Ling Ling was about to search the school, but at this moment, her cell phone rang rapidly. Looking at the caller ID, it turned out to be Zhou Zhen. She immediately pressed the connect button, and within a few seconds she couldn't help but scream in surprise. She even shouted to Wen Qiao before the phone was hung up: "A student fell into the water at the artificial lake!"
Ling Ling and the others were very close and arrived in less than a minute. From a distance, they saw a few people who looked like teachers running towards them from the other direction.
Experimental Middle School is a prestigious key middle school in Yunhe City. Not only are the teaching facilities complete and advanced, the teaching staff is strong, but the environment is elegant and lined with trees. In the past few years, in order to further beautify the environment, the school expanded a small pond in the northwest and turned it into a large-scale artificial lake. The area of this artificial lake is about twice that of the playground, but considering safety, it is not dug deep, and the deepest point is only waist-deep.
Looking into the distance from the shore, you can vaguely see something blue and white floating in the middle of the lake. The blue thing looks like a school uniform, and the white thing looks like a school bag.
Lin Xuerou was wearing this outfit when she disappeared from the surveillance video.
Ling Ling rushed to the shore and rushed down without hesitation. The fruit is not deep, just below the knees near the shore. But the further in, the person slowly began to sink until he was below his waist. What was even more difficult was that the mud at the bottom of the water hindered her walking. She struggled to pull her legs out of the mud and moved step by step. It took her nearly ten minutes to reach her target.
When she finally got closer and saw the pile of things clearly, she was dumbfounded - it was clearly just a piece of clothing. It was laid flat on the water, with the white schoolbag floating aside. From a distance, it looks like a person floating on the water with his back down.
She had no time to think, so she could only pick up the pile of things and return to the shore with difficulty.
Before she could get ashore, she saw a circle of people gathered on the shore, all staring at her intently, wondering what happened.
One of the men, a man in his forties, had weak legs and was unsteady on his feet. If it weren't for the support of several people around him, he would have fallen to his knees several times. His eyes were red, his face was gaunt, and he looked devastated. It was Lin Xuerou’s father, Lin Hui.
When he saw Ling Ling walking ashore with something in his hand, he shouted regardless, "Is it Xiaoxue? Is it my Xiaoxue?"
Seeing this, Zhou Zhen quickly took the things from Ling Ling's hand. The two said a few words, and Zhou Zhen took the clothes and backpack and asked the teacher and classmates to identify them. I heard from the teacher that since the styles of school uniforms are all the same, some students will put some marks on their clothes to prevent them from being unable to find their own one when the clothes are mixed together.
Zhou Zhen turned the piece of clothing inside out, and sure enough he found the word "Lin" embroidered on the collar of the school uniform. The white backpack was of the same style as what was seen in the surveillance, and classmates and teachers also reported seeing Lin Xuerou carrying this bag.
Therefore, these two things are undoubtedly Lin Xuerou's personal belongings.
After so many days of searching to no avail, Lin Hui finally couldn't help crying heartbreakingly: "Xiaoxue! My Xiaoxue!"
Although Ling Ling was shivering from the cold, seeing his painful appearance, she couldn't help but stepped forward and comforted him: "Mr. Lin, don't worry, I just observed in the water, there were only clothes there, Xiaoxue did not fall into the water , she will be fine."
But as soon as he heard Ling Ling's words, Lin Hui immediately stopped wailing. As if he had grasped her handle, he immediately turned his finger and pointed at Ling Ling fiercely and cursed: "Is everything okay? Can you guarantee that he is okay?" If anything happens to her, can you take the responsibility?"
Lin Hui became more and more angry as he spoke, turning his sadness into anger: "You police officers are useless and will only waste our taxpayers' money! Every time something happens, they either make peace with each other or advise us to be mentally prepared. You don't do practical things! You only say 'it's okay', 'it doesn't matter', 'it doesn't matter'. What else do you do besides saying these nonsense words? What if something happens to her? Can you still compensate me? You Compensation for what? Compensation with your life!"
Lin Hui's heart-wrenching words were like a thunderbolt that stunned Ling Ling in place. His ferocious face was shouting in front of her, but she could no longer hear what he was talking about.
Lin Hui saw that she didn't respond, or maybe he was tired of dealing with her alone. He turned the gun and started shouting at the school people: "And you, don't even think about escaping! If there is anything wrong with my daughter, I will definitely go to court and sue you to death! If you can’t take care of a child, what kind of school are you running?”
Seeing such a large group of people and no one paying attention to him, Lin Hui began to name names, as if he was determined to provoke a dispute: "Where is the head teacher? Where is the school's dean? Why are all of them silent? Want to evade responsibility? What! I tell you, don’t even think about it, I will definitely pursue it to the end!"
Lin Hui's cursing voice was like steel needles stabbing Ling Ling's heart. She stood there blankly, even forgetting to tremble.
In the crowd, some lowered their heads, some looked on with cold eyes, and some were extremely anxious and worried. They formed a stage in which Lin Hui performed hard.
At this time, Ling Ling stretched out a soft hand from behind and squeezed her wet palm - Gao Caiqin's beautiful phoenix eyes were looking at her intently.
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Gao Caiqin led her to her dormitory. Their dormitory was on the 5th floor. Ling Ling was soaked to the skin and already exhausted. He was exhausted mentally and physically after climbing the four flights of stairs. He finally reached the door of the dormitory and was almost too tired to stand still.
Gao Caiqin took out the key and opened the door. Ling Ling followed behind, taking off his soaked coat and muttering: "Are you sure I can fit your clothes? I'm taller than you!"
After waiting for a while, he didn't hear a reply from the little girl next to him. Ling Ling raised her head and saw that the door of the dormitory was opened at an angle, but Gao Caiqin was standing in front of her, and he could only see her back. He didn't understand why she just stood motionless at the door.
"Why don't you go in?" Ling Ling patted her shoulder and looked over her shoulder to look inside. Ling Ling was already half a head taller than Gao Caiqin, but with just a slight tiptoe and raised eyes, he could clearly see the scene inside.
This is a 4-person dormitory with two beds on the upper floor on each side and a desk on the lower floor. The dormitory is not large, but it is kept clean and tidy. The white porcelain floor tiles are spotless, and you can almost see people's shadows.
And just on this white ground, stood a girl. She was wearing a somewhat strange style, a half-new red dress. Her long black hair was combed into two braids and hung on her chest. She had no shoes on and stepped barefoot on the ground, like a carefully dressed doll. . But her face was as pale as paper, her eyes were blurry, and she was dressed so coolly in such a late autumn air, making her look even more weak and lonely.
"Lin Xuerou!" Ling Ling exclaimed. .
Ling Ling never expected that the missing person he had been searching for would suddenly appear without warning.
She couldn't care less about being surprised now, and immediately took out her mobile phone and called the police to inform the people who were still searching for and investigating, so that they would not waste their efforts. What's more important is to tell Lin Xuerou's father, the man who was so angry that he wanted to eat her alive.
