【Chi'an】All the force of his surrender

Compared with Okuda, Furutani's leave process was not so smooth.In short, when he was finally able to get away from the new case and the search meeting, contacted the relevant person in charge of ICPO, and rushed to the airport with the ticket purchased temporarily, one day had passed before the deadline for the training camp to gather.

There are dotted islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, and ICPO's training facility is built on one of the affiliated islands.After the plane landed at the only airport on the main island, Jiang Gu boarded ICPO's dedicated speedboat and rode the wind and waves on the unsettled sea for more than an hour.Unlike many resorts in the South Pacific, where the impression is windy and sunny, sunny and fine sand, the weather in this season is quite bad.A layer of dark clouds pressing down on the horizon in the distance had already covered the sky over the entire island with a sense of menace when Jiang Gu arrived at the pier of the facility.Lightning flashed through the clouds from time to time, looming in the corners of the gray buildings among the tall windbreaks.

While the speedboat was docking, a white woman who was waiting here in advance reached out to him, wanting to use her strength to pull him up, and shook hands briefly by the way.She is tall and tall, with long red hair tied into a ponytail behind her, and an off-white rain jacket with the ICPO logo printed on the chest.

"Marian, Marian Jennings. We'll talk the rest when we get in the car, it looks like it's going to rain soon," she said.So Jiang Gu fished out the handbag from the speedboat, and followed her into a silver SUV parked not far away.

"Damn weather, huh?" Marianne started the engine briskly, and Fuguya nodded in agreement. "Tropical cyclones are common in November, and they might escalate into storms in the next week," she explained.

In just 5 minutes by car, Marianne introduced to him the general situation of the entire training camp, the composition of students and faculty, the internal structure of the building, the schedule of courses, etc., speaking so fast that Jiang Gu had no room to intervene. Even the newspapers failed to do so.He listened attentively and observed each other in the passenger seat.Marianne obviously has typical alpha characteristics, with a shrewd and capable personality, strong facial features, and well-maintained figure and face. Most people guess that she is 34 or [-] years old at most, but Jiang Gu thinks her actual age should be at least in her early forties.Judging from her accent and the way she responded to a radio call on the way, Furuya judged that she was from the East Coast of the United States and had at least once worked for the FBI.Is Akai's acquaintance?He guessed, but didn't ask.

The training facility covers an area of ​​more than [-] square meters, and it is a giant on the island.Marianne parked in front of a security door on the side of the building and said it was a shortcut to the instructor's dormitory area, and his room was on the third floor from this door; she had lessons to do later, see you at dinner.

Jiang Gu bent down in front of the rolled down car window: "Thank you, Marianne, for calling me—"

"Zero (Zero)? Xiuyi told me when he asked me," she said preemptively, then narrowly blinked her right eye, and Jiang Gu couldn't help being stunned. "Xiuyi has already thanked me, you might as well keep thanking him."

Sure enough, they are acquaintances, Jiang Gu thought, not surprised by this.He twitched his lips: "He can only represent himself, I still want to thank you." Marianne smiled and said that she didn't care.

He paused, and finally couldn't help asking: "Where is Chijing now?"

"Xiuyi has a class today, and it's in the auditorium in the south of the ground floor." She looked at the electronic clock on the car, "It's about to start in 10 minutes, and the class lasts for two hours. If you want to see him, you can meet him after class." There he can be found."

Jiang Gu walked through the quiet corridor, occasionally passing by a few young trainees along the way, and thought he was a trainee he hadn't seen yesterday.He quickly found the lecture theater in the south of the so-called ground floor. Through the closed door, he could hear Akai speaking in a certain lecture tone.Classes have already started.

After thinking about it, he walked to the second floor from the next steps, and decided to enter the classroom through the back door.

He opened the sliding door as quietly as possible, and almost all the students in standard dark blue polo shirts were sitting on chairs with table boards, focusing on him with the back of their heads, oblivious to the intrusion of an uninvited guest in the classroom.But this movement inevitably interrupted Akai.He happened to end the last sentence, seeing the wind flying towards the heights calmly, Jiang Gu had nowhere to hide.

This time he didn't want to hide.In fact, he had held his breath for too long without knowing it.At that moment he realized that he still needed to breathe.

He thought about what he would look like when he saw Akai again, but he never really thought about it once.How is he?he does not know.He doesn't feel a certain emotion in particular, whether it's happiness or guilt, any kind of emotion.

