The phone rang, interrupting my strange dreams all at once.

I didn't have time to look at the number displayed on the screen, so I pressed the answer button directly and asked loudly: "Tang Sang, what is the result? Has the door of the safe been cut?"

"Hmm, is that Mr. Xia who took the safe away in the morning? I'm the waiter who works for you, and I report to you an unexpected news, Mr. Sheng is back and is eating in Baotu Spring Restaurant. If you need it, we're willing to help you, and we'll pay you. "The voice of the waiter who picked the lock and stole the safe came from the earpiece.

I took a deep breath to calm my mind.

"He's eating?" I asked.

"Yes, it's on the promenade behind the building, facing Bailong Bay. He had no helpers by his side, and he was alone. The waiter replied.

I looked at my watch, the time was 2:50 p.m., and it was getting closer and closer to the appointed time point for Tang Sang to call.

"I can't leave here if I have something to do, so you follow him, don't startle the snake first, I'll go over as soon as I'm done, no more than an hour at most. I commanded in a low voice.

The waiter hesitated: "Follow? We won't either?" But, Mr. Xia, we can try to learn and follow Mr. Sheng quietly. In terms of remuneration, you see......"

"From 10,000 per person, if I can help with other things, I will add money. I replied firmly.

Money is not an issue, as long as it can effectively move things forward, I am willing to contribute generously to this.

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Xia, I will inform my companion immediately, and I will do what you ask. The waiter got the answer he wanted and couldn't help but laugh.

I stood up, staggered to the bathroom, turned on the cold water, and slowly washed my face.

That chaotic dream made my head dizzy, looking at myself in the mirror, imagining the appearance of a fish head and a human monster, I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The merman has caused me so much confusion that when I see water and fish, I think of the merman who has been mixed into human society, and over time, every time I see a person with a strange appearance and strange behavior, I will wonder if it is a merman.

"As soon as this is over, I will be completely relieved. Alas, Sheng Pinhua returned to Baotu Spring Restaurant, where was Chen Dingkang sent? Was it another secret stronghold? Why did Sheng Pinhua come back? Was he careless or overconfident? Wasn't he afraid that I would call the police and arrest people?"

I looked at myself in the mirror, my face was dark, and my eyes were blank, probably due to severe sleep deprivation.

"Maybe I should listen to Zhang Quanzhong's advice, train my assistants, and reduce my workload. In this way, the work efficiency will continue to improve, and the body will not be overdrawn. ”

Before I knew it, I stayed in front of the mirror for more than ten minutes, constantly reflecting, asking myself, and constantly denying my own answers.

If Tang Sang was asked to be my assistant, she would definitely not be able to ask for it, but I couldn't bear it and didn't want to drag her into troubled waters.

She is Tang Wan's younger sister, Tang Wan has already suffered an accident, life and death are unknown, if Tang Sang repeats the mistakes of the past, am I worthy of the two sisters?

While he was thinking about it, Tang Sang's phone call came in: "The cutting went smoothly, the nine locks of the safe were all broken, and the cabinet door can be opened now." I put another iron box around it, put a turntable code steel lock, and chained it in the trunk of the car. We immediately left the Fleet Research Institute and returned from the Jiqing Expressway, arriving at the hospital at about seven o'clock in the afternoon. ”

I breathed a sigh of relief and told her twice in a row to pay attention to traffic safety.

"Is Xiao Wei delivering you food at noon? She is a very gentle girl, she usually talks very little, and she never gossips, so the male colleagues in the hospital like her very much. I think about it, only she is the best to deliver your food. "Tang Sang actually had the leisure to talk about Xiao Wei.

I pretended I didn't know, "It's good, it's good." Is her surname Wei? I didn't ask. ”

Tang Sang smiled: "Then I'll rest assured, there are many people in the hospital, and I am most afraid that someone will talk too much and cause you trouble." Well, we'll see you in the evening. ”

I hung up and walked to the balcony.

