This roar failed to vent the depression in Ren Yan's heart, but instead affected his new and old injuries, making his face pale because of the pain.

Zheng Pei looked at Ren Yi indifferently and gasped in difficulty. When he slowed down, he continued to fire the soft knife: "Captain Ren, you are a good person. Everyone says that. You may be a smart person, but compared to Gong Yingxian, you are too stupid. I don't know if you are confused by his profession, his life experience, or his appearance, you believe whatever he says, and you do whatever you ask you to do. Is this a normal adult behavior?"

Ren Yi opened his mouth and wanted to defend himself, but Zheng Pei took the lead: "I have heard some rumors about your relationship. I have no objection to sexual orientation, but if it is true, it can help me better understand your various actions when facing him, and even take the risk of hiding, sheltering, and assisting wanted criminals for him."

Zheng Pei's eyes, tone, and words made Ren Yi's face hot. Even if he wanted him to come out on the street, he would probably not be more embarrassed than this moment.

Zheng Pei still said mercilessly: "About the cases nineteen years ago and the current cases, 80% of the information you have obtained comes from him, right? Didn't you think he would lie to you?"

Ren Yi's lips trembled and said with difficulty: "I did my own investigation..."

"But how much of your investigation is based on the information he gave you?" Zheng Pei said sharply, "Until now, you are still maintaining him in your subconscious mind. In fact, you are also protecting yourself, because you trust him and have too many sunk costs during the period you have paid for him. You are more afraid that he is lying to you and using you to make everything you do wrong."

Ren Yi stared at Zheng Pei with his red eyes: "This is not the first time I doubt him. I have my own judgment on many things. How long have you been involved in this case? How much do you know?"

Zheng Pei's aggressiveness made Ren Yi feel deeply humiliated. In Zheng Pei's mouth, he seemed to have become a fool who had no brains and no bottom line, and did not hesitate to violate the law and discipline and even helped his lover do evil. He had a very big dispute with Gong Yingxian because of the trust crisis, but in the end he reconciled. That was because the trust between them was established after several life and death. It was solid and heavy. The mixed love, appreciation, trust, and sympathy made him difficult to tell the difference, let alone Zheng Pei, an outsider!

But while he was angry, he had to face the reality, that is, Zheng Pei’s doubts were not without reason.

Gong Yingxian did what he was too poor to justify, killing Qiu Yan and causing him miserable. He knew that what was waiting for him was not only expelled from the fire protection system, but also being subject to criminal responsibility.

However, there was another voice in his heart that was arguing hard. That was Gong Yingxian sacrificed his life several times to save himself. Those choices of life and death moments were the most instinctive choices and could never be fake.

He didn't believe that Gong Yingxian didn't care about him at all. Perhaps, it was just that Gong Yingxian's concern for him was far less than that obsession that had been entangled with him for nineteen years.

Zheng Pei saw the conflict and struggle on Ren Yi's face: "I'll ask you a simple question. I told you on the phone that Gong Yingxian had known Zhang Wen's identity for a long time, but he chose to hide it from everyone. Have you asked him about this?"

Let Yi remain silent.

Zheng Pei showed a "very sure" expression, and he shook his head: "You have degenerated from being deceived by him to being deceived by yourself. Why? Don't tell me what great love is because of it. If he let Huang Yan's shot not hit the bulletproof vest, but hit you, you don't even know how you die. Is it him or your own suspicion?"

"What do you want to prove?" Ren Yi stared at Zheng Pei and grinned his teeth. "Prove that I was deceived by him, yes, I admit it, and then what? What do you want me to sue him in court to lie to me? Is that how you investigate the case?"

"I want to prove that all your maintenance on him is not worth it. You should be sober and assist me without reservation so that you can leave yourself a way out and give Captain Qiu a fairness."

Ren Yi's lips were pursed into a line.

Zheng Pei attached himself, supported his arms on the edge of the bed, and looked at Ren Yi in a straight line: "Do you know what you are going to face? Once a case is filed, you will not only be dismissed from public office, but also be imprisoned in a detention center. Can you bear this? From a respected and promising special fire brigade squadron leader, he has fallen from murderers, rapists, fraudsters, prostitutes, drug users, stealers, gangsters and other garbage living in a can of steel and cement, living a dark life."

