lion hunting

In the old building area in District B of S City, Rui An didn't even turn on the lights when he got home. He was lying quietly on the sofa, and the events of these days were played in front of his eyes countless times, and everything was related to Ao Chuan. Regarding, when it started, that man's tiny emotions were deeply engraved in his mind, whether he was laughing or silent, or angry or emotional...

He waited patiently, waiting for the man to unlock the door, or waiting for him to wake up and find the man squatting at the door like the year before last. In that way, I will never wake up from sleep.

Time passed minute by minute, outside the window, from darkness to dawn, but Rui An never heard any movement, he didn't even dare to take the initiative to make a call, he was worried that the call would expose the man in danger, I was even more worried about the endless busy tone on the phone, so I could only wait.

And even if he was anxious and exhausted, at 7:40 in the morning, Rui An still had to go to work, and he still had to put his personal feelings behind, because he was a policeman.

No, he has not been a competent policeman for a long time, because he concealed too many things that the law cannot tolerate.

Three days is a blink of an eye for an adult, but for Rui An at this time, these three days are longer than the year he has lived. He knocks on the door of the house opposite every day, and he never fails. It fell, but there was always no movement in the room. Of course, this time it also returned in vain.

I don't remember what I did that day. In the evening, Rui An sat at the dining table and ate a simple meal. Looking at the soft biscuits soaked in milk, Rui An suddenly remembered that Miao Zheng said how he felt thin when he was patrolling during the day. a lot of.

Holding the spoon, his hand was still very strong, and he didn't feel that he was thinner.

People who had been talking about not wasting all day long, but now they have no appetite at all. Rui An poured out the soaked soft biscuits, and washed the dishes again.

Shaking the foam off his hands, Rui An was in a daze, and suddenly felt a dull pain in his heart. He wiped his hands on his clothes, then ran to the sofa and picked up the phone. After hesitating for a moment, he took a deep breath, and then dialed the man's phone number.

There is no room to think about whether this will bring trouble to the man, he now needs to know whether Ao Chuan is safe or not.

'Hello!The number you dialed is empty, please check and dial again. Sorry! The number you dialed does note exist, please check it and dial later...'

Frowning slightly, her heart heaving more and more obvious, Rui An hung up the phone, and dialed after confirming the number...

'Hello!The number you dialed is empty...'

Hang up and dial again...

'Hello!The number you dialed...'

Hang up, call again, hang up, call again...

... Gradually let go of the hand, the phone fell on the lap, and then slipped on the sofa, and the mechanical female voice was still repeated on the phone that was not hung up.

Rui An stared blankly at the phone that had hung up by itself, feeling as if a thousand ants were gnawing on his heart.

Unconsciously, he grasped the jacket on the sofa. This clover black sports jacket belonged to a man. Rui An had been covering it on the sofa for three days, and there was still a faint smell of a man on it.

The clothes were a bit dirty, probably from rubbing them in the woods that day, Rui An dully rubbed the stains on the clothes, rubbed his hands and then stopped, because he found a hole in the shoulder of the clothes.

The hole is rough, but it doesn't look like it was scratched by a branch, and the break feels a little stagnant to the touch.

"..."

As if thinking of something, Rui Anteng sat up suddenly, took the clothes and ran to the bathroom, he turned on the faucet, and rinsed the holes in the clothes in the water.

Seeing the water stains gradually becoming reddish, Rui An's hands trembled a little. Sure enough, his guess was right, the man was injured.

And this hole was pierced by a bullet, because the clothes are black, so the blood is basically invisible after it dries, but when did the man get injured?Why didn't Rui An notice it at all, didn't he snort when he was hit by a bullet?Doesn't that damned man know it hurts?

Once again blaming the man for enduring when he shouldn't, Rui An turned off the faucet, obviously it was impossible to judge the man's injury based on these alone.

His eyes froze, Rui An picked up the key and took a taxi directly to the nightclub he had been to before. For some reason, he always felt that that nightclub could give him some results.

At 09:30 in the evening, Rui An arrived at [NOIL.Club]. As he expected, it was a time when there were many people, but he could no longer maintain his original calmness. He stood directly in front of a security guard and immediately asked, "Where's your manager?"

"May I ask who you are?" The security guard hesitated. The person who came here had to find the manager, and he couldn't just let go.

"Don't worry about who I am, I'll find your manager!"

"My guest, I am also very embarrassed by your behavior. If you have anything to do, please tell me first, and I will notify you later..."

Anbao was talking about sending people away, and Rui An was very irritable when he heard it. He raised his hand to interrupt the person, and he was impatient to speak again, "The manager can't do it, then call me Ao Chuan!"

"..." Anbao was obviously taken aback, looking at Rui An in a strange way.

