Neverland

The bus stop outside the Jiahe community is only 150 meters away from the gate of the community.

A total of three buses pass through this station. Except for No. 888 to the southwest suburbs, the remaining two buses are short-distance buses, and the terminal stations are only set up in the city center.

The last bus of the night shift of No. 138 bus leaves on time at 08:30 in the evening, and arrives at Jiahe Community Station at exactly [-]:[-] in the evening.

Because the route was unpopular and the weather was not good, there were only a few people sitting on the No. 138 bus. The huge compartment was empty, and the cold wind coming in from the rear window made my heart feel cold.

The driver tightened his collar and looked at the situation inside the car from the rearview mirror.

After more than half of the journey, there are only five people in the car and the driver himself. A couple are hugging each other like Siamese twins, sitting in the penultimate row and whispering. There is also a man who seems to have just finished working overtime. Sitting on the window seat in the first row of the rear compartment with his briefcase in his arms, his head resting on the cold glass, with the shaking of the car body, he seemed to have fallen asleep.

But what surprised the driver was that there was a girl who looked seventeen or eighteen years old in the car. She was wearing a high school uniform and carrying a backpack. She looked like a student.There was a circle of empty seats around her, but for some reason, the little girl ignored them and stood quietly beside the rear door, holding the high handrail, staring at the rear door in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Girl." The driver looked at her several times in the rearview mirror, and finally couldn't help but said: "There is a seat next to her, you can sit for a while, there are cushions on the seat, so it won't be cold."

This kind reminder swayed in the wind for four or five seconds before it was finally recorded by the little girl's auditory system.

The driver scolded himself in embarrassment for meddling in his own business, and saw the girl in the rearview mirror move her fingers holding the railing slightly, and raised her head.

"No need." The little girl said softly, "I'll get off at the next stop, thank you."

The little girl's voice was very gentle, and she looked like a typical good girl. When she spoke, she squeezed the strap of her schoolbag nervously and lowered her head even more.

As she said, the bus just stopped in front of the platform of Jiahe Community, the back door of the bus slid open left and right, the little girl quickly grabbed her schoolbag and ran off in a hurry.

——Strangely shy, the driver thought, it looks like a child who is studying very well.

There are countless such small episodes in the driver's daily work, so he didn't care about it, closed the rear door as usual, and broadcast the announcement of the next stop step by step.

The warming effect of the school uniform is really not flattering, even wearing two layers of sweaters inside has no real effect. Fu Sihan re-tucked the loose scarf tightly, and his white knuckles were a little red from the cold.

The bus passed by her, she rubbed her frozen hands, took out her phone from her pocket, and clicked on the navigation page in the background.

The navigation page automatically refreshed her location, and more than half of the route to the destination set on it was grayed out, leaving only a short section.

Fu Sihan turned the phone around, followed the arrows on it to adjust his direction, and looked around again. After confirming the reference, he stuffed the phone back into his pocket, and walked towards Jiahe Community with his head down.

Her thin chin was buried in a thick scarf, revealing only a pair of beautiful eyes.

Fu Sihan entered through the pedestrian passage at the gate of Jiahe Community, but was stopped by the iron gate that had to swipe her card to enter, so she could only stand at the gate and wait for others to take her a ride.The security guard in the sentry box at the side had never seen her, and saw that she was wearing a school uniform, with her head bowed and refusing to see anyone, so she immediately felt suspicious, stopped her and questioned her, for fear that some illegal make-up classes were being held in the community.

"I'm here to find my brother." Fu Sihan said softly, "He lives here."

Fu Sihan blinked, and said, "Building 3, District D."

Because she could tell the address clearly, Fu Sihan was allowed to go by the security guard, who opened the door for her and received a soft thank you.

The broken street lamps in the community have not been repaired in time, most of the community is dark, and the winter after the rain is terribly cold, and the cold wind seems to penetrate the pores of the human body into the bones, grinding people tightly.

Fu Sihan stretched out his sleeves, tucked his hands into the sleeves, and stood casually downstairs, looking up for the sign upstairs.

The mobile phone in her pocket issued a notification sound for arriving at the destination, so Fu Sihan took out the mobile phone and exited the navigation.

At the same time, a notification popped up at the top of the screen.

——You have a new WeChat message.

Fu Sihan's fingers hovered on the screen for a moment, but in the end she didn't choose to click in. She pressed the lock screen and resumed the unfinished work.

She was very patient, and after 10 minutes, she found Building 3 in District D. The road to the door of this building was too dark for a long time, and she accidentally stepped on a puddle at the door, and the thin broken ice could not support her. So much weight that even though she quickly retracted her foot, she still stepped on the ice water.

Fu Sihan shook the water at the door, feeling a little unlucky.

