Into a parallel world

"You have also heard about the recent incident. I came here to investigate with Zhou Wenhan." Shen Liming explained.Qiao Ye was a little surprised, "Your investigation department still cares about this?"

Shen Liming smiled for the first time, and said: "The investigation department is a special department directly under the upper management. The orders from above are issued directly without going through layers of checkpoints. Everyone in the department must take over any type of tasks unconditionally."

Qiao Ye nodded knowingly, shook his head and said in a low voice, "It seems quite omnipotent ----- no!" No, no, why did he think that the investigation department would not care about this?Why did he vaguely feel that the investigation department should not be in charge of political cases, but...more murderous or suspenseful cases?

"What's wrong?" Shen Liming asked.

Qiao Ye looked a little ugly, looked at Shen Liming, and asked, "Investigation Department, have you dealt with suspense cases?"

The car turned a corner, and a three-story building in the middle of mountains, forests and waters could be seen in front of it.The direct sunlight from outside penetrated the glass window and shone on Shen Liming's resolute face. The light and shadow kept changing as the car drove forward, and Qiao Ye couldn't guess what the other party was thinking.Just when he thought that the other party would not answer, the other party said: "Yes, but these cases are not told to people other than the staff."

"Sorry." Qiao Ye smiled apologetically, but at least he got the information he wanted, didn't he? big secret.

A sign at the door said 'Public Security Investigation Department'. When the security guard saw the car, he opened the door directly.The car drove into the investigation department and parked in the parking lot.Shen Liming got out of the car first, followed by Qiao Ye. Looking around, he felt as if he had been here before.

Shen Liming followed him closely, Qiao Ye felt a little funny.The building in front became more and more clear, and a picture flashed in my mind, a sculpture, and it was still a strange sculpture.The picture was too fast to capture other information, but he just saw a sculpture standing in the middle of the garden in the same environment.

"Is there a sculpture in front?" Qiao Ye tentatively asked.

Shen Liming was a little surprised, raised his eyebrows and said, "Have you been here?"

When Qiao Ye heard this, he was frightened for a moment.Has he opened the golden finger of life? Why does he see the future in progress from time to time after being exposed to the rain?Is this ability good or bad?Or, is this just a temporary physiological hallucination?

Don't think about it anymore, because he really saw the sculpture in his mind, standing there, not pure white, but with brown spots, as if left by the baptism of wind and rain.The sculpture looks like a man and an animal, holding a tray in his left hand and a pole similar to a scale in his right hand, which seems to symbolize fairness, but the word fairness is expressed by a strange sculpture, which inevitably has too strong visual impact.

At first glance, it will feel disobedient, but after a few more glances, the sense of disobedience is gradually dispelled. On the contrary, the expression of "fairness" with this sculpture with a large contrast in appearance has a deeper meaning and a more artistic sense. strong.

Qiao Ye looked at the sculpture, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became. After several rounds of tumbling, the images in his mind only stayed on the flashing picture before. He was sure that he had never seen this sculpture except now.

"Admirable?" Shen Liming's voice came from beside him, Qiao Ye looked back at Shen Liming, and nodded in response.The other party stepped forward, looked at the sculpture and said, "I thought that no one would appreciate it. After all, it didn't match the image that the investigation department brought to the public. But today, besides me, finally someone looked at it with contemplative eyes. "

Qiao Ye raised his eyebrows, looked at Shen Liming and said, "You chose this sculpture?" The other party curled his lips and said, "To be precise, I designed it."

"You designed it?" Qiao Ye was surprised. How could this seemingly tough man in front of him do such a very literary work?His intuition told him that Shen Liming's intention in designing this sculpture was definitely not simple.

Shen Liming was noncommittal, and looked at the sculpture calmly. There were too many complicated emotions in it. Qiao Ye couldn't understand that gaze, so he simply followed the sculpture.Although the appearance of the sculpture is ferocious, after looking at it for a long time, there is a feeling of weather-beaten and thatched huts being broken by the autumn wind, but this feeling is like fireflies at night, which flicker out and disappear from time to time.

"Can you tell me why you designed this sculpture?" Qiao Ye asked cautiously.Flocks of wild geese fly across the sky from time to time. There has been a lot of rain in the past few days, and the body is covered with water droplets. The grass shop below also has the fresh smell of earth and vanilla.Shen Liming was silent for a while, raised his finger to the sculpture, and slowly said: "Glutton, for thousands of years, has represented greed and desire, and its appearance is rumored to be ugly. But it can also be a town house, and evil things town house pay The price is heavy, but the rewards are relatively high, what the investigation department needs is a regular, cold-blooded and ruthless transaction, and Taotie is just right."

After listening, Qiao Ye felt that Shen Liming's thinking was a bit extreme, and turned his head to ask, "Then what is the price you paid?"

For some reason, after asking this sentence, his heart began to pound, and for no reason, it began to be out of his control.It's also starting to be a little harder to breathe, like they're prying into someone's secrets, and if they continue to cross that line, the consequences are beyond their reach.So he began to regret asking this sentence.

Shen Liming glanced at Qiao Ye, his eyes flickered, put his hands in his pockets, turned and walked towards the building.When Qiao Ye saw this, a trace of embarrassment spread between the two of them.Step by step, he followed the other party and entered the hall, but the other party obviously had his own special passage, and went directly to the opposite side of the main staircase.

Stepping into Shen Liming's office area, the feeling of panic became more and more obvious.

Or is this just a dream?Qiao Ye thought this way unconsciously, and his beating heart made it even more difficult for him to act.Shen Liming opened the door, and the office smelled of dried lavender. This smell pierced his nostrils. Qiao Ye sniffed lightly. As soon as he stepped on the line between the door and the wall, a picture flashed in his mind. It was him and a man standing in front of a wall with Monet's "Wild Poppies."

Large swaths of dark red and bright red stimulated him, and the dark tone made his heart sink, and he stopped in place and forgot to breathe.

Shen Liming walked to the desk, left a stack of documents on the desk, turned around and looked at the person standing at the door, and cast a cold look, "Come in."

Qiao Ye swallowed hard, took another step bravely, and entered the back room. He walked up to Shen Liming with his eyes downcast, and his eyes fell on the stack of photos on the table. On it was Zhou Wenhan's dead appearance. He crouched in a pile of materials as high as a mountain, his face was very serene, the pen slipped aside, it seemed that he was just too tired to fall asleep.

But they knew that this old man who had dedicated his life died for no apparent reason.