Chapter 6 Looking for opportunities to turn the tables around
"What, you believe her?" Sitting back in the car, Wei Kai asked me.
I nodded: "He guessed a lot of things accurately beforehand, including herself and Qiao Mai's affairs. On the first day she saw me, Ah Lian told me that she didn't want me to call him sister-in-law, and he said that the two of them would not succeed in the end. Later the two of them really broke up, although she kept trying to save. ”
"It's the first time I've heard that someone broke up because he knew they couldn't be together, and he didn't want to continue with someone else, but he used the astrolabe as an excuse to be really inferior." Wei Kai took out a small note from Ah Lian from his trouser pocket, "It's the bar area here." ”
I was stunned for a moment: "That's where her master left." ”
Wei Kai raised the corners of his mouth and showed his trademark mocking smile: "After so many years, there is still no change." ”
I also sighed: "It was not a bar street at that time, it was still a big empty field that was not developed at that time, it may be that Ah Lian sent Su Baijia's astrolabe and his master's astrolabe showed the same situation and gave us advice according to experience." ”
Wei Kai put the note back in his pocket: "I still don't believe in astrolabe, she herself said that there is no identical astrolabe." ”
I didn't argue with that; "Maybe you're right, but you can't say that he is unscientific, he is the accumulation of experience from the ancients after a long time of observing the sky at night, otherwise how could there be Zhuge Liang's night observation of the sky, from the stars and the moon to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty."
Wei Kai looked at me and smiled: "The mouth is getting more and more neat." To get down to business, what do you decide to do now, go to Pub Street? ”
"I think so, but that kid shouldn't have been in the bar street from the beginning, Ah Lian's speculation, whether you believe it or not, one thing is in line with our speculation, that is, Su Baijia is likely to be with the people his father has been in contact with before. The eyes are accustomed to the darkness in order to see what is in the darkness, so I think Su Baijia is thinking this now. We now need to figure out where the gangs are distributed in which area of Pub Street. I glanced at Ah Lian's coffee shop again, "Ah Lian didn't tell us, we had to try our luck on our own." ”
"Would you like to have a drink?" Wei Kai asked me.
"Yes." I smiled at him, "But now is not the time. ”
We found a place near Bar Street and stopped, and Wei Kai continued to perform the disguise on himself with his makeup bag. Then he turned his head and asked if I could tell if I could see what he was like before.
"It would be better to change your hairstyle, wouldn't you consider buying a leather mask? This kind of heavy makeup every day is not good for the skin, and you may be an old man at the age of 40. "I was lazily out in the back seat.
Wei Kai was fiddling with his hair, and after listening to my words, he trembled as if he had been poured cold water, and said, "The house is full of human skin masks, and it's scary to think about. ”
I imagined that scene, and it wasn't a good one, and I shuddered and said, "You'd better ruin your own skin." ”
Wei Kai combed his oily hair, and the car was filled with the smell of hairspray, and then sprayed himself with some cologne.
"Ahem." I coughed a few times, "It's so choking." I complained.
"Hey, kids who don't understand anything. Would you like to dress up too? Your outfit today is perfect for that vibe. Wei Kai gave me a blank look and said.
I shook my head: "I can't get in and don't record you, if we can stop Su Baijia before she goes in, we can also complete it successfully, then the plan to have a drink will be implemented in a few days." But," I looked around, my eyes locked on the door of a small convenience store, "I'm hungry, I'm going to buy food." What do you want to eat? ”
"If there's a smoked chicken wrap, bring me one." Wei Kai thought for a moment and then added, "Then help me bring me a cup of coffee." ”
"What do you want?" I asked him about the coffee taste.
"As long as it's not American, it's fine."
I nodded and got out of the car, in fact, I wanted to complain that he had ingested too much ****** today, but for the sake of the low temperature today, I could still understand the feeling of his stomach desperately needing something hot to warm up. After buying a lunch for two at the supermarket and grabbing a hot latte and black tea in the cooler in the store, I went back to the car. But when I got back to the car, Wei Kai was not there, and he left me a note in the driver's seat. I panicked when I looked at the note, and after putting the food in the back seat, I just ran to the passenger seat in front of me and opened the note it left for me.
