Armed SWAT

Deng Kaiwen's mother was buried in a cemetery in the suburbs.

The tombstone is very inconspicuous. At first glance, it is not bought by relatives, but the kind distributed by the cemetery.Weeds grew under the base, and a few small flowers bloomed here and there in early summer.

Deng Kaiwen bent down to put down a bouquet of white chrysanthemums, and said, "I really haven't been here a few times. I didn't even attend her funeral back then."

Mitchell stood behind him and asked, "Why?"

"I want to escape... Maybe I feel relieved subconsciously, and I don't want to look back. It's the same feeling as a student who doesn't want to touch the book after the exam."

Deng Kaiwen said these words so frankly, which surprised Mitchell.

Looking at Deng Kaiwen's thin and straight back, he suddenly felt that there were many unexpected things about this man.He looks tough and has a cold-blooded personality, but he is more humane than ordinary people in his subtleties; he is always determined and quick to act, and almost all his colleagues are very dependent on him, but he is particularly weak in some small things, even a little Feeling indecisive and sloppy.

"I have been thinking for the past two days, is this a kind of fate? My mother is a drug addict, and Xinia is also a drug addict, and they are the closest women in my life. Whether it was then or now, I and them They are not together because of pure love, but because of a desire for a normal family, a sense of responsibility, and a sense of belonging. Maybe it is because of this kind of thinking that they left me one by one, and I have nothing until now .”

The words were fatal, Mitchell was stunned, and patted him on the shoulder: "What are you talking about, Xinia? Miranda must have a plan to approach you, and the person who killed her must have something strange. Think about it, aside from Epro, if some enemy of yours really came here to avenge the murder, why didn’t he chop you up too? Why did he just kill her and leave you alone?”

Deng Kaiwen sighed and said nothing.

"Even if it was Epro who killed her, maybe it was because Epro had a grudge against her, maybe there is something secret between her and GA that you don't know. I know you are in a bad mood, but it's useless to blame yourself , It will only make you fall into a more depressed and embarrassing situation. Some people are extremely harsh on themselves because of their personality, and they tend to feel inferior, weak, and vacillating, and you belong to that kind of person.”

Deng Kaiwen was a little surprised: "What kind of person am I?"

Mitchell scratched his hair and laughed: "I mean, if you continue to be depressed like this, you will only make your emotions fall into a worse vicious circle, which will do nothing to solve the current problem! If I were you , I will never come to this cemetery." His eyes turned to the tombstone, and his smile naturally remained unchanged: "I will act as if I never had a mother at all, after all, the past is gone!"

When he said this, his expression was so normal, his tone of voice was too natural, and even his smile was a bit sunny, so that Deng Kaiwen couldn't help but glanced at him unexpectedly.

"But having said that, I remember that you were picked up by your father back then? It was rumored in school. You should have a better life in New York than in Los Angeles."

Deng Kaiwen hesitated for a moment, "Well,... But in fact, my father passed away more than ten years ago."

Mitchell was stunned: "The person who picked you up back then..."

A vague guess suddenly appeared in his mind, and he suddenly turned his head to look directly at Deng Kaiwen's face.

Deng Kaiwen was silent for a while, nodded and said, "Yes, it's Epro."

Mitchell's gaze changed suddenly, and he looked at Deng Kaiwen in amazement, and many conjectures flashed through his mind in an instant, one more bizarre than the other, and one more bloody than the other.

"For a while, my mother was Epro's mistress when I was very young. After she died, I thought I couldn't stay in Los Angeles anyway. . . . You know, I was having a hard time at school. "When Deng Kaiwen said this, his expression was very frank, and he couldn't find any irritation or embarrassment, "—so I called Epro, and then he came."

For a moment, Mitchell felt that his heart was trembling slightly, heart palpitations and regret flooded his body like a tide, making the back of his tongue slightly bitter: "If you had a better life in school back then , is it possible, will stay in..."

Deng Kaiwen took a breath helplessly, paused for a few seconds, then let out the breath slowly, and said with a wry smile: "Who knows?"

"Actually, when I left Los Angeles, I was in poor health." He thought for a while, and added: "When I first arrived in New York, I lay in GA for a week. I just kept sleeping, taking glucose, and eating when I woke up. Things, and then continued to lie down and sleep. After about a month, my physical condition slowly returned to normal. They said that I was severely malnourished at the time, and if I stayed in Los Angeles, maybe..." He paused and shrugged : "So you don't have to blame yourself too much, I should have left Los Angeles at that time."

Mitchell gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice, "How have you been living in New York all these years?"

"...It was okay at first. When I first went to New York, I suddenly jumped two inches taller, and my whole body has changed. If you compare photos within six months, you can't believe it's the same person .At that time, I had growing pains every night when I went to sleep, especially in my calves.”

