dead dog

After driving on the highway for a day and a night, Xiao Tao took a nap, and when he opened his eyes, it was day again.

Xiao Tao looked at the green grass by the roadside under the morning light, suddenly he didn't know his name and where he was: "What's the date?"

Bian Xiaocheng was driving. He and Xiao Tao took turns. Xiao Tao drove from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am last night. He replaced Xiao Tao and continued to drive. Xiao Tao woke up and said, "Number [-], Police Officer Tao, please sleep a little longer, you only slept for less than three hours."

Xiao Tao got up and looked at the rear of the only car on the expressway hundreds of meters ahead with eyes full of resentment: "Is he going to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures because of the endless rush?"

At around ten o'clock last night, Jiang Ying, who had been driving for more than ten hours and was already severely fatigued, stayed overnight at the rest station hotel, and Bian Xiaocheng and Xiao Tao, who followed him all the way, also had a rest.As a policeman, Xiao Tao has rich experience in investigation and tracking. He quietly went to the front desk to show his police officer ID, and lied that Jiang Ying, who opened the room just now, was the car thief he was following. If Jiang Ying got up in the middle of the night to check out, he must The front desk called him in the room and told him.

The receptionist was a fat man in his 40s. Upon inquiry, he found out that he was a veteran security guard who had changed jobs. Hotel security.The uncle happily accepted the glorious task of helping the people's police to monitor the car thieves. Xiao Tao shook hands with him solemnly, and then immediately went back to his room to rest and sleep to recharge his batteries.

He originally thought that Jiang Ying would have to sleep until dawn the next day, but he didn't expect to receive a call from the front desk at three o'clock in the morning. He woke up as soon as the phone rang, and grabbed the phone: "Hello?"

Uncle: "Comrade policeman, the dog-like young man just checked out."

As soon as Xiao Tao heard this, he immediately called Bian Xiaocheng up, and the two of them got up from the bed and rushed downstairs without taking off their clothes for the convenience of moving.

Seeing the two of them rushing downstairs in a hurry, the uncle quickly pointed to the west direction outside the door: "He drove that way!"

This road is really unnecessary, the highway only leads in two directions, and Jiang Ying has to go the wrong way if he doesn't drive west.What followed was another six or seven hours of follow-up. Xiao Tao had rich experience in fighting and had prepared water and rations in the car in advance. The two of them fought for another day relying on this relief food.

At around twelve noon, Jiang Ying's off-road vehicle finally got off the highway for the second time and drove into the service area.Xiaotao instructed Bian Xiaocheng to slow down the car, deliberately let the car behind him squeeze in, and drove into the parking lot two cars away from Jiang Ying's car.

Xiao Tao: "Don't turn off the engine, see if he gets out of the car."

Bian Xiaocheng stared at Jiang Ying's off-road vehicle, and Jiang Ying quickly got out of the vehicle, still wearing the same clothes as when he set off, with an extra hat on his head.When Jiang Ying closed the car door and looked back, Bian Xiaocheng immediately bent down and lay on the steering wheel: "Officer Tao, has he spotted us?"

Little Tao also tucked into his waist, but he said, "What are you afraid of, the road faces the sky on both sides, and the road was not built by his family."

He raised his head and looked out, just in time to see Jiang Ying entering the restaurant in the service area, and then followed him in with Bian Xiaocheng.The restaurant is very big and there are many people. There are many tables and chairs in the middle of the stalls selling food, which looks like a university cafeteria.

Xiao Tao found an inconspicuous place to sit down, and sent Bian Xiaocheng to buy a bowl of rice casually, while he sat on the seat and stared at Jiang Ying; A bottle of mineral water, sat down at the table near the door.

Bian Xiaocheng was so smart that he bought two bowls of delicious cold noodles among the hot meals.Xiao Tao stared at the bowl with one eye, and Jiang Ying with the other. He could only temporarily keep Jiang Ying out of his sight when he picked up the vinegar jar to add vinegar to the noodles, but when he put down the vinegar jar, Jiang Ying had already Disappeared from the seat.

