today's island

When Lu Yuanzhe inserted the key into the door, he could still hear the rapid knock on the door, but after inserting it, it disappeared.He didn't know whether Cheng Mo was afraid or anxious. Anyway, in order to prevent being shot by the friendly army, he immediately yelled as soon as he opened the door: "It's me, it's me, don't use a knife or a gun!"

Standing in the room, Cheng Mo saw him coming in, heaved a sigh of relief, took two steps back, and sat back on the bed.

"It was so strong that the roof of the carport was blown away." He described the scene when everyone went to rescue bicycles and sundries in the carport just now. .

"Fortunately, it's a trip. If the power is cut off, we may have to resist the severe cold tonight." He joked, and found that Cheng Mo's face was worse than when he went out, and immediately put away the excitement of watching the typhoon, and leaned forward Ask, "What's the matter? Is it better? It still hurts after being scared? The medicine is not available, can you persevere?"

"No." Cheng Mo waved his hands, hugged the hot water bottle again, his hands were red, it must have been smashed on the door, this is no longer a disturbance, as if he was going to break out of the door.

"Are you so afraid of the dark?" Lu Yuanzhe asked in surprise, "I just heard you knock on the door inside, and I almost thought the house was on fire."

Disagreeing that he was afraid of the dark, Cheng Mo glanced at him dissatisfiedly, and then glanced at the phone: "Master Yan is calling."

"Huh?" Lu Yuanzhe was taken aback, his eyes flicked to the receiver on the table, "Did you call here?"

"Well, I think you have other secrets about being named here. It's better to ask Director Jiang." Cheng Mo looked at him, half-narrated what he had just talked to the young master, then exhaled wearily, and moved a little Right hand that has started to go numb.

He didn't tell Lu Yuanzhe immediately about the "acquaintance" between him and the young master.

"Is your hand okay?" Lu Yuanzhe grabbed his wrist, picked it up and looked at it, the little finger to the wrist bone was red, which shows how hard it is to get through this door.

"It's okay." Cheng Mo withdrew his hand and tucked it into the sleeve of his pajamas.

Anyway, it was because he was worried about him that he knocked hard on the door. Lu Yuanzhe stood up and went out again: "Sit down for a while, I'll get you a bottle of ice water, and tell everyone about the situation by the way."

This time Cheng Mo didn't call him to stop, he just watched Lu Yuanzhe leave, lowered his head and breathed a sigh of relief.Fortunately, Lu Yuanzhe didn't see that he was hiding something this time.

·

Because of the power outage, Lu Yuanzhe just entered the house with a key.God knows why the electronic lock here must be answered by the main computer to open and close the door, and it is too obsessed with anti-theft.

When Sister Zhao gave him the keys, she clearly told him that there was only one key for each room, and they were all hung in the management room at the end of the corridor.

Those who were not drunk went to rescue the carport, and the ones who locked Cheng Mo up could only be the "drunk" people lying here.

The management room was locked, and the key cabinet was also locked. This was either done by Sister Zhao, or it was premeditated and a spare key was provided.

When Lu Yuanzhe went down to the first floor, he met Captain Hu sorting out some small sundries in the lobby.He insinuated that it was not safe to hang the keys in the management room, Captain Hu nodded repeatedly.

"I also said that it is most suitable for our security team to take care of the keys." Captain Hu is 50 years old, but his muscles are still very tight. What's the use of locking it in that small cabinet? If someone steals it at night, I don't know how many things will happen."

Complaints belong to complaints, Captain Hu is quite enthusiastic, and comforts Lu Yuanzhe not to be too nervous: "Comrade police, you can go to sleep at ease, I live next to the duty room, it's just a three-story building, if someone yells when something goes wrong, you can hear it, let everyone hang up the anti-theft alarm chain, nothing will happen."

"Why don't Xiao Cheng and I come down too?" Lu Yuanzhe asked.He Zhigang died in the house with the anti-theft chain on. This is an acquaintance committing the crime, and locking the door doesn't work.

"No, no, what's the use of sitting, are you really worried that something will happen?" Captain Hu patted him proudly, urging him to sleep, "Go to sleep, there are just a few people, nothing will happen. I’m a light sleeper, so I’m sure I’ll wake up if there’s any movement.”

"Then you've worked hard." Guessing he couldn't tell him, Lu Yuanzhe left the hall and turned to the cafeteria to find a bottle of ice water for Cheng Mo.

As soon as he stood in front of the vending machine, he met Sister Zhao coming in.

"Eh? Are you looking for something to eat too?" Sister Zhao asked enthusiastically, "I can't get enough to eat at the banquet. Director Jiang said that you have to serve hard dishes. I know you are not used to eating. Shall I serve you a bowl of noodles?"

"No, no." He waved his hand immediately, "I'll just buy a bottle of water and leave."

"Then you are hungry and order noodles by yourself. You don't need to go into the back kitchen. There is a small electric pot in the corner, and there are instant noodles next to it, for the experimenters who stay up late." Sister Zhao told him.

"Understood, thank you Sister Zhao." He replied, took out the water bottle from the vending machine, and left with Sister Zhao who had checked the doors and windows.

"Captain Hu said that it's not safe to hang your keys in the management room." He casually added a sentence without mentioning that the keys might be stolen.

"Aren't you afraid that some experimenter is sick or something else happened? Let's open the door and check." Sister Zhao disapproved, and raised her chest in disdain, "There are so many people in the security team, and they take turns, how is it safe? I have nothing else to do every day, so I just take care of the logistics, and other times I am not in the management room but in the next room, which is more reliable than their security team."

It seems that this key is still a right, and the logistics manager is unwilling to hand it over to others.

