Strangers

I thought that the matter of defrauding money was left alone, and when you leave the island, you still have to go with me to the bureau! "

Qi Xie smiled softly: "Let's talk about it if we are destined to go out."

☆、Isolation room

Wei Yuanyang frowned and asked him what he meant.

Qi Xie thought for a moment: "Do you know any rumors about zombies since the founding of the People's Republic of China?"

Wei Yuanyang scratched his chin unexpectedly: "According to rumors... Zombies have been found in Beijing and Sichuan. It seems that Xinjiang has also been found? In the end, the higher-ups set up the **** base there, and the whole thing was blown to pieces."

"Where did you hear these rumors?"

"Friends bragging, online posts."

"Did anyone tell you he's ever seen a zombie?"

"No."

Qi Xie slowed down his speech: "Then where do you think the witnesses of these zombie incidents went?"

"There are no witnesses." Wei Yuanyang waved his hand disdainfully, "Those legends are probably nonsense, what age is it, how could there be any stiffness—"

He was taken aback when he said this, and finally realized the logic.

"We have seen with our own eyes that there are indeed things that can be called 'zombies' in the world." Qi Xie said slowly, "This is enough to prove that the above rumors are not groundless. If those things really happened, it is impossible for there to be no witnesses... ..."

Wei Yuanyang seemed to realize something: "Could it be that those people—!"

Qi Xie stabbed his neck with a knife, and whispered eight words: "Murder to kill, destroy corpses and traces."

"No... yes!" Wei Yuanyang stammered, "Those witnesses... may be ordinary people, the higher-ups wouldn't just cover up the situation and just take them all..."

"Then why do you think the guards put us here together?"

"Isn't it... isolated and observed?"

"Isolation and observation?" Qi Xie sneered, "Is there such a method of observation with live ammunition?"

Wei Yuanyang's brain short-circuited: "Then this is..."

"Listen carefully to their conversation." Qi Xie turned his eyes and looked at the other people in the room.

Wei Yuanyang pricked up his ears and heard that those people were discussing the zombie incident in full swing, some were speculating on the cause, some were analyzing the symptoms, and some were describing what they had seen and heard.

"Those two middle-aged people are engaged in physics, and they were the first to be isolated here." Qi Xie whispered, "The two people in the white coat and the door know each other, they may be researchers in biochemistry, and they are both on the 19th. Work upstairs. The tall man on their left has never joined the professional discussion, and occasionally makes a few sentences without any information. Most of the time he is in a daze, and the young man in the blue jacket..."

"What?" Wei Yuanyang hurriedly asked.

"It seems to be a gag, but under his leadership, everyone's understanding of the situation has been fully exposed." Qi Xie paused, "This person was installed outside to secretly screen the eyeliner of witnesses.—— If my guess is correct, there should be such spies in every isolation room, and by tomorrow, they will report the situation upwards to determine who can survive and who... should be silent forever."

Wei Yuanyang's back went numb, and he immediately looked at that person. The normal chat and laugh just now suddenly turned into a show with ulterior motives...

"But the above are just guesses." Qi Xie said again, "Maybe I'm overthinking."

Wei Yuanyang pondered for a moment and nodded: "I think it makes sense."

"Then what are your plans?"

"Intend?"

"When I went to the island, I saw zombie-like infected people with my own eyes, and I was arrested immediately. If they want to silence them, I am definitely the first choice."

Wei Yuanyang was speechless for a while: "I also saw someone shot dead by them on the spot..."

"Oh?" Qi laughed, "Then we are really in the same boat."

"It's rich and reunion." Wei Yuanyang was dejected.

"So I have a plan now." Qi Xie said.

"what's the plan."

"run."

Wei Yuanyang was silent for a while, then suddenly thumped his thigh: "No!"

Qi harmony raised his eyes subtly.

"The two of us ran away, so what about the other witnesses? And they were wrong in the first place. How could they silence the zombies when they saw them? What's the point!" Wei Yuanyang became more and more excited as he spoke.

"Hush!" Qi Xie reminded, "Then what are you going to do?"

