Xiao Lou sat on the wooden bed, pricking up his ears and listening to what was going on outside.
There were no glass windows in the dark cell, and he could only see the light in the corridor outside through the bars on the iron door. He waited for a long time, and suddenly heard footsteps coming from the corridor. The person was wearing flat sneakers, not leather shoes.
The steps on the tiles are light.
Xiao Lou raised his head and looked at the bars. In a blink of an eye, the man had arrived at the door of Cell No. 1, and the two looked at each other across the fence - it was indeed Xiao Wu, the young police officer who was interning with Yu Hanjiang.
Xiao Lou had long wondered why Yu Hanjiang came to the scene so quickly after Xu Mingyue called the police last night. Considering the distance between the criminal police team and the Conservatory of Music, it would have taken at least more than an hour to drive there. Obviously, he and Xiao Wu were nearby at the time.
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To avoid this being too much of a coincidence.
Moreover, the hunter could accurately grasp the progress of the case investigation and frame the blame on him. Xiao Lou always felt that there was a mole in the police force and participated in the investigation of this case, so he sent Yu Hanjiang away to try to lure out that person.
people.
Now, the inner ghost has indeed appeared.
Meeting Xiao Lou's gaze, Xiao Wu was startled for a moment. He soon smiled and said respectfully: "Professor Xiao, Captain Yu went to the Medical University and asked me to help take care of you. If you need anything, just tell me directly.
.You can rest assured that once the Yu team catches the murderer, you will be acquitted."
Xiao Lou stood up, walked to the iron gate, and asked in a low voice: "Can Yu Hanjiang catch the murderer?"
Xiao Wu said without hesitation: "Of course..."
Xiao Lou looked at him: "Oh? Didn't you send a message to your companions to escape?"
The smile on Xiao Wu's face froze slightly: "Professor Xiao, what does this mean?"
Xiao Lou chuckled and said, "Stop pretending. If you dare to come to me openly, you must have destroyed the monitoring of Cell No. 1." His tone was very firm and his eyes were calm.
Xiao Wu's face darkened. He looked like he was only in his 20s. He usually looked like a freshly graduated college student with a green face. But at this moment, his eyes suddenly became cold and sharp, as if he had been touched by another person.
As if possessed, his voice also had a hint of hoarseness: "You already knew this?"
Xiao Lou nodded: "In this world, the number of hunters will not be less than the number of challengers. Therefore, the third hunter must be by Yu Hanjiang's side, so that he can keep track of the progress of the case at any time."
Xiao Wu raised his eyebrows: "Unfortunately, you knew it was too late."
After saying that, he suddenly took out a gun from his pocket and pointed the muzzle at Xiao Lou's head.
The criminal policeman can be equipped with a gun, so he pushed away his colleagues and killed Xiao Lou with ease.
Xiao Lou had a gun pointed at his head, but his expression was calm. He looked into the other person's eyes and said slowly: "This world is a world of hearts. I guess your mission is to find ways to frame me and Liu Qiao.
Send us to prison and get rid of us with the help of the police instead of killing us directly. It seems that you are at the end of your rope and you will attack me in person?"
Xiao Wu's eyes widened slightly, as if he couldn't believe that Xiao Lou could guess so much.
His expression also gave Xiao Lou the answer - in the world of hearts, there are indeed some underlying rules. Xiao Wu came directly to assassinate him now. Obviously he was forced to "make the last resort" and switch to a challenger. If he passes the test like this, he will definitely
It cannot be rated above level A. Xiao Lou still doesn’t know how Hunter is rated.
Xiao Lou smiled and said: "I guessed it right? If you kill me directly, you won't be able to pass the level perfectly, right?"
Xiao Wu hesitated for a moment. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something key. He gritted his teeth and said coldly: "I don't want to waste my time with you. You are the captain of the team. No matter what method I use, just letting you die is enough!"
He didn't waste any more time with Xiao Lou and simply pulled the trigger.
This pistol uses a silencer and will not alert other people. Xiao Lou did not expect that Xiao Wu would be so decisive and shoot as soon as he said it. In an instant, Xiao Lou only felt a "buzzing" in his mind.
With a sound, he suddenly felt dizzy, and warm blood flowed down his forehead, blurring his vision.
With blood in front of his eyes, Xiao Lou fell to the cold ground, and his brain gradually lost the ability to think.
Before he completely lost consciousness, he saw Xiao Wu taking out something similar to a "communicator" and whispering something over there. The young man's back quickly disappeared at the end of the corridor, and Xiao Lou slowly closed his door behind him.
eyes.
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Tang Ci drove all the way to the police station, parked the car on the side of the road, and whispered: "Xiao Liu, stay here and watch Chen Mengmeng in the trunk. Don't let her run away. I'll go find Xiao Lou.
