Chapter 41 Because the truth is never meaningless
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Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
5 minutes.
Lu Yuzhu thought, as long as 5 minutes, everything will be over.
The ticking sound of the detonator echoed in the basement, like the pendulum clock in the old house in the county town many years ago, in her still peaceful life, it was ticking.
At that time, she thought that she could live her life peacefully and smoothly.
Sudden--
It was as sudden as that hairy reporter broke her life back then.
The countdown to death actually stopped.
At the same time, Lu Yuzhu heard the muffled roar of the elevator cabin behind him.
She turned around suddenly and saw the barn door slowly opening, and a tall man with broad shoulders and long legs was standing inside.There is a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, which are splashed with sharp firelight.
Xie Qingcheng walked out of the silver-gray elevator cabin, his gaze pierced into his heart like a wedge.
He Yu's guess was not wrong at all.
Lu Yuzhu is here. Before he entered the archives, the image software downloaded on his mobile phone triggered a high-intensity signal alert.He Yu scanned the connection and found that there was even a detonator here.
More than one.
Fortunately among misfortunes, these detonators can be controlled by mirroring software, which enabled He Yu to break through the opponent's firewall before entering, preventing the countdown.
They did not notify the police before breaking in, and time was running out.Moreover, they have confirmed that the police also have ghosts, and it will only be more likely to change if they are notified.
It is now clear that Lu Yuzhu will commit suicide to "clean up" all the evidence in the file for her benefactor.
"I know the countdown is only 5 minutes. But now it has stopped." Xie Qingcheng stared at the woman's face, "Can we talk."
"The countdown has stopped... how could the countdown..."
"That's thanks to your boss who likes high technology." A gentle voice sounded behind Xie Qingcheng.
Only then did Lu Yuzhu realize that there was still a person standing deep in the elevator.
Just now Xie Qingcheng's aura was too powerful, stepping out from the slowly opened warehouse door seemed to be indomitable, every step seemed to be walking on her heart.So much so that she didn't notice the young man hiding in the dark of the large elevator for a while.
The young man was wearing a simple black autumn turtleneck. He looked very casual and peaceful. He was even casually playing with his mobile phone when he walked out. If the archives room was replaced by a bookstore or a club, his facial features and facial features would also be the same. It's not against the peace at all.
The young man smiled at her: "Ms. Lu, technology is indeed a good thing."
But he didn't talk too much to Lu Yuzhu, the other party's technicians were madly breaking through the program system he had just kidnapped.He Yu greeted him tenderly and caringly, then leaned against the wall and continued to fight the silent procedural battle with the other party, his eyes were calm and focused, and he never cared about the relationship between Xie Qingcheng and Lu Yuzhu. dialogue.
Lu Yuzhu is a woman who has experienced big storms. Even in such a situation, she regained her composure after a brief shock.
"You are not the police." She looked at them, and her tense muscles relaxed slightly.
"No."
"The dog hasn't come here yet, so you can come first." Lu Yuzhu narrowed her eyes, "Who are you?"
Xie Qingcheng didn't intend to talk nonsense with her, and went straight to the point: "19 years ago, my parents died in a car accident. An unmanned car hit it, and the front of the car spontaneously ignited after the collision, destroying valid evidence. The method is the same as yours just now. The person who killed Zhang Yong is exactly the same."
"..." Lu Yuzhu said, "So are your parents traitors who should be wiped out, or are they two police dogs?"
Xie Qingcheng: "They are the police."
"That's a good death, and it's not wronged at all. You should be named a martyr?" Lu Yuzhu twisted a smiling face mockingly.
"No."
Lu Yuzhu's smile froze for a moment.
"They didn't die during the mission, and there is no direct evidence to prove that they were killed by vendetta. Although all the colleagues around them knew that this incident was not a coincidence, nor was it an ordinary car accident, as long as they could not prove themselves, it was an accident .”
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes darkened slightly, as if thinking of her past experiences.
"I've read your profile. I know what happened to you."
Xie Qingcheng paused: "I know what it's like to not get a fair response for so many years. Lu Yuzhu, not all policemen are heinous."
"..."
"My parents died when I was 13 years old. In my impression, they didn't do anything to be ashamed of their conscience. In fact, they were brutally punished because they kept pursuing the truth and clearing up the wrongs for people like you. Killed."
"Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, "I know you hate the reporters who framed you, the economic investigators, and all relevant personnel. You left your hometown and suffered a lot. It is too late for you to reverse the case three years ago. Nothing can be changed.”
"But do you know that in order to give justice to those who have been charged with trumped-up charges, how many unknown reporters, policemen, and prosecutors are doing their best, and in the end they even lost their lives? Into it? Why did they pay their blood, youth, and even their lives for things that have already been settled in the past, for those things... maybe things that the parties involved can no longer forgive after overturning the verdict?"
"Because the belated truth cannot change the past."
Xie Qingcheng's voice was trembling slightly, he seemed to be not only talking to Lu Yuzhu, but also torn with the self who had been struggling for nearly 20 years——
"But at least, it can put the future back on the right track."
"It can let the living people who have been wronged to rise again. It can let the martyrs who died without a name, Jiuquan, be buried. It can remove the heavy shackles from the shoulders of the victims, and let people who are outside the French Open know what it means to be clear."
"It can't heal the wounds of the past, Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, his voice was calm and his emotions were suppressed, but the red eyes revealed his broken heart, "But it is not meaningless. Truth is never meaningless."
"When the prosecutor found you and everyone bowed and apologized to you, did you feel the joy that... the anger that had been pent up for more than ten years finally dissipated in your heart? Although that joy was accompanied by boundless pain, But at that moment you can finally breathe."
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes moved slightly.
"You have waited, Lu Yuzhu. I have waited for almost 20 years, and I haven't waited yet."
Lu Yuzhu: "..."
Xie Qingcheng: "In places you can't see, there are many people who shed blood and sacrificed for your grievances. You don't even know their names. But they have been pursuing justice and making up for mistakes, so that they did not commit the crime. to seek justice for the sake of the living and the dead...do you think this is meaningless?"
"It's been more than ten years, even if your husband betrayed you, your children don't know you anymore, even if you don't even remember what Lu Yuzhu, the county party secretary of Qingli County, is like, but those who have never lived with you The people who are still not willing to let go of your case, do you think they do this just to say sorry to you?... At least my parents are not. They are policemen to make money and support their families, yes Think of it as a career. But they said so, and they ended up dying for it, with no money, no raising their kids. I was 13 when they left."
"Lu Yuzhu, you are also a mother. Can you imagine what my mother was thinking when she died?"
Lu Yuzhu was just silent before, but when she heard this sentence, her body trembled fiercely, as if there were a pair of tearful eyes in the sky, just like her, it was a woman who was forced to leave her child, watching silently. She looks at her.
"Half her body was crushed. I saw it with my own eyes."
"By your people."
"..."
"What did she do wrong, Lu Yuzhu? She never said anything great in her life, she only said something solemn, and I still remember it to this day. She said that every ordinary person longs for a The truth, in this world, people need something bright to believe in, in order to survive.”
"She wanted the police badge on her shoulder to be a light, something that every helpless person could trust. But your comrades, your organization, your people, killed her."
"Her epaulets were crushed to pieces."
Lu Yuzhu's fingertips trembled slightly.
Xie Qingcheng said: "What you should hate is not the police, but the criminals who framed you and slandered you.... Come back, Lu Yuzhu. Some things should not be like this."
Lu Yuzhu looked like a wandering spirit, the intricate life of more than ten years was torn and twisted in her body.Finally, she raised her head and said to Xie Qing, her voice became a little hoarse: "...I'm sorry."
"..."
"I'm sorry..." she murmured.
but--
However, she added:
"Do you know... This sentence is the one that was repeated the most when the prosecutor who overturned my case found me."
Lu Yuzhu said softly, "I thought at the time, what was the implication of my regretful words? It is your miserable life, but it has nothing to do with me."
She looked at Xie Qingcheng with complicated eyes.
After a pause of a few seconds, she continued: "But now I'm telling you, I'm sorry. I feel it, and I'm thinking, maybe... maybe he didn't mean anything to me at the time. He did. Really, really sorry for me. It's just—”
The conversation changed.
Under the cold light in the basement, Lu Yuzhu said slowly: "...some things can't go back."
"Maybe our people were forced to implicate innocent people. Or maybe they were indeed guilty and at fault, but when I was most desperate and unable to persist, it was our people who saved me. They gave me a place to stay."
"..."
