When the two of them arrived at the classroom, they saw many people gathered together, discussing something. Everyone's face showed anxiety and tension, as if something big had happened.
This surprised Lu Yanhe and Li Pengfei, and they didn't know what was going on.
"What's wrong?" Li Pengfei immediately leaned over and asked.
Everyone was discussing a piece of news that circulated in various group chats last night: It was said that a body was found in a garbage dump last night, and it was murdered.
This is no longer the chaotic world where countless accidental deaths occur every day. In this peaceful era, the occasional appearance of an abnormally dead body is like a bomb that will cause a huge splash in a calm pond.
Just like this group of students now.
murder.
This word is too far away from their lives, so when it happens in the city where they live, it feels too close to them.
"It looks like a woman." A classmate said in an uncertain voice.
But this sentence made Lu Yanhe think of the woman named He Ting for no reason.
Wearing a sun hat, he is thin.
She stood in the crowded bus and looked back at him across the crowd.
It was just evening, the car door was open, and her face was sunken in the backlight's shadow, so Lu Yanhe couldn't see her face clearly at all, and didn't know what her expression was at that time.
Could it be her?
When this thought popped up in Lu Yanhe's mind, it was accompanied by a creepy feeling.
Lu Yanhe really enjoys crime films, especially those where ordinary people are accidentally caught up in a conspiracy or unexpected event. They're not the kind of stories set in a world away from ordinary people, like Mission: Impossible or The Last Jedi, but rather stories that take place in a real world, like The Unknown. A story set in a world that's so familiar to you feels more immersive.
However, at this moment Lu Yanhe realized that a movie is a movie after all. You know it is a movie. No matter how involved you are, you also know that it is just a story.
But the real world is not like this.
Lu Yanhe sat down and sent a message to Officer Qiu asking: Officer Qiu, my classmates are saying that a woman was murdered here last night. Is it true?
Officer Qiu, who replied immediately yesterday, did not reply to the message until the start of morning self-study today.
It can’t be such a coincidence, right?
Lu Yanhe frowned slightly, suppressing the uneasiness that was surging like an earthworm in his heart, and focused his attention to start listening to the class.
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Old town.
It was clearly raining heavily over at No. 13 Middle School, but it was sunny here.
Same city, different weather.
There is a roadside breakfast shop with seven or eight tables along the street.
A man wearing a white vest with a ferocious tiger head carved on his right arm came over and sat down at a table nearby.
"Boss, give me a bowl of beef noodles and an order of dumplings!" he shouted.
"Okay!" the boss responded.
After a while, the boss came over with a bowl of steaming beef noodles and a tray of dumplings.
He placed the noodles in front of the man, smiled, and said, "Eat slowly."
Halfway through the meal, a woman wearing sunglasses appeared.
She sat down at Luo Hu's table.
This scene did not cause any surprise among the people around.
This old city area is home to both lazy people who live off their savings and many elites in suits or with exquisite makeup. The former are the remnants of this city, and the latter are outsiders in this city. If there is anything in common between the two, it is that they are not accepted by the bright and beautiful side of this city, so they can only live in this backward old city area.
Lazy people can eat leisurely for an hour, but elites have to finish their meal within ten minutes and rush to the CBD area ten kilometers away to work. The old city is just their dreamland, and the CBD is their dream.
But this elegant woman wearing sunglasses was not in a hurry.
After she sat down, she unpacked a pair of disposable chopsticks and ate a steamed dumpling slowly before asking in a barely audible voice, "Did you handle that person?"
"I brought it here, I'll handle it." Luo Hu didn't even raise his eyebrows.
"The surveillance footage showed that she secretly took photos and videos. Did she say who she gave the things to?" the woman asked.
"She said she wanted to give it to a police officer before, but didn't have time. After you reminded me, I kept watching her, and she didn't find the opportunity."
"We should retreat just in case," the woman said. "You brought this person here, saying he was honest and reliable, but I didn't expect him to be so dishonest. We finally established a stronghold here, but now we have to give it up."
"We'll just lie low for a while and see which way the wind blows. It's just one person who died. As long as no one sees those photos and videos and discovers what we actually did, it'll be fine. I've checked her phone. She's a woman from the countryside and doesn't know how to use a computer. It'll be fine, don't worry."
"You told us before that the person was from your hometown and assured us, but you are still playing tricks behind our backs, aren't you?" The woman frowned.
"Okay, I solved the trouble I caused myself."
"The police have already found the woman's body."
"No matter how we investigate, it's suicide," Luo Hu said. "I didn't kill him."
"You didn't kill him? Who did you ask to kill him? Are you crazy? How dare you ask someone else to do this?" After the woman sat down, she became a little emotional for the first time.
"Calm down, no one else will do this." Luo Hu smiled slightly, "It's just suicide."
The woman was stunned.
"Since I dared to bring her here, I naturally have a way to restrain her." Luo Hu put down his chopsticks after saying this. "Let's stay out of the spotlight for a while and see how the wind blows before contacting each other. I'm leaving."
Luo Hu left.
He just lied. It wasn't that He Ting didn't find an opportunity. Before she died, she told him that she almost gave the item to a policeman she had met before that night, but she found him, so the opportunity she had finally found was ruined.
Luo Hu sighed. Thinking of He Ting kneeling on the ground begging for mercy last night, Luo Hu felt annoyed. Why, why couldn't she just clean the place honestly? She had to force him to use her daughter to threaten her into jumping off the building.
But he had no intention of telling this woman about all this.
She didn't need to know. She just needed to know that the crisis was over.
The woman continued to eat the dumplings until she finished the last one. Then she paid the bill and walked in another direction.
This is the old city area, and surveillance has not been installed in this area, so they can leisurely have breakfast here and then slowly leave.
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