Chapter 53 53 "Beautiful" Mermaid

The message from Hehua Anning came back very quickly, saying that the license plate would be painted blue within five minutes and the car would be in place within the deadline.

Tu Lanxun didn't have time to think about whether she would come with the car to investigate. N would handle these matters. The most important thing now was to take away the box and the soul imprisoned inside.

They quietly left the corridor on the fifth floor, choosing a path that avoided everyone, until they arrived at the lobby on the first floor, and no one noticed Tu Lanxun and N.

The male receptionist in the lobby was still sitting there, his face horrified. He'd fallen asleep in the blink of an eye, swaying with his chin propped up. Tu Lanxun quickly ran out the side door.

The moment the two of them left the door, the male security guard at the front desk woke up seamlessly, not realizing he had fallen asleep.

A security team was patrolling the area around the hospital, and the entrance and exit of the parking lot were guarded. Liu Maosheng and Zhou Hu were trapped inside, especially Zhou Hu.

Fortunately, before going downstairs, Tu Lanxun sent a text message to Liu Maosheng. Now the hospital is focusing on screening suspicious persons. Zhou Hu admitted that he had no contact with the hospital. As long as he doesn't show his face, no one will suspect him, because his dyed yellow crew cut and luxury brand T-shirt printed with logos really... don't look like a thief at all.

Liu Maosheng responded: "Okay, I've already taken him to Greenland Park. What if he wants to run away?"

Tu Lanxun immediately replied: Then let him run away, we just need someone to take the blame.

It is not difficult to implant Zhou Hu's image information into the surveillance video. Even the computer ghost can do it. It will take a month or so for her to be discovered. By then, she will have disappeared in the crowd.

Tu Lanxun and N avoided the security team and quickly crossed the edge of the parking lot. This was thanks to Tu Lanxun's dirty strategy. She seemed to be able to smell the scent of her pursuers in the air. Her movements seemed slow, but in fact she was accurately blocking the blind spot, as if she had experience in this area.

Facing N's slightly amused gaze, Tu Lanxun smiled and said, "I've always been very good at running away."

Outside the Green Park, there is an inconspicuous black SUV parked there. It is the most economical and affordable Volkswagen model, an entry-level mid-range family car. If you throw a brick on every street in Lucheng, you will hit three or four of them.

Tu Lanxun glanced at the computer ghost's feedback and said, "It's an ordinary license plate number. There's no traffic trigger, and it's not linked to any case."

N said, "It's safe. Lotus An Ning is quite trustworthy."

Apart from the central control navigation system, this car is only equipped with a recording and positioning device. Considering that Tu Lanxun's behavior is directly related to the rest of her son Zhang Xiaohuai's life, Tu Lanxun feels that this is not excessive.

Liu Maosheng and Zhou Hu were already waiting in the back row. The latter didn't need the former to escort him and automatically fastened himself with the back seat belt. He was even afraid that Tu Lanxun and others wanted to abandon him, so he was so obedient that he didn't even dare to say a word.

He finally figured it out. What could a traitor like him do if he fell back into the hands of the hospital? He could probably be used as medicine.

The black SUV started slowly. Tu Lanxun did not drive towards home, but took a detour out of the city. The car finally arrived at a drive-through restaurant outside the city.

The drive-in cafeteria doubles as a hotel, with many large and long-distance trucks parked here, making it a kind of off-road rest area for drivers. Tu Lanxun apologized to the camera here, because the red dot not far away automatically went out the moment N got off the bus.

Wherever they go, there is darkness. She and N are truly enemies of the city's surveillance system.

Drive-in canteens usually provide a window for selling meals, but there are also places to dine in. It is not yet noon, and there are only a few drivers sitting at a table eating and chatting. Tu Lanxun bought four boxes of lunch, three for dine-in and one for packing, and then carried the packed portion back to the SUV.

After giving Liu Maosheng a look, he opened the car door a crack, handed the lunch box in, and said, "Eat it, and then you can drive away."

Zhou Hu just took off the blindfold and was shocked: "Ah, you don't want me anymore?"

Liu Maosheng nodded. "Yes, we don't need you anymore. You're free. But first, you have to drive the car twelve kilometers in that direction. There should be a town over there. Then you can leave the car on the side of the road where the tow truck can pass easily. Watch out for traffic police on the way."

As he spoke, Liu Maosheng patted the glove box and said, "Here's some cash, enough for you to fill up your gas tank once, and then you can take a taxi to wherever you want to go."

This is the safest method. Let Zhou Hu divert Hehua An Ning's attention. In the end, no matter whether Hehua An Ning or the hospital investigates to the end, they can only find this black SUV, and the person who drove it away is called Zhou Hu.

Zhou Hu was blindfolded the whole time. He had never seen N and Tu Lanxun. Even Liu Maosheng was wearing a mask at the moment.

Seeing Zhou Hu's pale face, like an animal thrown out of its home, Liu Maosheng sighed: "Let's go, young people have hands and feet, there are no places where there is no work, don't go back to Guihua Town."

Zhou Hu wanted to cry: "I threw my bank card, ID card and mobile phone in Guihua Town..."

The black SUV drove away, carrying Zhou Hu to an unknown fate. It was not Tu Lanxun and the others who forced Zhou Hu to this point, but because he became an accomplice of the hospital in harming people, so Tu Lanxun did not feel any guilt.

In the grove behind the car cafeteria, the smell of incense smoke was curling up, but there were only three of them in the grove, so the smell was not noticeable.

