In the face of Jin Han's strong questioning, the old policeman named Johnson still chose to stick to his bottom line as a federal police officer. He didn't tell Jin Han the girl's true identity.
In the face of Jin Han, who was on the verge of anger, Johnson straightened up his dignity. As a devout Christian, he pressed his right hand on his chest and looked into Jin Han's angry eyes. He was extremely sincere, fearless, and almost prayed: "please respect a girl's hard won chance of rebirth."
More than ten years later, because the girl involved in the case was still under age, many files were properly anonymous, and not many people knew the girl's real identity. Johnson was one of them.
Over the years, Elena has become famous in the world and has a new identity. Naturally, they can't bear to break her peaceful life. This is the tacit understanding that people who know the truth of that year stay together. It's a kind of protection that can best protect the girl who is deeply hurt.
Get out of the police station and drive away quietly.
Jin Han was sitting in the back seat, thinking deeply at the end of the ceremony. He had mixed emotions in his heart.
In my mind, I still stay in the scene just now and hear that the girl has been "reborn", which shows that she should have a good life now. Thinking of this, the guilt that has been in my heart for more than ten years has finally receded a little.
Outside the car window, the sky was just clear, suddenly overcast, accompanied by a few thunder like lightning, the rain poured down and slapped on the car body.
It was almost reflexive. He felt his chest suddenly stuffy. His hands subconsciously grasped his knees and held them tightly. The cold sweat in his palms wetted the expensive pants material, and his forehead was covered with sweat as big as beans.
Through the rearview mirror, Gu Yue saw Jin Han's strong support. He twisted his eyebrows a few times and was full of worry. He held the steering wheel indifferently, but he didn't say anything.
In the past two years, Jin Han's illness has been much better than before, and the dosage of medicine has been gradually reduced. Even in such rainy and thunder weather, if it is not an emergency, he will mostly shut himself up and endure it.
After all, those drugs have a powerful sedative effect. In the long run, the damage to the body is really not small. However, once he took this drug, he relied on it for more than ten years.
Since his marriage with Mu Ning'an, he gradually began to control the frequency of his medication. After all, it's three kinds of drugs. This kind of psychotropic drug is used for a long time. Its dependence and harm to the body are almost the same as drugs. After all, he doesn't want to lose his life. After all, there is a woman waiting for him to take charge of the rest of his life.
Sha Baoyang once half jokingly said that Mu Ning'an was his antidote. In fact, it was not. He gradually felt that she and her daughter had become his belief to live well.
Gu Yue tried to distract his attention and broke the silence. "Lin Shuyu is still alive. Do you need to check her identity?"
This girl is a knot in Jin Han's heart. He knows better than anyone.
Jin Han closed his eyes and shook his head. The old policeman was right. She was reborn. Maybe he shouldn't disturb her life now.
Gu Yue saw that Jin Han was still very uncomfortable. He had a word for him. Although he did not reply, he knew that the boss was listening. "I went to the hospital to see the death certificate of Lin Shu Yu. Then the police station also eliminated her registered residence information. I should have gone deep into it. I am willing to be punished for this.
It was his negligence that made Jin Han bear the psychological pressure for such a long time. Gu Yue always felt uneasy.
But Jin Han won't blame him. The police have always taken special measures to protect the victims of special cases. Since they want these people to "live", they will also arrange for them to "die".
The rain outside the car window is getting heavier and heavier, just like the thunder and lightning night of that year.
Jin Han leaned back on his seat, his thoughts overflowing.
That year, it was a thunderstorm night.
At the age of 19, he was admitted to MIT. That day, he took a late night flight from New York to Boston. Gu Yue, who was several years older than him, was a graduate student of MIT.
It was the first time Jin Han met Gu Yue. He only knew that he was the son of his grandfather.
Along the way, Gu Yue introduced the city to him from time to time. Through the busy streets, the night scene of the city was neon.
It seems that the street ahead is suddenly bustling with traffic.
"This is the bar street. It's the busiest time. It may be a bit congested." Gu Yue explained.
Jin Han didn't like the atmosphere. He whispered, "get out of the way."
Gu Yue twisted his eyebrows and went to the destination through a river crossing bridge. This was the only way. If he made a detour, he would drive more than 20 kilometers. Before Jin Han came, he had heard about the temper of the young master of Jin family from his father. He did not dare to offend him or explain. He turned right and entered the alley.
This is the back lane of the bar street. The back door of the bar is open. From time to time, you can see a few drunkards, smoking or leaning against the wall.
