2052, Thirty Years Of Sleep

In the elegantly decorated and quiet cafe, three men with different looks were sitting at the table, and the atmosphere was a bit strange.

The young man with short black hair and thin-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, who looked to be in his early twenties, suddenly whispered: "Don't the faceless guy know that Zhang Xixue is your daughter?"

"He knows." The honest middle-aged man sitting opposite him nodded slightly.

"Wumian made a plan. Someone fired from the door and almost hit Zhang Xixue in the head." The young man leaned back and folded his hands on his chest: "I blocked him in time."

"You underestimate Xixue." Zhang Feiyu took out a cigarette from his pocket and drooped his eyelids: "Even without you, the gun would not have been hit."

"Fine."

Yan Muyun didn't care. He changed his posture slightly and asked in a somewhat impatient tone: "So what exactly do you want me to help you with?"

The other party said three minutes ago that he wanted to do a favor, but during these three minutes he didn't say even a single word.

"Thirty years ago, after I escaped from the police, I was rescued by two men. One was Wu Mian, and the other I called Brother Zuo."

Zhang Feiyu lit the cigarette and brought it to his mouth, took a puff, squeezed out a few wrinkles from the corners of his eyes, and suddenly talked about his seemingly unrelated past events:

"Then the three of us were thinking about making some money with our supernatural powers, so we founded an organization called Black Umbrella."

In two simple sentences, he introduced the birth of the largest black organization in Menxia City.

"Not long after I had a small amount of money, Brother Zuo got involved in drugs. Once he got addicted to it and died in a car accident. Faceless said that he was not the material to be the boss, so he forced the black umbrella to me."

"Ten years later, I found a wife and gave birth to a daughter, named Xixue."

"My daughter has had a strong sense of justice since she was a child. On the day she graduated from elementary school, she tugged on my sleeve and said, 'Dad, daddy, I will be a policeman in the future to punish rape and eliminate evil.'"

Yan Muyun nodded imperceptibly, because he suddenly remembered that he was like this when he arrested Luo Beiyuan.

Zhang Xixue could have taken action to prevent Zhang Lan from being injured, but in order to ensure that she could subdue the suspect, she chose to remain hidden.

The girl later took the initiative to go to the hospital to apologize to Zhang Lan. No one blamed her for this, but they all expressed their understanding. After all, law enforcement officers need to make sacrifices and choices under certain special circumstances.

It's understandable, but understandable. If everyone puts themselves into her role at that time, the choices they make will be different.

Zhang Feiyu exhaled a mouthful of white mist and continued to speak slowly: "I was thinking, since my daughter wants to be a policeman, how can I continue to be a gangster? So I gave up my position and opened this Hunan restaurant."

Status, fame, money, power, do you just throw away these things?

Yan Muyun wanted to ask the other person this question, but seeing the blank expression on the man's face, he finally chose to remain silent.

"Xixue has been smart since she was a child, ranking among the best in all exams. In her freshman year of high school, she also awakened a very powerful power [Night Walker]. Therefore, after she graduated, she easily got a job in the police department's special detection department. Internship quota.”

Having said this, Zhang Feiyu suddenly raised his head and looked at the opposite side with his eyelids half drooped: "You should know the effect of [Night Walker]."

Yan Muyun nodded.

"[Nightwalker] not only enhances Xixue's physical fitness, but also enhances her emotions. She will be very calm when she is calm, but when she is touched to a certain point, she will be particularly extreme. And among all her emotions What was most affected was his already strong sense of justice." Zhang Feiyu put out his cigarette butt on the table, his tone a little tired.

These words were like a beam of light, dispersing the fog deep in a corner of Yan Muyun's heart.

Yes, Zhang Xixue's drastic change in temperament at night cannot be simply understood as becoming more rational and calm.

The two of them went to Peach Blossom Spring before. When faced with the unknown informant "Squirrel" who was pretending to be an informant, Zhang Xixue's behavior was more like "disgust" or "impatient" than "resolute".

Faced with the conditions proposed by Squirrel, she chose to directly threaten with a gun instead of negotiating.

It was only later that Zhang Xixue reluctantly agreed to the deal when she discovered that the two of them could not reach the third floor without the help of Squirrel.

Now that I think about it, it was because Squirtle was caught by the police that she had to become an informant. In her eyes, was he a criminal with a dirty background?

After thinking about these things, Yan Muyun suddenly had a vague premonition of what the other party was going to say next.

After a brief silence, Zhang Feiyu spoke again: "Six months after Xixue entered the Strange Detection Department, an old friend sent me a video."

