Chapter 28: Holidays (2)
But the strange sensation and the sound of the wind still kept disturbing my nerves.
"Brother, then I'll go back first, goodbye." Passing by the door of Liu Suxi's house first, she waved goodbye to me.
"Well, goodbye." My eyes fell on her, but I noticed a little girl who had rubbed her shoulders and walked out of the stairwell of her house.
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old exotic girl with curly brown hair in a gray windbreaker, her footsteps were like the wind and seemed to pass by Liu Suxi inadvertently. I kept an eye on it, but it overlapped with someone in my memory. The girl walked towards me, a pair of eyes with clear purple light swept past me, a smile was not deliberate, and then a person turned around and walked away quickly in the direction of the gate of the community.
Liu Suxi also noticed my gaze, "You know?" β
I shook my head, "You go back first, lock the doors and windows." β
The brown-haired girl's footsteps were fast, and when I watched Liu Suxi's back disappear, she had almost disappeared around the corner outside the courtyard gate of the community, and I wanted to call her but it was too late.
Rustling...
The wind hasn't stopped, and I'm not sure if I'm the wrong person, whether it's intuition or illusion. I tried my best to pretend to be undisturbed and chased quickly to the door of the community, looked left and right, and happened to see the brown-haired girl unhurriedly getting into the strange car. Before I could think about it, the sedan drove past the road in front of me with one foot on the accelerator, and the girl faced the window, passing in front of me and staring at me, she left my field of vision with a gentle smile on her face. The sedan that sped away did not have a license plate at the rear, and could only be distinguished by Toyota's license plate.
Rustling...
My heart sank to the bottom, what the hell was going on, who was she? And who is driving? Why did the brunette girl with the dossier from Bell Stone come to my city? And to find my home?
Suddenly, my heart shook. I remembered what was so special about this girl, it was her! That's her! It was the brown-haired girl in the file that Zhong Shi showed me. But... But why is she here? Did she come here because of me? Digging deep into my mind all kinds of memories, as if recalling where I had seen her and her... Maybe it's the father's person. But why is this happening? Did they have anything to do with the attack on Li Xiaoai? The mystery in my head is never solved.
When I got home, I locked the door and closed the curtains.
"What are you doing so nervous? What happened? "Mother is watching TV, Jingjing has fallen asleep.
"It's okay, did a stranger knock on the door just now?" I continued to search the house for clues.
"No, what are you looking for?" My mother stared at the TV and looked back to me from time to time.
"It's nothing, I have paid more attention to safety during the Chinese New Year, and there have been more strangers in the community recently."
"What's so strange about this, isn't the Spring Festival just relatives walking back and forth, you young people don't care too much about tradition." Mother nagged disapprovingly.
Back in his room, still searching for memories of this little girl, the little girl just now seemed to feel so familiar, why?
What is hidden beneath the faΓ§ade of everything? After so many days, I haven't had time to think about it, to be precise, I'm even a little afraid of such aimless speculation.
At midnight, everything was calm again, and after tossing and turning, I walked alone to the bench in front of the beach, the sea breeze was gentle, I lit a cigarette and looked at the end of the sea, my heart seemed to be entangled by countless silk threads.
All the previous bizarre events ostensibly revolved around the Aikang Group, a fire in the group building led to the accidental death of several researchers, then a series of accidents at the top management of Aikang, and finally Li Shukang, the president of Aikang, accidentally fell off a bridge and drowned in his own car. At the time of these incidents, the entire defense shield and I were outsiders until we encountered an accident on the mall escalator on our way back to Hong Kong to escort Angela. Let's just think it's an accident, I saved Li Xiaoai by chance, and then what? Then I was present every time there was an accident about her, that's right, whether it was accompanied by Dong Jian or by herself, it was not seamless, if she really wanted to kill her, Li Xiaoai had ten thousand ways to die that I could think of. But she escaped it all, and luckily or coincidentally, even caused our hearts to collide with each other.
From another perspective, who killed the person who wanted to kill Li Xiaoai, even if the first killer who was killed can't explain it clearly, then the second same incident that happened can't be a simple accident, where is the similarity between them? Who would do that?
I tilted my head and lit another cigarette, and the starry sky was obscured by faint clouds, flickering and bright.
Who is that girl with curly brown hair? And who is her "father" who has never been photographed from the front to capture positive features? Who is the real mastermind behind all the accidents? What kind of background is hidden behind these seemingly ordinary killers?
I spat out the last puff of my cigarette, and the night was so deep that I couldn't see anything clearly...
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, when I returned to the Special Administrative Region, I didn't go back to my residence and went straight to the criminal police team of the substation, and I really couldn't bear those mysteries anymore. When people are nervous, the deepest feeling is that the days are like years.
