When she received a call from Dr. Huo, Yu Yue happened to take a photo of the copper badge in her hand and send it out. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

So, by chance, seeing an unfamiliar number displayed on her mobile phone, Yu Yue hesitated for a moment, and finally picked it up, "Hey? ”

Dr. Huo looked very anxious, and after identifying himself, he said in a sharp voice on the other end of the phone, "Miss Yu, are you free now?" Remember the last time I said I had a friend who was interested in the disappearance of Dr. Shen's plane? ”

Yu Yue nodded distractedly, and suddenly found that she was talking on the phone, so she hurriedly said "um".

"Earlier, I sent him a picture of Dr. Shen's badge, and within two days, he called and said he wanted to see you. I went to your magazine to find you and Zhuo Fan, but your colleague said that you were on a business trip and gave me your number, no, are you free today? ”

"See me?" Yu Yue was speechless in surprise. "Did he make some discoveries?"

"I don't know, but this friend of mine never easily asks who he wants to meet, and he actually called and said that he wanted to see you, there must be something very important."

Yu Yuemu nodded.

"What's going on?" Zhuo Fan stood behind her and asked with concern.

Yu Yue covered Mai with her other hand, looked up and whispered, "It's Doctor Huo." ”

Zhuo Fan's face sank, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Yu Yue nodded silently, and turned to Dr. Huo and said, "Dr. Huo, you send me the address, and I'll go after work." ”

The words on the other end of the phone made Yu Yue unable to delay any longer, "I'll get downstairs to your company soon, and you come down immediately." ”

"This ......" Before Yu Yue finished speaking, the phone had been cut off. Yu Yue glanced at Zhuo Fan helplessly, "I have to go out." ”

"What is Dr. Huo looking for you?"

Yu Yue didn't know, so she could only tell Zhuo Fan what Dr. Huo said on the phone, and Zhuo Fan thought about it, "I'll go with you." ”

Yu Yue was a little hesitant, but quickly agreed, because the call from Dr. Huo's urging came in again, "I'll come down now." Yu Yue hung up the phone, expecting that when he handed over the badge to Dr. Huo that day, Zhuo Fan was there, and it seemed natural to bring him this time.

Zhuo Fan handed over the work and went downstairs with Yu Yue, and Dr. Huo drove a large off-road vehicle, parked on the side of the road, and waved straight at them.

"I'm really not used to Dr. Huo wearing civilian clothes," Zhuo Fan said as soon as he got in the car.

Yu Yue saw Dr. Huo in civilian clothes at a glance, and in Yu Yue's impression, Dr. Huo had been wearing a white coat, his silver hair was scattered, and he looked unhealthy. Dr. Huo, who is now sitting in the driver's seat, is wearing a black jacket, and his hair is combed back with hairspray, which makes him look particularly energetic. If he met him on the street, Yu Yue would not have recognized him.

"This friend of mine is a very eccentric person, and if he wasn't neatly dressed, he wouldn't have opened the door." Dr. Huo smiled and glanced at Yu Yue and Zhuo Fan from the rearview mirror, "Sure enough, they are office workers, unlike us doctors, and the work clothes are the monotonous white coats." ”

Zhuo Fan and Yu Yue glanced at each other, "Is there any news?" Zhuo Fan asked.

"I already told Miss Yu on the phone, and after that friend of mine saw the badge, he did some research and wanted to ask Miss Yu something."

"Doctor Huo, who is that friend of yours?" Yu Yue became curious.

Doctor Huo smiled mysteriously, "You should all have heard of him, but he has cultivated himself in recent years, and he doesn't mess around." In the past, it was very distressing to those who knew him. ”

Hearing what Doctor Huo said, Yu Yue and Zhuo Fan were even more curious, "Doctor Huo, who is he?" ”

Dr. Huo looked at Zhuo Fan in the rearview mirror, "After all, he still has some relationship with Zhuo Fan's father. When he said the word "origin", Dr. Huo glanced at Zhuo Fan deeply.

