At the top of the east staircase, she looked across the hallway. There's an open door in the distance, leading to another world, and that's one

A modern hallway, lined with strings of lights, covered with plastic tiles, where the Hawaiian man is running.

Zhu Yuting followed. As she ran, she gasped and shouted into the microphone on her bra, "That's him, Charlie!" Where's my backup?"

"They lost you, where are you?"

"Office area on the second floor. ”

"Okay. ”

All office doors are closed, no one is in the hallways, and it's Saturday. She followed the Hawaiian shirt man through three corners in a row. She was able to see him all the time, but she couldn't shorten the distance. That damn thing has good stamina.

He went around in a circle and returned to the circular hallway on the second floor. For a moment, he was out of her sight.

She gasped for breath and went up another flight of stairs to the third floor. Here are some useful signposts, and according to the directions above, on the right hand side are the Senator's office area, and on the left hand side is the House of Representatives' office area.

She turned left and came to the hallway, and found that the door was locked, and the hallway on the right was no doubt the same. She went back to the building, where did he go?

She noticed a sign in the corner that said "North staircase, no upstairs. ”

She opened the door, and there was a narrow stairwell in front of her, and as she went downstairs, she heard the heels of her shoes on the ground, but she couldn't see him.

She galloped down, and she came to the rotunda on the first floor. There was no shadow of Liu Zhan anywhere, but she saw Shang Zhigen, who was looking around distraughtly. He saw her.

"Nope.

"Don't come along!"

There is a marble corridor in the rotunda that leads to the governor's office quarters. Her view is blocked by a tour group that is leading the tourists to the door of the "horseshoe".

Is the Hawaiian shirt man right behind them? She's not sure either. She ran over and down the marble hallway, and along the way there were some framed exhibits on every county in California. To her left, another hallway leads to an exit with a glass automatic door. She saw the Hawaiian shirt man out the door.

She followed. Liu Zhanzheng rushed through the street, moving nimbly to dodge the speeding traffic.

The drivers had to turn to avoid him, and they honked their horns angrily. He jumped onto the engine cover of a yellow sedan, leaving a dent in the engine cover. The driver opened the car door and rushed out in a rage, and then, he saw Zhu Yuting with a gun, and hurried back into the car.

Like Liu Zhan, she rushed across the road desperately. She rushed straight to a bus, and all she heard was the screeching of brakes. She ran out of the hood of the same yellow sedan, forcing a stretch limousine to change three lanes. As she was about to reach the sidewalk, a motorcycle came straight at her from the inside lane, and she quickly backed away, and the rider passed her.

Liu Zhan ran wildly down Eleventh Street, and then dodged through a door. Zhu Yuting desperately chased after her. He went into a garage. She turned and went into the garage and ran with all her might, when she received a hard blow to the face, and she felt

There was a burning pain in his nose and forehead. Temporary loss of sensation in the eye.

She fell on her back, her body slamming into the concrete floor. She lay motionless, unable to move from accident and pain, and had no room to think. After a few seconds, she felt a strong hand cupping her head, and then she heard Shang Zhigen's voice, as if it came from far away: "Oh my God, are you still alive?"

At this point, her mind began to clear, and her eyes regained vision. Shang Ji-geun's face appeared in front of her eyes.

"Tell me anything!" Shang Zhigen said.

She opened her mouth. "It hurts. She muttered.

"Thank goodness! He took a handkerchief out of the pocket of his khaki coat and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with surprisingly softness, "Your nose is bleeding. ”

She sat up straight: "What's wrong with me?"

"I saw you turn in, as fast as lightning, and then you lay on the ground. I guess he's in ambush there, and as soon as you get in, he'll give you a surprise attack. If he falls into my hands..."

Zhu Yuting realized that her weapon had dropped: "My gun." ”

He looked around, picked it up, and handed it to her.

"Help me up. He pulled her to her feet. Her face hurts terribly, but she now sees clearly and feels steady when she stands up. She tried to concentrate on thinking.

Maybe I'll be able to catch up with him, there's an elevator in the garage, but he shouldn't have time to take the elevator, so he must have gone uphill. She knew the garage, which she had parked when she came to meet Ambaniel, and she remembered that it was wide enough to span the entire block, and that it had entrances and exits on 10th and 11th streets.

