Chapter 75 Who is Bai Xiao?

noon.

The sun is shining brightly.

Xu Zhi stood at the hospital entrance, looking up at the sky.

The long-awaited sunlight made him instinctively shield his eyes with his hand, and through the gaps between his fingers, he saw a Santana slowly approaching from a distance and stopping in front of him.

Yuan Jianhua rolled down the car window and waved to him.

"Get in the car."

Xu Zhi paused for a moment.

He then sat in the passenger seat and fastened his seatbelt.

"How's the recovery going?" Yuan Jianhua asked, one hand on the steering wheel, glancing at Xu Zhi's forehead. His tone was casual, yet carried the concern typical of a leader.

Xu Zhi touched the elastic mesh bandage on his head and said with a smile, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt as much anymore. The doctor said I can get the stitches removed in another two weeks."

"That's good."

Yuan Jianhua nodded, stepped on the gas, and the car smoothly glided onto the main road.

Neither of them spoke.

Silence spread through the carriage.

It wasn't until they had driven quite a distance that Yuan Jianhua broke the awkward silence in the car, asking, "Why aren't you saying anything? You used to be quite talkative."

"Was I a lot of talker before?" Xu Zhi asked in surprise.

"You're the most talkative person in the whole bureau. You're always gossiping or arguing. Everyone says you're a smart aleck. What do you think?" Yuan Jianhua said calmly.

"Yeah?"

Xu Zhi fell into thought, wondering why he couldn't remember anything about his past.

Yuan Jianhua glanced at him through the rearview mirror and comforted him, "If you can't remember, don't think about it. It wasn't anything important anyway."

"I feel like I've forgotten so many things."

"Do you remember Bai Xiao?" Yuan Jianhua asked tentatively, his eyes fixed on him.

"Bai... Xiao, who is Bai Xiao?" Xu Zhi asked in confusion.

“A prisoner is insignificant.”

Yuan Jianhua breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Xu Zhi would pry into the matter. No one could accept the truth about this. It's better to forget about it now, since he doesn't know how to explain it to Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi looked at Yuan Jianhua driving in front, and his doubts grew stronger. He secretly memorized the name Bai Xiao, feeling that his relationship with this person was not simple.

"Are you still living in the same neighborhood?"

"Um."

"Why don't you go back to the station while you're there? Everyone misses you."

"No."

Xu Zhi refused almost subconsciously.

Yuan Jianhua frowned but didn't say anything. He simply turned on the turn signal and parked at the entrance of the residential area.

"Take good care of your injury. Don't worry about things at the bureau. You can call me if anything happens."

"good."

Xu Zhi opened the car door and got out.

After watching him leave, Yuan Jianhua noticed that the other man's car door was not closed. He then stretched out and closed the door again, muttering to himself, "That kid is getting more and more rude. I'll have to talk to him about it later."

Xu Zhi walked into the residential area.

His ears became very noisy.

"Xiao Xu, you're back? Come play a couple of games of chess with me."

"Xiao Xu, come over to my house for soup tonight. I've made stewed pork ribs and yam!"

"Brother Xu, I heard you've done a great job?"

A series of warm, smiling faces greeted him, but Xu Zhi could only nod mechanically. In fact, he had no impression of these people and did not know why they were so familiar with him.

But this feeling made him very uncomfortable.

Like a cat thrown into an unfamiliar environment, it's forcing him to want to leave.

As Xu Zhi hurriedly left, the group of middle-aged women couldn't help but look puzzled.

"What's wrong with this child today? He used to be so sweet-talking."

"Yes, she seems like a completely different person since she came back from the hospital..."

Xu Zhigang was turning the corner of the flower bed when he almost bumped into the sanitation worker who was bending over to sweep up trash. Luckily, he took a step back in time.

The old man turned around and saw Xu Zhi. His wrinkled face immediately broke into a smile: "Little Xu, I heard you were injured on a mission? I was thinking of coming to the hospital to see you a few days ago, but I couldn't get through to you on the phone, and I couldn't find your workplace. How are you now? Have you recovered?"

"It's nothing, just a minor injury," Xu Zhi said casually.

"You kid, it takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone. You'd better take good care of yourself when you get back. Don't be reckless when you're on a mission in the future. Catching bad guys is a good thing, but health is the foundation of everything."

After the old man finished rambling on and on, he realized that Xu Zhi was nowhere to be seen.

He shook his head and continued sweeping the trash.

Xu Zhi stepped into the elevator, rubbed the back of his neck uncomfortably, and exhaled deeply: "Noisy parasites."

The elevator arrived at the 9th floor.

Several packages were piled up in front of my house.

Xu Zhi picked it up casually and looked at it, and found that the recipient's name was his own, and the date showed that it was delivered half a month ago, which was during the time he was in a coma.

But he couldn't remember what he had bought.

Xu Zhi took out his key, opened the door, and then carried the package inside.

He placed the package on the coffee table and opened it. Inside were some ordinary vitamins. Xu Zhi picked up a medicine bottle and looked at the manufacturer; everything seemed normal.

He remembered someone telling him that this medicine could help boost his energy, but he couldn't recall who it was.

Xu Zhi took out all the medicine bottles from the package.

I counted them; there were ten bottles in total.

It's all vitamins.

He was immediately puzzled, unable to understand why he had bought so many vitamins.

"Was I a workaholic before?"

Xu Zhi frowned and thought for a moment.

He thought it was possible, so he got up, got a glass of warm water, poured two pills from the bottle into his palm, and swallowed them in one gulp.

After finishing his water, Xu Zhi lay down on the sofa, picked up the remote control, and started playing the news channel.

In the news report, a reporter is standing at the entrance of the courthouse, holding a microphone.

"According to our station, the cases of Lu Yao and Zhao Qiangdong have been successfully solved, and the suspect Bai Xiao has been apprehended. Behind these two cases lies the close cooperation and unremitting efforts of the team. We firmly believe that justice may be delayed, but it will never be absent."

The reporter's voice was calm and powerful.

Immediately afterwards, a photo appeared on the screen. It was a cold, stern face with sharp, piercing eyes, like those of an eagle or falcon, as if it could see through everything.

It was Bai Xiao.

Xu Zhi stared at the screen, his heart skipped a beat, and the familiar feeling stung him like a needle.

"Bai Xiao... Bai Xiao..." Xu Zhi kept repeating this name, his voice filled with a hint of confusion and bewilderment.

He knew there must be some deep connection between him and this person, but he couldn't recall any details about the person.