Father?

Father......

It's the father.

Why, how did you see him here?

For a moment, joy, amazement, and fear all came flooding up.

Shen Ran wanted to call his father, but the voice was stuck in his throat and couldn't come out.

Looking closely, he could distinguish his facial features from the strong contrast of light and shadow on the man's face, and this face was indeed his father.

It's just that his face looks a little flabby than before, and small wrinkles appear at the corners of his eyes and forehead.

Shen Ran, who saw these details, finally couldn't hold back.

He wanted to cry.

He wanted to ask: Daddy, why are you here, what the hell are you doing?

Just as he did open his mouth and called out to his father, he opened his eyes suddenly.

A tear ran down the corner of his eye and slid right onto the pillow.

Wake up.

Shen Ran felt a little dazed.

At that moment, he really forgot that he was in a dream.

He was a little relaxed, and a little sad.

Perhaps, sad a little more.

He had been looking forward to seeing his father for years, and he really wanted to see his father's face up close.

But what if my father really appeared on such an occasion, his hands covered in inexplicable blood?

This contradiction continued for a long time after he woke up.

The moment he saw his father, he was really frightened.

He had never seen his father look like this, and he seemed to be doing something horrible on his hands.

He didn't know if he really had the courage to see that kind of father, he only knew that compared to not knowing where his father was now, dead or alive, he might be willing to accept all the facts, as long as he could find his father.

He wanted to know what was wrong with his father, and he missed the only relative who was close to him too much.

"Father's ......"

He touched the moist corners of his eyes and sat up from the bed with his hands propped up.

One palm pressed the mobile phone next to the bed, picked it up and looked, and it happened to be a call.

It's Lucheng.

During this period of time, Lu Cheng was the person who contacted him most frequently.

"Hey." Picking up the phone, Shen Ran still said this idiomatic phrase in passing, but when he said this word today, he couldn't help but have a little nasal voice.

Lu Cheng didn't hear his voice right, "What's wrong?" ”

He wasn't sure if there was anything wrong with Shen Ran on the other end of the phone, so he paused for a moment, but Shen Ran didn't say anything, so he answered again: "Did I disturb your rest?" ”

"Hmm. Luckily, just up. Shen Ran's voice was still a little wrong, but in the few seconds he paused just now, Lu Cheng knew that Shen Ran might not explain it to him, so he found a step by himself and said an option first.

Shen Ran really answered. Maybe he really didn't have a good rest, maybe it wasn't for that reason.

In short, his voice sounded very different from usual, a little weak, and a little low.

But Lu Cheng wasn't sure if his instincts were ready, and he didn't know if Shen Ran wanted others to ask him about his thoughts.

Because he was worried that Shen Ran would be uncomfortable in front of him, Lu Cheng took the initiative to break the silence, not wanting Shen Ran to feel embarrassed.

"Oh, sorry to disturb your rest. I'll call later? ”

"No, I don't. You say. ”

"Oh, it's not an urgent matter, it's the thing I said last time, that number, I applied to go to the office to see Sun Hui, she is not in a good condition now, her mental problems are getting more and more serious, and she is basically unable to communicate with people. But I'm going to meet her and see if she reacts to the numbers. You're a psychologist, so I wonder if you should go see her too? ”

"Well, yes, I'll go with you if I can."

"Then it's decided."

They made an appointment and hung up.

After chatting with Lu Cheng for a few words, Shen Ran's mood and tone basically returned to his usual state.

When Lu Cheng asked him what was wrong, at that moment, all the emotions surged into his nasal cavity and blocked his throat.

He was speechless.

If Lu Cheng waited for him a little longer, or asked this question again.

He wasn't sure if he would cry in front of Lu Cheng.

He hadn't cried in a long time.

There is no such reason. He was accustomed to restraint, and there was no moment when he felt that he had to cry, and no one could make him cry to his face.

He knows that this is not conducive to physical and mental health for a long time, but a person's independent life sharpens his will, but also hides his vulnerability, and his reason always precedes his sensibility, which has become inertia.

Just like now, when he hung up Lu Cheng's phone, his rationality slowly recovered.

Looking back at his dreams over this period of time, this is not the first time he has dreamed of his father. In the past, his dreams were mainly divided into two scenes.

The first one is to dream of that dark corridor. And he used to dream about this hallway, always ending up with running away and waking up.

The second is in an equally dark space, where only a chandelier hangs in mid-air, and under the lamp stands a person, who looks up, and it is his father.

Today's dream is equivalent to connecting these two scenes in a complete series.

He never imagined that his father was in the door at the end of the corridor, in that dark room, doing some strange things.

He couldn't tell if it was progress, and if it was, he didn't know whether to be happy or worried if it could give him more clues about his father in the future.

Another point, Sun Hui once told him about her dream.

The scene she told was similar to the second scene that Shen Ran had dreamed of, the same in a dark space, and the same person standing under the chandelier, except that Sun Hui said that the person she saw was Shen Ran, not his father.