Further forward, it seems to be a piece of ruins, even without street lights, can only use the lamp bumping on the uneven dirt road.
"Bang", a car shock, it seems to have pressed something.
Gu Yue stopped the car and said, "young master, wait a moment. The road condition here is not good. Maybe I've rubbed something. I'll go down and have a look."
"Go." Jin Han said only one word, but it was irrefutable.
Gu Yue answered. He didn't get out of the car. He was about to release the brake when the co driver's window was slapped. The sound insulation inside the car was very good, but the loud noise was really shocking. I don't know how much effort the man used.
"Bang bang bang" came one after another.
At the same time, the people in the car looked out of the window. Outside the car, in the heavy rain, stood a ragged girl. She was fifteen or sixteen years old. She was wearing a school uniform. Her thin body was shaking. Her waist length hair had been wet by the rain. Now she stood in front of her face. It was really creepy for such a girl to appear in such a remote rainy night.
The girl's hands slapped heavily on the window, and she screamed, "help! Help!”
Sitting in the back seat, Jin Han looked out of the window and asked, "where is this?"
For the girl who appears here at this time, his first impression is not good. After all, he has lived abroad for so many years, and has seen a lot of them. It's even more common for girls to take the initiative to chat up when they see luxury cars. He has not encountered such experience.
"There are many cheap hotels in the street ahead, and many young people from the bar street will open rooms here. Looking at her like this, I think she's sucking. She's coming here to recruit customers!" Gu Yue said with disdain.
"Let's go." Jin Han said coldly that he had heard about the proliferation of drugs in this generation.
All night long.
The next morning, Jin Han opened his eyes, pressed the switch and opened the electric curtain. It rained all night, but it didn't stop.
He habitually touched the remote control of his head and turned on the TV.
The news channel's female anchor broadcast the day's headlines at a very fast speed, and the dazzling headlines inspired the man who was still lying in bed. "In the back lane of the bar street, a minor girl was molested by four men, and the girl was forced to take a huge amount of drugs. Now she has been sent to the emergency ward, and her life and death are uncertain..."
On the accompanying picture of the news is a picture of the scene of the incident taken by the police. The ragged girl is lying on the ruins of the wooden structure, dying. Although the girl's face is mosaic, Jin Han still recognizes the long hair and the familiar school uniform. Isn't that the girl who was blocking the road and slapping his car for help the night before?
Isn't she a drug addict? Was she just being chased by others and crying for help because of danger?
Maybe, he should stop, even if he should open the window and ask, maybe such a tragedy would not happen.
It was his indifference that killed an innocent girl. The guilt was like a nightmare, which was close to his heart and suffocating.
With the heavy rain pouring down, Jin Han pressed his chest tightly.
Since then, it seems that as long as it is rainy and thunderous weather, he can't help recalling that scene, the girl's ragged clothes, desperately slapping his window, crying for help, and the car chasing him finally fell down in the mud.
Because it involved minors, the police kept the case very secret. He inquired about it in many ways, only to find out the girl's name was Lin Shuyu. He also found out the hospital where the girl was staying, but it was a month later. The last thing he knew was Gu Yue's news about the girl's death.
……
In the back seat, Jin Han's breathing calmed down a lot.
Gu Yue asked at the right time, "Mr. Jin, as for the fourth man..."
After all, this fourth suspect has been closely watched by Interpol, which is different from the previous three people's Congress.
"The old rules." Jin Han pinched the root of his nose and said, tired.
If it is the old rule, it is to castrate first and then kill, just like the fate of the first three people.
After a long silence, Gu Yue finally said, "Mr. Jin, you've done your best in those years. Now that the girl is still alive, it's the best arrangement of heaven. It's time to untie the knot in your heart."
After all these years, he followed Jin Han. He was the only one who knew the truth about what happened in those years except Sha Baoyang. Even he once blamed himself for mistaking that girl for a drug addict. If he could ask more at that time, maybe there would be no tragedy in the future.
But tragedy has happened.
Maybe he was a few years older than Jin Han that year, and he came out quickly after all. But for Jin Han, who was 19 years old, the pain was really a kind of torture.
As Sha Baoyang said, traumatic sequelae vary from person to person. Some people may be accompanied for life, and Jin Han may be one of them.
Fortunately, the appearance of Mu Ning'an is a surprise.
For this lady, Gu Yue had respect and thanks in his heart.
After all, he always felt that Jin Han's illness was partly responsible. After Mu Ning'an appeared, no matter what, Jin Han's illness turned better. This is an indisputable fact, and it can be regarded as making up for his guilt.