"
Liu Qiao nodded: "Mr. Tang, be careful."
Tang Ci closed the door, ran all the way to the police station, and asked bluntly: "Xiao Lou is in danger, where are the others?!"
The two detectives hurried to cell No. 1, only to see Xiao Lou lying in a pool of blood.
Seeing this scene, Tang Ci also had palpitations in his heart.
If Liu Qiao hadn't said that Xiao Lou still had a witch's antidote on his body, Tang Ci would have almost thought that Xiao Lou was dead.
At this moment, Xiao Lou looked no different from a "dead person". His face was covered in blood, his eyes were closed tightly, and his heart stopped beating. The two criminal police officers felt that something was wrong and immediately called Yu Hanjiang.
When Yu Hanjiang rushed back to the police force with a dark face, Xiao Lou's "body" had been taken out and covered with a layer of white cloth.
The man knelt down and lifted up the white cloth, his hands trembling slightly.
Under the white cloth, Xiao Lou's face was as pale as paper, but the blood hole left on his forehead formed a sharp contrast with the pale skin. Yu Hanjiang's hands suddenly clenched tightly, and blue veins popped up on the back of his hands. When he turned around, his eyes showed
Covered with bloodshot eyes, he roared like a furious beast: "Didn't I tell you to take a good look at him? What's going on!"
The two men looked at each other, and one of the policewomen said in a trembling voice: "Xiao Wu just delivered a takeaway to us and told us to eat first. He went to the duty room next door to keep an eye on us. We thought that with him watching, there must be no problem.
, so..."
Yu Hanjiang stood up, his face ashen: "Are you pig-minded?"
He took a deep breath, resisted the urge to hit someone, immediately picked up the pager, and ordered in a low voice on the communication channel: "I am Yu Hanjiang. Immediately notify the police in all districts to search for criminal suspects at all highway toll booths, airports, and train stations.
This person is Wu Minglang. I will upload this person’s information to the intranet. Please pay attention to the patrol police everywhere. As soon as you find him, arrest him immediately!”
After giving the order, he turned back and glanced at Xiao Lou on the ground, his expression extremely ugly.
Tang Ci said calmly: "Captain Yu, do you believe now that he was framed?"
Yu Hanjiang was silent for a moment and said: "...I'm sorry."
Tang Ci said: "You'd better catch all the murderers, otherwise, Xiao Lou will die with his eyes open."
Yu Hanjiang clenched his fists hard: "Of course, I will never let them go!"
Tang Ci asked: "Can I take Professor Xiao's body away?"
Now he just wants to get Xiao Lou's "remains" back. If a forensic doctor from the police team comes and dissects Professor Xiao, it will be terrible. The witch's antidote will not be able to restore the severed body parts.
Yu Hanjiang said: "According to regulations, I will notify his family members to claim the body."
Tang Ci nodded and said: "Okay, please inform Xiao Lou's parents as soon as possible. Outside the forest, from the bullet casings left on the ground, you should be able to tell who fired this, right? His parents will definitely not agree with you.
Autopsy, I hope you won’t touch him again.”
"Okay." Yu Hanjiang nodded, leaned over, carefully covered Xiao Lou with white cloth, and whispered: "I'm sorry."
Tang Ci looked at him. The man's face was full of guilt and self-blame, but he didn't feel much pain - he was indeed different from the real Yu Hanjiang. If the real Yu Hanjiang were here, he would see Xiao Lou being shot in the head.
, it is impossible to be so calm.
If it is really Yu Hanjiang...
Tang Ci couldn't imagine the consequences.
He took a deep breath, turned around and came to the door, got in the car and asked Liu Qiao: "Have you met Xiao Lou's parents?"
Liu Qiao shook his head: "No, how about Professor Xiao?"
Tang Ci said: "Xiao Lou was hit in the head by a bullet. I hope he takes the antidote in advance."
Liu Qiao said: "Professor Xiao is so cautious and will not risk his own life. The antidote is held under the tongue in advance and can be taken at any time. However, the witch's antidote needs to be effective at night."
Tang Ci opened his laptop, quickly looked up the information about Xiao Lou's mother, pointed to the photo on the screen and said: "This is the photo of Xiao Lou's mother. You pretend to be his mother and go to the police station to get his body out as soon as possible.
I sent Chen Mengmeng to the police force, and we only caught this one murderer. The other two had to rely on the power of the police."
Liu Qiao nodded and pretended to be Xiao Lou's mother.
After half an hour, she pretended to take a taxi and came to the police station, and hurriedly went to see Yu Hanjiang: "Officer Yu, what's wrong with my son?"
