Chapter 48: The Heartstrings
It seems that not only communications have been disrupted, but even power transmission has been affected in some areas.
When Arnold walked into the public restroom, it was dark, except for an emergency light inside. Arnold shook his head, and after secretly saying bad luck, he quickly put his backpack on the wash basin and began to take out clean clothes from it and change them.
He was about to take off his shirt, but as if he had thought of something, he had just turned up less than half of his clothes, and immediately put it down again, and then Arnold looked around cautiously.
Finally, he seemed to see a dark shadow in the mirror...... Stand behind him!
Arnoldon was taken aback, and quickly turned around, and suddenly felt a sense of horror - behind him, I don't know when, even quietly, was already standing here.
He could tell it was a woman...... But the woman seemed to have her head down, her long wet hair was scattered, and in front of her face, her body was also soaked.
It was like a man who had been rescued from a drowning and had been injured on the shore, and through the gap in his hair, Arnold could vaguely see a pair of eyes full of hatred.
A moment of fright caused Arnold to retreat and hit the washbasin. His hands subconsciously held the washbasin and stabilized his body. And at this moment, the embarrassed woman's arm in front of her suddenly moved!
It's a knife for Western foodβthe kind used to cut steaks!
The western knife was directly pressed against Arnold's throat, and the hard touch made Arnold feel cold. He didn't dare to move for a while, for fear that if the other party went further, he would stab the Western knife into his throat. Then the only thing that awaits him is death.
"Don't be impulsive!" Arnold called nervously!
"Where!" the other man screamed, looking up at the same time.
The faint emergency light in the public toilet spilled on her face, a patch of blue, looking like an evil spirit. Arnold gasped and said in horror, "W-what, where?"
"Where!!"
The woman screamed again, rushed forward, and stabbed directly into Arnold's throat with a Western knife.
But this blunt thing just pressed down on Arnold's skin, causing his skin to sink into the muscles, and it hadn't really punctured yetβbut it was enough to make a man afraid!
"What...... I don't know what you're talking about......" Arnold took a deep breath, trying not to provoke the other, "Miss, you...... Did you recognize someone by mistake?"
"You ...... This murderer!robber!!" The woman was even more excited, as if crazy: "You killed Livia and robbed me of my money!!, you heinous scumbag!!
"Profit...... Livia?" Arnold looked stunned, and then said quickly, "Which woman are you who escaped in the morning!"
The Western knife thrust in again, and Arnold could feel that the next time this woman exerted force again, even if it wasn't sharp, it could pierce her throat.
"You knowingly ask!You scumbag!!I'll kill you!!"
"Relax, relax, listen to me, listen to me, I'm not who you say I am!!" Arnold grabbed the woman's arm for a moment.
His strength as a man was much greater than that of the woman in front of him, and the two of them were directly entangled in this place, and then threw themselves on the ground at the same time. But this woman went crazy, and Arnold couldn't suppress the other party.
"Scum!!"
"No!!Listen to me!!I'm really not the person you say!" Arnold hurriedly said: "I'm Arnold! Which scum are you talking about is Haley!My brother!My twin brother!He has the same face as me, and then he does all the bad things!!Please believe me!"
"Scum!! you're still lying to me!!"
"I have proof!!I have proof!!" Arnold said with difficulty, "I really have proof to prove it!"
Arnold finally restrained the woman. He pressed the woman's hands directly on the ground with both hands, and then pressed his body against the other party's body, so that the woman finally couldn't move, and then he said excitedly: "
"Listen! You can't resist now! If I shout a few words, I'll be able to find someone and ask them to help me call the police over and arrest you! You see, I didn't do that at all, and I even tried to calm you down! What is this for?"
The woman was still struggling, screaming!
"If you want to prove your innocence, if you also want to find the scum you say you are, relax!"
"You think I'm going to believe you scum!!"
"But you have to believe it now, don't you?" Arnold gasped, "You have at least a little hope! But miss, if you continue to go crazy, then I will have to call someone! In fact, I don't need to explain this to you here at all! You see, I have restrained you now, and I can call someone to arrest you at any time, and then you go to the police station, you may not be able to argue! Because inside, you may not get a notarized trial at all! Calm down and think about it, if I'm the murderer, do I need to tell you this here?"
The woman seems to be resisting a little less.
Arnold said quickly: "Think about it, if I am one of your mouths, why don't the policemen take me away? Because I was not at home at all last night! The police will only believe me when they find enough proof, don't they?"
The woman's reaction weakened a bit.
Arnold saw that his words seemed to be useful, and immediately relaxed: "Miss, please believe me, okay? I can prove what I said, and maybe I can help you a little." β
The woman suddenly stopped moving.
