CHAPTER XIX
Bai Yao walked out of the data room, and the sky that was originally shining with the sun was clouded again, like a large flower embroidered on silk cloth, dense layers, petals stacked, and no gap could be found.
It's going to rain again.
Bai Yao looked at the sky wordlessly, the mountain rain was coming, the wind was full of buildings, the dark clouds were approaching, and it was the eve of another heavy rainstorm.
Bai Yao dodged, and in less than two seconds, she could reach the Sunset Tower, but she didn't go in that direction, she came to a door, and the mottled handwriting on the door plate read: Phoenix Head No. 3.
Her problem, the old evil must know.
The entire row of buildings from twenty or thirty years ago is very retro, and the tallest is only four floors, forming a strong visual contrast with the high-rise buildings opposite. The walls of these houses are inevitably stained with water, patches of green moss, and mottled walls are riddled with holes, giving people the feeling that they are about to be eliminated after a short lifespan.
The door in front of Bai Yao was locked, and the lock fell from the outside, but Bai Yao still didn't give up, and knocked on the closed door: "Is the old evil there?" Old evil? ”
Naturally, there was no response as expected.
Bai Yao looked at the firm locks and loose old door plates, and was a little depressed.
"Bai Yao." Someone called out to her from behind.
As soon as Bai Yao turned around, Lu Yiwu looked at her with an umbrella.
Although there are dark clouds in the sky now, the rain has not really fallen, and the scene of Lu Yiwu holding an umbrella is a bit funny, Bai Yao unconsciously pursed her lips and smiled, and returned to her normal shape: "Teacher, the rain hasn't fallen yet." ”
She pointed to the sky.
Lu Yiwu ignored her oily tone, and her face had always been serious: "You came to find the old evil?" ”
Bai Yao didn't think it was a coincidence to meet Lu Yiwu, but if he knew Lao Xie, it would be a bit too much for her to expect.
Bai Yao froze for a while, her brain thought quickly, and under the gaze of Lu Yiwu's penetrating eyes, she smiled awkwardly and politely: "What?" Do you know him in the Eastside? ”
"No, for personal reasons." Lu Yiwu quickly vetoed it.
"Let's find a place to have a drink." Lu Yiwu still looked at Bai Yao with blazing eyes, it was better to say that he had always looked like this.
"Okay."
Fenghuangtou Street is a commercial street, with many shops, which is very different from the deserted atmosphere over there, Bai Yao and Lu Yiwu found a café and drank coffee.
"I always think that Mr. Lu is a very mysterious person." After drinking most of the coffee, Lu Yiwu was calm on the surface and behaved elegantly, but there was no sign of opening.
Bai Yao wrung her hands and picked up the conversation first.
"You seem to know a lot of my secrets." Lu Yiwu stirred the liquid in the cup, lowering his head so that Bai Yao couldn't see his expression clearly, but his words were full of threats.
"Did you mention any of my secrets to your partner in the Sunset Tower?" Lu Yiwu looked up at her, his eyes were like torches.
Bai Yao was stunned for a moment and shook her head: "No." ”
Lu Yiwu chuckled and asked, "Why don't you say it?" You saw me in the Eastside. ”
Bai Yao made a difficulty, in fact, she didn't want to tell Jiang Shao and them, but she always had a feeling in her heart that the time had not come.
She needed to wait a little longer.
"What kind of beast is Mr. Lu?"
"Heh, that's a foul question." Lu Yiwu looked at her like a joke, and added: "But it's not a strange beast that you Sunset Tower can deal with." ”
"What is it that can't be dealt with?"
Facing Bai Yao's questioning, Lu Yiwu only glanced at her, and had no intention of answering, Bai Yao also realized that this question was a bit stupid, how could Lu Yiwu tell her such a thing.
Bai Yao was silent for a while before replying to Lu Yiwu's words: "Teacher Lu seems to know a lot of my secrets. ”
Lu Yiwu looked at her, still with the kind of eyes that wanted to see through her whole person.
"Do you know I'm waiting for someone?" Lu Yiwu said suddenly.
Bai Yao looked at him strangely.
"But after so long, he probably won't come." Lu Yiwu's face showed a rather regretful expression.
Bai Yao instinctively asked, "Is it a fat legacy?" ”
Lu Yiwu drank all the coffee in the cup and stood up: "You won't want to see this person." ”
Bai Yao sat in the position, Lu Yiwu had already paid the bill and pushed open the door of the café and went out, Bai Yao was still reminiscing about what he had just said, the person she wouldn't want to see? Does she know each other?
Bai Yao had an intuition that Lu Yiwu might have known her before.
After Lu Yiwu left, Bai Yao still sat in the café for more than ten minutes, and she didn't come back to her senses until it was pouring rain outside and the mobile phone ringing in her pocket rang persistently.
"Hello?" Bai Yao exhaled deeply and picked up the phone.
"Where are you, come back quickly." Jiang Shao's voice on the other side was extremely solemn.
"What's wrong?" Bai Yao asked curiously.
Jiang Shao didn't say more, just kept telling her to go back as soon as possible, Bai Yao frowned deeply, and rushed back as fast as possible, only a few seconds before and after.
It was still in the conference room, and the people present were only Li Ganhe, Jiang Shao and Yu Dao.