There was a hint of a smile on Akai's lips, so shallow that it was almost non-existent.Jiang Gu suddenly felt his heart beating hard against his chest, beating so heavily, and his breathing was light and shallow.Damn it, he thought almost to himself, his brain was like a clock without a cog, the hands struggling to move to the next notch.The storm came faster than expected, and he was standing in the middle of a lone boat at a loss.The boat was sinking and the water was up to his knees.He could swim, he could abandon ship, but he didn't want to do it at all.

To speak, he asked Akai in his heart.Say whatever you want, otherwise nothing will stop him from sinking.

He gestured to Akai to continue, and at the same time Akai skillfully continued the previous topic, the gap in which was so short that no one but themselves noticed.Jiang Gu closed the door and found an empty seat in the last row.The girl on his left gave him a strange glance, and Jiang Gu noticed that there was a German version of the first volume of the scripted novel "The Scarlet Investigator" under her laptop.

"Before the class officially starts, let me briefly clarify a few questions that most of you are interested in." Akai standing in front said, with his hands in his trouser pockets as usual.It doesn't seem to make any difference to him whether he speaks in front of one person or in front of 1 people, he still does his own thing.Furutani stared at him with the back of his hand on his chin, "Yes, Mr. Kudo Yusaku used me as a source of material when writing the script for the 'Scarlet Investigator' series. But entangled with criminals on top of a burning speeding train Fighting, and finally successfully stopping the train to prevent it from breaking into the central city, this kind of thing is impossible in reality; the White House has not been captured by armed terrorists with world-leading high-tech weapons, nor has Mr. Hostage - Even if there was, liberating the White House is not within the purview of the FBI. In fact, most of the incidents have been artistically manipulated and exaggerated by Mr. Kudo. Another question that is often asked is, in the latest work, which Is there a glamorous female forensic doctor who seems to have a lot of fun with the male lead? The answer is, no. At least there is no such woman around me."

There was a gentle sigh in the classroom, mostly from the mouths of young female students, and there were also a few deeper voices mixed in.

Someone in the front row raised his hand to ask a question, and Akai raised his chin towards her.From Jianggu's angle, only the golden hair on top of her head can be seen.

"Does this mean that Mr. Akai is still single?" She asked loudly, her voice was sweet.The bold questioning successfully amused some of the future elite backbone present, and also aroused the whispers of several women's groups.

Akai's eyes flicked over, and Fuguya knew the trick: he was looking at everyone, or he was not looking at anyone.However, he could illusively feel that the other party's eyes were only on him for too long.

"Sorry, I can't comment on personal privacy." He slightly raised the corners of his lips.

The content of Akai's class is the identification and evaluation of ordnance and bullets, which is within his specialty.Jiang Gu was lost in thought countless times during these two hours.He wasn't a student in the first place, which was already a reasonable enough reason, besides, there were too many factors to distract him.

Akai turned his back, dragged a movable whiteboard, and drew a ballistic diagram on it.Jiang Gu stared at his back, vaguely felt that this Akai was so strange that he didn't seem like the one he knew.

No, does he know Akai?To be precise, he only knew Ley.He once thought that there would be no one in the world who knew Akai Shuichi better than himself. He knew his signs, was familiar with his past, tracked his footprints, imitated his habits, calculated his shooting distance, and figured out his way of thinking. .But he never knew what kind of person Akai Shuichi was really, and he didn't think about knowing, and he didn't need to know.

Now he may have this chance, but Jiang Gu doesn't think he should continue.

It took Akai quite a while to get up to him.After class, the enthusiasm of the students was even higher. Every time Akai walked up a step, he was surrounded by people. Almost everyone had a novel or photo album of "The Scarlet Investigator" and asked him to sign. A Moses who gathered rather than divided the Red Sea.Jiang Gu sat in his seat and waited patiently for 10 to [-] minutes before all the young people in the classroom cleared up, and cast a curious look at them before leaving.

Intentionally or unintentionally, Akai stood in front of Jiang Gu, with one hand propped on the table connected to his seat, completely blocking the exit of Jiang Gu, and making him unable to stand up at all, he could only lean against the back of the chair , looking up at him.

Akai stared at him with pure and complicated eyes: "I thought you might not come."

