He lifted his pistol and pulled the trigger at the same time as he threw his fist in the face, and the bullet slashed through the outside of my left thigh, and the tearing sensation of flesh being ripped off instantly hit me.

I had to stop, but he staggered back a few steps and fled towards the dense forest of the Civic Park, and the police finally opened fire dozens of meters away, but that distance was at most a deterrent in the fog, and the back of the killer quickly disappeared into the night fog and the shadows of the trees.

"Request for support, request for support, the murderer fled towards the Civic Park." The policeman shouted at the walkie-talkie with a little horror on his face.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, who would have expected such a gun case to occur. With injuries to my hands and thighs, and multiple injuries to my body, I staggered towards the wrecked car. The right hand grabbed the drooping left arm, and the dark red blood oozed from the palm of the dagger piercing, and slapped on the road drop by drop, leaving clear blood marks.

"Hey, don't come out, that guy has a gun, so maybe he's hiding in the shadows and lurking in ambush." I sat down and leaned against the rear wheels and whispered to Li Xiaoai, who was looking out through the crack in the door.

"You're so badly injured, the ambulance should be on the way, I've already shouted." She looked at me, her voice still a little shaky.

I squeezed out a slight smile, "You also called the police, right?" ”

Li Xiaoai wrinkled her eyebrows and sobbed, speaking incoherently, "You let me run, run... But where do I go? You said that I believed you because you were there, but I didn't want to leave you like this. ”

Maybe she was frightened, she was a little incoherent, but I could still understand the general meaning. I slumped weakly beside the car door, sat and looked up at the nothingness in the darkness, endured the countless colic pains on my body but could feel a trace of warmth, it was enough for her to be safe, "Stupid, thank you." ”

Li Xiaoai snuggled up to me, wrapping her body temperature around my arms, which were already soaked in blood.

Two policemen stood guard, and at last the sound of sirens rang out at the end of the fog, and the silence of the night was finally torn apart in this way.

Everything is asleep in the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and most of the people who stay up late to keep watch are still enjoying the good dreams of the New Year, and no one will come to the hospital at such a beautiful time.

Last night's fog did not dissipate, the window was white, in addition to me lying on the hospital bed, there were also nurses and two policemen on duty in the ward, Li Xiaoai sat on the edge of another empty bed and looked out of the window in a trance.

The two young police officers met during the last video study at the police station, and they didn't talk to each other, but they weren't completely face-to-face.

"There is no irreversible trauma, just rest and recover." The nurse on duty smiled and left the room.

Maybe it was because last night was too thrilling, and at this time, several people, including the police, lost the strength to speak.

Li Xiaoai looked tired and refused to sleep for a while, as if she would be shrouded in darkness when she closed her eyes, recalling the terrifying scene that had just happened.

"Was the murderer caught?" I broke the silence, and the police walkie-talkie creaked from time to time, but there was no call.

"Not yet, if there is news, we will cancel the alert, the fog is so thick outside, the murderer is estimated to have escaped. But don't worry, the police force in the whole city is now arresting this gunman, and it won't be long before he will be caught. "The young cop is confident that he will solve the case quickly.

Not long ago, the fog under the darkness of the night was no lighter than that of the early morning, why could a lone killer easily track me and Li Xiaoai's car in a huge city? And the police have so many people, so many cameras, and advanced investigation methods, so far they have not been able to find a single gunman. Perhaps it is not that the police are incompetent, but that the murderer has been preparing for a long time.

"A crashed car!" Something suddenly occurred to me.

"What?" Li Xiaoai turned her head to look at me.

"Our car must have been equipped with a positioning and tracking device, otherwise in such a fog, let alone an ambush, even if it is tracked, it will be lost." If it weren't for that, I really can't think of any other way to hit us in the dark fog of the night, without turning on the lights at the intersection, "Where is our car now?" ”

One of the young policemen scratched his head and thought about it, "It should be done in the bureau, that off-road vehicle should be important physical evidence, and your car should be towed back to the bureau at the same time, as for what to do next, it depends on how the above arranges." ”

"Who's in charge of this case?"

"It should be our Zhong team."

"Bell Stone?"

The young policeman nodded in surprise.

I pulled out Xing Shan's mobile phone number and called, "Hello criminal police officer, are you investigating the gun case last night?" ”

"Hello, yes, are you alright?" Xing Shan answered the phone, and it seemed that she was busy listening to her voice.

"I'm okay, is there any progress now?"

"It's still being hunted for the time being, but there are too few clues that can be grasped at present, and the weather forecast fog will not disperse until at least midnight today." Xing Shan's tone was slightly depressed.

"Is the crashed sedan in the bureau now?"

"Yes, just dragged back from the scene. How? ”

"If you check the car thoroughly to see if there is any tracking equipment, and if he can find us accurately in the fog, it means that it is not luck." I glanced at Li Xiaoai, who was staring at me with round eyes.

