Chapter 327: Light and darkness, just a gnat
Dark clouds covered the sky, and there was wind and rain. Suddenly, a flash of lightning tore the sky apart, followed by muffled thunder.
The heavy rain dispersed most of the crowd that had originally gathered to watch.
Chen Ke seemed not to have heard her words clearly, and turned his head and asked coldly: "What did you just say?"
Lin Yiyi held up a black umbrella that was about to be blown away by the wind, huddled up and repeated loudly, "I said Zhao Lili told me that there will be a big earthquake in a few days."
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but Comrade Chen, whose facial expression didn't change at all, made her feel a chill.
"Anything else?" Chen Ke asked in a flat tone, and his grip on the person suddenly tightened.
The sound of rain, wind, and a woman’s crying and scolding.
On a rainy day, the sky is as dark as evening.
Lin Yiyi was shivering in the wind and rain and shook her head, "It's gone. She's mentally ill and talking nonsense."
In fact, she knew that Zhao Liren was telling the truth, but Lin Yiyi still chose to play dumb and classified Zhao Liren as mentally ill.
"She does say crazy things."
The gay man in the raincoat seemed to confirm her statement, then turned back to look at the person he had caught with an unclear expression.
He paused slightly, and when the female prisoner struggled desperately again, he suddenly let go.
Zhao Liren broke free from the shackles, overjoyed, and ran forward desperately without looking back. This was her only chance to escape.
She ignored the man's voice behind her.
"He attacked people with guns and resisted arrest on the spot. For the safety of the people, we cleared out the evil elements on the spot."
The man in the raincoat did not chase the criminal. Instead, he uttered a cold verdict, quickly took out his gun, loaded it, aimed at the target, and pulled the trigger.
"Bang--"
A gunshot froze the fleeing prisoner.
Zhao Liren felt like she was hit by a small stone. A force of impact entered her body, followed by numbness and pressure.
Then extreme pain hit her internal organs like a heavy hammer.
She wanted to look back at her own body, but her body fell backwards uncontrollably.
Falling into the sewage ground again.
She tried to stand up but she no longer had the strength to do so.
His thoughts were scattered, the loss of blood was making his body grow colder, and his mind was filled with a flurry of images. Why was she here?
Why are you lying in the dirty rain water?
Why come to this cold world...
She no longer longed for it.
She regretted...
Blood gushed out, mixed with rain water, and quickly spread out where the female prisoner fell.
The cold rain and the thick blood created a cold and beautiful picture with sharp color contrast.
After get off work, Zhao Sheng returned to Lihua Lane and learned from his cousin's wife that Lin Yiyi had gone out shopping and had not returned home yet. Worried about her, he rushed to the city center to look for her.
Suddenly hearing gunshots, Zhao Sheng subconsciously ran towards the direction of the gunshots.
Ran quickly to the vicinity of the hospital.
When he saw the woman soaking wet holding an umbrella in the rain, his heart finally settled down. He wished it wasn't her.
Lin Yiyi looked at the sudden change and was so scared that she held her breath, bit her lips and dared not make a sound, and held the umbrella handle tightly in her hands.
Suppress the fear and panic in your heart.
She saw clearly just now that Chen Ke let go on purpose.
He let Zhao Liren break free and escape, then shot her in the back, and the words he spoke were the motives and reasons he used to justify his shooting.
The man in the raincoat put away his gun, turned around and said calmly to the obviously terrified female comrade, “Go back quickly, Comrade Lin.
And... remember, you didn't hear anything the psycho said."
Lin Yiyi was stunned for a few seconds before nodding hurriedly, but she couldn't utter a word.
Zhao Sheng took a few steps forward, passed the people who were trying to stop him, dragged Lin Yiyi in front of him, and prepared to go back with his men.
After seeing who was coming, Lin Yiyi's tense and stiff body seemed to regain consciousness.
I wanted to open my mouth to speak, but no sound came out of my throat.
The man saw fear in her eyes and knew she was terrified, so he coaxed her in a low voice: "Come home with me first, don't be afraid."
Lin Yiyi had never seen such a direct scene before. She was so frightened that her legs went weak and she could not move. She could only be carried back to Lihua Alley by the man.