"Xiaozhi, I have some things that need to be dealt with temporarily, you stay in the car and don't go out, I'll be back later." Maybe you'll wait a long time for love, both portions of food are yours, remember to drink your coffee at 6 p.m., and it stands to reason that you might stay up late today. Also, I put the spare car keys in the storage compartment in front of you. After reading the note, I breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately I didn't leave me and run alone. It was also at this time that I suddenly realized that every time I ran away from Li Jing, every time Li Jing opened the door and saw that I was not there, I would feel the same sense of loss. It's disgusting to think about it like this. But I feel that I am making myself amorous, what if Li Jing doesn't think about me at all, if he just wants to know my secret and hopes that I won't leave him? Anticipating the confusion of my mind, I lowered the passenger seat, slid to the back seat, and took my lunch out of the convenience store bag.
When I was drowsy, I suddenly woke up because of the thoughts in my head, what the hell is Wei Kai doing dressed up so sassy? It's not the time for nightclubs to open, and people will look at her when she walks down the street like that, right? However, his dress is not particularly weird, and the yuppie style is quite suitable for his mocking face. So he dressed up so much like Joni Depp, what the hell did he go for, dating? Not necessarily, he shouldn't be so careless to go about his personal affairs at such a critical juncture. But what if the other party needs him badly? After all, it seems that it should be a temporary decision made by him, and it seems that it should be an urgent matter. Who was the person who met him? Lover? Friend? I sat in the car and speculated, but thinking that he could believe in being someone and establish a certain relationship, the other party should be a person with a good personality and a good sense of generality, after all, I know Wei Kai, he is not a good-tempered person, the defensive heart is so heavy, I pondered in my heart, as my brain became more and more strange, my sleepiness became heavier and heavier, thinking that I might stay up late for a long time at night, I temporarily curled up in the back seat of the car and closed my eyes, wanting to stare for a while.
I fell asleep for maybe not half an hour, and I had a vague uneasiness in my sleep, forcing myself to open my eyes, and I felt that things were developing in a direction that I couldn't control. I opened the window, the cold wind poured in, and I was a little more sober, and I always felt that I had overlooked something very important. What is it? I decided to think from where I started. There was no suspicion, we received the commission, and then went to the school to check the situation of Su Baijia, and found that Su Baijia's father may be involved in drugs, Su Baijia in order to help clear Brazil of the crime and go into danger alone, and then I thought there was no other information inside, I temporarily decided to ask for the help of the goddess, and the goddess directed us to this bar street, and then we waited here for the rabbit. Wei Kai dressed himself up in the style of a yuppie and when I was shopping for lunch, he took advantage of my absence to disappear from the driver's seat and left me a note, which meant that he would be back as soon as possible. I glanced around, it was once an empty wasteland, and it was also where many gangs in the area chose to fight. The goddess Ah Lian's teacher was once killed after being slashed and killed for preventing her son from participating in a gang fight. Now, it's still a place where gangs like to gather, but it's no longer a place of swords and swords, but a dark deal with a shady one. Wait, what did I just think of? Faction?
I finally knew the reason for my uneasiness, if it was a gang, thinking of the situation in the previous case, he seemed to hand over the entire commission to the gang when he first received the commission, plus his relationship with those gangs before he exposed Boss Wu. Crouching Tiger remembered that as soon as he entered here, he kept checking with me to see if he would be recognizable as he was now, and I realized what I was missing. He's supposed to know a lot about it, I mean, that stupid kid should know a lot about the gangs here, and he can even guess what the gangs are doing. He can now even find out who he had contact with before his death from the name of Su Baijia's father in the information.
When I recalled our situation in the Shenpo Coffee Shop again, Ah Lian's note was directly in his hand, and then he just took the note out of his trouser pocket, and he had time to adjust the bag, and then when he returned to the car, he showed me another note, not to mention, when he read the prompt on the paper, he kept holding the paper in his hand, and he didn't mean to let me read it at all. I think the address on the note must be a more dangerous place than mine, and he has been waiting for an opportunity to sneak over himself while I am not looking. After that, go to the location on the note alone, find someone, and bring someone back.
