Not all fates can be carried together.

At the elevator exit on the sixth floor, Angela and I were rescued one after another, and the box was still hanging between the sixth and seventh floors. At this point, the power has not been restored, and the lights are all the handheld devices in everyone's hands. The scene was extremely chaotic, with a large number of hotel staff, people with royal salutes and defensive shields crowded into the aisles, and a large number of reporters also squeezed in from the escape passage building, and a few tenants were reluctant to leave.

Angela was surrounded by everyone, and the crowd was still swarming in her direction. I quietly left the hallway of my guest room, walked through the fire barrier and into the stairwell, my right arm and back still aching from the blow. The light from the phone lighting in the darkness didn't make it easy to tell everyone's faces, so I took off my debris-splashed and wire-beaten suit and stood against the wall and pulled out my almost crumpled cigarette case, and pulled out a half-broken cigarette.

The stairwell through the door was a little cleaner, and I couldn't see anything clearly in the dark, and I was trying to light it. But a familiar figure walked up to me silently, and a familiar smell of lavender wafted by. I couldn't see her face clearly, and she couldn't see me clearly, but she didn't hesitate to pounce, buried her head in my chest and hugged me hard and never let go.

Occasionally, someone passed by and opened the isolation door and walked in the direction of Angela, but only the outline could be seen.

Being held hard by her, there was a tingling pain from the wound on my back, but I couldn't bear it and didn't think about breaking free. In this dark aisle where I couldn't see the figure clearly, the faint smell of lavender permeated the tip of my nose, and I was unconsciously a little intoxicated, and subconsciously folded my arms and bent to take advantage of the night to let go of all my thoughts and hug her for the last time.

Two minutes passed, and she still wouldn't let go. I let go of one hand and put half of the cigarette in my mouth and tried to light it again.

"No smoking in the hotel." A soft voice is not a reproach.

I paused, then shoved the hanging lighter and half of the cigarette back into my pocket, "It's so dark, how do you know it's me?" ”

"Because I saved you this time." She raised her head slightly, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and I finally saw her moist and flawless eyes like a clear spring and stars in the little night that spilled in through the window. Listening to this answer, which has nothing to do with the question, there is an indescribable warmth and reluctance in my heart, so let her hold it like this. Why should everything in this world be explained clearly?

We were close to each other, she was expecting my response with her eyes, maybe I should have lowered my head and kissed her, but the last shred of reason in my head still controlled me, we had no future...

"Zhuang Yan!" Dong Jian shouted in the aisle on the other side of the fire door, "Zhuang Yan! Where are the people? ”

She and I froze at the same time, and it felt like I had to spit out after taking a bite of a chicken thigh and chewing it halfway through before I swallowed it.

"Zhuang Yan!" He continued to shout.

"Looks like there's something really going on." I softly lowered my head and pushed away Li Xiaoai, who still refused to let go.

Li Xiaoai let go of his hand, took a step back, but just stumbled and almost fell, "Ah! ”

This time it was my turn to reach out and hold her still dangling arm, "What's wrong with your feet?" Where do the shoes go? ”

She first looked down at her feet wrapped in torn stockings, and then looked up at my eyes, still so clear, "I accidentally ran up in high heels just now, and my shoes are gone." ”

Another wave of warmth, this time it was my turn to hug her tightly without hesitation, "Thank you, thank you." ”

"No thanks~" with a gentle smile in his tone.

The fire isolation door was pushed open, and a tall and familiar figure said, "Oh, you two, it's okay, I didn't see anything when it was so dark, there was something urgent." ”

I let go and helped her to the side of the stairs to sit down, turned around and asked Dong Jian, "How is it now?" Did the Hong Kong police arrive? ”

"It's here, it's just arrived. However, there are too many people at the scene and it is too complicated, and all the power supply equipment is short-circuited and cannot be restored temporarily, so it is very difficult for the police to investigate directly. Dong Jian's tone was anxious, "Yu Yang and Fu Dongdong are taking two people to look for suspicious people on the floor near the top floor, but the line of sight is too poor when the power is off, and it is estimated that the probability of finding it is very low." I just want to ask you if you have any clues, and I really can't ask Angela at all. ”

I still remember what happened more than ten minutes ago, but I can't remember for a moment where the clues would be hidden. Hidden in the deep elevator shaft were a pair of eyes like poisonous snakes, but I couldn't make out them.

If Li Xiaoai hadn't appeared outside the elevator door in time, and then went upstairs to call Yu Yang and Fu Dongdong to save us, Angela and I would probably have fallen to our deaths with the elevator at this time. But after thinking about it, I couldn't help but sweat on my back, Li Xiaoai almost got into the same elevator as us, and there were more than two people dead in the elevator at this time.

