Tiandi Baiju

"We never made an appointment to visit Vietnam together before."

Zhou Luoyang suddenly felt something, and said to Du Jing.

Du Jing bought juice in front of Tianhou Temple, and bought a pack of local cigarettes for Zhou Luoyang.Zhou Luoyang hadn't smoked a cigarette for a long time, so he took it apart and tried it, but it wasn't very good.

"That candy looks good," Zhou Luoyang said, "The taste of the smoke is not good."

Du Jing threw away the cigarette and bought him another pack of coffee candies.

"There is nothing to do in Ho Chi Minh City," Du Jing replied casually, "Most tourists go to Nha Trang."

After Zhou Luoyang arrived in Vietnam, he changed his clothes, and he and Du Jing each put on tourist-style floral shirts, white shorts, and sneakers. They wandered aimlessly around without waiting for the result.Most of the projects arranged by the tour group in Ho Chi Minh City are one-day tours, and they will go to popular areas such as Nha Trang the next day.

Today they are going to visit the cultural relics protection association in Ho Chi Minh City. Zhou Luoyang likes it very much, even walking in the streets and alleys, looking at the plane trees and buildings planted during the French colonial period.

"But I like it very much," Zhou Luoyang said, "because it has another name, Saigon."

Du Jing said in a daze: "I know you and will always remember you. At that time, you were still very young."

"You still remember!" Zhou Luoyang said.

"Of course," Du Jing said, "The first book I borrowed from you was "Lover."

The two walked side by side, Du Jing suddenly jumped up, picked a flower from the treetop above his head, and handed it to Zhou Luoyang.Zhou Luoyang took it and stuck it on the fence on the side of the road.

The Association for the Protection of Cultural Relics is an official organization supported by funding from the Vietnamese government. Its office is very small, a two-story building.After the last theft, it could be seen that there was a temporary guard post outside the door, but it was just for show.

Zhou Luoyang went in and greeted the chairman of the association. After a few pleasantries, the other party had already received information from Chen Biaojin in advance. He spoke English with a heavy accent, and they kept talking about the issue of cultural relics protection. Chen Biaojin was still in Hong Kong and hadn't come back.

When Zhou Luoyang said goodbye and left, he stood in the hall on the first floor of the association and glanced at the displays and furnishings in the association.

"Are these antiques valuable?" Du Jing asked.

"It's priceless," Zhou Luoyang replied, "but it's so casual, locked in the lobby of the association, full of dust, no wonder they were transferred, Huang Ting should come over and investigate."

Du Jing took out his mobile phone and took a few photos. There was no staff to stop them for a while, but when they left the association and walked through a sunny alley, Zhou Luoyang suddenly moved Du Jing and motioned him to look.

Du Jing turned his head for a moment, and immediately put his arms around Zhou Luoyang, pushed him to the side of the wall, propped him against the wall with one hand in a wall-dong position, and put the other hand in his shorts pocket.

Behind him was an old van, and the driver was standing outside smoking a cigarette. He casually looked into the alley, but saw Du Jing blocking Zhou Luoyang's back.

The sight looked like an ordinary young couple that can be seen everywhere in Saigon.

The driver didn't look much, as if he sensed the danger intuitively, he spit out half of the cigarette butt, got in the car and left.

Du Jing took out his mobile phone from his pocket, without looking at it, he leaned out of the alley to take a photo, and when he took it back, he looked at the license plate on the photo.

"Why do I feel like I've seen that car before?" Zhou Luoyang said.

Maybe outside the Tin Hau Temple, maybe in the Mariamman Temple, the local black cars that pull tourists are all similar in appearance, dilapidated and dirty, with mottled advertisements on the outside.

"You have good eyes." Du Jing looked at Zhou Luoyang indifferently, and said, "It is indeed one of them."

"You remember everything?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"Generally." Du Jing dialed Zhuang Li's phone and sent the photo at the same time, saying, "Let's see where this car is going."

Zhou Luoyang glanced at it purely by accident, but found a crucial clue. This van didn't pull tourists, but parked outside the Cultural Relics Protection Association, which seemed a bit suspicious in itself.There are no attractions nearby, what is it doing here?

