It was already evening when You Mingxu returned home.
Her own home.
When she went upstairs, she caught a glimpse of an inconspicuous car parked not far away. There were two figures in the car, and there was no movement at all. They probably waited quietly because they were afraid that she would be embarrassed. She didn't want to greet them either.
You Mingxu hasn't come back to live for a long time. I opened the door and smelled the accumulated dust. In her hand, she only had a simple luggage bag.
She threw the bag on the ground, fell on the sofa, closed her eyes and leaned against it for a long time, then got up to clean up.
The house was tidy and not big, so she cleaned it up quickly. She looked at Yin Feng's empty room again, and finally returned to the bedroom and fell on the bed.
The curtains were half-drawn, the room was dim and cold.
She suddenly wondered, what was Yin Feng doing now? Is he thinking about her too? Are you still in agony? How much did he remember about Guizhou?
He should have known clearly what kind of trouble he would face.
What will he do? Where will he go?
Is he really the creator of the Punisher?
Yin Feng, do you really see yourself clearly?
Can you still see Ash?
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It was a house in the mountains, on the border of Xiangcheng and Zhuzhou. Because the mountain in front is a tourist scenic area. This house is hidden here and someone lives in it, but it doesn't attract attention from others.
The house is built entirely of wood, like a solid castle, but also like a cage. There is a path paved with moisture-proof wooden boards at the entrance, connecting to a small pond. The surrounding area is densely wooded and overgrown with weeds. The new lotus leaves are beginning to grow in the pond, as if someone had scooped up a handful of greenness and brought it to the owner of the house.
This house was bought by Tuya when he just returned to China. At that time, he still had a lot of problems, but he still fantasized about being debt-free one day, coming to this paradise, and living the rest of his life like a savage. Later he went to jail and followed Yin Feng, leaving the house here. I didn’t expect to use it today.
From midnight yesterday until today, they changed cars and license plates, used countless means of transportation, paid people to distract the police, tampered with surveillance videos on the road... It was not until after noon that they arrived here safely.
Yin Feng woke up on the way to escape, remained silent, and did not stop their actions.
From noon till now, Yin Feng has been sitting in the room without coming out or speaking a word to anyone. Chen Feng brought in lunch, and when he went to get the lunch box after the meal, he found that it had not been touched at all. Chen Feng didn't say anything and walked out.
The early summer sunshine is already quite strong.
Several people sat under the shade of the tree, each in a daze.
Champion has completely calmed down, and even smiles playfully, teasing Xiaoyan from time to time. Xiaoyan felt like a huge stone was piled in her heart. She didn't want to pay any attention to him, but she couldn't resist him. Soon, the two of them started fighting again.
Graffiti was smoking sullenly, and his body looked like a dull mountain. At this time, even the champion didn't dare to mess with him.
Chen Feng was also smoking. His shirt and trousers were already wrinkled and extremely dirty. He stared into the distance beyond the water with gloomy eyes.
Hearing Guan Jun and Xiao Yan quarreling again, Tuhua was furious. He threw his cigarette butt on the ground and shouted, "Enough! Can it really be non-existent? What should we do next? What about Teacher Yin?"
Everyone was quiet.
Guan Jun was the first to say coldly, "What's there to be angry about? Teacher Yin is on the police side, so we are on the police side. He is the punisher, so we are the punishers. It's just killing, it's just being killed. Is it really that important?"
Chen Feng cursed, "Shut up! How could Teacher Yin be the Punisher? He led us and the police to kill so many Punishers, and he was almost killed by his own brother! How could he have founded the Punisher organization?"
Guan Jun said almost immediately: "Then what do you say? You saw him and Su Ziyi imprisoning Li Mingdi? Doesn't he also not remember this?"
Chen Feng grabbed his hair in pain. He wished he had not seen that scene at all. But even if he didn't see it, would it make any difference? Teacher Yin had already taken action against Li Mingdi last night, and even admitted it himself...
Xiaoyan, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke up: "What if he is indeed the punisher, but he just forgot it? He thinks he is righteous?"
Everyone fell silent.
Xiaoyan's fair face was tightly drawn, and she continued, "Sometimes, if a person experiences a very strong stimulus, he or she will forget some things. For example, I... still can't remember what happened and what I did on the night my parents were killed. If Teacher Yin just forgot, Yin Chen and the others would be forced to confront Teacher Yin, and it's even possible that... they hurt Teacher Yin, but not fatally, just to protect Teacher Yin's identity?"