Yan Muyun narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly: "Let me guess, there is a man inside wearing a dark red mask, reading out other people's crimes?"

Zhang Feiyu's drooped eyelids were slightly raised, and his somewhat cloudy dark eyes looked at the other party: "You are still as smart as before."

"Luckily I didn't fall asleep." Yan Muyun twitched the corners of his mouth, but found that he couldn't smile at all.

"I think...she might like you."

"This move is a bit of a cover-up. I did see Zhang Xixue, but I didn't see her face and didn't know it was her." Yan Muyun sighed, and then he didn't know what he thought of, and the expression on his face became a little embarrassed.

"She is now at home waiting for people from the Special Branch to come to her door, and then she is ready to be arrested."

Not every criminal will receive significant media coverage, especially when some criminals' personal information is often withheld even when reported.

If Zhang Xixue is the punisher, many things seem to make sense.

Zhang Feiyu took out another cigarette from his pocket, frowned and said: "At first, the punishment agents dealt with small thieves and ordinary criminals, so they did not attract too many people's attention. When someone finally came to him on the road, I was interested and started trying to investigate his identity..."

Zhang Feiyu's voice became colder and colder, and his tone became deeper and deeper. In a trance, he seemed to have once again transformed into the black umbrella handle that controlled the entire underground world of Menxia City seven years ago.

It can be seen from this somewhat self-righteous code name that the other party is a person with a strong sense of justice.

"To be honest, I was shocked at the time."

"I made a deal with your director. I paid a lot, including all the information about the Holy Clothes that Wu Mian and the others found last night, in exchange for his agreement to block Xixue's biological information tracking authority."

The first video of the Punisher was posted on Jieke in June last year. The graduation time of Long and Zhang Xixue from high school was around mid-April.

Zhang Feiyu lit the cigarette, took a puff, and slowly exhaled: "But no one will catch her."

"because..."

"Feiyu." Tang Wuling coughed.

Tang Wuling chewed his teeth and said, "He may have thought you saw Xiaoxue, so... he deliberately turned into her, trying to pretend that he was playing a prank and dispel your doubts."

If it were him in the past, he would probably choose to pretend to know nothing, but now...he doesn't know what choice he will make in the end.

"I have to say." Zhang Feiyu sighed: "As a result, she locked herself in the room today, and her mother and I couldn't communicate with her at all... So, I thought of you."

"Enlighten?" Yan Muyun was a little confused.

Being able to catch each criminal quickly and accurately, and also being able to read out their crimes one by one, is definitely a very heavy workload for vigilantes who usually need to disguise themselves as ordinary citizens.

And if the person who takes the punishment is a police officer who is in the police system and has the authority to access internal intelligence and clues, these problems seem to be solved.

Punishers punish criminals instead of the law.

Zhang Feiyu realized something, put his hands on the chair and changed his sitting position, and his tone became calm again: "I want to ask you to help enlighten Xixue."

Zhang Feiyu gently rubbed his temples with the heel of his palm and said in a low voice: "So, I hope you can persuade Xixue and persuade her not to think about surrendering in the future."

Zhang Feiyu's voice was low: "I would rather you recognize Xixue. In that case, based on your character, you would probably let her go, instead of putting the information device on her even if you risk getting hurt."

Yan Muyun blinked: "Why do you think I can persuade her?"

I told her about Su Tianyu just the day before yesterday. Su Tianyu was killed by the punisher last night...

In Jiike's forum, the most discussed topic among netizens is whether the punisher is a team or an individual vigilante, and most people think that there is a team behind it.

"Things have become irreversible." Yan Muyun added softly.

Also, the reason why Zhang Xixue was so interested in Zhang Zitong was out of guilt for killing her father. The reason why he did not tell the girl the truth of the matter and concluded inexplicably that the punisher would not upload the video was because she was the punisher.

Zhang Feiyu's eyelids were drooped, veins were beating on his forehead, and he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth:

Yan Muyun lowered his head slightly and said nothing.

"The General Administration said they took over the case." Yan Muyun frowned.

"Ten of you are no match for Xixue. If she hadn't been afraid of hurting you last night, you wouldn't have had the slightest chance to fight back. If you hadn't fought back even though you broke your arm, she wouldn't have been frightened, let alone I won’t let you take advantage of me.”

"Did you tell her that you were once a black umbrella handle?" Yan Muyun asked.

Yan Muyun suddenly turned his head and looked to his side: "So, Faceless didn't just pretend to be Zhang Xixue just for fun last night?"