Friday, 30 April 2004, sunny to partly cloudy

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It's 9:48 a.m., Friday; It is a day worth remembering or commemorating.

No one knew how happy I was when I woke up and suddenly saw her in the bathroom.

For so many days, she had a fever and vomiting, she was always asleep in bed and I was never able to calm down and do anything; Until this morning, she looked in the mirror and said to me, "I'm fine".

Her complexion wasn't too good, but it wasn't the same anymore.

Oh my God, looking back on it now, it was like a dead man I had seen in the newspaper.

Luckily, it's okay now......

But...... I always felt that she was a little strange.

I don't know how this strangeness came about, but I feel like there's something different about her.

Maybe it's because I'm too careful, after all, my sister hasn't had much energy when she first recovers from a serious illness.

Either way, the above is good news.

The bad news is that the family is running out of money. I calculated that if I only ate two steamed buns and pickles a day, the family's money could last for about three months; But my sister needs to replenish her body, so it can only last for less than a month.

Mom hasn't been home for a long time. Am I really supposed to leave school?

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Lin Xu didn't react to Ouyang Luo's nudge.

Now it was as if his soul had been snatched away by something, and he walked straight forward.

Ouyang Luo smiled, feeling a little sorry for Lin Xu, a poor boy who had never seen the world; But he didn't say anything superfluous, feeling that the other party might be as greedy as a child when he sees a marshmallow, so he followed casually.

Speaking of which, there are really few open-air jugglers in modern squares; The juggling stall in front of it doesn't have any insurance measures, and it's all real kung fu. If the artist is not careful, it may lead to an accident.

There are many kinds of juggling, and the surrounding crowd has gathered around to draw a lottery.

Lin Xu also squeezed in desperately, and Ouyang Luo was dumbfounded by his vigorous appearance.

Originally, Ouyang Luo also wanted to drill into it, but firstly, he was much stronger than Lin Xu, and secondly, he was surrounded by a sea of people; He tried several times and didn't get in. Not only did they not squeeze in, but they were squeezed out of the crowd.

When he looked inside, Lin Xu had already reached the front row of the "audience".

"That's amazing!" Ouyang Luo muttered, and simply went to the coffee house not far away to sit down and order a cup of coffee and drink it slowly.

The crowd in the encirclement was full of voices, and the onlookers sometimes clapped and cheered loudly, as if the performance inside was very exciting, but this was also in vain, anyway, Ouyang Luo couldn't see anything.

The number of people has been increasing and shows no signs of stopping.

Ouyang Luo began to feel a little drowsy after drinking the second cup of coffee; So he simply leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

I don't know how long it took to squint, and when he woke up again, the sun was setting and the people in the distance were gone.

He was confused for a while before he officially came to his senses, and then suddenly discovered a problem - Lin Xu was gone!

At first, he thought that Lin Xu was saying goodbye, but after thinking about it, this situation could not happen according to Lin Xu's temperament. Then he felt that it should be Lin Xu who saw him asleep, so he didn't bother him but went somewhere else to continue wandering.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Luo decided to wait in place for a while.

This waited until the sun completely disappeared from the horizon. That is, he waited about two hours before he realized the seriousness of the problem.

At the moment, there are fewer and fewer people on the streets; The area where I was was lit up with night lights.

Ouyang Luo seemed to suddenly remember something and began to dial his mobile phone.

"Hey, it's me. The surveillance of Liangou Plaza that started at 3:00 p.m. today helped me go through it...... Yes, now. Especially the ...... near No. 374 Nanming Road No way! I'm going to do it soon! Something happened! ”

After speaking, Ouyang Luo hung up the phone and looked around; Seeing that there was also a camera in the corner of the coffee house, he broke in and unceremoniously begged for surveillance.

After wasting all his strength and getting allowed to enter the monitoring room of the coffee house, Ouyang Luo looked at it on the side, but there was almost no receipt. Because this surveillance only captured the crowd and the props that were sometimes thrown into the air.

"Damn it!"

He cursed. The store manager on the side kindly reminded: "Sir, do you need help calling the police?" ”

Ouyang Luo glanced at the other party and suddenly asked an extremely angry question.

"Why does your coffee have a sleep-inducing effect?"

This question is actually a fundamental challenge to the quality of the coffee in the store.

Because coffee is a no-brainer; At most, there are people who have a good deal with coffee. Brown is not allergic and does not have the effect of refreshing the mind, but it will never or almost never drink it to cause sleepiness.

And Ouyang Luo belongs to the kind of person who will not become particularly sober after drinking coffee, but it can still have some effect.

But in retrospect, it seems that the coffee in this shop is really getting more and more sleepy the more you drink it; I was quite awake in the morning, but I didn't expect to fall asleep from exhaustion in the afternoon.

Obviously drugged!

The store manager was not happy when he heard this, saying that we are a century-old chain store in the country, and the history can be traced back to the XXX period, how can we use this method to destroy our reputation?

On this side, the shopkeeper who had expressed sympathy just now drove Ouyang Luo out; I think it's hard to say that this person is an undercover agent sent by a red-eyed colleague to deliberately find trouble.

Ouyang Luo retreated to the side outside, next to the place where he was sitting, picked up the toilet paper on the table, dipped some of the remaining coffee stains, and pinched it in his hand; didn't say anything more, didn't show his identity, and left directly.

He really wasn't in the mood to raise the bar with people right now.

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When Lin Xu woke up, his body didn't seem to be his own.

Brief paralysis without any sensation.

This situation slowly eased after some time.

Now, he was sure that his hands were tied behind his back and his legs were tied together.

Where is this?

After the initial momentary panic, he began to try to calm down and observe the environment.

He wasn't stupid enough to shout "help"; If you are kidnapped, then this shout of "help" and the like will only put you completely at a disadvantage.

The reason why Lin Xu was able to maintain relative composure in this situation was because he had experienced too many strange things compared to most people, which forced him to develop a good habit of not being surprised.

Let's say that Lin Xu took a look at the surrounding environment at this time, but he could barely see the five fingers around him, and he couldn't see clearly, and he could only vaguely distinguish some things with outlines similar to tables, stools, boxes, long poles, and the huge chandelier with obvious outlines above his head.

It's like an indoor playground; He had been to such a place in the past when he was a private investigator doing "groping".

So how did you get here?

When Lin Xu thought about it, his temples suddenly swelled. The pain eased a little and continued.

He remembered that he had planned to go home with Ouyang Luo before, but a beam of light flickered into his eyes, and when he looked again, he saw a person holding something in his hand, which was exactly the same as the pendant around his neck, and then he followed.

When he kept up, he found that he had already lost his goal; Later, he remembered that he seemed to be suddenly dizzy and someone helped him......

That's the end of the memory, there's no follow-up.

Lin Xu's heart sank, nervous and scared. Because the only people who could put him in such an occasion now were those who he had never seen before.

Could it be that this group of people can't help but start planning to surface?