"I'll go find them and ask them!"

Qi Xie paused: "Isn't this a warning to the snake!"

Wei Yuanyang was confident: "I'll hit it, what's the matter? If the snake is startled, I'll hit it too!"

"It really is an idiot." Qi Xie muttered.

"Ah?" Wei Yuanyang didn't hear clearly this time.

"It's nothing, just ask yourself the blessing." Qi Xie leaned against the wall and stopped expressing his opinion.

Wei Yuanyang made up his mind for a while, stood up slowly, and walked towards the people chatting in the middle of the room.

The young man in the blue jacket stopped unexpectedly and looked at him: "What's the matter?"

Wei Yuanyang coughed and snorted: "Excuse me, are you an employee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"

"No." Blue Jacket replied bluntly, "I came here today to find friends to play with. Who knew that something bad happened and I was locked up in this ghost place in the middle of the night."

"Who can prove it." Wei Yuanyang asked.

"Why prove this?" Blue Jacket frowned.

Wei Yuanyang scratched his nose: "Because I suspect that you are an outside eyeliner, in order to find out how much we know about zombies, so that we can report to the higher authorities tomorrow, and punish those who know too much on the spot."

After finishing speaking, there was silence in the room.

Then there was a big laugh.

"I said buddies, you've watched too many spy movies!" Blue Jacket patted him on the shoulder.

Wei Yuanyang didn't smile: "Please show me the evidence."

"He came to see me." The tall man said suddenly, "He came to see me to play basketball."

As he spoke, he pointed to his feet, and sure enough, a basketball was placed on the ground.

"This..." Wei Yuanyang turned his head to look at Qi Xie.

Only to find that corner was empty!

"Where was that guy just now?" Wei Yuanyang was dumbfounded.

"Going out, it seems to be going to the toilet." The white coat said.

Wei Yuanyang let out an oh, and suddenly felt something was wrong: This grandson!Should have already run away!

"Why?" Blue Jacket was surprised to see him.

"No, nothing." Wei Yuanyang quickly knocked on the door, "I want to go to the toilet too!"

The security guard at the door hesitated, and pointed to the corridor. Wei Yuanyang walked over pretending to be relaxed, and quickly changed to a trot after turning the corner!After rushing into the men's toilet, a figure stepped onto the window sill and was about to jump off the building!

"Wait!" Wei Yuanyang immediately held him back.

"What are you doing!" Qi Xie turned his head, frowning in disgust.

"We got it wrong, that person wasn't the eyeliner."

"Whether I'm right or wrong, I'm leaving here tonight." Qi Xie was firm.

"It's not necessary, they won't kill people to silence them." Wei Yuanyang explained.

"I will judge whether it is necessary or not. If you want to stay, stay, don't hold me back!" Qi Xie kicked him away.

"This is the third floor, just jump down! Don't be afraid to fall to your death!"

"Falling to death is also my business, it has nothing to do with you!"

After Qi Xie finished speaking, he jumped off the window sill!Wei Yuanyang grabbed his clothes subconsciously, his center of gravity became unsteady, and he also fell out of the window!

… Stretching his limbs and getting up, he found himself sitting in the flower bed, a few thick branches above his head were broken, hanging in mid-air and swinging from side to side.

"It's your fate." Qi Xie on the side said calmly.

Wei Yuanyang shook his head to drive Xing Xing away.

Qi Xie rubbed his arms and stood up: "I'm leaving, don't follow me."

Wei Yuanyang was puzzled: "I told you that we made a mistake, why don't you listen to my advice!"

Qi Xie snorted coldly: "I also said that I'm leaving here tonight, it's because you can't understand people's language."

"Can't go!" Wei Yuanyang suddenly stopped him, "If you get infected, the virus will be transmitted to the outside of the island!"

"I won't be infected." Qi Xie turned around.

"Stop!" Wei Yuanyang insisted.

"If you keep yelling to attract the guards, you will be shot dead on the spot as a fugitive!" Qi Xie scolded angrily, and Wei Yuanyang shut up instantly.