He hurriedly looked for Jiang Ying in the crowd, and the chair opposite was suddenly pulled away, and then Jiang Ying sat down in front of him.Jiang Ying sat down and drank a few sips of water, then put the water bottle on the table, and said, "How long will you be with me?"

Bian Xiaocheng was choked by his face and dared not speak.

Xiao Tao: "Huh? Coincidentally, you're here too."

Jiang Ying took off his hat, brushed his hair back and put the hat back on. He smiled and said, "It's a coincidence that you have been following me for almost two days."

He raised his chin towards Xiao Tao, with an arrogant attitude: "Say it straight, what did I do?"

Xiaotao pretended to be confused: "You didn't do anything wrong."

Jiang Ying narrowed his eyes impatiently: "Then why are you following me?"

Xiao Tao's ability to talk nonsense with his eyes open is first-class: "You go this way, I also go this way, we just met, how come it becomes me following you?"

Jiang Ying fled and raised his eyebrows, then looked at Bian Xiaocheng: "What about you? Are you following me?"

Bian Xiaocheng lowered his head and said, "Officer Tao and I are together."

Jiang Ying nodded, but his face showed disbelief at all. He picked up the water bottle on the table and got up to leave: "You can eat at ease, I'll go buy a pack of cigarettes."

After Jiang Ying left the restaurant, Bian Xiaocheng asked, "Officer Tao, what should we do?"

Xiao Tao quickly stuffed the face into his mouth, and said inarticulately: "Keep following, anyway, he has already discovered it."

When they returned to the parking lot after eating, Jiang Ying was leaning on the front of the car and smoking a cigarette. He looked handsome and cool in sunglasses, as if he was filming a movie.Seeing them coming out, Jiang Ying stubbed out the cigarette butt and threw it into the trash can, raised his hand and smiled at them, and drove away in front of them.

Xiao Tao urged: "Hurry up, get in the car." He wanted to open the door, but he couldn't open it, "Unlock it."

Bian Xiaocheng couldn't find the car keys in his pocket, so he ran to the restaurant immediately: "I left the keys on the table when I was eating."

Xiao Tao had already expected what happened, and immediately had a premonition that the operation was about to fail. Sure enough, Bian Xiaocheng ran back quickly: "Officer Tao, the car keys are missing, let's look for them quickly."

Xiao Tao looked annoyed at the buttocks of the off-road vehicle that had gone far away on the expressway, and said, "Don't look for it, it was taken by Jiang Ying."

While the car was speeding, Jiang Ying lowered the window, and a car key flew out of the window.

"You should have gotten rid of them long ago."

Someone spoke to him, Jiang Ying turned his head to look at the person, and saw a middle-aged man who looked exactly like himself, wearing a suit, with outstanding temperament; he was Gu Mingyan, and he had followed Jiang Ying all the way, but no one except Jiang Ying Being able to see him, Jiang Ying also knew very well that Gu Mingyan in front of him did not really exist, Gu Mingyan only existed in his eyes, as if haunted by a ghost.

Gu Mingyan said: "The police are very troublesome. The law gives them too many excuses to meddle in their own business. Once they are entangled by the police, they can't do anything. Didn't I just avoid the police and shoot myself?"

He raised his right hand like a pistol gesture, put his index finger and middle finger against his right temple, and muttered a "bang", a bloody wound appeared on his left temple, and blood flowed from the side of his face, along the His jaw dropped to his shoulder.

Gu Mingyan said: "Just one shot, it's very enjoyable, you should try it."

Jiang Ying pursed his lips tightly, stared at the road ahead without saying a word, and glanced at the car. There was indeed a gun hidden there.

"Do you believe it, even if you are dead now, Jiang's family picks up the bones and buries them, they will forget you within a week, and after a year or two, they won't even be able to remember your name." Gu Mingyan shook his head and sighed He said, "Life is so boring. No matter how good or bad you were in life, you will be a puddle of ashes when you die, and it will be dirty when the wind blows. Besides, no one cares about you at all. Whether you live or die, they don't care about it." , trampling an ant to death is more painful than mourning you."

