When Fan Jia was no longer afraid, her voice was clear and pleasant, and her expression was sincere and brave. Chen Zhaoci looked at the dirty yet extremely clean woman in the bleak and bright air-raid shelter, and felt a pain in his heart.
From Fanjia's perspective, the man sitting at the entrance of the cave was gradually becoming calm. Even though his behavior is abnormal and horrifying, his profile now shows that he is just an ordinary man, talking to you in a flat voice.
Just like that, you asked and I answered, sentence by sentence. At that time, I thought it was just normal, but it actually outlined a small and lonely life.
However, after successfully understanding the man’s past, Fan Jia also wanted to ask this question: Since your beloved girlfriend has been harmed by campus loans, why did you turn around and become their gatekeeper? Especially when I think about the person outside the picture holding the camera in that video, it is very likely that he is also him. Fan Jia only felt the chill penetrating into his bones. You look at his quiet features, yet you seem to vaguely see another face twisted behind the outline.
Chen Zhaoci noticed her hesitation, bent down, and put his face closer to the iron bars: "What do you want to say?"
Fan Jia's heart shuddered, and he tried hard to think of all the words that Ding Xiongwei, You Mingxu and Yin Feng had said about how to deal with psychopaths. There is even Xu Mengshan, a boy only two years older than her, but as cunning as a fox. If it were him, he would probably also resort to some scheming tactics to deal with the criminals!
Thinking of this, Fan Jia suddenly calmed down.
She wanted to defeat him, she wanted to escape.
The weapons of the people’s police are not just guns and handcuffs. And... the heart in her chest that was always beating warmly.
She was silent for a few seconds, and in the dim cave, she could clearly hear her own breathing. Then she subconsciously put her hands behind her back so that the rope symbolizing the hostile relationship would not appear in a conspicuous position in Chen Zhaoci's sight. She raised her head again and raised her neck very high. Would this make her look more sincere?
She didn't know if she was doing the right thing, and was relying entirely on guesswork and intuition.
Chen Zhaoci stared at her pretty oval face, which was raised high, without saying a word.
Fan Jia smiled, like the girl he had deceived. Two dimples appeared on her cheeks. She said, "Thank you. You said before that you brought me here to save me."
Chen Zhaoci sneered, "But you're a policeman! You don't need my help at all, and you exposed everything about us! Now everyone has to go to jail, and if I'm caught, I'll go to jail too!"
Fan Jia paused, thinking, damn, this seems to be the case! Thinking of this, he felt a little proud again. He tried hard to keep a straight face and answered evasively: "No matter what my profession is, no one has ever saved me. At that time, I was not sure if I could escape. I might have been killed by them. It was all thanks to you that you brought me to such a safe place where no one knows."
Chen Zhaoci was silent for a moment, then he twitched his lips slightly and said, "Indeed, in the entire Huaicheng, no one is more familiar with these air-raid shelters than me. They are not needed, and they have been demolished and collapsed one after another. Only I am with them."
Fan Jia suddenly realized and asked, "You rescued me from Fenjinbao Company... and you also took them away?"
Chen Zhaoci snorted and replied, "Of course. Every day, my bosses and colleagues walk around in the tunnel. Sometimes I stay in the cave and listen to their footsteps. If I want, I can make any of them disappear from this world silently."
Fan Jia felt her throat dry, but she still looked at him calmly and squeezed out a sentence: "You have been very persistent over the years. You are quite unique and different from others."
Chen Zhaoci looked at her and suddenly smiled: "Why have you been flattering me since just now? Do you want me to let you go and go to jail?"
Fan Jia's heart trembled for a moment, thinking that this guy was actually very alert. Why do I have a strange feeling that I am a rabbit running onto the tiger's head and teasing its whiskers? But this feeling was only fleeting, and she was unwilling to admit defeat, so she blurted out: "I am willing to understand you, because even in that environment, even if you often witness crimes, you have never really killed anyone. Zhu Xinya betrayed you, you just wanted to get the truth, and did not take any revenge. You have never really participated in the perverted behavior of Fen Jinbao's gang. And for me, your first thought is to save people, not to kill people. Chen Zhaoci, we are actually the same people. Although life is hard, we are still trying to find people in life. You have done nothing wrong."
Fan Jia didn't know why, but tears welled up in her eyes after she finished speaking. The two of them were one above and one below, one bright and one dark, and were several meters apart. Chen Zhaoci looked at her in a daze, and both of them were silent.
After a while, he lowered his head and smiled miserably: "I... have never killed anyone with my own hands. But I handled Liu Yisha's body according to the news. I will never forget that feeling in my life. Watching a living person's bones break into pieces under my hands. I can still hear the cracking sound inside when I shake it... You are wrong, I am not the same person as you. For so many years, although I did not participate in it, I watched those people I once hated bully one girl after another, but I couldn't control myself and couldn't stop... Fan Lingling, you are an upright people's policeman. But I am in the gutter. I have been in the gutter all my life!"
At this moment, Fan Jia was almost convinced by him, and even thought of giving up. Chen Zhaoci's confession made her feel a little scared, but also a little inexplicably bitter. A voice in her heart said to her: This is not how you should be born as a human being.
"No...it's not like that, it's not like that." Fan Jia stuttered.
Chen Zhaoci looked up at her, his eyes still a little confused: "Then what do you say it is like?!"
Fan Jia's face was already red, and his eyes were burning. He said, "Chen Zhaoci, you know, I learned this when I was in police school. In fact, each of us, everyone in the world, is born to be more...more aware of violence and crime. This is... this is probably an innate part of our human nature. In other words, if it were another person who lost his mother and home when he was young and worked hard, but his girlfriend died in front of him, he would also have the urge to do bad things. If it were another person who did bad things to his own kind, to a dead body, he would also lose control of himself. Others may not necessarily do better than you, but you have indeed not killed anyone so far. Because in your heart... in your heart, you still have hope, you want to get out of the gutter, you want to stand in the sun, you want to get rid of it all, right?"
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