Zhuang Li found the corresponding tracker and said: "S3A201 license plate, there are no passengers today, leave your location and head towards Taodie District."

"Keep tracking." Du Jing ordered, hung up the phone, found a coffee shop on the way, sat down with Zhou Luoyang, started to have lunch, and ordered a cup of white coffee.

"The scenery here is really beautiful," Zhou Luoyang said, "It didn't rain today."

"Is the scenery so beautiful?" Du Jing said.

Zhou Luoyang ate the spring rolls, shifted his gaze to Du Jing's face, and stared at him eating.

"What do you always look at me for?" Du Jing said again.

"Then where do you want me to look?" Zhou Luoyang said, "Look at the ceiling? Aren't you always staring at me?"

From the moment Zhou Luoyang got off the plane, he had been thinking about Huang Ting's words, his relationship with Du Jing, and where they would go.

When the two of them were together, they rarely used their mobile phones unless necessary. They either talked or looked at the scenery. Zhou Luoyang was also a little strange. Every time he was with Du Jing, his mobile phone disease would be cured naturally. , and the environment will quiet down accordingly.

"I want to requisition your mobile phone." Du Jing said.

"Boss, please." Zhou Luoyang said.

Du Jing took Zhou Luoyang's phone, pondered for a moment, entered a few numbers casually, and successfully unlocked it.

"It's still the password." Du Jing said.

"I'm used to the password," Zhou Luoyang replied, "I'm just too lazy to change it. What are you going to do?"

"Take a look at Mr. Lu's circle of friends." Du Jing said.

"Lu what?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"Lu Zhongyu," Du Jing said, "your admirer."

Zhou Luoyang couldn't laugh or cry and said, "Don't make jokes."

If Du Jing hadn't mentioned it, Zhou Luoyang would have almost forgotten about this person. At this moment, he said, "Didn't you also add him?"

"He blocked me." Du Jing said casually, clicked on Lu Zhongyu's chat interface, and saw the last chat record between Zhou Luoyang and Lu Zhongyu.

【Do you like Groot? 】

【Yes, I like him. 】

[But I feel like you don't like him very much.You are quite cold in the secret room, and you don't seem to be pretending to be indifferent to him. 】

【Just because we're not together doesn't mean I don't like him.To tell you the truth, I like him and he doesn't like me. 】

[Why do I feel like I'm upside down? 】

【Whatever you think. 】

Du Jing raised his head from the phone screen and stared at Zhou Luoyang with deep and complicated eyes.

Zhou Luoyang was bathed in the sunlight coming in from the floor-to-ceiling windows. Under the dense and broken leaves of the plane trees, the shadows of the sun were like lingering stars under the blowing of the wind. His hair, his eyelashes, and his clear eyes were handsome and charming. The outline of a little melancholy expression is covered with a layer of fluffy light.

Zhou Luoyang: "?"

Du Jing suddenly said: "Are you a little depressed because of my torture?"

Zhou Luoyang gave him a strange look and said, "No, why do you say that?"

He took a sip of white coffee, his melancholy expression changed to bewildered and puzzled, and then he laughed.

"You seldom have this kind of expression before." Du Jing held the phone, his lips moved slightly, as if he was trying to cover up something, his speech speed became much faster, and he said, "Do I always make you feel at a loss? "

Zhou Luoyang replied: "No, really not, I just... just..."

"Just what?" Du Jing frowned slightly, and his big hand holding the phone trembled a little.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Luoyang noticed Du Jing's abnormality and said, "Are you uncomfortable?"

"No." Du Jing came back to his senses and replied unnaturally, "Just what? Tell me!"

"Hello," Zhou Luoyang said, "Boss? Are you okay?"

Zhou Luoyang kicked him lightly under the table, Du Jing's expression returned to normal, and he shook his head, as if he wanted to forcefully dismiss a certain idea from his mind.

With a swipe of his thumb, he deleted all the conversations between Zhou Luoyang and Lu Zhongyu.

Zhou Luoyang: "???"

Then Du Jingjing opened Lu Zhongyu's circle of friends, and Zhou Luoyang felt that Du Jing might be changing his stage again.

But he didn't say it, so as not to cause psychological hints to Du Jing.He stretched his neck and saw Lu Zhongyu's state.

