Chapter 5
In reality, all of this happened in an instant. The young man, deeply concerned about his work, stared at the man's receding figure after a brief moment of shock. He hysterically shouted downstairs, "Coach Luo! Please help me!"
"..." Luo Jingyao narrowed her eyes subconsciously and did not move.
"Coach Luo, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. A good person will give birth to eight sons!" As time passed, the young man became more and more panicked, and his speech began to be incoherent.
"That's not necessary." Luo Jingyao curled her lips speechlessly. In the end, she did not delay any further. In the blink of an eye, she rushed out at the fastest speed.
The man who was running away in front had already run out of the community. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the faint sound of hurried footsteps coming from behind him. He turned his head tentatively and saw a figure gradually approaching.
Without having time to take a closer look at who was catching up with him, the man felt a cold sweat on his back. He rushed to the main road desperately, dodging the oncoming vehicles, and used his hands and feet to climb over the railing in the middle of the road.
After figuring out the direction, he slipped into the grove in front of the square without hesitation.
While continuing to run forward, the man turned around, but he didn't expect that the figure was no longer behind him.
He looked back several times in disbelief to confirm, then hesitantly stopped and turned around to look carefully. There was indeed no one else on the forest path he had come from.
With a heavy sigh of relief, the man bent forward slightly, trying to calm his violently heaving chest.
"Damn, I'm so unlucky today..." He muttered a few curses and turned back.
However, after seeing the scene clearly, the man abruptly retracted his right leg that had just stepped forward, and took a small step back very cautiously.
Luo Jingyao had suddenly appeared in front of the man and was leaning against a tree trunk with her arms folded across her chest. Seeing that the man was silent and on guard, she spoke first in a friendly manner, "Are you looking for me?"
Run? Or not run?
The man's eyes rolled around, and the bursting sensation in his lungs between each breath made him frown. The fact that he was a single woman made him make a decision.
"Are you a police officer too?"
Perhaps because the escape just now had consumed too much physical energy, the man was a little breathless when he spoke, and his tone seemed a little strange.
Hearing this, Luo Jingyao shook her head honestly: "I'm not."
"If it's not you, then why are you chasing me?" The man's voice suddenly rose eight degrees.
"Because the police asked me to chase him." Luo Jingyao answered every question.
But her state was seen as somewhat teasing by the other party. The man was breathing heavily like an angry lion, and suddenly rushed up with his fists swung without any warning!
The air was still filled with angry howls: "Damn it, how dare you play tricks on me!!"
Bang!
The dull sound of flesh colliding with flesh echoed in the grove. Luo Jingyao not only did not dodge the sudden attack, but also raised her left arm to block the punch that was delivered with all her strength.
Feeling the dull pain in her forearm, she slowly curled her lips and unceremoniously gave a side kick.
The man's reaction was quite quick. He dodged the kick with a stagger, but then continued to pounce on her unwillingly.
The two exchanged a few moves, and suddenly the man wanted to use a dirty trick. He reached out and grabbed Luo Jingyao's backpack tightly, trying to drag her to the ground with brute force.
Luo Jingyao was not panicked. She shrank her shoulders and broke free from the shoulder strap of the bag. Then she grabbed the shoulder strap with one hand and stabbed the person opposite her with the other hand in a knife-like shape.
The man's eyelids twitched and he hurriedly loosened his grip on the backpack. He was still frightened by the stinging feeling of the other person's fingers just scratching his skin.
Unfortunately, before he could catch his breath, he felt a sharp pain in his left arm, and then his whole body flew out uncontrollably and fell straight into the grass beside the path.
ah! ! ! !
The miserable cry scared the nearby birds and made them fly away.
Luo Jingyao quickly took back the bag she had just thrown out, shook the considerable weight with a guilty conscience, and pursed her lips in embarrassment. She was so distracted that she forgot what was inside the bag...
When Lin Jiafan and his men hurriedly arrived, what they saw was a somewhat absurd scene.
Intermittent groans of pain came from the bushes, and they could only see two legs hanging outside the bushes. As for Luo Jingyao on the other side, she was holding the bag in her hand with an innocent look on her face, nodding and bowing to express her apologies to the people in the bushes.
"What's going on?" The yellow-haired young man walked past Lin Jiafan and quickly walked to the edge of the bushes to check it out. Then he laughed out loud: "Coach Luo, it's great!"
After he finished speaking, he kicked the man in the bushes at the calf: "Why don't you get up and keep running? You were running fast just now, why are you pretending to be dead and not moving now?"
"Um..." Luo Jingyao opened her mouth and tried to explain.
But before she could finish her words, Lin Jiafan, who was not far away, stepped forward and bent down to check on the man.
After two seconds of silence, his suspicious gaze fell on Luo Jingyao.
"He wanted to snatch my bag, and then I accidentally threw it at him... It just so happened that the things in my bag were a bit heavy, so..." Luo Jingyao was self-aware and responded happily although she stuttered.
