Chapter 66: Waiting for you to come home Time is misplaced, years are reversed, but...
"What on earth is going on?" Gao Yiyuan frowned. "Did Wen Yi lose her memory? She doesn't seem to remember us."
"No." Gu Yifeng shook his head, the fine lines between his eyebrows deepening. "She hasn't forgotten anything. On the contrary, her memory is very complete."
"So is she sick?" Ni Qianfan asked.
"I do have some suspicions," Gu Yifeng said calmly. "She's been experiencing occasional bouts of unconsciousness and cognitive dissonance lately. Test results indicate that the areas of her cerebral cortex responsible for cognition and emotion are being disrupted by some external force."
"Can it be treated?" Ye Min couldn't help but ask.
Gu Yifeng lowered his head with a dark look in his eyes: "The doctor said it's best not to."
The door of the interrogation room opened again, and Gu Yifeng sat back opposite Wen Yi with his tablet computer, his expression still calm.
"How is it?" Wen Yi asked impatiently, her voice filled with anticipation. "Any clues about him?"
Gu Yifeng chose his words carefully: "Sorry... I didn't find the person you mentioned." He added, "There has never been such a person in the seventh inning."
"What?"
Wen Yi's eyes widened, her brow furrowed, her face filled with disbelief. "This... is impossible! Could it be that your database needs updating?"
Gu Yifeng said nothing, simply swiping the screen and opening an encrypted file. "This is the internal personnel directory of the Seventh Bureau for the past ten years. I shouldn't show it to you. But I can tell you—this person doesn't exist."
Wen Yi stood up suddenly, reached out and snatched the tablet from his hand, and slid her fingers up and down the list quickly.
One by one, the names passed by my eyes.
Really not.
She felt her eyes go dark and all the words she wanted to say were stuck in her throat.
Gu Yifeng let her do what she wanted but did not stop her. His eyes were always observing her every expression.
"Perhaps we can try a different method of searching for clues." He was silent for a moment, then spoke awkwardly, "For example... could you tell me how you and he met?"
Wen Yi was stunned, her eyes flickering slightly, as if she remembered something.
She thrust the tablet into his arms. "Quick, check July 3rd, 20xx... No, it was the 4th!" She added hastily, "It was in the early morning of the 4th, an ice cream truck exploded along Qinghe Highway."
Gu Yifeng paused, then entered the keywords on the tablet.
The case information was quickly found.
She snatched the tablet away and quickly flipped through the records, only to see a story completely different from what she remembered.
Her pupils contracted little by little.
The file states: The Yunhu City Police Department's Serious Crime Squad recently solved a serial murder case. The killer, driving an ice cream truck, killed five women along Qinghe Highway and then transported the bodies frozen. The criminal proceedings were ultimately terminated due to the killer's accidental death.
Gu Yifeng and she... never appeared in this case record from beginning to end.
Wen Yi suddenly looked up at him: "Has the Investigation Bureau ever been involved in this case?"
He said calmly, "No. That's a case handled by the Criminal Investigation Department."
Her heart felt like it was burning, but her body felt like it was soaked in ice water, and her fingertips were trembling slightly.
The moment her fate intersected with his was erased from time.
The tablet slipped from her hands and was caught by Gu Yifeng.
"Are you... related to this case?" He asked tentatively.
She didn't answer, but just looked up slowly: "Can you lend me a computer? I need to look up some information."
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After leaving the computer, Gu Yifeng stood up and left the interrogation room, closing the door gently.
He stood quietly in the corridor, leaving her time and space. At this moment, he wanted to smoke a cigarette, but he remembered that she didn't like the smell of cigarettes.
So he could only wait like this, standing as close to her as possible, staring at the lights in the corridor, in a daze.
The turbid air that had been lingering in his heart for a long time could not dissipate. He lowered his head and rubbed his eyebrows hard.
Meanwhile, inside the house.
Wen Yi sat at the table, tapping the keyboard with her fingers, her eyes scanning the relevant information on the screen.
The news about the nuclear power plant is still confusing, and the official national earthquake report does not mention anything related to Qingluan Mountain.
The information on the Internet is too vague and difficult to distinguish between true and false.
She couldn't get the answer to this question through the virtual world; she had to go to Qingluan Mountain in person as soon as possible.
Next, she began to review the cases she and Gu Yifeng had experienced together one by one.
Every case is a memory, paving the way for them bit by bit.
She began to accept the fact that time travel affected some time nodes and quietly erased their common experiences.
The ice cream truck case was no longer the opportunity for them to meet, but an ordinary serial murder and frozen corpse case; the subsequent cases were more or less different from what she remembered, and there was no trace of her involvement at all.
So even if she found the current Gu Yifeng, what would be left between them?
Does he...still remember her?
She turned off the computer and lowered her eyes. She couldn't tell what she was thinking at the moment. All the fragments from the time they met to the present kept flashing back in her mind.
They had known each other for a short time, but they had experienced so much joy and sorrow, and had experienced life and death.
And now, all the memories of their love have disappeared.
Time is misplaced, years are reversed, it's just a dream, and after waking up, she is the only one who remembers it.
She sighed softly, reached out to pick up the coffee that had long gone cold, and took a sip.
The bitterness flows down the throat into the heart, and adding more sugar is useless.
With a creak, the door was gently pushed open.
