Talk about it the day after tomorrow

In the afternoon, the sun lazily shines in the cemetery. It is spring again and the wind is still gentle.

It was a weekday, and it was not a special season for worship. The deserted cemetery was quiet and peaceful. Someone walked to the farthest corner, a shady place shaded by trees, with a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and then gently placed the words in his arms in front of the tombstone.

"Long time no see, Noel,"

He half-knelt on the ground and spoke, raising his hand to touch the ordinary and inconspicuous tombstone.

"I'm sorry I haven't come to see you lately," he said, expertly cleaning the dusty tombstone. "Are you okay?"

His hair, which had grown a little too long due to lack of care, somewhat obscured his eyebrows. When he raised his head, a pair of incredibly soft blue-purple eyes were revealed. Morofu Jingguang looked at the tombstone, as if he was staring at the young man.

Although he knew that there was only a USB flash drive containing a suicide note under the tombstone.

When he found the USB flash drive in the bell of the mechanical cat in the cabinet, it was like a wave that surged up from the bottom of the sea and stopped at the moment it was about to come up, and then turned into a gentle tide that fell gently and gently fell on his body and rubbed against him.

This is something Noel can do...

He had repeated this sentiment countless times in his mind.

Whether it was the football that had been trending on the Internet for nearly a month, or the fact that he went home alone to eat dinner and wash the lunch box before leaving alone, or that he remembered to bring some change for the bus when he left, or that earlier, the other party fed him the medicine that he mistakenly thought was for treating fever...

In the USB drive, Noel mentioned that he was going to visit the beach because it was beautiful there and he wanted to be alone and quiet, so they didn't go there, even though it was difficult.

"Zero said he came to see you a few days ago. I wonder what that guy said to you," Zhu Fu Jingguang seemed to have thought of something and chuckled, "That guy was forced to undergo psychological treatment for a year. I guess he is very resentful."

"I wonder if he cried." He seemed to be amused by himself when he thought of that scene, but then he shook his head and said, "Probably not. That guy cares a lot about his image in front of you. Or maybe I don't know when he started to be very good at endurance, enduring his injuries, fatigue and pain."

"You know, he's almost become a legend in the police. He worked undercover in a large transnational criminal organization that has existed for half a century and has become the second-in-command. Doctor Cheng Shi said that in the eyes of those new police officers, he is simply an omnipotent superman..."

"But after finishing the organization's final work, his psychological test results almost deceived the most experienced doctors in the public security department. After being discovered, he was forced to undergo three months of solitary confinement treatment. However, the public security department has not yet discovered that he slipped out once within less than a week of the start of the treatment to attend your funeral."

"He didn't cry that day, he just told me 'this won't happen again'..."

Feeling a little tired from half-kneeling, Morobushi Jingguang changed to a more comfortable position. He sat sideways next to the tombstone and said, "Yanji also said something similar. You know, after the organization's roundup was over, he handled several major cases in a row and was promoted to Superintendent. He should be promoted again in a while. Many people are waiting for him to break the age limit. But he should have told you all this. After all, he has been around here and is probably the most frequent visitor."

"This is really unlike his personality. In the past, he would have refused the promotion because he thought it was too much trouble. A long time ago, when he dragged Jinping to take the civil service exam, he complained that he was crazy. But it was just a complaint. Jinping followed him closely. The squad leader said that they wanted to handle all the cases in Japan in order to get promoted."

"On the contrary, the squad leader chose to work as an assistant teacher at the police academy while investigating cases on the front line after his wedding with Natalie. Both Zero and the second-year graduate are celebrities in the eyes of these students, so the squad leader mercilessly exposed their dark histories. However, he seemed to have forgotten that he is also a legend in the eyes of these students. The valuable experience accumulated from years of handling cases on the front line allows the students to gain a lot from just two cases he tells them. Recently, the Metropolitan Police Department has even suggested that he write teaching materials, and now he is having a headache."

As he talked about the recent changes of his friends from the same period, his mood became brighter. His mouth felt dry for a moment, so he took out a bottle of water from his bag to moisten his throat, and then he said:

"I guess Shinichi came to see you before he went to report to the university. I heard that he was thinking about burning the acceptance letter to you, saying that you would be satisfied with the University of Tokyo. Fortunately, Xiaolan stopped him. That's when I learned that you had written to him saying that you wanted to see your university acceptance letter."

"And...Shinichi and Ran's marriage certificate?" At this point, he said helplessly, "Senior Maori accidentally heard this. If it weren't for...he would have wanted to beat you up himself, but in the end he beat Shinichi up."

"In your farewell letter to the kids from the detective team, you wrote that you were seriously ill. So on the day of your funeral, the kids came with a bunch of desserts and games. They said they were worried that you would be sad if you couldn't eat them, and that you would be bored and shut yourself off for a long time because there was nothing good to eat. I didn't help you restore your image in their eyes."