Let Yi's eyes burn and his fists clenched.

"Don't think your detachment can protect you for how long. This is a society ruled by law. I can apply for arrest at any time."

Ren Yi leaned closer to Zheng Pei slightly and stared in his eyes fearlessly: "How much evidence do you have?"

"Enough." Zheng Pei said, "It depends on your cooperation."

"You said you are here to supervise their dereliction of duty. Obviously I can handle this or not, but you are so eager to dig out something from my mouth, so that you have to sow discord and threaten it." Ren Yi said coldly, "The more you do this, the more I feel that you are untrustworthy."

Zheng Pei's expression darkened: "You are stubborn."

"I have tried my best to cooperate with you all. I don't know what you want to do. Why don't you tell me directly and how do you want me to cooperate with you?"

"It's not like I want you, but how you should be like yourself. Do you really want to go to prison? Are you coerced or actively assisted? It directly determines where you will live and how you will live in your next life."

Ren Yi had long guessed that Zheng Pei wanted him to identify Gong Yingxian. Zheng Pei's position made this approach understandable, but he could not cooperate - when the truth was still confusing, he said: "So many suspicious points have not been found out, Zi Yan and his X scholar have not been caught, and Gong Yingxian has not been caught yet. Shouldn't you care about the more important case?"

"I didn't delay anything." Zheng Pei stood up and pointed Ren Yi with his index finger from the air, "But you are delaying yourself."

Ren Yi lowered his head, remained silent for a moment, and asked, "Is there any arrangement for Captain Qiu's funeral?"

"I haven't received the notice yet." Zheng Pei put away his notebook, "Captain Ren, I'll give you some time to think about it carefully. Anyway, you can't be discharged from the hospital yet. I hope we will meet again next time, not in the detention center."

After Zheng Pei left, Ren Yi lay down on the bed, and his heart seemed to be thrown into boiling oil. He was anxious, panicked, and tormented every minute.

Gong Yingxian, where are you and what have you done? In order to avenge your revenge, can you really destroy your conscience and use any means?

You abandon Qiu Yan and ignore your life and death, and you put me in a state of doom. Are you still you?

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The situation was too serious this time, and Ren Yi was completely controlled. There were police guards outside his ward. When the doctor was allowed to be discharged from the hospital, he would be taken back to Hongwu Branch for formal detention.

However, he had a personal relationship with the doctor here for many years, and he probably wouldn't be discharged from the hospital in the short term.

This time, Chen Xiaofei had never seen him, probably because he was completely disappointed with him, and he was also stubborn with suspicion of Chen Xiaofei, it would be better not to see him.

Even after Zheng Pei left that day, others had to apply to the police when they came to visit him. The application result was naturally not approved. He listened to Qu Yangbo cursing in the ward. After he had to leave, he felt so uncomfortable that he couldn't sleep well all night.

In order to help Gong Yingxian, he implicated the entire detachment. He could no longer remember when the last time he had led the team to the police as a fire squadron leader. He missed his squadron very much and his brothers, but what kind of face did he have to meet them?

He was ashamed of his brother, his father, and even more ashamed of Qiu Yan. If it weren't for him, Qiu Yan wouldn't have taken risks and wouldn't have died.

And all these pain, guilt, regret, and fear are raised by the person he loves deeply.

As early as when Gong Yingxian used his father, he should have been alert and reexamined the person, but he softened to apologies and could not resist the fatal attraction. He attributed it to Gong Yingxian's mistake, who could not make a mistake? So he ignored Gong Yingxian's lack of empathy and used his almost cold reason to maximize his interests.

However, even when he was most angry, if someone told him what happened today, he would definitely not believe it, nor would he believe that Gong Yingxian would let them feed the gangsters' bullets.

He thought that Gong Yingxian had irreparable personality defects due to the shadow of childhood, but he always had a support for justice and kindness.

Was he wrong?

The price of this mistake is too great, and he will never be able to relieve such guilt and regret in his whole life.

——

In the past two days, he felt like he was useless. Even though no one was watching him, he had almost never left the hospital bed.

At dusk, the nurse came in as usual to give him water.

He could feel the noise outside, but he didn't want to react at all - until the nurse covered his mouth.
Chapter completed!