The shower had passed, and Lao Tian got out of the car and listened to the colleague who got down from the single dormitory building of S University report to him about the situation here.

The policeman said that after the operation began, the leader in charge of liaison took his subordinates and Lao Chen and Xiao Zhang to Professor Li's residence, but did not find the professor, but found Zong Zhenlei tied up in the room; Since Zong Zhenlei was still in a coma, the leaders decided to leave two people in Professor Li's dormitory, while Lao Chen and Xiao Zhang accompanied Zong Zhenlei to the hospital, so that when Zong Zhenlei was awake, he could keep abreast of the situation and whereabouts of Kong Yuan and Professor Li.

After listening to the report, Lao Tian informed Li Ruhui that Zong Zhenlei was sent to the hospital, and comforted her that it would be good to find someone.

When Li Ruhui heard that she had found Zong Zhenlei, she immediately jumped out of the car, only to know that he was still in the hospital, and the current situation is not clear for the time being, but there are Lao Chen and Xiao Zhang waiting there; As soon as she heard that she didn't know Zong Zhenlei's current situation for the time being, her heart felt that she had just been put down and hung up; In the past, she felt that Zong Zhenlei was like a big brother who could be relied on, and a little brother who could be intimate and "abused", but now she feels different, she only feels that he is like growing in her heart, and he actually affects every nerve in her heart; She didn't want to tell whether this feeling came from love for him or out of guilt and fearing that something would happen to him, but she felt that she had never felt so strongly about seeing him and guarding him; She felt that if someone was going to take him away or bully him now, she would dare to go up and fight hard; At this moment, she very much wanted to go to Zong Zhenlei's side immediately and take care of him by his side in person.

But when she saw Lao Tian's busy figure, she felt that she might be needed more here, because the matter here is not over yet, and the bad guys are still missing.

Not long after, a white SUV drove up, the door opened, and Lao Chen and Xiao Zhang got out of the car.

Li Ruhui ran forward, and was about to ask them about Zong Zhenlei's situation, when the back door of the car opened, and Zong Zhenlei slowly got out of the car; Li Ruhui saw it, regardless of the large number of people around, she suddenly pounced on it and hugged Zong Zhenlei's neck tightly, as if she was worried about losing him again; Li Ruhui felt that he was hugging each other tightly in Zong Zhenlei's hot exhalation, and suddenly a stream of heat surged up, and tears were like opening the floodgates, and they couldn't stop.

The officers of the police meeting stood together and exchanged information; Lao Tian reported to the bureau and asked for technical reconnaissance support to track down Kong Yuan and Professor Li to prevent them from escaping.

Xiao Zhang, who had already gotten into the car and was about to drive away, got out of the car again, carried a cloth bag in his hand, walked up to Li Ruhui and said, "Take a look, is this the notebook you are looking for?" ”

Li Ruhui glanced at it and said happily: "That's it, where did you find it?" ”

Xiao Zhang said, "In Professor Li's room. I'm telling you so you don't have to look around. Xiao Zhang saw that Li Ruhui stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to take the bag, so he stopped her: "This notebook can't be returned to you yet, because it was found in Professor Li's room, and it should be used as physical evidence at the crime scene; But don't worry, as long as you prove that this item has nothing to do with kidnapping and homicide, you can get it back as a stolen item, and then go to the police department to go through the formalities. ”

Li Ruhui bowed gratefully to Xiao Zhang and said, "Thank you!" ”

Xiao Zhang waved his hand and said, "Don't thank me, he asked me to tell you, don't let you worry." Xiao Zhang said, pointing at the white SUV.

Li Ruhui raised her eyes and looked at Xiao Zhang's point, only to see Lao Chen smiling and nodding at her in the car. Li Ruhui bowed to Lao Chen again; Lao Chen saw it and quickly shook his hand at her.

Zong Zhenlei was also excited at this time, and he also stood next to him with his hands folded, thanking the policemen who were about to leave.

When the young policeman was leaving, he told Li Ruhui and Zong Zhenlei that he would go to the bureau tomorrow to make up a record explaining the situation after receiving the notice.

Seeing off the police case-handling staff, Li Ruhui took Zong Zhenlei's arm and walked slowly along the path next to the campus playground.

The air after the rain is exceptionally fresh.

At this moment, Zong Zhenlei thought about a lot of things, and felt that he had a lot to say to Li Ruhui.

From when he saw Kong Yuan at the professor's house, to when he was stunned by Kong Yuan, to now knowing that Li Ruhui's notebook was searched from Professor Li, and thinking of the situation between Professor Li and Kong Yuan when he answered the police in the hospital just now, he listened to them explain that the cause of the incident was related to the letter he sent, and finally understood that Professor Li and Kong Yuan were a couple, and understood that the origin of Kong Yuan's surveillance of them and kidnapping Mr. Hong was actually related to Professor Li; As a result, he developed a kind of chagrin for himself that he had found out that he was being played with, but he could not get rid of it in time.

However, he also understood that the reason why he didn't get out in time was that he didn't want Li Ruhui to lose that rare opportunity; Of course, there is another reason, and that is that he has been deeply attracted to this research topic.

And all this made him not know where to start for a while

Suddenly, Li Ruhui stood down and asked Zong Zhenlei: "I thought of one thing, where were you when you pressed my phone?" ”

Zong Zhenlei was stunned by the question: "I pressed your phone?" ”

Li Ruhui looked at his eyes, probably remembering that he was stunned: "Where's your phone?" Is it lost? ”

"Yes, before I was stunned, Professor Li asked me for the information I had collected, and my phone was still there at that time; I guess they took my phone after I was stunned by the void. ”

"I called you, and it was suppressed after one call, and it seems that the person who suppressed the call must be them, and you were probably stunned by then."

