Chapter 109: Forbidden Love 30
Xu Xinghe's gentleness made Su Qingyun very confused. She stared at his face through the respirator.
"Cousin, why are you so nice to me?"
If he is a good person, he should treat everyone equally. Yang Bingyan has always played the role of a good girl in front of him. Why did he ignore her request and run into the dessert shop to complete the task with her?
Xu Xinghe's answer was impeccable. He said, "Because we are friends."
He added, "But you don't seem to trust me very much."
Su Qingyun admitted it, but she changed her words. She said, "I don't know you very well, Mr. Xu. No, strictly speaking, I know nothing about you."
"We've experienced the secrets of Linhu Village together, how could we be so clueless?"
"But you have Yu Liang. You can't get the Shadowless Man just by product development."
"Yes, you're right. The Shadowless Man can only be found in dungeons. I met him by chance. Were we entangled with the eldest daughter of the Zhu family in a room in Linhu Village? When I left, the scene collapsed, and I was forced into a dream-like place. There I met him. He said that as long as I gave him a name, he would work for me, so I took him into my space."
Xu Xinghe suddenly held Su Qingyun's face again and said, "So, you ignored me because of him?"
Su Qingyun did keep her distance from Xu Xinghe because of Wuyingren, but it felt a bit strange that Xu Xinghe asked this.
Su Qingyun couldn't tell what was strange.
She decided to take this opportunity to ask one more question.
She said, "What did Yang Bingyan say to you just now?"
"She asked me to accompany her to search the barbecue restaurant across the street."
"You refused?"
Xu Xinghe nodded. "She said you went into the sweet shop. After I got here, Yu Liang told me about several relatively dangerous shops in Hunze, and the sweet shop was one of them. I was worried about you."
This also sounds strange.
"Xu Xinghe, why do you think the Forbidden Love dungeon has this format? Six out of seven people can survive, and no one has a B-rank clearance. This means one of us is bound to die here. If you don't want others to score higher than you, you can only give disgust points. But the rankings aren't announced in real time, and giving too much will backfire. Is this a test of human nature?"
Su Qingyun asked very seriously. She wanted to hear what Xu Xinghe would say so that she could figure out what was so strange about this thing.
Xu Xinghe didn't say anything, he just patted Su Qingyun on the head and told her not to worry.
"I won't let you be the last one."
He also held her hand and said solemnly, "Believe me."
The corners of Su Qingyun's mouth twitched twice. Fortunately, she was wearing a respirator, otherwise Xu Xinghe might have seen the corners of her mouth twitching because of embarrassment.
After Xu Xinghe put on the respirator, Su Qingyun followed him into the fire scene.
Inside the store, it was like a battlefield at the end of the world, with thick smoke spreading from all directions. The items were burned and lost their original shapes. They lay crookedly in their original positions, with charred black being their only color.
The air was also filled with a pungent burnt smell.
Su Qingyun looked around and said to Xu Xinghe, "Should we find Grandma Lu's granddaughter first, and then investigate the cause of the fire?"
"But there doesn't seem to be anyone burnt in this store." Xu Xinghe was also looking around the store.
This dessert shop is not very big, with the front hall and the rest area at the back being about 30 square meters. Now a big fire has burned everything that can be burned in the front hall of the store, leaving only some non-flammable steel supports and the iron parts of tables, chairs and benches.
The things in the rest area at the back were not completely burned, but no human-like objects were seen.
Xu Xinghe didn't believe that a fire could burn a person to ashes.
Even if it is burned to ashes, the human form will remain.
"So, we were not necessarily sent here to investigate the cause of the fire. There may be other things that we don't know about." Xu Xinghe took out two pairs of gloves from the space.
They were the same rubber gloves that surgeons wore when Su Qingyun first met him.
He gave Su Qingyun a pair and then walked straight to the back.
Su Qingyun hurried to follow.
Recalling the way Grandma Lu came out after lifting the curtain, Su Qingyun guessed that the rest area that was not completely burned should be where Grandma Lu and her granddaughter slept.
The furnishings inside are simple, with a folding bed, a desk, a chair and a wardrobe.
Half of the bedding on the folding bed had been burned, and the remaining half was still emitting thick smoke. Su Qingyun went up without saying a word and stepped on the smoking area twice.
The smoke had died down, but the folding bed was still shaking.
Su Qingyun quickly jumped off the bed, but the bed eventually fell apart and broke in the middle.
At this time, Su Qingyun saw a square iron box at the broken place.
This square iron box should be placed under the bed.
Su Qingyun pulled the bed open and picked up the square iron box from the ground.
The iron box is quite heavy, and when you shake it, you can hear a tinkling sound from inside.
"Xu Xinghe," Su Qingyun called over to Xu Xinghe who was searching the closet, "there's an iron box."
Xu Xinghe quickly took it and checked it. The iron box was an old-fashioned biscuit box, square in shape with a round lid on one side.
Xu Xinghe took out a Swiss Army knife and pried open the lid of the iron box. The two of them stretched their necks to look inside at the same time.
It's filled with stones.
"Collected by children?" Su Qingyun guessed.
Xu Xinghe took out a stone and studied it carefully. The stone was dark gold in color, and it shone beautifully when turned over.
It is indeed a stone that children like to collect.
But Xu Xinghe said that this is a kind of pyrite, which is not common in daily life.
"It can only be found where there are mineral veins."
Generally, mineral veins are found in deep mountains and forests. An old man with a little girl living in a tourist attraction in the city should not go to the deep mountains and forests.
"Could this be a gift from someone to the old woman's granddaughter?"
Xu Xinghe nodded in agreement with Su Qingyun's statement. He put down the iron box, squatted down and continued searching under the bed.
Finally, a medical examination report was found under the unburned bedding.
It is a physical examination report of a person named Lu Xiaohe.
"Lü Xiaohe?" Xu Xinghe said the name, a puzzled expression on his face. He said, "How could a granddaughter have the same last name as her grandmother?"
Unless Grandma Lu’s husband also has the surname Lu.
"How old is Lu Xiaohe?" Su Qingyun asked.
"The age listed on the report is ten."
Su Qingyun took the report and examined it carefully. Ten-year-old Lu Xiaohe was in very good health.
Why would a perfectly healthy ten-year-old girl go for a physical examination?
Su Qingyun thought about the secret of Linhu Village, and she had another bold guess...
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