may have been affected by Gu Xi's bad ghost story last night, looking at this quiet building, I felt a chill down my spine for no reason. But since it's all too big to get here, I'm still going inside.

The footsteps were very light, and I looked in through the windows, confirming my previous suspicion, and this building was indeed an office. It's not special, I walked through three rooms in a row, and there were no people. Just as I was about to turn upstairs, I suddenly stopped, and my heart trembled uncontrollably, and then my scalp went numb until my whole body stiffened.

Behind my side, there was a silent gaze.

He clenched his fist and slowly twisted his stiff neck, searching inch by inch, and finally froze.

I felt my blood clotting all over my body...... In a window on the second floor of the teaching building, the principal, who had just spoken to me kindly outside the school gate, was standing there at this time, looking at me with strange and cold eyes.

All my instincts were telling me to go quickly, and I immediately followed my brain's instructions. But just as I turned to run, there was a noise behind me, and a rage that could not be ignored invaded. In the next moment, I felt a sharp pain in my scalp, and my hair was pulled from behind, followed by a hard object knocked down, the pain spread to my nerves, and the world in front of me turned gray.

The dull ache never goes away, even when consciousness is blurred. So the body is sentient, you can feel it being lifted up and moved, and then put down, and the footsteps and voices are clear and indistinct.

Then it became quiet, and I wasn't sure if I was so conscious that I couldn't hear the outside world, or if the person had left. When the pain reaches a certain level, it is not so difficult, but time becomes the only space for me.

I don't know how long it took for my fingers to start flexing, and then the nerves in my body started to revive. But just as I opened my eyes and sat up, the door creaked open, and the person who pushed the door in was stunned, obviously not expecting that I would just wake up.

I don't know this person.

The first instinct in my mind reflected this message, and I was sure that I had not seen a middle-aged man who looked to be about fifty years old since I came to Brin Town. He looked sloppy and decadent, his beard hadn't been repaired for I don't know how long, and the clothes on his body couldn't show their original color, gray, like a bum. When he walked in, he noticed that his feet were slightly lame, and he looked at me with a heavy face and asked, "Why did you sneak into the school?" ”

When I first opened my eyes, I had already swept by, and the environment was a utility room, probably still in the school.

I chuckled after listening to his question, and replied: "I heard the old principal say that there will be no one in the school during the holidays, but I obviously saw the figure of a suspected thief inside, how can I rest assured that the old principal will come in alone?" ”

The gloomy gaze stared at me for a moment, and then he said slowly, "If that's the case, you should be in the teaching building instead of the office building." ”

I didn't care if I was poked, so I just said lightly: "Maybe I was dazzled and saw the wrong principal walk into the back." ”

"Hugh is talking nonsense again, I paid attention to you two outsiders, a man and a woman, when I came to the town yesterday, tell me quickly, what are your intentions and what is your purpose?" The middle-aged man raised his voice and drank.

The eyebrows were slightly raised, and the corners of someone's mouth pulled up a sarcastic arc, "I don't know what you're talking about." ”

The other party's breathing sank, and his eyes staring at me became more and more gloomy, and he smiled coldly, "You can continue to be hard-mouthed, I have time." It's just that," he paused intentionally, and said in a very soft voice: "Patience is not good." ”

After seeing my pupils constrict, he turned around with satisfaction, and just as he opened the door and was about to step out, I suddenly called softly: "Mr. Xie, does Xiaoqin know?" The man slammed his body and turned his head to stare at me in surprise, his eyes showing incredulity.

I sighed lightly and lowered my eyes, and whispered: "I have always found it strange that Xiaoqin is young but looks at a hotel alone, and the predecessor of the hotel is a post office, which belongs to the state-owned public, how can it rashly belong to a private person and open a hotel?" If I'm not mistaken, you're in this Brin Town, and your position is not small, mayor or secretary of the town party committee. ”

In silence, the foot that was about to take a step by the door retracted, the door was closed again, and the feet came up to me, and a gloomy inquiry came from overhead: "How do you see my relationship with Xiaoqin?" ”

It was not for no reason that he asked, because from the moment he looked like a homeless person, no one would think of that young and simple girl, but I revealed her identity in one word.

