I stepped on the floor tiles and went downstairs, Xie Xiaoqin greeted me with a smile when she saw me coming down from behind the bar: "May my sister get up, sleep well?" Then there were no mosquitoes. I shook my head a little sluggishly, "No, I have to thank you last night." ”

"Thanks for what? It's hot and stuffy here, and there are a lot of mosquitoes. ”

I glanced out the door and asked, "Did you see any friends who were staying with me coming down?" ”

"That handsome guy, you say? No, isn't it still upstairs? ”

I didn't care, I just said I was going to buy breakfast and walked out of the hotel door. Today's weather is very different from yesterday, and the blue sky has already risen in the east, and the warm morning sun has also indicated that today will be a hot day.

The breakfast specialty of northerners is basically steamed bread and pasta, so the soybean milk fritters that Tong Ying bought in Xiyuan yesterday morning are actually very rare. Or the restaurant next door to the grain and oil store, the boss recommended mixed sauce noodles to me, but I was still not used to the taste so heavy in the early morning, so I only shouted a bowl of noodle soup.

It may be that the chef is not good at making this kind of pasta, and the noodle soup served is very watery, and the taste is very light. After eating a few bites, I lost my appetite, and after settling the bill, I went out and deliberately passed by the door of the grain and oil store, and saw that the uncle was busy in front of the machine, and there were a few aunts standing in the house chatting.

No one paid attention to me, so I stood by the door and took a closer look at my uncle's figure, appearance, and outline, and it didn't look like the vague figure in my dream. Even if the age may be deviated because he can't see clearly, but the general outline and length of the person's body are there, the uncle is short, it should not exceed 1.7 meters, and the back of the person who walked into the post office in the dream is at least about 1.8 meters even if it is young.

walked aimlessly, and when he arrived at the Guxi parking place, he couldn't help but be stunned in place.

Who was so bad that he had scratched his car for so long, and the tires were deflated. Looking around, there was no suspicious signing, and it was clear that this behavior was caused by the night.

I've got to go back and tell him right away!

Turning around and walking briskly back to the hotel, he went upstairs and knocked on his door again, and after waiting for a while, he didn't come to open the door, and it felt a little strange, he was not such a sleepy person. Raise your voice and call: "Gu Xi! ”

Still didn't get a response, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and ran downstairs and rushed to the bar, "Xiaoqin, are you sure he hasn't gone downstairs and gone out?" ”

Xie Xiaoqin was a little ignorant: "Did you say that handsome guy?" I haven't come down yet. ”

"Are you sure?" I asked.

She nodded and said, "I got up at five o'clock in the morning and opened the door, and I sat here all the time, and I never saw anyone come down." ”

"Didn't you go to the bathroom or go out to buy an early snack or something?"

"The bathroom is up, but I haven't eaten it earlier, and I'm going to buy two buns later. What's wrong, Sister Wan? Is he not in the room? Xie Xiaoqin couldn't help but get nervous when she looked at me.

I thought for a moment and asked, "Do you have a spare key for the room door?" ”

"Yes, I'll find it for you."

With the spare key, Xie Xiaoqin followed me upstairs, and when the door was opened, not to mention her, even I froze. The room behind the door was neatly paved and the floor was smooth, and there was no trace of anyone living in it.

Gu Xi didn't stay here all night!

Xie Xiaoqin was not stupid, and after her eyes slipped around, she said worriedly: "Sister Yuan, your handsome guy doesn't seem to have slept in the room." ”

My face was a little ugly, but I still said to her, "yes, wait for me to call him and see, there may be something urgent to do." It's okay Xiaoqin, no one downstairs is watching, you go down quickly. ”

"Okay, I hope you can call and ask."

When Xie Xiaoqin went downstairs, I took out my mobile phone and dialed the number, but I was very flustered. Gu Xi's car is still there, it is impossible for him to leave on foot because of an emergency, even if he is really in a hurry, he will definitely say hello to me.

Unless it's ...... so "urgent" that you don't even have time to say hello.

After the phone was dialed, I listened to the voice prompt on the other side and turned off the phone, which was expected and made me feel more anxious. Thinking about going back to his room, it was obviously irrational to go outside blindly at this time, he didn't just go out but left last night, and there were too many unknowns in one night.

Last night, I went downstairs to find Xie Xiaoqin to ask for mosquito coils, and I didn't see him in the room when I came back, did he go out at that time? If so, it could only be that I followed Xiaoqin into the back room for a while, or Xiaoqin was always in the bar, and he would have been seen as long as he went downstairs.

