Longmen Memoirs

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"Tsk, tsk, you really don't show any mercy at all."

The standard long sword of the Guards Bureau was broken on the ground. Chen Lian Chi Xiao could not pull it out. The sword skills she used had no effect. She blocked all Chen's attacks with just one hand.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't shake his footsteps.

When the fox came over, Chen held the broken standard sword without saying a word. In response to her frivolous tone, he just raised his eyes and glanced at her.

"You came here specifically to see my joke."

Looking at the fox's outstretched hand, Chen asked.

"How can I? If I really want to see your joke, the pier is already crowded with people and I won't be able to take my turn." The fox said, "You said, tomorrow's news headline will read that Superintendent Chen of the Inspectorate of the Guard Bureau was Will Longmen Wharf sell out if I am frustrated?"

"Tsk."

Chen took the fox's hand.

"No need for you to be sarcastic."

"Don't say that, I'm not in any better mood than you right now."

"How much did you hear?"

"Not much, Tallulah, infected, Chernobog, that's all." The fox shrugged: "You really have to leave the dragon gate to find that Tallulah."

"none of your business."

"just asking."

"Don't worry about it."

"Do you think I will worry about you?" Fox asked. She put Chen's hand on her shoulder and helped her walk out: "I heard something new this morning. Do you want to hear it?"

"..."

"A guy told me that his name was not Chen Mo. He said that Chen Mo was already dead and that he killed him with his own hands in Kazdale." The fox seemed to be talking to himself: "But I don't really believe it. That guy said His lies are even worse than mine, and I don’t believe a word of the lies he tells.”

Chen tilted his head.

"Do you really want to leave Longmen and go to Ursus?"

"..."

"Chief Wei will not agree. Once your identity is recognized in Ursus, your situation will become extremely dangerous. From this point alone, you should not go to Ursus."

"You don't know me at all."

"But I know another person who doesn't know you better than you, Chen Huijie, and I know you better than him." said the fox.

Chen didn't answer.

"You can't think about other people. Do you really think that he will ignore you when you go to Ursus? No one will worry about you, your friends in Longmen, your daughter, and the things you have always insisted on. , the slums of Longmen have finally improved a little, and you are leaving Longmen now." The fox said softly: "Have you ever thought that if you can't come back, all your efforts and everything you have will be lost. will be reduced to nothing.”

"What do you mean by leaving you a choice? As far as I'm concerned, it just puts you in a dilemma and makes you think clearly about the consequences of your actions. It's much better than rushing to Ursus in anger, so if you really Once you have made up your mind, think about it carefully and think about what happens if you can't come back. Sometimes when a person dies, he really dies. Even if the people behind him still remember him, he is still dead."

"Are you talking a lot today?"

"I thought we weren't that familiar. It's just that I'm in a bad mood today."

The fox started to chatter, and Chen's mood became worse and worse. This was probably because the fox's chatter would often make comments about her. In the past, she would have quarreled with the fox at this time, but Chen was not in the mood today.

Chapter 27 Old Friends

Chen thought he was prepared.

But when she saw the star bear guarding the entrance at the hidden pass leaving the dragon gate, Chen Huijie would inevitably feel surprised.

It was dusk in Longmen, and the weather was gloomy.

It looked like she had been waiting somewhere for a long time. She was sitting on the steps in front of the entrance to the underground passage leading to the outside of the city from the abandoned city in the outer ring of Longmen. Next to her were a shopping bag from a convenience store and a half-open beer can.

Seeing Chen Huijie, who was dressed for a long journey and pushing a motorcycle parked in front of her, she raised her eyes and smiled.

"Why, you just left without saying hello to me when you were traveling far away?"

she asked.

After a brief surprise, Chen's face calmed down. She looked at the ghost blocking her, paused, and asked.

"Xingxiong, why are you...here?"

"Missy told me that you had a big quarrel with Chief Wei a few days ago. In the past few days, you have been distracted. It is obviously the resettlement bill in the slums that you are most concerned about, but you are uncharacteristically different. Everyone can see it. You have something very heavy on your mind." Xingxiong said as she put down her beer and stood up.

"I never asked. If you don't want to say it, I won't force you. I'll wait for you to tell me."

"Feel sorry."