I looked up and glared over a scar on the side of his neck, the result of a burn that was hard to recover. Looking at his legs again, I saw that he unconsciously moved his steps, which is the instinctive avoidance of defects by man. And he didn't accept my silent answer: "Based on the scar on my body and this leg, you can't guess my relationship with Xiaoqin." ”

"And what if you add a picture that appears in Xiaoqin's bedroom?" I whispered.

He was a little dazed, "What photo?" ”

I couldn't help but laugh, my eyes full of irony: "How much did you ignore your daughter, so much so that she didn't even know that she kept your photos from more than ten years ago?" Or did you do something bad and didn't even dare to see your daughter? ”

"You ......" glared at me angrily, but was speechless!

And so it was. A person can disguise himself with a mask of decadence, ugliness, insidiousness, anger, etc., but he cannot hide the details that he reveals. Those eyes are the same as the man who is sandwiched under the glass of the desk, if there is any change, the eyes have changed, they used to be clear and upright, but now they are gloomy and angry.

It's not about me to think about what changed him, it's all about me, the most important thing at the moment is ......

"Did you hide downstairs in the hotel last night?"

The man's eyes paused for a second, but he opened his mouth with confidence: "You want to ask where the man who came with you is." I raised my eyebrows and said nothing, and he added: "A man who doesn't know whether he lives or dies but still resists, where do you think he will be?" ”

"You caught him?"

"I really don't know what you outsiders think, one by one, you came running over single-handedly. This time it's even more outrageous, a woman wants to make up her mind. ”

I couldn't help frowning as I listened, the message revealed by his words puzzled me, meaning that there were other people besides me and Gu Xi who came to this Brin Town? Or is it for some unknown purpose, is it related to this school or to this town of Bryn?

Suddenly, I felt that this ordinary-looking town might not be simple at all.

Xiaoqin's father didn't speak again, stared at me coldly for a moment, then turned around and walked out of the door, and the sound of the door locking came from the door.

Secretly relieved, although I still don't know why I'm here, at least one thing is certain: Gu Xi is not in their hands.

Not only because of Father Xie's care, but also because of his determination in Guxi. With his ability, it is absolutely impossible to be caught by this lame Father Xie so easily, even if the other party is prepared, if he wants to catch him, there will inevitably be a big commotion here. But I hadn't seen anything unusual since I walked through the school, so I was less wary of the self-proclaimed headmaster.

My head hurt again, and as soon as I raised my hand, I felt a large bag bulging up at the back of my head, which should have been caused by a heavy blow such as a stick. Fortunately, I didn't break my head, otherwise I would have seen blood again. In recent days, disasters have been one after another, from a cut throat to a slap, and today I was hit with a stick, and a wry smile pulled up at the corner of my mouth.

Drifting through the doors and windows to gauge the situation, I still sat there motionless.

As it stands, even if I try to open the door, I won't be able to get out of the school gate. First of all, Xie Xiaoqin's father must be outside, and secondly, whether there is anyone else needs to be further confirmed, but at least the old principal who made me feel creepy may not let me out of this class so easily.

Instead of stubbornly resisting, it is better to think about this matter.

If you think about it from the order of the clues: first the pen pal's letter guided us here, and then the information provided by the "netizens" posted by Tong Ying became the main line, and then the uncle of the grain and oil store, involving the post office and the postman, and the post office had a relationship with Xie Xiaoqin's hotel, and then Xie Xiaoqin's father hid in this school and waited for the opportunity, and the old principal's in-depth temptation...... Many of these seemingly unrelated dots seem to be connected little by little.

Gu Xi had actually noticed it a long time ago, and last night he was saying that there was a hand behind his back manipulating. It seemed that the trip was very smooth, and almost as long as the name of the pen pal was determined, the source of the letter could be found, so as to learn about the events of that year, but at this moment he suddenly disappeared, and I was in a predicament.

It feels like crashing into a game that shouldn't have been crashed into, and Father Xie must have misunderstood what we were trying to do. But is this really a coincidence, or is the hand behind it deliberately pushing me and Gu Xi into this game?

There are some things that are not answered just by thinking, and there is a lack of key messages. Coupled with the dull pain in my head, I didn't continue to think about it, but just closed my eyes and pretended to sleep. But it is impossible to really fall asleep in this environment, the ears will be extremely sharp, and the slightest sound in the silence will make the nerves highly concentrated.

I was shocked to notice one thing, this space is not just my breath!