Chapter 13: A Difficult Journey
Mu Tianyu put down the hot drink in his hand, carefully rummaged through the file bag, and after a moment, he poured everything inside onto his lap. "It's weird." He said suspiciously, rummaging through the clutter of papers, but he couldn't find what he was looking for.
"What's wrong?" On the side, Yang Ziqing asked suspiciously, more than an hour has passed since the drive, and it is not easy to disturb Mu Tianyu when he sees that he has not spoken and is buried in the case.
Mu Tianyu put the messy case back in the file bag. "A few of these diaries are gone, and I haven't seen them after looking for them, has anyone touched this case before me?" Mu Tianyu recalled the situation when he saw the document bag that day, there were no extra fingerprints on the heavy dust, and he had not heard what the guard's Xiao Gao said.
"Who would litter a case file for no reason? Don't you have a diary at all? Yang Ziqing turned the steering wheel and drove towards a fork in the road.
"No diary?" Mu Tianyu repeated, guessing in his heart that it was possible that Zhong Yi didn't write anymore after seeing her daughter.
Yang Ziqing confirmed the navigator, the direction did not deviate, but the path was a little barren, and there were no vehicles coming and going. "By the way, what kind of case are you receiving, I see that you are very nervous, I have never seen you like this before." Although he rarely works with Mu Tianyu, Yang Ziqing pays attention to some of his illnesses, and has never seen him so anxious as he is today. Even half a year ago, when the mayor's wife was maliciously harassed by a mentally ill person, he was able to deal with it calmly.
"It's not a special case, it's Zhong Yi's." Mu Tianyu rubbed his neck, and he had been reading the case for too long just now.
"Zhong Yi!" Yang Ziqing exhaled the name in surprise, the speed of the car had an obvious and rapid pause, her hand holding the steering wheel was even more nervous, and the body couldn't help shaking.
Mu Tianyu didn't expect her to have such a big reaction, and subconsciously he immediately stretched out his right hand to support the left side of the center control in the car to stabilize his shaking body. "Ziqing, what's wrong with you? Calm down. Mu Tianyu said with a shocked expression, but she was still a little distracted at the moment, so she simply stretched out her left hand to hold her nervous and trembling arm. Are you okay. "Fortunately, the body is finally a lot more stable, and the previous scene is still undecided, but fortunately there are no other cars around.
Yang Ziqing took a deep breath, she realized what was happening, felt the warmth of Mu Tianyu's palm, the trembling was not so intense, and the excitement calmed down a lot. "I'm so sorry, almost...... It almost turned out to be a disaster. She was full of self-reproach, and her eyes were red with guilt.
"It's okay, it's okay." Mu Tianyu tried to slowly retract his hand, but everything was just a false alarm. "Take a break, I'll drive." Zhong Yi's matter seems to be extraordinary, and Yang Ziqing must know something, Mu Tianyu feels that things are not as simple as he thought, and it turns out that it is beyond his expectations. Then Yang Ziqing pulled over and switched places with him. It was getting darker and darker, and the backlog of clouds covered the sky, and there were no birds still flying, and the dense vegetation beside the road did not even shake the leaves on the branches, which was often a sign before a storm. Mu Tianyu no longer hesitated, he closed the car door and continued to walk. Yang Ziqing in the co-pilot was still restless, she drank a few sips of hot drinks in a row, but the water temperature was already cold, and she took the wrong cup. Mu Tianyu noticed that she closed her eyes, but frowned tightly, and it lasted for nearly a minute before she relaxed her frowning movement slightly. Seeing that Yang Ziqing had not spoken, Mu Tianyu couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart. "What happened to you?"
Yang Ziqing knew Zhong Yi and what happened to him, a month ago, not long after Zhong Yi's death, Yang Huai repeatedly told himself not to meddle in this matter. On the day of Zhong Yi's funeral, his widow was very grief-stricken, because Zhong Yi was once her father's student, so she was also present that day. Yang Ziqing knows Zhong Yi's wife, and they have a good relationship with each other, and they often go shopping together. If it weren't for Yang Ziqing being by her side that day, I really don't know what would happen to her next. But the day after that, Yang Huai repeatedly told Yang Ziqing not to pay attention to the matter of Zhong Yi's family, he was very serious, Yang Ziqing had never seen his father so angry. "You remember, don't bother with Zhong Yi's family, otherwise...... Otherwise, our family will suffer like him! You remember! Yang Huai's stern voice lingered in her mind.
"Ziqing? Yang Ziqing! "Are you okay, Mu Tianyu pulled over the car.
"It's okay, it's just that I've heard my father talk about it."
"Really? What did he say? I already knew very little about Zhong Yi's affairs, and it was rare to find some clues, not to mention that with Yang Huai's opinion, I would definitely find something that was difficult for ordinary people to capture, Mu Tianyu asked in surprise.