When Bai Yao came over, they didn't speak, the atmosphere was glued and solemn, Bai Yao didn't dare to say more, and looked at them cautiously.
When a few people saw her coming, they only glanced at her, then stared at the conference table and pondered, and the solemnity between their eyebrows made Bai Yao feel a little frightened.
There were some papers scattered on the mahogany table, which seemed to be about some kind of information, Bai Yao looked at their expressions carefully, and stepped forward to draw one and read it.
A cursory glance reveals that the word that comes up the most is midnight murder.
"Homicide?" Bai Yao jumped between her eyebrows twice, picked up all the information and looked at it, and when she finished reading it, the more she felt that something was wrong.
According to the information, three people have died in Sunset City in a row, all of them young people who have not returned home at midnight, and the murderer seems to have a special obsession with age, and none of the people killed are under the age of twenty-seven.
The circumstances of the murder of the deceased and the circumstances of the death are described in detail, and the special timing and unique methods make the whole thing dangerous and strange.
"Vampire monsters?" Bai Yao frowned. The information describes the death of the deceased in black and white, all of which were blood lost and turned into dried corpses.
"Look at this." Jiang Shao handed over the two sheets in his hand.
Bai Yao took it and looked at it and whispered: "Sunset Tower vampire? ”
"They think the monster in the Sunset Tower has run out?" Bai Yao was incredulous.
They are obviously messengers of justice, how can they become vampire monsters?
Jiang Shao said in a deep voice: "Sunset Tower has always been mysterious, and it is normal for people from the outside world not to know about it, but when something like this suddenly happens, we all suspect that the people from the Eastern District have started to act against us." ”
This logic is normal, after all, there have been frequent incidents recently, and the fact that there has been no big move in the East District does not mean that they can sit still.
"Is the killer from the East End? Is it a strange beast? Bai Yao asked.
"There are also alien beasts that have a hobby of sucking blood, but it can't be ruled out that they are humans, so we want you to investigate." Li Ganhe said solemnly.
"You are fast, and you can evacuate in time in case of emergency. Recently, Yu Dao and I are going to leave the building for a while, so I will ask Jiang Shao if there is anything. Li Ganhe patted Bai Yao on the shoulder.
Bai Yao nodded, wanting to ask them what they were going to do, but when the words came to their lips, they felt that there were some things that they didn't necessarily say, sometimes they couldn't say it, and there was no need to say it if it wasn't easy to say.
She swallowed the words that had reached her throat.
"Could it be a fat legacy?" Bai Yao asked.
After all, the main thing they were hunting down recently was the fat remnant, and besides, he disappeared after that day.
Li Ganhe shook his head and denied her thoughts: "Fat and bloodless." ”
Bai Yao was stunned, does the fat relics still have this trait? How did she not know? She carefully recalled the historical materials of her evil supplement, and did not remember that she was fattened and tired of blood.
"So another strange beast has appeared?" Bai Yao skipped over Li Ganhe's loop and asked.
There are too many strange beasts around her now, except for the fat remains, Lu Yiwu, and a big nest she saw in the Eastern District last time, if that nest of strange beasts has a whim one day and the whole nest is dispatched, then they must not die collectively.
Li Ganhe didn't answer Bai Yao's words directly, he just reached out and patted Bai Yao again, and pulled out Bai Yao, who was still thinking: "This is what you want to investigate." ”
Bai Yao sighed in her heart speechlessly.
"Okay, I'll start investigating tomorrow, when will you come back?"
Li Ganhe's eyes were deep, and he sighed: "I'm not sure." ”
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The news of the bloodsucking monster of Sunset Tower's midnight murderer in Sunset City soon spread throughout the streets and alleys of Sunset City, and Bai Yao was awakened in her sleep for the first time.
Originally, explorers came to Sunset City to have no overlap with their living space, after all, the legend here is that there are a thousand ancient buildings in the eyes of a thousand people. But on this day, Bai Yao was woken up by the noisy sounds, there were too many people coming in, she slept shallowly, and those noisy sounds were enough to penetrate several layers of barriers and reach her ears.
Bai Yao rubbed her sleepy eyes and got up, went downstairs after washing, Jiang Shao was already waiting for her at the dining table.
"Brother Li, are they gone?" Bai Yao asked with a yawn.
Jiang Shao nodded, pushed the bread, milk and fried eggs in front of her, and said in a deep voice: "If you want to investigate the midnight murderer, you know that you have to go squatting at night, right?" ”
Bai Yao nodded ignorantly, she really hadn't paid attention to this before.
Jiang Shao patted her on the shoulder: "Be careful yourself." ”
"......", an action fan who does not conform to Jiang Shao's temperament, is like Li Ganhe.
Bai Yao quickly finished breakfast and glanced at the wall clock, it was only half past six.
"I'll go up and change my clothes and go to school, and I'll go see the midnight murderer tonight." After Bai Yao finished speaking, he stuffed the last piece of bread in his hand into his mouth, stood up and prepared to go upstairs.
"Bai Yao?" Suddenly, a familiar voice behind her called her name.
It could definitely not be Jiang Shao's voice.
Bai Yao turned around stiffly and saw the squad leader's stunned expression.
"Jiang Shao, why did he enter this space?" Bai Yao's eyes widened and she helplessly supported her forehead.
The appearance of a thousand ancient buildings, this person happened to see this appearance, for Bai Yao, it was really a dog.