Lin Chaoxi tried his best to keep himself excited. Only in this way could he get rid of negative emotions.

The Traffic Management Bureau's Research Institute is a research unit. Its main gate is much harder to enter than the office hall. They were ruthlessly stopped at the gate.

Lin Chaoxi repeated to the security guard of the research institute what he had already repeated many times, but the security guard listened to everything from beginning to end and finally refused.

Lin Zhaoxi looked at her phone anxiously, and the hope that had been ignited in her heart gradually died down. They were not prepared to let her in, although it was not their fault.

11:30, this is the lunch time she and Pei Zhi agreed on.

Lin Chaoxi's mouth was dry and she felt regretful. What was she doing now? Why was she standing here instead of beside Pei Zhi?

At this moment, a car horn honked from behind her, and Lin Chaoxi was pulled aside by the security guard. A white Mazda drove past her, and the electric gate of the research institute opened.

Lin Chaoxi's mind flashed back to those scenes of car stopping. Perhaps she had something in mind. The car suddenly stopped when it drove into the electric door. The window was rolled down. The middle-aged man driving the car stared at them and then asked, "What are you two girls doing here?"

Lin Chaoxi coughed twice, and Bao Xiaomeng spoke first: "Uncle, we want to find the leader!"

"Oh, what do you want to do with the leader?"

Although he had said it countless times, Lin Chaoxi still spoke calmly: "We are working on an extracurricular program and need some traffic data from Yongchuan City."

The middle-aged man had an incredible expression on his face.

"Students nowadays are quite interesting." said the middle-aged man.

Lin Chaoxi felt a spark of hope in her heart again. She looked at the person in the car hopefully, but saw that the other person turned his head and looked forward.

The car window slowly rolled up, he stepped on the accelerator, and drove away.

The exhaust of the car spread out a blue-gray smoke belt. When Lin Chaoxi turned around again, he saw that Bao Xiaomeng's eyes were red, and she seemed to find it hard to accept this situation.

Lin Chaoxi rubbed her head, looked at the security guards who had been chatting with them for a long time, and said, "Uncle, if there is no other way, then we will leave first."

"Where are you going?"

"Let's think about it again."

"I remember that my son's school's traffic activity day was directly contacted by the traffic police brigade." The security guard said, "Why don't you go there and ask."

Another security guard came over and whispered, "Or you can ask a leader to approve it. It will be more effective than anything else."

——

Cheng'an District has industrial development but is sparsely populated. Lin Chaoxi and Bao Xiaomeng stood on the roadside to take a taxi back to the city.

She held Bao Xiaomeng's hand. It was not anyone else's fault that she ran into obstacles when going back and forth between departments because she was unfamiliar with the situation.

Bao Xiaomeng sniffed, feeling frustrated.

Lin Chaoxi comforted him, "It's okay, just go to other places more often."

“But you feel anxious.”

"No." Lin Zhaoxi said with a smile.

"But I just secretly saw you texting." Bao Xiaomeng said hurriedly, "I wasn't careful, but is Pei Zhi also in Yongchuan?"

"His mother is critically ill and is being treated here."

"Oh my god, how could this happen!" Bao Xiaomeng was shocked and at a loss, "Then why don't you go to accompany him? No, is this matter so important to you now?"

Bao Xiaomeng's questions were so sharp and direct that Lin Chaoxi couldn't answer them.

There were few cars on the road, with only trucks whizzing past her, and it seemed that even the cold wind in the sky was filled with haze.

"S-Sorry..."

"It has nothing to do with you... I just didn't handle it well."

The time she spent waiting on the roadside made her feel inexplicably disgusted with herself. Although time was running out, she had made no progress at all.

At about this time, her cell phone vibrated.

She skipped a beat and nervously took out her cell phone. The caller number was from a number she didn't recognize, the Yongchuan area code.

She quickly picked up the phone.

"Hello, we are from Yongchuan Xinhu Real Estate, may I ask..."

Her tense muscles suddenly relaxed. Lin Chaoxi put down her phone. The air was filled with heavy haze and she began to cough continuously.

The person on the other end of the phone was still reading professionally, "Do you need to buy a property? We recommend you..."

She was coughing so hard that she couldn't breathe and squatted on the ground. Bao Xiaomeng squatted down anxiously and patted her back: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Lin Zhaoxi waved his hands.

——

It's like there's a stinging bug crawling on your heart. With every passing second, the bug will gently scratch you. You can't pick the bug off, so you can only let it continue to burrow into your heart.

Lin Chaoxi took a bus back to Yongchuan city and arrived at the gate of the traffic police brigade in the old city.

The surrounding area was bustling with people. After lunch, many students and office workers left the restaurant. The street was still filled with the smell of oil smoke. In the sunlight, the smoke was clearly visible, and the paint peeling on the white sign of the traffic police brigade was very clear.