Although Yang Huai talked about this more than once, her father didn't say a word about the reason. "He just told me not to approach anyone in Zhong Yi's family and talk about him." Yang Ziqing stared into Mu Tianyu's eyes. "Let's go back, I know it sounds ridiculous, but I feel very confused now, I have a sense of foreboding, shall we go back?" Tears flickered in his eyes, and his originally calm emotions continued to rise. "Tianyu, look outside." Yang Ziqing opened the window. "The sky is dark, the coming storm, at first I thought it was just a coincidence, but when you talk about Zhong Yi, I think it's like there's a connection, do you understand? These are ominous signs we see, let's go back. Yang Ziqing pleaded emotionally.
Mu Tianyu is not stupid, of course he also thinks this matter is incredible, including what he has heard or encountered, it is incomprehensible. But the more this is the case, the more interested he becomes, which has an extremely important relationship with his brother's affairs, although Mu Tianyu doesn't say it, but there has always been a knot in his heart, but he can't open it. At this time, he couldn't help but think back to the strange woman he met in the parking lot after the exchange meeting a few nights ago, and what she said had been haunting him. "Ziqing, listen to me, calm down." Mu Tianyu soothed her emotions and turned sideways to Yang Ziqing. "Trust me, it's not a big deal, I'm just going to visit a patient and that's it. We'll go back in a moment, shall we? I'm here, it's okay, trust me. Mu Tianyu has already made up his mind, but if Yang Ziqing changes his mind temporarily, he is very likely to give up his trip today. But very fortunately, Yang Ziqing finally compromised, she thought that the man in front of her could protect herself. But Mu Tianyu didn't know whether this was luck or bad luck.
In the storm, Mu Tianyu repeated Zhong Yi's experience before his death, passing by the uninhabited wooden bridge and driving through the muddy and uneven road. On that secluded and deserted fork in the road, Mu Tianyu slowed down the car, paid attention to the navigator, and the instructions on it pointed to that side without deviation, and he drove inward with force under his feet. He kept an eye on both sides of the road, but didn't see any people until he saw a house on one side. The body was relatively bumpy, Mu Tianyu's speed was very slow, and Yang Ziqing in the passenger seat opened the window. The roar of the wild shouts and the spur of the rain suddenly swelled into the car, and the torrential rain splashed into the car, and she moved towards Mu Tianyu, only half of the window opened, looking at the row of houses in the distance. "This is the town of Ponslin?" She muttered softly, and her face still looked a little nervous.
"Yes, yes." Mu Tianyu also looked at the row of houses, which was the same as described in Zhong Yi's diary. Suddenly, something was recalled in Mu Tianyu's mind, and he consciously slammed on the brake with his right foot. Although the speed of the car was slow, this kick still made the people in the car choke, and at the same time spread the screams of a woman. But in the midst of this rainstorm, there was a little silence.
"Be careful!" Yang Ziqing shouted in surprise, as if she had just come ashore after losing her soul from the rapids. "Tianyu, are you okay?" Mu Tianyu stared intently ahead, and then glanced at the rearview mirror of the car to look around. Then it was very certain that there was no middle-aged man wearing a cloak appearing, which was obviously different from the description in the diary. He looked out of the passenger window, and the houses in the distance were not as recorded in the diary, and someone was watching him from behind the window. "Tianyu, are you alright? Let's go. Yang Ziqing almost lost her voice and shouted, her emotions were unusually excited at this time, and she could feel a strange fear that made her panic.
"I'm sorry, I was a little distracted." Mu Tianyu comforted, she looked at Yang Ziqing with tears in her eyes, and quickly closed the car window.
"It's okay, I'm glad I didn't hit it." Yang Ziqing's dull eyes were still shocked.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Although he said this, he was still puzzled in his heart, and he looked in the rearview mirror, which was deserted, and there was nothing but the muddy road that had been beaten by the torrential rain.
"Let's get out of here, the people here are so weird, I don't want to stay here for a minute." Yang Ziqing almost collapsed, she begged Mu Tianyu.
Mu Tianyu found the path and turned around without the slightest hesitation, the rotting dead leaves and the thick sludge were muddy, and the friction of the wheels was loud. "It's okay, we're here, let's go see the patient first, we'll leave later, I promise." He secretly thought in his heart, Ziqing is indeed reasonable, the people here are too weird, they are all hiding, are they lurking in the dark corners.
The familiar picture in the diary is an abandoned garden, and there seems to be a vague track mark outside the fence, as if Zhong Yi had just left. Mu Tianyu packed his things, he sorted out the cases, and then took out a notebook with a red shell from the black leather bag in the back row. "Tianyu, shall we go back?" Yang Ziqing on the side was still begging, and tears were already shining in her helpless eyes. "It's past four o'clock now, and I'm worried that it will be difficult to drive after a night and the bad weather, and we don't know each other well here." Her analysis is not unreasonable, and there are indeed such factors in it.
"It's past four?" Mu Tianyu's surprised expression resurfaced again, he hadn't paid attention to the time before, and then he took out his mobile phone from his bag, and the time on it shocked him, four thirteen minutes!