wrist. His hand shook several times but he couldn't press it correctly. Finally, he used voice recognition.

"No. 12, Changda Street, Luya District, someone has been shot... No. 12, Changda Street, Luya District, please hurry up, someone has been shot..."

"Liu Zhao..." An inaudible voice sounded, and Xu slightly opened his eyes.

"Hey, I'm here, Xu, I'm here." Liu Zhao pressed the hole of the gun with his hand, trying to prevent the dazzling red from leaking out, and comforted him with a trembling voice, "Don't be afraid, the ambulance and emergency personnel It's coming soon, don't be afraid."

"Liu Zhao..." Xu murmured while staring at the void with absent-minded eyes.

Liu Zhao leaned down, put his mouth close to Xu's ear, and said hastily, "Xu, I'm here, I'm here, I'll be by your side."

Xu has entered the confusion of excessive blood loss, and only repeats Liu Zhao in a barely audible voice.

"Stop talking, stop talking, I'm here." Liu Zhao's face was as pale as Xu's.

He stretched out his hand in the air convulsively, but as soon as Liu Zhao grasped it, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and said something vaguely in his mouth. Liu Zhao could only hear the words "prison" and "Lonte Starman".

Xu exhausted all his strength to spit out words intermittently, blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and his words were blurred.

Liu Zhao reached out to wipe the blood around his mouth, but wiped more and more in vain, so he could only cry: "I know, I know, don't talk..."

Xu's voice became smaller and smaller, and only his lips were still slightly fluttering.Finally, his eyes completely lost their brilliance, and he stared blankly at the front.

"Xu, Xu..." Liu Zhao murmured, burying his head on his neck, the skin touched by his cheek was still warm, and it still carried his familiar smell.

He hugged Xu without moving, and just knelt on the floor like that.After an unknown amount of time, the sound of an ambulance came from my ears, footsteps came from the stairs, and someone was talking beside me.

"Sir, please cooperate with our investigation. Who is the deceased? What happened here just now..."

"July 24th, less than two months before my reunion with him." Liu Zhao put the photo frame back in the drawer and closed it slowly.

There was silence in the small prison guard's dormitory. Lan Yu and Lu Rankong were silent after listening to his narration.

After a long time, Liu Zhao continued with a hoarse voice: "As for Wan Xu's funeral, I thought over what he said many times, and came to the conclusion that there was a Longte star in the prison, and that Longte star killed him. "

"I know the idea is absurd, and no one would believe it, but I couldn't find anything else, so I renewed my contract with the prison. I'm going to stay here and find the man."

"I collect information about the Longte star everywhere, whether it is true or false, I collect all of them and analyze them. So after I saw the painting in your cell, I knew it was Qichu star, but that The three-legged gull is not. I have been keeping an eye on everyone in the prison, looking for suspicious ones, and conducting investigations, but I haven't been able to find that person yet."

He paused, then turned his head and asked again: "I told this experience, can it prove that I am not a Longte star?"

Lan Yu met his painful red eyes, and knew that everything he said was true.If all these deep sorrows were staged, then I really have been the film king for so long in vain.

He glanced at Lu Rankong, and replied: "I believe, you are definitely not a Longte star."

Lu Rankong didn't make a sound, obviously agreeing with his statement.

"July 24 last year, more than half a year from now. In other words, the Longte star who killed Xu was in prison half a year ago." Lu Rankong whispered: "He didn't open it half a year ago. It came from the interstellar passage."

Seeing that Liu Zhao had calmed down a bit, Lan Yu asked cautiously, "Then you didn't report this to your superiors later?"

Liu Zhao wiped his face, and said: "I know that the matter of Longte star is very important, and Xu also said that he is in prison, so he dared not report to anyone in the prison, so he wrote a sealed letter and sent it directly through the channel where he was informed. It was given to the upper echelons of the military.”

"That……"

"I didn't receive any reply, and the sealed letter was like a stone sinking in the sea." Liu Zhao looked down at the drawer in front of him, and said lightly, "That's right, how can a few words on the right track make the military think that he has encountered the legendary The Longte Starman? So I simply searched for it myself, trying to find out that Longte Starman."

He turned his head to look at Lan Yu, and said in a hoarse voice: "Unexpectedly, the military department really sent someone here, unexpectedly..."

Lan Yu knew that this was because the interstellar channel was opened at the back, and the military department began to pay attention to it. He said: "We came this time because the military department received a report saying that the Longte star was found in the No. A mine. Blood, according to calculations, the time is April NO.13, do you have any impression of this matter?"

"April [-]th, April [-]th..." Liu Zhao frowned, lost in memory.

There was a rumbling sound in the sky, interrupting Liu Zhao's memory. There was a bright light outside the window, and the three couldn't help but looked out of the window together.

A huge starship slowly passed overhead, and the black metal belly of the ship could be seen shining brightly. It was a thick layer of ice formed on the surface when traveling through space.

The starship skimmed over the prison, illuminating the place below as if it were daytime, and it also illuminated the prison guard office building tens of meters away.

There was no one working there at night, and the whole building was not lit, only the windows were open and the glass was shining.

The rumbling sound gradually faded away, and the starship slowly flew to the landing pad not far away, and landed.

