Chapter 26 Waiting for the Rabbit

When the car left the old neighborhood, Huo Tiancai burst into laughter. He held the steering wheel with one hand and patted Li Muhan's shoulder with the other and said.

"Hahahaha, you're a brave boy! I didn't misjudge you! Even though you didn't even open the safety just now."

Li Muhan coughed a lot after being slapped by him, and could only keep reminding him to drive carefully.

"Why did you think of pulling out a gun?"

"Didn't you, Captain, give me a wink and tell me to take action?"

"Huh? What I meant is that after I take action, you should start the car first so that we can run away immediately."

Li Muhan was speechless. It turned out that he had misunderstood Huo Tian's meaning.

But judging from the results, Li Muhan clearly gave an answer with 120 points.

Even Yin Qi said it lightly.

“Well done.”

Then they talked about the case again. Li Muhan thought he had to go back to the bureau first, but Huo Tian made a big circle and found a secluded place to park the car near the entrance on the other side of the old street.

"Are you going to go back and attack with a surprise attack?"

Li Muhan asked.

"It's useless if you don't have evidence."

Huo Tiandian took out a cigarette box and handed one to Li Muhan, but Li Muhan said he didn't smoke.

"Okay, get out of the car, the lady needs to change her clothes."

"Huh? Oh oh."

Li Muhan understood instantly, but seemed not to understand why he had to change clothes.

It was already 7 o'clock in the evening, and the night always comes quickly in winter.

Li Muhan and Huo Tian leaned against the wall not far from the car. Huo Tian lit a cigarette, blew out a puff of smoke comfortably, looked at Li Muhan, and handed the cigarette box over.

"Want one?"

"No."

"Okay, stop pretending. You want to make a good impression in front of the girl. I get it. It's just the two of us."

"Captain, I really don't smoke."

Li Muhan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and then was laughed at by Hao for being cowardly.

"I'm just cherishing my life. Who says not smoking is a coward? You just said you didn't make a mistake."

"I'm just saying this to impress you in front of the girl. So, which one do you like, Taozi or Xiaoyin? Do you want me to give you..."

Seeing that Huo Tian was talking more and more nonsense, Li Muhan quickly stopped him and brought the topic back to the case.

"Do you think it's Zhou Zhiguo?"

Li Muhan asked Huo Tian, but Huo Tian threw the question back to Li Muhan.

"What do you think?"

"I think, well, it's hard to say. He strikes me as an honest, middle-aged man, but you can't judge a person by their appearance. But there doesn't seem to be anything suspicious about his family."

"indeed."

The atmosphere fell into silence again.

Huo Tian was squatting by the wall, smoking one cigarette after another. Li Muhan noticed that he seemed to be looking at something. When he got closer, he found that it was a necklace pendant.

The lid of the pendant was open, and inside was a photo.

"Is he handsome?"

Huo Tian suddenly turned around and looked at Li Muhan.

"ah?"

"This is my son. Isn't he handsome?"

Huo Tian proudly showed the photo in the pendant to Li Muhan.

Li Muhan saw a photo of a young man in police uniform, with a tall figure and a heroic face, the typical image of a great and glorious figure in a story.

"Handsome, and looks righteous."

"Hey, of course, this is my son."

Having said that, Huo Tian took another deep puff of cigarette.

"If he can continue to be a police officer, he will definitely become a chief in the future."

Li Muhan knew that the boy in the photo would never be able to continue to be a policeman, and his life would forever remain stuck in five years ago.

"team leader."

Li Muhan squatted beside Huo Tian.

"Is this why you joined the Special Management Bureau?"

Huo Tian did not answer, but just stared at the pendant in his hand and looked at the child in the photo.

After a long while, he finally answered the question irrelevantly.

"After the child got into trouble, his mother divorced me. That period was the most painful time in my life. I carried a gun and ran to Zhou Zhiguo's house every day. I was warned many times, but the last time, I couldn't hold back and shot him in the leg."

Having said that, Huo Tian smiled bitterly.

"I've worn the police uniform for decades, and it was taken away just like that."

"Then the Special Management Bureau came after you?"

Huo Tian nodded.

"Director Lin came to see me personally. The first thing she said was to apologize for not being able to find the real murderer of my child. At that time, I was very angry, so I kicked her out."

When Li Muhan thought of Lin Ze being kicked out of the house, he wanted to laugh, but due to the current atmosphere, he held it back.

"Hahahaha, you have no idea what Director Lin's expression was like at that time."

As a result, it was Huo Tian who laughed.

"She came three times, and I chased her away three times. The fourth time, she kicked my door down. It was a thick security door, and with her skinny arms and legs, she actually kicked it down. And guess what she said to me."

"What?"

"Three visits to my thatched cottage should be enough, isn't it? It shows sincerity enough?!"

“Hahahahahahahaha.”

This time Li Muhan couldn't help laughing along.

"Then Director Lin dragged me directly to the Special Management Bureau headquarters, and explained the bureau's situation to me, asking if I wanted to join. Actually, what she did was against the rules. I hadn't expressed my desire to join the bureau, so I shouldn't have gone to the headquarters."

"It seems she violated the rules with me this time as well."

"Director Lin is a good person. She gave me hope for rebirth."

"She gave you a chance to avenge your son?"

After hearing Li Muchan's words, Huo Tian was stunned for a moment, then he closed the pendant lid with a click, then turned around and blew a puff of smoke towards Li Muchan.