Sighing lightly, Qi Xie looked around vigilantly, and then pointed to the bushes. Wei Yuanyang didn't understand what he meant, so he had to follow him.

"It's pretty safe here." Qi Xie hid in the dense forest and whispered, "I'll finish my sentence at once, so don't get entangled anymore. In fact, I didn't want to run away because of any eyeliner in the room, but because I just When I was on the island, I overheard a conversation among several of their insiders, saying that the virus this time came from a biochemical weapon experiment."

"Biochemical weapon?" Wei Yuanyang was taken aback.

"Are you surprised?" Qi Xie chuckled, "But compared with what they said later, it's nothing more than a little bit."

Wei Yuanyang was taken aback: "What did they say?"

Qi Xie shook his head slowly: "This matter is related to state secrets, and the public should not know about it. If I had a choice, I would rather not hear anything, so unless I am alive enough, I will not tell anyone."

Seeing his firm attitude, Wei Yuanyang stopped asking.

"I admit that I wanted to use you to escape together, so I made up the eyeliner incident." Qi Xie continued, "So you don't need to have any worries, even if you wait until tomorrow, those people will let you out of the island."

"Then they're not afraid that the news about the zombies will be leaked?" Wei Yuanyang asked back.

"No." Qi Xie laughed intentionally, "As long as tomorrow comes, the witnesses will naturally forget what happened tonight."

——Later I asked the reason, but he refused to tell, so now I found a few pieces of paper and wrote down what happened just now, so as not to forget it in the future, although I think this is impossible.

At this point, the diary came to an abrupt end.

In front of the desk in the dormitory, Wei Yuanyang read several pieces of paper front and back several times, but couldn't find half a sentence.

"What happened after that, why don't you keep writing!" He cursed inwardly, completely forgetting that this article was written by himself, feeling like a serial novel suddenly disappeared halfway through, scratching his heart and liver in a hurry.

Fortunately, Wei Yuanyang was not a calm character, so he grabbed the phone and dialed Ding Li.

"Hello." The other person connected.

"Hey Ding Li." Wei Yuanyang said, "I have something to ask Lao Qi, do you have his Shanghai number?"

Ding Li hesitated for a moment: "Yes, yes, but it's the landline of his residence, he may not be at home."

"Okay, then I'll type a few more times." Wei Yuanyang grabbed a pen and paper and copied down a string of numbers.

"I just called, but no one answered, you can try again later." Ding Li said.

"Okay, thanks."

Wei Yuanyang pressed the on-hook button, and wanted to wait a few minutes, but was impatient, so he dialed.

A voice answered slowly: "Hello."

"Ah, hello? Old Qi?"

"What is it?" Qi Xie asked.

"What...you just got home?"

"No, it's always there."

Wei Yuanyang was surprised: "Na Dingli said that no one answered your calls."

"I was feeding the fish in the yard, but I didn't hear it." Qi Xie said.

Wei Yuanyang lowered his voice slightly, and got to the point: "By the way, I just packed up and found a few pieces of paper, which recorded the zombies in Science Island, but they only wrote the part about escaping the isolation room, so I want to ask you what happened afterwards."

"Oh? After two years, you can still dig it out."

"Don't laugh, say it!"

"Let's think about it..." Qi Xie took a long time before he opened his mouth, "Not long after I escaped from the isolation room, I rowed away, and you were taken back by those guards. After a few days, you and those witnesses told the story They were almost forgotten, and they were released from the island one after another. As for those infected, those in stage A and stage B returned to the laboratory for treatment, and stage C, that is, all the zombies were killed."

"Really..." Wei Yuanyang scratched his head, "But I don't have any memory at all."

"Of course."

"Why did I forget about this?"

"Hmm..." Qi Xie said seriously, "Because you have a bad memory."

"You have a bad memory!" Wei Yuanyang dissatisfied, "And the other day you said they were making some kind of biochemical weapon, and then what?"

"Biochemical weapons?" Qi said in a low voice, "Later they said that the Chinese Academy of Sciences is conducting a major national project."

"what's the plan."

"Don't tell you."

"you--!"

