Ch66 - Ideal (1/2)
“Why do I know how to fight now?” Yu Hao hugged Zhou Sheng’s waist. Violent winds swept past their faces, the two of them were drenched from head to toe, and their clothes clung to their bodies. Zhou Sheng’s back still emitted a scorching warmth through his T-shirt.
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Zhou Sheng turned his head towards Yu Hao, “You can fight? Dream on!”
“I really can!” Yu Hao said, “If you don’t believe me I’ll show you later!”
“Then let’s practice a little later?” Zhou Sheng smiled.
Yu Hao asked, “Did you teach me in a dream?”
“If you say I did then I did bei.” Zhou Sheng replied, refraining from divulging further.
15 minutes later, Tong County’s Police Station.
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The electric fan rotated with a buzz. The police station was stuffy and humid. Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao’s clothes had yet to dry, and the muggy climate of the station had caused them to break out in sweat during their lengthy questioning by the local police. They didn’t even have their phones nor a single cent on them. The sky was gradually growing darker, and it looked as if they would be forced to stay overnight at the police station.
Fortunately, the laptop bag they snatched back was temporarily safeguarded by the police, while Lin Xun was sent to the clinic for a mild concussion. At 4pm, the police began having their afternoon tea —— sour and spicy noodles. In the midst of their meal, they were called out. Not long after, Huang Ting and Chen Yekai arrived. Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao both breathed a sigh of relief since they knew that the problem had been resolved.
Chen Yekai gave the two of them a thumbs up, but Huang Ting’s expression was very ugly. After he handed in the proof, he went to the office to attend the meeting. Chen Yekai took out two transparent plastic bags — they contained Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao’s phones and ID cards that were procured from the ship.
“Where’s the ship?” Yu Hao asked.
“It has already set sail.” Chen Yekai replied, “You’ve both worked very hard.”
Yu Hao thought, my buffet, my Five Days Four Nights Luxury Cruise……he felt like he had just suffered a great blow. Chen Yekai took them to the car. All sounds gradually faded into the background, and the entire world dissolved into black and white.
“The two bikers you guys beat up,” Chen Yekai started the car and waited for Huang Ting to get in, “Were the uncles of the director of this county’s Women’s Association, which was why they detained you for so long.”
“But I wanted to get a silk banner for my heroic acts!” Zhou Sheng complained, “Everything ended just like that?”
Yu Hao held his forehead with one hand. His phone was out of battery, his whole body was drenched, and he didn’t even get to enjoy any privileges before the whole matter ended just like this. Chen Yekai said, “After we get back, we can all hold a celebration banquet together?”
“Can he be brought to justice?” Yu Hao couldn’t help but worry, yet Zhou Sheng made an offhand remark, “It’s out of our hands now, that depends on how good Huang Ting is ba.”
Huang Ting completed the procedures and walked out with the laptop bag in hand. He stayed next to the car for a long while before finally vomiting.
Zhou Sheng, “……”
“Your Chen Laoshi……” Huang Ting said, “Exceeded the speed limit the whole way to Tong county. There was even a long mountain path in the middle……I can’t, give me a moment.”
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“Where are the others?” Yu Hao asked.
“Three of us came. Two of my colleagues went to the county’s hospital as they’re in charge of taking him back to Ying city.” Huang Ting drank some mineral water, rinsed his mouth and said, “Let’s go back and find out ba. Do the two of you want to take the police exam in the future? The execution of your operation this time was pretty well done.”
“Persuade someone to join the police, and you’ll get struck by lightning.” Zhou Sheng said earnestly, “My Mum said so.”
Chen Yekai burst out into laughter. Yu Hao was in the back drinking water and he immediately spat it all out when he heard this. This was the first time he saw Chen Yekai looking this happy.
“Let’s go ba!” Chen Yekai said, “Let’s go back and slowly wear that scum down!”
Late at night, car lights rapidly flashed past. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng fell asleep in the back seat. In the dream, Zhou Sheng seemed to understand Yu Hao’s unwillingness very well. He took out a piece of paper in the mountains outside the capital and folded a ship for him; as soon as the paper boat entered the water, it swelled up and turned into a magnificent ship on the river.
“This works too?” Yu Hao asked in surprise.
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“Go! Get on board!” Zhou Sheng laughed.
There was only one room on board — it was the VIP suite that they had stayed in. The lobby became a buffet hall, and it was filled with food. Within this illusion, Yu Hao only felt that the chandelier was so bright that it was almost glaring. In the end, the ship shuddered and gradually came to a stop.
“We’re here.” Chen Yekai said, “Wake up.”
Yu Hao was leaning on Zhou Sheng’s shoulder, the two of them in a deep slumber. He opened his eyes in a daze. They had already arrived at the back gate of the college. Huang Ting, who was in the passenger seat, had disappeared; he had probably left first.
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“I need to make a trip down to the hospital to accompany Liang Laoshi.” Chen Yekai said, “Let’s meet again later this week ba, there are still a lot of things to be settled. Liang Laoshi especially prepared gifts of gratitude for the both of you.”