My heart fluttered all of a sudden, I still remembered Ah Lian's uneasiness before writing the prompt, and Wei Kai should be in danger now. Although I know that he is a master of escape, the last commission allowed him to expose the conspiracy of Boss Wu. I think Boss Wu has been silently operating the strategy for so many years, and he should have secretly cultivated a lot of brothers. Then these undercurrent forces will definitely not let Wei Kai go. Even without considering his own power, this time, our commission involves dealing with gangs, this mixed underground world, secretly indistinguishable my environment, if you want to rescue a child by yourself, it can be said that it is even more difficult, even the danger of danger. However, since Boss Wu can target me and even threaten the people around me, it means that the bombing case back then, in addition to the people from Boss Wu's hostile gang was impacted, I should have also affected other interests. In addition, before the bombing, the commission we received also conflicted with some gangs, although the boss helped us settle the follow-up at that time, but the Liang Zi who was formed at that time is now just right to settle accounts together.
In addition to the rival gangs, there should be a group of people who secretly want to get rid of hidden dangers like us. Wei Kai is now acting alone to rescue the child, although he is in civilian clothes, ordinary people can't recognize him, but people who are familiar with her, and after the accident of Boss Wu, his original gang should be cleaning up the insiders and digging out a lot of internal ghosts, this kind of impact is no less than the butterfly effect, which will make other gangs all soldiers and strengthen their own vigilance. Wei Kai's rash action now is tantamount to a sheep falling into the mouth of a tiger, not only Su Baijia may not be able to be saved, Wei Kai himself may not be caught, even if he is lucky enough to escape, then Su Baijia will be 100% in trouble.
I secretly cursed in my heart for the recklessness of the unopened, although I knew that she didn't want me to be in danger, but in the end, it could do something brain-growing without hunger, and the tragedy of a moth to a fire was something that a hot-blooded person like him could do. What now? I tried to calm my mood, if Wei Kai got the answer from the hint of his crush, then as long as I found Ah Lian, I could know Wei Kai's next move.
I can't go back to the café in the UAE and go to her again, and rushing to find her now might arouse the suspicion of the clerk, and I don't want to get Ah Lian in trouble. The more critical reason is that I don't know how to drive, and I don't have the skills to drive out of the neighborhood other than knowing how to lock the car. I tried my best to calm my mood, I thought about every word Wei Kai said, and wanted to find clues from it. On the way here, Wei Kai said that Ah Lian had visited me in the hospital after the bombing, and said that when I remembered it, I naturally knew how to find her, which showed that Ah Lian was sure that I would remember all the things about her. Ah Lian had known that I was going to go to him, no matter how she knew about it, first of all, he must have known that I would contact her because of this, and she must have known all the ways I could contact her, that is, all her contact information.
I started thinking about all the ways I could get in touch with her, she wasn't interested in electronic things, she never used any internet-related contact at the time, and I didn't even email her. I counted the contact information at that time, Ah Lian was from another province, I had never been to her house, and I had to go to her dormitory or this café to find him at that time. Then all that was left was the phone, but I was not sensitive to numbers and couldn't remember her number at all. Vaguely, I suddenly remembered a conversation between us. At that time, she completely broke up with Qiao Mai and wanted to change her contact information and never have any contact with her ex-boyfriend again, so I chose the number she chose. His number was bought with money, it was a very good number, and the next seven digits happened to be her birthday, and I told him that I would never forget this number for the rest of my life.
Because I remembered our conversation, the next thing is a lot bigger, knowing that she bought the number of the telecommunications company, as long as you find the first four numbers sent that year, you can piece together the entire phone number, in the evening to find the number segment released that year, with memory, I dialed the phone, not long after, a familiar voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hey? ”
"It's me." I try to make my voice sound calmer.
"Xiaozhi?" The voice on the phone sounded a little surprised, and then reverted to a calm tone, "He went by himself?" ”
"That's right." I replied, "How do you know?" I don't think it's calculated? ”
Ah Lian's words really surprised me: "No. Death was told to me by the man who came with you. At that time, he showed disdain for the occult, so when I gave you the note, he took it for you, probably because he was afraid that I would lie to you, or that I would give you random guidance. He was actually putting the note in his pocket, and he peeked at the message I gave you, and then his expression changed significantly, and he became very serious, and you could see that he was very angry at the time. He was blaming me, and I could read the warning in his eyes. Even in the second half of my commentary volunteer, he was very concerned about what I said, and he was obviously much more serious than at the beginning. Later, when I went downstairs, I found that he had moved the position of the note from the library on the right side to the left, and while you were talking to me, he took a note from the store and stuffed it on the right side, and I believe that he was trying to hide the information I left you on the note by adjusting the bag like you. ”
Having met my guesses so far, I decided to ask for the location myself: "Can you tell me where Wei Kai has gone now?" ”
To my surprise, Ah Lian rejected me: "I'm not hungry to give you any more information, you have already used your opportunity." ”
"But that's the message you were going to give me." I argued.
