The End of the Night (9)

After attending the funeral, Liang Yunfeng drove her and Chen Jierong back to their residence. In the car, Meng Siqi learned that Chen Jierong was not unmarried in her life.

Perhaps it was because her family kept urging her to get married, so when she was 30, Chen Jierong married a blind date. But the good times didn't last long. The man complained a lot about Chen Jierong's work, and she didn't have children in time. Her in-laws also complained a lot, so Chen Jierong took the initiative to file for divorce.

Unexpectedly, during the divorce, the man caused a huge disturbance and Chen Jierong was subjected to domestic violence. Director Liu was furious and arrested the man and detained him for a long time before the matter came to an end.

Later, Chen Jierong's parents never mentioned her marriage again. Thirty years passed in a flash. Chen Jierong had become accustomed to living alone. After retirement, she practiced yoga and learned video editing. She began to explain some forensic knowledge on the Internet and was very popular. Her online name was "Missing Guiqi". Meng Siqi only then learned that Chen Jierong asked her and decided on that name.

Before getting off the bus, Chen Jierong said, "Life is a journey. We are all old, but our hearts are still young because we all have a home. That home is the country, the police station, and our little home. Because of home, we are together and will never be separated or alone. So we have to think about returning home."

Yes, longing for home, life is a journey of longing for home!

A month later, Lu He's funeral was held as scheduled, and his body was buried in the Martyrs Cemetery in Jinyang City.

It was drizzling that day. Zhao Leiting held an umbrella and held an umbrella for Meng Siqi. In the morning, comrades from the Municipal Bureau and people who had known Lu He came to the cemetery to pay their respects.

Meng Siqi stood not far away, looking at the tombstone hidden by pine and cypress trees, and did not leave for a long time.

Zhao Leiting was worried that something might happen to her, so he didn't leave. He watched the waves of people coming to pay their respects. Zhao Leiting persuaded Meng Siqi to leave. Suddenly, he saw Meng Siqi's eyes were red as blood. He didn't know if she was sad or what, so he quickly said, "Let's go, Siqi, let's go back."

Meng Siqi nodded. When she was walking back, she suddenly stumbled and almost fell on the wet stone slab. Zhao Leiting supported her. He felt that something was wrong with her. She might be too sad. Her face turned pale, as if she had a serious illness.

On the way back in the car, Meng Siqi was silent, as if he was stimulated by something.

"Zhao Leiting, I want to go to the police station. I don't want to go home."

"You should take a rest today."

"No." Meng Siqi shook his head stubbornly.

"Okay." Zhao Lei Ting agreed and took her back to the police station. Perhaps staying in the filing room would make her feel better.

In the evening, Zhao Leiting sent her home. Meng Siqi had no emotions and no light in her eyes. She said almost dully, "Zhao Leiting, I want to rest for a while, is that okay?"

"Of course. Don't worry, call me if you have any questions at home."

Meng Siqi didn't look at him, nor did she look anywhere. She seemed to be looking at the air and slightly nodded her head. Zhao Leiting felt that Meng Siqi might be too sad, but he didn't know how to comfort her. He was always eloquent, but at this moment he was speechless.

Watching Meng Siqi's thin and lonely back walking towards his residential building, Zhao Leiting's eyes became more and more sad. He blamed himself and felt guilty. It had been thirty years, such a long time, and he hadn't found out the slightest truth about Lu He. Even though Lu He had been buried, everything about him was still a mystery.

These days, Zhao Lei Ting had no time to visit Meng Siqi. Occasionally he would send her a message, and when he saw her reply that everything was fine, he would feel relieved.

One day more than half a month later, Meng Siqi tidied up the house, finally picked up the notebook she had always treasured, and knocked on the door of Meng Xinghai's house.

Qiqi opened the door and said happily, "Aunt Meng, please come in. My dad just went to bed. I'm learning how to make yam porridge for him. Would you like to try a bowl?"

"No, Qiqi, I just ate." Meng Siqi walked into the room and smelled the burnt smell of the yam porridge. She knew that the porridge would not taste good at first, but it would soon become a delicacy.

"This is for you." Meng Siqi handed the notebook to Qiqi.

Qiqi didn't answer, "Aunt Meng, isn't this your most important notebook?"

Yes, this is her most important notebook. The details of the nine cases thirty years ago, the transcripts, and her profile are all written in this notebook.

And she recently added the final results of these nine cases, which include all the criminal conclusions and case closure details.

She wanted to give it to Qiqi, because she was worried that Qiqi would not be able to solve the case smoothly after entering a new cycle. Maybe Qiqi would see similar scenes to her in the new cycle, and these scenes must be what these files told her.

"You always like to hear me tell you stories about solving crimes. You must remember the cases I told you about."

Qiqi said, "I remember. I remember every case Aunt Meng told me."

"This is the case I recorded. You can take a look at it when you have time."