Heavy?
Lin Jiafan finally focused his attention on the backpack she was holding in her arms. It looked to be more than two times larger than an ordinary lady's backpack, and it was bulging inside.
"Holy crap, is he seriously injured?" The yellow-haired young man first glanced at the bushes with a gloating look, then took two steps to the side, staring at the bag with great curiosity and asked, "Coach Luo, what's in it? It's so lethal? Can you show it to me?"
Luo Jingyao blinked and handed the bag over.
The young man didn't care at first and reached out to take it casually, but the weight of the bag was beyond his expectation, so he couldn't hold it in the end. It slipped from his palm and fell heavily on the stone road at his feet.
Without taking the time to retract his jaw which was dropped open in surprise, the yellow-haired young man hurriedly squatted down and unzipped his backpack, and then two oversized dumbbells with extra plates came into view.
Lin Jiafan naturally saw the contents of the bag as well. While his team members were still in shock, he raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked, "Does Coach Luo carry sports equipment with him on a daily basis?"
"Um..." Luo Jingyao lowered her head slightly. "I originally planned to use it for their lessons. Although your Public Security Bureau has a gym, I've seen the equipment there and it's not really suitable for a group of them. So I just brought a set from home."
"This set of dumbbells can be added with plates, stretched to become a barbell, used as a kettlebell, and can also be used as a push-up stand. It's very practical."
"Hiss..." The yellow-haired young man, with his butt sticking out and his head buried, finally saw the weight of the two dumbbells and couldn't help but swallow his saliva: "No, Coach Luo, you can still catch up with him while carrying a full 40 kilograms of stuff???"
This makes him look useless!
And when he thought that these things were originally intended to be used on them, the hairs on his body stood up, and he felt a sense of joy at surviving a disaster.
“…” Luo Jingyao scratched the back of her head awkwardly.
Fortunately, a few more people arrived at this time, and the scene suddenly became lively. After a long time, they finally sent the man who didn't even have the strength to groan to the ambulance and took him away.
Luo Jingyao followed the crowd out of the grove and watched the ambulance carrying the injured and the police roar away.
"It's all thanks to Coach Luo today, otherwise he would have gotten away!" The yellow-haired young man stood by the roadside and began to mutter: "Eh? But Coach Luo, why are you here?"
However, the young man did not wait for Luo Jingyao's answer. Instead, Lin Jiafan's voice rang out: "Pang Guang, go back and drive the car over."
puff.
Although it was not the first time she heard this name, Luo Jingyao still couldn't control the corners of her mouth from turning up, and her expression became distorted because of forbearance.
The yellow-haired young man, Pang Guangbuyi, flung his arms and complained, "Playing is fun, making noises is fun, but you can't joke about calling me by my full name in public! Boss, you're a dishonest person!"
Although he said this, his legs moved more actively than anyone else. He turned around and walked towards the zebra crossing not far away, preparing to go back to the crime scene to get the car.
When the noisy people around him were gone, Lin Jiafan turned his head to look at the people around him again and said in a gentle tone: "Where are you going later, Coach Luo? If you don't mind, I'll give you a ride?"
Luo Jingyao wanted to refuse, but after recalling the severed finger she saw when she opened the refrigerator door last night, she swallowed her refusal and said, "Thank you, Captain Lin."
"Coach Luo, you're welcome." Lin Jiafan turned his gaze away from her and said nothing more.
From Luo Jingyao's perspective, she could only see the other person's tall and straight figure, excellent side profile, and a corner of the lens that was slightly reflective in the sun.
Fortunately, this uncomfortable scene did not last long, and Pang Guang soon stopped the car in front of the two of them.
Luo Jingyao sat in the second row very sensibly, and Lin Jiafan sat firmly in the passenger seat as he did earlier. The only thing that surprised her was that there were only three of them in the car.
I guess the work at the crime scene hasn't been completed yet, but I'm not sure why the two people in the car left first.
After gathering her thoughts that had drifted away, Luo Jingyao realized belatedly that the atmosphere in the car was a little stagnant. The two people in front of her probably had not communicated because they were concerned about her. The only sound in the air was the barely perceptible rustling coming from the radio channel.
Scratching the hard canvas of her backpack with her fingers, Luo Jingyao wondered whether to break the deadlock.
But before she could make up her mind, a melodious phone ringtone rang in the car. Pang Guang, who was driving, raised his hand and pressed the Bluetooth headset hanging on his ear to answer the call.
"Hello, who is this?"
"Is this true?! The results are out so quickly?" The person who was polite in the previous second suddenly became excited in the next second. The words that were so excited that their voices changed in an instant were the best proof of this.
Through the rearview mirror, Luo Jingyao saw Pang Guang's long, flushed face.
The other end of the phone said something else, Pang Guang echoed a few words and hung up, then he moved his butt excitedly: "Boss, I have done a great deed today!"
"I'll give you a chance to guess what the good news is."
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