Cinephile hustle

"Verify whether you regret saving me eight years ago. If so, this time you can stand on the shore and watch me sink. No one will blame you, and no one will know what happened. Then, you can Get rid of me completely." Haili smiled and stood on the shore. He lowered his head and looked at Ian condescendingly, like a god's executive officer, "I gave you a chance to choose, Ian. If this is the case, don't expect Ai Ai Instead of being entangled in the past, let go of your wild thoughts and solve the immediate problems."

He knelt down and held out his hand to Ian.

Ian waved his hand away and propped himself onto the shore.

Haili whistled, "Ah, I didn't expect that Uncle Ian's physical strength is still so good. I don't know what it's like in bed?"

Ian ignored Haili's ridicule, picked up the suit jacket on the ground, and walked out the door.

The wind blows on the body, chilly.

The arrival of two federal agents is something very new to the townspeople.Not to mention two federal agents dripping with water all over their bodies.

"Stop following me." Ian said coolly.

"We're partners." Haili still smiled comfortably, and with a blink of an eye, a primary school student riding a bicycle bumped into a mailbox on the side of the road.

"Is this how you tease your six former partners? Maddy Ron thought I could stand you, and he's obviously wrong."

"I'm not teasing you."

Hailey's voice sank, with a hint of seriousness.

But Ian couldn't tell when this guy was serious.

"Don't you want to know what I saw?"

Haili raised his voice, Ian stopped and turned around, "Okay, what did you see?"

"Would you believe me if I said, I can really feel what the victim felt when he was killed?"

Ian snorted and laughed, "Do you think I believe it?"

He turned and strode away.

"Yeah, you were sent by God to doubt me."

After walking more than ten meters, Ian couldn't feel Haili's footsteps following him.He turned and saw Hayley still standing on the corner.

He suddenly thought of that dark night when he said to him, "If you don't tell the truth again, you will stay here."

Then he quickly sank into the depths of the bush, and found that the boy who had been holding on to his coat had really not followed.

He felt stupid and sympathetic, but he turned his head back.In the darkness, the boy hugged his knees, not knowing whose redemption he was waiting for.

Ian took a deep breath, this guy always seemed to have the confidence to turn him back.

Ian walked quickly back to Haili and sighed.

"Well, what do you feel? Convince me to trust you."

Hailey took a breath, closed his eyes, and talked, but his thoughts had already gone to the other side of the world.

"Water is the softest and safest existence for her. She enjoys the feeling of being surrounded by water, especially the sense of belonging that blends with the world as a whole when she is still. She hates being disturbed, she likes silence, and she doesn't want to hear anything related to No sound that has nothing to do with herself. So she chose to turn this swimming pool into her own water area when everyone left after school."

Hailey's voice has a unique appeal, and Ian has a wonderful illusion.

He seemed to be lying in that swimming pool, and beside him was Lena from that day.

If it really was such a wonderfully peaceful moment, what happened?

"Suddenly, there was a wave of water, and something poured into the pool. She was familiar with the rhythm, the force of the other person cutting the water, and she knew who it was. She didn't need to open her eyes, her heart was beating so hard, she pretended not to Knowing the approach of the other party, although she was looking forward to in her heart—'Oh, God, let him come to me quickly. Touch me, kiss me, love me'. But everything changed in the next moment. She was Tightly shackled, controlled, and dragged into the deep water. The place that made her feel the safest suddenly turned into a cage of terror. She kept struggling, but the force was too strong, restraining her limbs, resisting She couldn't see the other person's eyes, although she wanted to ask the other person 'why' countless times. She finally lost her breath, the water poured into her nasal cavity and her body, and she finally gave up struggling--'If You want me to die, then I accept the outcome'."

Ian carefully examined Haili's expression.His tone was so realistic, as if he was really with Lena at the last moment before his death.

Hailey frowned, and he opened his lips slightly, trying to say something but couldn't make any syllables.

Immediately afterwards, he coughed frantically, clutching his throat forcefully, as if the air could not enter.His fair skin became flushed, he lowered his body, his shoulders trembled, as if he was on the verge of death.

This is not pretending, there are some things that cannot be pretended.

"Haley! Haley! What's wrong with you! Look at me! Don't think about Lena! You're not Lena! Look at me! You'll be fine in a minute, look at me!"

Ian lifted Hayley's face, forcing him to meet his own.

"You're not in the water right now! You're in front of me! Breathe! You can breathe, and you're breathing air, not water! Trust me! Haley! Trust me!"

