Prayer before bed worked.
Before Gao Caiqin fell asleep last night, she couldn't help but think of Lin Xuerou.
"As expected of a self-centered and arrogant young lady, she won't even let you have a good night's sleep! It's so annoying! Don't show up again, you've been eaten! I won't dream about you again!"
She gradually slipped into the silent nothingness. Here, there seemed to be no concept of time. It seemed that only a moment passed from closing her eyes to opening them. Looking up, there is still darkness that cannot be broken away by the thick ground, and it is still early before dawn.
Damn it! What on earth woke her up!
There was no one on the bed next to her. Lin Xuerou was sent to the hospital yesterday morning. A person could be faintly seen lying on the bed diagonally opposite, making regular breathing sounds. She was the only one in the darkness with her eyes wide open, not knowing where to find her.
"Lin Xuerou! Lin Xuerou!"
The prayer before going to bed works. As long as you chant her name and think of her face in your heart, she will enter your dreams.
"Lin Xuerou! Lin Xuerou!" Gao Caiqin called out softly, but no one responded.
She could no longer lie still on the bed, so she had to climb out of the bed.
"Gu-gu--" Suddenly there was a strange sound outside, I don't know if it was the croaking of frogs or the chirping of birds.
"Lin Xuerou!"
"Gu——"
"Lin Xuerou."
"Gu——"
She called softly, and the thing screamed, as if it was it.
"What weird thing?" Although she said this, her hand was involuntarily placed on the door handle. She stared at the hand blankly, as if it was someone else's hand, slowly pressing the doorknob.
The cold wind was pervasive, and it rushed in first and hugged her, as if they were a pair of old friends in the dark night.
There is only a faint green safety passage light extending into the distance in the corridor, but this little light is enough to see clearly what needs to be seen.
A red figure flashed past the flickering green lights, flickering in and out, as strange and cold as the evil in the underworld. The shadow moved very quickly and disappeared at the end of the corridor while Gao Caiqin was still stunned.
She covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from screaming - that figure was clearly Lin Xuerou!
But she was clearly in the hospital, how could she appear here out of thin air? Could it be...this is my dream again?
Birch, why didn't you eat Lin Xuerou? Are you going to let her disturb me again and again in my dreams? But...no, if I see her, it should mean that I am not in a dream.
What's going on? No, I have to find out, otherwise, I may not be able to sleep well in the future!
Gao Caiqin gathered up her courage and walked out again. Just like the first time, I walked through the corridor and up the stairs. Looking down, it is a spiral, and looking up, it is still a spiral.
She decided to go to the rooftop first.
She gingerly pushed open the door to the rooftop, and as soon as she stretched her head in, she saw a person in a red dress standing in the middle of the rooftop. Even in the dim light, she could identify at a glance that it was Lin Xuerou's weird dress.
"Lin Xuerou!" Gao Caiqin was afraid of being angry. She deliberately raised her voice to embolden herself, but the voice coming out of her throat was sharp and thin, with a slight tremor: "What on earth do you want to do! Can you please stop? Stop pretending! I’ve had enough!”
"I lost something, have you seen it? Do you know where it is?" Lin Xuerou's voice sounded particularly cold today.
"What...what?" Gao Caiqin suppressed the fear in his heart while trying to talk to her.
The girl in red slowly raised her head, and Gao Caiqin also followed her movements - the moon was dark and dim, and it seemed that tomorrow might be a rainy day.
moon? She thought of the strange songs that Lin Xuerou hummed that day: red jasmine, yellow pines and cypresses, and the moon that never becomes full.
"I... also lost my father." Gao Caiqin suddenly said, "I can understand how you feel."
"Do you remember that I once took three days off to attend my father's funeral?" Gao Caiqin's lips moved and puffs of white steam came out.
"I didn't even tell Teacher Qin. I'm afraid the whole school doesn't know what I'm doing when I take leave." Gao Caiqin smiled silently.
"It was like a dream at first. He just went on a long trip as usual, and he would come back after a while, meet with us a few times, and then continue working and traveling, and the cycle started again. "
"It's just that now he has taken away the time between us meeting several times." A few hot tears flowed from the corners of her eyes and streaked across her cold cheeks.
"He took away my time." The voice trembled: "How could he just... without saying hello... make his own decisions... and take away other people's time without politeness!"
Lin Xuerou's body was trembling slightly.
Gao Caiqin looked at her thin figure, as if looking in a mirror. Her voice became as soft as a feather. She said to the person in front of her, more like saying to herself: "Don't be like this again...so cold." God, you are still wearing so little, are you really not afraid of catching a cold?"
