him under the stars

Chapter 64 Memories
You receive some information, but your brain "smartly" puts it aside because other more important things are too late to process, or it is irrelevant.

You see it and don't know it!
In the office against the setting sun, after Xu Xing nodded his head, he was a little speechless.

At this moment, Han Chen said in a low voice, "The study?"

Xu Xing took a breath.Although she already knew that he had investigated everything clearly, and she was the one who asked for clues, but when everything was laid out on the surface, she still inevitably felt a little bit embarrassed.After a moment of silence, she shook her head: "He...has never banned me from entering the study. If it's really a crucial clue, it should be...the basement."

Han Chen's eyes changed slightly, although Shi Xiaojin didn't know the reason, but still kept quiet.

"I only went in once." Xu Xing closed his eyes and said in a low voice.

What kind of feeling that is, she still can't say clearly.

For as long as she could remember, her mother had been silent.Other families would prefer the younger son more, but in her eyes, it seemed that Xu Xing was the only one.Until Xu Xing was almost ten years old, he still had to hug her to sleep every night.

Especially when Xu's father was around, she hardly allowed little Xu Xing to leave her sight for a second.Xu Xing also often sat in his mother's arms, and when he noticed her body next to her, he immediately tensed up.

Although she didn't understand at that time, she never asked. She only knew that this kind of situation often happened when her father came, so Xu Xing was not close to her father when she was young, and she was even alienated and guarded against him.

Until she saw her mother committing suicide in the bathroom on the first floor, that alienation and precaution turned directly into suspicion.

It was a disused restroom.The water pipe is broken and often makes a lot of noise, but because it is connected to the entire water supply system at home, it cannot be easily moved, so it has not been repaired.

She was lying on the dirty floor covered in blood, and the entire mirror above her head reflected a somewhat hideous face.

The moment Xu Xing saw it, he didn't even dare to approach it.

It was also at that time that the abnormality was discovered.

The converging blood formed a horizontal blocking trace at the connection between the mirror wall and the ground, but a lot of it flowed in.

For a period of time after that, she often stood in front of the mirror involuntarily until she found the mechanism to open the mirror and entered the basement.

"There is a lot of space there, and there are many cages covered with black cloth. The innermost one is an operating table, on which... a little girl who is about the same size as me is tied, wearing a floral skirt. She saw me, but she found that No sound."

Because there was a straight and obvious cut on her tongue.

"She kept crying..."

"Xiao Xing." Han Chen interrupted her suddenly: "Don't pay attention to these existences that strongly grab your sight, try to pull yourself out, and observe the surroundings from the perspective of a bystander. What is in the cage, and whether there are desks around ?”

Xu Xing's pupils under the thin eyelids moved almost imperceptibly, and the little girl imagined in his mind seemed to turn his head, trying to observe the surroundings, but soon, he froze in place again.

"He's down." Xu Xing's voice was very low, trembling and hurried.

This memory, even though more than ten years have passed, is still vivid in my memory, as if I was actually there.

Shi Xiaojin bit her lower lip tightly, not daring to make a sound. When she lowered her head, she found a layer of tiny goosebumps on Xu Xing's exposed forearm.

Han Chen also saw it, his eyes sank, and he said with a tense jaw: "You found the hiding place, but he didn't find it."

The voice was almost forceful and uncompromising.

Xu Xing still remembered that he hid at the beginning, but he was discovered in the end.But under the influence of this tone, she felt as if she was hiding in an extremely safe place, observing all this like a transparent person.

"He approached the girl..."

Xu Xing paused.

In the quiet room, no one made a sound, Shi Xiaojin subconsciously slowed down his breathing.But time passed by, and she still didn't speak.

"... raped her." After a while, Xu Xing opened his eyes, turned his head and looked out the window in a dazed manner, and said in a hoarse voice, "I didn't see anything else."

A dull person like Shi Xiaojin was aware of it, silently put down his pen and got up, wanting to leave temporarily.Unexpectedly, as soon as she moved, she heard overlapping voices - Han Chen also pushed the chair and stood up.

Boss...don't leave comfort? !
When Shi Xiaojin looked over, the man's side face facing the light had a flat expression, almost without any emotion, and the line of his lips was straight and tightly drawn.She froze for a moment, not daring to stay any longer, and quickly followed out.

Behind him, Xu Xing raised his eyes and fixedly looked at the closed door.

Some injuries are on the bright side, and when outsiders see them, they either look on coldly, or step forward to comfort them.And there are some injuries that cannot be mentioned in the dark, and even I don't want to take a look at them.

Xu Zhengnan was like this to her.

She doesn't need comfort, but she needs to cover up the embarrassment in her heart.He understood, so he turned and left without saying a word.

this man...

Xu Xing pulled his lips slightly and smiled wryly.

When Shi Xiaojin came out, he was startled by Yao Wan who was leaning against the wall outside the door, but Han Chen walked past without looking aside as if he didn't see it, and went straight to the corridor to go upstairs.

The folder in Yao Wan's hand was knocking on her palm, her eyes narrowed slightly when she saw this, she stopped, and followed behind: "You have the ability to draw clues." After all, he just passed Han Chen to stand in front, looked at him with clear eyes, and said word by word: "Team Han, do you know what you are doing?"

Shi Xiaojin frowned.

