When Fang Xiaoling returned home, the scolding she imagined did not appear. Instead, there was a long hug and silent crying from her mother. After a while, her mother asked in a trembling tone: "Where is your sister?"
"She... went to a friend's house to play." After Fang Xiaoling finished speaking, she didn't hear her mother's response, so she immediately added, "It's a sister, her elementary school classmate, who moved to another city before, and now she's back. , so my sister misses her very much, so...so..."
Fang Xiaoling couldn't make it up anymore, and her mother still didn't respond. She thought her mother's temper was finally going to explode, but just when she was ready to be blamed, she heard her mother sighing for a long time, which was a feeling of relief. Sighing, like a weight hanging heavy in my heart finally disappeared.
"It's okay."
Hearing such a response, Fang Xiaoling only felt a sense of heartache. She also wanted to hug and comfort her mother in front of her, but her hands stopped when they were still some distance away from her mother's back. She forced herself not to comfort her mother, and In my heart, I kept reminding myself that I was Fang Xiaoling, and that I was Fang Xiaoling who wanted to return to the real world to cheer up and start over. She cannot have too many emotional illusions about the woman in front of her. Sympathy is likely to make her sink deeper and deeper into that dangerous thought. That thought is: I am Li Mengling, I have always been, but one day suddenly , accidentally obtained the memory of a person named Fang Xiaoling in another world, and my sister Li Mengli's situation was basically the same, she obtained the memory of Roland, which made my sister and I think we were them, but in fact, we were Li Mengli and Li Mengling.
Her mother hugged her like this for a long time, and then she suddenly remembered something and took out her mobile phone to dial Li Mengling's father's number.
Since the two sisters Li Mengli were missing for less than 24 hours, the police did not file a case for the time being. Their father was still outside asking for connections, hoping to use the cameras of the city's Skynet system to find the traces of the two children. With a caring heart, he found his high school classmate and secretly stuffed a box of tea leaves.
"Look, do you treat me like an outsider? Don't you do anything if you don't give me something?" Chen Lixin leaned his head back on the chair and pushed the box of tea leaves to the edge of the table as he spoke, "Although the tea leaves are not worth much, , but don’t hurt me. Don’t think that this criminal investigation captain is so great. To put it bluntly, he works for the common people. For one thing, the staff in the monitoring room have already got off work. Secondly, a missing person can only be reported for 24 hours. This It’s a rule, not something I alone have the final say.”
"Look what you said, I haven't seen my old classmate for a long time, can't I express my feelings of missing you?" Li Hai went out to work hard when he was young and had three years of public relations experience. Although he suffered a lot from being uneducated, he was a good person. Smart, who had not made much money doing business in Canglan City in the years after getting married, but had accumulated a lot of social experience, slowly pushed the box of ordinary-looking tea leaves over and said meaningfully, "This tea leaves It may not be just tea, you should regard it as my great friendship!"
"Brother Li! Can't you understand what I'm saying? It's such a big deal that the child has been lost, but you still have time to push me around here. If I say no, I don't want it. Don't ruin our friendship as classmates. That's vulgar! Let's go to the control room now." After saying that, Chen Lixin opened a drawer, which was empty. He rummaged on the table again and said to himself, "Where is the key to the control room? Look at me. Remember, I forgot to close the door when I left home yesterday, but luckily I didn’t lose anything. I found the key, come with me.”
After saying that, he stood up and walked out of the door. Li Hai glanced at the empty drawer that was still open, put the tea leaves in the drawer, closed the drawer door, and then immediately went out to follow Chen Lixin.
When he received a call from his wife and learned that Li Mengling had returned home, the two had just walked to the door of the monitoring room.
"Found it?" Chen Lixin vaguely heard the voice coming from the mobile phone. He put the key he had just taken out back into his pocket, patted Li Hai on the shoulder and said, "It's okay. The parents came to report the case in a hurry. There are too many cases where children go home on their own. I understand that, after all, parents are concerned about the safety of their children."
Li Hai nodded. He was about to say goodbye to Chen Lixin when a cold and familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears, "Dad, save me."
That was the voice of his eldest daughter Li Mengli. Maybe he was hallucinating, but the voice seemed to have penetrated into his mind and repeated itself, which made him feel extremely uneasy.
