"Green Sun?" Director Fu asked.
"Impossible." Ai Qing shook her head, "Even if Green Sun knew that Huai Shi killed the Red Gloves, they wouldn't bother with a pawn. Those lunatics are always looking at the Astronomy Society, they're not that low. "
"The Savior Society?"
"That's even more impossible."
Ai Qing shook her head, "He's just a victim. Even if they want revenge, they should target me. Huai Shi's file is still confidential. At present, other than you and me, no one else knows that he's a Ascender."
"…"
For a moment, it was difficult for the two to continue thinking.
"That guy really knows how to cause trouble."
Director Fu sighed unhappily, "Let's just lock him up for half a year."
"He's currently an official employee of the Astronomy Society." Ai Qing stared straight at him, "If you insist, then I'm afraid we can only meet in Jinling."
Jinling, the upper level organization of the Special Affairs Department, the eastern branch of the Dongxia Republic Social Security Bureau.
Ai Qing's meaning was undoubtedly clear: If Director Fu was stubborn, then they could only meet in the border court.
Director Fu frowned, "Are you really going to protect him?"
"He's my subordinate." Ai Qing replied.
"No, he's a seventeen-year-old high school student. Tomorrow is the third year of high school, and the year after that will be the college entrance examination."
Director Fu raised his voice slightly, "If you really don't want him to be locked up at the border one day, then you shouldn't let him get involved in things outside of school."
"…"
Ai Qing looked at him strangely, "You're actually caring about the growth of a teenager?"
"I just hate stupid kids who pick up weapons." Director Fu touched the scar on his neck, and his expression became more and more unhappy, "The more troublesome it is, the more annoying it is."
"He won't become the kind of person you think he is."
Director Fu didn't answer him. He just remained silent, and once again recalled the eyes of the teenager in the video.
It was as if he was finally angered. The moment he clenched his fist, the disguise was like a fog blown away by the wind and snow.
The unpleasant superficial smile finally disappeared and was replaced by a solemn and gloomy expression that was as cold as iron.
To destroy everything with such arrogance …
It was as if death was nothing but a speck of dust.
That gaze was like that of an executioner, and it made Director Fu instinctively feel uneasy. No, it should be said that he was disgusted.
She hated people who had that kind of look in their eyes.
She hated children who had that kind of look in their eyes.
"Miss Ai, you are trying to put a chain on a beast and let it learn the rules of a domestic dog, but Huai Shi is different from that kind of thing."
He frowned. "He's just living in a wild dog's nest. Even if he looks like a husky, his nature is like a wolf.
Once he has seen blood, he can no longer be restrained by chains. "
Ai Qing calmly drank the cheap tea leaves in the office. She put down the teacup indifferently.
"If you're so scared, why don't you just kill him?"
"Do you think I haven't thought about it?"
Director Fu asked, "On the night of the Red Gloves' death, when I saw him for the first time in the rain, I had the same impulse. I can't accept the existence of a potential lunatic in my jurisdiction.
But what can I do? I'm 46 years old this year, and I already have a child. Do you want me to kill another child because he might commit a crime in the future?
Miss Ai, he's only 17 years old, and the Protection of Minors Act is on his side. He still has a chance to choose his own future … choose a future that won't hurt most people. "
"That's what you call a domestic dog, right?"
Ai Qing asked coldly, "Cover your ears and pretend you can't hear? Cover your eyes and pretend nothing happened, endure the pain until it becomes a habit, submit to the abuse, wag your tail and wait for the reward. Do you think that kind of life is a happy one? "
Director Fu was angered. "He has more choices!"
"He doesn't."
Ai Qing said, "His surname is Huai, just like my surname is not Ai. Whether he struggles or not, he can't change what happened in the past, just like you and I can't decide a person's future. "
She said, "This is destined."
Director Fu asked coldly, "What do you think he will think of you when he finds out the truth?"
"Who cares? No matter what choice he makes, I won't be surprised. "
Ai Qing looked into his eyes calmly and said word by word, "But before that, I won't allow anyone to touch him."
"Then what are you doing?" Director Fu was amused. "Atonement?"
Ai Qing was expressionless. "I'm just hoping that someone will come and settle the score with me."
"…"
In the silence, Director Fu didn't say anything else. He just pointed in the direction of the interrogation room and asked her to take his subordinate away.
.
At the same time, Huai Shi was eating to his heart's content in the interrogation room.
After finishing the supper of an unknown employee, he wiped his mouth and shouted, "Another bowl!"
In the silence, the few Special Affairs Division officers sitting there didn't say anything. They just looked at him with their arms crossed, a trace of pity in their eyes.
Until Huai Shi turned around and saw Ai Qing behind him.
"Uh …"
"Don't always let others think that I didn't pay you a salary, okay?"
"… Ah, sorry."
"Sorry for what? Because of how much you eat? " Ai Qing shook her head. "The Astronomy Society has a drug specifically for the development of Ascendants. Do you need me to buy it for you?"
"Ah …" Huai Shi didn't know how to explain the Crow incident. He could only scratch his head. "I've already bought it."
"Yoo Dong-ri again?"