Jiang Ying thought it was noisy, so he turned on the speaker, and a cat and mouse concerto played out.

But he couldn't avoid Gu Mingyan, and Gu Mingyan still whispered in his ear, like a fly clinging to his bones: "You let me down so much, I hope you die, many people want you to die, and you want to escape by death, but you But I didn’t have the courage to shoot myself, and I’ve been stealing my life until now. Is your current life span your own? No, it’s mine, it’s my wife’s, it’s my daughter’s. You trade three of our lives for your twenty A few years of longevity, shouldn't it be returned to us?"

Jiang Ying turned up the sound to the maximum, and the violent trombone neighed like a horse. He stepped on the gas pedal amidst the hysterical shouts of the instruments and rushed forward.

Gu Mingyan said excitedly in his ear: "Yes, just drive like this. Did you see that truck in front? Don't be afraid, hit it—hit it!"

Jiang Yinghong squinted, gritted his teeth, and rushed straight to the rear of the tall truck. As soon as the two vehicles were about to collide, he slammed the steering wheel to the right, and the front of the car hit the guardrail on the side of the road. Half of the front cover and headlights were shattered.

The huge force of inertia threw Jiang Ying's body forward violently, and his chest hit the steering wheel. Jiang Ying lay on the steering wheel for a while and couldn't move, while Gu Mingyan was still screaming: "Useless thing! Trash! Why don't you go Die! Everyone wants you to die, but you are brazenly living! We are all dead, why do you live!"

Jiang Ying and the others felt less severe chest pain, unfastened their seat belts and lay down on the back of the seat to take a few breaths, then grabbed the ashtray on the driver's console and threw it at the co-pilot, Gu Mingyan's ghost was scattered by the ashtray, Riley fell silent.He got out of the car to check the condition of the front of the car. His car was crashworthy, but only half of the front of the car was smashed, and the internal parts were not seriously damaged.He returned to the car and continued to drive for more than an hour. White smoke began to be emitted from the front of the car, and the sound of the engine became much muddier.

Jiang Ying turned a blind eye to these failures and kept driving until the fuel gauge indicated that the fuel level was about to run out. Then he found a random intersection to get off the highway, and turned on the navigation to find a nearby gas station.

He didn't know where he was, he only knew that he had reached the seaside, the roadside was sparsely populated, and he drove for nearly an hour before arriving at the gas station.The man who fueled him was a young guy in his early twenties. He noticed that the front of the car was broken and smoke was coming out of the crack, so he said, "Handsome guy, the water tank in your car is boiling."

Jiang Ying kowtowed his head just now, and there was a coin-sized bulge on his forehead. He bought a bottle of ice water in the store inside the gas station, and sat on the steps to apply the ice water bottle to his forehead.

He glanced at his car, and said lightly, "I just bumped into it."

The little brother who refueled was enthusiastic and asked him to drive the car to the side of the open space to repair the car, cooled the water tank, and replaced a piston on the engine. The whole process took less than half an hour: "It can still be driven temporarily. , you'd better drive to the car repair shop for repairs, there is a hotel along this road, and the car can be repaired in the hotel."

Jiang Ying wanted to pay him, but he confiscated it and said, "No need, no need, it's easy."

All the troubles made Jiang Ying feel disgusted and troublesome, so he didn't insist on it at the moment. He thanked him and drove away. He drove in the direction pointed by the man. Sure enough, he saw a hotel built by the sea. It is magnificent, facing the deep blue sea, and there is a soft sandy beach outside the gate.

Jiang Ying parked the car, walked into the hotel lobby and opened a room. While waiting for the registration information at the front desk, he looked towards the lobby and inadvertently saw a little girl in a blue skirt with two ponytails. At the age of six, with his back to him, squatting on the ground playing with a glass bead, he felt that the girl looked familiar, so familiar that it made him shudder: she was Leng Jinghua's daughter.