Qiqi took it slowly and paused for a moment while holding it in her hand. She slowly opened the notebook. Maybe in the future she would think that it was written by her own hand.

As I was flipping through the pages, a photo appeared. It was a photo taken by Meng Siqi and Lu He on the beach.

Qiqi's eyes stayed on it for a long time, and she asked: "Aunt Meng, you never told me who this person is?"

Meng Siqi said lightly: "He is Lu He."

"Lu He?" Qiqi raised her head, somewhat incredulous, and slowly returned her gaze to the photo. She hesitated for a moment before saying, "He is Lu He?"

"Yes, he is Lu He."

"Aunt Meng, you never told me his story."

"Because there are some stories that you will experience too. Those are our stories."

Qiqi seemed not to understand and slowly picked up the photo, "He must be very important to you. Aunt Meng, please accept this photo."

"These are all for you. I want to go traveling for a while. I may not come to see you during this time."

"Where is Aunt Meng going?"

Meng Siqi pursed his lips and smiled: "I won't tell you for now. By the way, let me teach you how to make yam porridge."

"Okay, okay."

Qiqi learned how to make yam porridge very carefully. She carefully brought it to the bedroom, raised Meng Xinghai's head, and fed him the porridge.

Meng Siqi remembered that Meng Xinghai had been able to chat with her for a while, as if he had regained some energy. Now he was already terminally ill. She had the impression that he had about a month left.

She sat aside and watched them. When Qiqi was about to finish feeding, she held out her hand and said, "Qiqi, let me feed you the last bit."

Qi Qi obediently handed the bowl to her, and Meng Si Qi took it, lightly spooned it, and fed it into Meng Xinghai's mouth. A grain of rice was thrown out, and Meng Si Qi twisted it up with her fingers and stuffed it into his lips.

After feeding him the last mouthful of porridge, she stood up and smiled faintly: "Old Meng, goodbye!"

When leaving, Qiqi walked her to the door. Meng Siqi said, "Qiqi, can you promise me one thing?"

Qi Qi was stunned for a moment, perhaps she felt Meng Siqi's expression was very solemn, so she nodded heavily.

"Aunt Meng hopes you will promise me that you will never go to the Sujiang Lighthouse in your lifetime, even if something important happened there."

There was confusion in Qiqi's eyes. She must have been wondering why there was such a request. That place was a scenic spot and the city center. But she hesitated for a moment and nodded solemnly, "Aunt Meng, I promise you, I won't go unless you let me go."

"Okay." Meng Siqi held her hand. "Have a good rest at night. Live a good life, study hard, and become the happiest person."

"Yeah." Qiqi nodded again, "Aunt Meng, you too, you will always be happy, right?"

"Yes, we all do."

*

In the evening, Zhao Lei Ting finally took some time out from his busy schedule. He was about to go see Meng Siqi after get off work. He had just returned from the conference room and saw a letter on the table. It was written "From Zhao Lei Ting himself."

This handwriting is from Meng Siqi. Meng Siqi has been to the police station? Zhao Leiting ran out of the office and looked left and right in the corridor, but found no one.

He returned to his office and opened the letter.

Zhao Leiting, I'm leaving. Maybe you don't believe it, but this will be my fifth time returning to thirty years ago, where you were young, I was young, Yu Ting was still alive, Lu He was still alive, my parents were still alive, and Aunt Chang was still alive.

Don't worry, I will protect Yuting and let her live a happy life. Thank you very much for taking care of me. After I am gone, please pass everything I have to Meng Xinghai's daughter, who is also called Meng Siqi.

In fact, she is me. Xiao Meng Siqi and I met in a parallel world. She may soon remember all my stories, including the past with you. I hope you can take care of her, because her dream must be to become the best police officer.

Before I go, I want to tell you that I have found the real murderer of the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case, the real White-Faced Man...

Before finishing reading the letter, Zhao Leiting quickly made a call, but Meng Siqi's phone was turned off. Zhao Leiting ran out frantically, shouting "Meng Siqi's" name loudly. A colleague at the police station said that he saw Sister Meng leaving the police station an hour ago.

He didn’t understand Meng Siqi’s letter. What parallel world, what little Meng Siqi, what Yu Ting is still alive, what Lu He is still alive…

But he understood Meng Siqi's farewell. She was leaving, and it must be a farewell forever.

Zhao Lei Ting's eyes were red, he would never let anything happen to Meng Siqi. It was drizzling outside and the view was gradually darkening. Zhao Lei Ting drove madly and rushed to Meng Siqi's residence and rushed to Room 302. The door was not locked, he pushed it open and checked room by room. There was no one inside and all the items had been packed up. It seemed that someone had been there, but no one had ever been there.

He knocked on Meng Xinghai's door again, but there was no response. It should be that Meng Xinghai was bedridden and unable to get up, and Meng Siqi could not be in the room.

