Chapter One Unexpected

  This world is like that, kindness is often misunderstood; evil gets affirmation. Some people harm themselves with desire, some people delay themselves with hope, and some people are even killed by ignorance.

  Life will never have a fixed answer, but as long as you are alive, you must live in the best way possible.

  Volume 2: "Spirit Medium's Curse"

  Some things, based on the information I currently have, are inexplicable. However, one thing is certain: Li Feng and his people only targeted Panzi this time, and they didn't have any malicious intentions towards me; otherwise, he wouldn't have invited me to chat with him.

  There are two paths in front of me. One is that I ignore Panzi's affairs and let Lifu handle it, so I will definitely be safe and sound; the other path is that I advance and retreat with Panzi together, no matter what consequences, we two carry it together, I use my safety to exchange for his opportunity to recover from illness.

  Li Feng made me think for a while, then asked, "Du Rui, what are you thinking about? Why aren't you talking? We're not outsiders, there's nothing we can't talk about."

  I also frankly told him, without beating around the bush. What I said to Lu Yifeng during the day, I repeated it word for word to Li Feng.

  I was still looking at Li Feng's expression, and when I finished speaking, his face turned red, with a hint of embarrassment, and he slightly narrowed his eyes as he looked at me.

  He is my direct supervisor, I don't want to make eye contact with him, so I avoid his gaze and stubbornly look away. The two of us also didn't have a good atmosphere for chatting, I was just enduring it from the bottom of my heart, waiting for him to make a decision, and settle it with one sentence.

  Li Feng looked at me for a long time, and then unexpectedly smiled. He laughed so hard that his originally straight body curled up a lot. He raised his head to look at the roof and said, "Du Rui, do you know? You are very similar to my past self." He let out a long sigh, and then changed the subject, saying something that left me bewildered: "I thought of the Gemini stars, one is rooted but they're opposites, one good and one evil. Logically, the good one should live well, but society is like this, the bad ones are actually longer-lived."

  I didn't dare to say anything at this time, so I just listened quietly. Li Feng didn't want to continue talking either, and he waved his hand saying, "I called you here today just to catch up on old times and chat randomly, there's nothing else, you can go now, remember to be careful when you leave."

  Although he didn't mention Panzi again, judging from his behavior, I have a hunch that Panzi is fine. I also don't want to stay with Li Feng alone for too long, so I'll just bid farewell and leave according to his intention.

  I was very careful when I left the police station and walked a long way before hailing a taxi, heading straight for the psychiatric hospital.

  Over the next three days, the expert at the psychiatric hospital gave Panzi a thorough "examination", and after infusing him with fluids and injecting him with medicine, he was busy for a while. As I expected, Panzi slowly recovered, and in the end, he lost a circle of weight, but his head didn't hurt anymore.

  When I took Panzi out of the hospital, I held the expert's hand and thanked him profusely, but in my heart, I really wanted to kick him hard.

  We both returned to the rental house and became reclusive, except for buying some daily necessities, we basically didn't go out at all. Although it looks dull at first glance, Panzi's and my nerves were tense, who knows when a task would suddenly come?

  It was one evening, when Panzi and I were watching TV together, someone knocked on the door with a loud bang. The two of us carefully approached the door, and I looked through the peephole to find it was Lu Yifeng.

  I was taken aback and thought to myself, "How did he know where we live?" But then I figured, as a special informant, it wouldn't be hard for him to find out our address.

  I hurriedly opened the door for him. Panzi looked silly, and his impression of Lu Yifeng was not bad either. He said first, "Brother, how did you come?"

  Lu Yifeng smiled and said he had recently been idle, so he came over to take a look at us two.

  I don't believe what he said, there must be a catch if he's willing to come over. I want to ask him privately.

  It's just the right time to eat, so I suggested that we have a drink at home. I and Lu Yufeng went out together to buy some takeout, and asked Panzi to take out the pork ribs from the refrigerator and make a braised pork ribs dish.

  Panzi will cook with skill, hearing me say this and coming in strong, patting his chest saying "watch closely".

  I followed Lu Yufeng downstairs and took a shortcut through a small alley to rush to the market. Coincidentally, there was no one in the alley at this time, and I looked at Lu Yufeng, who had taken out a leisurely expression, and suddenly felt annoyed.

  Damn it, he previously did evil and poisoned Pan Zi, this time seeing Pan Zi he doesn't feel a bit guilty?

  I suddenly felt a surge of anger and before I could control myself, I pushed him hard.

  Lu Yufeng didn't expect me to be like this, and was pushed forward several steps, he got a bit angry, turned his head and glared at me.