"Then when everyone rescued the carport tonight, did anyone ask for the key to the cabinet?" Lu Yuanzhe asked.

"No, what's the matter? Did you lose something?" Sister Zhao asked him in turn.

"No." Lu Yuanzhe waved his hand and went up to the second floor with Sister Zhao, "By the way, your door can be locked from the outside, and no one in the room can get out without a key, so you didn't accidentally lock your roommate in the room." inner?"

"You also found out." Sister Zhao obviously agreed with his point of view, muttering to herself, "Yeah, it's not very good, I also mentioned that it would be troublesome if there was a fire and the power was cut off. If you don’t open it, what if something happens? Who knows how such a door was repaired.”

"Didn't change?" Lu Yuanzhe asked.

"There's no time to do this, the funds are all spent on the laboratory building." Sister Zhao rolled her eyes and said goodbye to him at the stairs.

Lu Yuanzhe looked at her back, but didn't see any obvious doubts.

When he returned to the room, Cheng Mo was no longer lying down, sitting on the bed with a hot water bottle in his arms and wrapped in a quilt, and when he saw him coming in, he asked, "How is it?"

"Captain Hu said that everyone will be notified to lock the door, and nothing will happen." Lu Yuanzhe replied, and handed the ice water to Cheng Mo's hand, "I really don't have to work so hard to knock on the door next time."

"Banquet is mixed in, it's hard to make people not anxious." Cheng Mo held the mineral water bottle and retorted seriously, "In case something happens to you, how can I explain to the special case team."

"It's hard for me to explain what happened to you." Lu Yuanzhe glanced at him sideways, and put a glass of warm water on the bedside for him, "Go to bed early, do you want to leave a light for you?"

Cheng Mo will turn on a night light for himself at night. There is only a desk lamp here, so let it be brighter, it's better than not sleeping well.

"No need." Speaking of this, Cheng Mo's ears turned red, and he weakly defended himself, "I'm really not afraid of the dark, but I wake up easily."

"Then you can figure it out." Lu Yuanzhe smiled, and took his change of clothes into the bathroom, "Good night, don't sit still, go to bed early."

It was indeed getting late, Cheng Mo drank half a glass of water and slipped under the quilt.

After drinking a lot of wine, Lu Yuanzhe stood in the bathroom for a while to wake up, and when he came out, Cheng Mo had already fallen asleep.He also quickly turned off the lights and retreated to the bed, moving the gun under the pillow.

Don't dare to sleep too deeply, where there is a banquet, it is absolutely impossible to end with a prank.

Although he seemed to have experienced many things in one night, it was only after eleven o'clock when he closed his eyes. He used to be a social madman who actively joined the midnight group chat. Now that his mobile phone has no signal, he can only give up.

It was close to twelve o'clock before he felt a little drowsy, and fell asleep with his gun on his head. As a result, Cheng Mo woke up completely at ten past twelve with Cheng Mo's scream, as if he had never fallen asleep.

Cheng Mo didn't sit up, but he didn't calm down for a long time. He turned the phone on and off, turned it on and off, and went back and forth several times.

Lu Yuanzhe didn't speak, and heard the opposite person's breathing change from rapid to gentle, and finally the quilt squirmed, and the people inside seemed to shrink even tighter.

He sighed in his heart, not wanting to embarrass Cheng Mo, so he didn't say anything and pretended he didn't hear.

The person who tied the bell had to be untied. Who did he ask to know what Cheng Mo went through back then?It can't be his mother who abused him, right?

Why can't even find out how his mother died from the information in the bureau, only a simple death certificate?The death certificate came from the First Hospital of Daocheng. Did Cheng Mo's mother die of illness?

He gradually fell asleep amidst all kinds of conjectures, and finally only the faint sound of the wind in the transom was in his ears.

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The whistling wind was whistling above his head, and it was also a windy day in an island city, and the heat wave was almost negligible, but Cheng Mo felt like an illusion, making him feel that it was an out-of-season winter.

"Is there anyone? I'm going to arrest someone?" The immature child's voice passed through each room briskly, and finally came to the door of the bathroom, mixed with the sound of chaotic footsteps and the crisp sound of children clapping their hands, "Is there anyone? Is there anyone else? "

He could hear the weak snorting from the next door, and he also suppressed his own breathing, not daring to make any sound.

"Is anyone there?" The little boy entered the bathroom and pushed open the door of the bathroom cubicle one by one.

Squeak, bang.The wooden door of the compartment hit the wall, knocking violently.Each one pops open in turn until the penultimate one.

"Ahhh..." The people in the cubicle couldn't help but uttered.

The continuous gunshots deprived Cheng Mo of his hearing for a short time, and the sound of tinnitus echoed in his mind. He remained motionless, his big eyes staring at the dark front.

Blood spilled from the compartment, the door opened, and the body collapsed on the floor.

"Is anyone there?" The little boy pushed open the last utility room, his voice more excited than before.

The blasted water pipe made the sound of purring water, and the blood dripped all over the floor, before Cheng Mo's eyes lit up.

……

Taking a deep breath, suppressing the scream in his throat, Cheng Mo turned over and sat up on the bed, with the sound of water gurgling in his ears, and a tall black figure in front of him.

"Calm down, it's me, Lu Yuanzhe." Lu Yuanzhe spoke, fast but very gentle, trying not to arouse any tension in him, "It seems that the power is cut off again, and the heating is also cut off."

"Oh." Cheng Mo responded and grabbed his quilt tightly.The first thought was not the embarrassment of waking up and being discovered, but the peace of mind that someone was there.

He knew that even if he was forcibly hypnotized by alcohol, he would wake up repeatedly.But he didn't expect that it had been so long since the case, and he still remembered it so clearly.