Ai Qing raised her eyebrows, seemingly unhappy. "It's better not to go to the detective's place. That guy isn't easy to deal with either."
"Okay."
Huai Shi, the Federation, readily accepted her advice.
After the few officers left, Ai Qing asked, "What's going on today?"
"Sorry, I caused trouble again."
"Don't always apologize for other people's mistakes —"
The girl rubbed her eyebrows unhappily and sighed. "To be honest, I don't care what you turned that group of social trash into. As an employee of the Astronomy Society, when you encounter an attack, the standard response procedure even includes the option of killing. Do you understand?
Don't underestimate the privileges of the Astronomy Society. Even if you pull out a gun and kill them all, there's no problem with the procedure. At most, you'll be recorded internally after going through the procedures.
I'm just curious — what's your reason for doing this? "
"Huh?" Huai Shi didn't understand.
"Usually, you'd run away, right?"
She said. "Shamelessly begging for mercy or running away when you can't beat them … It's not your style to fight head-on."
"…"
Huai Shi was speechless. "Am I a coward in your mind?"
"What do you think?"
"… Okay, I think you're right." Huai Shi sighed and scratched his head. He didn't know what to say. "If you want to say something, you should be angry, right? Then, when you weren't careful, you went a little overboard and ended up like this. "
"Does it have anything to do with Lao Yang's funeral?"
"…"
Huai Shi was stunned for a long time before he smiled awkwardly. "How is that possible?"
Ai Qing didn't say anything. She just looked at him as if waiting for him to continue. After a long time, Huai Shi finally admitted defeat.
"Okay … Probably a little."
He looked down at the wounds and bandages on his body and sighed helplessly.
"I'm scared."
"But no matter how beautiful my words are, when a group of people surrounded me in an alley with knives in their hands and said that they wanted to kill me, I couldn't help but feel scared.
I always thought that I was so stubborn that I wasn't even afraid of death, but when I saw my friend lying in the incinerator, I realized that not only was I scared, but I was scared to death. "
Huai Shi sighed. "I've been a happy idiot for so many years. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to be happy, and I wouldn't even be able to continue being an idiot. But what can I do?
I can't even live my own life well.
Even if I go shopping when I have nothing to do, there will be people who want to kill me … No matter how annoying I am, this is too much, right? "
"Yes."
Ai Qing nodded as if she agreed, but he didn't know what she agreed with.
Was it annoying or too much?
Huai Shi smiled bitterly. He reached out to hold the table and propped himself up. The bandages on his body were bleeding again. This time, the injury was really not light.
He found another bad habit that he had developed after reading the records.
It was convenient to die at will in the records, but in reality, he would have to pay a heavy price.
One against seven sounded awe-inspiring, but it was impossible not to be injured when seven against one.
"Do you want me to give you a hand?"
Ai Qing suddenly asked, as if she was referring to something.
Huai Shi smiled and shook his head. "No, I can do it myself."
"You have to live your own life, right?"
He finally propped his body up and leaned on himself.
He put on the coat that was hanging in the corner. The old suit was still spotless and covered the bloodstains. He looked like he had returned to the past, gentle and harmless.
"Should I ask the driver to send you home?"
"I'll call a taxi." Huai Shi shook his phone and raised his eyebrows happily. "I grabbed a taxi ticket on the way today. It will expire if I don't use it."
Looking at him holding the wall and stumbling a little funny, Ai Qing fell silent.
"If you don't have a yearning for something outside of daily life, there is no reason to become a Sublimator …" She suddenly asked, "Huai Shi, are you regretting it?"
"No." Huai Shi grinned. "I just haven't gotten used to it yet."
As he spoke, he patted his chest and gestured an OK gesture.
"This is a small problem. Give me some time."
The young man smiled, nodded, and said goodbye. He opened the door and whispered as if talking to himself, "Give me some time …"
Ai Qing watched him go downstairs.
She didn't try to comfort or persuade him again, although she decided that it would be stupid to face everything alone.
At worst, she would continue to dig deeper. If necessary, she would save him. Who knows, maybe he could work for the Astronomy Society for a few more years.
His self-esteem and Ai Qing's career were satisfied at the same time.
Double the satisfaction, double the happiness.
It was the best of both worlds.
In silence, she looked at the page of [Collection of 10,000 Sins]. The reward that quietly increased, and her eyes became gloomy.
Two hundred thousand dollars?
Wasn't this too cheap for an official employee of the Astronomy Society?
It was rare that she decided to fulfill her responsibility as a boss.
She closed the page. Her finger swiped and clicked on the complicated symbol at the top composed purely of triangles and circles — the Metatron Cube.
It was a sales platform set up by the three major neutral forces at the border: Tomorrow News, Stonecauldron Society, and the Workshop Alliance. It corresponded to information, border technology, and weapons and tools respectively.
Soon, the page kept jumping and entered the page of the alchemy workshop, the Cavendish Laboratory, which featured a combination of sophisticated technology and border technology.
Recalling the bounty of Huai Shi that had yet to be warmed up in her account, she felt a rare sense of joy.
Three million dollars.
Enough to buy something good, right?
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