"I thought I shouldn't agree from the beginning." Jiang Gu said calmly, he tilted his head: "This class is really boring."

There are few theoretical knowledge that are not boring. In fact, Akai has already explained it enough to be interesting, and in fact, Furuya didn't really listen to much of the content.

Akai smiled: "That's why you've been distracted? To be honest, there were a few times when I really wanted to ask you to answer questions."

How much attention is needed to realize that his mind has been wandering is a question that Jiang Gu is unwilling to figure out.He lowered his eyes to look at the empty seats around him, and he could still vividly remember the crowd just now. "I see you're very popular now," he said.

But Akai heard the words and just looked at his table board with disinterest. "It's not me they like." He shrugged and retracted his hand so that Jiang Gu could stand up. "Let's talk somewhere else."

They had no destination to go, so Akai led him to visit the restaurant, office area, lounge, classroom and shooting range in the building, so he was familiar with the terrain.Along the way, they exchanged some innocuous conversations, "How are you doing recently?" Time is silent.When passing through a corridor made of floor-to-ceiling glass windows, Jianggu is attracted by the gray ocean outside the window, and the jagged reefs are constantly and violently beaten by white waves.There has been a torrential rain, but the weather has not improved at all.Dark clouds rolled in the sky, and the windbreak swayed in the strong wind and made loud noises, which were frightening to hear even in a room with good sound insulation.He stopped involuntarily.

At some point, Akai was also standing beside him, staring at the scene of lightning and thunder beside him.

"In the first half of the year, I led a team to Tokyo to conduct a joint search with the Security Planning Division," he said after a while, Fugu glanced at him, but he just looked out the window, "But I didn't see you."

Jiang Gu thought for a while, probably knew which time he was referring to. "I was receiving psychological counseling at that time, and the counselor suggested that I rarely see related people in the past in the short term. It happened that something happened in Kansai, so the higher-ups sent me there on a business trip."

Akai looked at him silently.Jiang Gu understood that he had to explain the matter more clearly, he sighed: "It's no big deal. When arresting the prisoner at the beginning of the year, he hit his knee without firing a warning shot first," he smacked reluctantly. Smacking his lips, "—I have been used to it for so many years, and I can't change it all at once. This caused some trouble, so I was ordered by my boss to receive psychological counseling."

"They think you're potentially hurtful?" Akai asked amusedly, as if he wanted to laugh.

"Who knows, maybe they started to have too radical prejudice against me since the time of Ye Shandao." Jiang Gu said reluctantly.

Akai did not speak, his eyes were sharp and soft.Jiang Gu didn't know how he merged the two contradictory things, but he did it.He didn't think that he was the one who brought up the past first, and he wouldn't believe that he said the following words first.

"Sorry." He said abruptly, his voice stiff.

"Ok?"

"When I came to Yeshan Road, no matter how I said it, it was my anger that put those two FBIs in danger. So this sentence of apology is for them. If I have the opportunity, I will convey it to them personally. As for you," He looked Akai up and down complicatedly, trying to speak with difficulty, "I—"

"Life is so long, it's useless to think so much." Akai interrupted him seemingly casually.So Jiang Gu closed his mouth.

He forced himself to look away.

Life is so long, it goes by in the blink of an eye.As he chewed Akai's words, a sudden sense of relief and tiredness hit him like a tide.It felt good that he didn't have to think about revenge every day.While tying a tie in front of the mirror, driving to and from get off work, and going for a drink with a colleague after solving a crime, he can finally feel like a normal person again.

Life is so long, nothing lasts forever.It's time to say goodbye to the past days that were supported by hatred.

He couldn't help smiling, like winter snow melting under the rising sun.

Akai glanced at him: "I haven't seen you for a year, why do you feel that you have suddenly become a lot more honest?" He looked confused and clear.

Jiang Gu raised his head, took a deep breath, and then answered him with a smile: "Isn't it good? Anyway, unfortunately, you have seen all my most stupid and out-of-control appearances. There is no need to maintain my image in front of you, right? " He loosened his tense shoulders, and teasing him was also teasing himself, "'Don't pretend to be anything, and don't think about anything', that's what you said."

This may be the first time he has spoken to the other party.Akai stood beside him firmly, as if he would always stand there.

"Yes," he said slowly and quietly after a while, "I didn't expect you to remember, I'm surprised."

TBC