Zhao Sheng glanced at the person lying in the rain, his eyes were slightly cold and he didn't care at all.
The people from the security department quickly cleaned up the scene, wrapped the person who was shot in a raincoat, and two people lifted him up and put him in the trunk. Then several people quickly drove away from the scene.
The blood was washed away by the heavy rain and no trace of it disappeared in a moment.
The man carried Lin Yiyi on his back and jogged all the way into the yard. After entering the house, he asked her to change her wet clothes quickly.
Zhao Sheng put away his umbrella, took off his raincoat and hung it under the eaves, went back to the house, picked up a towel to help her wipe the rain off her body, then carried her back to the bed and wrapped her in a quilt.
Lin Yiyi watched the man busying around, but her mind was still recalling the details of what had just happened.
I drank some hot water to warm my body.
"I'll get you some hot water to wipe your body, and then you can soak your feet in hot water." Zhao Sheng gave these instructions and went to the kitchen. He chopped some ginger, added some brown sugar, and brewed some hot water.
He brought back half a basin of hot water to the room.
Zhao Sheng distributed the hot water and made arrangements, "Drink the brown sugar water first, then have lunch. The water temperature for foot bathing will be almost cool after lunch."
Feeling warm in her stomach, Lin Yiyi regained consciousness and responded obediently, "Okay."
After drinking half a cup of brown sugar water and breaking out in a light sweat, Lin Yiyi wiped herself with a dry towel and ate her meal wrapped in a quilt beside the bed.
Zhao Sheng wanted to get rid of her damp and cold air, so he didn't let her get out of bed. The food was placed on the chair, and the two of them had lunch like this.
No one mentioned what had just happened.
Covered with a quilt while eating and drinking brown sugar ginger water, Lin Yiyi broke out in a sweat again. After wiping herself dry again, the man took a hot towel and wiped her whole body.
After changing into her nightgown and wearing the man's homespun jacket, Lin Yi leaned on the man's shoulder, soaking her feet in hot water, feeling a little more secure.
After calming down, she began to worry again. Lin Yiyi tightened her wrist and whispered, "Cousin... I'm a little scared."
Zhao Sheng clapped his hands to coax her, and then coaxed her gently, "It's normal to be afraid. I'll make you some ginseng soup later. You'll be fine after drinking it and having a good sleep."
"I can't sleep. I'm afraid of having nightmares." Lin Yiyi held his arm, and in her mind was Zhao Liren lying in blood with her eyes frighteningly open.
Zhao Sheng put his arm around her shoulders, gently comforted her, and said in a deep voice: "Then don't take a nap, don't you like to make the little one cry?
Play with it or talk to your cousin's wife. I'll come back early after work to accompany you."
In his eyes, this kind of thing is actually not much different from killing chickens and pigs.
Feeling her shrink, the man thought for a moment, "Are you afraid of the sound of gunfire? How about I take you to the mountains to hunt when I'm free in a few days?"
The most effective way to deal with fear is to face it.
"No, I'm not afraid of gunfire."
Recalling the details again, Lin Yiyi still felt uneasy. She looked up at the man who gave her a sense of security and expressed her doubts.
"Comrade Chen clearly had Zhao Lili firmly grasped at the time, but for some reason he suddenly let go, deliberately letting her break free and run away, and then he took the opportunity to shoot her from behind."
"Are you sure? Was it him who let go?" Zhao Sheng raised his eyebrows and asked back, wanting to confirm the details.
"I was very close at the time, only five or six steps away, and I saw clearly that it was Comrade Chen who deliberately let go of her hand, not Zhao Lili who broke free on her own."
Can a woman be as strong as a well-trained man?
Zhao Sheng picked up a towel to help her dry her feet, pinched her short toes, and casually asked, "Is there anything else before? Can you repeat it to me in detail?"
Lin Yi pulled the quilt closer, looked into the man's eyes, and vividly recounted the details of how they met.
"You told Comrade Chen about Zhao Lili's earthquake prediction, and then he asked you again and again, and also confirmed with you if you had anything else to say?"
