Chapter 5: Bad News Missing

A loud knock on the door woke me from my dream, and it seemed as if my bed was shaking. Trying to open his eyes, he fumbled to pick up the alarm clock on the bedside table and put it in front of him, and the hands on the alarm clock were only 6:15.

"Crazy! Who? Is there any mistake? Don't let people live on the big weekend? ”

Suddenly, a wave of unprovoked anger surged in my heart, and I wanted to beat the person who knocked on the door. When I got home from work last night, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and it was already two thirty o'clock after I finished washing up in a hurry, even if I could fall asleep as soon as I lay down, I had just slept for three hours and forty-five minutes. What's more, today is still a Saturday, I thought that I could sleep beautifully in the morning, and then lie in bed until I woke up naturally, who knew that I was woken up by an unscrupulous knock on the door at only 6:15, which was simply disturbing.

"Who! What are you doing early in the morning? The knock at the door did not mean to stop, I got up from my bed impatiently, continued to shout at the door, took a coat and draped it over my nightdress, put on my slippers, and walked to the door in extreme displeasure.

"Xiaolou, open the door quickly, it's me, Lin Qihan!" Such an impolite knock on the door was actually done by the elegant Lin!

"Wait, wait a minute, Lin Suo, I, I'll change my clothes!" When I walked to the door, my feet stiffened, and my head suddenly woke up. Hurriedly turned around and rushed into the bathroom to wash his face.

"Xiaolou, open the door quickly, there is something urgent!" Lin Suo outside the door was very anxious, and urged himself to open the door. I looked at my chicken-coop-like hair, pulled it up haphazardly, gritted my teeth and pretended to be calm and walked to the door, and opened the door.

"Sister Xiaolou, you still have us!" The first person to rush into the room was Mu Ruoyan, as soon as she saw me, she hugged me thoughtlessly, and patted her back hard, as if there was a parting of life and death in front of her.

"Ruoyan, you let go first, this, what's the situation?" I was puzzled and wanted to push her away, but Ruoyan was like an octopus out of the water, holding her body and refusing to let go.

"If you smoke, let go first! Xiaolou, these two are here to find you! Lin Suo, who was standing behind Ruoyan, also walked in the door, followed by two strange men. They were wearing a black and gray suit, a black shirt, and a pair of black leather shoes, both of whom looked to be in their forties, their faces full of tiredness and solemnity, and the atmosphere of the whole room was lowered with their appearance.

"Are you Comrade Jiang Xiaolou? We couldn't get through to your phone, so we had to contact your leader! The older one opened his mouth first, his hair was all white, and he was carrying a black briefcase in his left arm, and his temperament showed his identity, a middle-level cadre in the system.

"I'm sorry, I worked overtime last night, slept late, and my phone was charged and turned off, and I didn't have time to turn it on. Who are you? What do you call it? "The man in front of me gave me a vague bad feeling, it couldn't be my nephew who had something to do in Germany, right? He swallowed desperately, reached out and wrapped the coat around his body, hugged his arms tightly, and stared intently at his mouth. I felt that my heart was pounding so badly, and there was an inexplicable buzzing sound in my ears, and I was very afraid that he would say his nephew's name.

"Hello! We are colleagues in Xiao Wenhui's unit, and when his project team was doing experiments, the whole group disappeared, and we would like to ask you to go to the base to help investigate this matter! The man said in a tone as plain as possible that made people tremble all over his body, Xiao Wenhui was missing!

"Missing? No, what's missing? Wen Hui also called me two days ago, he said that he commuted to and from work on time and worked at the base, he, how could he be missing? Where did they go missing? Didn't Wen Hui take a vacation at the end of the month, and he came to accompany me when he returned to the fog? He, why is he missing? I stammered and spoke illogically, my voice trembling uncontrollably, and big tears were already flowing all over my face with the opening of my mouth. They must be lying to me, my sister is dead, Wen Hui said that he will always be with me, he will not disappear, he will not be missing!

"I'm dreaming! Must be dreaming! "I closed my eyes and squatted on the ground with my ears covered, trying to wake myself up from this nightmare.

"Comrade Jiang, don't get excited, hurry, hurry up!" The younger man spoke, and Mu Ruoyan also hugged himself tightly and trembled, whispering in his mouth It's okay, it's okay, we're here!

"At present, the base has not been able to contact their group, and there is no news of casualties. The leadership of the base is also out of humanitarian considerations, so that the family members rushed to the base as soon as possible, there has been contact with the local troops, is carrying out a carpet search and rescue, I believe that there will be results soon, but you must also have a psychological preparation first! ”

The older middle-aged man said in a round voice, looking at his expression, this kind of contact with family members should not be the first time to do it. The hardships of astronauts were very clear to us when Wen Hui went to work at the base. I can't ask about what he does, I can't say what he does, I can't ask where he works, he can't say, I can't ask about his working hours, he still can't say. Now the only time I can talk about his work up close is that the other party told me that Xiao Wenhui is missing, how can this be accepted?

Hearing this bad news and demand, should I faint now? Or should you cry without scruples? Or point at their noses and scold these people for their incompetence and cold-bloodedness? In my opinion, they say that they are thinking about their families, but in fact, what they are most worried about should be that Xiao Wenhui's group defected with confidential information.

As a result, unsuspecting family members will be taken hostage until the base finds out everything. In the past, it was the same when my brother-in-law had an accident, and the most important thing that the unit was concerned about was whether the brother-in-law was a traitor, whether there was any leakage of information and materials, and the next step was the life or death of the brother-in-law. The anger generated by this thought almost threw me out of control.

"Xiaolou, we will all accompany you, you must be calm, Wen Hui is not easy at the base, he will definitely be able to come back!" Just when anger swallowed my reason, and I was about to question the other party without words, Lin Suo firmly grabbed my arm. His eyes were fixed on mine, and although they didn't communicate with each other, there was comfort and companionship in the silence that everyone understood, and the warmth that calmed people down.

"Okay, I'll clean up and go to the base with you right away!" The defensiveness, hostility, and malice that had swelled up in me withdrew and I answered them in a weak but firm voice. I just want to tell them that Xiao Wenhui, whom I love, will never defect, and he must still be alive.