"Sir, your room card."

Hearing the voice from the front desk, Jiang Ying snatched the room card she handed over, and walked quickly into the elevator. He stood in the elevator and looked out. The girl was gone. There were only a few people in the hall, and the girl never appeared. Pass.

The elevator door closed and slowly ascended.

Jiang Ying took two steps back and leaned against the car wall. In the claustrophobic space, a figure appeared on the opposite golden wall panel. It was still Gu Mingyan. Gu Mingyan said to him, "Did you see her? The skirt on her is mine. Bought it for her as a birthday present, she wore that new dress for the first time and was killed in a few hours."

With a ding, the elevator door opened, and Jiang Ying immediately walked out of the elevator. Instead of the corridor of the hotel in front of him, it was a deep and dark cave. The cave was pitch black, but he could see the There was a dead body, a man whose forehead was pierced by a bullet, his eyes were open and he was dying. The corpse was discarded in the depths of a dark cave...

"Please let it go."

The hotel's cleaning staff came over with a cleaning cart, but was blocked by Jiang Ying, who was standing upright in the elevator.

Jiang Ying struggled to move his legs as if pulling his feet out of a mire, and slowly walked towards the room on the house number.When he arrived at the room, he locked the door behind him, dragged his exhausted body to the bedroom, and sat silently by the bed facing the French windows. Outside the French windows was the vast sea, which was peaceful like a painting under the sun.

He is not alone looking at the sea, the window glass in front of him reflects his scattered figure, and Gu Mingyan, Leng Jinghua, the girl in the green dress, and Xue Lin standing behind him.

Jiang Ying said, "I know what you are waiting for."

He lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and the boundless darkness pressed down on his body like a mountain. He was pressed under the mountain like this, and his bones and flesh were crushed into powder.

He fell asleep, but he didn't seem to be asleep. He just recalled some things in his mind, as if he had relived his 27 years of life. He wanted to recall everyone and everything in detail, but he tried his best to find My own memory is incomplete, and I seem to have lost a very important part.

Who is the person he has forgotten?

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

A few hours later, Jiang Ying woke up. It was already night when he woke up. The lights in the room were not turned on, but the moonlight came in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the foggy white light in the room was like the dawn before the day.

Jiang Ying went to the window and looked out. The moon, which he hadn't seen in the city for a long time, was hanging brightly in the sky at this moment, like a small white sun. Under the moonlight was a quiet beach and sea. The figure is a family of three frolicking at the beach, the parents holding the little daughter, looking very happy.

Jiang Ying stood behind the window and watched for a while, then left the room.He walked out of the hotel, drove out of the off-road car with a half-shattered front from the parking lot, and drove forward along the narrow road, gradually away from the hotel, to a place where no one lived.

He drove the car to the beach, parked it by the sea, lowered the windows on all sides, the salty sea air and the wet sea breeze blew in and circled in the car, as if he had reached the bottom of the sea...

The mobile phone rang suddenly, and the mobile phone on the bridge vibrated buzzingly.

Jiang Ying looked at the mobile phone with the screen light on, and his heart, which was so calm that there was no sign of beating, beat twice. He was a little nervous, and even told himself that if the caller asked him to go back, he would go back.

He picked up his cell phone, and it was a call from an unfamiliar number. He couldn't tell whether he answered the call with anticipation or fear, and put the phone to his ear.

"Hello, I'm the sales manager of Windsor Garden—"

It turned out to be a sales call.

Jiang Ying turned off his phone and threw it out of the window, finally completely desperate, even more desperate than before.

The malfunctioning engine hummed, the tires of the car spun a few times on the soft sand, and then rushed straight to the sea.

The car body fell into the sea and was filled with sea water in an instant. Jiang Ying pushed the car door, and as the sea water sank, his body was as heavy as if several corpses were tied up. He was tied to those corpses. You fell on me, and I dragged you , sank to the bottom of the sea together...