"He's here too!" Zhou Luoyang said in surprise.

In Lu Zhongyu's circle of friends, there is the scenery of Ho Chi Minh City, and there is another positioning below.

Du Jing suppressed his irritability and said, "Very efficient."

Zhou Luoyang said in disbelief: "He brought the little priest here? I didn't add the victim's WeChat, I should have known..."

"What?" Du Jing asked puzzled, "The victim?"

Zhou Luoyang and Du Jing looked at each other, Du Jing explained: "He is the victim."

Zhou Luoyang: "!!!"

Only then did Zhou Luoyang realize that he had been mistaken all along!

"Then...who would be the one who abducted him?" Zhou Luoyang said, "Isn't that kid an e-sports player? Why..."

"He is of Vietnamese origin, his mother is Vietnamese, and his father is Chinese." Du Jing said, "Didn't you read the investigation materials that Zhuang Li brought out? It's on the table."

"I..." Zhou Luoyang really didn't look at it. After all, he didn't want to know too much about Du Jing, especially in front of Zhuang Li, so as not to embarrass them.

This next week, Luoyang understood everything—the real target victim should be Lu Zhongyu, and the child pretending to be a priest was a human trafficker sent by Vietnam to lure him into the bait!

"He will rest in the hotel for an afternoon," Du Jing said, "Tomorrow he will go shopping in the city, and then he will be arrested again. There is still time."

Just at this moment, Zhuang Li called and said, "Brother Jing, that car is going to an address in Taodie District. This address has no clear Google location, and it is a ruins of a rubber processing factory."

Du Jing was wearing earphones, and without waiting for his order, Zhuang Li said: "I also found another clue, Brother Jing. There are three cars in total, and these three cars are located in Tianhou Temple, Delta State, and Mariaman Temple. I have been to this place. It is 22 kilometers away from the driver's house, and this place is not a garage. I suspect this is their transit point."

"Blind people can see it too." Du Jing said coldly, "Send the location to my mobile phone, and drive the car to where I am."

Du Jing took off his earphones and glanced at Zhou Luoyang.

Zhou Luoyang said: "Investigation? I'll go with you, let's go."

Zhuang Li drove the car outside the coffee shop, and the two got in the car. Zhuang Li stared at the computer screen on the passenger seat to track the location of the vehicle. The black car drove past and stayed for less than 3 minutes before leaving.

[I'm going to switch stages. ] Du Jing typed a line on his mobile phone and showed it to Zhou Luoyang.

My God, what should I do now?Zhou Luoyang thought to himself.

【Manic? ] Zhou Luoyang asked.

【Um. ] Du Jing typed a word.

Zhou Luoyang put his hand next to Du Jing's and held him. Du Jing tightened his fingers, Zhou Luoyang rubbed his palms together, and then interlocked his fingers.Du Jing's strength was a bit strong, making his fingers ache.

He knew that Du Jing was enduring, at this moment he must really want to yell, or destroy something to vent, but in front of Zhuang Li, he was trying to endure.

The off-road vehicle parked outside a small village, Zhuang Li went down to buy water, and scouted the surrounding area by the way, while Du Jing quickly walked up the hillside behind the village to look around and picked up a telescope.

"There are no buildings," Du Jing said, "I can't see clearly in the woods."

"Don't go there," Zhou Luoyang said, "I'm afraid there will be surveillance nearby."

Nearly 500 meters away, there is a barbed wire fence, with a few discarded tires piled up in the middle, and the surrounding area is full of woods, and there is a pond on one side.Du Jing jumped down the hillside, Zhou Luoyang said: "Wait, Du Jing!"

Du Jing pointed at the hillside and asked Zhou Luoyang to wait. Zhou Luoyang was afraid that he would suddenly bump into someone on the other side, so he followed Du Jing.

There were several ruts on the wasteland, leading to the middle of the woods. Du Jing took a look, and Zhou Luoyang glanced at it with a telescope, and said anxiously: "Du Jing, come back!"

But Du Jing didn't hear him. He kept approaching the woods, and when he was about to leap over a ditch, Zhou Luoyang rushed to the barbed wire fence, quickly caught up with him, dragged him into the cement ditch, and held him down.

