inherent gravity

Look, the director of that orphanage is a woman. "

"How is it possible?" Mu Qing flipped through the documents in disbelief, his voice became a little excited: "What if these documents are forged?"

"...Ten years have passed, and there are very few introductions about this orphanage on the Internet." Huang Sen was a little helpless, but still said seriously: "But combined with the existing information, it is true that this orphanage cannot be shown. The dean is the murderer of this murder."

"But..." Mu Qing hesitated to speak, lowered his head and almost crumpled the yellowed pages: "Can't we send more police to City H for a comprehensive investigation?"

"I'm sorry, the existing police force cannot support your request." Huang Sen reached for the file bag: "And now we are doing our best to compare the DNA library of Tianhua's rescued people, hoping to find them soon." His parents."

Mu Qing fell silent.

The conversation ended without a problem. Huang Sen politely sent him all the way to the gate of the police station, with a sincere tone: "If you have any clues, please feel free to provide them to us."

"Okay." Mu Qing let out a breath, feeling that deep sense of powerlessness again.

He originally thought that the words Kou Xiao left for him would be the key information to solve the case, but after running these few trips, some of them were just disappointed.

Mu Qing walked aimlessly on the road for a long time before he sat down in a gazebo in a nearby small park. After hesitating for a while, he turned on the mobile phone that had been in his pocket for a long time-all kinds of chaotic information flooded in at once. , the most of which belonged to Huang Kang.

Mu Qing didn't take a closer look, but adding WeChat and contacts, Huang Kang called him at least [-] times, almost catching up with the number of calls he had with his family in three months.

In addition, some colleagues who work in bars sent him messages asking why he didn't come to work recently, and some friends he knew in school asked him why he didn't come to class today. After looking for a reason to go back, he let out a long sigh of relief, and turned his head to look at the sparkling small artificial lake in a daze.

The weather is fine today. There are a few ducks by the lake washing their shiny and slippery fur back and forth in the sun. There are also children splashing water with stones, and their parents are laying out a few picnic cloths to accompany My son had a great time playing.

Mu Qing looked at this tender scene, the smile on the corner of his mouth was just halfway hooked, and then suddenly let it go.

He suddenly thought, Kou Xiao has always been a loner, will anyone notice his disappearance besides himself?

Mu Qing opened the school's post bar, and posts of confession and finding things were flying all over the sky, but there was nothing about someone missing.Unwillingly, he scrolled down a long list, and it was still a peaceful scene.

The police suppressed the news this time to avoid panic, but even if Kou Xiao knew someone close to him, he would definitely find that he hadn't come to class for several days.

Mu Qing was suddenly a little sad. He thought of that tall and solid figure passing through the crowd again and again, but it was as silent as a shadow without a real object. No one noticed his existence, and no one was willing to stop for him, even if he disappeared. It's just a wisp of cooking smoke at dusk, and a gust of wind from the fields can blow it away.

Kou Xiao was lonely.

Mu Qing hugged his knees and looked at the lake water, lost in thought. Although he and Kou Xiao also met by accident, he was probably the only person in the whole school who knew about his disappearance.After finalizing this conclusion in his mind, he stood up, picked up his mobile phone and started sending messages to the teachers of various subjects to ask for leave. The reason was that he had acute appendicitis and needed to be hospitalized for at least a week.

After sending the message, he clicked on the balance of his account again. After calculating, except for the money to be transferred to his mother this month, only the 500 yuan that Kou Xiao forcibly transferred to him at that time was left, which also included his own money this month. living expenses.

Mu Qing gritted his teeth, and bought the earliest train ticket to City H tomorrow while his position was still firm.

Since he grew up, he hasn't traveled anywhere except to go to school in the south, and he hasn't even visited their original small county town.But this time, it was just for one person to go to a place where even the train took more than five hours.

This can be regarded as one of the few brave decisions in his life, not only for Kou Xiao, but also for the promise he made to Uncle He.

But even if he went to City H, he still hasn't figured out what to do next.Mu Qing didn't even dare to think about it after buying the ticket - what if he just insisted on going his own way from the beginning to the end?What if the person who took Kou Xiao away didn't escape according to their thinking in the first place?

What if... Kou Xiao can't be found again?