Unexpectedly, Angela's malice inadvertently saved the three of us, and it was really a fluke that such an accident happened to the plan designed by the murderer at the beginning. Li Xiaoai may not hold a grudge against this person who once slandered herself, after all, she inadvertently caused the three of them to survive. Once again, fate has given us one more chance in its wonderful way, but will there be a chance next time?

"What's wrong?" Dong Jian urged.

"If we can find out who pushed the hotel cleaning car into the middle elevator before, we should be able to lock up the murderer." It occurred to me that I had an idea.

"Well, yes, but is there anything else you can think of?"

"Xiao Ai, why did you happen to go downstairs at that time? Just enough to meet us? "That's what I think is the weirdest part, all the coincidences seem so coincidental.

"I received a call from the hotel landline in my room, saying that a gentleman surnamed Zhuang was waiting downstairs for me and had an urgent matter. I thought you were looking for me, so—" I turned around, and Li Xiaoai was recalling, "but I'm not sure if that call came from the front desk, because it's a landline, and it's probably a call between rooms." ”

I began to look in my mind for steps and possibilities to create coincidences, "I have to call Li Xiaoai's room while I accompany Angela to wait for the elevator downstairs?" Then it is possible that the murderer was in a room on the sixteenth floor of the corridor from Angela's suite to the elevator. ”

"But now the power is off, and the front desk can't find the room information."

"Fu Dongdong and Yu Yang must still remember which room came out of the guest after we entered the elevator, and it should have been on the eighteenth floor through the fire escape."

"Okay, I'll go find Yu Yang and them now." After speaking, Dong Jian went upstairs directly from the escalator, and turned back after just two steps, "Also, the murderer may still be in the building, you have to protect Xiao Ai." ”

"Well, don't worry."

After Dong Jian went upstairs, the fire escape was completely dark, and occasionally two residents or staff members who went up and down the stairs with mobile phones for lighting would not pay attention to me and Li Xiaoai.

"Are your feet better?" I turned on the flashlight on my phone, and through the holed stockings, Li Xiaoai's toes oozed blood, "It must be painful." ”

I squatted down and just touched her ankle, but she shrank away and dodged, "It's okay, just go back and disinfect and spray some medicine." ”

I quietly sat down next to her, "It's good you didn't make it to that elevator, otherwise..."

"I know~"

"Actually, you don't know."

"Huh? What I don't know? ”

I thought in my heart, in fact, all this is because of me, almost killed you, but I still didn't say it after all. Vaguely and suddenly, I felt that it was best not to tell anyone about this secret until everything was figured out, and whoever knew could become the next target.

But how do I figure it all out?

Seeing that I refused to speak, Li Xiaoai unexpectedly did not ask, "I hope to catch that suspect, and everything will be figured out." ”

I nodded, and then I couldn't resist pulling out my cigarette case.

She reached out and patted the back of my hand and smiled, "I can't help it." ”

I let go of the cigarette case, and suddenly I remembered something, "Do you remember how we first met?" ”

"Huh? Remember, it's also in Hong Kong. She recalled.

"I went outside the mall to smoke a cigarette, and then when I got back to the mall, I had an escalator accident."

"Well, you've saved so many people and disappeared without leaving your name. Lan Xue kept shouting and wanted to leave your contact information, but now..."Li Xiaoai's tone fell into frustration.

"What's wrong?"

"She's gone from my life." Although the tone is lost, I can still understand the meaning. With so much happening, how many friendships can withstand such a quenching test.

"But I didn't know you at the time, and it happened so strangely."

"Yes, it seems to be in the dark...", there was a sudden hint of happiness in her tone, "fate? ”

What I think is not exactly the same as her, because of all the seemingly unexpected events, only that one is the only one that I can't understand, like a real accident, "That time is also what happened after sending Angela back to Hong Kong, so..."

"I don't hate her." Li Xiaoai looked at his injured toe and said lightly.

I took a deep breath, and the air still smelled of the faint jasmine fragrance on Li Xiaoai's body, "Let's go, accompany you to find shoes, do you want me to carry you?" ”

"No, it's so dark, I can't remember where I threw it, and it's not appropriate to wear high heels on my injured foot." Li Xiaoai politely refused.

"Then I'll help you down, Liu Lian should be downstairs."

He was about to help her up, "I want you to promise me one thing, as a reward for saving my life." ”

"What? You just say. ”

"On April 5th, Qingming Festival, can you please accompany me to the cemetery? I wanted to go to the festival, but I couldn't think of anyone who could accompany me. She looked at me with pleading eyes in her eyes.

A thought popped through my mind, "Okay." ”