Yu Hanjiang took her to the morgue. After lifting the white cloth and seeing Xiao Lou's face, Liu Qiao knelt down with a bang: "My son... why did you suddenly disappear..."
Although she acted very hard, Liu Qiao was thinking in her heart that it was lucky that Professor Xiao was unconscious now, otherwise, she would have directly called Professor Xiao "son", which would be really disrespectful. Professor Xiao is her idol.
Yu Hanjiang looked at "Mother Xiao" who was crying bitterly, with a look of guilt on his face: "I'm sorry, Auntie, I couldn't protect him."
Liu Qiao: "What happened?"
Yu Hanjiang briefly told her the story of the case. Liu Qiao was stunned for a while. After acting for a while, she felt that it was almost done, so she sobbed and said: "Officer Yu, please make sure to catch those who killed my son."
The murderer!"
She stretched out her hand, covered Xiaolou with a white cloth, and choked with sobs: "I want to take Xiaolou away, wait for his father to come back to see him, and then bury him properly."
Liu Qiao signed his mother's name and asked the corpse truck to take Xiao Lou's "body" back to Tang Ci's private residence.
The two of them moved Xiao Lou onto the bed.
Liu Qiao touched his cold wrist, looked at the wound on his forehead, and said helplessly: "Professor Xiao is taking too many risks. I hope he takes the antidote in advance, otherwise, I'm really afraid that he will injure himself."
Go in..."
Tang Ci stood beside the bed, looking at Xiao Lou's "remains" on the bed, thoughtfully.
Seeing no response from behind, Liu Qiao couldn't help but turn around and ask, "What is Mr. Tang thinking about?"
Tang Ci frowned and said: "I'm thinking about the origin of the Hunters and why they are always against us. Also, which world are the other teammates in? How should we join them?"
Liu Qiao said: "Professor Xiao speculated that the 12 of us were divided into several groups and dropped into different worlds. What we encountered was a heart-type puzzle. Since the Yu team in this world is not myself, then the real Yu team,
Most likely in the world of spades."
Tang Ci nodded: "Xiao Lou's speculation is very reasonable. Ninth Brother may be in the survival world. Mr. Shao is in Meihua, and Lao Mo may be in Fangpian? We don't know what rules the others are allocated according to."
Liu Qiao said: "Just like the K secret room before, as long as the problems in each world are solved, we can always meet."
Tang Ci looked at Xiao Lou on the bed. After a moment, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Xiao Lou should be fine."
Liu Qiao was confused: "How to say?"
Tang Ci explained: "He is the captain and the owner of the contract. If he dies, the contract will be transferred to the second person to sign, Yu Hanjiang, and the floating box will pop up the announcement 'Captain dies, the contract is transferred to Yu Hanjiang'
."
Liu Qiao was relieved when he heard this: "There is no prompt, which means that Professor Xiao took the antidote and did not really die. He will wake up at dawn tomorrow."
Using himself as bait to lure out the last predator, Xiao Lou's approach was risky, but also very effective.
Under the full force of the criminal police brigade led by Yu Hanjiang, Wang Yishen, who fled to the airport, was quickly arrested and brought to justice. Xiao Wu, who was hiding, was also discovered by the patrol at the station. Together with Chen Mengmeng, who was sent by Tang Ci himself, this serial murder
All the murderers of the case were arrested.
The night was very long. Neither Tang Ci nor Liu Qiao slept well. They sat on the edge of the bed anxiously waiting for Xiao Lou to wake up.
As the first ray of sunlight shone into the bedroom, Xiao Lou on the bed finally opened his eyes.
Seeing his teammates beside him, a smile appeared on Xiao Lou's pale face: "Fortunately, you snatched my body back in time and was not dragged away by Yu Hanjiang for dissection."
Liu Qiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Professor Xiao, you still have the heart to make a joke."
Xiao Lou stretched out his hand and touched the hole on his forehead: "Ahem, does Mr. Tang have a treatment robot? I have a hole in my head. I don't know if it can be repaired."
Tang Ci and Liu Qiao: "…………"
What kind of weird conversation is this?
Tang Ci said helplessly: "You are just saving one life now. The bullet is still in your head, so you can't be careless. My treatment robot can only repair skin injuries. It's better to wait until you meet Mr. Shao and Ye Qi and use the Insect Ace
Come fix it.”
Xiao Lou nodded: "That's all we can do."
His head was still a little dizzy. Although his name was fine, it was not a good thing for the bullet to remain in his head.
I hope to meet Mr. Shao as soon as possible.
[Congratulations to Xiao Lou, Tang Ci, and Liu Qiao for successfully passing the second round of the relay task]