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Driving on the crowded road, looking at the crowds and vehicles, the towering skyscrapers, I felt a wave of disappointment.

The international metropolis under our feet is just a speck of dust in this world. How easy would it be to find a person who has been missing for 25 years?

Dad, why did I see despair when you gave me hope? Perhaps you think the same as I do?

An hour later, I arrived at the airport. He took out his phone and looked at the time. It was still about ten minutes to midnight. Bored, he searched through his contact list and found Liao Mengfann's name.

I've only been on the phone with her four times in the past three months. She never took more than five minutes each time, because she was too busy.

Ever since she had solved the 12.1 big murder case, Liao Mengfann had been promoted to the leader of a group, with many cases in her hands. And I realized that we didn't seem to have anything to say on the phone, which made me depressed. Sometimes, I would go online to check up on the art of picking up girls, but unfortunately, people like me simply can't learn it.

He dialed Liao Mengfann's cell phone, and very quickly, a moving female voice came out: "Sorry, the phone you called was turned off. "Sorry …"

"F * ck!" I cursed silently in my heart and could only stand there foolishly in the wind.

After another 20 minutes, it was already 12: 15. I looked at the sparse crowd around us. The ones that should have left have already left, but the ones I wanted to pick up still haven't arrived. Could it be that the contract had been changed? Thinking of this, I hurriedly took out the phone to call Dad to ask.

"Hey! Long time no see! "

Following my familiar voice, a pair of white hands patted on my left shoulder. I hung up quickly and turned my head.

I saw Liao Mengfann standing behind me with a small suitcase in her hand. She was as charming as ever in the wind, but a little thinner. I was so excited that I wanted to take her in my arms.

However, I saw a familiar person standing behind her. That person was actually Wei Shijie, he was holding onto his stomach with one hand and holding onto a box with the other, his expression was painful, and he even smiled at me.

I didn't have time to pay attention to Wei Shijie. Looking at Liao Mengfann's charming face, I asked, "The two of you … It can't be the person I want to pick up, right? "

"You got it right!" Liao Mengfann opened the car trunk and put the trunk inside. She opened the door and sat in the front passenger seat.

I opened the car door and got into the driver's seat. Wei Shijie quickly followed me into the car, and when I looked back at him, I asked: "Bro, are you alright?"

"He's fine!" Liao Mengfann interrupted, saying, "This is the first time Little Wei has flown, he's a little airsick, and he has even eaten too much. "It'll be fine after a while."

"Little Wei?" I almost drove the car into the fence, Liao Mengfann's way of addressing Wei Shijie was too strange. What's that? My thoughts were in a mess as I asked Liao Mengfann, "You guys are talking about friends?"

"Puchi!" Liao Mengfann covered her mouth and laughed, then said: "Your thoughts are truly complicated, Little Wei has worked with me for two months, do I have to call him Wei Shijie all day?"

"Ha!" I said, "It's my mind that's not simple! "I'm sorry!"

At that time, I was a little sad. I listened to Liao Mengfann speaking to me with a voice as calm as water. Normally, when a woman talks to you like that, her heart is almost free of you. I thought, maybe in her heart, I'm just an ordinary friend?

Thinking about this question, there was no longer any need for me to ask. Sighing to myself, I changed the topic and asked, "Did you guys come to the capital for a business trip?"

"It should be a long-term business trip!" Liao Mengfann said, "Yesterday, Wei Shijie and I received the Ministry of Public Security notification to report to the Ministry with all the information and photos of the murder case at 12.1."

"Oh?" I chuckled. "It seems that we'll be colleagues from now on!"

"That's right!" I really did not expect this! " Liao Mengfann extended her hand and patted my shoulder, and said: "I and Little Wei will be relying on you to protect us in the future, Young Master Lu."

"Ha, let's pull it down!" I said, "I'm just a small agent. How can I compare to you, Captain Liao?"

Originally, I thought that Liao Mengfann would come and chat with me, but who would have thought that she would open the car window and look at the scenery outside. She had one hand on her cheek, and when I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye, I saw that she looked a little sad. Maybe it's because I've just arrived in this city and I'm not used to it, so I asked caringly, "What's wrong? Do you miss home? "

She shook her head, closed the car window and looked at the road in front of her: "Zhang Qingya got married last month."

"Huh?" Isn't she a homosexual? I asked, "Who did she marry?"

