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"Can you let me go? I have a cat at home—a cat," Li Bai staggered as he was pushed out of the police car. He looked back at the police officer escorting him, but his eyes were dazzled by the rain again. "I didn't go home yesterday, if I don't go back to feed it today, it will starve to death."

Not long ago, he handed over his documents, mobile phone, and house keys, took notes in the interrogation room with his hands handcuffed, and was taken to the Capital Airport to identify the specific location where he picked up the clues left by Long Zaiyun. Afterwards, the return trip encountered heavy rain and traffic jams on the ring road. Now that I have returned to the police station, it is almost eleven o'clock in the evening.

Who told him to be so unlucky, he could pick up the ID card of the nationally wanted criminal who killed his whole family in any toilet, and he could use this card to go to the pornographic net, and he was caught without even seeing his fart.

"Underages use fake identities to go online and just look at this. We haven't found you in the bureau yet. Criticism and education have to be done according to the procedure. It's good if you don't make a note on your file," the police officer said. He is very young, with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a righteous face, which is very suitable for filming advertisements for popularizing the law, but he speaks in a manner that is common to Beijingers, "You don't cooperate with us, and you want to run and attack the police as soon as you come in." Yes, I almost pushed the door and jumped out of the car. If I jumped out and was knocked into the air, who can I talk to? We have to handcuff you, and now I want my parents to contact you. If your old man doesn’t give you a phone number, then someone will come and pick you up Is it? Or do we have to check our mobile phones? Don’t do stupid things if you’re afraid of getting cleaned up at home.”

"I don't have parents." Li Baixin said that you have been criticizing education all the way, and your mouth has not been idle.With his head down, he was driven up the steps, and when the door closed behind him, someone finally came up to remove his handcuffs.

Rainwater gathered along his body in hair, fingers, and the ends of the hem of his clothes, dripping on the polished white floor tiles.

"No relatives or friends? Where's the teacher?"

"No."

The police officer was scratching his head when a policewoman with short hair came out of the office at the entrance of the corridor, holding a note and a clean blue towel in her hand, "Xiao Qin, don't listen to him being stubborn, his name is Li Bai, right? He is from Jiangsu. , Just checked the records, his brother took him to apply for his temporary residence permit in our office last year, his name is Yang Jian, he is an undergraduate student at Peking University next door, and he also left his phone number, I copied it here for you."

"Sure, it's convenient," the police officer wiped his face and hair with a towel, took the note, and smiled again, "Thank you, Sister Liu."

"Be polite to me." The policewoman smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

Li Bai was rubbing his wrists and being taken to the temporary detention room. As soon as he heard what the policewoman said, his face turned pale. When he turned his head, he saw the police officer holding a note to the service window from a distance away. When he got the phone call, he yelled, "Don't call! Don't call!" He tried to run back while yelling, "I have also provided evidence of the murderer, so let me go by myself ! Officer, I was wrong, don't lock me in, I beg you!"

No one paid attention to him, and he failed to run. Before he was pushed into the detention room, he vaguely heard the police officer's voice saying "hello".

Li Bai came back to his senses and rushed towards the door in panic. The door was also completely closed at this moment, no windows let in light, and no lights were turned on.I touched the wall inch by inch, and then turned a corner, but I couldn't feel the switch at all. I could only feel the roughness of the limestone and the iron fence on the other side of the limestone wall. Is it a prison?

A small and stuffy room that is locked from the outside, with only a little light coming in through the thin cracks under the door... This kind of house is the most terrifying, it will make people starve to death, chew their fingers, there will always be One day, people will suck up the oxygen and die, but they can't escape, and if they escape, they can't escape further.Li Bai was overwhelmed by this sudden surge of feelings, and he didn't want to recall it at all, but it really seemed like it.

He also felt something warm, like a man's belly full of fat, strangled by a fence.It turns out that people were locked up there too?It seemed that he was still shirtless and leaning against the fence, watching him, reeking of alcohol and sweat.But it didn't matter, Li Bai didn't want to worry about it, he sat down in a corner away from the fence, hugged his knees on both sides, and didn't even make a sound while panting.

"It's raining outside, right? Are you that kid who came in after seven o'clock?" The man on the other side said, "Hey, I was drinking too much last night and smashed someone's head. If you go out, you are also a fallen person in the world."

Li Bai said nothing.He was wearing denim shorts that allowed his nails to dig right into the thin skin of his knees, and he was shivering as the rain slid down his spine into the waistband of his pants.