He walked in, his eyes fell on her the first time, and his tone unconsciously softened: "Are you okay?"
Wen Yi lowered her head, her eyes a little confused, as if she had woken up from a distant dream in her past life.
He didn't seem to care that she didn't react. He walked straight to the table, sat down, and asked softly, "What are you thinking about?"
“…”
He waited a moment and then continued, "What's the last thing you remember before everything changed?"
Wen Yi did not answer immediately, but slowly raised her head and looked at the darkening sky outside the window.
In fact, when she recalled it, when she was in that void, there was a moment when she thought she would just disappear.
She felt regret and reluctance, but all her thoughts and desires were swallowed up by the darkness before her. Her world seemed boundless, but she was trapped in this abyss, with nowhere to go.
But she didn't expect that when her consciousness was about to dissipate, a faint force broke through the barriers of time and space and kept her.
Even though she didn't know what it was, she couldn't help but want to respond.
What on earth can travel through the longitude and latitude of time and reach where she is?
She would never know the answer again.
Wen Yi spoke slowly, "When I woke up today, I had nothing on me to prove he ever existed." Her voice was so soft it sounded like a sigh. "No one knows, there's no evidence, not even a photo. It's as if... everything between us was just an illusion."
She turned her head and stared at him, her eyes full of fatigue: "I've thought about it carefully, and I'm afraid you can't help me with this matter. I'm really sorry to have kept you for so long. I'll take my leave first." Without saying another word, she stood up and walked towards the door.
He stood up with her, walked around the table to her, and his tone suddenly became serious: "Are you giving up just like that?"
Wen Yi was upset and didn't want to waste time talking to him: "What else? Isn't evidence the most important thing when investigating a case? I have nothing now, not even evidence to prove that that relationship ever existed. What's the point of staying here?"
His fingers tightened slightly, his tone more excited than ever before: "You keep saying that he is your lover, but just because there are no clues or evidence at the moment, you start to doubt the love between you?"
Wen Yi was stunned for a moment. She didn’t say she wanted to give up, so why was he so excited?
He practically retorted, "Love isn't something that needs to be proven." His voice shifted from gentle to cold and hard. "It's a force, a feeling. It doesn't require evidence or witnesses. It exists objectively, just like you can't prove the existence of air, but it's always there, with every breath you take."
He lowered his eyes to look at her, his expression serious and gentle: "To me, even the look she gives me and the breath against my chest are all signs of love."
The air seemed to freeze for a moment.
Wen Yi was stunned.
Is this policeman...something wrong?
What was he doing? Was he trying to comfort her because he was worried she'd be upset, or was he just trying to show off his affection in disguise?
She was too lazy to think about it, nor did she want to know, so she simply stopped talking, lowered her head, and said "hmm" softly.
He quickly calmed down, and after a few seconds he said, "It's getting dark now, why don't we... have something to eat together."
Wen Yi felt even more puzzled: "Does your police work also include persuading people to eat?" She said it casually, but as soon as she said this, the scene of Gu Yifeng taking her out to eat for the first time emerged in her mind. Her emotions surged, and the energy she had determined to leave suddenly disappeared.
"Only when I'm full can I help you continue investigating the case." He said righteously.
Although Wen Yi had no appetite, she finally nodded.
The two walked out of the interrogation room one after the other.
The street lights were not on yet and the corner was dark.
They walked side by side in the shadow, with nothing to say for a moment, only the sound of their footsteps.
Wen Yi remembered that she had not seen his ID yet and was about to ask him about it. At the moment she looked up, the light happened to pass by his profile at an angle. In the interweaving of light and shadow, his outline changed slightly in her eyes.
At that moment, the outline before her eyes and the half-strange face she saw in retrospect miraculously overlapped.
She paused, her breathing hitched slightly, and her heart skipped a beat.
——Is it him?
It was actually him? !
Wen Yi stood on the steps in front of the police station, her whole body trembling slightly.
"Who... are you?" She took a step back, fear gradually creeping into her heart.
The surroundings seemed to have become quiet.
He paused, not looking at her, nor answering immediately.
"You're not a police officer at all! You've been lying to me!" Her voice was filled with accusation and grievance.
Gu Yifeng slowly closed his eyes, let out a long breath, and finally felt relieved.
"...Yes." He turned around and looked at her and said word by word, "I'm not a policeman."
"I'm the one you're looking for."
She stood there frozen, unable to react for a moment to what this sentence meant.
"No...you're lying." She shook her head, her voice trembling. "How could I not recognize—"
As she spoke, she backed away, but tripped over the steps and nearly fell.
Gu Yifeng came quickly and put his arms around her waist.
"Let me go!" She suddenly waved his hand away, with resistance in her eyes, "I don't even know you!"
"Who are you? Why are you approaching me? Why are you making all this up?" Her confusion and anger almost reached a peak. "What on earth do you want to do?!"
The streetlight in front of the police station suddenly lit up, piercing the night and revealing his face completely from the shadows.
She finally saw him clearly.
The noise and clamor flowed between them with the night wind,
The two stood face to face in silence.
After a long time, Gu Yifeng slowly raised his head, his deep eyes falling into hers.
"I'm just waiting for you to come home."
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The author has something to say: Gu Yifeng: I didn’t expect that I would be exposed so quickly.
Wen Yi: This guy is crazy, why does he show his affection in front of me?
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