This still confuses Shen Ran.

Obviously, there is some connection between Sun Hui's dreams and his own dreams.

But this correlation is not completely consistent.

Has he ever killed anyone?

Or did my father kill someone?

Shen Ran himself was confused. How should this dream be interpreted?

Also, why is there a connection between him and Sun Hui's dream, and what does his advanced perception want to tell him here?

Three days later, Shen Ran went to the police station on time to attend their appointment.

When he walked to the door of Lu Cheng's office, Shen Ran saw that Lu Cheng was already waiting there.

He naturally smiled and waved, and Lu Cheng also smiled and beckoned him to come in and sit.

Now every time they see each other, they always smile naturally.

This is very different from when Lu Cheng first met Shen Ran, most occasions, Shen Ran doesn't care too much about people, and he doesn't care about greetings, he just immerses himself in his own thinking, or he just doesn't care.

When Lu Cheng saw him laughing, he couldn't stop the corners of his mouth rising, and his mood was a little brighter.

"You sit down first, I'll answer a phone call, and I'll be fine right away."

Shen Ran could see that Lu Cheng was very busy, but he also interrupted the phone, greeted him first, and then continued the conversation.

"Okay, we'll be out of the police today......"

In the end, Lu Cheng's call ended with this promise.

"Something today?"

"Well, temporary tasks, new situations, hey, you know our business, it's hard to do things on your own schedule, and you have to be ready for changes at any time." Lu Cheng sighed slightly.

"Oh? What is the change, is it convenient to say? So we're ...... today? Do you still go to the detention center? ”

Their original agreement was to go to the detention center to see Sun Hui.

"Well, I might have to postpone it a bit. But if nothing else, you should still be able to go. You're one of us, and I can talk to you about it, mainly because there were a few thefts at a nearby university some time ago. ”

"Theft? What was missing, is it a big amount? ”

"Not big. It's just that the girls' dormitory has lost their underwear for a few years. ”

"Lost your underwear?" Shen Ran was curious, "This kind of thing, do you also need your criminal police to dispatch?" ”

Lu Cheng further explained: "Of course, there was no need for us to intervene, and the school also went to the local police station to file the case, and it is said that they have caught the thief who stole the underwear. But just today, things took a turn again.

One of the girls is missing. Her underwear had also been stolen, and the school was unsure if the two were related. Now, regardless of whether it is related or not, since someone is missing, then we naturally have to send someone to investigate.

We've already had colleagues go to the school to investigate, and I'm supposed to check it out. ”

After saying this, he hurriedly added: "If it goes well, it won't be too long, and we still have time to go to the office." Are you with me? ”

This is not the first time that Lu Cheng has made this kind of request to work together, if it were someone else, this kind of proposal to waste his time, he probably would not accept it again and again.

"Okay." Shen Ran nodded.

Shen Ran got into Lu Cheng's car again, and several other colleagues had already rushed to the place of the incident.

However, those colleagues had already been sent by Lu Cheng to take another car and leave early, so there were only him and Shen Ran in this car.

"Do you usually drive?" Lu Cheng asked seemingly casually.

"Huh? I don't have a car and I won't drive. ”

"Oh, yes, I heard you." Lu Cheng immediately said: "Your house is not close to us, so it's not convenient for a long time." I've heard that you live close to the institute where you used to work? ”

"Hmm. At that time, I thought that I would continue to work there, so I chose there. Shen Ran said.

"Oh, I heard that Professor Xu lives close to you, quite close?" Lu Cheng asked again.

"Well, he lives right next to the institute, not far from me. Three or four kilometers or so. ”

"Oh......" Lu Cheng also wanted to ask a little more in-depth on this topic, for example, do you usually sit in his car? Have you ever visited before?

Wait a minute......

However, these questions only rolled in his mind and did not speak out.

Soon, their car was driving to the school. This is a key local university, Shenbei University.

Police officers Xiaomei and Huzi had arrived here half an hour earlier, and they also called the counselor and the dormitory manager to ask for information.

Lu Cheng found them and inquired about the progress of the work straightforwardly.

"How's it going, have you got all the information?"

"The missing female student is a sophomore in the Department of Literature, her name is Chen Yuwen, and her classmates in the same dormitory said that Chen Yuwen went out to make a phone call on the day of her disappearance, but she never came back after she went out.

But in fact, her classmates did not have any evidence to prove that Chen Yuwen was out on the phone, but said that she used to go to the dormitory corridor at night to call her boyfriend in her hometown, which was her habit.

The school surveillance is still being investigated, but judging from the surveillance footage that has just been transferred, Chen Yuwen walked out of the dormitory building that night and did not stay in the corridor.

She headed in the direction of the school building, with a break in surveillance, and it was not difficult to determine where she had last appeared.

That's all we have at the moment, and we're going to ask about the boy who stole the girl's underwear, and the silhouette of a boy appeared in the surveillance, in the girls' dormitory building, and the counselor pointed out that the back looked like the boy. ”