Chapter 15: First Encounter Across Dimensions Her voice transcended dimensions and reached his ears...
Archival photos of the deceased were displayed on a large screen.
Gao Yiyuan immediately entered the meeting state: "The first deceased was Geng Jun, a local homeless man with a long criminal record."
He tapped on the keyboard, repeatedly pulling up his detention center registration photo. "I'm a returning customer of the Yunhu City Public Security Bureau."
Ni Qianfan frowned: "These little hooligans have so many enemies that they can form a team to play football. It's time-consuming and laborious to investigate..."
"Nanyang Middle School." Gu Yifeng lowered his head to look through the information in his hand and suddenly interrupted,
"Geng Jun studied at the New Century Vocational and Technical School, across the street from Nanyang Middle School, from 200X to 20XX. His registered residence is only 5 kilometers away from Nanyang Middle School."
He put down the documents in his hand, paused for a moment, and glanced at Gao Yiyuan, "Guo Qingyu is also a 2010 graduate of the school."
Gao Yiyuan suddenly looked up: "Boss, where did you get this clue? My computer analysis speed is not as fast as yours..."
"Less gossip, more data analysis and we'll find out." Gu Yifeng said calmly, "Focus on investigating all records of Guo Qingyu during his time at school."
The sound of keyboard tapping could be heard.
Gao Yiyuan said loudly, "Boss, I've discovered something! In March 20XX, Guo Qingyu took a six-week vacation."
He displayed the school clinic's electronic file on the big screen. "The diagnosis read 'multiple soft tissue contusions throughout the body, third rib fracture, right little finger fracture...'"
"Such a serious injury, why is there no police report?" Ni Qianfan stared at the big screen, then turned to Gao Yiyuan and asked, "Where are the school records? Didn't the hospital call the police?"
"Found it! The police station's call record from that year!" Gao Yiyuan quickly scrolled through the screen. "On March 19, 20XX, Guo Qingyu reported that he was assaulted in an alley outside the school, but..."
"But what?" Gu Yifeng looked at him.
"The police report shows that Guo Qingyu claimed he could not identify the assailant. There was no surveillance in the alley where the incident occurred, and no witnesses were found."
Gao Yiyuan frowned and continued to scroll down, but suddenly froze.
"What's even stranger is... three days later, he suddenly went to the police station in person and asked to drop the case!"
Ni Qianfan was surprised and said, "They're dropping the case after he was beaten like that? A case of minor injury or above must be filed for investigation. Dropping the case is unreasonable."
"It's indeed strange." Gu Yifeng raised his head, his brows stern, "There must be something wrong here."
He stood up and said, “Focus on investigating three directions.
Xiao Gao led the technical team to restore the campus forums, BBS and classmates groups used around March 20XX.
Ye Min, let's go to Nanyang Middle School to review the student records from that year.
Brother Fan is responsible for sorting out the deceased's social relationships."
Gu Yifeng glanced at his watch. "Give me a preliminary report before 12 o'clock. Any other questions?"
"No problem."
"The meeting is adjourned."
*
It was summer vacation in July at Nanyang Middle School, and the wisteria flowers were in full bloom, winding around the corridor beside the playground.
Gu Yifeng stood at the school gate, lavender petals drifting in the wind, a few of them falling at his feet.
The sound of students talking in groups of three or four could be heard in the distance. They were the senior high school students who were studying hard at school during the summer vacation.
"Teacher Gu, you graduated from here too, right?" Ye Min looked around the campus curiously. "As expected of Yunhu City's top-ranked high school, the atmosphere is truly wonderful."
Gu Yifeng did not answer. His gaze passed through the corridor covered with wisteria and fell on the classroom at the end - Senior 3 (10), the science class he had attended many years ago.
"Let's go and see Director Zhao first." Gu Yifeng took a step forward, his leather shoes stepping on the fallen flowers, leaving a faint scent of flower juice.
In the teaching office, Director Zhao pushed his glasses and spread the files on the table.
"Guo Qingyu, I have some impression of him. That kid suddenly became smart in his senior year of high school, jumping from the bottom of the grade straight into a top university. He became an inspirational story in our school."
Ye Min opened her notebook and asked, "Can you tell me more about his high school life?"
"He was just an ordinary kid. I didn't have a very deep impression of him before," Director Li recalled. "His grades were average, he wasn't talkative, and he had a low sense of presence. The only thing I remember was..." He paused, "He fought for a girl."
Gu Yifeng picked up the file and flipped through it quickly.
"Let me check the roster..." Director Zhao flipped through the student records in his hand, "Hmm...it's this student named Yao Xiaoyu."
"She is dating Geng Jun from the vocational school next door?" Gu Yifeng suddenly spoke.
Director Zhao looked up in surprise: "How did you know?"
"What happened next?" Gu Yifeng asked calmly.
"During the first semester of senior year, Guo Qingyu and Geng Jun had a fight." Director Li took off his glasses and looked serious. "It's said that Geng Jun and Lin Xiaoyu had some emotional entanglement, and Guo Qingyu stood up for her.
Geng Jun was so angry that he beat him and broke his finger. Guo Qingyu was hospitalized for several weeks and almost had to wait for the college entrance examination.
Ye Min was surprised and said, "It's inspiring that he was able to get into a first-class university after being beaten like this."
"What was unexpected," Director Zhao continued, "was that Guo Qingyu changed dramatically after he was discharged. Not only did he voluntarily withdraw the case, he also began studying hard. Later, on the second mock exam, he shot straight into the top 100 in his grade, jumping from over 300."
Gu Yifeng looked out the window.
On the edge of the playground, a century-old wisteria is coiled around an iron frame, with flowers blooming like a waterfall.
He seemed to travel through time and space, and saw Guo Qingyu lying on the ground covered in blood, with a different light flashing in his eyes.