Arnold sighed and relaxed a little again. But at this time, the daughter suddenly hit Arnold's eyes with her forehead, Arnold was in pain, and the woman opened her mouth directly to bite Arnold's palm.
She got the opportunity to resist, and suddenly pulled out from Arnold's suppression, and then quickly picked up the Western food knife that fell to the ground, and quickly stood up.
Arnold also quickly got up, the two were separated by less than half a meter, and they were deadlocked with each other, while Arnold grabbed the place where he was bitten...... This woman was really ruthless, and she bit his skin directly.
At this moment, someone walked into the public toilet.
Seeing this, the woman hatefully threw the western knife in her hand at Arnold, and at the same time slammed into the man who came in and rushed out of the door.
"Hey, what the hell is going on? Brother, are you here to fight with your girlfriend?"
Arnold smiled bitterly, grabbed the Western knife from the ground, said a few words, then lowered his head, ignored the man, and left quickly.
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Along the way, Arnold looked around with a vigilant expression.
He didn't get on the bus, and the bus system seemed to stop a lot by this time. His steps were fast, and he walked for more than two hours before he crossed the road and walked into the nearest slum.
Arnold seemed familiar with the place, and at last, he came to a humble house.
He pulled out his key and looked around again before opening the door and stepping insideβit seemed to have stopped because of the strange storm that had taken place that afternoon.
But it wasn't long before there was a light in the room, presumably something that lit a candle or something.
Arnold found something in the room and went back to the hall. He had lit the candle on the dining table before, so he pulled out his chair and sat down at the table.
Arnold sighed, and suddenly said, "Miss, are you there?"
He called out into the darkness, but received no response, Arnold continued, "Miss, I didn't lock the door, you should be able to come in, right?" I know where you are hiding...... Here, this is the evidence I want you to see, proof that I'm not some kind of scum in your mouth. β
As he spoke, Arnold looked around nervously again, and finally put the photo album he had found on the table, and then opened it.
Arnold said slowly at this time: "I have an older brother, his name is Haley, and he will be a naughty person from the next time......"
He pointed his finger at a photo in the album: "This is him, and the person next to him is me." β
It's an old photo. The photo is supposed to have been taken inside an elementary school, where twin boys are looking at the camera at the same time, smiling.
Arnold opened the photo album page by page and slowly said about his past, "...... This was taken when I was in high school, after a football game. Hailey wanted to be a football player from a young age. It's just that he is too good at causing trouble, and once he got into a fight with someone else and injured his knee. He had the opportunity to join a decent local football club, but was abandoned because of injury...... This is our graduation photo from when we graduated from high school. Miss...... Are you there?"
There was still no response in the darkness.
Arnold said to himself: "Haley and I are like heads and tails of a coin. He's what people call a bastard, garbage. And I'm ...... And I've always been recognized. I relied on my own efforts to get a scholarship and get all the way out of this place, and I also got a lot of funding at the university...... This was taken at the opening ceremony of my university. It was my father who took it...... Miss, are you here?"
There was still no response in the darkness.
Arnold sighed, smiled bitterly, shook his head, and closed the album directly.
He rubbed his forehead and held his forehead like this, but there was a strange noise at this moment.
Arnold opened his eyes suddenly, and in the flickering candlelight, the woman who had attacked him in the public toilet appeared on the other side of the table.
She opened the album, and looked at it quickly, silent.
"Miss...... You're really there. Arnold called softly.
The woman frowned at this time, looked up at Arnold, and suddenly asked, "You were really not at home last night?"
"I've been studying at school last night, and I can find someone to witness me, and I did come back in the morning!" Arnold said quickly.
The woman frowned again: "You also have a twin brother, why did Livia never mention it to me? Didn't you even tell her? As her boyfriend, you hid it from her?"
Arnold hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Miss! First, I don't know the Livia you said, and second, it's even more impossible for her to be my girlfriend!"
"You!" the woman stood up excitedly, but she seemed to think of something, and suddenly said, "White Hell." β
"What?" Arnold was stunned and looked at the woman suspiciously, "What hell?" Miss, I know you should be feeling terrible right now, but ...... At least it's not hell, is it?"
The woman sat down and stared at Arnold without blinking: "Do you rarely go home?"
Arnold said: "It's also the last two months, I've been busy with studies and school experiments and internships recently, and I have come back less often than not. β
The woman continued, "This man...... I'm talking about your brother, who has the key to your house?"
