Chapter 2: A Call from a Strange Girl

In the daytime, Z City is a reinforced concrete jungle shrouded in gray haze, towering skyscrapers block the sun, and passers-by are overwhelmed by the city's shadows.

At night, under the interplay of various neon and searchlights, Z City has transformed into a colorful dream city, and many people are confused by its luxury and magnificence, and gradually forget their original dreams in the lingering.

At the end of the long European cloister, two baroque carved wooden doors are closed, but they cannot stop the Blue Danube, played live by a small orchestra, from flowing through the cracks. Behind these two heavy wooden doors, there was a grand cocktail party that gathered the elites of the entire Z city and even half of H province. The men with red wine in their hands, and the ladies with long skirts and jewels, if not the leaders in the business field, are in high positions, under the light of the nine-layer crystal tassel chandelier hanging on the top of the dome hall, or talking about the general trend of the world, or laughing about fashion trends, and some handsome men and women with extraordinary temperament have already joined hands on the dance floor in the middle of the hall, dancing to the music.

The door was pushed open, and a young man nodded behind him and walked out quickly, leaning against the door panel as the door closed behind him, and let out a long sigh of relief, as if he had completed a difficult task.

This is a rather handsome young man, he looks about twenty-three or fourteen years old, tall and muscular, like a basket overlord on the court who makes opponents fearful, with a slightly long cut head, his hair standing up to the sky as if he is angry, the lines on his face are as hard as a knife and an axe, his sword eyebrows are obliquely inserted into his temples, a pair of tiger eyes have a cold look, the bridge of the nose is straight, and the corners of his mouth are slightly upturned as if there is a hint of mockery.

The young man unbuttoned his shirt, took off the tight black suit on his body and put it on the crook of his arm, took out a metal cigarette case from his shirt pocket and opened it, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, took out a ZIPPO lighter from his trouser pocket, gently lifted the lid, clicked a few times and lit the cigarette and took a few puffs, and then took a big stride without looking back, walking quickly along the corridor covered with red carpet towards the exit ahead, tearing off the tie around his neck with his hands, and casually crumpling the strip of flower cloth that hindered his breathing into his trouser pocket。

Walking out of the corridor and standing on the steps outside, the young man coldly glanced at the various models of luxury cars parked in the open space below, such a huge and exaggerated lineup, if you add some professional lighting equipment and car models, it can immediately become an exhibition of the world's top famous cars, several groups of security personnel with dogs are constantly patrolling the periphery, for fear that these valuable rich machines will be damaged by accidents.

The young man reached out and touched the pocket of his suit, took out a rusty old-fashioned car key, and just wanted to step down the steps, when he suddenly heard the sound of high heels hitting the ground behind him, and turned his head to see that it was a young woman in a white suspender dress, holding a long skirt in one hand and a small handbag in the other, and was swaying from behind.

"Mr. Xia......" the woman shouted, "please wait a minute......"

The young man's brows furrowed slightly, and he looked at the woman with an expressionless face trotting all the way over, and was about to run to a distance of more than a meter from him, when the woman suddenly lost her center of gravity under her feet, and the whole person threw herself into the arms of the young man, and the smell of Miss Chanel Coco rushed to her nose.

"Oh, I'm really sorry, Mr. Xia......" The woman hurriedly grabbed the young man's arm to stabilize her figure in a panic, and she could clearly feel the strong muscles on the young man's arm and shoulder through the thin shirt.

"You're welcome. The young man said lightly, and at the same time held the woman's shoulders to help her stand up straight, and immediately retracted his arm and took a half step back. "You'd better not run around in your heels......" he said casually, his tone neither like concern nor reprimand.

The woman nodded obediently again and again, her flushed cheeks seemed to be still shocked, but there seemed to be a trace of confusion in her eyes.

"Are you all right with your feet?" asked the young man, looking unconcerned, as if he had asked out of sheer politeness.

"My feet are fine, I was fortunately held by you just now, so the twist is not too serious, but my heel seems to be broken......" The woman lifted the hem of her long skirt with a distressed face, and showed the broken heels on her feet to the young man.

The young man touched his chin and groaned for a second, then raised his eyes to look at the woman and said, "Otherwise, how about I drive you home?"

The woman's eyes showed joy when she heard this, but her cheeks were slightly red, she lowered her head and hesitated: "Why are you embarrassed to bother Mr. Xia......"

"You wait for me here......" The young man didn't bother with her any more, pinched the car key in his hand and turned around and went down the steps, into the large group of top luxury cars. In a few moments, the headlights of a car turned on, and the engine roared like a supercar with a modified exhaust tail.

In the blink of an eye, the car drove under the steps, and the young man got out of the car and walked up the steps, and very gentlemanly offered his hand to the woman. The woman held the young man's hand in refusal, limped all the way down the steps, and only when she was close at hand did she realize that the car that the young man drove over was not a supercar at all, but an old BJ2020 old jeep, and the paint on the body had become old and mottled because of age, and it looked like a scrapped vehicle that had just been pulled out of a scrap recycling station.

Looking at the woman's stunned expression, the corners of the young man's mouth hooked, revealing a smug smile.

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The third ring elevated road of Z city is the dividing line between the urban area and the suburbs of Z city, the time has passed ten o'clock in the night, on the unimpeded two-way eight-lane road, the traffic flow that is impassable during the rush hour has long disappeared, and only a few cars pass by chance for a long time.