That's not hard work, that's awakening.
"Teacher Gu?" Ye Min's voice brought him back to reality. "Director Zhao wants to know if you need any additional information."
Gu Yifeng turned around, and the sunlight shone in from behind him, casting a long shadow on the ground:
"No need. I'll go check on Guo Qingyu's classroom."
In the empty classroom, Gu Yifeng stood in the last row and looked at the front row seats that were out of reach.
A gust of wind suddenly blew outside the window, and wisteria petals fell like a rainstorm.
"Teacher Gu, do you think he would kill Geng Jun because of these emotions?" Ye Min asked, "Just because of the emotional entanglement of their youth?"
Gu Yifeng was silent for a moment and shook his head: "What he hates most is probably himself who is powerless." He stood there, looking at the petals falling outside the window, but another thought emerged in his mind: If Guo Qingyu really possesses some kind of unlimited power... then what he wants to do may not only be revenge.
Ye Min continued to flip through the documents, his brow furrowed. "What's strange is that ever since Guo Qingyu's accident, all the posts related to him on the campus forum have mysteriously disappeared. Furthermore, there have been a lot of 'strange stories' about school electronic equipment malfunctioning for no apparent reason."
She looked up at Gu Yifeng: "It seems like someone deliberately erased all traces of his existence."
Before he finished speaking, Gu Yifeng's cell phone suddenly rang.
He picked up the phone: "What's up?"
"Old Gu, it's me." Ni Qianfan's voice came from the phone, "The identity of the other deceased has just been confirmed... He is one of us."
Gu Yifeng's eyes suddenly turned cold: "Investigation Bureau? Which branch?"
"An agent from the Ninth Precinct, working undercover as an important officer at Yiqi Technology."
After a brief silence, he slowly said, "I understand. I'll be right back."
As I walked out of the teaching building, a breeze blew across the wisteria corridor.
Gu Yifeng stopped unconsciously, his eyes attracted by the young man in the corridor, who was reading with his back to Gu Yifeng.
Sunlight filtered through the gaps between the petals, casting dappled shadows on the boy's back. For a moment, Gu Yifeng thought he saw his former self.
The quiet back is like a key, unlocking Gu Yifeng's long-sealed memories.
When he was seventeen years old, he often read books under this wisteria corridor, and there was always a copy of "A Brief History of Time" in his schoolbag.
Back then, he was a recognized academic master, a solitary person with excellent grades. His dream was to become a physicist, until that rainy day when his father, a detective, died in the line of duty.
"Teacher Gu?" Ye Min asked from behind, "Aren't you leaving yet?"
"Go back to the car first." Gu Yifeng's voice was a little hoarse, "I'll take a look."
After Ye Min's footsteps faded away, Gu Yifeng slowly walked to the other side of the corridor.
It rained heavily that day, and the wisteria flowers were blown all over the ground. The rain dripped down Gu Yifeng's hair.
The seventeen-year-old boy received the news of his father's sacrifice under the wisteria trellis, and the rain replaced his tears, blurring his eyes.
For the first time, he heard that voice that didn't belong to this world, penetrating the sound of the rain.
Don't cry
When these two words appeared, Gu Yifeng thought he was hallucinating.
That was not the sound of a living person, but the crisp sound of someone tapping gently on the glass against his eardrum.
Each word had a strange hum and vibration.
He looked around blankly; the corridor was empty.
【I am here】
The voice sounded again, and Gu Yifeng's whole body stiffened. This was not his auditory hallucination.
The sound, like a glass wind chime, seemed to resound in his ears across time and space.
Crisp and melodious, like a girl's singing.
"Who?" Gu Yifeng felt like he was probably crazy, he actually asked.
The world was quiet for a moment. He sneered at his own brain damage, wiped the rain off his face, and walked out of the wisteria trellis.
The moment he took a step, something incredible happened—
All the raindrops around him froze in mid-air.
Millions of water droplets hovered around him, the closest one only a centimeter away from his eyelashes.
He could see countless copies of himself in the water droplets, like a kaleidoscope formed by rainwater.
Gu Yifeng's scientific beliefs collapsed at this moment.
He squeezed his eyes shut tightly: "How is this possible...?"
Don't be afraid...
When the sound rang out for the third time, it was somewhat intermittent.
"Father, is that you?"
【No……】
The sound became weaker and weaker, and Gu Yifeng subconsciously reached out to touch the raindrops.
Just as he was about to touch it, heavy rain suddenly poured down.
"Who are you?!" Gu Yifeng asked loudly towards the rain.
There was no more sound, everything seemed like an illusion.
But he was certain that this voice, though faint, had penetrated layers of time and space and landed squarely on his eardrums. From those few fragmented words, Gu Yifeng strangely understood the careful comfort and protection.
If it wasn’t my father’s spirit in heaven, then who could it be?
The heavy rain hit his shoulders, but Gu Yifeng could only hear his own deafening heartbeat.
The voice seemed out of reach, yet so close as if whispering in the ear.
I knew he was listening and searching, but he didn't want to say much.
Why did he hear this voice?
He closed his eyes, trying to understand the way and tone of voice. It wasn't someone he was familiar with, but it inexplicably gave him a desire he had never had before: he wanted to hear it again.
——It was a girl’s voice.
The sudden thought even made Gu Yifeng himself stunned for a moment. He didn't know where this intuition came from. Just like you can't explain why certain looks make you fall in love with them at first sight.
The seventeen-year-old boy stood in the heavy rain, with only the sound of rain between heaven and earth, but he was no longer alone.
Gu Yifeng slowly withdrew his gaze and pulled himself away from his memories. He took out his phone and found Wen Yi's name: "Wait for me at home when you wake up. Don't run around."
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