The lunch boxes in the cafeteria tasted a bit strong, and the saltiness was okay, but they were very greasy. Tu Lanxun didn't care whether the food was greasy or not. She was already a little hungry, so the pros and cons offset each other and she felt indifferent.

"What should we do next?" Liu Maosheng sighed as he ate his food with relish. "Should we just find a car and go back to the convenience store? Or should we go to my place?"

Liu Maosheng said he had a place in Lucheng's old town. Tu Lanxun thought about it and decided it wasn't a good idea. He said, "I'm not going back, and I'm not going back. The development zone covers an area comparable to a small city. Now, to be frank, I'm the only living person. There are more buildings than ghosts. I can just pry open any one of them."

Liu Maosheng said "OK", and N was quietly eating the discounted mooncakes from the car cafeteria without making a sound. The Mid-Autumn Festival had passed a long time ago, and the cafeteria had not been able to sell out the mooncakes it had purchased from outside. This store is generally popular with long-distance drivers. Long-distance drivers like to eat salty, fresh, spicy and spicy food, and sour food stimulates their nerves. Few people like to eat sweets.

The lunch box in front of him only suffered minor injuries. He only touched the popular version of shredded pork with fish flavor with two chopsticks, and the rest of the greasy rice and vegetables was left untouched, completely replaced by jujube paste mooncakes and lotus seed paste double yolk mooncakes.

Tu Lanxun watched helplessly as N took out the salted egg yolk and threw it to Liu Maosheng, while he himself just ate the sweet lotus seed paste. He never expected that people who are picky about food could be so picky.

Why buy lotus seed paste with double yolk if you don't eat salted egg yolk? It's five bucks cheaper to just buy pure lotus seed paste!

N may have realized that Tu Lanxun's gaze was too strange. After thinking about it, he took out the second salted egg yolk and placed it on Tu Lanxun's lunch box, meaning: Don't look at it anymore, isn't it okay for me to eat it?

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The three of them took a taxi near the car cafeteria and lied that they were going to a flower sea attraction near Lucheng. It was actually a bit close to the development area, but because its nature was very different, no one would mind the route to the flower sea.

When they returned to the development zone, it was noon and the sun was shining brightly. They went directly to an abandoned community a kilometer away from the convenience store. Tu Lanxun sneered and said that this was a psychological safety zone for criminals - it was different from their own residence, but they could still feel the sense of security brought by the familiar area.

The abandoned community is very beautiful, especially the vines climbing up the walls and the green belts invading the road. Of course, the surveillance had long been abandoned. Tu Lanxun and his team randomly found a house on the fourth floor, which was unfinished.

The stainless steel color box was placed on the ground. After studying it for a long time, the switch was finally found. As a gap appeared in the box, white mist floated out one after another, a bit like poplar catkins rolling on the roadside.

Tu Lanxun saw a familiar face there, Zhang Xiaohuai.

Just like Zhang Xiaohuai's original body which has now become half-crazy, the soul that was extracted from Zhang Xiaohuai is also abnormal. It sits in mid-air like a thinker, but its cheeks are bloated.

Liu Maosheng quickly recognized Yang Dazhi. Yang Dazhi was much more normal. He burst into tears when he saw Liu Maosheng. He was very white, with a square face like a refrigerator. He cried and said, "Old Liu, I haven't even been reincarnated yet, but I've been put into an urn. Waaaaaaaa."

Tu Lanxun also found Ma Qingnian's soul among these seven or eight souls. He covered his neck and looked left and right, as if looking for treasure lost somewhere.

"How do we send them back to their original places?" Tu Lanxun asked.

The Golden Mirror had been tortured into revealing the list long ago. Now, after comparing them one by one, it was found that four and a half of the seven and a half souls were his achievements, and the remaining three should have come from the Bronze Lynx and the Human Flesh Fruit.

There was no need for Tu Lanxun and others to come forward. Yang Dazhi had already found out everything from his "box friends". It turned out that among these souls, only Zhang Xiaohuai needed to be resurrected.

Seven souls remained, their bodies long dead, unable to return. Four of them immediately proposed reincarnation, including the young man named Ma, who didn't even think about returning home. Tu Lanxun recalled his mother weeping until she fainted—and even then, she hadn't forgotten to ask the police for the golden mirror. He felt strange, and his expression grew even more cold.

The four ghosts disappeared side by side in front of them. The remaining three, including Yang Dazhi, scratched their heads and went in the direction of their homes before death. When they left, they agreed to come back here and reunite in three days. They actually fell in love in the box.

There is only one Zhang Xiaohuai left, no, half of him.

He was silent, seemingly without intelligence, and made no move. After all, they were friends, so Tu Lanxun couldn't help but pat him, feeling weak. She said, "Zhang Xiaohuai, do you want to go back to your body?"

Zhang Xiaohuai sat there motionless, his mouth still puffed up, not saying a word.

Tu Lanxun lost his patience: "Why don't you speak?"

Zhang Xiaohuai's cheeks shrunk as he looked at her impatiently: "Can't you see? Because I'm a fish, can your fish talk?"

After saying this, he continued to puff up his cheeks to pretend to be fish gills.

I forgot, it happened at sea.

Tu Lanxun suddenly had an idea: "Is it possible that you are not——"

Zhang Xiaohuai looked at her with grief and anger, as if he was a chaste man whose reputation had been slandered, but fish could not speak, so he could only fight back with silence.

Tu Lanxun continued, "You are not a fish, but a mermaid. Mermaids can talk."

Zhang Xiaohuai's eyes suddenly lit up.