Several people's faces changed when they heard this, but no one could come up with a reason to refute.
Graffiti closed his eyes in pain and whispered, "You all heard it. He said he was the Punisher."
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Chen Feng walked into the room and saw Yin Feng leaning in a rattan chair, looking out the window. He was still wearing the clothes he wore last night, which were covered in mud, but he was unaware of it and looked calm.
Chen Feng felt sad. He put the reheated food in front of him and said, "Teacher Yin, you have to eat."
Yin Feng acted as if he didn't hear anything and no one knew what he was thinking.
Chen Feng added: "If You Mingxu knew, he would be worried."
Yin Feng then looked at him, then at the food, and said in a hoarse voice, "Leave it there, I'll eat it later."
Chen Feng didn't know what to say, or perhaps he didn't need to say anything. He sat down next to Yin Feng, and they looked at the tree branches and water reflected outside the two-foot square window glass.
"Now that things have come to this, what do you think?" Yin Feng asked.
Chen Feng smiled, with a calm expression: "We have just discussed it. Wherever you go, we go. What you are, we are. This is our view."
Yin Feng fell silent.
After a long while, he said, "Okay."
Chen Feng almost burst into tears, not knowing whether it was because of excitement, sadness or loneliness.
But he didn't see that when Yin Feng looked out the window, there was a flash of tears in his eyes as deep as a well.
Yin Feng suddenly smiled, with the back of one hand against the corner of his lips, looking very cold and unbridled as usual. He asked softly, "Chen Feng, did you really see me, Su Ziyi, and Li Mingdi together that day three years ago?"
Chen Feng lowered his eyes and said nothing.
That's the default.
Yin Feng said slowly: "What a pair of eyes sees must be true?"
Chen Feng was shocked and didn't understand what he meant.
Yin Feng stopped explaining and changed the subject: "In fact, strictly speaking, You Yingjun is not my second personality. He is just a part of my current personality. At that time, I had a brain injury and psychological trauma, but it was mainly due to physical injuries that made me lose my mind and become like a child. There are many similar cases in medicine. When my brain injury recovered, I was cured. I can remember everything he did. Only when I am drunk and my nervous system is paralyzed will that side of me show up again. If You Yingjun is really my second personality, then I will never be able to actively realize what he did. At most, I can only see some memory fragments about the second personality in my subconscious."
Chen Feng understood his words and suddenly realized what he meant. Chen Feng just felt shocked, unbelievable yet reasonable.
Yin Feng's face was calm, as if he was immersed in a pool of cool water. He said: "If those things were really done by Yin Feng, it was him. This is the only explanation."
Chen Feng lost his voice and said, "What should we do? What should we do?"
Yin Feng closed his eyes, as if he finally felt tired. He leaned back in his chair and said in a hoarse voice, "Go ask Guan Jun if there is any way to bypass the police and contact You Mingxu."
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These days, You Mingxu has been thinking about what happened that night over and over again. What happened before she arrived at the ward? Otherwise, it would be impossible for Yin Feng, who is such a calm person, to lose control of his emotions and strangle Li Mingdi to death.
The image of Yin Feng looking at her for the last time, desperate and painful, kept appearing in her mind. She wished she could fly to him right now, see how he was doing, and ask him why.
But he disappeared with his men.
You Mingxu did not become depressed because it was impossible for her to do so. She also found a way to take home all the cases over the years that might be related to the Punisher and search through them carefully, hoping to find even a hint of clues.
In addition to doing this, she also goes out for a run and does high-intensity physical training during the day. The two policemen who were responsible for watching her just followed her silently, and sometimes ran up to hand her cigarettes.
At night, she finally had nothing to do and sat in the empty house, feeling the loneliness that was everywhere. She had no choice but to pick up her tablet and watch TV series. She became so sleepy late at night that she fell asleep.
It’s the third day since Yin Feng disappeared.
It was already very late at night, and the city seemed to have fallen silent, with only the pitch-black night seeming to rush in through the window.
You Mingxu placed the tablet computer on the bed, leaned back, and stared at it expressionlessly.
Suddenly, the screen went black.
She was startled and cursed in her heart, "When it rains, it pours." Just as she was about to pick up the tablet, she saw a program automatically flashing on the screen, as if it was running very fast. After a second, the screen went black again.
Then, on the dark and almost solemn screen, two white words slowly appeared: "Ash."
You Mingxu stared at these two words, and suddenly tears filled his eyelashes and he was overwhelmed with sadness.
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