Next, I will race against time to rush to Baotu Spring Restaurant to meet Sheng Pinhua for a while. Taking away his safe is tantamount to stealing his hole cards, leaving him arrogant, and at the end of the flop, the only winner is me.

"Go, anything can be done, the burden of revitalizing the Xia clan is on your shoulders, move forward, the ancestors didn't leave you a way out-" I swore with my fist at the westward sun.

When I went downstairs, I met Nurse Xiao Wei at the elevator entrance.

She smiled shyly and pressed the elevator down button for me.

"Thank you, thank you for your hard work. I graciously thanked her, five steps away from her, so as not to frighten her by getting a little closer.

She bowed down and responded: "I'm not hard, Mr. Xia, it's my honor to be able to meet a big man like you." The superior instructs everyone to do their best to provide you with the best quality service and make you 200% satisfied. The leader also said that the customer is God, and we medical staff must come up with a grateful attitude and service method to serve God, there is no best, only better, so that you can spend the best time in the hospital. ”

The elevator came, and she pressed the down button again and asked me to get on the elevator.

Xiao Wei is very attentive, but I know that Tang Sang's biggest concern is that Xiao Wei is too "courteous" to me.

When I walked out of the hospital, I still took the methods of turning in circles, going in the opposite direction, blending in with the flow of people, throwing off the tail that might exist, and taking a taxi to the south gate of Baotu Spring Restaurant.

Unnoticed, I climbed over the wall and ran to the cloister behind the main building.

The waiter was very conscientious, carrying half a bag of melon seeds in his hand, sitting on the side of the cloister, sipping melon seeds and looking at his mobile phone.

I walked over on tiptoe and sat silently next to the waiter.

"It's still there. He whispered two words to me.

I poked my head out of the corner of the cloister and glanced north.

Sure enough, Sheng Pinhua had his back to this side and was drinking with his head down.

I took out the tracker, but the red dot on the screen still didn't appear, so it can be seen that Sheng Pinhua didn't bring Chen Dingkang back.

"What should I do, wait for him to get home, or will I arrest someone here?" the waiter asked.

I shook my head, "Wait, he'll go home, it's easier to get somebody." ”

I didn't think about how to deal with Sheng Pinhua, maybe it was best to deal with it by standing still and following him quietly, until he automatically revealed his flaws.

"Your friend didn't come back, hasn't he been-" The waiter's right palm was across his neck, making a "murderous" motion.

Chen Dingkang is an old Jianghu, since he decided to use his body as bait, he has already thought of countermeasures and retreats, otherwise there is no need to bother to create a fake car accident.

"No, it won't. I shook my head.

The waiter was bored with himself, scratched his head, and spoke again: "He eats live fish, does he also eat live people?"

I shushed and motioned for him to stop talking.

Although he helped me, I don't have a good impression of this kind of ninth-rate people. Judging from his skillful lock-picking behavior, he must be an expert in sliding doors and picking locks.

Jinan people have always despised thieves, in the "pit, blind, abduction, cheating, stealing" these five types of criminal behavior, "stealing" is the most obscene, the most lowly, the family is stolen can not get angry, hated the root of the tooth itching. Therefore, when the people of Jinan caught the thief, they were not busy calling the police, they were all tied up and beaten, dragged to the side of the road like a dead dog, and waited for the police to deal with it.

"Checkout. Sheng Pinhua shouted.

The waiter hurriedly put down the bag of melon seeds and ran over to settle the account with a cigarette.

I listened quietly to the movement in the cloister, and was in no hurry to make any action.

"Goodbye, go slowly. "I heard the waiter shouting loudly.

"Goodbye, goodbye, I'll walk from Bailong Bay, stop by. Sheng Pinhua responded.

After half a minute, the waiter came back and told me in a low voice: "The idea is to go from Bailong Bay, probably go to the north gate, go out from the north gate, and go back to Shengtang Lane." I'll call someone, and the four of you will accompany you to help the handle. ”

I nodded, leaning around the corner and looking north.

