St. George's 13th Block Apartment

In the vague dream, all sensations were curtailed, wandering between half-awake and half-dreaming, and Qi Han felt as if his body was floating on the water, floating and shaking.

Feeling layers of faint mist enveloping her, she blinked, and in the confused white mist, she could faintly see two sisters sitting on the windowsill talking.

The two girls looked young, one in his early twenties, the other in his fifteen or fifteen.

Qi Han squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and found that the faces of the two girls looked very similar, but the elder sister looked much gentler, while the younger sister looked more immature.

It turned out that it was Xiao Qihan and Xiao Qiruo many years ago......

Qi Han's eyes were hot, and he wanted to call "sister", but he opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't make any sound, and stood beside the two sisters like a suspended half-spirit.

But the two people sitting on the windowsill were talking intimately as if they didn't see her.

"Qi Han, what do you think of my sister's drawing?" The slightly older Qi Ruo held the virtual painting system in his hand and looked at Qi Han with a smile.

In the projection of the virtual painting system, you can see a three-dimensional three-dimensional image of a beast, the body shape of the beast is like a tiger and a lion, the hair is distributed with leopard-like spots, its body hair is dark yellow, but the hair between the eyebrows is white, the hair of the lip plate is also white, it looks like white eyebrows from a distance. It has a white horn on its forehead, five tails behind it, powerful limbs to step on boulders, well-defined muscles, and three long, pointed black claws on the tip of each paw, leaving long paw prints on the stone.

"It's just ...... Lion? But a bit like a tiger? ”

"This is just a strange beast in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", called Hideous." Qi Ruo looked at the finished painting and explained, "The mountain of Zhangguo has no grass and trees, and there are many Yao and Bi. It's weird. There is a beast, its shape is like a red leopard, five tails and a horn, its sound is like hitting a stone, and its name is called hideous. ”

Qi Han couldn't understand those classical Chinese, she nodded as if she didn't understand, looking at the 3D image of the strange beast, only to feel that the hideous beast was a little terrifying.

"Sister, why do you always like to draw these monsters?"

"Because our mom is a painter."

"But she paints landscapes."

"It doesn't matter what he paints, anyway, we inherited my mother's talent, so it's good to draw seriously." Qi Ruo smiled gently, "It doesn't matter what you draw, the important thing is that you like it." ”

When you tap the screen, it says "Save Completed".

Qiruo looked at his little sister: "Is it okay for my sister to teach you to draw?" With this virtual painting system, you can also draw stereoscopic images. ”

When Qi Han heard this, he nodded happily.

……

Memories gradually become blurred.

The dream is detached, the original unreal feeling gradually dissipates, the physical feeling is awakened, and the cold wakes up from the deep sleep.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, she frowned, and opened her eyes.

The scene in front of her was a little blurry, she frowned, and her vision began to become clear, and the blurred and ghostly scene in front of her gradually became clear.

The white ceiling, the black wardrobe, the half-drawn curtains, the harsh light shining into the room through the gaps between the curtains, and she was lying on her back on the bed, the quilt on her body, surrounded by the smell of alcohol that had not yet dissipated.

The hangover gave her a splitting headache.

She held her head and sat up slowly, only to feel that the heavens and the earth were spinning, and her head was heavy, like the sea soaked in dirty water, a mess, and she couldn't figure out her thoughts.

The black dreadlocks fell down her cheeks, and she lifted the covers and was relieved to see that the clothes she had worn were still on her body.

She vaguely remembered that she was so addicted to alcohol that she smeared red ink on her pants, and escaped from the women's restroom in the hospital as Adam went to the hospital and pretended to have a period.

After that, she went to a rock bar behind a small alley in the center of the city.

She hadn't been there before, but in order not to be found by Adam, she didn't dare to go to the place she was familiar with before, so she casually searched the map and found a place that was relatively hidden and matched her taste.

Rock + alcohol, enough to ignite the flame of her life.

But the strange thing is that she, who has always been able to drink, is also drunk.

She vaguely remembered that she had only drunk three or four bottles of wine, and her body began to get out of control, and in that brightly lit dance floor, her ears were filled with rock 'n' roll, and she forgot that she was there, and her body became uncontrollable, even ...... Even take the initiative to kiss a stranger you don't know!