Maybe Liu Zhan knew this, and he had already walked through the exit of Tenth Street. Now there is no other way but to follow the past.

"I'm going after him. She ran up the slope. Shang Zhigen followed. She didn't stop him. She had already ordered him not to come with her twice, and now she didn't have time to tell him again.

They came to the garage on the ground floor. Zhu Yuting's head tingled, and her legs suddenly became heavy. She knew she couldn't get far. They walked through the garage.

Suddenly, a black car came straight at them from the parking space. Zhu Yuting jumped to the ground, and rolled frantically to the side until she hid under a parked car.

She saw the wheels of the black car turn sharply with the screeching of tires, rushing downhill like bullets from the chamber of a gun.

Zhu Yuting stood up and frantically searched for Shang Zhigen. She had heard him scream in terror before. Did the car hit him?

She saw him a few meters away, his hands and knees propped up on the ground, and her face turned pale with fright.

"Are you alright?" She said.

He stood up: "I'm fine, I'm just scared." ”

Zhu Yuting tried to write down the characteristics of the black car, but it was gone.

"Damn," she said, "I let him go." ”

At seven o'clock in the evening, when Zhu Yuting walked into the officers' club, a guy was running out of it.

As soon as he saw her, he stopped: "What's wrong with you?"

What's wrong with me? I couldn't stop it

After an earthquake, I guessed Ren Lian's hiding place wrong, and I let Liu Zhan slip away from me. I messed up, there will be another earthquake tomorrow and more people will be killed, it will be my fault.

"I was punched in the nose by Liu Zhan. She said. Her face was wrapped in bandages. Although the medicine she received at the hospital in Sacramento eased her pain, she felt like a lost dog.

"You're in such a hurry, where are you going?"

"We're looking for an album called Daisy, remember?"

"Of course, we were hoping that it would have been able to provide clues to help us find the woman who called John's show. ”

"I found a copy, and there was a record store in the city called Vinikos. ”

"I'm going to give you a credit for it!" Zhu Yuting felt that she was full of vitality again. Maybe that's the clue she needs.

It wasn't a big clue, but it gave her hope again. Maybe she'll have a chance to stop the next earthquake.

"I'll go with you. "

They got into the lad's triumphant Dodge pony, "The owner of that shop is named Vic. "When I called a few days ago, he wasn't there, and it was a worker who answered the phone, and he said that there shouldn't be any albums like that in the store, but he would ask the owner." I left a business card, and five minutes ago, Vic called me. ”

"I'm finally getting some luck!"

"This record was released in the early years, and the label is made in Huaxia. At that time, it was a little famous, and it also sold some albums in the Bay Area, but the label has never been popular again, and it has not been in business for a few months. ”

Zhu Yuting, who was originally in high spirits, felt a chill in her heart: "This means that we don't have any records to find out her current address. ”

"Maybe the album itself can give us some clues. ”

Venix is a small shop, and it's full of old records. The few ordinary shelves in the middle have been flooded with thick cardboard boxes and fruit crates piled up to the ceiling. The place smells like a dusty old library. There's a customer in the store, a tattooed man in leather shorts, who is poring over one of David's early albums.

In the depths of the shop was a skinny man, dressed in blue skinny jeans and a T-shirt, standing by the cash register, sipping a cup of coffee with the words "Make it legal!"

Raj introduced himself, "You should be Vic." I contacted you a few minutes ago. ”

"It's amazing that the FBI is finally coming to my shop," he said. ”

Zhu Yuting said impatiently: "What about the record?"

"Come here. Vic turned to the side. Zhu Yuting saw a turntable behind his cash register. He put the record on the turntable, and he put down the stylus.

The lyrics are nothing special, but the voice of the woman who speaks is attractive.

Actually, I think what she said is very profound. Vic said.

Zhu Yuting thinks this is garbage, but she doesn't care. That's what John recorded on the show, there's no doubt about it. It sounds younger, clearer, softer, but with the same deep and sexy tone, and you can't be wrong with that.

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