"Okay, I'm going to sleep, goodbye and good night."

"Wait! Hey!" Wei Yuanyang shouted.

Qi Harmony has already hung up.

It was night, Wei Yuanyang was lying on the bed, looking at the fluorescent tube for several times, but couldn't find any clue.The next day he skipped work early and went to Science Island. Except for a few stubbles of the sycamore tree in the north of Building 8, there was no trace of the incident two years ago left in anyone or anything.

☆, the wind

One day and night, in the suburbs of Shanghai.

In the empty four-lane lane, the green light began to flash. In the zebra crossing, the only pedestrian walked to the opposite side. Suddenly, he seemed to sense something and turned around suddenly.

The two dots of white light in the pupil instantly became bigger!Accompanied by the approaching car head in an instant!

After the resounding sound, it was pitch black...

Dawn, September.

On the bustling and peaceful street, pedestrians came and went in a hurry. Only Xie Yu stood by the side of the road. His eyes behind the lens looked at the center of the zebra crossing, and he turned along the driveway to the distance, and finally stopped at a store along the street.

"There was a car accident here in May this year, do you have any memory?" he asked.

The restaurant waiter wiped the table: "I'm new here, so I don't know."

The old fruit seller took a puff of cigarette: "It seems that a man was hit by a car."

The aunt at the roadside stall turned the pot with an iron spoon: "You said that car accident, I saw it with my own eyes, did you come to the peas? It's hot!"

"No need." Xie Yu said, "Can you describe the situation at that time."

"My stall sells Dou Brain pot stickers during the day, and Malatang at night." The aunt answered while busy, "That day I finished selling Malatang and returned home. This happened to see the lid of the pot on the ground, and when I picked it up, I heard a knock! Good guy, I flew over by myself!"

"Did there be horns and brakes?" Xie Yu asked.

Aunt recalled for a moment: "No."

"What kind of car is that?"

"Truck, green. Speaking of which, the driver is really not a thing! After hitting someone, he didn't even get out of the car to take a look, and drove off in a hurry!"

"Did you see the license plate number?"

"How can you see that black thing!" The aunt sighed, "I ran over quickly, but the man was already dying, and his head hit the curb, and his brains dripped out. It's like a tofu brain."

Immediately the two diners at the table began to retch.

Xie Yu didn't change his face: "What about after that?"

"I called the police after that, and after waiting for a while, the police took the person away."

"Thank you." Xie Yu looked around and walked across the road.

Half a day later, in a residential area, a door was knocked on.

The door was answered by a young woman, with her hair loosely tied and wearing a loose home dress.

"Dad is back!" Suddenly there was a patter of footsteps, and a little girl ran out of the house with a cloth bear. Seeing an unknown man at the door, she hid behind her mother.

"Hi, I'm Zhu Hai's friend." Xie Yu said.

"Hello." The young woman let out a small smile and opened the door.

Xie Yu walked into the living room. There was a wedding photo on the wall. The bride was naturally Mrs. Zhu who opened the door. Standing beside her was a man in a white suit: slightly fat, not tall, with a crew cut, wearing rimless glasses, Its appearance is not good.

Mrs. Zhu poured a glass of water and invited him to sit down. Xie Yu took out a white envelope and put it on the coffee table: "Although it is a bit late, please accept it."

"You're being polite." Mrs. Zhu hugged her daughter on her lap and nodded slowly.

"I'm also a writer, Xijing." Xie Yu reported his family background.

Mrs. Zhu was stunned for a second, then smiled and said: "I heard that Zhu Hai mentioned you. —— You should all call him 'Feng Tie', right?"

"Yes." Xie Yu paused, but still couldn't help being curious, "Did he mention me?"

"Of course, there is still your "Three Cities" on the bookshelf in the room. He said at that time that he hadn't seen such an exciting detective novel in China for a long time."

"Thank you." Xie Yu said modestly, thinking back to Fengtie's big propaganda about the death of the mainland Benge a few years ago, in which he criticized "Three Cities" for its blunt style of writing and lack of artistic sense. Heaps of specious logic holes.