"I heard that you took the murderer's ID card to go online to watch pornography? You actually know that guy, right? You guys broke up, and you deliberately exposed your whereabouts and wanted him to be arrested. Hey, those guys are not here , Let’s just talk about it, I guessed it a long time ago, look at those Hong Kong gangster movies and ask casually, I don’t know the plot of any of them.”

"..."

"Hey, let me tell you, are you dumb or deaf? Can't you hear me?" The man on the opposite side suddenly became irritable, maybe it was because he was lonely for too long, and the newcomers didn't accompany him for entertainment, which made him very angry, "Watch the movie It's okay, how can I hear them say that you still watch two old men do it? Is it true? It's so shameless when you are so young in the public? In the past, you would be called a hooligan. You know, you have to be shot Or locked up for a lifetime, I heard that you have no father or mother, I will educate you for your father—"

"I won't be imprisoned forever," Li Bai said suddenly, his voice was very soft but very clear, "When I get out, the first thing I will do is kill you."

The other side was silent for two seconds, then laughed a few times, and then the cursing stopped, all kinds of swear words were exhausted, and then there was another round of repetition, so it seemed incoherent.

Li Bai quietly turned his head and glanced carefully into the darkness, but he still couldn't see what was making the noise, it should be a pool of meat, a pool of pork that was drunk but knew a lot.An assistant policeman opened the door on the other side of the railing, and a shadow stood there and scolded them, asking them to be quiet, and Pork was quiet.However, Yang Jian also knew that all the rumors of the Pork Road were transmitted to Yang Jian's ears in more detail and completeness by the police officer. Maybe a few minutes ago, maybe it is still going on now, and the dial is also dark. Li Bai I can't even tell how long I've been here.

The hand pinched deeper on the knee, and the feeling was sober.I want to die.What expression will Yang Jian show?What is Yang Jian doing?Yang Jian must not come here.I want to die.Will Yang Jian really not come here...

I want to die.Nothing is right.Li Bai really thought about death, just like a long time ago, whenever he was in such a space, he would keep thinking about it.There is nothing in the darkness, but it seems to hold everything. All the knives are pointing at him, the train runs in the opposite direction, and the ghosts sit on his shoulders and talk without letting him interrupt.He seems to be able to smell the chicken manure in the firewood house in his hometown, hear the rustling of rice fields outside a wall, and the sound of his adoptive father smoking an old cigarette with a dark face.It only takes a few seconds for a person to pick up the memory.And the result of this process is often the final loss of the ability to think. Li Bai sat stiff in every joint, the water on his head gradually evaporated, and his hair became frizzy. I just feel suffocated, my brain is not working, I can't hold anything.

Therefore, when the door was pushed open, one person stood guard at the bright door, and another person turned the light and walked in, but he did not respond.

"Okay." The man squatted down, so close that he could even feel the temperature of his breath. It was Yang Jian's voice. He was also covered in rain, and his palms were wet. He patted Li Bai's face, "Let's go." Bar."

Seeing that Li Bai was still dumbfounded, Yang Jian was not surprised, but turned his head and said to the door: "Officer Liu, please turn on the light first, my brother is afraid of the dark, so he can't stay in this kind of airtight room for too long. It would be great if you put him in the lobby and wait for me to pick him up."

"It's just that the child's spirit is not stable. Who of us can watch it in the hall? We have monitors in it, so nothing serious will happen." After the policewoman finished speaking, the room was suddenly brightly lit.Li Bai's eyes were stinging, and after recovering his vision, he saw Yang Jian's dripping chin, and his black and white eyebrows after getting wet.

"Finally woke up?" Yang Jian took Li Bai's hands from his knees. His knees had dark red slits, swollen flesh, and half-dried blood under his nails. He looked at these without blinking, He said softly, "It's okay, this is different from the woodshed when I was a child, I was also locked up, I promise, there are no bad people outside."

Li Bai looked straight at him, opened and closed his lips, but it took a long time to make a sound:

"You know it all?"

"I always knew."

"No," Li Bai's voice was extremely hoarse, and he spoke very slowly, "You know how I got in."

"Well," Yang Jian raised his brows, "If it was directly handed over to the police uncle, wouldn't these things happen?"

"I see, that kind of website...you know it too?"

"If you want to watch it in the future, you can go to my house. Although the Internet speed is slow," Yang Jian smiled at his crying expression, "It's really not suitable to open it in public places."

Li Bai was almost out of breath: "Don't you think I'm disgusting?"

"It's normal to be 17 years old. When I was 17 years old, the theory has been turned into practice."

"With a man?"

"Huh?" Yang Jian's smile was still cold on the corner of his mouth.

