She stared menacingly at the high chair next to the bar, but all she needed was a glass of soda.

The young man at the bar looked at her with a look of surprise, a scornful smile on his lips, he had never seen anyone enter a bar and ask for soda in all these years.

"My friend."

At this time, Xiao Zi came over and patted the countertop.

The young man usually has a good relationship with Xiao Zi, he immediately changed his expression, turned around and poured her a glass of soda, and brought Xiao Zi a cup of agave.

She glanced at the soda blankly, then deviated from her gaze, and took a few sips of the tequila in front of Xiao Zi.

"You can't even drink, the wound on your foot is not healed!" Xiao Zi screamed and snatched the cup from her hand, blaming her.

"I'm uncomfortable!" She shouted at Xiao Zi, and a burst of electric guitar solo before the band played happened to sound, drowning out her shouts.

Sitting on the edge of the noisy bar, Lu Wanting began to recount the events of the past few days that hit her heart like a flood. From the man in black at the airport, to the Qian Duoduo of Chen's company, from Chen Bowen who appeared again, to the amiable Mrs. Chen. There are so many characters in her life who are suddenly inextricably linked to her.

Xiao Zi had heard about what happened to her in the elevator before, and for this reason, she also specially provided her with an anti-wolf stick to dedicate her meager strength. But what I never expected was that I missed so many follow-ups because of my busy work at the bar.

When she told the story of being dumped on the road by the black-hearted taxi driver this morning, she angrily slammed her fist on the bar and immediately screamed in pain.

Xiao Zi looked at the time, there was still about an hour before she got off work at noon, and she decided to ask the bar owner for leave and let her go home early. If I stay any longer, I really don't know if the best friend in front of me will be so angry that she will burn the bar on fire.

There is a small cubicle at the back of the bar, in which there are two rows of lockers, each numbered, and the bartender and resident singer usually put their coats and other inexpensive and inconvenient things to carry.

Xiao Zi took out her denim jacket from one of the lockers, but when she reached into her pocket to get the key, she couldn't find it, she rummaged through her pockets, and searched around the locker several times but couldn't find where the key was. It wasn't until Lu Wanting's impatient shout sounded outside the compartment that she walked out with a depressed face.

"I just remembered that when I went out in the morning, I told my grandmother that she was going to the supermarket to buy fish, and we would hurry up and come to my house for dinner at noon."

"But I don't know where I stuffed the keys to the house."

"It's okay, I've got a spare one here."

Lu Wanting pulled her to take a taxi to a nearby supermarket, and when the two bought some ingredients and were about to return, she was still panicked because she lost the key, and insisted on going back to the rental house to find it, she had no choice but to accompany Xiaozi on a trip.

Returning to the single apartment where she once lived, Lu Wanting compared where she lives now, only to find that a few steps away from the corridor here can see the garbage bags discarded by the residents, the sound of the TV and the crying of children came from the closed security door, and occasionally a girl with a shoulder bag hurriedly went downstairs and did not forget to burst into a bright smile to her.

I didn't carefully observe the small details of this life, but when I got out of here, everything seemed so intimate and natural.

When they came to the door, Lu Wanting took out the key, and when she turned the key, a trace of strangeness flashed in her heart.

Xiao Zi rushed into the bedroom, rummaged through the entire bed, and searched the bathroom and kitchenette again, but there was no trace of the key. She lay on the ground and looked under the bed and the sofa, but found nothing but a few stockings for the housekeeper.

Since she moved out to live, Xiao Zituo's friends asked if there were any girls who were willing to share a house with her, and her friends didn't bring useful news these days, so Xiao Zi often went to work and got off work alone, and every time she went out, she would check whether the wolf stick and key in her bag had left at home.

Even with such care, the key was lost without even realizing it. The attentive Xiao Zi racked her brains, and she really couldn't remember when she heard the sound of the key landing, and in addition, Xiao Zi had some other discoveries.

When she went out this morning, she had obviously closed the bedroom door, but when she came home, the bedroom door was opened through a crack. After waking up early in the morning, she used to open the curtains after changing her clothes, but now the curtains in the bedroom are tightly closed.

If it's a deviation in your memory, these signs don't indicate anything, so how can you explain the water stains outside the door? Originally, the water stain was almost dry, and it did not attract the attention of the two, but when she carefully observed the clues in the room, she still found it difficult to ignore the water stain.

