Neon lights are flowing, and among the crowds of people coming and going, the silent Kurotaki Tea welcomes the most familiar stranger.
"Hello~ welcome, what would you like to drink? Today's recommendation..."
Lao Guo looked at the new customers with confusion. The young man in front of the counter was looking around the tea shop with a smile. He tapped the menu with slightly calloused fingers. His slightly red and swollen eyes were filled with nostalgia and peace of mind. The look in his eyes reflected the figure in black.
The shape changed, and Lao Guo seemed to see a regular customer.
"Are you...Hui?"
"Huh? Who is that?"
"Ah no, it's nothing. Have you thought of something?"
He nodded blankly, a slightly embarrassed smile appeared on his face, and the black tongue pointed at the menu, but he did not see the reassuring smile of the young man in black.
"A large cup of jasmine green tea, at room temperature without ice, because the taste is not good."
"Okay~ Which school are you from, classmate?"
Philide Plaza is located in a university town surrounded by various universities. Most of the customers who come to the store are students. Although the young man in front of him reveals a maturity that does not belong to young people, Lao Guo still subconsciously regards him as a college student by default.
"That's it..."
The young man in black lowered his head, a trace of loneliness flashed through his eyes. He hoped that someone would recognize him, but at the same time, he also did not want anyone to recognize him. He closed his eyes and suppressed the surge of emotions. Lin Shuwen
He raised his head again:
"I am a graduate student at Hangjiang University of Communication. You can call me "Feng"."
Turning around with a smile, Lin Shuwen walked calmly into the store. Lao Guo looked at the young man's back with a suspicious look on his face, his brows furrowed, and syllables he muttered in a low voice came out of his pouted mouth.
"It's so similar... Even the way of speaking and the tone are the same. Speaking of which, Hui hasn't been here for a long time."
"Lao Guo!!"
My wife's cry came from outside the house, and Aunt Zhang ran back to the store from outside, panting.
"What's wrong, Lao Zhang?"
"Tell me! What is Hui's original name?!"
"Why do you ask this suddenly?"
"Okay! Tell me quickly!"
"Lin Shuwen..."
"ah?!"
Aunt Zhang was lying on the edge of the counter, panting. Lao Guo handed her a glass of water with a confused look on his face and watched his wife walk into the counter.
"Just now a kid who looks very similar to Hui ordered the same thing. You hurry up and make it. Maybe Ren Ren and Hui will only like what you make."
"Ah?! Where is it?!"
"Neng~"
Lao Guo pointed to the young man in black sitting by the window. Aunt Zhang froze in place, with an expression on her face that she had seen a ghost.
"He he he..."
"Hey, what's going on?"
"Are you sure he's not Hui?!"
Aunt Zhang tugged on her husband's sleeve, and her startled behavior finally made Lao Guo impatient.
"I said what happened to Lao Zhang?!"
"Hui was in a car accident, just like the one the morning before yesterday. Just now, Sister Gong next door told me that two students died, one named Lin Shuwen and the other named Mo Yunfei."
"What?!"
Now Lao Guo was no longer calm. These two children often came to the store together, and it was almost certain that they were those two children. Staring at the table, Lao Guo couldn't accept it for a while.
"You said these... two wonderful children... why not! I still have the tea he gave me in the refrigerator..."
"Oh, so in this world, good people are not allowed to live!"
"What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Why don't you make tea quickly? You'll know about it all day long...I'll send it to you later..."
Lao Guo urged his wife to take action. He looked at Lin Shuwen, who was leaning on the table and smiling, and an unlikely guess appeared in his mind.
In his seat, Lin Shuwen stared blankly at the boys and girls pushing each other outside the window, thinking about his messy thoughts. A gust of fragrant wind blew around him, and Lin Shuwen put away his eyes and looked at the handsome... boy who was sizing him up at the table?
"Hello, is there anyone here?"
"Oh, there are only feathers that haven't arrived yet."
"Ah, then you are Mr. Feng, right?"
"Are you the psychologist? I remember your name..."
"Yu Yi. Yu from poppy poppy, Yi with a feather next to the character."
The target in a denim jacket sat down respectfully. Lin Shuwen looked at the soft and neutral face, with a small nose tip, a slightly larger mouth, a standard almond-shaped face with a crescent moon, and drooping eyebrows.
, revealing a sense of affinity. Yu Yi raised his arms to straighten his slightly drooping side bangs. The bangs passed over his right eye, and together with the medium-long soft hair, formed a slightly soft and neutral beauty.