He stopped talking suddenly and sighed: "Thinking about it now, I had a really good life at that time. The best time in my life was spent with Epro."

He remembered that he couldn't sleep at night, and often woke up in the middle of the night with convulsions. The pain caused by bone growth made him anxious, and he often stayed up until dawn.

Then one night when he suddenly woke up from a nightmare, he saw Aplo sitting in front of the bed, patting his back with a hand: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

At that time, he burst into tears: "Neil, my leg hurts..."

Epro covered his calf with his hand: "Where does it hurt? Here?"

"A little further up..."

"knee?"

"Hmm, bone pain..."

Epro gently rubbed him with his hands, the palms were slightly rough, the temperature was very high, and there was a kind of comfort that was slightly smoky.The pain quickly became less unbearable, and Kevin yawned a little, closing his eyes quickly.

The moment before the haze passed, he seemed to feel that Epro touched his face, and then lowered his head to press a kiss.Then he couldn't tell if it was real or a dream, because then he fell into a dark, sweet dream and didn't know anything else.

"Kevin," Mitchell couldn't help turning his head to look at Kevin Deng while driving on the way back. "There's one thing I don't understand."

Deng Kaiwen was leaning his head against the car window, when he heard this, he raised his head slightly: "What's the matter?"

"If you had a good life in GA, why did you become like that later? If everything goes well, you should be a black boss now. Haha, I don't mean anything else, just asking...you know, every time I I feel very happy when I imagine you are the boss of the underworld."

Mitchell held the steering wheel with one hand, scratched his hair with the other, and smiled apologetically.

"...Do you know Epro?" Kevin Deng asked suddenly.

"Epro?—I've read a lot of information, when I was a state policeman."

"Epuro is a terrible person, he is completely different from normal people..." Deng Kaiwen paused for a while, it seemed that it was difficult to find a suitable adjective, and after a while he reluctantly said: "—he has no normal people's feelings .”

"No normal person's feelings?"

"Well. He is actually a very cold-blooded person. Later, when I get along with him, sometimes I even feel creepy."

Mitchell glanced at him in surprise: "For example?"

This is because the car is already on the expressway. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t want to distract Mitchell from driving, or Deng Kaiwen didn’t know where to start, so it took him a while to say slowly: “For example...you know that GA has A famous white lion, flown in from Africa."

"Ah, I know this! It is well-known in the underworld, the symbol of GA."

"Well, Epro likes the white lion very much. We built a breeding ground for it, and we often go to see it. This lion was once one of the symbols of GA, and many local newspapers reported it. There are also political circles. The white lion has not been fully tamed, and often roars, bumps into the iron railings, and tries to attack people, but Epro has always been tolerant of it, and even laughed it off when it was almost bitten by it once. "

Mitchell notes that he keeps using the past tense: "And then?"

"... After raising it for more than a year, the white lion's temper has improved a lot. Many people think that it has been raised, so they are not so careful to lock it up." Deng Kaiwen smiled: "This situation continues. One day, the caretaker forgot to close the cage door, and at night the white lion broke open the cage, ran out, and ran away without hesitation."

"Yo! Did you get it back?"

"It's been captured. There is a power grid around the training ground." Deng Kaiwen suddenly turned his head: "What do you think Epro did after the white lion was captured?"

His expression was very strange, and Mitchell felt a little uneasy: "What did you do?"

"He took a whip as thick as his wrist, and whipped the white lion to death." Deng Kaiwen paused, and said softly, "Just one stroke, in front of my face, blood and flesh splattered... I did it for a whole week. nightmare."

Mitchell's face changed completely: "Why did he do that?! Just because of a moment of anger?!"

"No, he wasn't angry at all. He was very calm throughout the whole process. That's what really scares me. He really made a decision and made a judgment for the white lion's escape behavior. Then he executed the trial in a reasonable and natural way. It has nothing to do with anger or other emotional factors. Later he said to me, because this white lion is destined not to be domesticated, and it will never belong to him, so useless things are useless It is necessary to keep it, and keeping it is a waste of resources. He was very calm when he said this, but I only felt chills all over my body at the time."

There was a moment of silence in the carriage, Mitchell looked at Deng Kaiwen, and Deng Kaiwen looked out the window.

"I always thought that he had raised the white lion for so long and liked it so much, so he should have some affection. Who knows Epro, if you think he has affection, you are totally wrong."

The car got off the highway, a red light came on ahead, and the Jaguar slowly stopped at the intersection.

Mitchell thought for a long time, and suddenly reached out and patted Deng Kaiwen on the shoulder: "Although the white lion died, you survived, didn't you? You have successfully left GA, and this is the most important thing!"

The window glass reflected Deng Kaiwen's pale profile, and it took him a while to hear him sigh and say, "It's just luck."