Bailong Bay is an irregular oval-shaped, although it is also a small lake formed by springs, but it has not been formally developed, and the shore of the lake is very simple, only made of simple masonry stones.

On the east side of the lake shore is a grove of half-human tall holly flowers, and a two-meter-wide path of green bricks follows the flowers to the east and into the grove.

At this moment, Sheng Pinhua walked on the trail, holding his hands behind his back, and his gait was very leisurely.

His nest has been taken away by me, and when he gets home, I'm afraid I'm going to be furious.

Soon, he walked into the grove, and his back faded away.

Without waiting for the waiter to call my companion, I walked alone through the corridor, across a three-foot-high bamboo fence, and chased along the blue-brick path.

During this period, my attention was all on Sheng Pinhua, and I did not pay close attention to the surrounding environment. Of course, with an unobstructed view of Bailong Bay and small forests, there is really nothing to observe.

For some reason, I felt that the trail was potholed, and it was one foot deep and one foot shallow to step on. I looked down and saw that the bricks were covered with dark green moss, and they were all very luxuriant, and it was clear that no one had set foot here for a long time.

It is a shortcut to enter Baotu Spring Park from Baotu Spring Restaurant, especially after the price increase of Baotu Spring tickets the year before last, more and more people take a shortcut to enter the park and save dozens of yuan in park fees. That is to say, there will be more than a dozen or dozens of people walking here every day, and it stands to reason that the moss on the brick surface will definitely not be saved, and it will have been trampled without a trace for a long time.

"Where does the moss come from? I never seem to have seen such a luxuriant moss?" I wondered.

Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of something churning up and down in Bailong Bay on my right.

I turned my head and saw a dozen thick tree roots floating on the water, crisscrossing and stacking in knots, as if a dozen giant snakes were coiled together. In a moment's astonishment, the roots of the tree suddenly spun ashore, forming a tree nest with a diameter of five meters and a height of three meters in front of and on my left and right, trapping me tightly.

What is even more terrifying is that the roots of the tree keep wriggling, and the more they are bundled, the tighter and tighter they are, and the bends are straightened out, and the nest is as tight as a wicker basket.

After that, the roots of the tree make a "rustling" sound, and then colorful morning glories bloom from the roots.

I tried to stroke the nest, but the branches were slippery and I couldn't leave my hands behind, and the climb was very difficult.

"How could this be? Could it be that Sheng Pinhua planned to harm me?" I paused in frustration, unable to forgive myself for my negligence.

Master Wan, Master Xu, and the professionals from the Qingdao fleet have all mentioned the problem of "the safe is American", Sheng Pinhua can use this kind of thing, naturally he is not a small person, and he will not be careless enough to be so careless that someone can't notice it.

I chased it out by myself without waiting for the helpers to gather, and I happened to fall for the other party, and I turned from a hunter to a prey.

The roots of the tree were all long-dry, and most of the bark had peeled off, revealing the yellow-brown core inside.

Those morning glories are real, and there are no flower vines, they grow directly from the dead roots, and they bloom luxuriantly and enthusiastically, in addition to the common red, orange, pink, yellow, and blue, there are also green and black, which is very strange.

When I looked up, I could only see a circular piece of sky, extremely high and far away.

The roots stopped clumping, but the morning glory continued to grow and grow, each flower blooming to the size of a coffee cup.

There was no sound outside, and it seemed that Sheng Pinhua did not turn back, but left directly.

"If he didn't set this trap, who would it be?" I was even more apprehensive.

The visible enemy is not terrible, but the invisible enemy is truly terrifying.

I took out the phone and dialed the waiter's number, only to get a "the other party has turned off" prompt.

"Wait for now, wait calmly, and when the four of them chase them out, I will be saved. I tried to comfort myself, then sat down, conserving my strength in case I was ready to meet the enemy.

Surprisingly, the four waiters didn't show up in time, leaving me sitting in the tree nest for three hours.

The round sky overhead, and the clear daylight turned into a blur of moonlight.