She tightened her schoolbag a little, as if to cheer herself up, and pressed the call button of the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the 24th floor. Fu Sihan stepped out of the elevator, looked left and right, and made sure that there was no one else in the corridor, so she turned her head and walked towards 2401.

The elevator closed behind her, running downward without stopping.

There was a police cordon at the door of 2401, but Fu Sihan turned a blind eye to it. She stood on tiptoe and looked through the cat's eye, only to see a black mass, but nothing.

So she fumbled in her schoolbag and took out a jingling master key. She bent down, compared the styles of the lock cylinders, and picked out two or three keys to try one by one.

Too bad it didn't open.

Fu Sihan stomped her feet a little discouraged, she bit her lip and looked at the door for a moment, and suddenly found something in the door crack near the corner.

She bent down suspiciously, and found a piece of red fabric sandwiched there.Fu Sihan pulled the piece of fabric out from the crack of the door, only to realize that the piece of fabric was actually a crumpled flower ornament, which looked very familiar.

There was a very obvious smell of perfume left on the fabric. Fu Sihan was stunned for a while, squatting on the ground and frantically digging out her phone, turning inside an app to find the post she had favorited in the morning.

On the post was a photo of a certain celebrity picking up the airport. In the photo, the woman was wearing a bright red windbreaker and wide sunglasses, smiling at the camera.There are a lot of photos, from all angles,

Fu Sihan smoothed out the small cloth flower in her hand and placed it on the screen of the phone——then she found that this flower was exactly the same as the decoration on the back of Qin Huai's windbreaker belt.

Suddenly, there was a light ding sound in the quiet corridor—it was the notification sound of the elevator arriving.

Fu Sihan's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and it vibrated rapidly in her chest like a beating drum. She frantically stuffed the things in her hand into her schoolbag, walked out with her head down, and left the door of 2401.

At the intersection of the stairwell and the turning, Fu Sihan passed a woman.

Before Fu Sihan entered the elevator, the woman turned her head slightly and glanced at her.

Fu Sihan felt the strong gaze of presence, but she didn't look back, the elevator went down to the first floor again under her instructions, Fu Sihan wiped the sweat from his palms on his trouser legs, and found that his legs were a little weak.

She took out her phone again, ignored the new window with a red heart, found a profile picture of a police villain from the address book, and clicked on the dialog box.

Because her palms were covered in cold sweat, she was a little slippery, and she edited and edited a sentence several times before sending it out.

[I just came out of 2401. 】

Fu Sihan typed.

【Qin Huai is lying, she went to the fourth brother's house. 】

She held the silk flower in her hand, took a picture of it with the elevator light, and sent it to the other party.

The signal in the elevator is really unflattering, but Fu Sihan has already sent it, so don't worry about it anymore.She put the phone back into her pocket, and secretly prayed that the woman she had just seen would not chase her down.

Thirty seconds later, the screen of the mobile phone that was left on the sink in the toilet on the third floor of the Municipal Bureau suddenly lit up, and three new message notifications popped up within one second.

Yan Cen, who was washing his hands, glanced at the screen, turned off the faucet, and took out two paper towels to wipe his hands from the paper box on one side.

The phone screen went dark within three seconds, and then the bathroom door was suddenly "slammed" open, and a panting figure rushed into the door, his eyes fell directly on the marble counter.

The person who came to confirm that the phone was still in place was relieved, and then he had time to see Yan Cen next to him.

"What a coincidence." Yan Cen said.

The young man stopped Yan Cen just a few hours ago, and now he was caught off guard again, with an unnatural expression on his face.

"Forgot your mobile phone?" Yan Cen smiled at him, picked up the mobile phone on the sink and handed it to him, politely reminded: "Be a policeman, don't be so sloppy."

When the smart phone senses the activity, the screen will automatically light up. The young man's eyes fell on the screen. Seeing a few new messages on it, his expression suddenly became unsightly. He took the phone, thanked him vaguely, and left in a hurry .

Yan Cen dried his hands indifferently, then threw the wet tissue into the trash can, turned around and walked out of the bathroom.

From the bathroom to the office of the second criminal investigation team, there was still a tea room to pass by. Yan Cen turned in and made a cup of coffee along the way.

When he sauntered back to the office, the people from the trace inspection department had just come out and nodded to him as they met at the door.

Yan Cen smiled at him politely as a gift, then walked into Xu Muzhou's office with the coffee in his hand, and put the coffee cup on his desk.

"Did you find anything?" Yan Cen asked.

"Well, thank you." Xu Muzhou took the coffee, frowned in embarrassment, and said: "The trace inspection just gave the appraisal report, saying that Qi Yuan's footprints were extracted in the room of 2401. So Qi Yuan lied —he went into that room."