**
hotel.
Elena took a sleeping pill and finally fell asleep.
Mu Ning'an is sitting at the head of the bed. The woman's soft fingers caress Elena's red and swollen eyes, which is a kind of pain in the heart.
One night's nightmare, the real murderer has not been arrested for 16 years. Every day, they seem to live in a kind of uneasy panic.
The rain poured out of the window.
Sixteen years, however, that night's matter, in the past time will still occasionally break into her nightmare.
That year, two people shared an apartment, feeling the same sister, reading the same high school.
She wasn't sixteen that year, and Elena was only one day away from her eighteenth birthday.
After dinner, the two went to the cake shop to buy a birthday cake to celebrate Elena's 18th birthday at 12 o'clock.
When I went back to my apartment, I met a black rental, who threatened them with all their money. Not to mention, I left them in the back alley.
On a rainy night with heavy rain, in the deep back lane, the two girls were scared, but they couldn't find a way out. They had to bump into each other and walk quickly towards the light.
I don't know where they came from. Several tall drunk young men surrounded the two girls. From the eyes and movements of several men, the two girls read the danger.
They struggled to break free and ran forward, and the people behind them kept on chasing them.
At a crossroads, they finally ran tired. When they saw a garbage can by the side of the road, Elena hid Mu Ning'an in it, covered it, and hid herself in a cardboard box. After all, she practiced dancing since she was a child and locked it in the cardboard box, almost without difficulty.
But did not expect, in a hurry, Elena's skirt exposed outside, there is no accident that she was found by those who chase.
Mu Ning'an is hiding in the garbage can, listening to Elena's scream. She wants to rush out to save her, but she hears Elena yelling to her in Chinese: "don't come out! Go to the police! Call the police
Elena's voice is more and more far away. When Mu Ning'an comes out, she sees that Elena is held up by several people in the distance, each carrying a hand and foot, and walks into a ruins dozens of meters away.
Mu Ning'an ran forward madly until she ran into a stopped car. She called for help in despair, but the people in the car obviously ignored her.
It was an hour later when she ran out of the alley and the police came back to the scene again.
The ruins where Elena once disappeared have disappeared. It is obvious that it is not the last scene of the crime.
Mu Ning'an sat in the police car, wrapped in a thick blanket, and refused to go home.
It was not until dawn the next day that police found Elena dying in the ruins of a factory 500 meters away from where she finally disappeared.
Mu Ning'an was terrified. She felt guilty, grateful, resentful and angry. Her heart was full of grief and anger.
If Elena didn't give her the chance of survival, I'm afraid she would be the victim of the tragedy. However, in the end, she can't do anything. Even if the police are called, it won't help.
After that, Elena began to be depressed. After that night, Elena was even more addicted to drugs. For a time, her life was very confused.
Her escape from detoxification and self indulgence is heartbreaking, and she has no innocent romance of the dancing girl in the past.
Mu Ning'an knows that Elena is not only escaping from drug treatment, but also from her life. She can't accept her dirty self, even more so, because of the nightmares of that night, she can't be a mother any more.
After removing the uterus, she has completely lost her qualification as a woman. That kind of despair is not the pain that ordinary people can bear.
Finally, half a year later, Elena finally couldn't bear the collapse of her heart, picked up the blade and reached her slender wrist.
Fortunately, Mu Ning'an found it in time.
That night, the two sisters cry, Mu Ning An vowed to accompany her to detoxify.
Elena doesn't believe that her life will come again. Seeing this, Mu Ning'an almost doesn't hesitate to suck down a bag of white powder. She shakes her body, presses Elena's wrist and says, "if I can give up, so can you."
Perhaps Mu Ning'an's gambling with her life finally infected Elena, who was already desperate. They lived together in a drug treatment center for several months.
It was a year after the incident when they came out of the rehab center.
That day, it happened to be Elena's birthday.
As the sisters celebrate their birthday, Mu Ning'an says she will give her a special birthday present.
She took Elena to have a repair operation, but on the operation list, Mu Ning'an wrote down her name, and she wanted to give Elena a new life.
The operation was quick and smooth. Outside the operating room, Mu Ning'an held Elena's hand and said with a smile, "from now on, you are Elena."
From then on, Mu Ning'an made up her mind to be the woman who protected Elena.
From that time on, she no longer believed in men, and she would never forget the black car that abandoned her on a rainy night and the indifference of the men in the car.