Haili's eyes looked at Ian vigorously, as if he was climbing up from the cliff, every step was extremely thrilling, and every time he looked back was an abyss.

In Ian's sight, he finally retracted his thoughts.

His breathing gradually returned to normal, his stiff fingers clasped Ian's wrist, and slowly straightened his back bit by bit.

"Don't tell me, you were kidding me just now." Ian said coolly.

Hailey smiled indifferently, "My dear Uncle Ian has persecution paranoia. I always feel that no matter what I do, I am playing him. Even if I really die, I am playing him."

Ian followed Haley and watched him stagger into the only small hotel in the town.

The hotel owner looked at the wet appearance of the two of them, and asked curiously: "My God, you two should be the legendary federal agents who came all the way from New York, right? How did you get into this state?"

"This is a very complicated story. Give me a room." Hailey took out a valuable wallet from his pocket and took out his ID.

Ian came to his side and stretched out his finger, "Two rooms."

"No, one room is enough." Haili smiled softly, and immediately killed the innkeeper.The other party only took a room card, and did not even look at Ian's lowered head to pretend to register.

"I don't plan to see you in bed at night. What if you sleepwalk and kill me?" Ian said coldly.

"So what if I sleepwalked and committed suicide at night?" Hailey leaned against the registration desk with his face up, looking at Ian.

His hair was attached to his face, and his eyes were unusually deep, unlike a mortal, more like a sea monster rushing from the depths of the ocean to the junction of water and sky.

"Don't splash the blood on my face."

Ian is not in the mood to argue with Haili at the moment.His mind was full of doubts, he just wanted to know what happened to Haili just now?

If he asked this guy, he would probably only hear a bunch of nonsense, wasting time and life.

He had a premonition that even if Haili was teasing him just now, what he interpreted was the closest to the details of Lena's death at that time.

Ian had to find someone who could explain it all to him and be willing to tell him the truth.

After entering the hotel room, Haili entered the bathroom to shower.He threw the suit casually on the ground outside the bathroom, this scene really looked a bit ambiguous.

Ian took out his mobile phone, walked to the small balcony outside the room, and called Maddy Ron.

"You better tell me the fuck, how did Hayley Russell get rid of all his former partners!"

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Agent Ian Connor, although I recruited you, don't forget, I am still your boss. At least give me some respect and face, don't call me by name .”

"Then tell me the truth! Otherwise I'll set up a rifle in the building outside your office, ready to blow your head off!"

"I'm sure there aren't any tall buildings outside the windowsill of my office, you can't find the best position to snipe me..."

"Maddy Ron!"

"Okay, okay... Did he scare you on the first day? Which victim did he play?"

"Lena. For God's sake, I don't know if his breathless look is real or fake!"

"Ian, calm down and listen to me. If the victim named Lena died from being out of breath, Hayley wasn't faking it. He just reproduced Lena's life in front of you. that moment."

"Oh? Really? No one knows exactly what happened to Lena before she died, but he played it so vividly! Is he delusional? Or did he suffer from some kind of post-traumatic disorder because of the case eight years ago? You said he had a problem!"

"Ian, just as you had the keen sense of observation that allowed you to single-handedly overthrow the 'Hunter' eight years ago, Hailey also has his keenness. He has a strong empathy, which is the so-called communion Affection."

"What do you mean?" Ian glanced at the bathroom, making sure Hayley was still in the shower.

"Theoretically, he can think and feel from other people's point of view and empathize with others. You should have seen some movies or cases, that is, some people can imitate the thinking of serial killers and act according to their patterns. Thinking to reproduce the whole killing process. Contrary to these people, Haili can keenly understand...his perspective is the victim's. Through the crime scene and all the clues on the victim's body, he subconsciously They connect together and build the situation. Ian, I don't know what you're suspecting or objecting to, the reason why Haley can relate to these victims is because he's a victim himself, he's been 'hunted' After being imprisoned for so many years, the fear we face every day is beyond our comprehension. Every time he comes into contact with the dead, every time he experiences deeply, it is also a kind of harm to himself. He did not force his partner away, on the contrary, his His partners think highly of him. It's just that they don't think they're strong enough to protect him. I don't mean physically, but mentally. As his boss, I need to reassure him that no matter what Whatever happens, there's someone watching him all the time and pulling him out when he's stuck in it. So, now... Agent Ian Conner, is there anything else you need to ask me ?”