"Zhu Hai said it back then." Mrs. Zhu said again, "If someone in the writing group guessed the content of the mistletoe plan in advance, that person must be the West Territory."

"Really?" Xie Yu was really surprised this time.

"Well, he said other people wouldn't be so bored to guess it."

"Really..." Xie Yu's expression sank three points.

Mrs. Zhu smiled: "Don't worry, it should be his joke."

"Mom." The daughter in her arms suddenly raised her head, "When will Dad come back?"

Mrs. Zhu stroked her hair and said softly, "Father has gone on a business trip to a far away place, and it will take a long time before he comes back. Please be good, my daughter."

The daughter nodded and continued to play with the cloth bear in her hand.

"Excuse me, I have a question to ask." Xie Yu changed his tone serious, "Have you ever doubted that Zhu Hai's death may not be a simple car accident."

Mrs. Zhu was slightly stunned: "What do you mean?"

"I went to the scene to see it just now. Witnesses said that the vehicle did not honk at that time, and the accident report also indicated that there were no brake marks on the road."

Mrs. Zhu sighed, and said in a hoarse voice: "These traffic police have already investigated, but the vehicle that caused the accident has not been found yet..."

"Why did Fengtie go to that intersection?"

"I don't know, I took my daughter to my parents' house that day, who knew that the next day..." Her eyes were red in the middle of speaking.

"Has he acted abnormally before?"

"No..." Mrs. Zhu wiped the corners of her eyes, her voice trembling.

"Please recall carefully again."

Mrs. Zhu couldn't restrain her emotions anymore, and reprimanded: "How many times have the police investigated the car accident, what do you mean by interrogating these? My Zhu Hai has always been very popular and has never had any enemies with anyone. How could anyone want to kill him?" !"

"But I think..."

"Okay, I don't want to talk about it again!" Mrs. Zhu interrupted him.

As soon as the words fell, the daughter raised her hand to wipe her tears: "Mom, why are you crying?"

Mrs. Zhu was startled, and hugged the little girl tightly, tears streaming down her face.

Xie Yu took out a business card and put it on the envelope: "If you think of any doubts, please be sure to contact me."

Seeing that Mrs. Zhu did not respond, he consciously walked out the door.

"Goodbye, uncle." A voice came from behind.

When Xie Yu turned his head, it was the little girl looking at him, her eyes looked like her father's.

"Goodbye." He gently closed the door.

The hotel was not far away, Xie Yu walked back, the night gradually fell, he accidentally took a look at the new moon, but found a suspicious looking black car more than 50 meters behind him.

He took out his mobile phone calmly, pretended to send a text message and slowed down, and the black car also pulled over slowly.

When he crossed the road, the black car stopped immediately.

Appears to be targeted.He walked forward 100 meters, dodged into an alley.It was time to get off work, and there were many pedestrians in the alley, but no matter where he went, there seemed to be a figure behind him, Xie Yu unconsciously quickened his pace, saw a doorway in front of him, and hid in it!

Standing close to the wall, he used the phone screen to reflect behind him, and the figure finally disappeared.Secretly heaving a sigh of relief, he put away his phone, and just as he walked out of the doorway, he was patted on the shoulder suddenly!Xie Yu turned around in an instant, and there was that figure standing behind him!

——In an instinctive reaction, he swung his fist up!The wrist was easily pinched by the other party, and the weak light came in through the alley, Xie Yu finally saw who came...

Then came the urge to beat him up.

"Good evening?" Qi Xie still smiled.

Xie Yu snorted, turned his wrist and broke free: "Is this how you say hello?"

"I just wanted to say hello to you in a normal way. Who knew you would turn around and run away like a thief, so I had no choice but to follow all the way here." Qi Xie said without a beat.

Xie Yu scanned him from top to bottom: shirt, jeans, and a pair of short leather boots on his feet, so he asked, "Where are your messy clothes?"

"It's called Luqiao is worse than Zangzhuo." Qi Xie straightened his collar, "Let's go."

"Where to go."

"Come on for you, it's rare to be the host." Qi Xie slowly swayed back to the black car and opened the door.