"You know, those kids recognized me. It was incredible, right? But they told me that day that the one who looked the saddest at the funeral... must have been Xiaoguang."

He gently touched the tombstone again and said, "It seems my acting skills are not good enough."

"But it would be too difficult for me if I had to hide my grief even when a loved one died."

"Akai seemed so calm, but Shinichi told me that he had been drinking all night and was eventually found by his sister. I got news two days ago that the United States is setting up a special operations team to investigate some difficult cases. He will be the captain, and Ms. Ying Hai will probably join as well. The White Alliance will help as a collaborator."

"But you might not expect that Shiho will also join. Half a year ago, she went to the United States to continue her degree and began to research and develop some drugs. Occasionally, she would cooperate with the FBI to help study some of the drugs that were confiscated. She is also preparing to be an extra-staff consultant in this special operations team."

"Ms. Mingmei said she was looking forward to seeing how Akai would be embarrassed when he met her sister. After all, Ms. Yinghai is also a member of the White Alliance, and Akai is not."

"She said her sister was quite vindictive. She herself didn't mind it at that age, but her sister would always dislike Akai and then take a small revenge. And the biggest grudge she remembered seemed to be you, Noel."

Recalling the girl's appearance that day, Morobushi Kagemitsu smiled and rebuked:

"It's not enough to apologize in a letter for making a girl cry like that."

"That day, your grave was filled with gifts from everyone. The children brought sweets and game consoles, Shinichi brought the disc of the then-unreleased Traveler anime, Jinpei liked your last soccer idea very much, and made you a soccer bomb, but without the □□, and Kenji instead made a copy of his own promotion letter and said that one day he would bring the transfer letter of the Superintendent of Police, but Jinpei beat him up in the name of trying out the feel of it in advance..."

"There are many more gifts. You can probably guess who sent them."

The scene of that day was still vivid in his mind, replaying it over and over again. He whispered:

"But I didn't, Noel."

"I was thinking about whether I should bring Silvani's head over here... Just kidding, it's too disgusting, but I was selfish and didn't want to take any of the things at home. I should have put those dolls in there, but I thought that there was only a USB drive buried there. If you suddenly came back and didn't have these in the cabinet, you would be sad."

"Then I thought about it again and decided that I might as well just leave myself there, but that never happened."

"In the end, I didn't give anyone anything. I just stood there the whole time, observing everyone who came to see me. No one was suspicious of my behavior. It seemed that everyone thought I was the saddest person."

He stood up slowly, smoothed down the wrinkles of his clothes, and his chin-length hair was a little inconvenient, so he put his hand behind his back, revealing a pale but healthy face.

After the funeral, he was carried away by the squad leader and taken to a clinic. The psychiatrist was a trustworthy expert that Noah's Ark had found in the Ikaros group chat in advance. However, after listening to all his experiences, the psychiatrist slowly said, "As a professional doctor, I would suggest that you try to downplay the impact of this painful memory on you, but I know you will never do that. So just go out for a walk more often."

So during this year he traveled to various countries where Noel had placed the football, investigating the last remnants of the organization and the damage it had caused.

"I saw you wrote in your letter that I am the light,"

The White Alliance is still a top intelligence organization that continues to cooperate with various forces and even official organizations of various countries. In addition, it is secretly carrying out various rescue operations. At first, some people suspected whether its actions were conspiracies, but few people knew that the most important members were employed by official agencies of various countries. Although Morobushi Jingguang, the leader of the alliance, has resigned, everyone knows that with him, this organization will always be an organization that can provide assistance to victims.

"But I didn't lead you out of the abyss,"

He investigated all the organization's laboratories, found the injured children, and did his best to support them in leading a normal life.

“You hope that someone can encounter the light earlier and live in a world illuminated by the light.”

For a whole year, it seemed as if he had never rested, but he was slowly recovering mentally. The White Alliance had been recognized by governments of various countries as an intelligence organization as well as a charity organization. He also began to delegate specific rescue work that was not limited to organizing the victims to other people, and then worked with Noah's Ark to sort out the data from a year of investigation. Some children had survived in time and adapted to the social order and led a normal life, but some had already been corroded and could not get out of the darkness. While conducting psychological research on the victims, he systematically classified and organized the data. He planned to make it his life's work to find them earlier and protect them better.

"I'm sorry, I still can't save everyone," he said softly, "but I will try my best to make this world a better place."

"You said you were lucky to meet us, and so are we."

"Meeting you is better than anything good in the world."

He looked down at the words carved on the tombstone and said:

/Here lies a great soul, who changed the fate of countless people/

———

Morofushi Kagemitsu turned around and left the cemetery. A faint voice in his head said:

【Do you want to see him again...】

[I am Xiao Hei, Noel’s...friend. ]