"I was also careless at the time before I was tricked; After dawn, I go and stop my mobile phone card and get a new one. ”

"Isn't the information in there gone?"

"I've made backups, and I've seen you do it a lot."

"Of course it is necessary to do it, especially important information......" As she spoke, Li Ruhui stopped and looked at Zong Zhenlei, but seemed to be thinking about something.

"What's wrong?" Zong Zhenlei also stopped and turned to look at her.

"I suddenly remembered the information I had stored on my phone. I lost my phone too, I guess, maybe I let go of it the moment I was stunned, but I don't know if it would be in the parking lot. ”

"You mean to say that if you hadn't paid attention to your phone, your phone might still be in the parking lot when you were stunned?"

"Yes, I don't know if someone else will pick it up, why don't we find a phone call and try it?"

"What to try, didn't you say it's the parking lot across from the school? Let's go straight to the park, which is usually open all night. ”

Li Ruhui listened, and without saying a word, pulled Zong Zhenlei to turn around and leave. They walked through the campus and out of the school gates.

Li Ruhui took Zong Zhenlei and ran to the parking lot, which was indeed open 24 hours a day, and there were night shift staff in the duty room of the parking lot; Li Ruhui told the attendant about her situation and asked if she had picked up a mobile phone.

The attendant looked at her carefully, asked her what time she came here, and then called up the surveillance video to confirm that she had been here at that time and did not lie, so he told her that she had picked up her mobile phone; The attendant took out the mobile phone from the drawer, carefully checked the boot code on Li Ruhui's mobile phone, and after confirming that it was correct, asked Li Ruhui to sign a form and return the mobile phone to her.

Li Ruhui thanked the attendant and pulled Zong Zhenlei out; She got her phone back as she wished, and she was happy all the way, feeling good and feeling good again.

When crossing the zebra crossing on the sidewalk at the intersection, Zong Zhenlei teased her: "Don't keep smirking at me!" ”

Li Ruhui immediately took two steps, stood in the middle of the safety island, raised her head and laughed loudly into the night sky: "Ha~haha~"

Seeing this, Zong Zhenlei hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth: "It's been the middle of the night...... You called the podache? ”。

Li Ruhui broke his hand: "How can there be a hemp hu?" What about scaring the little ones? You're a bully! "Said and made it look like he was going to bully him and ride him back; Zong Zhenlei took care of the loss, and just about to carry her, she stopped moving again, "Hey, I suddenly felt hungry, I was just bullied by someone covering my mouth, if that person wants to apologize, he must please eat Ma Ye Lao Tofu." (Local dialect: fried dough sticks and tofu brain).

Zong Zhenlei squeezed his eyes and scolded her: "Hey, which one of the old tofu with hemp leaves is open at this point?" ”

When Li Ruhui saw him like that, she smiled and bent down and shouted, "Look at the way you squint and flirt with your eyes...... Eat Ha Shen Hey! Ah~" (local dialect: look at your slanted eyebrows and crooked eyes...... What did you eat).

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Empty edge drove carefully in the dark night; Under the light of the headlights, the path looks very muddy after the rain.

This is the suburb of the city, and the car is walking on the road in the relocation village next to the county seat, and there is an empty house next to the railway that has not had time to be demolished.

She parked her car in the garage under a small dirt slope, carried Professor Li on her shoulder, and followed the only trail into the abandoned hut on the slope, where she needed to recuperate.

The electricity in the house has been cut off, but fortunately there is still water in the water pipe, and there is an earthen kang in the house; She put the professor on the kang, found a candle on the windowsill, took out a lighter she found in the car, lit the candle.

Kongyuan was looking at the room, and the mobile phone rang, and the sound was particularly harsh and frightening in the quiet empty room at night; Kong Yuan followed the voice to find the mobile phone in Professor Li's trouser pocket and pressed it down. She went to the kitchen at the back of the house, where there was a pile of corn stalks piled up on the wall next to the kitchen stove, and she was going to boil some water so that she could feed Professor Li some antidote; But the corn stalks are damp and can't be lit; She found an empty wine bottle, went down to the garage, and used a plastic pipe to suck a bottle of gasoline from the car's fuel tank; Back in the house, she poured some gasoline on the corn stalks and stuffed it into the stove pit, and after tightening the cap with a cloth ball, she looked around to find a fire starter.

The phone rang again, and she angrily returned to the kang, took out the phone from Professor Li's trouser pocket, suppressed the ringtone for the second time, and turned off the phone. When she pulled out her phone, she took out Hong Seok-tae's letter from the professor's trouser pocket; She looked at the letter that had fallen on the ground, and thought that it was this piece of paper that had brought about a great change in the professor's temperament, and picked it up, and just tore the letter twice with hatred, but then stopped, and she thought that she could use the letter paper as a fire primer.

The edge of the void lit the corn stalks; When she pulled the corn stalks to add fire and boil water, she had a whim and opened the corn stalks pile, trying to find out if it was like the shrine of the stove monarch and his wife usually found by the stove in Fujian, so that she could pray for blessings; I didn't find it, but I found a hole in the corner of the wall blocked by this pile of corn stalks, the family may have raised a big dog before, and left a fairly large passage for the dog to enter and exit; She piled the corn stalks back and blocked the hole as it had been.

The water boiled, she found a bowl, washed it and dried it with boiling water.

The jumping candlelight fills this empty brick house in the darkness with eerie heights.