Zhuo Fan searched back and forth in his mind, and he had some relationship with his father? "It won't be ......"

Dr. Huo saw Zhuo Fan's incredulous expression in the rearview mirror and nodded with satisfaction.

"Doctor Huo, put us down in front" Zhuo Fan's face was pale, and although his words were very polite, he already carried a sense of unkindness.

Yu Yue was taken aback by Zhuo Fan's reaction, and hurriedly asked, "Who is he?" ”

Doctor Huo didn't mean to stop, "I said that Yu Yue is from your newspaper, and Duanmu expected that you would definitely appear." And he also expected that after you knew that the other party was him, you would have such a reaction. So he has already explained in advance and brought you with him. ”

Zhuo Fan snorted coldly, "Of course, Duanmu Long has completely disappeared in the past few years, and my father thought that he was no longer in the country." Speaking of this, he suddenly noticed that Yu Yue was still around, so he stopped and stopped talking.

Yu Yue noticed that Zhuo Fan had scruples about her, so she didn't want to ask directly. But I wondered in my heart, Duanmu Long? How does this name sound so familiar, after all, there are very few people with the surname Duanmu in China, but for the time being, she can't think of anything, and it's not good to be in front of Zhuo Fan.

Doctor Huo smiled faintly, "Duanmu reassures you, he is looking for you this time purely for the badge." Zhuo Fan, you must also want to know what is the story behind that badge, right? ”

Zhuo Fan bit his lip lightly, as if he was patient. Finally, he glanced out the window and watched the shadows of the trees flickering by the side of the road, silent.

The car drove for nearly an hour, out of the suburbs, straight to the edge of the suburbs.

"Where is this?"

"There's still a long way to go, so I borrowed an SUV to get there." Dr. Huo was in a good mood, and it seemed that he really wanted to meet that Duanmu Dragon.

There was no more words all the way, until the sun slowly sank into the horizon. The off-road vehicle shuttled through the reckless woods, slowly moving up the mountain, the headlights lit up the rugged winding road, and the two sides of the road were covered with withered yellow plane leaves, Yu Yue finally knew why he was driving the off-road vehicle.

"Do you see the big mansion in front of you? That's Duanmu Long's home. ”

Halfway up the dark mountainside, a large mansion appeared at the end of the road, because of the night, the house looked black and scary. "Looks a bit like a vampire's castle."

"Maybe it's because the lights aren't on, but this house is beautiful during the day."

"Maybe it's a place where vampires live." Zhuo Fan leaned lazily on the back of the chair and said disdainfully.

Dr. Fok parked his car outside the iron gate and was about to ring the doorbell. As soon as the ground lit up, the whole house, along with the garden outside the house, lit up brightly. The original lifelessness of this house was swept away, and it became extraordinarily warm and affectionate.

"This is ......" The house reflected in the light was completely presented in Yu Yue's sight, and a white light flashed in her mind, "Ah! Duanmu Dragon! She remembered that Duanmu Long, who had become a topic of conversation at that time, was called an outlier in the academic world. Because of his extraordinary talent, he received a doctorate in physics from Cambridge University at the age of 22, and less than a year after returning to China, he suddenly gave up physics research and began to study metaphysics. At that time, this incident caused an uproar at home and even abroad. Some scholars once asserted that if Duanmulong continued his physical research, he was likely to become another great figure after Hawking. However, just after Duanmu Long gave up physics research and turned to metaphysics, for a long time, Duanmu Long seemed to have evaporated from the whole world, and no one could find his whereabouts, and when he reappeared in the public eye, it was when he built this mansion on the mountainside.

At that time, the headlines of the major newspapers were about this house. So what impressed Yu Yue even more was of course not Duanmulong's name, but the frontal photo of this house.

