Chapter 152, Western Style
Looking at the outline of the city in front of him, an inexplicable nervousness suddenly appeared in Ding Xiu's heart.
For more than 100 days and nights, he and his companions traveled through thick and thin, crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, and finally came here after hardships.
Brilliant City! The capital of Grells, a legendary city.
Everyone was tired, but they were also happy.
The vehicle was about to enter the city, and Song Xijun suddenly signaled Ding Xiu to stop the car.
"For the sake of safety, I won't go into the city with everyone yet." The girl said, a mixture of joy mixed with melancholy on her face.
Ding Xiu knew that Song Xijun was worried about the wanted warrant, so he thought about it and called the others to discuss it together.
"What you said also reminded me that Xiao You's silver coins might be in trouble too." Gu Beimo suddenly thought that there was also a mutated silverback gorilla in the team, and now the size of the silver coin was more than two meters, and almost half of the space in the back compartment was vacated for it to hide.
"Sister Xijun and I will stay outside the city with the silver coins first, and find a remote place to wait for your news." Shen You nodded.
"It's okay, Lao Gu and I went to the city to explore the way, and now it's been a few months, and the matter of the wanted warrant is definitely not as strict as it was at the beginning, and no one remembers it anymore." Ding Xiu said.
"It would be nice if that was the case." Yao Jianpan's wanted warrant in Jiaping City has always been a sword hanging over Song Xijun's head, which made her a little uncomfortable, and after listening to Ding Xiu's words, the girl also expected the result to be as he said.
Gu Beimo changed into Ding Xiu's car, and the four of them first found a safe place to settle outside the city, and after settling down Song Xijun and Shen You, they drove into the city.
The city is huge, and as the nation's capital, it has an infrastructure that no other city can match. The roads in the city extend in all directions, and there are many high-rise buildings, and after Ding Xiu's car enters the city, it quickly merges into the traffic.
"How are you going to find Chen Jianing?" Gu Beimo asked him, "Do you know where her home is?" ”
"I don't know." Ding Xiu shook his head, and at this time, he realized that he knew almost nothing about Chen Jianing's situation.
"That's troublesome......" Gu Beimo touched his chin and frowned, "Looking for someone in such a big city is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack." ”
"All I know is that her home is in this city, and by the way, she once mentioned a place called Brilliant Academy." Ding Xiu desperately recalled the information related to Chen Jianing in his mind, and finally thought of this name.
"Brilliant Academy? Sounds like a school. Gu Beimo thought for a moment, "Shall we follow this clue first?" ”
The two agreed, and then began to ask for the address of the Brilliant Academy.
A few hours later, Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo crossed most of the city and finally drove to the door of this academy.
"It's a mother, it's really the capital, the glorious city is too big." Gu Beimo sat in the car and smacked his lips, shocked or shocked by this huge city.
"I don't know how big the world is when I come out." For the shock in Gu Beimo's heart, Ding Xiu also felt the same way. They made their way all the way, and none of the towns they passed along the way were half the size of the Splendid City.
The car stopped on the side of the road outside the Brilliant Academy, and Ding Xiu looked at the gate of the academy standing in front of him, and a sense of awe surged inexplicably in his heart. The gate is made of marble, and it is arched and ascends like a mountain.
In addition to the name of the college, the above gate is also engraved with the four big characters of "recasting brilliance", these fonts have exquisite penmanship, and the line of writing is like flowing clouds and water, chic and elegant.
Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo didn't know calligraphy, but when the two of them saw those words, their bodies couldn't help but be shocked, and excitement arose.
The two looked at each other in a daze for a long time, and then turned their attention to the pedestrians passing by the gate of the academy, most of whom were about the same age as Ding Xiu, and they gave people the impression that they were full of vigor and vigor, and the word confidence seemed to be written on their faces naturally.
"I don't know if Jia Ning is here, let's go find someone to inquire." Ding Xiu got out of the car with Gu Beimo with strong expectations, and the two walked towards the girl closest to him.
"Do you know Chen Jianing?" Ding Xiu called out to her and asked.
"Chen Jianing? Who are you? The girl looked at Ding Xiu suspiciously, and then looked at Gu Beimo, her eyes were a little surprised, mixed with a little vigilance.
Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo were dusty all the way, and the clothes on their bodies were not only a little shabby, but also faintly visible some dark brown blood stains that could not be washed off. With such two people suddenly coming over to inquire about the well-known students in the academy, it is no wonder that the girl is wary.
"I don't know, but I can get someone to ask for you." The girl blinked and lied.
"Okay, I'm sorry for you." Ding Xiu said gratefully. He was eager to see Chen Jianing, so he didn't have an idea of the strangeness in the girl's expression.
The girl turned around and went to the Brilliant Academy, and after a while, she came out with a person who looked like a security guard.
"Who are you?" The security guard asked Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo.