"So early? The injury is recovering well. I met Xing Shan in the corridor of the police station, still wearing a tall police uniform, "Team Zhong is in a meeting, there has been a new development in Ai Kang's case recently, you can wait in the office for a while." β
"You can't hold the steering wheel yet, you haven't rested during the Spring Festival?" I asked suspiciously, looking at Xing Shan's capable appearance, it didn't look like she was in the recovery period of holiday syndrome.
"There have been so many cases at hand recently, and the Zhong team has hardly returned home, how can we be lazy? Team Zhong said that after finishing the recent case, he will definitely give us a make-up leave, and I really admire him for having such a leading captain. Xing Shan poured a cup of tea from a paper cup and put it on the coffee table in front of me, Zhong Shi's office was almost the same as the last time, except that the smell of smoke was stronger.
"Who do you admire?" Zhong Shi quickly entered his own office, still holding all kinds of materials in his hands, "Zhuang Yan is here?" So early. β
I stood up, "It's hard work, I heard Xing Shan say that you haven't rested in the past few days of the New Year." β
"I'm busy with cases, and I can't stop working. I can take time to rest, there are so many cases waiting to be done, if I take a vacation and come back to do it, I'm afraid my desk can't be stacked. Zhong Shi returned to his desk, put down the materials in his hand, and then pulled out three stacks of files that had been arranged separately from the thick files on his desk.
Xing Shan gently closed the door of Zhong Shi's office and sat down on the sofa to my right. Zhong Shi sat on my left side and spread the three stacks of files on the coffee table.
"These are the information about the Aikang Group, the death of Vera Puyol on the black off-road vehicle outside Aikang, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dead killer Ganlotos, there is some progress, but none of them have been thoroughly investigated. You said you also encountered a new situation, do you want to talk about it first? Zhong Shi's expression was serious, it was obvious that the current case was more difficult for him, but his sharp gaze still flashed with insight into everything.
I stared at the file neatly arranged from left to right in front of me, full of apprehension, but I still suppressed the turmoil in my heart and slowly spoke, "I met the girl with brown curly hair. β
"What? Do you see the brunette girl in the picture? Are you sure? Where is it? Xing Shan obviously didn't have Zhong Shi's calmness, but she had already opened her mouth for Zhong Shi.
"My home is not near my residence in the Special Administrative Region, but in the neighborhood where I live with my mother and daughter." My gaze swept over Xing Shan, and finally stopped at Zhong Shi's sharp eyes, he seemed to already know something, but I didn't know anything.
Zhong Shi didn't speak for a long time, he closed his lips tightly and lowered his eyes to look at the three stacks of materials.
"Near your house?" Xing Shan asked again.
"I guess I'm not mistaken, and the girl's look doesn't seem strange to me." The look that passed in front of me is still engraved in my impression, and I feel an inexplicable throbbing without knowing it.
Xing Shan was also silent, and the office was suddenly immersed in an unknown silence, and everyone's minds were rapidly connecting all this, trying to find some common sense clues from these events.
"In fact, I feel that in these seemingly related cases, there are always some independent aspects of each other, such as you and Defense Shield, Defense Shield and Aikang Group, although they seem to have some inevitable connection, but in fact they are independent of each other. For example, the cases that happened to Aikang before have nothing to do with you, but now it feels like it has become closely related to you, and this delusion may lead us to a kind of dead-end thinking. Zhong Shi and I lit cigarettes at the same time, thinking and communicating.
"But I always thought that even if there was some connection between the case of the Aikang Group and Li Xiaoai, the defensive shield was just a subordinate bystander, even if it was involved in the last few accidents, it had nothing to do with us directly." I took a puff of smoke rings and pondered.
"Is that so?" Zhong Shi's rhetorical question seemed calm, but it had already caused a hurricane in my heart.
"What do you mean?"
"The brown-haired girl you just met, this person will be investigated as the main breakthrough in the previous case."
"I'd love to know what's going on, and if it's going to affect my family, I'll do whatever it takes to find out." I spoke firmly.
"If it doesn't hurt your family, we will investigate the case as soon as possible, but you should pay more attention to your side during this period. There should be some conclusions about the fire case and the high-level accident case of Aikang Group recently, but we still need time for you and Li Xiaoai's case. β
I flipped through the three stacks of materials, and finally my eyes stopped at the picture I had seen, the side of the curly-haired brown girl, who was smiling gently, probably only in a state of peace and comfort. Compared to the brutal cases of the recent past, this strange expression was like a daisy blooming alone on the ruins, where she should not have been.
"In the afternoon, we are going to meet with Li Xiaoai and ask her if she has any clues." Xing Shan interjected.