"Master, can you hurry up?! I'm really in a hurry to save people!! ”

In the taxi, Qu leaned forward, his hands clutched the seat behind the driver's seat, and kept urging the driver.

There was a red light in front, and the driver braked, turned his head and said in embarrassment: "Little girl...... I can't fly that fast! You see, I'm almost running a red light! ”

Qu sat back deflated, the fingers of his left and right hands tightly stirred together.

Her face turned slightly pale, and the anxiety and panic in her heart were like a growing giant beast, ready to rush out of the cage at any time.

"Don't worry," the person next to her patted her on the shoulder, "You tell me carefully about this matter from beginning to end." ”

Pei Yue sat on the right side of the back row, and when he spoke, he reached out and took the mobile phone that Qu shook in his hand.

On the phone screen is a screenshot of the location.

Xia Chengxi on the phone only had time to share a location on WeChat, and lost contact because the phone ran out of battery.

Qu Shao was a little incoherent, and intermittently stumbled to tell Xia Chengxi about his suspicion that he was being followed in the alley after class.

Pei Yue listened while staring thoughtfully at the location screenshot on his phone.

If he's not mistaken......

He took out his phone and made a call.

Jiang Zhihuai's voice always sounded so enthusiastic, and he greeted Pei Yue cordially and friendly on the other end of the phone.

"Lao Pei, you have no conscience!! Finally remembered to contact me?! ”

Pei Yue didn't say much, and directly forwarded the positioning map to him.

"This is a cram school near your house, right?"

"yes, what's wrong? You kid aren't suddenly interested in debate, are you? Jiang Zhihuai was full of interest: "That relationship is good, if you come to class in the future, won't we meet again......"

Pei Yue interrupted him: "Listen to me, I want you to help me find someone now." She's in the right position, it's a girl......"

Fifteen minutes later, the taxi drove up the bridge at flying speed.

“…… Can he be trusted? ”

Qu Shaoyao is still worried.

Although Jiang Zhihuai's home happened to be near the scene of the Xia Chengxi incident, it was good news. But as long as she thought of that person's big grin, heartless, and completely unreliable appearance, she felt really relieved.

"Rest assured, he can be trusted." Pei Yue said lightly.

From the new city to the old town, it takes about 30 minutes to drive at a fast speed.

Qu shook like pins and needles, and she couldn't find any other way to hide the spreading anxiety in her heart except to keep talking.

"Actually, it's all about going abroad! I don't understand what these adults think, why do they have to force their children to study abroad? Aren't our domestic universities fragrant? ”

"We are already late for school, and the place where classes are held is so far away, and there are many nooks and crannies in the old town, which is dark and unsafe......"

"She's actually overloaded, I've never seen her like this, so tired that she can't even sleep......"

……

Pei Yue listened silently, looking out of the car window, not knowing what he was thinking.

When the car finally arrived at its destination, Qu Shaoyao saw the legendary black alley from a distance.

It is located between two old residential areas that are about to be demolished, there are no street lights, and there are a lot of debris, and the whole thing looks dark and dark.

"Master, master, this is it, please stop!"

The taxi driver was tortured all the way by Qu Shaosha, and almost burst into tears when he heard this. As if he was afraid that they would get into the car again, after Pei Yue finished paying, he slipped off the accelerator.

Pei Yue, who had finished paying, turned around and grabbed Qu Shaosha, who was about to sprint, in time.

"Follow me, I know this place better than you."

“……”

The dark alleys are more permeable than expected.

The further you go inside, the more distant the noise from the bus stop and along the street.

The alley was hot and chaotic, and among the debris piled up around it, darkness and shadow were intertwined, as if a vicious and hideous bad guy could pop up at any moment.

The point is, it's still so long, so long that there's no end in sight.

Qu Shao couldn't imagine what kind of psychological fear Xia Chengxi overcame every time she walked through this alley alone......

The man in front of him suddenly stopped, and staggered into a sturdy back.

She was so frightened that she almost screamed, and the person in front of her turned his face slightly, and the cold voice rarely carried a soft temperature.

"If you're afraid, you can grab the corner of my clothes."

“……”

Qu shook his head, and the young man in front of him was already a head taller than her.

Even in the faint and hazy moonlight of the alley, she could still clearly distinguish his starry eyes and the excessively beautiful angle of his jaw.

A small piece of white clothes was firmly pinched into her palm, and her heart instantly relaxed.

Help, what is this reassuring sense of security?

It seems that the tall young man in front of him has been able to block all the frightening things in this dark and terrifying alley with his broad back, so that people can hear their own heartbeats.

Plop, plop, plop......

One after the other, faster and faster.

The faint aroma of orange blossom unique to the young man spread along the small corner of his clothes to her palm. Qu Shao shook and found that his cheeks were inexplicably hot......

"Are we almost there?" She asked.

Pei Yue looked at the positioning map on his mobile phone and said, "It should be around here......"

"But, I didn't see her! Xia Chengxi—Summer, Orange, Xi—" Qu Shao shouted tentatively, but did not respond.

"Don't worry, maybe you're looking for a place to hide—"

As soon as Pei Yue's voice fell, the mobile phone rang.

He immediately picked it up: "Hey, how's it going?" Did you find someone? ”

"Lao Pei ——!!!"

Jiang Zhihuai's heart-rending shout came from the other end of the phone: "Lao Pei - help!" I was beaten up—ahhh!!hhh ”

Pei Yue's face changed suddenly, and he grabbed Qu Shao's hand and ran forward.

The voice faintly seemed to come from the front, but the direction deviated from the alley, as if it was in an old community to be demolished on the right.

The residents of the neighborhood have basically moved away, if something happens in that place...... But it really called the heavens and the earth not to be spiritual.

Qu's shaky little face was already frightened the moment she heard the miserable wail on the phone, her legs were weak, but she still gritted her teeth and forced herself to follow Pei Yue's steps and run forward, and at the same time tried her best not to cry out because she was too scared.

There were a few terrible thoughts in her heart that were tearing at every inch of her nerves over and over again—

What kind of terrible bad guy did you encounter, even the boy was beaten and cried?

What happened to Xia Chengxi now?

Really, don't call the police first?

……