"But you didn't take your chance, and I won't give you a second hint." Ah Lian's refusal was ruthless.
"Now Wei Kai is very dangerous, and it may even endanger the life of another child." Knowing that there was no reason to refute Ah Lian, I still wanted to play the sympathy card and hope to get another chance.
But Ah Lian still refused my request: "That is his choice, I have no way to interfere." Xiaozhi, you know me, I have never broken my promise. ”
Knowing that it didn't work, I wanted to hang up the phone sullenly, but Ah Lian reminded me in a gentle tone before I hung up: "Xiaozhi, have you forgotten what I told you when you left the store just now?" Neptune retrograde in your natal direction brings you a chance to examine yourself, you will get a chance to turn the tables and things will turn out differently. ”
"You're encouraging me?" I asked Ah Lian for confirmation.
"I don't know, it's just the news that the astrolabe presents." Then I heard the phone beeping.
I knew that Wei Kai must have reminded or 'threatened' Ah Lian not to tell me the answer, or that Ah Lian had always kept her own principles, so he insisted on not giving me any more hints. I still haven't found the answer I wanted, but Ah Lian's last words gave me inspiration, what is the chance of a comeback? My eyes were on the paper cup of Lucky Coffee that had been left over from the coffee shop, and I remembered that Ah Lian had told me to be optimistic that it would lead to good results. I picked up the paper cup and smiled, now that the mountains and rivers are at the end of the road, optimism is just a psychological comfort. I took the two paper cups and was about to pack them with the lunch garbage, when I noticed that something seemed to be written underneath my coffee cups.
I picked up the cup and found that the bottom of the paper cup was really written in small letters, which was Ah Lian's handwriting, but because it was written on the bottom and the circle of the empty wall of the cup in a hurry, I was not very clear, but I could still vaguely see that it was an address, an old industrial area in the North District.
There were many residential areas in the old industrial area, but with the renovation of the old industrial area, many factories were relocated to other addresses, and the family area was gradually moved out.
I could feel my cheeks, which had been tight, move upwards when I got the hint, and I was grateful to Ah Lian for keeping a hand and deliberately trying to leave me such a reminder.
Wei Kai said that he would not drink Americano, and I only drank Americano, so when he was threatened and couldn't tell me, Ah Lian had to cleverly pass the news to me in a coffee cup. She knew my habits, and the dark paper cups provided in his café did a good job of hiding them for herself, and she was probably betting that Wei Kai wouldn't find out the secret on the coffee packaging. Her instincts had always been accurate, and she knew that Wei Kai would choose to go it alone, so he offered me two hands. I kissed the cup on my hand and hoped that she would continue to bring me good luck.
After sorting out the garbage in my hand, I took out the car keys that Wei Kai had left for me, got out of the car, and locked the car door. I checked the distance from the industrial area to here with my mobile phone, and it is not too far. I bought hot lemon tea at the convenience store on the street to cover my hands, and then followed the prompts on the map to the residential building in the industrial area two blocks away from the bar, because of the weather, there were not too many people on the street, and the whole residential area seemed deserted, where would Wei Kai be?
I wandered aimlessly, wondering where Wei Kai had gone?
Barbershop? No way, he had already done a good job of disguise to avoid physical contact with others. Supermarket? His outfit goes to the supermarket and should attract everyone's attention. I searched all possible places and found the reason why he wouldn't show up. So my eyes ended up on residential areas, good hiding spots, where few people would notice the superficially calm neighborhoods, and choosing this place to hide their dark deals was the best option. But I looked around at the large and small residential buildings, but I didn't know which one Wei Kai had gone to. I have no connection with these gangs, so naturally I have to rely on my own judgment. Optimistically, I reassured myself that I would find a chance to turn the tables around. (To be continued.) )