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Xia Bingyang went to the hospital to treat the wound, debridement, disinfection, and suturing. It was already early morning after the whole process was completed.He wanted to go back to the police station after getting the stitches done, but as soon as he stood up from the chair, his eyes turned black, and he fell back helplessly.

The doctor said that he had lost too much blood and needed an infusion. Xiao Sun, who followed him to the hospital, also advised him to stay in the hospital for further treatment. There are Ren Erdong and Lou Yue in the bureau, and they can also take charge of the work.Xia Bingyang did lose a lot of blood, his head was spinning, half of his arm was numb, and he also knew that he went back to the police station to interrogate Zhai Xiaofeng, and Zhai Xiaofeng was willing to be a monster for Ai Lu, so how could he not be willing to sacrifice for her.

The interrogation of Zhai Xiaofeng will be a futile effort.

The acquaintances at Xiaosun Yangtuo Hospital found an empty ward and asked Xia Bingyang to move there, and stood by Xia Bingyang's bedside to watch him receive an IV.

Xia Bingyang rested on the bed for a while, feeling less dizzy, closed his eyes and said to Xiao Sun: "Don't look at me, go and eat something."

Xiao Sun said: "I'm not hungry, I'll watch over you."

Xia Bingyang opened his eyelids and glanced at him: "I'm hungry, bring it back for me after eating."

"Okay, okay, what do you want to eat?"

"Bring me what you eat."

After Xiaosun went out, Xia Bingyang lay on the bed for a while, and then he couldn't lie down anymore, so he rang the bell to call the nurse over, and asked the nurse to bring him the mobile phone that was charging at the nurse's station.After getting the mobile phone, Xia Bingyang was about to call back to the police station to inquire about the situation, when the mobile phone rang first.

It was almost three o'clock in the morning, Xia Bingyang did not expect Ji Zheng to call him at this time, saw that the caller displayed Ji Zheng's name, Xia Bingyang was not in a hurry to answer the phone, closed his eyes and let out a long breath before answering the phone. Hold the phone to your ear.

"Hello? Bingyang?"

In the quiet and empty night, Ji Zheng's voice crawled deep into his ear corridor like a weak current, as if the whole room was filled with Ji Zheng's voice.

The incandescent lamp on the ceiling is too bright, and you can feel the light even when you close your eyes. Xia Bingyang raised the back of his hand to cover his eyes: "Are you still asleep?"

On the other side, the lights in Ji Zheng’s bedroom were not turned on, but the moon was hanging in the night. The pure white crepe curtains were lifted by the wind blowing in from the balcony. With the wind blowing gently, the cold moonlight passed through the curtains It sprinkled on the floor, and a layer of low hanging light flew out.

Ji Zheng drew the curtains that were blown open by the wind, then lifted the quilt and returned to the bed and leaned against the head of the bed.Even though he was the only one in the room, he still lowered his voice in the deep and empty night: "No, why is your phone still disconnected?"

Xia Bingyang turned over and lay on the bed, stretched out his left hand to the side of the bed for an IV drip, resting his right arm on his pillow, and said, "The battery is out, it was just fully charged."

A ball of orange fluff stood up from the end of the bed, stepped on the quilt and climbed onto Ji Zheng's body. Ji Zheng stretched out his hand towards it, pulled it into his arms and hugged it, stroked the little orange cat's head, and asked, "Why are you still so late?" Didn't sleep?"

Xia Bingyang thought for a while and said, "I'm injured, I just finished getting stitches, and I'm getting an IV in the hospital."

It's nonsense for him to report the good news but not the bad news. He wished Ji Zheng would miss him, think about him, and ask him how he is, so that he would be very happy.

Sure enough, Ji Zheng became nervous in an instant, and hurriedly asked: "What's going on? Where is the injury?"

Xia Bingyang closed his eyes and slowly raised the corners of his lips, deliberately said in a low voice: "It's not serious, it's just a few stitches." He paused, and snorted like a wronged puppy: "But It hurts."

Ji Zheng didn't know that Xia Bingyang was used to using the trick of 'groaning without illness' on him, and when he heard Xia Bingyang shouting pain, he also felt distressed.He stroked the little orange cat's back more gently, frowned and sighed, and said, "Sleep for a while, it won't hurt when you sleep."

The smile on Xia Bingyang's face deepened, and his tone became more fatigued: "It hurts so much that I can't sleep."

Ji Zheng laughed helplessly: "Then what should we do?"

Xia Bingyang was startled, then buried his face in the pillow and let out a long sigh. After a while, he turned his face away from the pillow, cleared his throat in a low voice, and then pretended to be serious: "You chat with me, listen I don't feel any pain from your voice."

Ji Zheng agreed, but after agreeing, he couldn't think of what to say to him, and didn't bother to think about it, just listening to the phone in silence.If it were someone else, he would think of a lot of topics that he could chat with the other party, but if the other party was Xia Bingyang, he felt that it would be better not to say those dispensable things, and it would be a waste of time to say them. It would be better to just talk to him on the phone and be silent.

