Zhao Xiaomin carried the thermos box into the door, glanced at the room with a pair of dark eyes, and put the thermos box on the dining room table.

"Minmin, why are you here, how do you sit outside?" This little girl came over early in the morning, which really surprised Xu Lai.

"At about six o'clock, I saw your door closed, so I waited outside." Zhao Xiaomin said.

"Then why didn't you knock on the door and call me? How's your mom? Xu Lai said with a smile.

"I was afraid of waking up my senior brother, so I waited outside, but I didn't expect to fall asleep. My mom is fine. The little girl said, opened the lid of the thermos box, and handed it to Xu Lai, "Senior brother, this is what I just made, you eat it while it's hot." ”

When I looked at it, it was a box of yellow pumpkin pie.

"What time did you wake up?" Xu Lai knew that if such a box of pumpkin pie was made completely fresh, it would take a lot of time.

"I got up at two o'clock." Zhao Xiaomin said.

Xu Lai couldn't cry or laugh, no wonder this girl was about to fall asleep sitting outside the door.

"Senior brother, you can eat and see." Zhao Xiaomin took a piece and handed it over, looking at Xu Lai eagerly.

Xu Lai took it and took a bite and said with a smile: "It's delicious." ”

"If you like it, I'll make it for you every day." The little girl said crisply.

Xu looked at her, smiling and not speaking.

Zhao Xiaomin's black eyes flashed, her white fingers tightened the corners of her clothes, and she whispered, "Senior brother, can you help me find my sister?" ”

Xu Lai smiled, this little girl came over so early, just because she was afraid that he would slack off, and the overseer came.

In fact, pumpkin pie doesn't necessarily have to be freshly made, it can be made before, and then fried again, and the taste is not too much different.

But this little girl had to make it all ready, and she got up at two o'clock in the morning, just to show him her thoughts, so that he was embarrassed to miss her.

It's really a big ghost.

"You haven't eaten either, let's eat some together, and I'll go find your sister later." Xu said.

"Really, thank you, senior brother!" Zhao Xiaomin said happily, picked another piece of pumpkin pie and handed it to Xu Lai, and then took a piece to eat.

"Wait a minute, you're here with me, I'll go find your sister." Xu said.

"No, I'll go with you." The little girl said immediately.

Xu Lai persuaded him several times, but Zhao Xiaomin just refused.

"I'm very familiar with this area, and it's best for me to go with my senior brother." Although this girl is young, her idea is right, and once she makes up her mind, she easily refuses to change it.

However, Xu Lai is not a master who changes his words easily, and says: "If you go, then I won't go?" ”

Zhao Xiaomin bit his lip, and after a long while, he said, "Senior brother, you just let me go, I'm not afraid of anything." ”

Xu Lai was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but look at her a few more times. Now is the information age, information is extremely developed, and everyone will soon know what is going on in Jiangning City.

Just like the murder of the three models in Zijinyuan, it must have spread a long time ago.

Although Zhao Xiaomin, this little girl, is not very old, but she is precocious, and I am afraid that she has heard a lot of talk about her sister from others.

"Then let's go together." Xu Lai smiled and rubbed the little girl's head.

Put away the uneaten pumpkin pie, close the lid of the thermos box, and take Zhao Xiaomin out of the door, go to the door of 2101, and put the thermos box on the ground.

"It's my landlord who lives inside, does it matter if you invite her to eat?" Xu Lai asked with a smile.

"Of course it doesn't matter." Zhao Xiaomin said.

The two of them said and entered the elevator. After coming out of Zijinyuan, Xu Lai took her to the east.

"Senior brother, where do we go first?" Zhao Xiaomin asked.

Xu glanced at her and said, "Don't call me Senior Brother in the future, change your name." ”

"What's that called?"

"Let's call Lao Xu." Xu said.

"Oh." The little girl nodded obediently.

After last night's survey and calculation, Xu Lai has roughly traced eight points.

He didn't know what kind of array the other party was arranging, so he could only calculate it according to the distribution location of the two points of Zijinyuan and Tianxiang Garden, and then use the thirteen diagrams of Fang Zhongshu to correspond, supplemented by the pattern of this area of Jiangning City.

So the eight points are only preliminary possibilities, and it is very likely that only five of these eight points will be true. There is no other way but to check the past point by point.

But he really didn't want Zhao Wenjun to be found by him, because if he found him, it would mean that Zhao Wenjun was no longer alive.

"Minmin, look at these places, have your sisters ever been?" As Xu spoke, he reported eight place names, seven of which were the names of neighborhoods and one was a middle school.

"That Wutong Garden, my sister took me to it once, and she has a classmate here." Zhao Xiaomin said after listening.

Wutong Garden is near Zijin Garden, with a straight-line distance of more than 800 meters. The two of them went over there first, there are a total of eight buildings in this community, and Xu Lai directly found Building No. 6.

According to his calculations, one of the eight possible formations was located here.

"Does your sister's classmate live here?" Xu Lai took Zhao Xiaomin in.

"Yes, on the 8th floor." The little girl remembers it very well.

Xu Lai did not go directly to the eighth floor, but started from the first floor and walked over one by one.

But he didn't knock on the door, he didn't ask anyone, but when he passed by the door of the house, he stayed outside for a moment, and then continued to the door of the next house.

Zhao Xiaomin followed him, although he didn't understand what he was doing, he was also very well-behaved, quiet, and didn't ask questions or bother him.