"I don't forgive you, Lao Chen. The reason I don't forgive you is not because you were hiding something and didn't want to tell me. I don't forgive you because you were prepared to leave without saying a word or saying goodbye."

Xingxiong looked down at Chen who was standing at the bottom of the steps.

"So, you're waiting for me here?"

"If I don't wait for you here, are you planning to leave Longmen quietly like this?" Xing Xiong asked back: "I don't know what Chief Wei told you.

"The person I have always trusted, she silently plans to betray what we have always insisted on. He plans to abandon everyone and leave regardless. If this is the case, then why have we stayed in the Guards Bureau all this time? I thought about it for a long time and finally decided to come here and ask her in person.”

She looked at Chen, and saw that Chen's face was getting more and more ugly, and finally she had no choice but to look away from Xing Xiong.

Xing Xiong’s gaze made Chen feel dazzled.

She lowered her eyelids slightly.

"What are you trying to say?"

"Old Chen, where do you want to go alone?" Xing Xiong asked.

"Why do you know I'm here? Wait, you're following me?"

"Don't say it so harshly. You always use this place when you leave the city privately. You and I both know where there are any gaps or passages that others don't know about. So, you plan to leave the Guards Bureau and the Inspectorate behind." Where are people going?”

Chen Weiwei turned his head away.

"You won't believe it."

"You haven't said it yet, how do you know I don't believe it." Xingxiong asked, "Of course, you will say that. I know very well what kind of person you are."

"..."

"You want to stop me?"

Chen watched Xing Xiong lift the Prajna placed on the side of the steps, and she suddenly realized the reason why Xing Xiong was here.

"Of course I have to stop you, Lao Chen. I am the inspector of the Longmen Guards Bureau, but I am your friend. Do you want to have a heroic adventure of riding thousands of miles alone? I can't let you go, because I have a feeling Intuition, if I let you go this time, I will definitely regret it in the future. This is the only reason why I can't let you go."

"Do you think you are doing it for my own good?" Chen suddenly asked. Xing Xiong's words seemed to stimulate her: "You don't understand at all, Xing Xiong, you don't understand anything at all!"

"I don't have to understand!"

Xing Xiong retorted loudly, his voice lowered: "I am an old-fashioned person."

"I like comics, movies, wine, rainy streets, people passing by without umbrellas, except for motorcycles." Xing Xiong said: "Some things are easily outdated in the eyes of others. But Lao Chen, can we really keep up with the time?"

"I can't, I can't, it goes too fast, it tramples a lot of things I value to pieces."

She stretched out two fingers and gestured a very short distance to Chen.

"There are only so many left, a scratch, a folded corner, a yellow spot. I can name each one."

"I hate it. I hate that time takes away the people around me. They are all smashed to pieces for their own place, and what about me?"

She looked at Chen and suddenly showed a shallow smile, full of self-mockery: "They called me Ghost Sister. They believed that I could protect them, but I watched them disappear one by one. Chen Yufen was beaten, and even me I moved my hands and watched their dreams shattered by my own hands."

"I have lost a lot of things, Lao Chen, and I can no longer allow myself to lose you." She lifted Prajna and pressed the heavy shield against the hard concrete ground.

"So no matter what reason you have, I can't let you go."

Chen held the sword at her waist. She looked at the colleagues and friends in front of her, and thought about their experiences in the past few years, how many days and nights, how many busy scenes they had worked together since they first met Xing Xiong. For a long time, there was a moment when Chen even regarded Xing Xiong as his confidant. They talked about almost everything. She was Chen's best partner and friend.

"I don't want to fight with you, don't force me, Star Bear."

"I don't want to either, Lao Chen." Xing Xiong said: "But I have a reason to keep you, even if it's just for myself. This is what I should say to you, don't force me, Lao Chen."

"If you still think you are Superintendent Chen of the Guards Bureau, you should open your eyes and take a good look at what you are doing now. Leave your post without permission and act privately. There must be a limit to your nonsense!"

"..."

"It's quite interesting, isn't it? It was you who kept saying that you wanted to change the status quo of the slums in Longmen. It was you who tried every means to hope that Longmen could accept the infected people in the slums. But now, with great difficulty, the National Guard Bureau has successfully settled in the slums, and the new infected people are living there. The bill is also effectively promoting progress, and as for you, you plan to leave all this behind and quietly leave Gantry without looking back."