Zhao Lei Ting rushed out in the rainy night and began to look for her everywhere, asking people and looking for Meng Siqi in places where she might have gone. The comrades in the police station also received his orders to look for her everywhere.

As he was standing in the rain, panting, he suddenly thought that Meng Siqi must have gone up the river, or perhaps went to the Sujiang Lighthouse. Her parents died there, Aunt Chang died there, and Lu He also died nearby. She must have gone to the Sujiang Lighthouse.

Zhao Lei Ting drove madly towards the Sujiang Lighthouse. The rain was getting heavier, corroding the car windows and blurring his vision, or rather, it was his tears that blurred his vision.

After more than half an hour, Zhao Leiting finally reached the lighthouse. He ran down the tower with a flashlight in his hand, shouting, "Meng Siqi! Meng Siqi!"

A bolt of lightning struck, and Zhao Lei Ting seemed to see a small figure standing on the edge of the top of the tower.

As he ran, he shouted desperately: "Meng Siqi, Meng Siqi!"

Meng Siqi heard Zhao Leiting's scream, but she had already made up her mind. She remembered that Meng Siqi jumped into the river today for the previous four times. Perhaps this was the time and method that could truly be repeated. She wanted to go back, back to 1993, and try again to save them.

Even if she fails this time, she has to make this decision.

She used a knife to carve bloody words on the inside of her left arm, writing the murderer's name.

At this moment, she finally understood why she had a red birthmark on her arm since she was born, because she had carved the birthmark with a knife.

She would carry this red birthmark with information about the murderer and be reborn in the 1970s, that is, in 1972, into the Meng family, becoming the daughter of Meng Hui and Ye Xiuhui, but she was stolen on the first day of her birth.

But she was afraid again. She couldn't go back in time this way. She had to go back to 1993, not 1972.

The sequence of this cycle is that on the rainy night of October 23, 2024, the elderly Meng Siqi jumped into the river and committed suicide. She went back to 1972 and became Meng Hui's newborn daughter. When she was 21 years old and entered the police station for the third month, that was September 1993.

In 2024, Meng Xinghai's daughter, Xiao Meng Siqi, went to Sujiang to pay tribute to the elderly Meng Siqi. She encountered a rainstorm and fell into the river and drowned. She then returned to September 1993 and replaced the original owner Meng Siqi.

This cycle must be based on the rainy night of October 23, 2024, when the elderly Meng Siqi commits suicide by jumping into the river, entering the year 1972, and the opportunity of the young Meng Siqi falling and drowning, entering the year 1993, thus starting the "infinite" cycle.

It was in 1993 that she went to the river to pay her respects after hearing that Aunt Meng had committed suicide, and she fell into the river and drowned.

Today, she had no idea whether she could stop the cycle or not. She could go back to thirty years ago instead of fifty-one years ago, completely preventing little Meng Siqi from going back thirty years ago and ending the cycle.

If she goes back to 1972, it means the cycle continues. Xiao Meng Siqi may face the result of her repetition, going back to 1993, going through 30 years of changes, finding out the identity of the murderer, and then going to Sujiang again to try to stop the cycle.

But the previous few attempts at old age had all failed, and they had all gone back to being babies born in 1972, so the cycle was endless.

But at this moment, Meng Siqi made a decision that she must end the cycle herself and put an end to this long dark night once and for all.

So before leaving, she told Qiqi not to come to Sujiang Lighthouse. She wanted Qiqi to live happily in this world, and she would do everything herself.

But she remembered that Aunt Meng had told her not to go up the river to the lighthouse, but after Aunt Meng committed suicide by jumping into the river, she still went to pay her respects, and ended up drowning in the river in the rainstorm. Even if fate always plays tricks on people, she would fight this time anyway. She gritted her teeth, straightened her small body, raised her head and chest, faced the rainstorm, and resolutely jumped!

She must go back to 1993, arrest the murderer and end the cycle once and for all!

Zhao Leiting, goodbye, see you in another world!

"Meng Siqi——" Zhao Lei Ting rushed to the bottom of the tower. Suddenly, in the lightning, the figure on the top of the tower fell from the air and fell towards the surging river.

Like an eagle in full bloom soaring into the night sky, she breaks through the darkness with her hot body and burning heart...

Zhao Leiting was at a loss, he fell to the ground and burst into tears.

The figure fell into the river, and suddenly a golden light floated on the water, and Meng Siqi seemed to have turned into a stream of light.

Zhao Lei Ting was heartbroken. He didn't know whether what he saw was real or imaginary, but to him, Meng Siqi had left him forever.

There were lightning and thunder, and heavy rain washed over the world. Zhao Lei Ting raised his head and looked into the black abyss.

He knew that Meng Siqi had left him the truth. For thirty years, he had failed to protect her. Instead, she had brought him a sharp sword, asking him to uncover the silent truth and tear apart the dark night!