Ten Billions of Stardust on the Wire

*November 11

"Consultant Wang! Wang Yang! Brother Yang!"

Wang Yang vaguely heard someone calling himself behind him. The public cafeteria was crowded with people and the voice was noisy. He turned around and saw a black suit squeezed out of the crowd, smiling at himself.It was Yan Yuhang.

"I spoke too aggressively at the meeting before, and I apologize to you, brother," Yan Yuhang walked up to Wang Yang and smiled, "It's not like you don't know that everyone comes from all directions, and it's nothing to do with yourself Hang up, there are few people in the delegation who want to do things, but there are many people who want to watch a show, and few people really care about it, so we have to mention them, so..."

"So you scold me?"

"Where, how can it be!" Yan Yuhang felt embarrassed, "I'll make an example to all monkeys..."

Wang Yang nodded and glanced at him sideways, "So I'm that chicken?"

"No, no! How dare you!" Yan Yuhang smiled and followed Wang Yang, walking all the way through the cafeteria to the Central Park. There is a [Rust Lake] coffee shop there. Wang Yang originally asked him to meet there, but unexpectedly Met in advance.

Seeing that Wang Yang didn't speak, he leaned closer to him even more eagerly, saying "you" long and "you" short.He and Wang Yang are in the same school, they are only one year apart, they have the same mentor, and they are "students from the same school", so the relationship is naturally extraordinary.But Wang Yang didn't expect that Yan Yuhang's arrogant and domineering arrogance of a high-ranking son hadn't diminished after such a long time of absence, but had even become stronger than before.

"Brother, please don't be angry. Our supervision and investigation team is no better than the regular task force above. How can you still not understand? The focus is on supervision, not on investigation. My dad said that we as representatives only need to vote at the end , even if it’s over! Just go through the process. Listen to my advice, don’t worry about it!”

Wang Yang thought it was funny, a mouth like Yan Yuhang was covered by his father from a superior department, watching the posture at the round table meeting, Team Li couldn't do anything about him.

The corner of the coffee shop is good. There are many customers seated in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows facing the lake view of the park. Several girls are pointing at the swans necking on the lake and talking and laughing.One of the girls with a high ponytail and bangs rested her chin on one hand, a section of her wrist was exposed at the delicate cuff, and there was a little emerald-colored triangular stone on the bracelet, which was very eye-catching.

When Wang Yang and Yan Yuhang passed by, she kept looking in their direction.Wang Yang avoided the crowd, walked deep into the store, and picked a secluded corner.Yan Yuhang looked longingly at the missing scenery and beauties, and sighed.

"Xiaohang, I actually..."

Seeing that Wang Yang hesitated to speak, Yan Yuhang said bluntly: "Say it straight, brother, why are you being polite to me?" But then he raised his brows, "If you still ask about your brother, don't talk about it, I really don't want to talk about it." I know, the person above that case has been sealed. It is impossible for the bureau to reverse the case and re-investigate it, otherwise there would be a result long ago."

"It has nothing to do with Zicheng," Wang Yang looked calm, and he took out a four-inch square piece of paper from his coat pocket. The edges of the paper were yellowed, and it looked like an old photo that could only be found in an antique shop or a museum. "I actually want you to check this man."

"Enter the system to check him?" Yan Yuhang took the photo with a look of embarrassment on his face. It is strictly forbidden to use the public security system for private affairs. "Do you think he has something to do with this case? Or..."

Yan Yuhang wanted to ask if the young man in overalls in the photo had something to do with Wang Zicheng, but thought that Wang Yang didn't want to bring up that matter, so he didn't go on, "Forget it, I'll check for you." He shook With the photo in his hand, he immediately laughed: "Where did you get this kind of antique?"

"I didn't mess around with you," Wang Yang tapped his knuckles on the table with a "dang", "On this matter, find out who he is."

Yan Yuhang was taken aback by his serious expression, "Brother, can I have the courage to ask, did this person offend you?"

Wang Yang didn't speak.

"Forget me talking too much! Senior brother, I won't ask any more. It's okay if I don't ask. Don't treat me like a prisoner!"

The corner of Wang Yang's mouth twitched, and he reached out to press Yan Yuhang's shoulders even lower.His voice was very heavy, as if there was a great weight on his heart: "Yan Yuhang, I'm being monitored."

I'm being watched.

Yan Yuhang's eyes widened suddenly, he opened and closed his mouth and immediately fell silent, and nodded heavily to Wang Yang's staring eyes.I understand, you can't talk, you can't ask, just do whatever you are asked to do.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Yang glanced at the girl with ponytail sitting in front of the glass window. The girl seemed to feel Wang Yang's distant glance, and turned her head to look out of the window.

"Be careful what you do," Wang Yang sipped the dark soup in his glass, feeling bitter.

After Yan Yuhang left, Wang Yang sat there for a long time.In the early years, this place was not a coffee shop, but a bakery. The sweet smell of pine cone toast and other snacks would float for more than [-] meters in the wind, attracting Wang Zicheng, a gluttonous kid, and begging Wang Yang to buy him food. Yes, Wang Yang will always agree to his various requests in a soft and hard way.

In Wang Zicheng's impression, there is no father, only brother.He didn't have a deep impression of his mother, Gu Zi, either. She always wore a gray-blue long windbreaker with a green triangular collar patch on the collar, which was small but sparkling.

The woman disappeared when he was six or seven years old. Wang Yang only told his mother that she had "leaved", but did not tell him that on the eighth day after her mother disappeared, the police found a swollen female body on a river beach on the outskirts of the city. Many pebbles seem to have committed suicide by jumping into the river.