"although
This is a bit presumptuous. What is your gender?"
"Ah, this..."
"Sorry, if you don't want to say it, forget it."
Showing a professional smile, Lin Shuwen put down the arm that was supporting his face and called out the spiritual waning moon. He wanted to test whether the target with his head lowered in front of him was a mysterious ability tester.
"Here, I'm actually... intersex, more on the female side."
"Um?"
With his eyebrows raised slightly, Lin Shuwen looked at each other and the moon on his shoulder, and then looked at the embarrassed woman in front of him again. The so-called intersex people refer to humans who have abnormalities in the process of gender differentiation and possess the characteristics of two genders at the same time.
"Then, please give me more advice in the next week, Ms. Yu Yi."
Lin Shuwen smiled and stretched out his hand, shaking hands with Yu Yi politely. This action also announced the beginning of his first personal action.
"Want something to drink?"
Lin Shuwen looked at Lao Guo, who was walking over with a plastic cup, and thought of a sleeping glutinous rice ball in his pocket. He looked at the green tea he put down and asked Xiang Yuyi.
"No, no! I should have invited you. I have troubled you to protect me in the first place, so how can I let you spend more money!"
The mission this time was to protect the psychology doctor in front of him during a seven-day academic lecture. Lin Shuwen asked Can Yue to get closer to Yu Yi and found that she had no reaction to perceive Can Yue's presence. He temporarily confirmed that Yu Yi was not a mysterious side ability user.
"Hello, please give me a glass of red date milk."
"OK"
"If I'm here, please give me a small glass of milk and a disposable plate."
Lin Shuwen poked the glutinous rice ball in his breast pocket, and Meier looked sleepily at the owner who was sipping green tea, then slowly jumped on the table, causing Yu Yi to exclaim.
"Did you raise this?! It's so cute!!"
"Huh? (Master, why are you picking up another girl?)"
Meier tilted her head and looked back at her master with disdain. Her expression seemed to be that of a helpless wife who despises her cheating husband to the extreme, full of sadness and sullenness.
Lin Shuwen flicked Mei'er's forehead with his index finger. Lin Shuwen lay on the table and explained the task to Mei'er who was angry about getting up. Yu Yi looked at the owner who was talking to himself and the pet with its ears erect, and couldn't help but complain.
:
"Honey, does she understand?"
"Whether she understands it or not, she is my family, and I have to explain her whereabouts properly. Well, today's family..."
Meier licked her master's eyebrows and covered her lonely eyes. Lin Shuwen straightened up and confirmed the mission information to Yu Yi.
Beside the counter, Lao Guo frowned and looked at Lin Shuwen in the distance. He did not ignore the white fox on the table who only wanted to drink milk. The speculation in his mind became clearer and he couldn't help but ask his busy wife.
"Do you think Hui... is not dead?"
"The school has announced it, and their family members have arrived at the scene. It is said that the police station has been crying all day long. I understand your feelings. Who doesn't want that good child to be okay?"
"No, I mean, maybe Hui needs to remain anonymous because of some things..."
"Oh~ It would be great if that was the case. At least you are still alive, right?"
"Yes~ If that's really the case..."
"Okay, okay, hurry up and serve it to others. It's rare to have two new customers, so you have to leave a good impression on others."
Lao Guo, who was holding the drink, left the counter and, at the urging of his wife, walked to the dining table where Lin Shuwen and Yu Yi were sitting.
"That is to say, someone sent you a warning text message, and the text message came from your own mobile phone."
"Yes, the first letter was on October 20. I followed his instructions to stay at home and prepare my speech. But on November 10, I received an invitation from Hangjiang Media College and I had to go to Hangjiang City.
.And since I came to Hangjiang, that is, yesterday, I encountered some abnormal things, such as steel bars suddenly falling from my head, and suddenly bulging floor tiles tripping me to the side of the road. In desperation, I
I could only find you based on the address left in the text message."
"Can you show me that text message?"
"OK."
Yu Yi called up the text message and handed the phone to Lin Shuwen. Lin Shuwen flipped through the letter:
"October 20, 2019, 3:25 am.
Someone is eyeing your life, please stay home and don't leave, otherwise you will die!
November 20, 2019, 4:33 am.
