Chapter 16 Waiting for others is really the most painful torture
In contrast to the romantic atmosphere of an art university with a coastline, the style of an engineering university with a huge forest park on its campus is quiet. The campus is surrounded by trees, birds chirp, and from time to time, you can see North American red squirrels jumping through the coniferous forest.
Seeing that there was still time, Yi Annie rummaged through the small bag she carried and found a mixed nut energy bar that had been sitting for an unknown amount of time.
She stood still under a tree, pinched it, crushed the bar, and then opened the bar, and the sound of "Xi Xi Suosuo" caused a red squirrel on the tree to stop and watch.
Anne smiled and crouched down to pour the nuts under the tree.
The squirrels in the school must have been accustomed to being fed by others, and at this time, they were not afraid, ran down from the vertical trunk, picked up a peanut in Yi Annie's hand, held it in her hand, and ate it.
Red squirrels have dark eyes, red coats, short statures, and fluffy tails, making them very cute to look at. But even so, its eyes swirled a little alertly between the nuts on the ground and Yi Annie, who was crouching to watch it.
After a while, a red squirrel came out of the woods, smaller than the previous one, and the hair on its tail was sparse, and it squeaked twice, and began to stuff the nuts scattered on the ground into its mouth, and in a moment, its cheeks were bulging.
At this time, the red squirrel who was still enjoying the peanuts before was dissatisfied, first stuffed the remaining half of the peanuts into his mouth, and then landed on all fours and squeaked, and then instantly pounced on the squirrel that came later, and beat away the latecomer who snatched the food from the "tiger" mouth in two strokes.
In this way, the squirrel had no intention of eating fresh snacks, so he hurriedly stuffed all the remaining nuts on the ground into his mouth that seemed to have a spatial function, and then staggered up the tree, hiding in the dense needles.
"Annie!" Wang Yuxin's voice came from behind him.
Anne stood up to greet her.
"You can't change your habit of feeding animals when you see them." Wang Yuxin said with a smile.
"It's okay, it's just an occasional feeding, it's not easy to forage for food this season." Anne argued.
Wang Yuxin didn't care, took Yi Annie's hand and walked towards the library.
The weather was just right, it was school time, and there were people coming and going at the entrance of the library, most of whom were buying takeout at the fast food restaurant on the first floor of the library.
Looking at the time, it was not half past five as agreed, Yi Annie took out her mobile phone to call Noah, and this time, the dial tone rang and was picked up.
"Hello, we've arrived. It's at the café booth on the second floor of the library. ”
Sure enough, this kind of thing, the parties are always more anxious.
Anne called Inferno again to inform him of the specific location of the meeting.
"I'm looking for a parking space as soon as possible." On the phone, Inferno's voice was a little helpless.
Yi Anne said that she understands very well, the city center is so big, and Yi Anne also suffered from finding a parking space during her school days. The center of Xia City is the old city, and there is basically no underground parking lot, and with the influx of more and more students and staff from affiliated industries, it is a hard battle to find a parking space every time.
This is one of the reasons why Anne left her car in the parking lot of the press center and walked there.
It turns out that the mysterious commissioner who looks like a cowhide coax can't change a parking space for himself.
It was estimated that she couldn't wait for Infernor for a while, so Yi Annie and Wang Yuxin went to the second floor of the library first.
There was no one on the second floor of the old library, and Iannie easily found Noah, who looked haggard, and the location he chose was directly opposite the staircase. And Noah's side is probably his girlfriend Polly.
Yi Annie also had to sigh at Polly's inseparability, theoretically, the people around her are hell, if it weren't for true love, then Polly would have stayed away from Noah a long time ago.
Anne went over to say hello to Noah and handed over her work card to the press center, following Catherine's experience.
"I'm really sorry to hear about your family, although I don't know what I can do for you, but we can talk about it first, right?"
Noah looked at Yi Annie, who seemed to be about the same age as herself, and then looked at Wang Yuxin: "She's your girlfriend?" ”
Wang Yuxin's face stiffened, in China, it is not a matter for girls to go shopping hand in hand, but it is too easy to be misunderstood when going abroad. She hurriedly shook her head: "We are roommates, and I am also a student at an engineering university, so I just came to accompany her for an interview." ”
Polly asked, "My cousin said that the editor who helped her was quite old, why didn't he come?" ”
Yi Annie knew that the other party would have this problem, so she told the result that Steven had retired and didn't plan to care about this matter: "However, the secret commissioner who helped to exorcise the ghost at that time will also come over later." He's looking for a parking space now......"
When it comes to finding a parking space, Noah and his girlfriend Polly have a look on their faces, and sure enough, everyone agrees.
Noah obviously didn't expect Yi Annie, a girl who was useless to look at, and her face was full of despair at first, but when she heard that there would be an exorcist, she cheered up.
"What do you want to drink?" Polly asked.
If you hadn't said that Inferno was coming before co-authoring, you wouldn't have asked for a drink.
"Two cups of hot cocoa." Wang Yuxin ordered on behalf of Yi Annie, she knew that if Yi Annie opened her mouth, it would probably be coffee again.
Yi Annie happily accepted Wang Yuxin's transgression, drinking too much coffee is always not good.
When Polly got up to buy a drink, Noah sighed heavily: "Actually, there was another person missing in Naya Town last night. ”
"What?" "What's going on?" Yi Annie and Wang Yuxin asked at the same time.
Noah nodded in confirmation, "I didn't even tell Polly about this......"
"Wait!" Anne took out the voice recorder, opened it and placed it on the table, and motioned for Noah to continue.
Noah's gaze turned to the green indicator of the voice recorder and continued, "Actually, it was the news posted on the social platform of Naya Town last night, a three-year-old boy went missing. The speculation in the comments below is all because of the recent baseball qualifiers, and there is a lot of chaos in the town, so the child is lost. But for some reason, I just thought it had something to do with my mother - because it rained in Naya yesterday. ”
Yesterday it was a cloudy day in Xia City, and Naya Town is a two-hour drive from Xia City, and it is normal for the weather to be different. In addition, Iannie knew that Victor had also returned to Summer City yesterday to report to work, and now that she thought about it, it was probably because of the rain in Naya Town.
This is really a blind spot, the reason Anne contacted Noah today to meet was because she thought it would rain tomorrow, but she didn't expect the weather in Chachanaya Town.
"My speculation is based on other evidence...... However, I think we can wait until Mr. Exorcist comes. ”
At this time, Polly also brought two cups of hot cocoa over and handed them to Yi Annie and Wang Yuxin.
The two thanked each other, and then the four fell silent.
Polly also saw the voice recorder with a green light on the desktop, and looked at Noah with some confusion: "Did you just say something?" ”
Noah shook his head silently, took a sip of the black tea in front of him, and continued to stare at the staircase from the comfort of his seat.
Yi Anne smiled dryly and pressed the pause button of the voice recorder, and the indicator light turned red.
Holding the hot cocoa, Anne took a sip, then turned her head to look at the direction of the staircase on the second floor of the library, and thought to herself: "This secret commissioner looks rich, can't he just park his car anywhere?" It's just a ticket......"