The driver shifted into gear and turned around slowly.

After dinner, the car drove into a villa area called "Moon Garden". Xie Yu got out of the car, and a three-story old bungalow lay before him.

"Come in." Qi Xie pushed open the courtyard door.

The yard is not too big, with scattered flowers and trees, stone tables and benches beside it, and a small pond of koi.Qi Xie grabbed some feed and threw it in. Several red fishes swam up and pecked at the lights covering the water surface.

"Mr. Qi is back!" Xiao Tao greeted him with a smile.

Qi Xie nodded and walked into the room.

The coolness of the living room dispelled the heat, the two sat down on the sofa, Xiao Tao brought two cups, the glass was passed to Qi Xie, and the coffee cup was placed in front of Xie Yu.

"Have you quit tea?" Xie Yu saw that there was warm water in his cup.

"Follow the drug criminal." Qi Xie took a sip.

Xie Yu looked at him: "What's wrong with you?"

Qi Xie laughed: "Hearing what you say sounds like scolding."

"Answer the question head-on."

"Why should I answer?"

The living room was silent for a moment.

Qi Xie leaned into the depths of the sofa: "Why do you remember Shanghai?"

Xie Yu pushed his glasses: "I don't want to answer either."

"I haven't seen you for a few days, and your bad temper has gotten worse."

"Each each other."

Qi Xie chuckled lightly: "Because that wind sounds like iron."

Xie Yu was about to ask him how he knew, but he was relieved: "Nodding and shaking your head ghost."

"Yo, remember the past?"

"No, Ding Li told me. I'm still skeptical about its existence."

Qi Xie drank plain water noncommittally.

"You said a word on the Southern Star last year." Xie Yu picked up the coffee cup, "I said that I would thoroughly investigate Guixintang, and then use it as a novel material. You said that I would die when I finished writing, and then the manuscript would be lost. The truth. Afterwards, I thought of Feng Tie's death, when his "The Mistletoe Project" had just reached the last part, which was a critical period for solving the mystery."

"So you think the answer to the mystery is something ulterior?" Qi harmoniously answered.

"That's right." Xie Yu was sure.

"Knowing this, I still want to investigate. Is this a one-sidedness, or a fool." Qi Xie laughed.

"It's the attachment to the truth." Xie Yu was firm.

Qi Xie suddenly realized: "Recently, I heard a word from Fang Xun..."

"what."

"Secondary disease."

Xie Yu snorted softly: "I think the behavior of talking about 'you humans' all day long is more secondary."

Qi Xie smiled: "Really?"

Xie Yu stared at him: "You are also human, but you have an abnormal physique."

"What is a person?" Qi Xie asked.

"Walk upright, use tools and language, understand and transform the world." Xie Yu said.

"Then are vampires considered human?"

"There are no vampires in this world."

"It doesn't matter if you have it or not. I'm just giving an example to refute your 'abnormal physique'."

Xie Yu frowned: "Then what are you?"

"Qi Xie." He said, "I am a monster called 'Qi Xie', and the meaning of my existence is to record the strange things that exist in the world. The so-called 'Qi Xie, Zhiweizhe' refers to me. "

"The Qi harmony here refers to a book." Xie Yu retorted immediately.

"Who said it was a book, and there was no title at that time, it was all added by people who thought it was right." Qi Xie said disdainfully, "But there is indeed such a book, it is Qi Xie's book with the same name, just It's the same as the album of the same name."

Xie Yu was speechless for a while, and asked again: "Ding Li has known you since childhood, how could you suddenly become a monster."

"The man he knew died ten years ago, and I just borrowed his body and memory to use."

Xie Yu paused: "Are you serious?"

"Fake." Qi laughed harmoniously.

Xie Yu stopped speaking.

"How do I know what I am?" Qi Xie crossed his legs, "In short, my body has been inexplicably wrong since ten years ago, and it has gradually become like this. Later, I checked the book and found that it is a disease called Li , the etiology is unknown, and there is no cure, but it is not necessarily a bad thing, and some people even deliberately want to suffer from it.”

