Eleven a.m

East Side Police Department

"Bell bell bell ......"

"Hello? Hello, this is the Dongcheng Police Department, do you need any help? Lin Xuan asked calmly, holding a water-based pen in his hand and ready to record at any time.

"Hello, my name is Jia Ming, and I want to report the crime." On the other side of the phone came a man's voice, a little hoarse, but it still sounded young, with a hint of apology for disturbing others.

Seems to be a very polite person

Lin Xuan immediately had a good impression of this young man.

"Then please tell me about the incident, and I'll record it."

"Just now, my girlfriend and I were talking on the phone, but it didn't take long for me to hear another person next to her talking, it sounded like a little girl's voice, but she was the only one on her side......

And I don't know what's going on, and then the call automatically hangs up, and I can't get through after hanging up. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Ming's mood was a little heavy, he could feel that Zhong Yue's state was not quite right, but the phone couldn't get through, and ...... What was the little girl's voice he heard on the phone?

The little girl's voice...... Maybe it's a string connection, or a call hang-up may also be a signal problem caused by rainy weather, right? Lin Xuan's water-based pen in his hand that was recording in the book paused, and then he sighed softly.

"I'm sorry, but this information alone cannot be filed." Lin Xuan explained to Jia Ming apologetically.

There is no way, most of the situations he said have no actual evidence, and the police are not allowed to go to the police in this case.

"It is recommended that you contact your girlfriend to understand the situation, or provide other valid evidence before filing."

"But I can't get in touch! The lack of information provided is indeed my problem, but what should I do if Zhong Yue really encounters any danger? ”

On the other side of the phone, Jia Ming was a little emotional, and his tone was a little heavier.

Until Lin Xuan, who was holding the phone, frowned, and at this time he seemed to realize his gaffe, and his tone eased a little.

"I'm sorry, I didn't blame you, it's just that I'm a little worried about my girlfriend."

"It's okay, I can understand your feelings."

After thinking about it, Lin Xuan also felt that it was a little inappropriate to directly and completely veto him, this person gave him a good first impression, and he didn't look like a person who was bored to call in the middle of the night to play pranks, so he said to the phone:

"Wait a minute, I'll ask for instructions on our team."

After speaking, Lin Xuan temporarily put down the microphone of the police station's landline, and took out his mobile phone to find Team Zhou's number and dialed it.

"Toot ......"

"Hey, Xiaolin, what's the matter?" Team Zhou on the phone yawned, and his tone was a little tired.

Originally, the people of the criminal police team did not have much time to rest, and as the captain, he stayed up late almost every day to sort out the cases, and he finally slept for a while just now.

Lin Xuan then told him about Jia Ming again, and Team Zhou was still a little confused at first, but as Lin Xuan narrated, he became more and more sober, with a trace of solemnity in his eyes.

How many incidents have this month? It's getting more and more frequent......

"Okay, I know about this matter, you stop recording for the time being, and immediately go to the Hongyue Hotel to protect Jia Ming's girlfriend, and I'll go over after I gather the people in the team......

Also, pay attention to safety, everything is safe. ”

"Safety-oriented?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Lin Xuan's eyes, even Team Zhou reminded him to pay attention to safety, did this case even make him feel tricky?

But Lin Xuan didn't think much about it, since Team Zhou had agreed, then he could act now, after saying hello to Jia Ming, Lin Xuan took his coat and trotted all the way downstairs, braving the rain to take a taxi parked on the side of the road and go to Hongyue Hotel like this.

……

"Ding-dong, ding-dong"

Lin Xuan stood in front of the door of room 436 of Hongyue Hotel and pressed the doorbell, and after a sound of rustling footsteps sounded inside the door, a young looking girl opened the door.

She stood in the doorway in a cute pink pajamas, holding a sleeping little black cat in her arms. The little black cat looked very cute, it coiled its body together, and lay obediently in the girl's arms, motionless as if it had fallen asleep.

Lin Xuan deliberately paid attention to the general characteristics of the girl, her little face was slightly chubby and fair, and she looked very cute and attractive, but unfortunately there was still a trace of fatigue after being frightened in her expression, and the whole person looked a little depressed.

"It looks like she's not in very good shape, is it because of what Jia Ming just said?" Lin Xuan secretly wrote down this detail in his heart.

"Hello, I am Lin Xuan, a police officer of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Dongcheng Police Department, and I came to deal with the case after receiving the call from the police." Lin Xuan took out the documents he was carrying, and at the same time pointed to the police uniform that was still on his body and had not been changed to prove his identity.

"Ah...... Hello, Officer Lin, but...... I didn't call the police? Are you mistaken? Zhong Yue had a hint of doubt in her eyes, and kept looking at the stranger in front of her in a police uniform.

Feeling Zhong Yue's slightly interrogating gaze, Lin Xuan couldn't help but smile bitterly and touched his nose.

"It was your boyfriend Jia Ming who called to report the case, saying that you may have some problems here, I will come here to take a look, and at the same time ensure your personal safety."

