mask personality

It was evening, and although the rain had stopped outside, the twilight was still deep.

The incandescent lamp hangs high, and half of Ji Lin's face near the window is hidden in the night, while the other half of his face is perfectly outlined by the light, and his half-lit and half-dark face is faintly revealed in the smog, which can be called tenderness the taste of.

It can be heard that Dong looks at the extinguishing fire at his fingertips, but what he thinks of is the decisiveness when Ji Lin hit the burning cigarette butt on his bare wrist in that tube building before.

At that time, Wen Dong was only stunned for a moment, and then he reacted immediately. It was extremely rare for him to throw away his usual decency and politeness, raised his hand and clenched his fist and smashed the car window glass hard, while shouting at Ji Lin, but Ji Lin even He didn't look back at him, and the movements in his hands didn't stop.

He only took a sip of Ji Lin's cigarette, and the rest of it was burned to his wrist by him again and again.

Just looking at it like this, Wen Dong seemed to feel the tingling sensation of his skin being burned, but Ji Lin stretched his brows from the beginning to the end, as if he didn't feel the slightest pain.

Due to the limited viewing angle, Wen Dong couldn't see Ji Lin's downcast eyes, but for a moment, Wen Dong inexplicably felt that Ji Lin's eyes were probably joyful and enjoying.

Suddenly returning to his senses, Wen Dong's eyes subconsciously shifted slowly from Ji Lin's face, and finally fixed on his left wrist casually hanging by his side.

It was covered by the sleeves of the white shirt at this time, and nothing could be seen.

The fabric of the shirt is still straight, and no one knows what kind of terrible scars are hidden underneath.

The thin lips moved slightly, and Wen Dong was about to ask "Does it hurt?", but as if he knew what he was concerned about, Ji Yan suddenly turned sideways and threw the burnt cigarette butt into the trash can beside him, then turned around , he naturally changed his posture, and put his left hand into his pocket, leaving Wen Dong nowhere to search.

"Mr. Xiaowen," Ji Lin said in a gentle voice, "Actually, I really want to know, after learning that Han Yang and Han An are the murderers who killed Shen Xi, have you ever felt a moment of regret? Regret that I... didn't accept Shen Xi's pursuit?"

Shen Xi died too innocently. If he had to say that he did something wrong, then his only fault was probably that he didn't know people clearly and dated someone who shouldn't be touched at all.

The relationship between Wen Dong and Shen Xi is not pure friendship, they have another more subtle relationship, that is, Shen Xi once pursued Wen Dong, and it was before he fell in love with Han Yang.

If Wen Dong had really accepted Shen Xi's pursuit, then perhaps the story would have developed in another way.

Maybe Han Yang lost this biggest opportunity.

Maybe Shen Xi won't die.

but…

Wen Dong raised his eyes and looked at Ji Lin for two seconds. Instead of answering directly, he asked rhetorically, "Mr. Ji, if it was you, would you regret it?"

Ji Lin raised his eyebrows slightly, and after a while, he said slowly: "I'm different, I don't feel the emotion of regret very much."

Wen Dong was slightly taken aback.

Ji Lin's words sound a bit weird. After all, regretting this emotion is obviously very common for everyone.

But Wen Dong didn't have time to think deeply, his mouth almost passed his brain, and blurted out: "Really? But you just told me not long ago that you regret letting me participate in this plan."

That's what Ji Lin said when he learned that the corner of Wen Dong's lips had been touched by Han Yang.

As if he didn't expect Wen Dong to think of this immediately, or that he didn't expect Wen Dong to pick it out suddenly and bluntly, Ji Lin paused for a moment, and he lowered his eyes to Wen Dong's eyes, as if two eyes were added in an instant. Unidentified taste.

After a long while, he murmured, as if he was very straightforward, but said in an incoherent way: "Yes, I did say it, so Mr. Xiaowen, you are really a natural beauty."

Wen Dong was rarely stunned, because he found that he couldn't find the causal relationship in Ji Lin's words at all.

And Ji Lin didn't give him time to think deeply. The next second, Wen Dong heard Ji Lin smile and ask: "Mr. Xiaowen, isn't it me asking you a question?"

Wen Dong came back to his senses, only to remember that he hadn't answered Ji Lin's previous question about whether he regretted not accepting Shen Xi's pursuit at the beginning.

Thin lips pursed slightly, and after a while, Wen Dong sighed softly, and said frankly and meaningfully: "No, I haven't regretted it, because if something is destined to happen, then what we can actually control is the rhythm, not the ending .”

Ji Lin's eyes moved slightly, and he let out an "oh" with great interest, his tail raised, and he said sharply: "Mr. Xiaowen's words seem to be very philosophical, but I would like to ask what is meant by "destined to happen" "?Maybe Mr. Xiaowen knows something else, information beyond the scope of Han Yang's confession? "

The moment Ji Lin's voice fell, Wen Dong suddenly raised his eyes and looked into Ji Lin's eyes. The moment their eyes met, the ambiguity and warmth that the two had had before seemed to disappear in an instant, and only the silence remained. confrontation and confrontation.

"Mr. Ji, Mr. Xiaowen!" Tang Chu's call suddenly came from not far away, "You guys have to come over here, there seems to be something wrong with the part they explained about the mask..."

A bird suddenly startled from an unknown tree outside the window, and a strange feeling that was almost intuitive passed over the hearts of Wen Dong and Ji Lin.

Ji Lin tilted his head and said "Come here", then turned around and walked towards the interrogation room first.

