Chapter 121 Unit 4 (End) When Li Zheng opened his eyes again...

When Li Zheng opened his eyes again, he was squatting at a corner, wearing casual clothes and squatting with several colleagues to catch a man coming out of the community.

He was a little dazed, as if he had just woken up from a dream. Before he could react, a hurried reminder came from the headset: "It appeared!!"

"receive!"

"receive!!"

When he heard the voice, he was dazed for a moment, and his body's instinctive reaction was to rush out immediately as instructed.

"Don't move! Police!

"Get down quickly!!"

“Don’t move!!”

He was joined by several well-trained colleagues who had been hiding elsewhere. Li Zheng and another colleague pinned the man to the ground, while Li Zheng pulled his ID from his pocket and showed it to him.

"I am the captain of the Qingtan City Criminal Investigation Detachment..."

This was a fugitive who had escaped from another province. After several days of waiting, they finally caught this cunning loach. It was already around two o'clock in the morning.

Li Zheng and other colleagues put the fugitive into the car and drove all the way to the Municipal Bureau.

Since the fugitive was from another province, Li Zheng was only responsible for catching him. Once he was caught, he would find a time to transfer him over. The rest of the lengthy trial would be left to the neighboring province.

This actually makes me feel more relaxed.

Li Zheng left work after finishing his work.

It takes a while to walk from the outside intersection to the entrance of the community. He didn't know why he stopped for a second at one of the intersections, nor did he know why he would subconsciously rub his ankle even though it was clearly fine.

The next day, nothing happened. At noon, while having lunch in the cafeteria, Li Zheng received a call from his sister. Li Mingyao excitedly told him about his life in college and said that she had run for a student union cadre.

"That's amazing."

He was also very happy for his sister when he heard it. Just when the phone was about to be hung up, he suddenly asked how Mingyu was doing recently.

The girl on the phone was quiet for a while.

"Brother...you...ah..."

Oh, yes, he suddenly realized that his adoptive mother did have a son named Mingyu, but didn’t he die of a fever when he was young?

Why did I suddenly think of him?

"Watch out for cars when you walk..."

“I know, I know…”

After hanging up the phone, Li Zheng opened the social software that he hadn't logged into for a long time. At the top was the high school class group. Hu Hui was organizing a party again and had already tagged him.

@Li Zheng, you haven't come all these times, that's really not nice of you, huh? When will you go back to your hometown? Are you still developing in Jinghai?

There are many familiar classmates below who are also talking.

One of the notes is Liu Yingying.

【Where is this party scheduled to be held? 】

Li Zheng subconsciously clicked on her profile picture. When he realized what was happening, he wasn't quite sure why he was staring at this person.

In fact, he didn't have much impression of this girl. He only remembered that she was a very quiet girl in school and didn't have a strong presence in the class.

Clicking on the group list, he almost subconsciously scrolled through the list of class group members from beginning to end, as if he was looking for someone, but he kept scrolling through the names of the members and didn't see the one he was looking for.

etc……

He suddenly stopped sliding his fingers.

Who on earth should I look for?

never mind.

He checked the calendar on his phone. It was still a month away from the Mid-Autumn Festival. His colleagues were discussing what gifts they would give out this year. Some replied that it would probably be the same as in previous years. Others were discussing where to go for the holidays, etc., and in between, there was news that the inspection team from above would be passing by.

He was informed of this news not long ago. In fact, it can't be considered a notification. After all, it's just a rumor. Whether it will really come or when it will come is unknown.

But there's nothing wrong with preparing in advance.

As a leader of neither importance nor rank, Li Zheng naturally couldn't sit idle. He was also stuffed with a pile of documents, various speech techniques, work summaries and the like.

Some colleagues might like this kind of reception, after all, it allows them to show their faces in front of their leaders more often, but Li Zheng has never been very good at it.

He usually doesn't like to join in these fun things.

However, this time, when the news of the inspection team's arrival was confirmed as soon as possible and the leaders held a meeting to decide how to entertain the team members, when the leader called Li Zheng's name, he did not refuse out loud, but nodded in agreement.

This action made the deputy captain look at him in surprise.

Faced with his own abnormal behavior, Li Zheng thought to himself that since he hadn't been very busy recently, as the captain, he should indeed go and take a look.

In the days that followed, he worked while preparing for reception-related matters.

Coincidentally, during that period, the goddess of luck seemed to always favor him. He always heard all kinds of good news. For example, a child who was bullied in school and another child who was about to jump off a bridge, whom he had helped a long time ago, had news from both of them. One sent him a letter to tell him about his current situation, and the other came to see him at the bureau during the holiday.