Du Jing struggled, Zhou Luoyang said anxiously: "There are people in the woods, you didn't see them just now!"

Du Jing didn't move, and the two heard the sound of the gun being loaded and the sound of talking at the same time.Du Jing's eyes changed slightly, he turned over, pressed on Zhou Luoyang's body, and covered his mouth and nose with his back facing outward.

Zhou Luoyang's heart was beating wildly. Du Jing put his other hand into his trouser pocket and put on his knuckles. Zhou Luoyang pressed his hand on his Eye of Versailles. Just as he was about to spin, they heard footsteps leaving at the same time.

Zhou Luoyang breathed a sigh of relief.

Du Jing didn't speak, but stuck his head out to see that two locals with submachine guns got into another car and left.

"This is where they meet." Du Jing said.

Zhou Luoyang said: "If they shot into this ditch just now, we would die, and it would be useless for you to block it with your back."

Outside the cement ditch was a barbed wire wall, even if Du Jing jumped up suddenly, he would be blocked by the barbed wire, but the bullets couldn't stop them, a few shots would sweep them to death in the ditch.

"Yes." Du Jing said, "I don't know if the Eye of Vercetti will still work if we die."

Zhou Luoyang remembered that their greatest reliance was the reversal of time. Once in time, the dead would come back to life, and everything would go back to 24 hours ago, but it would still cause death in the end.And what would happen if the person who initiated the time-backtracking process, that is, the two of them, died?

He didn't dare to try it lightly.

Du Jing dragged Zhou Luoyang from the ravine and slowly retreated to the hillside.At the same time, another figure was running toward them from the east side of the hill.

"Who is that?" Zhou Luoyang asked doubtfully.

"Huang Ting." Du Jing picked up the binoculars and took a look.

"Why are you here?" Huang Ting quickly walked up the hillside with a long pole on his back, and hid behind a tree with them. The car that was in the barbed wire circle had already left.

Du Jing ignored him and took out a black box from the trunk of the off-road vehicle.

Zhou Luoyang looked at Huang Ting with questioning eyes, and Huang Ting said, "I got a manifest from the Interpol informant. They regularly deliver handicrafts to Pingxiang City, Guangxi. In the morning, I went to the loading and unloading place for a walk." I found an unlicensed car, chased it all the way, and lost it twice halfway, what did they do here?"

"This is a meeting place," Zhou Luoyang replied, "but both parties to the meeting left separately."

After listening to what Zhou Luoyang said, Huang Ting roughly understood, and said, "We have to monitor here, do you have extra manpower? Or put a camera in the past. I'll find a way to borrow a drone..."

Du Jing opened the black box, took out a palm-sized flying bird specimen, and opened the software on the phone.

He shook the bird, and Zhou Luoyang and Huang Ting looked at the specimen together, and found that the skeleton of this flying bird was made of light metal, and its body was covered with thick feathers.Du Jing touched the start button on the phone, and the bird flapped its wings and flew up.

Huang Ting said helplessly, "It's good to have money, and there are all kinds of bionic equipment."

Du Jing didn't answer, and threw the phone to Zhou Luoyang. Zhou Luoyang said, "I won't... I'm afraid it will be damaged."

"If it crashes, it crashes." Du Jing said in a deep voice, stepped aside, and called Zhuang Li.

Zhou Luoyang tried to control it, but the bird flew very steadily, and flew into the woods. Zhou Luoyang said, "How much is this equipment?"

"I don't know!" Du Jing said angrily, "Don't ask me everything!"

"Stay on the top of the tree and have a look." Huang Ting smoothed things out in a considerate manner.

Zhou Luoyang stopped several times, barely stopped, and pushed the control software of the bionic bird detection machine on his mobile phone to turn its head to the center of the open space in the woods.

Huang Ting and Zhou Luoyang saw the whole picture of the open space in the forest.

"Du Jing," Zhou Luoyang said with a trembling voice, "Come here and take a look."

There were still people in the open space, but Zhuang Li had his hands tied behind his back, his mouth was gagged, and the barrel of a gun was pressed against his forehead.

Du Jing turned the dial around, took off his watch, and threw it to Zhou Luoyang.

"Get in the car, drive the car to the main road and wait for me."