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Yu Hao thought, I didn’t get to eat the buffet on the ship, and now I didn’t get to eat the buffet in my dream either. What an ill star I was born under… Eventually, Chen Yekai reminded them, “Final examinations are coming up. Study hard, don’t fail any subjects.”
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“What did you want to ask before we set off in the morning?” Zhou Sheng asked Yu Hao.
“Nothing much.” After being tormented for a whole day, Yu Hao no longer wanted to ask, and Zhou Sheng didn’t pursue it either. He just draped his arm over Yu Hao’s shoulder and they returned to their dormitory in this intimate manner.
“Can’t accept it? Can’t accept it na, it’s alright. Once the bicycle race is over, I’ll take you to Australia to play……”
“So damn expensive! I haven’t settled my tuition fee for next semester yet.”
“It’s free, a prize for the top three.”
“What?!” Yu Hao shouted loudly, and all the sound controlled lights on the first floor of the dormitory building lit up.
“You didn’t know?! You haven’t been paying any attention to this at all!” Zhou Sheng said, “Then what the hell have I been working so hard for?!”
All the sound controlled lights on the dormitory building’s second floor lit up as well. It was a little after 8pm, and there were couples everywhere who were on dates. Yu Hao quickly pulled Zhou Sheng away.
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Late that night, Huang Ting sent them a message to inform them of what had happened since: Lin Xun had already been brought back to Ying city for an interrogation. Liang Jinmin was beginning to provide evidence for them, so there was nothing to worry about.
Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng discussed the matter for a long time. Embezzlement of project funds wasn’t a severe charge, but premeditated murder was. However, just Liang Jinmin’s identification of him wasn’t enough; it wouldn’t be effective in convicting Lin Xun, unless Lin Xun admits to it himself. But Lin Xun would never confess his real crime, so from now on they would have to truly engage in bitter psychological warfare.
Ryuusei’s death — that Chen Yekai was most concerned about, and how Lin Xun contrived the car accident after he assaulted Liang Jinmin and made her lose consciousness were all crimes that they had no evidence of. With just Liang Jinmin’s identification of him as a suspect and their lack of evidence, they had no chance of being able to convict Lin Xun of anything.
The sinners are at large; the dead was now buried in the yellow springs; the survivors walked out of a dense fog and are now trying their best to live under the sun.
Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao entered their dreams several times, and Zhou Sheng would always watch the Golden Crow Wheel.
“Whose dream do you want to enter?” Yu Hao asked.
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“It’s nothing, it’s not like I can get in anyway.” Zhou Sheng didn’t say much.
Yu Hao knew that he wanted to enter Lin Xun’s dream, and force him to confess everything through seizing his dream back. But Yu Hao felt conflicted from the depths of his heart about “redeeming sinners”. He would prefer to let Lin Xun languish and suffer his punishment rather than redeem him. Compared with Gabriel, who brought enlightenment to all, he preferred to be Uriel, the one who governed Punishment and Wrath.
As they approached the day of their final examinations, Zhou Sheng didn’t offer any further comments on the case. But Yu Hao could tell that he felt dissatisfied, and he himself felt the same. As the CET-4 and CET-6 approached, Zhou Sheng said something out of the norm, “Study ba. Tutor me a little. I’ll pass the CET-4.”
Zhou Sheng was exceptionally serious this semester, and rarely skipped class. Aside from attending classes, he spent most of his time training on a bicycle in the simulation room. On Saturdays, he would go train at the racecourse downtown. Yu Hao tutored Zhou Sheng and Fu Liqun in English in the evenings, and once in awhile Zhou Sheng would even teach him Higher Mathematics. Yu Hao spent practically all of his remaining free time on the part-time translation work that Chen Yekai had introduced to him. There were so many reports of human crimes and cases caused by psychological problems that Yu Hao began feeling a bit disillusioned about life.
Is this world really that dark? Then what about my surroundings? Yu Hao was completely immersed in the innumerable atrocious criminal records that he was reading.
“Lin Xun has been detained!” One day, after Fu Liqun returned to the dormitory, he brought with him the latest news in the college, “Embezzlement of project funds, he’s that bold? Embezzlement right after he arrived?”
Yu Hao had already learned from Huang Ting that Lin Xun was temporarily detained for the embezzlement of project funds and would be prosecuted for it. But there was still no progress for the murder case. Meanwhile, the college helped Lin Xun apply for bail pending his trial.
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“He still wants a bail pending trial?” Yu Hao uttered in disbelief, “It can’t be ba?!”
Fu Liqun sighed, “There’s no conclusion regarding the domestic violence case. Evil people really don’t get their retribution.”
Yu Hao had already finished translating half of his reports, and his head spun for a moment. He should be able to submit the scripts within the stipulated time limit, but after he heard this news, he couldn’t feel the slightest bit happy.
Zhou Sheng returned to the dormitory drenched in sweat. Today, the first heat wave hit Ying city. He was bare chested and only wore a pair of skin-tight cycling pants. His hair was so drenched in sweat that it all stuck up like a hedgehog’s, and he went straight into the bathroom to take a bath.
Fu Liqun said, “Zhou Sheng! Do you know about Lin Xun?”