After hearing Lin Xuan's explanation, Zhong Yue understood the reason, she remembered that she was a little impolite when she was suspicious just now, and her face suddenly turned slightly red because of shyness.

"That...... Let's go first. Zhong Yue lowered her head and whispered to Lin Xuan who was standing outside the door with some embarrassment.

Listening to Zhong Yue's voice that was so low that it was almost inaudible, Lin Xuan couldn't help but walk into the room with some amusement.

This woman blushes vividly and is a little cute.

But laughing aside, Lin Xuan didn't feel anything when he stood at the door just now, but as soon as he entered this room, he felt as if he had entered a cold underground warehouse, and the temperature around him dropped sharply, making people can't help but shiver.

Why is it so cold in this room, is the air conditioner on the wrong gear?

Lin Xuan turned his head and looked at the air conditioning display not far away, and couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

The indication is normal.

"Officer Lin, you sit down first, and I'll pour you a glass of water." As she spoke, Zhong Yue walked straight to the water dispenser in the living room, bent down to open the cabinet under the water dispenser and took out a disposable water cup from it and placed it under the water dispenser to receive water.

"Well, it's okay, don't bother......"

Hearing Zhong Yue's voice, Lin Xuan subconsciously waved his hand to be polite, but when he raised his head to look at Zhong Yue, he suddenly noticed Zhong Yue's current clothes.

She's been here for so long, but she's only wearing a thin pajamas, and it seems normal for her to be a little pale except for her face, isn't she cold?

After Lin Xuan lowered his head and carefully compared the thickness of the clothes of the two people, he couldn't help but be stunned. He looked at Zhong Yue, who was bending over next to the water dispenser to receive water, and felt an inexplicable sense of disobedience in his heart.

He was a little distracted for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more he faintly felt that something was wrong, and just as he wanted to figure out where this sense of disobedience came from, Zhong Yue had already finished fetching water early and handed over the water glass.

"Thank you"

Looking at Zhong Yue's very fair face in front of him with a smile and handing over a glass of water, Lin Xuan's sense of disobedience became stronger and stronger.

"Whoa......

Just as Lin Xuan was about to reach out and take the water, a sprinkling sound suddenly sounded not far away, sounding like someone was taking a bath in the bathroom, and the shower made a clanging sound.

"Someone turned on a shower?"

Lin Xuan suddenly looked around vigilantly, and roughly listened to the direction of the voice...... Presumably from the front left.

There was no time to pick up the water glass, Lin Xuan pinned the baton to his waist and walked quickly to the bathroom vigilantly, while Zhong Yue also held the water cup in both hands, carefully following behind Lin Xuan, staring nervously ahead.

"Crunch—"

Lin Xuan gently twisted the doorknob of the bathroom, slowly opened the door, and looked inside vigilantly while opening the door.

However, after the initial nervousness, he immediately noticed that the bathroom was empty, and only the shower in front of the bathtub was still spilling water outward.

Seeing that there was no situation here, and it didn't look like someone was there, Lin Xuan gradually relaxed his vigilance. He looked to either side of the hallway, and when he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, he walked in and turned off the shower.

"Why did this suddenly start to release water, did you not tighten it?" Lin Xuan turned slightly sideways to Zhong Yue, who also came in, and asked in a somewhat strange tone, but his eyes were attracted by the mirror behind Zhong Yue, and Lin Xuan's figure was clearly reflected in the mirror.

"No, I did take a shower just now, but I closed it after taking a shower, strange, I closed it well."

Zhong Yue's fingers lightly touched her forehead, her eyes were a little confused, and she didn't seem to know anything.

Lin Xuan nodded, and sure enough, it was in vain to ask.

However, although he was asking, his eyes were still fixed on the mirror opposite.

He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, Lin Xuan's brows were furrowed tightly in the mirror, his eyes were staring ahead, everything looked normal.

Lin Xuan didn't feel very comfortable here, he frowned, and then greeted Zhong Yue and walked out.

"Forget it, it should be an illusion." Lin Xuan began to think about other things in his heart.

There was something wrong with this room, the strange temperature, the automatic sprinkler shower, the mirror and the people were inexplicably incongruous, which made him feel that there was something strange about this place.

Lin Xuan was thinking about it again and again, and walked into the living room with his feet raised, but as soon as he entered, he heard the sound of a cat meowing in the living room.

"Meow~Meow!!"

I don't know what's going on, but the black cat in the living room is barking as if it's fried.

Lin Xuan subconsciously looked over and found that the black cat was scratching a mirror on the ground for some reason.

Zhong Yue had been following behind him, although she was small, Lin Xuan couldn't completely cover her figure.

Lin Xuan lowered his head and looked at the scene in the mirror, and the sense of incongruity he had just now appeared again. Lin Xuan always felt that the mirror was very strange, but whenever he wanted to think carefully, his thoughts seemed to be cut off all of a sudden, and his mind was completely blank.