Li Bai hurriedly looked away. He first saw the vacant doorway, and then saw the neighbor who was sticking to the fence to watch the excitement. The guy was really naked, covered in oil and sweat, like a fan of pork, "...it's nothing."

There is actually a chair and a bed in this room.

"It's delayed your date with your sister-in-law. She thinks it's annoying." He said again.

"Aren't I bothering you? There is morning class tomorrow." Yang Jian stroked his hair, but his eyes no longer focused on the real thing, and became thoughtful, "I'll talk about it when I have something to do, please stand up first. "

However, as soon as his hands were removed from the hairy curls, Li Bai hugged him with all his might.

"Do you feel sick when I hold you? Brother?" The strength almost crushed his ribs. "Are you telling me the truth?"

"Where do so many disgusting things come from?"

"What if you hug me?"

Yang Jian frowned, as if he was tired from the back and forth questions and answers, but he still wrapped his arms around Li Bai's shoulders, the wet clothes became very thin, the skin seemed to stick together, bones against bones, hard Thin, shivering, and feeling hot, he thought he had the answer.

"Okay, okay...then don't let go of me," Li Bai's eyes were red, and the moisture in his pupils was like a puppy whose tail was held by someone. "You hug me out like this, brother, I can't get out alone. , I can’t walk out by myself, brother.”

However, this time Yang Jian refused, and got out of the embrace. He pulled him up and dragged him out, using quite rough force, which made the handcuff marks on Li Bai's wrists start to hurt again, "Then I won't go out, I will It would be great if I died here!" Li Bai cried.

"Don't make mistakes." Yang cut his head without looking back.

"There is a cup," a voice came from outside the door, as if the police officers at the other end of the corridor had finally noticed the commotion here, Li Bai continued to cry, "A cup, it--"

At this moment, the next door regained their fighting spirit and yelled while shaking the fence. Seeing him so lost, the scolding was still the same, scolding him for being a rascal, scolding him for being shameless. Going sticky, but it is like a vicious mockery, pervasive, stuffing Li Bai's cup back into his stomach forcefully.It was so difficult to walk from the corner to the door within a few meters, and the strength on the wrist suddenly loosened. It was Yang Jian who threw him away, reached into the crack of the railing and lifted the man's collar, and then turned to the face that hadn't finished cursing. , staring, breathing, without saying a word.

"You, what do you want to do?" Obviously Yang Jian didn't seem to have used much strength, the man yelled, but his face turned purple.

"I want to see how many faces and skins you have," Yang Jian squeezed even tighter, grabbing the man's chin between the cracks in the iron bars, "how about I remove the excess for you? a contact?"

The man yelled "Ai Ai", his voice was still quite loud, but his aura had already faded away.A few police officers surrounded the outside, shouting "What's going on and what are you doing?" Li Bai tried to block the door to block them, subconsciously not wanting Yang Jian to be touched, of course it would not last for a few seconds, but Yang Jian said indifferently. The drunk put it down, turned around and asked Li Bai, "What's wrong with a cup?"

Li Bai was stunned.

full.

He was pushed away and officers rushed into the room.

But a cup cannot be pushed down, it is full when it is full.

Li Bai held his cup, which was almost overflowing, followed Yang Jian, and was flocked to the office to review, was educated, and reviewed again.Then the two signed their names on the same piece of paper filled with entries, completed the registration, took the detained belongings, and prepared to leave.Before leaving, Police Officer Liu lamented that young people nowadays are like this, they want to use violence to solve everything if they don’t deal with a word, and they will have to grow up and have a more mature memory in the future. In a polite and peaceful tone, I told her that it is because of child abuse, that only those wretches who dare to beat children can raise garbage like us, so we learned it, and when we learned it, we didn't know where you were.

He was making a sound, but he was quieter than anyone else in the room.

Then he grabbed Li Bai and left.

Li Bai knew that Yang Jian was really angry, and that anger contained real sadness, none of them wanted to bring up the past.What he didn't know was how much of this sadness was due to his troubles and stupidity, and he didn't know where Yang Jian was going to take him.Of course, it doesn't matter at all, Yang Jian can continue to be angry, scold him, beat him up, and cry on his shoulder, as long as he doesn't leave him by the side of the road.

Yang Jian could even put him in a small black room again, even overnight, as long as he was guaranteed, he would be picked up the next day like today.

However, when they walked down the last step in front of the police station, what Yang Jian said to him was: "Are you hungry?"

At this moment, Li Bai saw an umbrella under the street lamp, and amidst the rumbling thunder, Yu Lili's face was exposed under the edge of the umbrella.