Thinking of this, Qi Han gasped.

In her incomplete memory, she could remember the man with stubble on his face, she couldn't see his face clearly, but she remembered the smell of inferior cigarettes and alcohol every time he forcibly asked for a kiss.

Thinking so, Qi Han shrank up and subconsciously tightened the quilt.

She patted her head vigorously and bit her lower lip in remorse.

(Damn, you were taken advantage of so easily...... ）

(But that's weird...... ）

(At that time, I was obviously unwilling, but I didn't have the strength to resist at all...... ）

The more she thought about it, the more ugly her face became, and looking at the white sheets, she suddenly remembered a small, dimly lit room, and the man, pulled her tight into the dirty, cramped room, pushed her down on the bed full of cigarette butts, and then, and then ......

"Click."

At this moment, Adam pushed the door in, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Qi Han who had woken up.

He also saw the panic in her eyes.

“…… You're awake. Adam placed a cup of sobering tea on the bedside table beside Qi Han, and he sat down beside hers.

Only then did Qi Han find that his forehead was wrapped in gauze, and his right arm was also wrapped in a circle of gauze, and blood stains could be clearly seen on the white gauze.

"You...... You're hurt? Qi Han's voice was a little hoarse, maybe it was the previous word Ah dance floor carnival shout, tearing her vocal cords, and her voice still had a hangover in her voice.

Adam touched the gauze on his forehead and smiled faintly.

"Now I'm like you, and my head is in trouble."

"I ...... I'm sorry......" Qi Han lowered his eyes.

Adam didn't speak, waiting for the girl to continue.

"I ...... I shouldn't have sneaked away...... You shouldn't be going to that kind of place......"

"The bar was operating without a license, and I suspect they added something unclean to the liquor." Adam said in a calm tone, "At that time, I watched you drink, it was not your usual you at all, I guess there was stimulant in the wine, next time, don't go to that kind of place." I'll also tell my colleagues at the state police department that I have time to go to the bar and do a good job, and I guess I'll find a lot of dirt. ”

Adam didn't say what the broken dirt was, but Qi Han probably guessed something.

For the first time, she softened, like a child who had done something wrong, and shrunk at the head of the bed, not speaking.

For a moment, no one spoke.

Until Adam broke the silence.

“…… Don't worry, they didn't do anything to you. ”

"......" Qi Han looked up at Adam.

He softened his tone: "But next time, I can't tell." ”

Even so, there is a warning in the words, like a big brother looking at his sister who stole candy for the first time.

“…… I vaguely remember that you fought with them yesterday. ”

Qi Han tilted his head, recalling some vague fragments.

About the dimly lit room in that bar, the men laughing wildly, and Adam who broke into the room.

After that, her memories were not very real, but she vaguely remembered hearing some punches and kicks in her confusion, and then someone picked her up, and she felt that she was in a warm embrace, and she no longer had to worry about being afraid, so she fell into a deep sleep.

Adam looked at Qi Han's eyes, was silent for a moment, and said, "It's not a fight, it's just a lesson for those gangsters." ”

"But you're a police officer, won't that ......"

"Don't worry, I didn't reveal my identity, I was just a brave passerby that night." Adam paused, raised his head to look at Qi Han, and said seriously, "Next time, if you want to drink, go to a regular place, and don't joke about your safety anymore, after all, not every time there are passers-by who are 'righteous and brave'." ”

Listening to him, he didn't want to force her anymore.

Perhaps it is not as easy as you think to force a person who is an alcoholic to quit drinking.

If it is just in the name of doing good for her, but forcing her to a more extreme path, isn't that counterproductive?

He figured it out too.

There are some things that should only be useful if you are conscious.

Adam sighed inwardly and tucked the quilt for the cold.

He stood up and turned to walk towards the living room.

Although the new sheriff has not given him other tasks, he still hopes to be able to turn over Sheriff Osborne's case and find clues that can solve Sheriff Osborne's case from the investigation materials left in the past.

Qi Han raised his eyes to look at the back of Adam leaving, and after being silent for a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and said, "I quit drinking." ”

Adam paused and looked back at her.

"You...... Say what? ”

"I'm sorry Adam, I know it's wrong, I listen to you, quit drinking."