Mu Qing remained silent, and forcibly stopped his desperate thinking about this issue - three days have passed, and there is no longer any delay.

When he walked to the lake, the family had already left, only the ducks by the lake were still combing their feathers tirelessly.Mu Qing bent down and searched in the nearby grass for a long time before finding a few flimsy stones. He tossed them in his hands and threw them obliquely towards the center of the lake with some uncertainty.

The stone hit the water surface seven or eight times before slowly sinking into the bottom of the water. The rippling ripples slowly spread, and finally smashed to the edge of the lake, inexplicably alarming the wild ducks, who were flopping about one after another. The wings swam to the center of the lake, and the sliding flippers caused a bigger splash.

"Kou Xiao, and I care about you." Mu Qing quietly looked at the rippling lake water, and said softly, like a whisper or a promise.

Chapter 26

◎Actually, he and Mu Qing are the same people at heart. ◎

"Relax!"

Kou Xiao was kicked on the back of the waist, and his figure was a little staggered. When he opened a door suddenly, he was almost thrown in by several people.

"Fuck it, is it a dog?" One person rubbed his wrist fiercely, with a heavy hostility on his face.

"He'll suffer if you go in, bah." The bystander looked at the somewhat scary crimson tooth marks on his wrist, kicked the iron gate in front of him and said contemptuously.

The iron door remained motionless, but there was a loud knocking sound from inside, which shocked everyone outside the door.

"He...is he all right?" The person who left the mark on his hand frowned, and his tone was a little worried: "After all, he belongs to Master Jia."

"Did you lock him when you went in?" The other person looked at the small window next to the door, but it was dark inside, and he couldn't see why: "This kid has a wild temper, no wonder the boss like."

"Forget it, let's go."

The few people stayed where they were for a few more minutes, and did not leave until there was no more sound coming from the door. Before leaving, they checked the lock on the iron door and left the corridor in peace after making sure there was no problem.

......

Kou Xiao squatted in the dark, because the lengths of the iron chains on both sides were different, so it was a bit difficult for him to even sit down, so he could barely lean against the wall with half of his body.

He stared at the darkness in front of him. Although it was inconvenient to move around, it was much more comfortable than the previous room. At least a tiny light could be seen through the crack of the door here, so that people would not be trapped in endless darkness and silence. Then go crazy.

Before Kou Xiao came here, he had been forced to hang up two bottles of nutrient solution. Although his life was maintained physiologically, his stomach was still uncontrollably empty, and his desire to eat was even stronger than the darkness in front of him.

"Fuck." Kou Xiao stared at the faint light. In this environment, he almost lost the concept of time, and he just realized that this place might be underground when he was brought over by force. The corridor is not only dimly lit , and didn't see any windows, it was a completely airtight space.

Kou Xiao closed his eyes, and slowed down his breathing under the pressure of hunger--

Too quiet.

He sighed softly, the iron chains nailed to the wall were rattled, and finally sat down in an awkward posture with his hands raised high.

The card should have arrived at Lao He's place. There are more than [-] pieces in total, which should be enough for him for a while, and he also greeted Aunt Wang before. If he never came back, he would have to trouble her has been taken care of.

something else... what else?

Sitting in the darkness of nothingness, Kou Xiao was suddenly a little confused. Although there were fear, disgust and anger along the way, he was still more confused--too many things in the past were involved in the present, and the outbreak was also in a short period of time. within a few days.Although judging from Jia Yu's words, whether he participated in that game or Jia Yu accidentally chose his city as the end of the crime, it was all a ridiculous coincidence.

If he could pretend that he didn't see anything at that time, even if Ah San died on the field, he took Jia Yu's money at the first time and took old He to move overnight... Would things be different from what they are now? Same?

Kou Xiao's neck clicked loudly, and his arms also went numb due to poor blood circulation - but he had to face a bleak reality, in fact, he and Mu Qing are the same people in the bottom of their hearts , there is something called "sacrificing oneself for others" that he has always sneered at.

"Heh." Kou Xiao laughed at himself. This may be the result of Comrade He Lide's painstaking education over the past ten years, but the result is that his adopted son died tragically in some corner of the world in obscurity.

"That idiot Mu Qing," Kou Xiao panted a few times in a daze, feeling his eyes were turning green from hunger, "