"Without them, I might have committed suicide during this long tracing and waiting. It's too painful. I can't wait for the day when the case is overturned."
Lu Yuzhu said slowly to Xie Qingcheng: "I can't say that you are wrong, and I know I am wrong. But I am a person who has completely belonged to darkness. Light is something I am unfamiliar with."
"Whether it's right or wrong, he gave me my life. I won't betray him even if I die."
Xie Qingcheng: "...do you think he was using you to save you? For this day, for someone who risked his life, he must keep his mouth shut! There is a 5-minute countdown to death, and it can be controlled remotely. Why don't they take you away? ?To kill you in an explosion with whatever they were trying to destroy?"
Lu Yuzhu smiled: "You underestimated him."
"..."
"He said he would take me away, but he didn't intend to abandon me. I wanted to stay, because the incident became serious and the warnings were given enough. He always wanted to leave a few people in the territory for the police to close the case." Lu Yuzhu said, "If I want to live, I can escape after pressing the button. He even gave me time to repent."
"But I don't want to," she said.
"I don't want to fall into the hands of the police, and I don't want to go back to the place where I was imprisoned for too many years. I don't want to accept any torture, and I don't want to cooperate. Death is not scary to me at all."
"To be alive is to feel long and hopeless."
As Lu Yuzhu said, she slowly retreated deep into the basement, out of the light, into the darkness.
She didn't want to come forward.
She could no longer walk forward.
She has her hands behind her back, and there is a pistol in her waist.
She didn't use the gun, it was the last thing the organization gave her, it was just in case, she wasn't sure if she could really aim, but she had to try...
Her eyes fell on the black-clothed young man who kept silent and tapped the screen of his mobile phone quickly.
Yes.
She can no longer remember the appearance of Lu Yuzhu, the county secretary of Qingli County.
Her heart clenched, she gritted her teeth silently, and tremblingly opened the gun button...
suddenly--
A message of "ding" sounded.
He Yu, who was in the process of procedural warfare, paused.
He set up a message block, but this message was sent by the other party's technician through the barrier.During the confrontation between the two, the other party sent him an anonymous message.
is a video.
Anonymous message: "Edward, I found out your and his identities. You should check this first before considering whether to do this for him."
Lu Yuzhu thought, as long as 5 minutes, everything will be over.
The ticking sound of the detonator echoed in the basement, like the pendulum clock in the old house in the county town many years ago, in her still peaceful life, it was ticking.
At that time, she thought that she could live her life peacefully and smoothly.
Sudden--
It was as sudden as that hairy reporter broke her life back then.
The countdown to death actually stopped.
At the same time, Lu Yuzhu heard the muffled roar of the elevator cabin behind him.
She turned around suddenly and saw the barn door slowly opening, and a tall man with broad shoulders and long legs was standing inside.There is a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, which are splashed with sharp firelight.
Xie Qingcheng walked out of the silver-gray elevator cabin, his gaze pierced into his heart like a wedge.
He Yu's guess was not wrong at all.
Lu Yuzhu is here. Before he entered the archives, the image software downloaded on his mobile phone triggered a high-intensity signal alert.He Yu scanned the connection and found that there was even a detonator here.
More than one.
Fortunately among misfortunes, these detonators can be controlled by mirroring software, which enabled He Yu to break through the opponent's firewall before entering, preventing the countdown.
They did not notify the police before breaking in, and time was running out.Moreover, they have confirmed that the police also have ghosts, and it will only be more likely to change if they are notified.
It is now clear that Lu Yuzhu will commit suicide to "clean up" all the evidence in the file for her benefactor.
"I know the countdown is only 5 minutes. But now it has stopped." Xie Qingcheng stared at the woman's face, "Can we talk."
"The countdown has stopped... how could the countdown..."
"That's thanks to your boss who likes high technology." A gentle voice sounded behind Xie Qingcheng.
Only then did Lu Yuzhu realize that there was still a person standing deep in the elevator.
Just now Xie Qingcheng's aura was too powerful, stepping out from the slowly opened warehouse door seemed to be indomitable, every step seemed to be walking on her heart.So much so that she didn't notice the young man hiding in the dark of the large elevator for a while.
The young man was wearing a simple black autumn turtleneck. He looked very casual and peaceful. He was even casually playing with his mobile phone when he walked out. If the archives room was replaced by a bookstore or a club, his facial features and facial features would also be the same. It's not against the peace at all.
