C24 (2/2)

”Huh?” Isn't she a homosexual? I asked, ”Who did she marry?”

”Guess?” Liao Mengfann pretended to be suspicious.

I chuckled. ”It's Mayor Song, right?”

”No!” Liao Mengfann revealed a smile and said: ”She married a normal employee.”

I sighed, maybe in Zhang Qingya's heart, she had always wanted to be an ordinary woman? I suddenly remembered those withered lilies in front of Liu Yuling's grave. Maybe her soul in heaven wanted to tell Zhang Qingya that it wished for her to forget this painful memory.

The withering of the lily also represents the beginning of a new life. I believe that Liu Yuling will be in a place that we won't be able to see, congratulating the only person she loves, Lu Yue …

40 minutes later, we arrived at Ministry of Public Security. After bringing Liao Mengfann and Wei Shijie into the office, the three of us attracted countless gazes.

There was no helping it, Liao Mengfann looked like she was a little bit of a disaster to them, but actually, a woman like her should go to the National Security Bureau to be a spy, not a police officer. Under the envious gazes of the male colleagues, I led the two of them into the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the eighth floor, and when I stepped out, I saw a young woman standing in front of Dad's office. The woman was dressed in a black OL suit and carried a packing bag in her arms. When she saw us coming up, she went straight to me.

”You are?” I've never seen this woman on this floor before.

She gave the three of us an extremely standard smile and said: ”Hello, Officer Lu. I'm Department Head Lu's new secretary. Department Head Lu told me to wait here for the three of you. Please follow me.”

As the woman spoke, she bent down and made a gesture with her hand. I followed her back and forth across the eighth floor until the woman led the three of us to an extremely secluded corner. There was a wooden door in the corner, and on it was engraved the door plate for Task Force.

The woman opened the door for us and left. I approached the office and found it full of my own people. In the center of the room was an oval conference table, in the corner was a computer, and a curtain hung on the wall above the computer. Looking at the decorations of the office, I am extremely disappointed. Isn't this a little too simple?

I walked over to Dad and said, ”Dad, the two of them are coming over.”

I saw Professor Liang and the rest all nod towards Liao Mengfann and Wei Shijie, but their expressions did not look good, as though something had happened.

I took the briefcase from Wei Shijie and said, ”The information on the case No. 12.1 is inside.”

”Sit down first!” Dad stood up at this moment with a remote control in his hand and said, ”Just this morning, in Yongan city in the south, there was a case of inhumane death. Yongan city's government and Yongan city's public security bureau directly sent the case to our Task Force, hoping that we would step in and help investigate. Now you look at what happened. ”

When Dad said this, he intentionally looked at the three of us. It looks like the others have already seen it.

The scene inside the curtain was very clear. It seemed like it was not recorded. It should have been a live broadcast. At the beginning, there was an introduction, which said that to celebrate the completion of the first lotus stadium in the Lotus Country of China, the Education Bureau of Yongan City, together with the schools in Yongan City, held a sports meeting.

The scene at the beginning was very normal. The students were all around the stadium, shouting all kinds of slogans as they were reviewed by the city's leaders. After the review, there were a few leaders that spoke nonsense. After the speech came the ceremony of hoisting the flag. I checked the time on the curtain and saw it was seven o'clock in the morning.

The camera's lens is now aimed directly at the flagpole in the middle of the stadium. However, I didn't see the five-star red flag, nor did I see the standard-bearer.

Just as I was wondering, the national anthem began to ring. Following this rhythm in my heart, I also began to silently sing the national anthem. As the national anthem progressed, I saw that the bottom of the flagpole seemed to be opening bit by bit. Soon after, a messy black object rose along with the national anthem.

My scalp began to tingle as I heard screams coming from the curtain. I looked carefully and saw that a naked woman was tied to the flag's rope.

She lowered her head and clasped her hands together. She seemed to be covered in something. She stood upright, and beneath her was the bright red five-star flag.

The red flag flapped back and forth between her legs as if she were riding it. The national anthem continued. The body had risen to the top of the flagpole, swaying left and right. It looked like it would fall soon.

But at this moment, the sound of the national anthem suddenly stopped. The red flag also stopped rising. From within the curtain, I heard waves of screams and cries.

Immediately afterwards, the screen began to tremble violently. The moment before the video went black, the cameraman gave the woman a close-up shot. I saw her riding on top of the red flag with faint blood flowing between her legs. The red flag was dyed with blood and looked exceptionally alluring …