Yu Yue was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth, "I didn't expect it!" ”

Seeing Yu Yue's surprise, Dr. Huo couldn't even finish his words, and he also smiled, "You finally remembered." After speaking, he smiled, "Don't look too happy, Duanmu doesn't like others to laugh in front of him." ”

Zhuo Fan looked at Yu Yue and Doctor Huo lightly, "He thinks that laughter is the most false expression in the world." ”

Dr. Huo added, "And what he hates most is journalists." ”

"Looks like I'm going to make him nasty." Yu Yue was a little frustrated.

"Not necessarily." Dr. Huo laughed and rang the doorbell.

Zhuo Fan looked vigilantly at the person who slowly walked out of the courtyard and stood up straight.

It was the manager of the house who came out, he was not old but had a serious expression, as if he had been robbed of his feelings, Yu Yue and the three of them followed him into the house, only to feel that under the light, the whole house was as silent as death. The sound of their footsteps echoed across the empty hall floor, and the crystal chandelier hanging high above them shone a blind, cold light.

"This way, please." Yu Yue just wanted to go up the stairs on the left, and the man who led the way stretched out his hand to signal them to take the stairs on the right.

Yu Yue asked curiously, "Why do you have to go up the stairs on the right?" "Obviously, on the left and right sides of the hall against the wall, there are stairs leading to the second floor. As a left-handed Yu Yue, she has a special attachment to the left.

Doctor Huo explained in a low voice, "Just follow along, this must be Duanmu's orders, if you don't do what he says, I'm afraid I'll be kicked out before I see him." ”

"Please go from here." In the corridor of the house, there are two roads, white and black, respectively, and the leader is a sixty-year-old man with sparse white hair. The old man motioned for them to go the black one.

Yu Yue didn't dare to come out, thinking to himself, there are so many rules for walking, it seems that this Duanmu Dragon is really strange enough, I'm afraid that after studying metaphysics over the years, his temper has become even more weird. It's no wonder that Zhuo Fan, who has always been decent, has such a big prejudice against Duanmu Long. Thinking of this, Yu Yue secretly glanced at Zhuo Fan who was following her side. I saw Zhuo Fan with his lips tightly closed, and his face was iron blue.

Walking along the underworld, at the end of the aisle, a wooden gate suddenly appeared, the gate was carved with fine patterns, Yu Yue got closer and looked closely, it turned out to be a hundred flowers bat pattern map, this is not the carving on the door of the big family in ancient times, and it is mostly used in Huizhou, it is the homonym "Fu" of the word "bat"? It's complicated and real. The door is made of brass handles, which hang heavily and quietly on the door.

The man knocked on the door twice and called softly, "Mr. Duanmu." ”

No sound came from inside the door, but the old man bowed slightly and gently pushed the door open. He said, "Sir, please come in." ”

Dr. Huo nodded politely at him and stepped into the room. Yu Yue followed.

The room is very bright, and there is a large desk in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, on which folders and computers and other office supplies are neatly placed. On either side of the desk, against the wall, books fill the shelves by the wall.

"It's ordinary," Yu Yue muttered. If it weren't for so many rules before the entry, Yu Yue would have thought that this was just an ordinary room, but because it was not ordinary before, it became more and more ordinary now.

"Coming?" A hoarse voice came from around the corner. Then, out came a man. The man is not tall, but he is very handsome, and a pair of eyes on the bridge of his tall nose keep turning, looking at Yu Yue, and soon, his eyes swept over Zhuo Fan.

"Duanmu." Dr. Huo was very excited, as if he couldn't contain himself, he stepped forward, but was stopped by Duanmu raising his hand, Duanmu bypassed them and walked to the desk, "I came to you today to confirm one thing with you." Duanmu Long didn't care about Dr. Huo and Zhuo Fan, looked directly at Yu Yue, and said straight to the point.

At first glance, I saw Duanmu Long, a middle-aged man who had become the object of everyone's search, and actually appeared in Yu Yue's sight, and was talking to her. She was in a trance for a moment, and she said respectfully, "You say." ”

Duanmulong blinked, and before the question could be spoken, his eyes were already shining with determination. "Are you sure Dr. Shen is really not dead?"