For a moment, Lin Chaoxi felt that everything she had done was ridiculous.

A high school student created a program to predict when her father was about to get into a car accident. For some reason, the student had to modify the prediction program in a short period of time. In order to find data, she ran between various transportation departments.

The only people with her were her junior high school classmates. They had already hit a wall twice, and this was the third place she had run to in one day.

What are the chances that they'll be useful here?

"Should we go in?"

Bao Xiaomeng's voice was clear and soft, pulling Lin Chaoxi back from his sense of absurdity.

This was her third time coming to a parallel universe. All the absurdities were nothing compared to this incident.

Lin Chaoxi forced himself to cheer up and said, "Since we are here, it would be a shame if we don't go in."

This is probably what it feels like to do your best with a slim hope. You have to take a deep breath and never let it go, otherwise you won't have the strength to take even one more step.

Fortunately, the traffic police brigade is responsible for handling traffic accidents, and people are constantly coming in and out, so the gate here is much easier to enter than the research institute.

The guard asked them why they were there and said directly, "The Mission Department is in Room 205 and will be open at 1:30."

Lin Chaoxi was dazed for a moment under the sun.

At about this time, she felt the cell phone she had been holding tightly vibrate.

Her first reaction was to take out her cell phone and look down. It was a text message.

Huajuan: I can’t get through to the intensive care unit. I’ll try again for you later.

"What?" The guard put the registration book in front of them, "Aren't you going to do extracurricular activities?"

All the joy vanished in an instant, as if being tightly grasped by some sudden nightmare. Lin Zhaoxi stared at the screen of his mobile phone until it went dark.

Bao Xiaomeng pushed her, and the security guard still handed her the pen.

"Thank you." Lin Chaoxi picked up the pen and bowed.

——

No one answered the ward phone, which gave people too many bad associations.

Lin Chaoxi still couldn't react until she walked to the traffic police brigade office. She should have thought that Hua Juan hadn't responded for so long, so something must have happened to Pei Zhi.

She really wanted to know how Pei Zhi was doing now, but she had no way to find out, and she even cancelled the appointment with Pei Zhi herself.

Lin Chaoxi couldn't help but feel regretful, more like there was an empty spot in her heart. The cool breeze blew past, making her panic about what was happening around Pei Zhi.

However, what made Lin Chaoxi even more powerless was that at this moment, she mechanically raised her hand and knocked on the door of the Traffic Management Bureau office.

The traffic police brigade has a special secretary in charge of liaison matters. It is not yet working time. The door opens and the female police officers in the office are happily distributing milk tea.

They explained their purpose and were taken to an office where a lady was sitting.

Lin Chaoxi just bowed and said, "Hello."

After listening to her subordinate's introduction, the lady looked around and finally landed on her face.

"You want to do the procedure, why do you want to come here?"

"We went to several places today, but they all said no, so we... had no choice but to come here."

"Several places?" The policewoman at the desk raised her eyelids with some interest. "Which ones?"

"It was in the lobby of the Traffic Management Bureau, and then they asked us to go to the research institute... The guard at the research institute wouldn't let us in, so we came here." Lin Chaoxi told the truth.

“What kind of data do you want?”

"I want the road accident rate, traffic flow..." Lin Chaoxi said this and took out a piece of paper from her pocket. On it was a list of all the necessary data she had compiled. "It would be best if I could also have the actual traffic conditions on that day."

She handed the paper over solemnly. The lady lowered her head and her eyes changed slightly.

"You work very seriously." She praised lightly.

"Thank...thank you." Lin Chaoxi rubbed his knees with the palms of his hands.

"The traffic situation is a bit difficult. How about this? Do you have a teacher in this project group? Let your teacher come over."

"Thank you so much." Lin Chaoxi stood up excitedly.

——

Problems always come one after another.

The policewoman wanted to find their teacher, so Lin Chaoxi had to find one for her.

She left her office and took out her cell phone in the hallway.

If she calls Jie Ran, there is a high possibility that the other party will cooperate with the performance, but Jie Ran is currently a graduate student at Yongchuan University, so her status is definitely not enough. Among all the people she knows, there is only one who is very suitable in all aspects.

Lin Chaoxi took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and pressed the call button.

When Chang Shuping answered the phone, his attitude was very good. Probably because he didn't do what she asked, he explained to her seriously that he had tried his best, but the person he contacted didn't respond.

Lin Chaoxi could only keep saying "It's okay, it's okay", "Thank you, teacher", "Teacher, you are so nice".

"I really want to be of help to you." This was the first time that Lao Zhang ended his speech with these words.

Just before Chang Shuping hung up the phone, Lin Chaoxi said, "Teacher Chang, could you please come to the traffic police brigade now?"