The young man smiled at her: "Ms. Lu, technology is indeed a good thing."
But he didn't talk too much to Lu Yuzhu, the other party's technicians were madly breaking through the program system he had just kidnapped.He Yu greeted him tenderly and caringly, then leaned against the wall and continued to fight the silent procedural battle with the other party, his eyes were calm and focused, and he never cared about the relationship between Xie Qingcheng and Lu Yuzhu. dialogue.
Lu Yuzhu is a woman who has experienced big storms. Even in such a situation, she regained her composure after a brief shock.
"You are not the police." She looked at them, and her tense muscles relaxed slightly.
"No."
"The dog hasn't come here yet, so you can come first." Lu Yuzhu narrowed her eyes, "Who are you?"
Xie Qingcheng didn't intend to talk nonsense with her, and went straight to the point: "19 years ago, my parents died in a car accident. An unmanned car hit it, and the front of the car spontaneously ignited after the collision, destroying valid evidence. The method is the same as yours just now. The person who killed Zhang Yong is exactly the same."
"..." Lu Yuzhu said, "So are your parents traitors who should be wiped out, or are they two police dogs?"
Xie Qingcheng: "They are the police."
"That's a good death, and it's not wronged at all. You should be named a martyr?" Lu Yuzhu twisted a smiling face mockingly.
"No."
Lu Yuzhu's smile froze for a moment.
"They didn't die during the mission, and there is no direct evidence to prove that they were killed by vendetta. Although all the colleagues around them knew that this incident was not a coincidence, nor was it an ordinary car accident, as long as they could not prove themselves, it was an accident .”
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes darkened slightly, as if thinking of her past experiences.
"I've read your profile. I know what happened to you."
Xie Qingcheng paused: "I know what it's like to not get a fair response for so many years. Lu Yuzhu, not all policemen are heinous."
"..."
"My parents died when I was 13 years old. In my impression, they didn't do anything to be ashamed of their conscience. In fact, they were brutally punished because they kept pursuing the truth and clearing up the wrongs for people like you. Killed."
"Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, "I know you hate the reporters who framed you, the economic investigators, and all relevant personnel. You left your hometown and suffered a lot. It is too late for you to reverse the case three years ago. Nothing can be changed.”
"But do you know that in order to give justice to those who have been charged with trumped-up charges, how many unknown reporters, policemen, and prosecutors are doing their best, and in the end they even lost their lives? Into it? Why did they pay their blood, youth, and even their lives for things that have already been settled in the past, for those things... maybe things that the parties involved can no longer forgive after overturning the verdict?"
"Because the belated truth cannot change the past."
Xie Qingcheng's voice was trembling slightly, he seemed to be not only talking to Lu Yuzhu, but also torn with the self who had been struggling for nearly 20 years——
"But at least, it can put the future back on the right track."
"It can let the living people who have been wronged to rise again. It can let the martyrs who died without a name, Jiuquan, be buried. It can remove the heavy shackles from the shoulders of the victims, and let people who are outside the French Open know what it means to be clear."
"It can't heal the wounds of the past, Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, his voice was calm and his emotions were suppressed, but the red eyes revealed his broken heart, "But it is not meaningless. Truth is never meaningless."
"When the prosecutor found you and everyone bowed and apologized to you, did you feel the joy that... the anger that had been pent up for more than ten years finally dissipated in your heart? Although that joy was accompanied by boundless pain, But at that moment you can finally breathe."
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes moved slightly.
"You have waited, Lu Yuzhu. I have waited for almost 20 years, and I haven't waited yet."
Lu Yuzhu: "..."
Xie Qingcheng: "In places you can't see, there are many people who shed blood and sacrificed for your grievances. You don't even know their names. But they have been pursuing justice and making up for mistakes, so that they did not commit the crime. to seek justice for the sake of the living and the dead...do you think this is meaningless?"
"It's been more than ten years, even if your husband betrayed you, your children don't know you anymore, even if you don't even remember what Lu Yuzhu, the county party secretary of Qingli County, is like, but those who have never lived with you The people who are still not willing to let go of your case, do you think they do this just to say sorry to you?... At least my parents are not. They are policemen to make money and support their families, yes Think of it as a career. But they said so, and they ended up dying for it, with no money, no raising their kids. I was 13 when they left."
