Chapter 11 Roommates
"Not a Serious Person" - Lu Bai
Li Ziyu felt a little funny when he saw the deer team running around in the wind.
This is the first time I've seen someone scold himself so thoroughly.
She felt her pocket and said, "That's right, I don't know where I put my keys."
Someone nearby was still in disbelief.
Lu Bai rubbed her brows and asked tentatively, "Where did you find your house?"
Li Ziyu answered straightforwardly, "Zhang Hai recommended it."
"He also asked me to keep it a secret, saying it was a great bargain and it would be bad if others knew about it."
Then she turned around and betrayed Zhang Hai.
Lu Bai gritted his teeth and took out his phone, "Wait a minute."
She wanted to ask this Zhang Hai what was in his mind!
Zhang Hai's voice came from the phone, "What's up? Deer Team?"
Lu Bai lowered his voice, "What's wrong? Don't you know what's going on?"
She led Li Ziyu towards home. The deer team, which had made great achievements in battle, now had a blush on their ears.
On the other end of the phone, a male voice with a suppressed smile said, "The director said that you were transferred to Wuzhou with high hopes, and you must get along well with Consultant Li."
"The director also said that this case was handled well. It seems that you and Consultant Li can create sparks."
Lu Bai tried his best to explain, "What do you mean by me and her..."
She glanced at Li Ziyu and lowered her voice again, "Advisor Li is a police advisor. Why don't you get along well with her and point your finger at me?"
Everyone knows that Li Ziyu is a loner by nature and never likes to communicate with others.
After a day of getting along, Lu Bai even felt that Li Ziyu had already regarded him as an idiot! How could they still live under the same roof?
Zhang Hai thought for a while, "No, Consultant Li treats you differently."
Lu Bai sighed, "Does she think I'm a fool?"
The person walking beside her had a puzzled look on his face. When did he start treating her like a fool?
Zhang Hai became more and more excited. "No, didn't you find that she was very patient with you? In the past, when we asked her something, she would just nod at most and then go off to investigate the case alone."
"Or is it because no one in the bureau is close to her? Geniuses are a little different from the crowd."
Lu Bai: “…”
Li Ziyu: “…”
She just likes to use her time to solve cases. To her, every second wasted means the murderer has one more chance to escape.
Lu Bai was impatient, "Alright, alright, you're getting more and more aggressive. I'll take care of you at the police station tomorrow."
After saying that, she decisively hung up the phone.
The two were silent in the elevator, and Lu Bai's hands were clenched tightly in his pockets.
Li Ziyu was much more casual. She asked, "What are you nervous about?"
Lu Bai denied it flatly, "Who? Me? How is that possible?"
The elevator stopped steadily.
The door was opened, Lu Bai pressed the switch at hand, and the room was illuminated by warm light.
Lu Bai looked at the clean and orderly arranged living room, and for a moment he wondered if he had walked into the wrong door.
She hesitated, "Have you... asked someone to clean it?"
Li Ziyu raised her index finger and rubbed her eyebrows. "I have already dealt with your garbage. I hope that when we rent together in the future, you won't push so much junk in the public areas."
Lu Bai explained, "I was investigating a case, so sometimes I slept in the police station and rarely came back."
Li Ziyu changed his shoes, glanced at Lu Bai, smiled and said nothing.
This look made Lu Bai feel a little uncomfortable.
She chased forward and grabbed Li Ziyu's wrist, "I'm not a casual person."
[If you act casually, you are not a human being? 】
"......"
Li Ziyu brushed off the hand on her wrist and said, "I know you don't come back often, otherwise I wouldn't have known that someone was living in your house."
She only left Lu Bai with her back, "I'm taking a shower."
In the bathroom, the sound of water dripping on the ground passed through the door and reached Lu Bai's ears accurately.
She sat on the sofa in the living room and for the first time felt how uncomfortable and irritating this sofa was.
After an unknown amount of time, the door opened and Li Ziyu's voice came from behind her.
"I'm fine. I'm going to sleep first."
Lu Bai straightened her back and nodded heavily, "Okay."
She took several deep breaths to calm her restless heart, then took her pajamas and went into the bathroom.
Warm steam filled every corner, and the unique fragrance of Li Ziyu also dominated the entire bathroom.
It was a cool woody scent, with some of the sweetness of the blueberry pops she smoked.
Lu Bai held the bathrobe tightly in his hands.
The hot water from the shower poured over her, and her mind was filled with Li Ziyu's figure, his every move, every frown and smile.
Just one day can leave a deeper memory than more than ten years of interaction with others.
She shook her head and said, "It must be because I haven't been around such a cool person before."
She secretly comforted herself and tried to convince herself.
At night, everything is quiet.
On the table in Li Ziyu's room was a page of bookmarks that she had clipped.
[When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how incredible it is, is the only truth.
——Arthur Conan Doyle
The morning light spread across the earth, dispelling the darkness.
"Ding-ling-ling~Ding-ling-ling~"
The urgent ringing of the cell phone woke up Lu Bai who was sleeping soundly.
She wiped her face and answered the phone reluctantly, "Hello."
Zhang Hai's anxious voice rang out on the other end of the phone, "Captain Lu, a body fragment was found in the middle of the building. I'll send you the location."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Bai took a deep breath and then got up from the bed.
"Good morning, Deer Squad."
Li Ziyu greeted her with a glass of milk.
Lu Bai walked into the bathroom in two steps and three steps at a time. "Why are you up so early?"
The two of them briefly greeted each other and then there was no further communication, each going about their own business.
After washing up, Lu Bai grabbed a piece of bread from the table, changed his shoes, and took Li Ziyu out.
There were many people in the apartment rushing to work early, and the elevator was packed with people, so Lu Bai and Li Ziyu had to be squeezed into a corner.
[Lu Bai eats like this? Why doesn't she have stomach problems? ]
Lu Bai lowered her head to look at Li Ziyu who was sticking close to her. She was also quite curious. How could Li Ziyu have such an icy beauty on her face every day but have such ulterior motives in her heart?
[Should I find something to say? Otherwise, it would be awkward to be in the same room with you every day, right?]
Well, a little bit.
[By the way, does she have abdominal muscles? I should have secretly taken a look before going to bed yesterday.]
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The mid-floor area was not far from the apartment, and they arrived at the crime scene in less than ten minutes.
metal building.
The cordon was set up in an alley, and on the brick wall was an English-style coffee shop.
Lu Bai crossed the cordon and put on gloves. "What's going on?"
Zhang Hai was reporting on the sidelines, "This coffee shop opens at 6 a.m., and the staff smelled a strange odor right after it opened. They didn't pay much attention to it at first and simply opened the window for ventilation, but after half an hour, the odor got stronger and stronger."
"We followed the smell and found a human hand inside a coffee roasting machine in their coffee roasting room. That's when we called the police."
Li Ziyu looked at the glass door on the left, inside was the coffee bean roaster that Zhang Hai had just mentioned.
She asked, "Why did it take you half an hour to find it? Did this place always smell like this?"
How could a normal person wait half an hour before looking for the source of the strange smell?
"That...police officer..."
A little girl who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old spoke timidly.
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