At that time, did he get the call or ...... Perceive something so much that he leaves without saying hello?

No matter how I think about it, I feel that there is something wrong, and I can't say anything specific. Annoyedly, I walked to the window and looked down, and suddenly paused, the window was open when I came back last night, but I distinctly remember that when I stood by the window with him before this, the window was closed. A thought flashed through my mind, and I pushed open the window and looked down, my eyes narrowing little by little.

Here's the answer......

When passing by the bar downstairs again, Xie Xiaoqin leaned out from behind the bar and called, "Sister Yuan, have you contacted him?" I smiled and responded: "I got in touch, that person really can't talk about him, I took an emergency call from home and rushed back overnight, saying that I turned off my phone when I called, and I could only wait for me to turn on the phone and then contact me, and I will be back in two days." ”

"That's right, it's fine." She sighed with relief.

I pointed outside and walked out the door. Turn right to the bottom of your room, look up, and follow it again, not letting go of any trace.

His eyes fixed on one place, his pupils shrank, and I thought maybe I had found some clues.

Although the hotel house was renovated after the fire, it has been more than ten years now, and some of the downspouts have rusted over the years. Rust stains are unavoidable when stepping on your feet at night.

And there is only one trace of a person!

If it weren't for Gu Xi's light skill jumping down from the window on the second floor, then there was no doubt that this downpipe was his tool to go downstairs. Either way, the rust must have stuck to the soles of the shoes.

Scanning the ground, sure enough, there were iron filings left, and the joy in my heart immediately followed the traces. But the traces are not obvious when you walk out of more than ten meters, because iron filings are different from soil, and they will not fall so easily because they are embedded in the cracks of shoes; And even if there is one or two iron filings, they will blend with the ground and be difficult to identify.

I'm scared, and I'm afraid it's hard to track it later, but I'm different.

As long as there are traces, they can't escape my eyes!

As I gazed at the building in front of me, my mood became complicated. I couldn't have imagined that the traces of iron filings extending actually arrived outside the school gate, did Gu Xi really go in last night?

I wondered, what was the reason why Gu Xihui was so rash to climb over the wall from the second floor all the way to here and enter this school? Don't...... Hell really?

"Miss, school is on vacation." An old man's voice suddenly came out from behind, and I was startled.

Turning his head, he saw an old man wearing an iron-gray short cloth shirt standing there, with a pair of black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, which looked very bookish.

I hesitated and stepped forward, "Hello old man, is there no one in the school during the holidays?" ”

The old man looked at me and replied, "Yes, there will be no teacher left until the end of August, do you have anything to do?" ”

"It's nothing, I just want to come to inquire about my child's schooling, and it seems that I will come back at the end of the month."

The old man was surprised and asked, "How old is your child?" I replied, "Eight years old." He looked me up and down again and sighed, "I really can't see that you have such a big child, is it a boy or a girl?" Which one? ”

A little stunned, why did this old man ask in such detail? Who else, does it mean that he knows anyone in the town as long as he reports his name? The other party probably looked at me with a puzzled look on his face, and explained with a smile: "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm the principal." Your parents must have mentioned me to you. ”

I didn't know how to pick up this, and if I went deeper, I would have to go through the gang, so I had to nod indiscriminately and change the topic: "Principal, does anyone usually go in the school to clean up or something?" I don't have any doormen. ”

The old principal frowned, and looked at me suspiciously, "There will be no one in the school as soon as the school is closed, and the sanitation work will not be carried out until the school starts." I didn't care too much, and then said, "But I seem to have seen people walking around in it just now." ”

The old headmaster was stunned, turned his eyes to the iron gate, and muttered, "Impossible." ”

"It's true, I saw a man enter that building, it can't be a thief." I said worriedly.

"No, we've never had a theft in town." Having said that, it was obvious that he had wavered, and after a moment of hesitation, he took out a key from his pocket and walked to the iron door, muttering, "Go in and have a look, there shouldn't be anyone." ”

He didn't pay any more attention to me, opened the iron door and walked in. I glanced at the big iron lock that had not been locked again, and waited until he was about to reach the hallway of the teaching building before quietly pushing open the iron door and entering.

Staring at the ground, the iron filings had almost fallen by the time he walked here, so he searched for a while before finding them. Following the trail inside, I found that it was not leading to the stairway but to the back of the building.

I looked around and saw the old headmaster upstairs, so I immediately trotted some way to the back of the building. It turns out that there is another building behind the teaching building, and the layout and scale should be the teacher's office, which is two stories high.

And the traces of iron filings extend to this point, and they can no longer be found.