When I went out this morning, it was still sunny outside, so this water stain couldn't have been left when I went out. It had rained a few hours ago, and judging by the dryness and wetness of the water stains, it was likely that it was left behind when it rained, so someone did break in without permission.

"Hey, why did you come back earlier than usual today? Tingting is also back, I haven't seen you for a long time, where have you been recently? ”

A middle-aged woman appeared outside the door, holding a little girl with a ponytail in one hand and a supermarket shopping bag in the other, looking at them with a smile, "When I went downstairs to take out the garbage in the morning, I met a stranger in front of your house, who said it was your cousin and asked if you were at home, and I said that you can only go home at night." ”

Hearing the woman say this, she confirmed the guess in her mind even more, and she asked, "When did that person come?" Did he say anything else? ”

"I must have seen that the umbrella in his hand was dripping with water in the morning, and that he had said something," the woman shook her head, "and he said very little, and asked nothing." Gee, it's time for me to go home and cook. With that, the woman led the little girl upstairs.

The open door, the closed curtains, and the water stains outside the door are all the places that Xiao Zi can see, and at the same time, the key that disappears for no reason and the mysterious "cousin" link these unexplained phenomena together, forming the cause and effect of the whole incident.

In fact, while Bai Yu agreed to meet Chen Bowen, he also sent someone to prepare to kidnap Lu Wanting, adding another bargaining chip to himself, with two hostages in his hands, even if he found the ward where Bai Long was, he would not dare to mess around.

However, due to the lack of manpower, Bai Long could not carry out 24-hour round-the-clock surveillance of him, and it was in the blind spot of surveillance that he had the opportunity to take her and Mrs. Chen to hide in the old house in the west of the city.

According to the information that Bai Yu had before, the woman who accompanied Chen Zhongwu home at the airport must have an extraordinary relationship with the Chen brothers, and while kidnapping Chen Zhongwu, he sent someone to secretly investigate the woman's residence.

Bai Yu was worried that it was an error in his own information, so he had to ask someone to confirm it again. The chubby man that day was indeed Bai Yu's subordinate, and he mistook Xiao Zi who opened the door for her, and went back to report to Bai Yu that their news was accurate, and also talked about his other discovery with great interest.

The fat man told Bai Yu that the woman was the resident singer of the bar, and she often went out early and returned late, so it was easy to imagine her starting.

But Bai Yu didn't want to act rashly at that time, especially after learning about Chen Bowen's character. Since he dared to go to the police station blatantly and provoke and threaten himself, it was difficult to see what else he would do if he attacked that woman.

In addition, this kind of behavior can also be very risky, a popular female singer has disappeared magically, not only the bar owner, but even her friends will definitely go to the police when they find out, if the police are really involved in the investigation of this disappearance, the matter is far beyond Bai Yu's control.

What he can do is try not to startle the snake, after all, his goal is 20 million, not the woman, nor the Chen brothers, kidnapping Chen Zhongwu is just a means to get the 20 million.

However, his subordinates were unwilling, they felt that this woman was very in the way, they didn't know what Bai Yu was worried about, and they always felt that since Bai Yu was locked up in prison for a few months, he didn't have the courage and sharpness he had before, and when he did a vote, he even let go of the company boss's lover Ami.

It's just that they don't know that Bai Yu threatened her to give her 500,000 yuan to her card when she let go of Ami, and he swallowed the money privately, and his subordinates didn't touch a penny.

Originally, the lack of money made everyone depressed, if it weren't for Bai Yu's promise to everyone that the 20 million this time could be evenly divided, it is estimated that no one would be willing to wade into this troubled water with him.

Bai Yu pinned all his hopes on the 20 million that Chen Bowen obediently sent tonight, the Chen family enterprise has done so big, it is not impossible for them to raise 20 million in three days, not to mention that the second young master of the Chen family is in his own hands, this is the biggest capital he can be arrogant.

He originally thought that things would go as smoothly as he planned, but he never expected Chen Bowen to appear in Bailong's hospital room. In a fit of rage, he decided to teach him a lesson, and he sent the fat man to Xiao Zi's residence again, and told him to bring the woman back as well.

The fat man returned to Xiao Zi's residence again, and he knocked on the door continuously but no one answered. He came to the M bar where she worked, and still didn't see her when he walked in, when he saw Xiao Zi come out of a cubicle in the corner, and returned as if he had forgotten something, he sneaked in while she was unprepared, and saw her take out her coat from the locker, take out the key from her pocket, look at it, and stuff it back in.