  To be honest, if I really had to fight with Lu Yifeng, even two of me tied together wouldn't be his match. But I wasn't afraid, looking at him and saying with a hint, "Yifeng, sorry, recently I've been practicing combat with Panzi at home, just couldn't hold back and pushed you."

  Lu Yifeng must have understood that I was blaming him. He calmed down and muttered, "Xiaobai, I heard a rumor that the higher-ups want to transfer you away."

  "What about Panzi?" I hastily asked. I didn't care where I went, what bothered me was, what would happen to Panzi now?

  Lu Yifeng said, "Panzi is still like this now! Maybe he will have new partners. That's great!"

  I don't know how much water is in Lu Yifeng's words. Or will he be hinting that the top will transfer me away and then deal with Panzi?

  I suddenly felt a sense of helplessness, and for a moment, the scene where I worked with Panzi side by side on a task flashed through my mind.

  I think Lu Yifeng, this special informant, has the right to speak on the matter of Panzi. I'm confused, and suddenly I took a gamble again, this time I really didn't hesitate to use a pleading tone with him, "Yifeng, Panzi is not a bad person, why don't you let him go? I dare guarantee that he won't say anything out of line."

  These few words must be unable to express the kind of feeling I have, but my eyes make up for this inadequacy. Lu Yifeng looked at me, even stopping in his tracks, just coldly sizing me up like that.

  It can be seen that he is entangled, and I don't know what he is entangled with. Anyway, after a long time, he sighed and said to me, "What did you just say? I didn't understand what you were talking about."

  During this time, I also calmed down a lot. I thought to myself that I had done everything I should have done, and Panzi's ultimate fate was beyond my control.

  We barely had anything to say to each other, silently went to the market to buy takeout and beer, and carried it back.

  When we sat down at the dinner table together, Panzi brought up the dishes and specially blew his craftsmanship to let Lu Yifeng taste it first.

  Lu Yifeng didn't move his chopsticks, staring at Panzi for a few seconds, and with this strange strength, he made Panzi dizzy.

  Lu Yifeng quietly opened a can of beer and downed it in one gulp, without even waiting for us to catch up. I didn't say anything, just grabbed a handful of the peanuts we had just bought and started munching on them.

  Lu Yifeng drank three bottles of beer in a row, wiped his mouth, leaned back on the chair and started laughing. This laughter had a hint of self-mockery to it. What's even stranger is that he didn't say another word, got up and walked out.

  We didn't know what Lu Yifeng was up to this time. Panzi still wanted to hold onto A Feng, saying that even if something really came up, they should finish dinner before leaving.

  Ke Lu Yu Feng turned his head and walked away without looking back, waving his hand and saying, "No need to, there will be plenty of opportunities for us to eat together in the future."

  Panzi was stunned, and after hearing the sound of the door closing, he said to me, "Xiaobai, Ahfeng is a weird person!"

  I heard Lu Yifeng say that sentence before he left, and my heart suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. Now I can be sure that Panzi is really okay. I don't care what Panzi thinks, I told him not to worry so much, and we continued drinking.

  Two days later, Li Feng called us and said that there were changes in the organization, temporarily lending us to another place to assist in solving a case. We had to leave urgently, so on the same night, we packed our bags and boarded the train to Xibei Longzhou.

  This is the longest time I've taken a train since I started working, we spent more than a day on the train, and when we got off, my whole body felt unspeakably tired.

  Lu Yufeng arrived a step earlier in Longzhou, he was with us to take charge of this case, and also drove a black sedan to pick us up. He bought two fast food meals and let us fill our stomachs in the car, saying that we would go to the suburbs to see someone next.

  I followed the route of the car, originally Longzhou was not a big place, he deliberately went to the suburbs, and it became more desolate as we walked. Finally arrived at an isolated farmhouse.

  I was still calculating, leaving the car here is quite conspicuous, if there are outsiders passing by, it will definitely attract attention. Lu Yifeng has a clever plan, he let us two get off the bus first and rush towards a haystack alone.

  I didn't react at first, and I was so scared that I wanted to shout at Ah Feng not to mess around. But strangely, when the car crashed into the haystack, the haystack opened up like a curtain, creating a hole for the car to drive through with a whoosh.

  I and Panzi looked at each other in surprise, and Panzi even praised that this disguise was really great!

  Lu Yufeng took us to the farmhouse, this house was originally locked, inside except for tables and chairs, there was nothing, we three found a place to sit down and smoked with our heads down.

  Lu Yu-feng occasionally glanced at the table, and after about a quarter of an hour, a black shadow walked in from outside the farmhouse. There was a rhythmic knock on the door, "Dang, dang, dang, dang!"

  I and Pan Zi were both looking at Lu Yu Feng. A Feng made a "don't worry" gesture to us, then said, "The contact person has arrived!"