Lin Yiyi nodded, "I know the problem lies here, and the doubt lies here, but I just can't figure it out."
She never thought that just this one sentence would cost Zhao Lili her life.
I am still scared but I don't regret it.
Zhao Sheng listened to the whole story, looked at her questioning expression, pursed his lips and pondered for a while, "You really want to know the reason?"
Lin Yiyi softened and begged, "I really want to, you're so smart you must be able to figure out the secret, just tell me."
The man leaned in and kissed her earlobe, chuckled, and quickly made a guess in his mind.
After a while, under Lin Yiyi's urging again, Zhao Sheng said calmly, "I don't know what their security department did.
I don’t know what happened in the three months from late April to late July.”
"But we can reason backwards, because you told me that Zhao Lili had told you about the earthquake prediction, which caused Comrade Chen to change his mind at the last minute. The ambush and arrest turned into a shooting on the spot."
Zhao Sheng was doing two things at once, holding her hand and playing with it, while analyzing seriously, "This action shows that this matter is a secret and must not be disclosed to anyone.
If she can tell you something in exchange for money, she can naturally tell others for benefits.
The fact that the security department showed up in time means that they had been following him the whole time, and they hadn’t taken action until now just to serve as bait.”
Lin Yiyi nodded in agreement with what the man said. She had also thought about this.
"Zhao Lili told you a secret in less than half an hour of seeing you. How much did she tell the guards during the more than three months she was detained?"
Lin Yiyi was a little confused and asked softly, "But these are all future events that need time to be verified. Who would believe her before then?"
Seeing that she still didn't understand the implicit meaning, Zhao Sheng pondered in his heart, thought about it, and changed his approach.
"Why do you think she was able to escape? And why did someone decide to kill her so quickly on the spot?"
Why are you asking such a simple question? Lin Yiyi said directly: "She must have been released on purpose. Isn't killing her just to make her shut up?"
"Please answer these two questions in the reverse order." Zhao Sheng patiently watched her guess.
Lin Yiyi thought carefully and realized that she could easily kill Zhao Liren, but she let her go and keep an eye on her.
Comrade Chen did not have the right to shoot criminals in the street, but he was able to do so.
Then this order should have been issued from above, but for some unknown reason, she was disobeyed and temporarily released and placed under secret surveillance.
Is he trying to find something else?
Zhao Sheng looked at her changing expression and said with a smile, "Do you understand now? It's actually very easy to guess.
Zhao Lili must have said a lot of foresight in order to escape during her detention. At first, the people above did not believe this interrogation report.
She will only be treated as insane and detained. Considering her special circumstances, the best outcome is to lock her up until she dies."
"Later, one of the predictions actually happened, and her words became credible. If you were someone in a higher position who could predict the future, what would you do?"
Lin Yiyi told the truth, "Of course, she relied on her foresight to make her successful."
"Yes, Lazy Cat is very smart and what he said is very right. If you were the interrogator involved in this case, what would you do?"
The man pinched her cheek, somewhat relieved that she was not too stupid.
"Of course I would seize this opportunity to get promoted, get a raise, and make plans based on the predicted events I learned about."
Lin Yiyi brought herself into the picture, and when a small employee encountered a predicted event, he would definitely take advantage of this express train.
Zhao Sheng raised a question: "But do you know how many people were involved in this incident? Arrest, detention, interrogation, reporting, and what happened after the reporting?
How many people will be involved? Everyone wants a piece of the pie, and everyone's words and actions are uncontrollable.
As a manager, would you allow this?"
Lin Yiyi shook her head. Who would be so foolish as to let others snatch away the credit for the next few decades?
"People in high positions are usually suspicious. In order to ensure that this person who can predict the future is not taken away by political enemies, opponents, or even her superiors for various reasons, it is safest to make her shut up forever."
Zhao Sheng looked at the watch on her wrist. It was not long before work time, so he had to hurry and explain everything.
"As for the people involved in the specific case, what will happen? They will be promoted, transferred, suppressed, and purged. They will be cleansed from top to bottom.
What would someone who wants to be promoted or is unwilling to give up do? Isn't it normal to fight before being executed?"
"Putting herself in a conflict of interest, her death is inevitable."
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