32 days

Yan Fei talked about the main purpose of coming to Luo Caiyun this time: "Country A is also vigorously tracking Joker's traces."

"It should." Luo Caiyun said, this is also the reason why they released part of Joker's information to the outside world. Only when more countries pay attention can Joker, who is a top hacker, be able to escape from a dark corner of the boundless Internet. exposure.

Luo Caiyun tried to contact Joker, presumably other countries also have this kind of thinking, there were many posts in the community calling for Joker directly on the 32nd, but Joker never replied unless it was a necessary question or a request for help on the Internet. Except for showing a little bit of personal emotion to Yi Alan, he has no intention of developing friendship with others, let alone getting closer to any official representative of any country.This kind of attitude makes people feel at ease temporarily, but it can never be at ease forever, especially the astonishing power he showed in the process of rescuing Yi Alan is enough for every country to be nervous.

It is inevitable for Joker to go from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

"Their idea of ​​investigation was the global blocking of relevant keywords on the Internet on the 32nd when it first appeared on the 32nd. No matter how strict Joker was at that time, they still left clues on the Internet in a hurry. The point should be in the territory of country A, which is similar to what we found. It’s just that we can’t go any further after we found out that it’s too easy to get into diplomatic disputes if we intrude into the Internet in other countries. But the government of country A doesn’t have this concern, it must be just It's a matter of time, they should be able to pinpoint the range of locations where Joker originally issued the shield order."

Luo Caiyun picked up the document that Yan Fei brought, which showed that there are currently seven Joker suspects, four of whom are in country A, and the other three are in country B and country D respectively.Although the clues have pointed to country A, the possibility that Joker is not an individual but an organization cannot be ruled out, so other suspects who are not in country A cannot be easily ignored.

Luo Caiyun took a few glances and said: "It would be great if we could find Joker's real body before country A, but we don't have to force it. We can't be too aggressive and put many secret service personnel in crisis. Anyway, country A's search for Joker The world is paying attention, even if they find it, they can't hide the Joker quietly for their own use, they must explain to the world."

"Okay, I see."

Yan Fei thought for a while and said, "It's not a few days until the next time on the 32nd, and Yi Alan still hasn't confessed, what should I do?"

Luo Caiyun also felt a headache: "In the 32 days, let Zhou Yan'an control him first. Don't let him touch smart devices such as mobile phones and computers. Treat others gently and try to influence him."

Yan Fei nodded: "After this month's interrogation, I found that Yi Alan's willpower is terribly tenacious. Don't look at him who is usually gentle and gentle, like water, but the idea of ​​wanting to change his stubbornness is also like It’s really not an easy task to change the shape of water.”

Luo Caiyun looked at him and smiled: "Vice Minister Yan, who is well-known in our intelligence department, wants to make people talk, is there any way?"

Yan Fei also laughed: "Some methods are not suitable for citizens."

Once again, the 32nd is approaching step by step. It is the practice of various countries to target the deployment in advance and try to control the changes of the situation on the 32nd within the range that they can accept.

In the meeting hall that country A specially isolated for the 32nd, a person in charge handed over the instructions of several locations to a person on the 32nd, and said: "This is several important supercomputers and quantum computers in our country. The location, this time you mainly check to see if anyone has been active in it. By the way, remember to carry weapons with you. If there is someone, you are allowed to shoot him if you can’t communicate. If there is no one, destroy those super Computer. No matter how powerful Joker is, he’s just an ordinary person lying in front of a computer, without enough bandwidth and computing power, he can’t do much.”

Beishan City, on the evening of January 1, dozens of people including those who died on the 31nd, the physical chemistry team, and the biomedical team gathered in a brightly lit rotunda.

Compared with the past, Yi Alan is missing this time.Yi Alan was still in the interrogation room, facing Yan Fei and Chen Ruming who were staring at him.

There were only a few people on the 32nd who were recruited by the emergency team, and one less was very eye-catching, but everyone seemed to be unaware, doing their own things as if nothing had happened.

Meng Qi noticed that Zhou Yan'an was sitting there silently, only waiting for the time to come before lying on the bed, wrapping his body with the sensor equipment.He is not a lively character, but at this moment he is so dull that it makes people jump in fear.

As for Xiao Hao, he couldn't restrain his unnatural nervousness.Perhaps it was because he was used to being cautious in the agency, and in his heart he had already made all kinds of extremely terrible conjectures about Yi Alan's disappearance, but he just tried his best not to be curious and not to speak out.

Meng Qi couldn't bear this strange atmosphere, so he went straight to Luo Caiyun.

The leader of the physical chemistry team was standing in front of Luo Caiyun: "I want to know where they went and what they did on the 32nd. We need to synthesize some data to verify our guess."

Luo Caiyun asked, "What guess?"

"Before there is no certain data, I think it's better not to talk nonsense." The team leader is very strict.

Luo Caiyun pondered for a while: "How specific do you need to be?"

"It's best to keep everything in detail. If you are afraid of leaking secrets, you can arrange someone to monitor me and my assistants closely. We voluntarily give up any privacy to ensure that military secrets will not be leaked."

