Rio was flustered, obviously the weather temperature was very low today, but because of the nervousness in his heart, the palms of his hands couldn't help but ooze sweat.

Quickly walked to the exit of the warehouse, Rio's nervousness was relieved, his left hand trembled and took out a cigarette from his pocket, and wanted to take out a lighter to light it again, but the hand that reached into the pocket directly touched the air, and suddenly remembered that it seemed to have put the lighter in the bathroom.

"Damn...... Damn ......"

Kicking the snow that had piled up on the ground, Rio couldn't help but curse under his breath.

"Bang!"

"Ah......h

Before Rio could react, he was slammed into the back, and immediately lunged forward and slammed to the ground.

"You ...... What do you want to do? ”

Rio endured the severe pain, and when he looked back, he was attacked by the two men in black who were watching in the warehouse.

"Woo......"

Without even too much scolding, two men in black stepped forward and grabbed Rio's neck, and one punched him in the stomach again.

The weak part of his stomach was attacked by such a Cheng dù, needless to say, Rio suddenly screamed, and his whole body was so weak that he almost collapsed to the ground.

"I've found someone, what should I do?"

The tall man in black, who was grabbing the placket of Rio's neck, turned around and asked in a deep voice.

"Wait, I'll ask above."

The man in black next to him took out his mobile phone, quickly dialed a fixed number, and after a few beeps, he connected the phone.

"Yes...... Be...... I understand. ”

Hanging up the phone, the man in black said to his companion: "Let's check the details of this person's identity first...... Then ......"

The companion nodded, indicating that he understood.

"What do you want to do? Let me go, or I'll call the police." ”

Rio was extremely frightened, and he could only barely struggle weakly, but it was a pity that this kind of struggle was for the two strong men in black. Almost nothing.

"Smack."

After receiving detailed instructions from above, the man in black no longer hesitated to do anything, and reached out and tapped on the root behind Rio's ear, which instantly made him dizzy and gradually unconscious.

Then, as if dragging a dead dog, the two left two marks on the snow. Walk to the other side of the warehouse.

In the afternoon, around the warehouse, it was quiet, and there was no one to see, not to mention that it was Christmas, and no one went to this remote warehouse center, this scene was destined to be undiscovered.

……

……

Time passed quickly, and by the time the hours had passed, by nightfall, a residential neighborhood on the other side of Los Angeles. Britney reversed into the garage in exhaustion and got out of the car grabbing her pouch.

It's already more than nine o'clock in the evening, but Britney, who has worked overtime until now, has not eaten any food, and the first thing she does when she walks into the house is not to go to the toilet, but to open the refrigerator first, and find something from it to fill her stomach.

While taking a sip of milk. Britney picked up the leather bag thrown on the couch as she was about to go to the study. I found that there was a recording of the cordless phone in the living room that was not played.

"Smack."

Pressing the button, a familiar voice rang out on the phone.

Britney ...... Huhu, it's a bit presumptuous to call you at this time, but listen to me, I seem to have discovered something amazing...... Haven't you been expecting a piece of big news? FU*CK, this happened right next to me. If I sue you. You definitely won't believe it...... I've sent the photos to your mailbox, and I think you should be able to give me a plan. ”

"Rio?"

Britney frowned, thought for a moment, and simply pressed her thumb to dial Rio's mobile number.

"Toot toot...... I'm sorry. Your call is unanswered, please hear ......"

"Why don't you answer the phone?"

Her heart was full of doubts, Britney knew that her friend was not a prankster person, not to mention that as a newspaper reporter, her years of professional experience allowed her to feel the uneasiness and fear in Rio's tone just by listening to it.

Thinking about this, Britney dropped the phone, walked into the study to open the laptop, and controlled the mouse to log in to her private mailbox.

Sure enough, there was indeed an email from Rio in her private mailbox.

There was no word in the email, only an attachment, and after Britney Spears downloaded it with a little mouse, ten seconds later, the attachment had been downloaded.

"Pictures?"

Inside the attachment was a series of more than a dozen pictures, Britney clicked on the first picture in confusion, and was immediately startled by the miserable white face of the dead man on the picture.

"What is this?"

Although she was taken aback, due to the nature of her profession, Britney's interest increased greatly after she was frightened, and she hurriedly clicked on the next picture and read more than a dozen pictures in the shortest possible time. Then let's take a closer look at them one by one and compare and study the confusion.

