Perhaps one day in the future, at a graduation reunion, classmates will point at Xia Xiu's graduation photo and say, "Who is this?" Everyone will look at each other, thinking about the name, but in the end they couldn't remember it, shrugged in tacit understanding, then pointed to the next photo and began to boldly reminisce their youthful memories in the class.

There are many such people in real life, and Xia Xiu is undoubtedly one of them.

Going to school silently, listening to lectures silently, finishing classes silently, and then returning home, the days seem like those old movies from the 80s and 90s, playing over and over again, which is very boring.

Xia Xiu has no fun, no desires, and no pursuit for the future. Will the future be any different from the daily routine that goes on day after day and year after year?

Wait for him to get into college? Wait for him to get a job?

He is still the same, always the same person.

It was so in the past, it is so now, and it will be so in the future.

If there is one thing he hopes for, it is probably that Xiaoyu might come to visit him, just like the empty-nest elderly people in the countryside who long for their children to come home.

But unfortunately, the drizzle never came once.

Incredibly, Xia Xiu had never thought of looking for Xiaoyu.

He is just an ordinary person with no good points. Xiaoyu has her own normal life. After all, she is different from him. Although they have also experienced trauma, Xiaoyu has grown up well. She is good-looking and has good interpersonal relationship skills.

People say that the harm caused by one's original family is the greatest to a person, but Xiaoyu has not experienced this theory.

Perhaps her heart was not as fragile as Xia Xiu's. Xia Xiu was very fragile, and he himself admitted it. After all, a child who crawled out of the mud could not get used to a clean world.

Xia Xiu lived day after day, year after year. During this period of time, he was like a walking corpse, like a puppet controlled by others. He went with the flow and in the blink of an eye he was 17 years old, the age when thousands of troops were trying to cross a single-plank bridge.

He dozed off on the table. The atmosphere in the class began to become tense. The previous atmosphere of fighting and playing around suddenly disappeared, and even several couples in the class became well-behaved.

There have been a total of six couples in Xia Xiu's class over the years, but only three have persisted until now. One of them even broke up and got back together before the college entrance examination. The only gossip in the class comes from that couple.

Of course, the gossip was not told to Xia Xiu by others, but he heard it from his deskmate when he was pretending to sleep.

Xia Xiu is a rigid and boring person. When people chat with him, he will just say simple "hmm" or "yeah". He has no reaction to anything else and his emotions never fluctuate. He is always so calm that it makes people feel uncomfortable.

The college entrance examination is tomorrow, but I don’t feel the slightest bit of reality. It’s as if this world is fake and it feels very unreal.

Xia Xiu skipped classes, he had a desire to see Xiaoyu, although the result would probably be: Xiaoyu looked at him with disdain, and then disappeared at the crossroads of his life. Just like two intersecting straight lines, after the intersection, there is no possibility of meeting again.

But life is always unpredictable, and that damn God's head must be filled with some mixture of yellow and white.

Brother Zixuan called and spoke with a trembling voice.

"Xia Xiu, please check the news."

During this period of time, only Brother Zixuan and his elder sister would occasionally contact him.

Xia Xiu turned on the TV with a puzzled look, and the news was playing again.

"According to local news reports, another victim was found in the suburbs yesterday. Not only were his eyes gouged out, but his organs were also missing. He has lost all vital signs. This is the 34th serial eye-gouging incident in our city. We would like to remind the general public once again to be careful when going out and beware of being deceived!"

Xia Xiu didn't take it seriously at first, because he had been tired of hearing such news on TV in recent years. He wanted to just glance over it, but the photo on it made him stunned.

That is Xiaoyu's photo.

Chapter 203 Wrong Target

Xia Xiu went to the scene in person. Amid the messy weeds, there lay a quiet corpse, surrounded by a circle of yellow cordons, and there were all kinds of people standing around watching the scene.

He silently stared at the familiar figure lying on the ground, yet felt extremely strange. A tingling sensation surged into his heart bit by bit. The empty eye sockets seemed to want to express something to Xia Xiu, but they could not say anything. Just like its owner, he never wanted to tell him the secrets in his heart.

Xia Xiu took a glance and found that Brother Zixuan was telling something to the police with a sad face, but no matter what, Xiaoyu would never come back.