They are preparing to kill you in Hangjiang City. Remember, be careful of anything abnormal around you. After arriving in Hangjiang City, please immediately go to the Psychological Activity Room of Hangjiang Media College to find Teacher Ye Lanxin. She will protect you.
"
(Knowing Ye Lanxin’s name, he should be someone from our organization.)
Lin Shuwen put his left index finger between his lips and thought about the message in the letter:
Ye Lanxin is investigating the Blood Demon Vine in Xushan, and the one staying in the psychological activity room now is Ouyang Qing disguised as her. In other words, the person who sent the message does not know the whereabouts of Ye Lanxin. In this way, she can
The identity of this client is locked as one of the "Garden" members who acted in the Saint incident, and this person probably went to the city where Yu Yi was after completing the operation, so he does not know what happened next.
In this way, a question arises: Why did "that person" who did not need the organization to send manpower to help protect the target suddenly ask the organization for help?
Lin Shuwen didn't think it was a personal reason for "that person". He didn't know the whereabouts of his boss, but he knew the whereabouts of the target. He who valued the target so much was unlikely to give up protecting the target because of his own reasons. Lin Shuwen thought of it
There are two possibilities. One is that the opponent's headquarters is in Hangjiang City, and the large number of people means that he is unable to do all the work on his own. The other is that it is very likely that it is not convenient for him to deal with the protection "outside", so he does it in order to increase insurance or "replace himself".
Choose an organization for help. But the strange thing is, time.
Lin Shuwen bit a layer of flesh on his finger and thought about the abnormality. Ye Lanxin told himself that the mission was on November 15th. At that time, he had just finished handling Mo Wei's matter and was lying on the hospital bed. The warning letter
But it was November 20th, which meant that Ye Lanxin already knew about his condition before that.
In this way, it is impossible not to give him the opportunity to accompany the target. Now the only members of the "Garden" near Hangjiang Media College are himself and Mo Yunfei. Since he knows the action plan in advance, why not just let himself and Mo Yunfei
Yunfei acts together?
The only person who executes this protection operation is himself. In other words, he thinks that he and he can carry out the protection operation well, and there is no difference in combat effectiveness. Then, the speculation that the other party's headquarters is in Hangjiang can basically be ruled out.
. Follow him by himself, his headquarters is not in Hangjiang, he knows local information in advance, and does not have direct contact with himself. All conclusions point to the possibility that he has the "inconvenience" of not being able to cooperate directly with him. It is understandable if he conceals his identity from the target.
If so, then why did he hide his identity from himself? Considering that Ye Lanxin also concealed his identity from himself, the possibility of not trusting him can be basically ruled out.
So why?
"Are you sure you haven't felt any eyes or attention from others?"
"In fact, I used countless methods to find him, but in the end I could only find traces of myself. Over time, I got used to it."
"It's interesting. You are obviously from our organization, but why don't you get any information? It seems that no one is following you. The only person who came here is yourself...your own traces...huh?"
The moment he said the words "his own traces", Lin Shuwen suddenly felt a strange gaze from the opposite side. He subconsciously looked at Yu Yi and found that she was looking at him blankly. Lin Shuwen looked around
, subconsciously asked Zan Yue:
"Did anyone look at me just now?"
"I didn't feel any other sight except this lady."
Lin Shuwen looked at Yu Yi again. She was looking at him looking around with confusion. Lin Shuwen was sure that the strange gaze was not hers.
"There is no protector."
Lin Shuwen once asked Ye Lanxin about the identity of his client, but Ye Lanxin taught him not to ask too many unnecessary questions on the grounds that it would not affect his actions.
He looked at Yu Yi across from him quietly and suddenly asked a strange question.
"Do you have any symptoms of sleepwalking?"
"Huh? No, I always sleep until I wake up."
"I see, it seems I can't let my guard down at night."
"Hey hey hey, I've worked hard for you during this period. I'll treat you to dinner when I get home!"
"Compared to me, shouldn't you be grateful to the person who protected you?"
"Huh? Of course I have to thank you, but I can't find him~"
Lin Shuwen squinted his eyes. He did not miss the flash of panic in Yu Yi's eyes. He touched Mei'er's fur and ordered Mei'er to hint to Yu Yi.
"Well (correct your lie just now.)"
"I did not lie."
Signaling Meier to withdraw the hint, Lin Shuwen pinched his forehead in pain. Yu Yi was definitely hiding something just now, but...
"call……"
Lin Shuwen looked out the window, and the noisy crowd disappeared in a dazzling white light.