Xingxiong sneered: "Do you think we are playing house? Miss Chen, the entire Longmen, Guards Bureau and slums will accompany you to play your house?"

"If you leave now, who will promote what we have been working hard for? If you leave now, who are you going to hand over to the Guards Bureau and what you want to do!"

"I……"

"If there is any problem, we can solve it together. Lao Chen, there is no need to use this method. Look at you, even if there is really a reason for you to leave Longmen, what can you do alone? What can you say? You can’t say it out loud, you must leave no room for trouble.”

"You don't understand, Star Bear, you don't understand."

"So I'm waiting here now, so I'm asking you now, if I really don't understand, then tell me, let me understand, don't let me always guess your thoughts, I can't read minds, If you don’t say it, how can I understand you?”

Chen fell silent.

Under the gloomy sky outside Longmen, in the deserted old city, her hand holding the sword finally loosened slightly. Just looking at her movements, Xing Xiong breathed a sigh of relief.

If it was not necessary, she really didn't want to do anything to Chen, but in her state, Xingxiong couldn't watch her leave. Xingxiong knew Chen Huijie too well, and knew that sometimes her insistence would harm herself, and he knew a certain feeling in Chen Huijie's heart. Paranoid, she will do something desperately for a certain paranoia.

The more she hides it from everyone, the more dangerous it becomes.

After a long time, Chen finally spoke.

"Then let me tell you a fact, Xingxiong, I am an infected person."

When she said this, the unexpected surprise did not appear on Xingxiong's face.

"I know."

"What did you say?"

"I said I know. Not only I know, but Missy also knows. You thought you hid it very well, but you forgot about Xiao Mo and Lao Chen. You left her at home. That child had almost no playmates of the same age. We Everyone can guess it." Xingxiong said: "But I don't care, Missy doesn't care, Jiu doesn't care, and even Mr. Wei doesn't care. We don't care whether Chen Huijie is an infected person, we only care about whether Chen Huijie is Chen Huijie."

"Do you really think that no one cares about you? Lao Chen, I have told you before that you have a problem. You are immersed in your own thoughts and cannot see everything around you or others. No matter how hard you work for you, even if no one really cares about you, what about you and your daughter? You have to leave her alone in Longmen!"

"Why do you think I must leave Longmen? Xingxiong."

"I'm waiting for you to say it."

"Since you mentioned Xiao Mo, well, aren't you curious about who Xiao Mo's father is? Haven't you ever wondered why you have never seen him?"

"..."

"Now I see him. Just a few days ago, we took the Guards Bureau and Dayan into the ghetto for a military confrontation. He stood in front of me. On the day they came to Longmen, didn't you ask me why I was in a hurry? Are you running to the visiting port? Now I’ll tell you the answer, because that damn King Wu, because that bastard, he is Xiao Mo’s father and my husband!”

Chen's voice was almost a growl, and Xingxiong could no longer maintain the calmness on her face. She stared blankly at Chen who said this until Chen's eyes came over.

Star Bear finally came to his senses.

"I didn't expect it to be like this, Lao Chen."

"You still want to stop me?"

"On the contrary, I think I should stop you, Lao Chen, you want to go to Ursus, right? Now that the Yan Kingdom and Ursus are at war with each other at any time, do you plan to run to Ursus alone? What do you think? What can you do?"

"This is my family matter, Xingxiong. I have told you what you want to know. You have no reason to stop me."

"This is not just your family matter, Lao Chen. You are an official of the Longmen Guards Bureau. If you show up, you know what Ursus means better than me. I don't know what happened in your family, but since he hid it Since you didn't tell me, it means you shouldn't go there, I won't let you go, and Commander Wei won't let you get into this war."

"I have submitted my resignation to Wei Yanwu."

"You don't care about our hard work and persistence, do you?" Xing Xiong asked: "You are not sure whether you can come back alive. In this case, I can't let you go."

"Why do you say such things? Are my relatives, my family... not important enough?"

"That's why..." Xing Xiong replied: "That's why I can't let you go. Xiao Mo is also your family, and you still have your own career in Longmen, so even if I have to die here today, I I won’t let you pass either.”

Chen finally drew the sword from his waist without any further hesitation.

"This is not your decision, Star Bear!"

"Prajna has decided." Xingxiong looked at Chen in a deep voice.