He could bear the silence, but Xia Bingyang couldn't. Xia Bingyang didn't listen to him after waiting for a while, so he urged: "Speak up."

So Ji Zheng asked: "Are you in the hospital by yourself?"

Xia Bingyang said: "Well, myself."

Ji Zheng couldn't help frowning: "How can no one take care of you in the hospital."

Xia Bingyang smiled: "Then you come here."

Ji Zheng shook his head and smiled, helplessly said: "Is it a problem for me again?"

Xia Bingyang smiled but said nothing.

Ji Zheng paused, and then said: "Find someone to accompany you, you can't do it by yourself."

Xia Bingyang said: "Who are you looking for? I'm alone. Xia Hang wanted to come over, but I didn't let him. I think he's noisy."

At this point in the conversation, there was a sentence choked in Ji Zheng's throat. Ji Zheng hesitated for a moment between saying or not, and finally chose to say it, otherwise he would be choked by this unspoken sentence all night.He leaned back against the head of the bed, rubbed the chin of the little orange cat lying on his chest, and asked with a chuckle, "Why are you a loner? Last time, didn't you say that you already have someone you like?"

Xia Bingyang opened his eyes suddenly, stared at the dark window opposite, and was stunned. He thought that Ji Zheng would not take the initiative to bring up the conversation he interrupted last time. After all, Ji Zheng himself said that he didn't want to know that he liked it. who is the person.I didn't expect that Ji Zheng would take the initiative to mention it now. Xia Bingyang was surprised and also a little moved. He felt that it was a good time to confess to him in one go, but he quickly restrained the impulse in his heart because he couldn't see Ji Zheng, he couldn't see Everything he saw was uncontrollable to him, so Xia Bingyang still wanted to tell him face to face.

Xia Bingyang quickly adjusted his mood, and said in a normal tone: "It's just that I like him, I don't know if he likes me or not."

This kind of statement seems to mean that Xia Bingyang is secretly in love with the other party. Ji Zheng is surprised and shocked at the same time. He knows that Xia Bingyang is not short of love. , he would actually lower himself to fall in love with someone secretly, presumably this person...is a good person.

Ji Zheng didn't want to continue this topic anymore, he even regretted starting this topic, so he forced himself to laugh twice and didn't speak.

Xia Bingyang closed his eyes again, half seriously, half jokingly said: "What should I do? Brother Ji Zheng, I can't see anyone I like."

Ji Zheng's chest was tight, he put down his phone and took a long breath, then he seemed to be safe and said: "You can try to contact her, maybe she will visit you."

"Forget it, it's too difficult for him to come here."

Ji Zheng felt sore again. When did Xia Bingyang, who has always been willful, think about others so much... He felt that he should not continue this topic, but before he could stop himself, a long-repressed sentence blurted out: "Is that how you like her?"

He said it with a smile, but no one could see how forced his smile was.

Xia Bingyang said quietly: "I like him, I like him to death, I have liked him for many years...I liked him when I was 15 years old, but because of a misunderstanding, we separated, and then I tried to contact him , but can't find him. I just reconnected with him not long ago. I feel like this is a second chance for me, so I want to tell him that I like him, very very very much, and I want to be with him Together, I want to fall in love with him, I want to be with him—”

"Captain Xia, I brought you a bowl of wontons and a pancake, what would you like to eat?"

Xiao Sun opened the door and came in, carrying a bag full of boxed food and canned water, went to the bedside and squatted in front of Xia Bingyang, and showed him the bag as if asking for credit: "There is also beer and juice, oh, you are Get a drip, and stop drinking."

Xia Bingyang was expressionless, staring at him with straight eyes, which can be called 'staring'.

Xiao Sun didn't look into his flaming eyes, and started to take out the lunch box: "There is a wonton shop opposite the hospital. It's a long-established store. I often go there to eat. Their shepherd's purse and mutton stuffing—"

Xia Bingyang swallowed silently, and said, "I won't eat, you go out."

Seeing him holding the phone, Xiao Sun thought he was just in touch with the police station, and said, "Relax for a while, boss, you are honorably wounded, there is Sister Lou in the police station, don't worry, come and eat first. "

Xia Bingyang stuffed the phone under the pillow, making sure that Ji Zheng couldn't hear the conversation between him and Xiao Sun, then raised his face and gritted his teeth at Xiao Sun: "I'm calling your future sister-in-law, you are a minute late You have successfully confessed. Now before he hangs up the phone, get out of here!"

Xiao Sun was overjoyed and nodded again and again: "Oh, then you hit, hit fast, I'll watch for you at the door!"

Xia Bingyang said in his heart that depending on your uncle, I am not engaging in espionage|warfare!

Although Xiaosun had already been kicked out by him, his anger seemed to have been destroyed. It was difficult for Xia Bingyang to continue talking. He breathed a sigh of relief and took out the phone from under the pillow: "Ahem, it was my colleague just now."