Xie Yu was a little surprised: "Why."

"There are two types of illnesses, one is 'birth' and the other is 'death'. You should have heard a saying that the slower the heartbeat in nature, the longer the lifespan. People suffering from 'birth' are like this This situation, so they tend to live very long, and even can live to two or three hundred years old. But 'Zai Li' is just the opposite, the patient's pulse slows down, respiratory failure, and finally falls asleep."

"You got the latter." Xie Yu replaced the question with a statement.

"That's right." Qi Xie picked up his cup and took a sip of warm water, "There is no cure for death, we can only rely on medicine to regulate the physical condition and delay the date of death."

"How long can it be delayed?"

"It varies from person to person." Qi Xie said in a calm tone, "It may be as short as one or two years, and as long as it may be 50 or [-] years."

"Then what is your plan to stay in Guixintang for the rest of your life?" Xie Yu asked.

"decide as things go."

"what's the situation."

Qi Xie glanced at the wall clock and put the cup on the tea table: "It's getting late, I'll take you to the guest room."

Xie Yu pointed it out clearly: "It seems that you are avoiding this topic."

Qi Xie smiled and stood up: "It's on the second floor."

Xie Yu looked up at him, seeing that he really didn't intend to continue the conversation, so he politely declined Qi Xie's invitation, saying that he had already booked a hotel.

"Why, do you think my place is not luxurious enough?" Qi Xie didn't insist anymore, "It's okay, I'll let Master Zhang take you there."

"I'll just take a taxi." Xie Yu said.

"Forget it, if it spreads out, people will scold me for being rude to guests." Qi Xie picked up the phone, stopped it, and hung up slowly, "It seems that you have to stay."

"What do you mean?" Xie Yu asked.

Qi Xie turned on the TV and turned on the news channel, and a building with thick smoke appeared on the screen.

Xie Yu was taken aback. ——That was the hotel where he was staying!

☆, Mingzhe

The fourth floor of the hotel exploded and caught fire. Firefighters have arrived and are fighting the fire. The casualties are still unclear, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation. ——The reporter said so.

Xie Yu pointed to a window on the TV: "My room."

"Sure enough, even a broom star is too embarrassed to be a detective." Qi Xie joked.

Xie Yu said nothing, the firelight of the screen was printed in his pupils.

Xiao Tao brought a plate of dim sum from the kitchen.

Qi Xie took it and handed it to him: "Eat."

"The 'nodding and shaking head' should remind you that when the nerves are excited, the nerve nucleus in the medulla oblongata will secrete a large amount of dopamine to produce a sense of satiety, so I don't have any desire to eat now." Xie Yu didn't say a word.

"Oh." Qi Xie took it back, picked out a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and handed it to Xiaotao.

"Thank you, Mr. Qi!" Xiaotao smiled, "Then Mr. Xie thinks that this accident was not a coincidence. Someone discovered that you were investigating Fengtie's deliberate manufacturing. This is equivalent to indirectly proving the guess of the Mistletoe Project, so you are so happy yes, right?"

Xie Yu looked at her for the first time.

"I'm sorry." Xiaotao stuck out her tongue, "I overheard what you said just now, but I'm Mr. Qi's person now, and I won't tell Lord Xun what you want to find out about Guixintang. Then again, We Guixintang haven't done anything wrong, so it doesn't matter how you investigate, so it doesn't matter."

Xie Yu was noncommittal, but Qi Xie said: "This peach girl seems to be not simple."

"Nothing." Xiao Tao smiled and handed over a bowl of hot soup, and when Qi Xie finished drinking, she told him to go to bed early and went into the room.

"Does she live here?" Xie Yu asked unexpectedly.

"Otherwise, do you think she was hospitalized?" Qi Xie asked back, "Xiaotao was admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of 16, but unfortunately her father suddenly became seriously ill, and a pair of younger siblings had to study, so she gave up enrolling and came to work in Shanghai. Master Xun met by chance a few years ago. After hearing about these experiences, she repaid the medical expenses owed by her father during her lifetime, and took her into Guixin Hall."

Xie Yu was speechless for a moment.