Even earlier, a pair of foreign friends he had helped at the station traveled all the way to Cheongdam City and came to the bureau to thank him. Because they were YouTubers, they filmed the incident and uploaded it to YouTube. The video went viral, then spread back to China and even got a mention on their bureau's official account.

He was very famous during that time.

Once when he went out to buy groceries, he ran into an old friend whom he had met a few times in Jinghai. It was the other person who recognized Li Zheng first and greeted him first. Li Zheng stopped and looked at the person who spoke to him in surprise.

"Are you Zhuang Ying? I can't recognize you..."

The changes are really huge. I remember that he was completely different when he was in Jinghai.

Zhuang Ying's family is not an ordinary family. Wherever he goes or what he does, he is always surrounded by a group of people. All the clothes he wears are custom-made. He himself is not a fool. He is very capable and his words and deeds are flawless. He is a real rich and noble young man.

And now, at the entrance of a bustling vegetable market in a small place, he was wearing a loose home suit that looked like a very cheap brand. Some horrific bruises could be vaguely seen on his exposed neck and arms. He was holding bags of fresh vegetables in his hands, with fresh pork ribs on the outermost layer, and a lotus root could be vaguely seen.

"you……"

"I'm off the books now."

"What's going on?"

Zhuang Ying himself didn't think there was anything wrong with his behavior. He just casually mentioned the matter of leaving the family, then smiled happily: "...That's not important anymore. Do you remember when I told you that I liked someone? We are together now."

"...Uh, that's good."

"You know what? He always rejected me before. But a while ago, he suddenly changed a lot. He was always reluctant before, but now he's much better." The happy smile on his face became brighter. "Okay, I won't tell you anymore. I'll treat you to dinner next time I have the chance. He must be waiting for me at home anxiously. He said yesterday that he wanted to eat lotus root and pork ribs."

“…”

This was just a very small episode, so small that it didn't attract Li Zheng's attention.

The day of the inspection team's arrival soon arrived. Li Zheng and several leaders went to greet them. As the members got off the car one by one, he took a special look. They were all middle-aged men around 40 years old, wearing executive jackets. Facing the enthusiasm of the reception team, they seemed particularly serious and indifferent.

That day, after the car drove away for a long time, he looked again, and he didn't even know what he was looking at.

His life went on as usual, except that he always had some vague dreams at night. In the dreams, he was talking to two men who looked completely different. They seemed to have a good relationship, and there were even unspeakable scenes.

After waking up, he disappeared without a trace.

Cheongdam City seemed to have been selected as a city of some kind. There were many unfamiliar faces on the streets. Each of them looked quite novel and kept looking around while walking on the road.

During the daytime, I could see strangers gathering outside their door. At first, I thought something was wrong, so I went over to ask them and they said it was nothing, just gathering to take pictures.

Young people...are so energetic.

Occasionally, there would be one or two ridiculous cases where the means used were crude and the traces left were obvious. Li Zheng could quickly identify the murderer without much effort.

The case was solved smoothly and the murderer confessed his guilt very readily, except that one day he accidentally heard a group of young people shouting outside.

One person said: "Didn't this unlucky guy read the rules? This is a safe zone, is he crazy? Committing a crime in a safe zone, it seems this account is ruined, I need to restart it."

"By the way, I remember the old server was just fine, wasn't it?"

"How long ago was that?? And the announcement said that the safe zone servers are very small, and attacking NPCs will result in an immediate ban, and you won't be able to restart your account."

"Fuck, forget it..."

"Hey, it's so boring here. There's not even a wife worth pursuing... Bye..."

“………”

After everyone left, Li Zheng came out from the corner. The above conversation sounded a bit strange, but when he wanted to study it in depth, he felt it didn't matter.

So what if these terms are unfamiliar or familiar? He's already in his thirties, an older man. Isn't it normal for him to have a generation gap with those young people?

Recently, with the addition of these new faces, the originally lifeless Cheongdam City has also gained some interesting sounds. There were even people running naked on the streets before.

Then he was caught by his apprentice.

When he was caught, the "streaker" seemed to recognize Li Zheng. When he saw him passing by, he greeted him very naturally and familiarly.

Not to mention, he's quite polite.

Of course, apart from the occasional erratic prisoners he encountered at work, it seemed that his life had always been uneventful, without any major ups and downs.

The belly of the little tortoise shell in the office is getting rounder day by day. His life is still the same as going to get off work and coming home, going to get off work and coming home. Sometimes his sister comes to visit during holidays, and occasionally his adoptive mother calls.