After a moment of silence, there was a "click" between the quiet stairs.

Han Chen lowered his head to light the ignition, and twirled the exquisite silver lighter twice between his fingers. In the thin smoke, he slightly raised his eyelids, and his voice was unhurried, but with a trace of obvious displeasure and indifference: "I don't know , or do you not know?"

"It's not that you can force others to do things for you with justified reasons. Xu Xing is not a prisoner. No matter what purpose you have for transferring to criminals, since you are a criminal policeman, you have to act in the way of a criminal policeman." Although he was in a low position, he seemed to be looking down. , with cold eyes.

She was stunned for a moment, her face darkened slightly.

Han Chen did not go around and leave, but stood there with a cold expression. The deep green woody fragrance mixed with the smell of tobacco seemed to drift inadvertently. Behind the lingering fog, his eyes were indifferent.

Yao Wan was silent for a moment, and turned sideways to make way.

Han Chen walked up the steps and went straight to the corridor.

"Can you suffer under the protection of your parents?"

"What you said is that you were bullied at school, right?"

The temptation and indifference during the school celebration flashed before my eyes like light and shadow.

He stood for a long time.

It wasn't until the cigarette between his fingers was almost burnt out, and there was a tingling heat from his hand, that he lightly folded his body.As soon as I walked outside the office door, I heard Xu Xing's slightly hoarse voice from inside: "Maybe there is, but I'm not sure."

The memory is too far away, even if she finds it, she doesn't know whether it is real or imagined under pressure.

Shi Xiaojin scratched the back of his head and exhaled in embarrassment.Although she was called back again, she was not the boss after all, and she couldn't get any information by following the gourd's drawing, and there was really limited help she could offer.

Outside the door, Han Chen's eyes were dark. After a moment of silence, he smiled slowly.

"The table where the items are placed must exist." He didn't go in, but turned his back to the door, and said calmly.

Xu Xing looked sideways, Han Chen's tall and slender figure was faintly visible on the frosted door.She smiled slightly, and closed her eyes softly.

The deep and pleasant voice came in through the door, carrying a reassuring force: "It's not too far away, it's even close at hand."

Xu Xing tried his best to ignore the little girl's struggling legs and the man on the operating table. After two seconds, the eyebrows moved slightly: "It's on the right side, I can't see clearly, it's blocked."

There was plenty of light, but the objects on the table could only be seen between the ups and downs of the body.

"There are some papers, an open book, and... a test tube of blue liquid."

Han Chen: "What's under the book?"

"Several large sheets of paper, the contents... are all text."

There are no patterns at all.

Xu Xing fell silent, thinking whether she was thinking in the wrong direction, and suddenly felt a chill all over—under the bright and dazzling white light, Xu Zhengnan did not know when he left the operating table, squatted down, and was staring at where she hides.

Before Shi Xiaojin could react, he saw Xu Xing suddenly took a quick breath and opened his eyes, turned sideways, and changed the direction of his toes, showing a tense and fleeing posture.

Yes, she was found later.

At this time, the door was suddenly opened.Han Chen walked up to Xu Xing in a few steps, and when he touched her suddenly shrunken pupils, a gloomy look flashed across his face.

"Little Xing." He knelt on the ground, turned Xu Xing's face to face himself, and said in a deep voice, "You are in a very safe place, you are 27 years old, not that little girl..."

"I saw it." Xu Xing suddenly said.

Han Chen was slightly stunned, and saw her unfocused eyes gradually move down, and a trace of unknown emotion flashed in them.

"On the other half of the book, there is a black plant pattern."

Without the obstruction of Xu Zhengnan's body, she finally saw everything.

"Four petals, a bit like a triangle, very pointed, with long hairs on them, the color of the stem is not black, it is probably the rhizome of a normal plant, with thorns..."

Shi Xiaojin quickly drew on the paper.

"There is a round object in the middle, it should be a fruit."

Han Chen's hand was still pinching her jaw, and he slowly withdrew it.

Her voice was extremely calm, and she continued to refine the description, as if she was really just a bystander.

"Boss, it's almost done." After a while, Shi Xiaojin handed over a piece of paper.Han Chen looked down and saw that it was similar to the pattern he got, but it was also different.

Professor Xu is right, this plant has been artificially mutated.

His gaze stayed on the paper for a while, then moved away and landed on Xu Xing.

Facing his gaze, Xu Xing smiled slowly, with fine crystals in the corners of his eyes, and the dimples on one side were clearly displayed.

Just like he understands her, she also understands Han Chen.

Shi Xiaojin didn't know why, but today he seemed to have suddenly opened up, and he went out obediently without Han Chen's orders.Back in the office, even when Xu Zhang asked, he just shook his head and remained silent.

Fu Qi glanced at it, raised one eyebrow, got up and went outside the door.

Han Chen was walking out of the hall, and Xu Xing... looked at him from across the air.

It seemed that there was something crucial, and Han Chen actually left her behind.Fu Qi curled his lips slightly and nodded as a gesture.

Driving in the middle of the road, wait for the gap between red lights.

Han Chen's fingers landed on his lips, as if there was still that soft touch left on it.

He smiled very lightly, put his hands on the steering wheel, and was about to drive the car when his eyes suddenly stopped.

On the passenger seat, there is a very thin black hair!
(End of this chapter)