"Well, don't worry, Team Zhong has already personally checked your car, and he may think the same as you." Xing Shan's tone showed that she had absolute trust in Zhong Shi.

"Oh? All right. "I was about to say goodbye, but I didn't have time to hang up.

"Wait a minute."

"Huh?"

"If your body recovers, let's meet tonight, Team Zhong and I have some things to communicate with you." Xing Shan's words were obviously incidents unrelated to the case.

I paused for a second, "What is it?" ”

"You'll find out when you meet."

The afternoon fog finally dissipated a little, but Li Xiaoai's mood did not improve at all, and the soul of a real experience of rubbing shoulders with death seemed to be a little out of the body.

I've experienced that feeling, and I know that if you let her wait quietly at this time, time will make her wake up.

Li Xiaoai sat by the window and looked at the empty sky outside the window, as if she was feeling the wind pouring in and passing through her skin, breathing in the white mist, and feeling the truth that she was still alive.

The painful exhaustion made me fall asleep countless times, but a slight casual roll could pull me back from my dreams to reality, and my body was mostly bandaged and my movement was much restricted.

When I woke up again, it was almost dusk, and the two young policemen on duty had not left, one of them seemed to have gone out to smoke, and only the other was buried in his mobile phone. I turned my head to the other side of the window that belonged to Li Xiaoai, and now she was no longer looking at the dim sky, but just sitting on another hospital bed staring at me.

"Haven't slept all the time?" I hoarsely spat out a question to interrupt her gaze.

Li Xiaoai's eyes were bloodshot, her pupils were dull and deep, and her bags were gray, as if she had just shed tears, but her frozen expression was more like she was unable to make a crying sound. She buried her gaze, got up and walked to my bedside, then slowly squatted down, touched the back of my hand with her cold fingers, and said in a thin voice, "Thank you, thank you for saving me again." ”

"I let you go, but you didn't, do you think I should be as fierce as I did when we first met?" I jokingly recalled the escalator incident in the Hong Kong shopping mall before, and in the face of Li Xiaoai, who was at a loss at the time, I was able to use an unusually stern tone to make her recover a little, and for a long time after that, I thought it was just an accident.

"Sometimes I have a little delusion." Li Xiaoai's answer was completely untouched, but I gradually got used to her answering skills that always went off topic.

"Huh?"

"Maybe you don't believe it, sometimes you have the shadow of my dad when he was young." Li Xiaoai was still rubbing the back of my hand with her cold index finger, her eyes shining on her thin fingertips, "When I was young, my dad was very strict and didn't like to laugh much, just like you, he always felt cold. But sometimes there is a warm heart hidden under the cold appearance, my dad saved Uncle Di and them at all costs, and you also saved a lot of people, right? ”

"Me?" I suddenly remembered the last scene in the rainforest, I was almost killed on the spot in order to save Kang Jianhu, but they were sacrificed after all, I dare not say that it is meaningless to sacrifice my life for my brother, but the price paid is not only my life.

Silent all the time, Li Xiaoai picked up her gaze from her fingertips and looked into my eyes as if she was expecting my answer, my mind was knocked back to reality by such a gaze, and I didn't know how to answer.

"Thank you~" The voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible.

A fast-paced sound of footsteps entered the ward from the corridor outside the ward, becoming clear from far and near, followed by a crisp knock on the door.

"Team Bell!" The young police officer, who was still immersed in the screen of his mobile phone a second ago, stood up and saluted Zhong Shi, who had just entered the door.

Li Xiaoai looked away, subconsciously let go of his hand, got up and sat on the side of the bed.

"You go outside first, and Officer Xing and I will talk to Zhuang Yan about something." Zhong Shi's voice was sonorous and powerful, and behind him stood Xing Shan, who had just entered the door.

"Yes."

Zhong Shi turned his face and glanced at the ward, "This is Li Xiaoai, right?" ”

"Hello." Li Xiaoai nodded.

"Zhuang Yan, you shouldn't be fine, right?"

"It's okay, I can't die." I got up slightly, but my body still couldn't exert too much force, Li Xiaoai hurriedly came to help me and raised the pillow slightly.

"Time is tight, I won't ink with you slowly, we haven't had a good year, but we have to live the rest of the day." Zhong Shi took the chair handed by Xing Shan, opened the briefcase he was holding and turned out a thick stack of files as he sat down, and then handed it to me on the futon that he could flip through in his right hand, "You can scan it first, and you will probably understand that it is about the address of the black off-road vehicle driver you came to the police station to report the crime." ”

I opened the stack of files that had been sorted out with my right hand, these materials recorded various detailed addresses, and most of the photos below the text description were surveillance video clips of the black off-road vehicle, and I could see at a glance that this was the mysterious case a few days ago, but what is the connection between this and the murderer last night?

"Can the murder of the black SUV driver a few days ago be linked to last night's case?" As I flipped through the dossier, which I still couldn't figure out, I flashed through every detail I could capture in my mind.