"We're looking for Chen Jianing, do you know her?" Ding Xiu thought that the security guard brought by the girl knew Chen Jianing's information, and hurriedly inquired about him.
"Please answer my question first, who are you?" The security guard continued, his tone unyielding.
"We are friends with Chen Jianing." Ding Xiu said.
"Please tell me which branch of our college Chen Jianing is studying, as well as Chen Jianing's home address and a brief information about her parents." The security guard's gaze at Ding Xiu became as cold as his tone.
"I ...... I do not know. Ding Xiu was speechless when asked, and his expression was very embarrassed.
"Don't you tell me that you only know the name of the person you're looking for?" The security guard glared at Ding Xiu, and his tone was a little unkind. He saw Ding Xiu nodded, and without saying a word, he picked up the communication device hanging on his waist and began to call people.
"Let's go...... Let's go~" Gu Beimo saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly signaled Ding Xiu to prepare to leave.
Ding Xiu stood stunned, waiting for the security guard's next step, but was unexpectedly dragged back to the car by Gu Beimo.
"What's wrong, Old Gu?" Ding Xiu asked with a surprised expression.
"Can't you see it? People doubt our identity, and if we don't leave, we may be in trouble. Gu Beimo sat in the driver's seat and quickly started the car.
"You two stand for me." The security guard chased after him, but Gu Beimo had already stepped on the accelerator, and the car ran away without a shadow.
"Damn, I didn't expect the people here to be so alert!" He glanced in the direction behind the car through the mirror, saw that the security guard had stopped chasing, and turned to talk to the girl next to him.
"What's next?" Ding Xiu was worried about finding Chen Jianing, but he was careless, and he had no idea for a while.
"We can't squat at the entrance of the academy, let's go around again." Gu Beimo thought about it, he glanced at Ding Xiu, looked at himself again, and then patted his head and said, "I know why they suspect us." ”
"Why?" Ding Xiu asked.
"Look at such a magnificent academy, the grade must be very high, if we come to find someone, let's not talk about anything else, just look at this dress, can the security guards not suspect it?" Gu Beimo became a little annoyed as he spoke, "I should have known that I should have changed my outfit, maybe someone else wouldn't be so vigilant." ”
"That's right." Ding Xiu also realized the problem, he and Gu Beimo appeared outside this institution of higher learning in old travel clothes with blood stains, which was indeed a bit eye-catching.
Gu Beimo's stomach suddenly screamed, he looked out of the car, and said, "Let's go find a place to fill our stomachs, and then slowly think of a way, anyway, there is a lot of time, and we have arrived in Brilliant City, so we are not in a hurry for a while." ”
Ding Xiu and his ideas coincide, neither of them is a character who is eager for quick success, and knows that only when things are planned as a whole can they have good efficiency.
The car continued to drive forward, circling around the perimeter of the Brilliant Academy.
Ding Xiu looked out the car window without turning his eyes, full of curiosity about the city where Chen Jianing lived.
The greenery around Brilliant College is very nice, and the sidewalks along the road are lush with vegetation. There are few high-rise buildings nearby, which is very rare in the area where land is at a premium, and the status of the college in the city can be seen.
"Brother, speaking of which, I admire you a lot." Gu Beimo said suddenly.
"How?" Ding Xiu turned his head to look at him, his eyebrows raised.
"After running thousands of kilometers, just to meet a girl who only knows her name, it seems that she is very important to you." Gu Beimo suddenly smiled, "It's good to be young, this kind of attachment is not easy to be disturbed by external factors." ”
"You're not old, why do you talk so old-fashioned." Ding Xiu also laughed, "Persistence is a quality, this is something I learned from Uncle Rong and Second Lieutenant Zhang at the beginning. ”
"Isn't that just my emotion." When Gu Beimo said this, suddenly a sentence that came to his mouth was swallowed again.
He was actually worried that there would be a possibility that the scene of meeting Wen Pengzhan's father and daughter in Jiaping City would be repeated.
When she was at Song Xijun's house in Jiaping City, Shen You asked Ding Xiu this question, and she said that if she met Chen Jianing in Brilliant City, Chen Jianing's family had the same attitude towards these people as Wen Pengzhan, what should everyone do.
Ding Xiu's answer at that time was only two words, and he was very resolute and decisive. But Gu Beimo didn't believe it, because the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and at that moment, it was impossible for anyone to face it calmly.
It is said that people are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless, and this is the truth.
Gu Beimo held back the worried matter in his heart, and didn't plan to ask again. He had just figured it out, since everyone had arrived in Brilliant City, it didn't matter if it was a blessing or a curse, just catch it and be done.
The car stopped at the door of a gourmet shop, and Gu Beimo's eyes fell on the signboard of the store.
"Western style, hey, this name is good, we are from the west, and we will go to this 'west' to eat at noon."