"The vision, the vision is open, your vision is small. At the beginning, I did join the Special Management Bureau with a mentality of revenge, but after five years of work, I realized how important the Special Management Bureau is to the survival of mankind."

"Captain, have you been brainwashed?"

"Fuck you, you little brat, you don't know shit. I don't know where you got your demonic powers from, but I guarantee that if you go through that training, you'll be the first one to be eliminated."

Li Muhan understood that if humans wanted to have the power to fight alien species, they must withstand inhuman tests.

And it seemed that he awakened the demonic power of Baal only after being beaten half to death by Zhao Qiankun.

This is indeed unfair to people like Huo Tian.

"Boy, you really don't want to consider joining the Special Management Bureau?"

"Aren't I doing an internship with you?"

"No, I can see that you won't join now."

Huo Tian stared at Li Muhan's eyes, and Li Muhan felt that he seemed to see through his thoughts.

That’s right, Li Muhan had no intention of joining. He just wanted to learn more about how the Special Management Bureau worked so that it would be easier for him to deal with them in the future. He didn’t want to become a dog tied up by someone.

"Alright, alright."

Huo Tian slowly stood up.

"A child like you shouldn't step into this world where there's no return."

Li Muhan also stood up, but just as he was about to ask something, he heard the sound of a car door closing behind him.

Li Muhan looked back and saw that Su Xue had taken off her black suit and trousers and changed into a set of sportswear that was easy to move in. She was also carrying a guitar case on her back.

She was wearing a woolen hat and a mask on her face. Li Muhan almost didn't recognize her for a moment.

Yin Qi was dressed similarly, but she didn't say much. She walked to Huo Tian, raised her finger, pointed at the watch on her wrist and said.

"I went in at 7:35 PM."

"Go ahead."

Huo Tian was still smoking and just nodded. Yin Qi put on a mask and walked into the old street alone.

"Captain, Brother Mu Han, I'm leaving now."

Su Xue waved to the two of them and walked into the old street.

"What are they going to do?"

Li Muhan asked as he watched the two people disappear into the night.

"Everyone has their own duties."

Huo Tian seemed to have answered Li Muhan's question, but also seemed not to have answered it.

Just at this moment, Li Muhan's cell phone rang.

"Answer it, you might not be able to answer the phone later."

Huo Tian threw away the cigarette butt, lit a new one and said.

Li Muhan picked up the phone and immediately frowned.

Because the caller ID clearly showed Gu Ruoxi's mother's number.

"Hello, Auntie."

"Xiao Han, Auntie wants to ask you, what's going on with Xiao Xi?"

Gu Ruoxi's mother sounded very anxious on the phone, as if she already knew that Gu Ruoxi was missing.

"You already know that?"

"The police called me and asked if we could contact Xiaoxi. We called her cell phone, looked for her on WeChat, and called the school, but we couldn't find her."

"Auntie, don't worry. The police are doing their best to find her. Gu Ruoxi will be fine."

Gu Ruoxi's mother's voice on the other end of the phone was almost crying.

"Xiao Han, you must find Xiao Xi. You two are so good to each other. Auntie begs you..."

From what she said, it seemed that Gu Ruoxi's mother didn't know that she had broken up with her daughter.

"Don't worry, I will find her."

Li Muhan knew that he couldn't give the old man such hope. He had no ability to find anyone, and it all depended on Huo Tian and the others. But he didn't want his mother to be heartbroken.

After all, no matter how Gu Ruoxi treated him, the old couple had loved him very much since he was a child. After the incident in the orphanage, it was these old couple who took him in.

So they can be considered as half of Li Muhan's parents.

"Hey, Xiaohan."

The next person to speak was Gu Ruoxi's father.

"We've already bought tickets to Tianhai City. We'll arrive tonight. Don't worry too much. Police technology is so advanced now, and there are surveillance cameras everywhere. Xiaoxi should be fine."

Li Muhan was a little touched. This old father must be extremely anxious, but he was still comforting him at this time.

"Well, uncle, I will arrange accommodation for you two elders after you come over. Don't worry, I will find Gu Ruoxi."

After comforting Gu's mother a few more words, Li Muhan hung up the phone, feeling extremely heavy in his heart.

"Feeling the pressure?"

"Um."

"Hey, if I were you, I wouldn't say such things."

Huo Tian smiled and shook his head.

"You are taking all the responsibility on yourself. Who is this girl to you?"

"Ex-girlfriend."

"Yo, ex-girlfriend."

Huo Tian dragged out the word "before", then looked at Li Muhan meaningfully, and finally patted Li Muhan on the shoulder and said.

"Don't worry, we won't tell Xia Yue about this."

"Ah? What does it have to do with her?"

"Hey, you don't understand women at all. You're out here late at night running around for your ex-girlfriend, do you think Xia Yue won't be jealous?"

"Captain...actually...Xia Yue and I..."

Li Muhan was a little embarrassed because up to now, his relationship with Xia Yue was still a little vague.

No one has ever said the word "like" to the other.

"Some things will come naturally. Boy, you're still young, you'll understand in the future. Don't wait for girls to say some things, act like a man."

Just when he was eager to explain, Huo Tian retreated into the car. Li Muhan hurriedly followed him, but found that Huo Tian was lying in the back seat of the car with his eyes closed to rest.