Wen Dong stepped up and followed, side by side with Ji Lin, he tilted his head close to Ji Lin, his lips almost touched Ji Lin's ear, his posture seemed to be extremely ambiguous, but the words he said were completely different It means: "Mr. Ji, you are thinking too much. I am an ordinary art student, and I am not so supernatural. I can know more information than the police. What I just wanted to express is that regret is useless. Maybe you can understand it as, I'm just a big fan of fatalism."

After saying this sentence, without waiting for Ji Lin's answer, Wen Dong withdrew and strode forward.

Ji Lin's eyes fell on Wen Dong's still unrestrained back for two seconds, he closed his eyes slightly, and continued to walk forward.

Entering the cubicle outside the glass on one side of the interrogation room, Tang Chu immediately greeted him, speaking quickly and concisely: "It's like this, Han Yang and Han An have already explained the whole process of committing the crime, and they said that they started from the college entrance examination five years ago. They didn't live with any elders at that time. On the day of the college entrance examination, they received an anonymous letter. The letter described in detail their unbearable experiences, denounced their father's bad behavior in a passionate tone, and encouraged them Cut off the root of the nightmare with my own hands, and finally offered to provide free help for their revenge plan. If they are willing to accept the help, they will burn the letter within three days, and then put the ashes back in the original envelope and put them in the place specified in the letter. Han Yang and Han An decided to follow suit after discussing, initially they had the mentality of giving it a try, but since then their one-line contact has begun."

Pausing for a while to catch his breath, Tang Chu focused on the key points: "They both said that the overall framework of Shenxi's case was provided by the anonymous letter, including how to create a perfect alibi for Han Yang and suggest choosing a suitable target to blame. No wonder when I looked up Han An's information on the intranet, I only found out that she has only one younger brother, Han Yang!"

One of the biggest difficulties in cracking Shen Xi's case was precisely because Han Yang's alibi was too hard at the beginning, so hard that no one doubted him.

Especially when Tang Chu checked Han An on the intranet, there was no hint in Han An's personal information that Han Yang had a twin brother at all.

It was later that Ji Lin boldly made this inference based on more and more emerging doubts, which pointed the whole case in a clearer direction.

Looking at it now, if Han Yang and Han An's confessions are true, then it is natural that the person who wrote them the anonymous letter hidden in the dark had already helped them tamper with the archived information, so Tang Chu did not find out that Han Yang had a Key information about the twin brother.

After hearing Tang Chu's words, Wen Dong raised his eyebrows slightly, Ji Lin's expression was not the slightest surprise, he whispered: "So, the mask pendant was sent to them in an anonymous letter?"

Although it was a question, Ji Lin used an affirmative statement tone.

Sure enough, Tang Chu nodded and said, "Yes, Han Yang said that was the last anonymous letter they received, which asked them to leave the mask pendant on the person they wanted to punish."

After a pause, Tang Chu put his finger into his hair and stroked it twice, asking for opinions: "I think the person who wrote the anonymous letter probably knew them a long time ago and has been paying close attention to them, otherwise he wouldn't be able to understand all their experiences. And the trajectory of life is well known, so can we continue to investigate in this direction?"

Before Ji Lin could speak, Wen Dong suddenly said: "Not necessarily, I can only say that there are people around them who have been paying close attention to them, but the person who pays attention to them and the person who wrote the letter may not be the same person. Even... even paying attention to them, there is not only one person."

After Wen Dong finished speaking, both Ji Lin and Tang Chu looked at him at the same time.

Tang Chu's eyes widened, his face was full of surprise, Ji Lin's brows moved slightly, his tone was gentle as usual, but his words seemed to have hidden thorns: "Mr. Xiaowen, I really want to know, what is the basis of your decision?" Judgment? Perhaps, this is also part of your so-called fatalism?"

Knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, Wen Dong secretly bit the tip of his tongue, but on the surface he was still not to be outdone, and said in a calm tone: "I'm just proposing another possibility. As for the truth, I completely believe in the ability of your detachment."

Without knowing the previous situation, Tang Chu didn't understand at all what this "fatalism" was about. He vaguely noticed that the atmosphere between Wen Dong and Ji Lin was a little abnormal, but he didn't know the root cause at all.

However, Ji Lin didn't go into it any further. He seemed to believe Wen Dong's answer immediately, and agreed with a warm smile on his face: "There is indeed such a possibility, and in my opinion, the probability is very high."

Afterwards, before Wen Dong could speak again, Ji Lin looked back at Tang Chu, and asked, "Deputy Tang, what did you mean about the mask that you said earlier?"

Tang Chu's attention was immediately diverted, and he said in a deep voice: "On the whole, Han Yang and Han An's explanations are indeed detailed, but they both firmly denied that they wanted to blame Qian Shu after their attempt to blame Qian Shu. Lu Mengting, and the point of inducing Lu Mengting to commit suicide, they admitted that they did use Lu Mengting, but they just wrote an anonymous note to Lu Mengting asking her to do her best to hold back Qian Shu on the night she killed Shen Xi, so that she could blame Qian Shu , but both of them insisted that they only received one mask pendant from the beginning to the end, which is the one hanging on Shen Xi's anklet."

Wen Dong and Ji Lin fell silent for a moment.

Because in Tang Chu's words, it is likely to reveal a fact that makes people dare not think about it——

In other words, if the confessions of Han Yang and Han An are true, they left Lu Mengting with a mask pendant and the suicide note written in her handwriting, and deliberately loosened the fence on the roof of her dormitory and induced her to commit suicide on an anonymous forum. It's not Han Yang and Han An, but someone else.

In Shenxi's case, although the murderer has been arrested, there is another dark line that they had previously ignored, which is quietly moving forward.

After 13 years, the mask seems to be really active again.

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