He actually didn't like to join in the fun, but he did meet his former squad leader Hu Hui by chance. After knowing that he was working in Qingtan, he was very angry for a long time and said that if he didn't go to the party, he would force him to go.

There was no choice but to agree.

On the day of the party, when Li Zheng arrived, the room was almost full. Not long after he sat down, the door was pushed open again and a tall man wearing a baseball cap walked in. As soon as he arrived, he walked straight to the seat next to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng didn't know that the day was actually the day Hu Hui introduced him to a girl. The seat was reserved for a female classmate, but before she showed up, another uninvited guest sat down carelessly.

"Who are you……"

Li Zheng asked doubtfully.

The organizer, Hu Hui, was a little unhappy. "Hello, did you come to the wrong room? We're at a class reunion. What's your name? I'm the class monitor, and I don't remember you being in my class?"

The other party didn't show any embarrassment. He stood up and looked around: "Oh, it seems I went the wrong way."

Not long after he left, the late female classmate finally arrived. She was obviously dressed up, with black waist-length hair, a beige windbreaker, and just the right amount of makeup, with glitter smeared on her eyelids.

The other students at the table exclaimed in a very polite manner.

Hu Hui immediately led the person to the empty seat next to Li Zheng and sat him down. "Guess who this is? It's Yingying. You definitely didn't recognize her, did you? She was so shy in school, and now she's a teacher at our previous school."

After introducing Yingying's work, he began to introduce Li Zheng to her: "Yingying, you should recognize him, right? Our discipline committee member, after all these years, he's still so handsome. He hasn't gained weight at all. Look at this face, wow, he's stealing my limelight."

"He used to work in Jinghai, but it was far away, so he returned to Qingtan. He's currently working at the Municipal Bureau as a junior leader, so I'll have to be very careful with him in the future. By the way, you're both single, so why not get to know each other..."

At this time, Li Zheng realized that something was wrong and understood why his old classmates had tacitly avoided sitting next to him.

In front of so many people, it was not good to embarrass the girl, so Li Zheng also smiled and said: "Long time no see."

Hu Hui must have communicated with his classmates in advance. During the normal dinner that day, the group intentionally or unintentionally focused on the two of them.

When it was over, it was already evening outside. Li Zheng rejected the suggestion of going to the second game and sent Liu Yingying back at the urging of his classmates.

On the way, he told the girl that he didn't know what the party was about, and that he had no plans for it at the moment, and that he didn't have a good personality...

Although Liu Yingying was a little disappointed, she still thanked Li Zheng politely.

I returned to the old residential area where I rented. From the road to the gate of the community, I had to walk a little further inside.

Under a streetlight, Li Zheng saw a figure. He had a good memory and recognized this person before he got close. It was the man who had walked into the wrong private room at a previous class reunion.

He walked towards the gate of the community, and he also walked in his direction, and the distance between the two people was quickly shortened.

"Hello, can I get to know you?"

The man took the initiative to talk to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng began to observe his appearance carefully.

He looked very strange, and did not resemble anyone in his memory at all. He was absolutely certain that he and this person had no previous connection.

"Who are you?"

Li Zheng asked the question in the box again.

"I'm here for a trip. When I saw you for the first time, I felt like we'd known each other a long time ago. It might seem strange for me to say this, okay, actually, even I find it strange, but I have to say..."

The man took off his baseball cap, revealing a handsome face. What was even more eye-catching was the obvious blush on his cheeks. He was breathing rapidly as if he was trying hard to suppress some strong emotions that were about to burst out.

"The moment I saw you, I felt that I had lived until now just to meet you at this moment."

The man took two more steps forward.

Li Zheng smelled a familiar perfume at the tip of his nose, and a series of vague memories flashed through his mind. Some of the faces in these memories were different, but those eyes remained the same.

And in love, those eyes are gradually overlapping with the strange young man in front of her.

"I just heard it. Is your name Li Zheng? Which Zheng?"

"Zheng," Li Zheng replied subconsciously, then asked, "What's your name?"

"My name..."

He paused for a moment

"Don't laugh at me, I don't usually use my real name in public, and I don't like people calling me by my full name. When I was in school, I would get very angry and fight with them if they called me by my full name. But I want to tell you my real name, I'm Wei Lele."

“………”

"I really hate my own name, but...but..." He stared straight into Li Zheng's eyes, with a burning passion surging inside, "But if you call me by it, it doesn't matter."

[End of Unit 4]