"I still want to go in and check." Li Hai said directly without making any detours, "The second child has gone home, but the eldest brother hasn't come home yet. I want to see where she has gone."
Although Chen Lixin was a little reluctant, after all, Li Hai didn't carry the box of tea in his hand when he came to the monitoring room, which meant that Li Hai understood his true intention and had already put the tea in the drawer. As the saying goes, using people's money to eliminate disasters for others , he still understands this rule.
The surveillance footage followed from the taxi to Canglan International Community. After the two sisters got off the bus, they could no longer follow the footage. After learning that there was no surveillance in the community, Li Hai asked Chen Lixin to adjust the time later. At this time, he felt that Li Mengli might have taken his sister to play with classmates, and then asked a car to take her home. He wanted to stay at his classmate's house. The situation is basically the same as what my wife described on the phone. However, just when Li Hai was about to stop watching the surveillance, a dark shadow flashed across the fast-forwarding surveillance screen.
"Stop! Go back and you'll be where you were just now." If there were cars coming and going in this community, maybe Li Hai wouldn't pay too much attention, but there are very few vehicles in this community, not to mention that they only pass by in this flash. In the dark shadow, Li Hai, a father, had a disturbing intuition. His two daughters seemed to be in that dark shadow.
"Where did you get this motorcycle?" Even though the two people in the picture were wearing helmets, Li Hai was 100% sure that they were his two daughters. Looking at the surveillance footage that continued to be played, the more he thought about it. She felt more and more surprised, "When did Mengli know how to ride a motorcycle? This is impossible. She is usually a very quiet girl. Even the music she listens to is mainly soft music. It is impossible for her to wear such clothes. This It’s not her...character."
"Hey, Brother Li, you parents always think you know your children. Let me tell you this, three months ago we had a case of school violence. The parents of the perpetrators were stunned until they saw it. Looking at the violence video, I don’t believe that their children can do it!” Chen Lixin lit a cigarette, “Of course, I’m not saying that your daughter is not good, she is a child, she is prone to rebellion, and she may be under a lot of pressure recently, so she wants to It’s normal to ride a motorcycle to relax, and you’ll be fine once you’ve finished venting.”
When Chen Lixin was talking, Li Hai shook his head slowly. First of all, he felt that Chen Lixin was standing and talking without pain in his back. Secondly, the more he looked at the motorcycle racing all the way, the more incredible it became. Later, he even thought about it to the point of being extremely frightened. I feel an inexplicable chill running down my spine. Until he saw Li Mengli squatting down and carrying Li Mengling into the rapeseed field, he felt dizzy and unsteady on his feet.
"Oh my god, Mengli is allergic to pollen. She knows it." Li Hai simply pressed the fast forward button and stared at the monitor until the two of them walked out of the rapeseed field safe and sound. , he breathed a sigh of relief, but this breath made his spirit even weaker. He shook his head and frowned at the picture of Li Mengli kicking his motorcycle and entering the city at lightning speed. , after saying goodbye to his sister, he shuttled between vehicles and finally entered the building of the rooftop bar.
He saw all of this clearly, and he comforted himself in his heart. Maybe what Chen Lixin said was right. Maybe this kid secretly learned to ride a motorcycle and go to bars secretly at some point. . But there was a stronger feeling in his heart that completely suppressed these comforts. He tried his best to restrain himself from describing that feeling, but he still said it in front of Chen Lixin: "Brother, have you ever witnessed a ghost possessing someone?" ?”
After he asked this question, he rushed away amidst Chen Lixin's shocked and mocking expression. He wanted to go to the rooftop bar immediately to find his eldest daughter. Along the way, he began to regret a little, not because of what he said in the monitoring room. He said the last inexplicable words, but because he might have to ask Chen Lixin for something in the future, which made him feel that he had done the stupidest thing in society for so many years.
At this time, Chen Lixin was holding the tea leaves in the box with his fingers. There were still tea leaves under the tea leaves, and there were still tea leaves below. He simply poured the whole can of tea leaves on the desk, and a fragrant smell suddenly hit his nostrils, but This fragrance made Chen Lixin sick for a long time...