Ji Zheng heard it, and said "hmm" without asking further questions, but thankfully Xia Bingyang's colleague interrupted Xia Bingyang's words.In order to avoid hearing Xia Bingyang's affectionate confession to others, he brought the topic back to the right track: "How did you get hurt?"

The topic was changed a bit bluntly, but it was impossible to continue the atmosphere just now, so Xia Bingyang had no choice but to follow along: "When Zhai Xiaofeng was arrested, he was stabbed by Zhai Xiaofeng."

"Zhai Xiaofeng?"

"Yes, didn't I tell you that Zhai Xiaofeng was the murderer who killed Yu Bingjie, Liu Changran, and Qin Ping? Now the case has turned around. He is only the executioner, and Ai Lu is the mastermind behind the three murders. But Zhai Xiaofeng took all the crimes by himself, and Ai Lu is still free."

Ji Zheng was silent for a moment after listening, and said: "I also found something here."

"What did you find?"

"The person who killed Zhai Xiaofeng's father Zhai Wengang was Tang Xuehui."

Xia Bingyang hadn't heard about Zhai Wengang's case yet, but he was no longer surprised to hear that Tang Xuehui had committed another murder case.

"Is there any evidence?"

Xia Bingyang asked.

Ji Zheng thought of the note that Min Chengzhou took away from the appraisal note, and said, "Yes, the evidence is already in the hands of the police, but it will take some time to identify the suspect based on the evidence."

"Then how do you know Tang Xuehui is the murderer?"

Ji Zheng said in a deep voice, "Because Tang Xuehui almost killed me."

Xia Bingyang was startled: "What's going on?"

"It's a long story. Anyway, I'm sure that Tang Xuehui is the murderer who killed Zhai Wengang, but...it doesn't make any sense."

Xia Bingyang understood that he was referring to Tang Xuehui who was about to commit suicide in the early morning of August 8th. Even if a suicide suspect was identified as the murderer, it would be useless to the police.

But Tang Xuehui's suicide is already a fact. Even if they know Tang Xuehui's fate, they can only watch history move forward according to the original track, and their struggle is just a car.

Xia Bingyang once again experienced the feeling of powerlessness...Suddenly, he opened his eyes and called out, "Brother Ji Zheng."

Ji Zheng said: "Huh?"

Supporting the bed with his hands, Xia Bingyang slowly sat up cross-legged, lowered his voice as if he was afraid of disturbing someone, and said cautiously: "I have read the information, Tang Xuehui will be here..." As he spoke, he looked at his watch, It's ten past four, "Suicide at home in two and a half hours, can you—"

Ji Zheng also sat up, frowning: "Stop her?"

Xia Bingyang stared at the white bed with ecstasy, a cluster of sparks danced in her dark eyes: "No, stop Ai Lu."

"Ai Lu? What's wrong with Ai Lu?"

"Ai Lu, like her mother Tang Xuehui, has an antisocial personality. That's why she planned to kill Yu Bingjie, Liu Changran, and Qin Ping. I talked to experts, and people like Ai Lu's initial personality is not obvious. Obviously, they will not kill people immediately, they need a transition period, simply put, they need a kind of stimulation, which can awaken the personality in them."

Ji Zheng understood Xia Bingyang's meaning after listening to the first few sentences. He lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and walked towards the closet: "Do you think Tang Xuehui's suicide is the stimulus that can awaken the killing desire in Ai Lu?"

Xia Bingyang thought of Yang Suyao who took a potion and turned into a monster in "Green Hairy Water Monster", and remembered the distress signal that Ai Lu sent to him at the time of parting - if you can save the monster before she drinks the potion, maybe she will not change into a monster.When he heard this sentence, he didn't think much about it, he just regarded it as Ai Lu's only struggle, but thinking about it now, Ai Lu seemed to be implying something to him... Could it be that the potion in Ai Lu's mouth was her mother? death?Could it be... Did Ai Lu witness Tang Xuehui's death?

"Yes, I suspect that Ai Lu saw the scene of Tang Xuehui committing suicide with her own eyes. It was this scene that awakened Ai Lu's personality."

Ji Zheng held the phone between his shoulders, and took out the clothes from the closet: "So you want me to stop Ai Lu from witnessing her mother's death?"

Xia Bingyang said: "Yes, this is the only way to save Ai Lu."

Ji Zheng put his mobile phone on the bed, unbuttoned his pajamas and said, "It's [-]:[-], and it takes about two hours for me to drive to Bailu Town. I will hurry up and hope there is still time." After finishing speaking, he Picking up the phone: "Stop talking, I'm leaving now."

Xia Bingyang hurriedly said: "Brother Ji Zheng."

"Ok?"

Xia Bingyang lowered his head and took a deep breath, saying, "Be careful."

Ji Zheng chuckled: "Wait for my news.