"Is it a corpse? Well...... It seems that there is no trace of modification, not PS. ”

Britney seemed to smell big news in her nose, excitedly took out her mobile phone, and immediately dialed Rio again.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just find the person who provided the image.

"Toot ......"

It's a pity that she was disappointed that more than ten minutes have passed since she heard the recording, and Rio still hasn't answered the phone.

Wrong!

Britney Spears got up and rushed to the living room to play the recording again.

Britney ...... Huhu, it's a bit presumptuous to call you at this time, but listen to me, I seem to have discovered something amazing......"

"I seem to have discovered something terrible", Britney paused the playback a few times, and there was a vague feeling of uneasiness in her heart.

"I think you should be able to give me a Jianyì."

In the last paragraph of the recording, Rio's tone was already a little panicked, and to the ears of outsiders, the owner of this voice seemed to be very anxious and frightened in his heart.

"Give you a Jianyì......"

Britney sat on the couch and muttered, "Rio, what happened to you?" ”

Getting up and walking back and forth in the living room a few times, Britney looked at the dark and cold sky outside, thought about it, first intercepted the recording, and then went to the computer to upload the dozen photos to SkyDrive and synchronized them to the mobile phone, then hurriedly walked out of the house, re-entered the garage and drove into the street, towards Rio's house.

Rio's home is in the easternmost suburb of Los Angeles, and it took Britney more than an hour to drive down a congested driveway and in front of a building.

It was here that Rio rented a house and lived here alone, Britney had been here once before, and this time she was able to find it with her memory, thanks to her excellent memory as a journalist.

"Smack."

Stepping out of the car and closing the door, Britney exhaled a white breath in the cold air and looked up at the second floor of the building, where the second house was Rio's temporary residence.

Walking up the iron ladder built by the wall, Britney "banged" on the door, and the sound was heard far away in this cold environment.

There was silence and no response until half a minute after knocking, Britney had to admit that Rio had not returned.

Where the hell did he go?

Just as Britney was thinking about the rest of the way to find someone, perhaps she had been knocking on the door for too long, the first porter suddenly opened, revealing the head of a fat woman.

"Who are you?"

The obese woman wears red glasses, and under the lenses are a pair of extremely vigilant eyes.

"Me? I'm sorry, can I ask you one thing? ”

Britney pointed to the second door: "This is the house my friend rented in Rio, I want to ask, why hasn't he come back yet?" ”

"Are you a friend of Rio? Does he still have friends? ”

The fat woman looked Britney up and down in amazement, and muttered, "And it's a woman." ”

"Yes, I'm his friend."

Britney's tone accentuated, as if that would strengthen her persuasiveness.

"He went overtime this morning...... Haven't you come back yet? ”

The obese woman still knows where Rio is going, "maybe working overtime until the early hours of the morning...... This is a common occurrence. ”

"Overtime?"

Britney breathed a sigh of relief, "Thanks, I think I should go." ”

Just as she was about to take a step to leave, Britney's heart suddenly moved, and at the moment when the fat woman was about to close the door, she instantly turned around and asked, "I'm sorry, please wait, can I ask where he works?" ”

"Are you really his friend?"

The fat woman exaggeratedly opened her "bloody mouth", "You are his friend, will you not know where he works?" You won't forget the role of your phone, right? ”

"I haven't been in touch with him for a while...... Well, you know, so I don't have his current mobile phone number......"

Britney is very experienced in this area and knows how to get the information she needs as quickly as possible from a woman who likes to eat ketchup.

Sure enough, Britney said this, which immediately misunderstood the obese woman, "He works in the logistics warehouse of the Frost Group in the eastern suburbs...... He's really working hard, and although the income there is not bad, it's very tiring. ”

Logistics warehouse!

With the information she needed, Britney walked down the stairs, returned to the car, opened the electronic map, and quickly found her destination from the map.

It's still more than ten kilometers away from here, although it's not very far, but after all, it's late, and it's hard to say whether you can find anyone or not.

Britney hesitated for a moment, and before she could make a decision, her phone rang suddenly.

"Hey, Rika, okay, I'll give you the information later."

Hanging up the phone, Britney had to drive home, busy with the collected information, and then pass the information to colleagues, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening, and under the heavy sleepiness, Britney didn't even take a shower, and fell into a deep sleep when she threw herself into bed. (To be continued......)