Luo Caiyun noticed the unprecedented seriousness in his tone: "Those things are important to your research?"

"There may be no use for it, and there may be nothing more important than that."

Luo Caiyun finally agreed: "Okay."

She looked at Meng Qi who was coming over: "What's the matter?"

Meng Qi said bluntly: "Where's Yi Alan?"

Luo Caiyun replied: "He is somewhere else."

Meng Qi looked at her without fear: "He is safe, right?"

"of course."

Meng Qidian nodded: "That's fine." He turned and left.

When Yi Alan saw Zhou Yan'an's face close to Chi Chi again, she was still in a daze. The blue sky and dense stars behind that face were almost dizzy into the flowing starry sky described by Van Gogh.

It was the cold and hard touch that regained his sobriety.

He heard a click and lowered his head, a pair of metal handcuffs had locked his hands together.

Yi Alan stared blankly at the pair of handcuffs that Zhou Yan'an had prepared long ago, and didn't know what to say for a while.

He was silent, but Zhou Yan'an had something to say.

"Yi Alan." Zhou Yan'an yelled, speaking awkwardly as if calling a strange name, he was still very close, using his body and Swift 10 to trap Yi Alan in this narrow space, unable to retreat, Can't get in.

"For the past month, everyone has been trying to find out what you are thinking and what you want to do..."

Yi Alan muttered, almost wanting to tell the truth, he couldn't stand Zhou Yan'an talking to him in such a sad tone.

But I heard Zhou Yanan say: "But most of the time I am thinking about what I am thinking and what I want to do."

Yi Alan raised her head suspiciously, and fell into the deep eyes of the other party.

"In the early years, I saw a lot of psychiatrists proactively and passively," Zhou Yanan said again on a seemingly unrelated topic, "Their treatment methods are different, but they usually talk about the same set of rhetoric, and they all told me , to find the true existence of the self, it may be selfish and xenophobic and unreasonable, instead of completely dissolving yourself in the noble and selfless concept. Only when you find my existence, can you see the insignificance of yourself in the vast world and understand the power of human beings. If you are not as good as you are, you will not get lost in grand ideals, indulge in powerless pain, and be satisfied with the small but real beauty in life. Hearing the very slight and easily covered up by the noise means being alive. pulsation.

"And only in this way can those greatness have concrete support, which is worth pursuing hard. As for the pain in the pursuit process, the sharpness of reality encountered will become tolerable, and I believe that it will always get better and better. It's getting better and better.

"I have never been able to understand the illusory concepts they said. I can only follow their advice to retire, return to live in the bustling city, and find some hobbies to experience the small joys, sorrows and joys in life, and use these small things , Let them be like a mirror to observe the existence of self. But I still don’t understand, I haven’t found a mirror, and the things I couldn’t do in the past still make me taste the pain repeatedly in nightmares.”

"I," Yi Alan finally spoke, not knowing what Zhou Yanan meant by these words, maybe he wanted to make him feel guilty, so he compromised, "I didn't make things difficult for you, what I did was actually... "

"Listen to me." Zhou Yan'an interrupted him when he was only a second away from the truth.

Yi Alan noticed that Zhou Yanan's deep eyes seemed to be bursting with flames, and it seemed that a huge iceberg was moving quietly on the sea surface, burning and calming, and it was happening at the same time.

Such complex eyes were on him all the time, searching beyond the cries and whispers that couldn't really communicate, couldn't be trusted.

Zhou Yanan said: "When I saw that you disregarded orders to send mail, the first thing I felt was betrayal—not that you betrayed the country, but...you betrayed me. This is unreasonable, isn't it? Like The psychiatrist said, that is unreasonable. You are loyal to the government, and you are only obliged to love the country. You never promised me anything, you just said you like me, but what is it? And in the end No matter what you do, it is your own path, even if you break the law, be punished by the law or escape, that is what you understand and choose. But, what about me? "

Yi Alan trembled, trembling because of the emotion he didn't understand but vaguely expected, he was afraid and looking forward to it.He was almost dying.

Zhou Yan'an's voice became dull and hoarse because of carrying too much burden: "What about me? I really feel my selfishness and desire. I am not just walking on a different path suddenly for the sake of my fellow travelers. And the disappointment and heartache, not just condemning your actions as a soldier. So I kept thinking, what else, what the hell am I thinking, what am I wanting."

Yi Alan opened her mouth with difficulty, pulling her voice out of her vocal chords like pulling out blood from her body: "Then, have you thought it through?"

Zhou Yan'an answered him truthfully: "I think it through, I am, I am hating you. I hate you for clearly saying that you like me, but you run counter to me. I seem to be afraid too, afraid that you have said that you have courage because of me." Climbing out of the collapsed ground is all fake, it's all a cover of conspiracy, I'm afraid you don't like me. I seem to want to get more likes from you. I want you, love me."

"Why?" Yi Alan looked at Zhou Yan'an with blurred eyes, "Because you love me too?"

"Yes, because I love you too." Zhou Yan'an didn't see Yi Alan bursting into tears, because he also couldn't restrain the surging tears, "You are my mirror, in you, I finally see clearly own."