As he said this, he was about to come up and hold her hand, but as soon as he took a few steps toward her, Gao Caiqin suddenly stopped.
"Why is it you!" Her sad expression froze on her face, and she was immediately filled with shame and anger. She wiped away the remaining tears on her face, as if someone had discovered an ulterior secret.
"I...this...is me." Ling Ling was also a little embarrassed.
"Why did you pretend to be Lin Xuerou and lie to me?" She was really angry.
"I... didn't pretend. When did I say that I was Lin Xuerou?" Although Ling Ling said this, she obviously lacked confidence.
"Then why are you wearing her clothes?"
Ling Ling just wanted to cry out: "Did I want to wear it? That's not the two of them... Oh, where are the people?" She circled the water tower on the rooftop twice, but Wen Qiao and Liu Mengwei who were hiding there were nowhere to be seen. .
Ling Ling said anxiously: "I'm really unjust. There's something wrong with my brain that's why I wore a skirt in this cold weather, deliberately trying to trick you! It was all Liu Mengwei's idea!"
"Then why did she do this?" The little girl's eyes were red. She didn't know whether she was crying just now or she was angry now.
"How do I know this? I don't know where they both have gone now!" Ling Ling was shivering from the cold and kept rubbing her arms.
Liu Mengwei and Wen Qiao had not gone far. When she was listening to their conversation attentively, her arm was suddenly grabbed by someone. With just a slight pull, she was pulled by the person and left from the rooftop exit to the 6th floor.
"What are you doing?" Liu Mengwei opened her red lips, feeling a different kind of temptation in the dark night.
"There's someone upstairs across the street."
"Yeah?"
"I followed you."
"So I'm so popular." Liu Mengwei's eyes were as charming as silk.
"You don't have to say anything, but aren't you afraid of implicating the daughter of the Gao family?" Wen Qiao's calm words seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
"But you don't seem trustworthy." Liu Mengwei's voice was as cold and biting as the night wind: "You are not even as trustworthy as that cute little police officer Ling."
"Some people may be sincere and reliable, but they lack ability. At best, they are just decorations, nothing more than useful." He looked at her arrogantly: "Are you willing to seek skin from a tiger, or be a little white rabbit that eats grass obediently?"
Liu Mengwei wanted to read his thoughts from his delicate mask-like face, but there was no doubt that she failed.
"What are you two doing here!" Ling Ling's sharp voice broke the silence. In her eyes, she saw a man and a woman standing almost touching each other, their ears and temples rubbing together like glue.
When Wen Qiao heard her voice, he took half a step back, which in her eyes was a sign of guilt.
"I've been blowing the wind up there for a long time, and I'm almost frozen into a popsicle. You two just want to see me making a fool of myself, but I'm still hiding here..." Ling Ling's pretty face turned red from suppressing it, and she didn't think about it for a long time. I couldn't think of a good word to describe the behavior of the two of them just now, but I just felt sour and depressed in my heart.
"I am really the emperor's biggest fool. I have been played like a monkey all night!" She became more and more aggrieved as she spoke, and her voice changed a bit.
Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Liu Mengwei hurriedly said: "Officer Xiao Ling is the first to do what happened today. I already have an idea, but it's too late today and everyone is exhausted. It's better to go back and have a rest first. I'll do it myself tomorrow." Go to the police station and 'surrender'."
As soon as they left school, they saw a familiar car parked on the side of the road. Ling Ling saw this and rushed towards him. It was Ling Feng. He heard that his sister was coming to investigate the case in the middle of the night. Even if someone accompanied her, she would be worried. I happened to finish my night shift and stopped by to take a look. Unexpectedly, I saw my sister running towards me with a look of grievance on her face.
"Why are you dressed like this?" Ling Feng saw that underneath her thin coat was a dress that exposed her calves, Ling Feng quickly took off his own clothes and wrapped them around her.
"They bullied people and asked me to pretend to be a ghost and scare people!" Ling Ling saw the person coming to support her, she burst out with grievances, threw herself into his arms, and complained loudly.
Liu Mengwei suddenly felt dizzy, but she could only force herself to force out a smile: "Officer Ling, it's better to take your sister back to rest first. I did something wrong today. I will come to apologize in person another day."
After watching the two of them go away, Liu Mengwei said without looking back: "Why don't you leave? You don't want to be a gentleman and take me home, do you?"
Did he want to take advantage of others' danger? Liu Mengwei's heart tightened. With her current mental state, she might not be able to deal with him. .
There was a long silence in the darkness behind her. She couldn't help but look back, but there was no one there.
Liu Meng frowned slightly. One second he could still feel the cold and alert aura on Wen Qiao's body, but the next second he disappeared like a ghost.