If it weren't for the dense parking of more than a dozen brand-new heavy-duty locomotives in front of the store, the façade of "Pengpeng Automobile and Motorcycle Modification and Repair Shop" would be completely inconspicuous in the middle of more than ten automobile 4S shops in this row on the South Third Ring Road. It's just that it's late at night, but only the store is still lit up, and bursts of crazy and violent American heavy metal rock music leak out from the cracks in the closed tempered glass door.

A dilapidated BJ2020 drove up from the Third Ring Road, the driver slammed the steering wheel, and the old jeep jumped on the road more than 20 centimeters high like a wild boar, and then stopped outside the door of the maintenance repair shop with a sharp brake. At the opening of the car door, a tall and athletic young man got out of the cab, threw his black suit jacket over his shoulder, and whistled towards the door of the repair shop.

On the left side of the first floor of the repair shop is the spare parts and locomotive peripherals counter, and on the right is the repair repair shop, which is long empty, leaving only a dim small lamp barely lit, and the noisy and noisy heavy metal rock music is obviously coming from the stairwell leading to the second floor.

The young man pushed the door and entered the store, and the infrared sensor at the door immediately sounded "Welcome", but the upstairs seemed to turn on the music too loudly, and he didn't notice anyone coming in at all.

The young man shrugged his shoulders and went up the stairs to the second floor, and when he appeared at the staircase on the second floor with his hands in his pockets and whistling, a group of young people who had been chatting around the coffee table while drinking beer stood up to greet him.

"Brother Huzi, didn't you say you won't be here tonight?" One of the young men in his early twenties hurriedly gave up his seat, and another man who was much older than everyone present picked up a bottle of beer from the ground, raised his hand and threw it at the young man, the beer bottle was spinning in the air, and was grabbed by the young man's big hand in the air, refused the bottle opener handed over to the side, and directly gnawed the bottle cap with his teeth, tilted his neck and poured a few sips into the wine bottle, and wiped the wine foam from the corner of his mouth with the palm of his hand, and gasped very happily.

"The old lady forced me to go to a business cocktail party, dressed me up like a groom, ran there to talk to elites from all walks of life, the hall was full of people smiling and ghostly, it was really boring, fortunately I saw an opportunity to sneak out, otherwise I would have to suffocate to death......" Huzi put down the wine bottle and complained vigorously.

"You kid is a wild horse, and you are used to running around the mountains and fields every day, and of course you can't stand that kind of formal occasion. The man raised his mug and touched the bottle in Huzi's hand, and the two of them each poured a large sip of beer, and then persuaded earnestly: "But then again, you are not too young, you can't just be fooled around like this all the time, your father and mother still expect you to inherit the family business in the future, you are like this, can they rest assured?"

Huzi scratched his scalp a little annoyed when he heard this: "Hey, I said Brother Peng, why are you counting me down like my sister! Haven't I been caught by my sister to work in the company? My wild horse has been on the set for a long time, and I have been busy driving and grinding for more than a month, and you haven't seen me come here very often lately......

The man clapped his hands and smiled: "That's right! It seems that your sister still has a way to lower you, how many times I persuaded you with Xiao Nan in the past to no avail......

The man inadvertently mentioned the name "Xiao Nan", and everyone present unconsciously lowered their voices when they heard it. Huzi looked at the young man who gave him his seat and asked, "Xiaoyun, do you have any news?"

Xiaoyun shook his head slightly: "Not yet...... I specially asked a friend to check the surveillance video installed on the street of X Village, and the exits on both sides of the building where Xiao Nan lived happened to be out of the monitoring range, and I didn't find any valuable information...... But don't worry, I've already greeted all the acquaintances in the system, and they will notify me as soon as there is news......"

Everyone couldn't help but be a little disappointed when they heard Xiaoyun's words, Huzi reached out and patted him on the shoulder, reached over the wine bottle in his hand and touched his cup, raised his head and poured it down in a big gulp.

The atmosphere on the wine table became a little dull, Peng Peng turned on the computer, and called up the selected video of the British Isle of Man TT race he had just downloaded from the hard drive, the wonderful race with a top speed of more than 330 kilometers per hour gradually attracted the attention of the young people present, Peng Peng turned around and sat next to the tiger, picked up the mug and poured two sips.

"That kid is going to be fine, I feel that way. He lowered his voice and whispered to Huzi: "I went to the Guandi Temple a few days ago to ask for a signature, and the person who released the signature told me that Xiao Nan will definitely be able to turn evil into good fortune this time......

Huzi smiled faintly, shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything, just held the wine bottle and drank silently, until he drank a full bottle of beer, put the wine bottle on the coffee table, and said to himself: "He didn't give up on my brother back then, and now I will never give up on him, no matter how far he runs to the ends of the earth, he wants to see people...... the last half of the sentence can't be said anyway.

At this time, the mobile phone in Huzi's trouser pocket suddenly rang. "Damn, my sister must have found out that I slipped away......" He took out his mobile phone and got up and walked to the balcony in the back, answering the phone as he walked. "Hey ......"

"Hey, Huzi, where are you now?" came the voice of a strange girl on the phone, her voice so slender and pure, like gently plucking a taut string in the quiet night.

"Who are you?" Huzi immediately became a little impatient when he heard that he was not a familiar person.

The girl was silent for a moment, Huzi waited for her for a few seconds, and frowned: "Don't talk and hang up!"

"Wait a minute, don't hang up yet!" The girl was anxious when she heard this: "I have something urgent to find you!"