Go all the way to the eighth floor.

"That's it." Zhao Xiaomin pointed to one of the families and said.

Xu Lai nodded, stood at the door for a while, and stepped forward and knocked on the door. It was the mother of Zhao Wenjun's female classmate who came out to open the door, and her daughter happened to be at home, but she hadn't gotten up yet.

Hearing that Zhao Xiaomin said that it was the sister of her daughter's classmate, she had to beckon them to come in and sit down, and then go and call her daughter to get up.

Xu Lai glanced at the room and said that there were other things to do, so he wouldn't bother. Take Zhao Xiaomin out.

"I also came to ask a few days ago, and she said that she had never seen her sister." The little girl said.

"Well, let's go look elsewhere." Xu said, taking her to the ninth floor.

Speaking of which, Xu Lai and Zhao Wenjun have never met, and they have not planted any tracking basis in advance, so it is impossible to find a living person from Jiangning City.

But the living cannot be found, but the dead can be found.

Xu Lai stayed at the door of each room for a moment, just looking for the corpse qi emitted in the air.

The whole building was found, but there was no result. The two came out of the neighborhood and continued to the next place.

These eight points are scattered and have no regularity, so they start to find them according to the most recent ones. Zhao Xiaomin is really familiar with this area, as long as she reports her name, she can find it accurately.

By noon, I had found a total of two places, but I still found nothing. Xu Lai took Zhao Xiaomin to find a place to eat on the street, and received a WeChat message from Chen Duo halfway, asking him where he ran early in the morning, and she smiled at the pumpkin pie.

Xu came out to go shopping, this pumpkin pie was made by the little girl of the Zhao family, and he just borrowed flowers to thank the Buddha.

After lunch, the two of them started looking for the third point.

These places are all communities, and there are nearly 100 households in one building, Xu Lai looked for them one by one, and Zhao Xiaomin followed him, but he was also very patient, quiet, not noisy or asking.

By about three o'clock in the afternoon, they had finished searching for the fifth. The fifth place is a secondary school, which is the easiest to find and takes the least time.

After that, there is the sixth place, which is a residential area called Yunshuiwan.

"Tired, aren't you?" Xu Lai and Zhao Xiaomin finished reading the sixth floor and climbed the stairs to the upper floor.

"I'm not tired, it's very relaxed." The little girl said crisply.

Xu Lai smiled and walked to the door of room 701, originally wanting to say something to the little girl, but suddenly stopped.

After a while, he turned back to Zhao Xiaomin and said, "Minmin, you wait for me outside." ”

"I'm going along." Zhao Xiaomin's white little hands tightly grabbed the corners of his clothes, "Lao Xu, I'm going." ”

She didn't use the coquettish tone of an ordinary little girl, she sounded ordinary, just looked at him with a pair of black and white eyes beggingly.

Xu Lai stared at her for a while, sighed slightly, didn't say anything more, put his palm on the door lock, and the door opened immediately. As if he knew there was no one else in the room, he didn't knock on the door at all, and walked straight in.

When he entered the door, it was a small living room, but Xu Lai didn't stop at all, and went directly to the room closest to the living room.

He pressed it casually, and the door lock snapped open. He didn't go in immediately, and when he turned around, he saw Zhao Xiaomin following behind him, his little face was pale, and the hand holding his clothes kept shaking.

Xu Lai patted her on the head and pushed the door in.

Just standing outside the door just now, even Zhao Xiaomin could already smell the rotten smell coming from the house, and at this time the door was pushed open, and suddenly a strong rancid smell came to his nose.

Xu Lai has been dealing with dead people since he was six years old, and he has never seen anything, so naturally he will not be uncomfortable.

On the floor of the room, a young girl, naked, with her black hair tangled in her chest, in a strange posture that was one of the thirteen illustrations of the Chamber.

At this time, the temperature is quite high, and the corpse is already somewhat decomposed.

But it can still be vaguely seen from the appearance that she was a very beautiful girl before she was born. Xu Lai has seen Zhao Wenjun's photo, and now this girl is her.

Zhao Xiaomin stood there blankly, but unexpectedly didn't cry or make trouble, but the whole person trembled.

Xu Lai patted her on the shoulder, and was about to take her out first, when she suddenly said, "Old Xu, can I help my sister put on her clothes?" ”

Everything here, of course, is best left as it is, but Xu Lai said, "Yes." ”

Zhao Xiaomin looked around and found her sister's clothes on the bed, clothes, pants, including underwear, all neatly folded there.

Zhao Xiaomin took the clothes and ran to put them on for her sister, but this person had been dead for several days, and where could she bend and stretch like a living person, she tried several times in a row, but she couldn't even put the clothes in.

"I'll come." Xu Lai pulled the little girl aside, quickly helped Zhao Wenjun put on her clothes, and straightened her hair and put her body flat on the ground.

He has been doing this kind of work since he was a child, and it is like eating and sleeping.

"Minmin." He turned around and called Zhao Xiaomin.

But this little girl was like a mud fetus, standing there just looking at her sister, not saying a word, not even blinking an eye.

Xu Lai sighed slightly, got up and walked to her side, his fingers flicking lightly between her eyebrows.

Zhao Xiaomin seemed to come back to his senses all of a sudden, looked up at him, and said, "Old Xu, my sister is gone." ”

After speaking, his mouth flattened, and he suddenly cried out. When she cried, she was out of control, only holding Xu Lai's arm and crying in the dark.