He suddenly woke up from the bed. The nightmare made his head sweat, like a man who had just been pulled out of the water.

Xia Xiu looked at the time and found that it was already the next morning. He didn't know whether his elder sister had successfully arrested all the suspects of organ trafficking.

He drank the water at the bedside in one gulp, and his dry and sore throat finally felt a little better.

What I dreamed about last night was both a nightmare and reality. It was just some small episodes in Xia Xiu’s previous life. The subsequent developments are well known. Xia Xiu jumped into the river, was reborn, and could start his life all over again.

He was more or less resentful towards Brother Zixuan. He was Xiaoyu's biological brother, but he failed to take good care of her.

Xia Xiu lowered his eyes and opened the curtains. The dazzling sunlight shone into the dim room, and even Xia Xiu's spirit became brighter.

This time Jiang Chuchu didn't lie on Xia Xiu, probably because he slept in Xiaoyu's room last night. He picked up his phone and checked Xiaoyu's location, which was refreshed to show that she was at school.

Xia Xiu is only in the first year of high school now. There are still two and a half years before Xiaoyu is killed. All he needs to do is catch those damn eye-diggers in advance...

Xia Xiu thought so, then walked to the living room, turned on the TV and watched the news, but perhaps because it was too early, he did not see any useful news on the news.

I wanted to give my elder sister a call, but then I thought that she might be busy. Xia Xiu was not in a hurry anyway. What has been confirmed is confirmed, and it will not change because of your call.

So he calmly made breakfast for Jiang Chuchu. Xia Xiu planned to skip classes again today, and he had to confirm the final result.

After a good night's sleep, he naturally regained his energy and vitality. He took a last look at Jiang Chuchu who was sleeping soundly. He wondered if this child would be too bored staying at home every day.

Well, the right thing to do is to send her to school after a while.

Then he went out and rushed to the police station. The morning sun shone on the earth. At this time, most students were already reading aloud in the classroom, while Xia Xiu was wandering in the streets. Fortunately, there was no system like that in Japanese comics. After all, there, students wandering on the street would be questioned by the police.

When Xia Xiu rushed to the police station, he found that the uncles and sisters inside were all very tired, and there were fewer people. It seemed that most of them were still working hard outside.

Fortunately, my elder sister is still inside.

Shang Shanjing couldn't help but roll her eyes when she saw Xia Xiu. This kid has been coming here frequently recently.

"Hey, good morning, Sister Jing."

"What a waste! I'm so busy."

The older sister slapped away the dog's paw that was on her shoulder, then picked up the bun that Xia Xiu had brought her and started to take a big bite.

"Haha, I'm worried about your safety, Sister Jing, so I come to visit you often."

"Tsk, who doesn't know your little tricks?"

The elder sister finished the big meat bun in her hand in no time. After finishing it, she licked her fingers with satisfaction, not caring about the eyes of people around her at all.

Maybe this is why the elder sister can’t find a boyfriend?

Then she tapped Xia Xiu's dog head with her oily fingers.

"If you act on your own again in the future, I will arrest you!"

"Next time, I will definitely not do this again."

The elder sister sighed, and then gave Xia Xiu a brief summary of the information he most wanted to know.

"Yesterday, we went in and conducted a forced search based on the address you provided, and indeed found some illegal items."

"What illegal items?"

The elder sister curled her lips in disdain.

"What else could it be? It's just some surgical instruments, illegal anesthetics, and... some cut-up and frozen human organs."

"So they are really criminals who are reselling human organs?"

"That's pretty much it."

"So... has the criminal been caught?"

"It's almost done. The young man in your video was still a little stubborn after being arrested, but when his house was searched, an account book recording all the transactions over the years was found hidden in a secret compartment. Our special police found it, and the list in it was enough to catch them all in one fell swoop."

"Is that so? Sister Jing, thank you for your hard work!"

Xia Xiu chuckled and asked tentatively.

"Who was that person who was talking to the young doctor in the previous video?"

When Xia Xiu asked this question, the elder sister glanced at Xia Xiu. Logically, such things should be classified as internal information and should not be disclosed at will. However, when she saw Xia Xiu's sparkling eyes, she rubbed her head in annoyance.

"He is the owner of a clinic. He is very old. He could be your grandfather."