"Guess?" Liao Mengfann pretended to be suspicious.

I chuckled. "It's Mayor Song, right?"

"No!" Liao Mengfann revealed a smile and said: "She married a normal employee."

I sighed, maybe in Zhang Qingya's heart, she had always wanted to be an ordinary woman? I suddenly remembered those withered lilies in front of Liu Yuling's grave. Maybe her soul in heaven wanted to tell Zhang Qingya that it wished for her to forget this painful memory.

The withering of the lily also represents the beginning of a new life. I believe that Liu Yuling will be in a place that we won't be able to see, congratulating the only person she loves, Lu Yue …

40 minutes later, we arrived at Ministry of Public Security. After bringing Liao Mengfann and Wei Shijie into the office, the three of us attracted countless gazes.

There was no helping it, Liao Mengfann looked like she was a little bit of a disaster to them, but actually, a woman like her should go to the National Security Bureau to be a spy, not a police officer. Under the envious gazes of the male colleagues, I led the two of them into the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the eighth floor, and when I stepped out, I saw a young woman standing in front of Dad's office. The woman was dressed in a black OL suit and carried a packing bag in her arms. When she saw us coming up, she went straight to me.

"You are?" I've never seen this woman on this floor before.

She gave the three of us an extremely standard smile and said: "Hello, Officer Lu. I'm Department Head Lu's new secretary. Department Head Lu told me to wait here for the three of you. Please follow me."

As the woman spoke, she bent down and made a gesture with her hand. I followed her back and forth across the eighth floor until the woman led the three of us to an extremely secluded corner. There was a wooden door in the corner, and on it was engraved the door plate for Task Force.

The woman opened the door for us and left. I approached the office and found it full of my own people. In the center of the room was an oval conference table, in the corner was a computer, and a curtain hung on the wall above the computer. Looking at the decorations of the office, I am extremely disappointed. Isn't this a little too simple?

I walked over to Dad and said, "Dad, the two of them are coming over."

I saw Professor Liang and the rest all nod towards Liao Mengfann and Wei Shijie, but their expressions did not look good, as though something had happened.

I took the briefcase from Wei Shijie and said, "The information on the case No. 12.1 is inside."

"Sit down first!" Dad stood up at this moment with a remote control in his hand and said, "Just this morning, in Yongan city in the south, there was a case of inhumane death. Yongan city's government and Yongan city's public security bureau directly sent the case to our Task Force, hoping that we would step in and help investigate. Now you look at what happened. "

When Dad said this, he intentionally looked at the three of us. It looks like the others have already seen it.

The scene inside the curtain was very clear. It seemed like it was not recorded. It should have been a live broadcast. At the beginning, there was an introduction, which said that to celebrate the completion of the first lotus stadium in the Lotus Country of China, the Education Bureau of Yongan City, together with the schools in Yongan City, held a sports meeting.

The scene at the beginning was very normal. The students were all around the stadium, shouting all kinds of slogans as they were reviewed by the city's leaders. After the review, there were a few leaders that spoke nonsense. After the speech came the ceremony of hoisting the flag. I checked the time on the curtain and saw it was seven o'clock in the morning.

The camera's lens is now aimed directly at the flagpole in the middle of the stadium. However, I didn't see the five-star red flag, nor did I see the standard-bearer.

Just as I was wondering, the national anthem began to ring. Following this rhythm in my heart, I also began to silently sing the national anthem. As the national anthem progressed, I saw that the bottom of the flagpole seemed to be opening bit by bit. Soon after, a messy black object rose along with the national anthem.

My scalp began to tingle as I heard screams coming from the curtain. I looked carefully and saw that a naked woman was tied to the flag's rope.

She lowered her head and clasped her hands together. She seemed to be covered in something. She stood upright, and beneath her was the bright red five-star flag.

The red flag flapped back and forth between her legs as if she were riding it. The national anthem continued. The body had risen to the top of the flagpole, swaying left and right. It looked like it would fall soon.

But at this moment, the sound of the national anthem suddenly stopped. The red flag also stopped rising. From within the curtain, I heard waves of screams and cries.

Immediately afterwards, the screen began to tremble violently. The moment before the video went black, the cameraman gave the woman a close-up shot. I saw her riding on top of the red flag with faint blood flowing between her legs. The red flag was dyed with blood and looked exceptionally alluring …