And at this time, Zhong Yue behind him finally followed the sound and saw the little black cat scratching the mirror, she suddenly exclaimed, trotted over and hugged it, and kept apologizing to Lin Xuan with apologies on her face. "I'm sorry, Officer Lin, it's usually very well-behaved, and I don't know what's wrong today, so I even scratched the mirror."

And the strange thing is that the little black cat, who was still very irritable just now, curled up together as soon as he was picked up by Zhong Yue, if it was someone else, he must have thought that the little black cat was very well-behaved and clingy.

But in Lin Xuan's eyes, he could observe that the little black cat's curled up movements were very uncoordinated, giving people the feeling of pretending to be dead because they were afraid.

The cat's behavior was somewhat erratic.

"Officer Lin, can we go to my boyfriend's place first, the call just now was so strange, I'm a little worried about him...... May I? Zhong Yue's face turned slightly to the side, and she whispered to Lin Xuan with some embarrassment.

Hearing Zhong Yue's words, Lin Xuan subconsciously wanted to refuse.

His task was only to protect Zhong Yue, and there was no need to go to Jia Ming's house.

When Lin Xuan thought about this, he suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart. Standing in the middle of the living room, he faintly felt like he was being watched by something, like a man on his back.

"Forget it, let's talk about it when we go out first."

Lin Xuan replied in a deep voice, and then he immediately opened the door at the entrance and walked out quickly.

There is definitely a problem here. Lin Xuan still trusts his intuition very much, and in the field of criminal police, sometimes intuition is more important than anything else.

Zhong Yue, who was hesitating on the side, was also a little flustered when she saw Lin Xuan walking so fast, she didn't dare to stay here alone.

"Officer Lin, wait...... Wait for me."

Lin Xuan kept his mouth shut and didn't speak, just slowed down slightly so that Zhong Yue could keep up, and most of his energy was still vigilantly observing the situation around him.

There were too many problems in the room just now, and he couldn't find out what was wrong now.

But one thing he knew was that there was a strong uneasiness that was about to happen in his heart, and it made him anxious not to stay in that room for long.

……

"Whew...... Call......

Officer Lin, slow ...... Slow down, I can't run anymore. ”

Downstairs in the hotel, Zhong Yue panted and chased after Lin Xuan, who was walking briskly in front, her small eyes full of great puzzlement.

"Officer Lin, although I also hope to see my boyfriend sooner, can we slow down, I can't run." Zhong Yue's mood was a little broken, without this, how could she outrun a young criminal policeman as a girl?

Lin Xuan slowed down when he heard this, he looked back at the brightly lit hotel hall behind him, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, only then did he have time to explain to Zhong Yue.

"You don't understand, if you want to see someone, you have to run to his arms, this is called romance."

Zhong Yue: "?"

Lin Xuan shook his head, he didn't want to explain anything, did he want to say that his intuition told him that something was wrong with that room? It was estimated that Zhong Yue would look at him with a caring look.

"This officer...... Brains are fine, right? That's what she probably thought.

Although her gaze is not very friendly now.

Ignoring what she thought, Lin Xuan looked at Zhong Yue and opened his mouth to explain that they needed to come to this team and couldn't go to Jia Ming's house, but he stopped before he could speak.

Zhong Yue, who was not far from Lin Xuan, was on his knees with his hands, his body was rising and falling, constantly panting, as if he was still a little unrelieved, Lin Xuan didn't pay attention when he ran down just now, and then he realized:

What about the black cat Zhong Yue was holding?

"Where's your little black cat?" Lin Xuan asked Zhong Yue a little strangely, he still had a good impression of this black cat.

"I don't know, maybe I got lost."

Zhong Yue was still panting on her knees, and replied casually without looking up.

"Oh"

Lin Xuan was choked for a moment, and he didn't know what to say, he was a little speechless in his heart, isn't that a cat that you have raised for a long time, so you don't care?

"By the way, where is Jia Ming's house, do you know?"

Lin Xuan remembered that he still had questions to ask Zhong Yue, and immediately blurted out subconsciously.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xuan's brows furrowed unconsciously, and he fell into doubt.

What I was just going to say...... It doesn't seem to be this.

Zhong Yue, who was constantly gasping for breath because of the vigorous running in the distance, slowly raised her head after hearing Lin Xuan's inquiry, and the moment her eyes were fixed on Lin Xuan, her whole person was suddenly wrapped in a cold aura, and there was a trace of resentment in her eyes when she looked at Lin Xuan.

At this time, the world suddenly froze, the figures of Lin Xuan and Zhong Yue stopped instantly, and some of the raindrops falling from the sky outside the hotel suddenly stopped in mid-air; The leaves of the tall poplar trees suddenly stopped in mid-air, motionless.

The whole world seemed to suddenly stand still, as if the spacebar had been pressed suddenly.

The sparkle in Lin Xuan's eyes, which was motionless, gradually disappeared, and his eyes gradually became dazed.

"Yes, I'm going to Jia Ming's house."

Lin Xuan muttered to himself in a low voice, his frowning brows gradually stretching.