"Lu Yuzhu, you are also a mother. Can you imagine what my mother was thinking when she died?"
Lu Yuzhu was just silent before, but when she heard this sentence, her body trembled fiercely, as if there were a pair of tearful eyes in the sky, just like her, it was a woman who was forced to leave her child, watching silently. She looks at her.
"Half her body was crushed. I saw it with my own eyes."
"By your people."
"..."
"What did she do wrong, Lu Yuzhu? She never said anything great in her life, she only said something solemn, and I still remember it to this day. She said that every ordinary person longs for a The truth, in this world, people need something bright to believe in, in order to survive.”
"She wanted the police badge on her shoulder to be a light, something that every helpless person could trust. But your comrades, your organization, your people, killed her."
"Her epaulets were crushed to pieces."
Lu Yuzhu's fingertips trembled slightly.
Xie Qingcheng said: "What you should hate is not the police, but the criminals who framed you and slandered you.... Come back, Lu Yuzhu. Some things should not be like this."
Lu Yuzhu looked like a wandering spirit, the intricate life of more than ten years was torn and twisted in her body.Finally, she raised her head and said to Xie Qing, her voice became a little hoarse: "...I'm sorry."
"..."
"I'm sorry..." she murmured.
but--
However, she added:
"Do you know... This sentence is the one that was repeated the most when the prosecutor who overturned my case found me."
Lu Yuzhu said softly, "I thought at the time, what was the implication of my regretful words? It is your miserable life, but it has nothing to do with me."
She looked at Xie Qingcheng with complicated eyes.
After a pause of a few seconds, she continued: "But now I'm telling you, I'm sorry. I feel it, and I'm thinking, maybe... maybe he didn't mean anything to me at the time. He did. Really, really sorry for me. It's just—”
The conversation changed.
Under the cold light in the basement, Lu Yuzhu said slowly: "...some things can't go back."
"Maybe our people were forced to implicate innocent people. Or maybe they were indeed guilty and at fault, but when I was most desperate and unable to persist, it was our people who saved me. They gave me a place to stay."
"..."
"Without them, I might have committed suicide during this long tracing and waiting. It's too painful. I can't wait for the day when the case is overturned."
Lu Yuzhu said slowly to Xie Qingcheng: "I can't say that you are wrong, and I know I am wrong. But I am a person who has completely belonged to darkness. Light is something I am unfamiliar with."
"Whether it's right or wrong, he gave me my life. I won't betray him even if I die."
Xie Qingcheng: "...do you think he was using you to save you? For this day, for someone who risked his life, he must keep his mouth shut! There is a 5-minute countdown to death, and it can be controlled remotely. Why don't they take you away? ?To kill you in an explosion with whatever they were trying to destroy?"
Lu Yuzhu smiled: "You underestimated him."
"..."
"He said he would take me away, but he didn't intend to abandon me. I wanted to stay, because the incident became serious and the warnings were given enough. He always wanted to leave a few people in the territory for the police to close the case." Lu Yuzhu said, "If I want to live, I can escape after pressing the button. He even gave me time to repent."
"But I don't want to," she said.
"I don't want to fall into the hands of the police, and I don't want to go back to the place where I was imprisoned for too many years. I don't want to accept any torture, and I don't want to cooperate. Death is not scary to me at all."
"To be alive is to feel long and hopeless."
As Lu Yuzhu said, she slowly retreated deep into the basement, out of the light, into the darkness.
She didn't want to come forward.
She could no longer walk forward.
She has her hands behind her back, and there is a pistol in her waist.
She didn't use the gun, it was the last thing the organization gave her, it was just in case, she wasn't sure if she could really aim, but she had to try...
Her eyes fell on the black-clothed young man who kept silent and tapped the screen of his mobile phone quickly.
Yes.
She can no longer remember the appearance of Lu Yuzhu, the county secretary of Qingli County.
Her heart clenched, she gritted her teeth silently, and tremblingly opened the gun button...
suddenly--
A message of "ding" sounded.
He Yu, who was in the process of procedural warfare, paused.
He set up a message block, but this message was sent by the other party's technician through the barrier.During the confrontation between the two, the other party sent him an anonymous message.
is a video.
Anonymous message: "Edward, I found out your and his identities. You should check this first before considering whether to do this for him."