Arnold shook his head: "I'm not sure. One time he came up to my house, and a few days later, I noticed that the spare key to the house seemed to be missing. β
The woman asked again, "Then why don't you change the door lock?"
Arnold smiled bitterly: "There are no valuable things at home. If you need to change the door lock if you lose the key, my landlady will definitely be furious. Besides, it's possible that you don't know where to put it and can't find it for a while. I forgot about it later. β
He frowned and looked at the woman, "You say, Livia is my girlfriend...... But I didn't know her at all. Wait, when did Rivia say she had a boyfriend?
"White hell. The woman said dejectedly: "She said she met you in this nightclub." β
Arnold hurriedly said: "Miss, my economic situation does not allow me to go to that kind of place to spend at all!"
"Don't talk yet, let me think about it. The woman shook her head, then wiped her face.
She began to recall some of the things she had told Livia and herself about herself and her boyfriend.
She said they met in a nightclub, where she had drunk too much and was pestered by several hooligans. Originally, there was nothing entangled, anyway, Livia was not a good girlfriend, so the big deal was that she was beaten by a prostitute for nothing, and she was bitten by a dog.
But unexpectedly, a man stepped forward to save him.
She said that this man is very handsome, and he is also a student at a prestigious university, and by his own efforts, he won a scholarship.
She said that the other party is usually very busy with studying, and she doesn't want people to know about her affairs, so she will only make an appointment when the other party is not busy studying. usually waits for the other party to take the initiative to contact her.
She said that she and him had no future, but she enjoyed the sudden love......
If...... If Arnold is really not the Arno in Livia's mouth, that is to say - Arnold's twin brother, impersonating him, hooked up with Livia with this identity.
Truly...... Compared with the kind of gangsters who don't know tomorrow today, the identity of a famous college student and the future social elite can really attract the arms of some ignorant women.
Livia is such an ignorant woman who has a habit of daydreaming.
"Why did you come back to this place?" she stared at Arnold again, trying to read something from his expression.
Arnold smiled bitterly: "I said I would give you evidence...... Also, I had a feeling that you wouldn't give up so easily, so when I came out of the toilet, I thought you might follow me, so I came back here β this is where we lived before my parents died. β
"I'll take this thing. The woman stood up suddenly, "But I won't trust you so easily...... If I find out that you have lied to me, I will not let you go!
She walked straight to the door.
But before she could take two steps, she fell to the ground.
Arnold hurriedly got up and walked over, helping her to sit up, "How are you?"
The woman just covered her ankle with her palm, showing a painful expression. Arnold frowned: "Was it sprained while in the toilet......?" You've come this far?"
The woman did not speak, stubbornly tilting her head.
Arnold said: "Wait a minute, I'll get you some medicine for the sprain, my brother...... Haili has often been injured in the past, and there are many at home, but I don't know if it has expired. β
With that, Arnold quickly stood up and walked to a place where the candlelight could not shine, as if he was rummaging for something.
A short time later, Arnold walked back with a spray in his hand. He took off the woman's shoes, then watched the other party's reaction, and began to spray things: "It may be painful, but just bear with it." β
The power went out, the room was very hot, and Arnold's face was covered with sweat at this time. He helped his glasses and continued to concentrate on treating the woman's ankle injury.
Only then did the woman see that there was a row of very eye-catching bite marks on Arnold's palm, and there was even blood......
She subconsciously said, "I'm sorry ......"
"Nothing...... If you are wronged, I will do the same. Arnold replied casually.
The woman said, "I said you have a wound on your hand." β
Arnold subconsciously raised his hand to look at it, and then smiled: "It's nothing, I'm a man, it's okay with this little injury." It's you, it's a blessing to have sprained and walked so far. How's it going, are you getting better?"
The candlelight flickered, making Arnold's face unusually soft.
It was as if a string had been plucked in her mind.
"I ...... My name is Caroline. β
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Jingling...... Jingle ββ!
The sound of the doorbell rang for a long time, and the door of this beautiful apartment by the sea in front of him was opened, and Luo Qiu walked out and found that it was Song Haoran who was standing in front of the door.
"Mr. Song?" Luo Qiu showed a surprised expression: "I'm sorry, the power is out, I'm busy looking for something to light, so I'll keep you waiting a little longer." β
The reality is ...... The owner has just returned from the club, after closing an interesting deal.
"It doesn't matter. Song Haoran smiled slightly, "Today's weather is indeed a little weird, and I am also a little blocked on the road." β
Luo Qiu nodded, and then after a moment of silence in front of the door, he said, "Is there a result?"
Song Haoran nodded, showed a sincere smile, and said softly: "Let's go in and talk about it......?"