The face of the kind old man appeared in Xia Xiu's mind. The man said that he knew Xia Xiu.

"That's it..."

Xia Xiu lowered his head. Isn't it Lan Zixuan's...

"Okay, is there anything else? If you have nothing to do, go find a place to play. I, your sister, still have a lot of things to do."

"It's okay, it's okay, Sister Jing, you go ahead and get busy."

Xia Xiucan left the police station with a smile, then found a bench in the park and sat in a daze.

After all this time, it turns out it wasn't Lan Zixuan...

Xia Xiu's wish was dashed, and he lowered his head to count the ants on the ground.

But can a person who used to be a drug dealer really be a good person?

After all, if he was just sent to prison for drug use, he wouldn't be sentenced so long. It's been five years since he was released. No one would believe that he had no other crimes.

Recalling the scene when Lan Zixuan met his parents that day, Xia Xiu's eyes were filled with a haze.

Chapter 204 Reflection

It was another day of doing nothing without going to school. He checked his phone and saw that silly girl Fan Yanke had sent him another message with 99+. Xia Xiu clicked on it and sent a dog head to tell her to study hard and listen to the lectures carefully, then closed his phone.

The sunlight finally shone into the dark alley, but Xia Xiu always felt that the light was a little dazzling, a little... fake.

There was always a hint of uneasiness in his heart. He thought of Lan Zixuan's always smiling face and the kind figure who once handed him bread. But in the end, all of it turned into the scene in his previous life where Xiaoyu had her eyes dug out and she stared at the world with emptiness.

His subconscious mind told Xia Xiu that if Xiaoyu stayed with Lan Zixuan, something bad would happen. However, the other party was Xiaoyu's brother, so Xia Xiu had no right to make comments.

Xia Xiu once had a dark association, that Lan Zixuan was the final eye-gouging demon, and that Xiaoyu became that way because of him. Although they were siblings, Xia Xiu had seen the ugliness of human nature before.

He couldn't change the inevitability of history. Xiaoyu would definitely stay with her brother for a while, just like in her previous life. This was her test, and it also allowed Xiaoyu to recognize the true nature of her feelings. In other words, if Xiaoyu didn't see Lan Zixuan's dark side, how could she not have thoughts about her brother?

But Xia Xiu's dark thoughts seemed to be in vain, because Brother Zixuan seemed to be just as he appeared to be, a kind, gentle and graceful big brother.

But why can’t the medical clinic where Brother Zixuan worked be found on the map?

Xia Xiu's thoughts were all over the place, tangled together like a ball of dough.

So he called Brother Zixuan.

"Hello? Is this Xia Xiu?"

"Brother Zixuan, it's me."

After hearing Xia Xiu's voice, Lan Zixuan put down what he was doing and smiled gently.

"What's wrong? What's the matter?"

"Brother Zixuan, what are you doing?"

Lan Zixuan looked at the surrounding environment and smiled bitterly.

"What else can I do? I have to work. Otherwise, how can I support myself and Xiaoyu?"

"Is this the clinic you mentioned before, Brother Zixuan? I happen to have some time now, so why don't I come and play with you, Brother Zixuan, and get to know the way. If I need anything later, I can come to you directly."

Xia Xiu originally thought he would hear a flustered tone and words of rejection, but Lan Zixuan smiled and nodded, saying "OK".

Then I sent the location.

"Then Xia Xiu, come on over. I'll be waiting for you inside the clinic. By the way, do you have money for the bus? Do you need me to transfer some money to you?"

Lan Zixuan asked kindly.

"No, no, I can just scan a bicycle."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the two hung up the phone.

Xia Xiu looked at the location information in his hand. The name of Xuanhu Medical Clinic did not appear on the evil map.

He took a deep breath, then scanned a shared bike and prepared to ride over. But at this moment, the phone suddenly rang, making Xia Xiu stand there for a while, looking at Fan Yanke's silly profile picture, hesitating for a while, and finally picked up the phone.

"Hello? Moses Moses?"

"Hey?"

"Great, Xia Xiu, you're still here! If you were, why didn't you reply to my message≥﹏≤"

The girl squatted in the toilet, puffed up her cheeks and said dissatisfiedly.

Xia Xiu smiled helplessly.

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