The corpse's coat was gray-blue, with a green grain on the collar that seemed to sparkle.

Wang Yang didn't know why he thought of this, maybe it was because the lake in front of him was as cold and desolate as the river beach that day.

At that time, he couldn't accept that a person who used to accompany him every day was lying on the river beach in such a strange posture.After joining the police force, he got used to it after seeing a lot, and turned the shadow in his heart into the motivation to move forward.But then Wang Zicheng also "left", that boy with frizzy hair, loves to laugh, and the sun...

Thinking of those Wang Yang couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, Wang Zicheng has done a lot of stupid things, but he is a very smart person.He intentionally "made a fool of himself" in front of himself, just to make his hard-working elder brother smile.

Memories form a boat, going upstream, laughter, light, heat, all the so-called beautiful things are surging, boiling, and burning under the ice layer in the bottom of my heart, and those soft flames eventually become Wang Yang's weakness.

But for some, their human weakness is also their strength.

Wang Yang did not explain the origin of the old photos to Yan Yuhang, nor did he explain why he suspected the situation of being "monitored" - they were all secretly watched, and it was no longer safe to say anything or meet anyone. There is no privacy.

It is very risky to ask Yan Yuhang to help, whether it is for himself or this incomprehensible junior.It's not a last resort, he doesn't want to pull Yan Yuhang into the water.If the worst was assumed, he'd probably been under surveillance for a long time.

This kind of guessing is not fanciful, because, just after the centralized meeting of the supervision and investigation team ended that day, Wang Yang found something in his coat pocket—it was very small, only the size of a corn kernel; it was very cold, and it was held in his hand. Like a piece of ice that won't melt...a silver bell!

It is exactly the same as the one held in the hand of the deceased Wei Qingyang!

Wang Yang was about to send the bell, which was closely linked to the mystery of the crime scene, to the inspection department, but when he turned the doorknob of the apartment, a silver light spot bounced and fell in front of his eyes, followed by another one!

At the moment when the door of the house was fully opened, the silver bell rustled and rushed towards his face, and Wang Yang was stunned.If the silver bell was the key clue left by the murderer at the crime scene, or the physical evidence that the deceased pulled off from the murderer when he was dying fighting with the murderer, then his house is full of such dangerous little things now!

The old apartment in front of him was like the scene of the next crime predicted to hit.

But this sense of crisis only lasted for a moment, because Wang Yang immediately realized that the messy bells in front of him, except for the first one that fell on the ground, the rest were not real—a spherical bell hanging from the ceiling. The device projected the chaos just now, and the lower end of the spherical device was tied with a photo, which swayed in the wind like an ancient wind chime.

There were two handsome young men in that yellowed old photo, one of them was unknown to Wang Yang, and the other was Wang Zicheng.Both of them were wearing the overalls of the research and development department, and they seemed to be colleagues, but Wang Yang didn't remember his younger brother talking about this person to him.

Wang Yang did not hand over the entire photo to Yan Yuhang, and the half of Wang Zicheng in the photo was cut off.Wang Yang made the cropped part of the photo old, and Yan Yuhang didn't suspect that his brother had tampered with the photo at all.

The people in the two halves of the photo seemed to be smiling at him, Wang Yang buried his face in his palms and rubbed them hard twice, he felt a headache.The spherical device on the ceiling has a monitoring function and is so strong that Wang Yang couldn't take it apart and threw it directly into the drawer for socks.Usually there is no one in the apartment, so let it monitor the electronic dog next door to be in heat with the wall.

The monitor, the bell, and Wang Zicheng in the photo, Wang Yang didn't tell the extra people about these. Sometimes he realized that he might be too sensitive to Wang Zicheng's affairs, and even deceived his own reason and crossed the bottom line of his career.From this point of view, he very much agrees with his superiors to dismiss him as the head of the detachment. He is not qualified and incompetent.He doesn't deserve it.

Why does Zicheng's photo appear with the silver bell?Could it be that Zicheng...has something to do with this murder?Wang Yang didn't dare to think about this possibility at all.

Just like three years ago, he vaguely felt that he had made a wrong choice again, but he had to know who the stranger in the photo was.Even knowing that the hanging photos and the Silver Bell Waterfall were intentionally placed baits, this fishhook had to bite.

After all, the real silver bell engraved a line of "advice" politely: please take the bait.

Two days later, Wang Yang received a message from Yan Yuhang, and processed it with the encryption trick [password] invented by them during college: "Molin District, Blue Mill, MP-20370, Yu", and attached a sentence to the subsequent message Said: "Brother, if you go whoring and get caught, don't say that I leaked the news."

Wang Yang was annoyed, this little junior brother became more and more a jerk, what did he say."MP-20370" in the information is the registered job number, and "MP" is male|prostitute, which is a secret and legitimate occupation in Molin District of M City.

No one knows what kind of place Molin District of M City is.It parasitizes in the crevices of the city to eat away at human desires.Regional laws and massive capital investment have turned it into Las Vegas for gamblers, Shan State for drug addicts, and Amsterdam for carnivores.As the once popular lyrics sang: "Maureen, Maureen, the devil of neon, the crazier the night."

No decent person would ever go to a place like the Blue Mill, at least not on the surface.Beautiful birds love their feathers, so they don't choose to rest in the mud, at least not on the surface.

Wang Yang touched his chin, and turned the face on the photo.

Places like the Molin District...you really need to think carefully before going.He added a positioning device to two ordinary silver bells, wrapped one of them in a sealed bag and mailed it away, and filled in the addressee: Meng Liang.

On November 11, Wang Yang was invited to go.

That was the day Wang Yang met the tightrope walker.His name is Yu Linyuan.