Lu Rankong looked at the office building opposite, took a few steps back, and said, "Don't stand next to the windows."

Lan Yu knew it was out of caution, so he and Liu Zhao also took a step back, and even closed the curtains.

"The starship to welcome the supplies is here." Liu Zhao explained to the two: "After the starship has delivered the supplies, it will leave later, and the next time it will come is a month later."

"I'm leaving later." Lan Yu sighed subconsciously, then turned to look at Liu Zhao.

Liu Zhao was also looking at him, and after meeting his eyes, he immediately moved away.

Lan Yu felt a little surprised, whether it was now or usual, Liu Zhao would always look at her intentionally or unconsciously, and sometimes would say a few words on purpose.

"Officer Liu, do you know me?" He asked suddenly.

Liu Zhao was stunned for a moment, then replied, "Colonel K, I don't know you."

"Then you..." Lan Yu didn't finish the rest of the sentence, but Liu Zhao reacted instantly and understood what he meant.

After a moment of silence, he spoke with some difficulty, as if choosing his words carefully, "Didn't I bump into someone when I passed the Black Crow Bar the night Xu was killed?"

"Hmm..." Lan Yu remembered the passage he narrated. Between the Black Crow Bar and Xu's residence, he almost bumped into a man in a windbreaker.

"When I saw Xu, he had just been shot, no more than 5 minutes at most. And along the way, except for the man in the windbreaker I hit, I didn't meet anyone else."

Lan Yu had a vague bad feeling about what he said next.

Sure enough, Liu Zhao glanced at him and said hesitantly, "When you first arrived at the prison, I noticed that your back and profile are very similar to that person."

Lu Rankong couldn't help asking: "Didn't you say that you didn't see that person's face clearly?"

"Yeah, because I didn't pay attention to it at the time, so it was very difficult to find that person later. I couldn't describe his appearance at all. Later, I found an acquaintance to adjust the monitoring. Many of the monitoring in that section were broken. The only thing left In the next paragraph, I can’t see the face clearly with my head down. It’s just that the moment I saw K, I felt that he should be very similar to that person.” Liu Zhao said.

He saw that although Lan Yu had no expression, Lu Rankong's face was faintly ugly, so he added: "But the moment I saw Xu Zhong shot, my mind was empty, and I didn't bother to look at the nearby No one else, even the building was forgotten to search. If the murderer is hiding somewhere, maybe he will leave afterward.”

Officer Liu lowered his head remorsefully, raised his eyes after a while, and asked hopefully: "Colonel K, was it you who met that night? Were you on Sasu Star at that time? If so, did you have any questions at that time?" Discover?"

In July last year, Lan Yu didn't wear it at all, so he couldn't say whether he was there or not, he just said vaguely: "I don't remember..."

"Indeed, what happened last year, even if you were the one who met at that time, you probably passed by, and it's normal if you don't remember." Liu Zhao smiled wryly, and his voice sounded very low.

In an instant, he cheered up again, and continued with the original topic: "Let me think about what I was doing on April [-]th."

After speaking, he opened the terminal in his hand and checked the memo inside.

"There will be a prison meeting on March 28th... On March [-]th, a colleague asked for leave, and I will take over...On April [-]th, the prison will start studying..." Liu Zhao quickly swipe up the virtual screen, muttering road.

"April [-]th, April [-]th, I should be on vacation that day." He walked to the desk in front of the window and flipped through the work arrangement booklet, "I'll see what's going on that day."

After pulling out the work arrangement booklet, he began to look at the window, and the shadow fell on the curtain.

Lu Rankong was about to remind him to retreat to the window when he heard a gunshot outside.The glass of the window shattered at the same time, and the curtains fluttered slightly.

The moment Lu Rankong heard the gunshot, he rushed to the window, squatted behind the wall and raised the corner of the curtain to look out, and Liu Zhao also squatted down.

After waiting for a few seconds, the gunfire stopped, and Lu Rankong asked, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay..." Lan Yu also squatted down and rushed to the other side of the window to look out.

"Where's Officer Liu?" Lu Rankong asked.

Liu Zhao didn't reply.

Lan Yu turned around quickly and saw Liu Zhao was kneeling on the ground, slowly spreading his hands covering his chest.

The palm was blood-red, and on the clothes on the chest, there was a mass of dark marks spreading rapidly.

Then, he slowly fell to the ground.

In a flutter of consciousness, Liu Zhao felt that he had stepped on a cramped iron escalator. He carried his luggage and looked around while walking, and stopped in front of a door.

Mottled paint on the door, a scratch on the handle, everything looks familiar.

He found that the door was not closed, revealing the sweet voice of the female news anchor, and the soft knocking sound of the teacup when it fell on the coffee table.

He was a little out of breath, and pushed the door open with trembling hands.

The floor lamp emits orange light in the corner, and the whole room is bright and warm.

There was a person sitting on the old sofa. When he turned his head and looked at him for the first time, his face was full of disbelief at first, and then he laughed.

——The eyes are curved from the end of the eyes, full of surprises.

"thread……"

Liu Zhao's face was pressed against the cold floor, revealing a faint smile.

The author has something to say: Liu Zhao will not die.

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