"What?" Qi Xie laughed, "Just now I thought she was an ignorant nanny, but now I respect her?"

"I didn't look down on her background and career." Xie Yu retorted.

"Yes, you just look down on people's education." Qi Xie said slowly, "In the mind of the Great God of the Western Region, education has always been equal to intelligence level plus effort. So guys with low education either have no IQ or don't work hard. These two points, especially the latter point, are absolutely zero tolerance for you, aren’t they?”

"Yes." Xie Yu readily admitted, "Unless there are other force majeure, such as family economic factors."

Qi Xie nodded and stuffed a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake into his mouth.

"Do you have an opinion?" Xie Yu asked.

"No, it's just fun to expose your dark thoughts."

Xie Yu stopped entangled in this topic: "If Boss Xun accepted her into Guixintang, why did she still say that she belongs to you?"

"Because she is 'my person'." Qi Xie took it for granted, "The day I first arrived in Jingfang, Assistant Qian gave Xiaotao to me. I have a grudge against Lord Xun. As an honest gentleman, I have not only never met her, but also offered to pay for her younger siblings' tuition, so of course she treats me closer than Lord Xun."

Xie Yu looked at him: "Is it also buying people's hearts?"

Qi Xie sneered: "This is called comparing one's heart with another's heart. Only you human beings with dirty thoughts think about buying this or that all day long."

Xie Yu didn't say anything, and looked back at the scene of the fire on TV.

Next morning, 07:30.

When Xie Yu came down from the second floor, Qi Xie was sitting in the dining room reading a newspaper.

"Morning, Mr. Xie!" Xiao Tao greeted at the side.

"Morning." Xie Yu met her gaze and nodded, pulled out the chair and sat down.

"Why did you remember to buy a newspaper?" Xiaotao served breakfast.

"Change change." Qi Xie said with a smile.

Xiao Tao set the table and chopsticks and sat down at the table, said in unison to start the meal, folded the newspaper and put it on the table casually, the headline on the front page was right in front of Xie Yu's eyes—"Five people killed in high-rise hotel fire" Injuried".

Xie Yu grabbed it immediately.

"How do you feel?" Qi Xie asked after he finished reading the news.

"Very good." Xie Yu was full of interest.

"Yes." Xiaotao agreed, "Fortunately no one was killed in such a big fire."

"No." Xie Yu said.

Xiaotao was surprised: "Then why is it so good?"

Qi Xie casually raised the chopsticks: "When a reporter encounters a natural or man-made disaster, or a detective encounters a murder case, some pleasure is beyond the existence of humanitarianism."

"This is one aspect." Xie Yu said.

"What about the other side?" Xiaotao asked.

"Increased bargaining chips."

Qi Xie didn't seem to be interested in this topic: "I'm going to the company today, you can live here for now, and you can use your car to drive."

"No, I'll just rent a car." Xie Yu refused.

Qi Xie saw through his thoughts: "Don't worry about bringing the fire here, that car and this building are the assets of Guixintang, and they wouldn't dare to move even if they had ten guts."

Xie Yu weighed and agreed for a moment.

Qi Xie smiled, with meaning behind his words: "I wish you a happy stay in Shanghai."

The hour hand circled three and a half times, and it was already noon. Mrs. Zhu turned into the community with her vegetable bag, when she suddenly heard someone calling her.

Turning her head to look, she couldn't help frowning.

"If possible, I don't want to bother you again." Xie Yu stepped forward.

Mrs. Zhu took half a step back: "What on earth do you want to do? If you do this again, I will call the police."

"I am the policeman." Xie Yu unfolded a police/officer/certificate and lowered his voice, "To tell you the truth, Zhu Hai's death may be involved in a criminal case, so the higher-ups assigned us to investigate, please cooperate with the police's work .”

Mrs. Zhu looked at him dubiously: "Aren't you... a novelist?"

"It is precisely because I have been a criminal police officer for eight years that I can write such a novel." Xie Yu looked around, "It is not convenient to talk here, can we talk in another place."

Mrs. Zhu nodded after hesitating