"Go and take care of the guests." Just as Rui An was being aggressive, a security guard who seemed to be in charge came over. He distracted the young security guard who was at a loss, led Rui An to a corner where no one was around, and asked: " Excuse me, who did you say you were looking for?"

Rui An was completely tired of this kind of concealed questioning, he said again with a ruthless expression: "I don't want to say anything now, and don't give me any sloppy eyes, just answer me honestly now, A Yin, Ao Chuan, are they here?"

The steward, An Bao, paused, looked Rui An up and down, and asked, "What do you want them for?"

"What? Of course I want to see if they are alive or dead!"

"..."

Seeing the person who was still hesitating, Rui An's pupils tightened. He suddenly grabbed the security guard's vest strap, pulled it closer, and said in a low voice, "If you're just now starting to judge whether I'm a friend or a villain, then Let me tell you, you are far from being promoted."

After speaking, Rui An let go of Anbao's clothes, and waited for Anbao to speak again.

What Rui An said was correct. If Rui An was the evil party, he would not have come to inquire so blatantly, or even went to find someone directly. However, a few minutes had passed by the time Anbao understood this truth, and he was completely beaten by Rui An. Ann pulled the wrinkled vest and said in a low voice, "Sorry, I can't answer your question."

Rui An took a deep look at the man, and didn't want to waste any more words.

"...because they left four days ago."

"Four days ago?"

"Yes."

Rui An frowned, wasn't it the day Ao Chuan asked him to have a picnic in the woods four days ago?Didn't Ao Chuan come back after that?

"Then can you contact them?"

"I'm just a small security team leader." The man shrugged helplessly.

"..."

"Sorry, I'll be busy if there's nothing else to do."

After Anbao finished speaking, he stared at Rui An for a while, and when he saw that there was no movement, he went back to work. When he walked to the door, he looked back at Rui An, and found that the person was still standing there motionless, but he could say what he had to say. That's all.

Once a person is lost, all negative emotions will come to his face, and now Rui An's mind is full of Ao Chuan's accident.As he warned himself that maybe something was wrong with him, he thought about how to calm down.

Calmness, what Rui An is best at is calmness. He walked slowly to the opposite side of the nightclub, sat on the edge of the wall in the shadows, looked at the door opposite the door where people were coming and going, and tried his best to think about what to do next. What to do, just give up like before, just pretend to be a man and leave without saying goodbye, or find a way to find out the man's news and confirm the man's life or death.

He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't even notice when the security guard left.

"Welcome to NOIL.Club!"

The voice of the security guard welcoming guests on the opposite side quietly penetrated into his ears, and Rui An reflexively looked at the plaque of the nightclub. It was a very low-key decoration style, with black characters in a white frame. The name of the nightclub.

"NOIL.Club..." Rui An murmured, staring at the letters NOIL for a moment. He didn't know what this word meant, and he had never used it for him who only knew how to communicate in English. words.

However, this word is very familiar, and it is hard to say where I have seen it. After all, many English words are similar...

As if thinking of something, Rui An knelt down and wrote the word with a stone, then turned around and looked backwards, so it seemed that the word was more familiar, so he changed the letters and wrote it again...

【Lion】

"Lion!" Rui An sighed in a low voice, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the club's plaque. The letter was correct, and it meant lion when read backwards.

No wonder Ao Chuan has been here, no wonder!It turns out that everything is a cover, what kind of manager, what kind of part-time job, this is the secret stronghold of the Red Lion Club in S City, or it is Ao Chuan's shield here.

It would be a lie to say that he is not surprised, Rui An has never thought about it that much, it seems that he is too simple, but now he has stepped in with one foot, and he no longer knows everything in the past, he admits that he is To miss is to worry.So, while the Red Lions were in his mind, his heart was clear.

He is going to find Ao Chuan.

And the reason he gave himself was: to return the torn sports coat to the man with his own hands.

Rui An is a conservative person. He never thought that after being a patrolman for so many years, there would be a day when he would ask for personal leave. Of course, he never thought of Lao Xu, but he gave Rui An an approval without asking. During the long vacation, it was also indicated on the approval document that he was away on business.Compared with watching Rui An plunge into work, Lao Xu still selfishly let Rui An go out to relax. After all, it is not the end of the year, and there are many new patrol officers. There will be no mistakes in patrol matters because of Rui An's temporary vacation, and The most important thing is that Rui An has never taken the initiative to ask for a vacation for so many years. On the contrary, he has let himself off if he doesn't take the initiative to take all the holidays on him.

And what Lao Xu didn't expect was that Rui An would hide everything from him. Rui An buried everything about Ao Chuan in his heart, deeply.

He knew that he was ashamed of Lao Xu and this police uniform, but he had already regretted it once, and he didn't want to have a second time.

Because, if the patrolman lacks him, another person will make up for him, and if there is one missing Ao Chuan, there will be no second one in the world.