Chapter 379: Nearly 20 Years of Planning
After he finished speaking, he did not give Gu Nankai a chance to continue the topic. Instead, he glanced at him and said, "You don't look well. Did something happen to you?"
After saying that, he smiled again: "Otherwise, you wouldn't come to me for no reason."
Hearing him say that, Gu Nankai smiled, showing a little childishness in front of him, which was rare. Ren Yiyuan glanced at him and said with a hint of smile in his tone: "Tell me, what happened? Let me help you solve your doubts."
Seeing that his movements of washing and brewing tea were still as smooth as flowing water, and the breeze slowly came into the room, lifting half of the gauze curtain, and the fragrance of tea slowly filled the whole room, Gu Nankai felt that his restless heart in the past few days had slowly calmed down. Then he lowered his voice and told Ren Yiyuan what had happened in the past few days.
Ren Yiyuan listened to him quietly. To Gu Nankai's surprise, he did not show any surprise or shock, but remained calm and composed. During this process, he poured tea in front of Gu Nankai, and then drank the tea while listening to Gu Nankai's story quietly, sometimes silent and sometimes thinking. Looking at his expression, Gu Nankai felt relaxed, and there was less heaviness when he talked about these things.
After everything was explained, the two of them had already drunk a pot of tea. Ren Yiyuan was silent for a long while before he looked up at Gu Nankai and said, "In fact, you have doubts in your heart, but you just don't know where to start, right?"
Gu Nankai nodded solemnly: "I can see that my colleagues in the serious crime team, including Senior Brother Chen, are also confused. The time when these two people appeared is too coincidental, not too early, not too late, and the time they appeared did not even give me time to think. If it were not for your training in the Harmony Year, I think I would be immersed in the joy of their return by now."
Ren Yiyuan took a sip of tea. When he raised his arm to cover his face, a sharp light flashed in his wise eyes. He continued, "It's not my training, but the substances injected into your body were too strong. You must learn to control them so that they can be used for your benefit. Even now, you can't underestimate their influence on you, otherwise all our efforts over the years will be wasted."
Gu Nankai's face became very serious. He nodded solemnly and expressed his doubts: "Teacher, do you think this incident... could it be related to my problem..."
Ren Yiyuan frowned slightly and put his subordinate's teacup on the table. He said with a thoughtful look in his eyes, "It's hard to say, Nan Kai. You and I both know how effective the substance injected into your body was. Let's think about it in a bigger picture. If that substance has been successfully developed and used by criminals on more people, can you imagine the consequences? We can't imagine the consequences. The only thing we can be thankful for now is that according to our observations over the years, they have not successfully developed that substance, because we have not found anything similar in this world. 19 years have passed, and it's time..."
Ren Yiyuan's voice suddenly became heavy, which made Gu Nankai think of his past self. Although he confessed a lot to Wu Qingluan and the others, there were some things he skipped over. It was not because he didn't want to, but thinking back to himself at that time made him feel like a monster. It was a person he could not accept and recognize, let alone others. Deep down, he was still a little scared, so he didn't dare to tell everyone the actual situation.
What was it like for himself when he was rescued by Mr. Huo Jiu just now? Gu Nankai actually didn't dare to recall it sometimes, because every time he recalled it, he was forced to admit that he was a monster back then. But now with Ren Yiyuan's words, he couldn't help but think of the past.
It is true that he desperately escaped, and it is also true that he saved Mr. Huo Jiu, but something in between is not true. At first, Gu Nankai and the others thought that the uncontrollable running forward despite being exhausted was a result of the human will to survive, but after that he no longer thought so. It was not the will to survive, but something he could not control at all.
When his body acted out of his control many times and performed violent and brutal acts, Gu Nankai and Huo Jiuye realized that this was the result of the injected substances that had disappeared from his body and could not be extracted.
If it weren't for the teacher's accidental appearance, he and Master Huo Jiu would have worked together to teach Gu Nankai how to face the pain in his body every time he had an attack, as well as his subsequent powerless and disabled state. They had hired countless doctors to treat him, and in the end they had to fight poison with poison, which made him what he is now.
He couldn't imagine how he would go on with his life.
"Teacher, I always feel that all this is a little unreal."
Looking at Ren Yiyuan's thoughtful eyes, Gu Nankai spoke out his truest thoughts in a low voice: "Even if I don't want to admit it, I want to immerse myself in the joy of their lives, but when I am a little more sober, I can't help but think of this. An Ning also told me that before Zhengrong got into trouble, she used a passerby's phone to call him and mentioned that he had found out something about my life experience at that time, and then he got into trouble not long after. I always feel that what happened back then must have something to do with me, and as an innocent passerby, what role did Qingqing play in this matter?"
His voice gradually became lower, and he seemed unwilling to think about it any further. Seeing his confused look, Ren Yiyuan poured another cup of tea and placed it in front of him. The sound of the cup falling on the table brought Gu Nankai back to his senses. At this time, Ren Yiyuan's eyes that seemed to see something were staring at him. Gu Nankai did not speak either, and also met his gaze.
There seemed to be a hint of tolerance in Ren Yiyuan's eyes, making Gu Nankai feel like a child. As long as he told him any difficult problems, there would always be a solution. There was no need for him to be polite in front of him and Mr. Huo Jiu. He could take off his disguise and turn himself into a child who was protected by someone.
Ren Yiyuan stared at him and suddenly sighed. Gu Nankai's face changed slightly, and he said, "Nankai, I don't need to say much about your sensitivity in the face of danger. Although the things injected into your body by those people behind the scenes have caused you too much pain, even today you are still in danger all the time, but they also gave you something unexpected, that is, your ability to bear. You have already felt from the inside that their existence is a little strange, so follow your heart. What I want to tell you is that you guessed right, maybe what happened three years ago and what happened to you nineteen years ago may be inseparable. "
He paused, then suddenly his eyes changed and he asked again, "You said An Ning told you that three years ago Zheng Rong came to him and said that he seemed to have spied on something about you, is that right?"
Gu Nankai didn't know why he suddenly asked this, but he nodded anyway.
Ren Yiyuan looked out through the screen window swaying in the wind. After a while, he came back to his senses and looked at Gu Nankai: "Then have you ever thought about what it means if what happened three years ago is related to what happened back then, and those people were able to wait for nearly twenty years?"
