Chapter 173: The Strange Man in the Wide-brimmed Round Hat
After returning from the island, Lang Xiaobai and Xiao Bin put up the sofa in the living room on the first floor in pairs and made two beds, and they slept on them.
At ten midnight, the whole manor fell silent, the moon was silent, the wind was silent, and everything was silent. It's just that a few snoring sounds of Xiao Bin came from the living room from time to time, but it didn't affect the silence of the entire house.
Although Lang Xiaobai was also closing his eyes, he did not fall asleep. His alertness has always been like this. Suddenly, he jumped up from the couch and fell asleep. He heard a woman's miserable wail, and hurriedly woke up Xiao Bin on another sofa bed.
"Hey, Xiao Bin, wake up!"
Xiao Bin is still immersed in the haze of sleep!
"You...... What are you doing......"
"Don't make a sound, get up!"
Lang Xiaobai listened carefully, tensing every nerve, and a painful scream came from his ears. He could hear it, the voice coming from Juanzi's bedroom on the second floor. He climbed upstairs in a few steps, and Xiao Bin also chased closely behind him.
As soon as he went up to the second floor, Lang Xiaobai hurriedly took out the pistol on his body and shot it above his head. He did this firstly to quickly scare away the murderer who attacked Juanzi at night, and secondly, to scare the servants and the security personnel who stayed in the investigation.
Lang Xiaobai and Xiao Bin slammed into the door with their shoulders crossed, and rushed into the room at once. I saw that the small lamp in the room was still emitting a faint light, and it was open to the window of the house, and the murderer had obviously escaped from here, and the milky white curtain was still swaying in the wind.
Lang Xiaobai saw that Juanzi was lying on the bed and couldn't move, so he immediately ran to her side and looked at her pale face with concern. I saw Juan Ziyuan's eyes open, but the pupils no longer turned. Her mouth closed one by one, and her lips turned white. Because she had never been so frightened, Juanzi was already a little unconscious.
"Wake up...... Juanzi ...... Wake up!"
Lang Xiaobai shouted loudly and anxiously called Juanzi. But she couldn't answer, so she could only use all her strength to raise her right hand and point to her neck.
"Someone just choked your neck?"
Juanzi nodded his head heavily, and he completely fainted. Lang Xiaobai then instructed Xiao Bin: "Xiao Bin, go out quickly, go to the yard and search carefully!" Xiao Bin jumped out of the window and searched the yard.
Lang Xiaobai's gunfire naturally alarmed the servants on the third floor and the agents who lived elsewhere, and they shuttled back and forth in the corridor, making loud noises. Sister Xie Yan also rushed out of her room, through the crowd, and came to Juanzi's bedside. Seeing that her sister fainted, she shook the bed while calling Juanzi's name with all her might, for fear that she would really not survive.
Although Juanzi closed her eyes tightly and couldn't make any sound, her chest fell together, and it seemed that her life was not in danger.
"What happened to Juanzi?"
Xie Yan looked at Lang Xiaobai at a loss, as if he was Juanzi's savior.
An unknown man entered Juanzi's room, and it was through this window that he entered, and he grabbed Juanzi's throat so that she let out a miserable scream. Madam, please don't worry, now that Juanzi has no worries about her life, you can rest assured!"
While responding, Lang Xiaobai was also vigilantly scanning the surroundings of the room to rule out whether there were still things in the room that threatened Juanzi.
Xie Yan put her mind at ease and began to take care of Juanzi carefully.
Lang Xiaobai first called the clinic in the village and asked the doctor to come quickly, and then went downstairs to the courtyard to meet Xiao Bin, and together they searched for the suspect's traces with a flashlight to see if he had left any clues.
They searched from the middle of the courtyard to the back door, and suddenly Lang Xiaobai whispered to Xiao Bin, "Xiao Bin, come here, look over there......"
I saw a black shadow swaying in the forest near the overgrown abandoned greenhouse. The two of them inadvertently shot their flashlights into the forest, and saw a strange man wearing a wide-brimmed round hat hiding in the forest, which seemed to be the murderer who wanted to hurt Juanzi. So Lang Xiaobai and Xiao Bin were divided into left and right, and quickly moved to the forest, intending to capture the murderer alive and avenge Juanzi, and they were about to succeed.
At this juncture, a spark suddenly lit up on the balcony on the third floor of the courtyard, and a "bang" of gunfire hit the round-hated monster, and he shook his hands and struggled to the ground.
Lang Xiaobai and Xiao Bin hurriedly ran to the place where the stranger fell, but not only was there no murderer's body on the ground, but not even a trace of blood was found. The two of them searched again in the jungle and came with two security guards to help them.
Suddenly, they noticed a trail of footprints on the ground, which must have been left by strange people, and followed them for some distance. The footprints stretched all the way to the edge of the forest, and a road paved with large gravel was missing, because the footprints could not be kept on the large gravel.
Lang Xiaobai decided not to search anymore. But he still told the two security guards to follow Xiao Bin to continue the investigation, and he returned to the courtyard alone. At this time, it happened that Ah Cai walked down from the third floor with a pistol and was bumped into by Lang Xiaobai.
"You shot this one?"
"Yes, sir. I was awakened by the sound of a gunshot, and I got up and looked out of the bedroom window, and saw a strange man in a wide-brimmed round hat scurrying out of the young lady's window, jumping into the yard and heading straight for the grove at the edge of the greenhouse.
Then the strange man vanished into the shadows. After a while, you and Mr. Xiao Bin used flashlights to illuminate his hiding place, and when he showed his figure, I opened fire. I thought he must have been shot, because I saw him struggle to the ground.
"But now there is no body of him in the woods, and there is hardly a trace of him!" Lang Xiaobai said.
"What?! What did you say? No...... You mean he's already escaped? Absolutely not! If this shot didn't kill him, it would have wounded him! How could he suddenly disappear?"
Ah Cai looked at Lang Xiaobai suspiciously, hoping that what he said was false. Because he was quite sure of his marksmanship, he said to Lang Xiaobai: "Sir, I'll find it myself." After saying that, he went straight to the woods in the backyard.
Lang Xiaobai turned around and went to the second floor and walked into Juanzi's room. When he saw that Juanzi was being carefully taken care of by Xie Yan and the servant Ah Qiao, he quietly withdrew with confidence and returned to the hall on the first floor. After a while, Xiao Bin and two security guards also collected their troops, and they searched carefully near the greenhouse and in the woods, but still found no trace of the murderer.
"Did he grow wings and fly away? Or did you get into the cracks of the ground? He's so much like you, an unpredictable and mysterious weirdo!"
Lang Xiaobai listened to Xiao Bin's complaints, and the smile on his face couldn't help but stiffen.