Chapter 138 Predicting His Injury
According to information from the police officers who were keeping a close eye on A Quan, A Quan lived on the first floor of this self-built house.
During their surveillance, the police officers also discovered that there were often several large semi-trailer trucks parked near the self-built houses.
Tonight, three semi-trailer trucks have been requisitioned by the police as observation points. In addition, the police have also requisitioned another private residential land 300 meters away from the self-built house as a temporary command center.
This time, the two teams jointly operated and dispatched hundreds of police officers.
Xia Lili started her special task in the afternoon - to look each police officer in the eye for one minute.
First, he stared at the colleagues who were supporting the agricultural machinery factory warehouse at the police station, and now he stared at the police officers who were ambushing near the self-built house.
Even with time to rest my eyes, the whole process took nearly two and a half hours.
Xia Lili rubbed her sore and hot eyes, and her fingertips could feel the muscles around her eyes spasming slightly.
Concentrating for so long made her vision a little blurry, and she felt ripples shaking in front of her eyes.
Just then, a bony hand came into her sight.
Lying quietly in the palm of that hand was a bottle of eye drops in dark blue packaging with German letters printed on it.
Xia Lili recognized it at a glance. This was the professional-grade eye drops recommended by ophthalmologist Zhou Linjing, which was difficult to buy in China.
Her own bottle had run out just last week and she hadn't had time to restock it.
"Thank you." Xia Lili thought it was some enthusiastic colleague. After all, criminal police officers were constantly surveillance and checking files, so overusing their eyes was commonplace.
She took the eye drops, unscrewed the cap skillfully, tilted her head back and put two drops in.
The cold medicine soaked into her dry eyeballs, stimulating her so much that she let out a soft hiss.
It was not until she closed her eyes and enjoyed the coolness that she heard the low response: "You're welcome."
Xia Lili's whole body stiffened and her eyelashes trembled violently.
It was Li Qihan's voice.
"After applying eye drops, close your eyes and rest for five minutes."
The man's voice was still businesslike, but it was much closer than usual, so close that she could feel the cold aura coming from him.
Li Qihan must have just rushed over from the scene of another missing persons case.
Xia Lili closed her eyes tightly, feeling suspicious. Li Qiuhan actually carried eye drops with him?
This man who stared at the screen in the monitoring room all night without bloodshot eyes doesn't look like someone who would prepare such care products.
She had just overexerted herself and was letting her mind wander when she suddenly realized a serious problem: she hadn't even met Li Qihan's eyes.
The sound of shoes and boots hitting the ground came to my ears, Li Qihan was about to leave.
Xia Lili, with her eyes closed, suddenly stretched out her hands and scratched in the air, grabbing the fabric on Li Qihan's back.
The fabric of the police uniform was rough and cold, but she could clearly feel the tense muscles beneath it.
"Wait!" Xia Lili's voice trembled slightly with anxiety, "I haven't checked you yet."
Li Qihan stopped walking.
Xia Lili could feel his gaze on her face. Even with her eyes closed, the feeling of oppression gave her goose bumps.
"Every colleague must be checked," Xia Lili added seriously, "no one should be left out."
An almost inaudible chuckle came from my ear.
Li Qihan's voice carried his unique chill: "Are you a humanoid scanner?"
Having said that, Xia Lili heard the sound of him adjusting his position.
Then there was the sound of a walkie-talkie button. Li Qihan stood beside her and began to whisper to other police officers about the details of the operation.
His voice was very close, so close that Xia Lili could hear his steady breathing.
After a while, Li Qihan lowered his eyes to glance at his watch, his deep voice particularly clear in the night: "Five minutes have passed."
Xia Lili slowly opened her eyes, her vision went from blurry to clear, and she met the man's condescending gaze.
Li Qihan was tall and had long legs. He was 188cm tall and stood in front of her like a wall.
Her neck was sore from stretching her head, so she simply ordered her "subordinate" rudely: "Squat down a little."
Li Qihan raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just leaned over silently and bowed slightly towards her.
The distance suddenly shortened, and Xia Lili could even see his thick and straight eyelashes, casting a small shadow under his eyes, making his black eyes look even deeper.
She opened her eyes wide and looked straight into his.
Li Qihan's skin color was a cool white, like cold jade that had not seen the light for years, revealing a sharp handsomeness.
Xia Lili stared at him without blinking, as seriously as if she was performing some kind of precise scan.
Li Qihan felt uncomfortable being stared at by her. He could stare at a criminal for hours without changing his expression while investigating a case, but he had never been stared at like this before.
Xia Lili's pupils were abnormally clear, as if someone had mixed half a spoonful of moonlight into them.
His Adam's apple moved slightly, his expression remained stern, but his earlobes uncontrollably turned a thin layer of red, faintly visible in the dim light.
"Are you okay?" His voice was slightly hoarse, and his tone was a beat faster than usual.
Xia Lili blinked and pretended to be calm: "One minute, very quickly..."
But in reality, these short sixty seconds seemed so long that they seemed stretched into countless frames.
She could see her own reflection in his pupils, detect the subtle changes in his breathing rhythm, and even feel his nervousness.
Finally, Xia Lili averted her gaze first, lowered her head and cleared her throat: "...Okay."
However, the moment she looked away, a layer of blurry mist suddenly covered her eyes.
Xia Lili's blood seemed to freeze—
She would rather it was just blurred vision caused by overuse, but the images exploding in her mind cut into her consciousness like a sharp knife.
Under the moonlight, outside the dilapidated concrete house, there is a dusty abandoned construction site.
A masked, sturdy, short man was chasing A Quan frantically, attempting to take hostages.
Li Qihan made a swift move and knocked the man down in an instant - but the next second, the masked man's accomplice pounced on him from the darkness!
Other police officers quickly provided support and removed the masks from the masked man and his accomplices.
Li Qihan held down the struggling desperado with all his might, but stumbled the moment he stood up.
A glaring scarlet spread across his chest, rapidly spreading across his police uniform like a hideous flower.
Then Li Qihan suddenly fell to the ground.
The hallucination scene finally froze under the pale light of the ICU, with an oxygen mask covering Li Qihan's bloodless face.
"...Xia Lili?"
Xia Lili's vision suddenly became clear, and Li Qihan's frowning face was close at hand.
Only then did Xia Lili realize that her nails had already dug deeply into Li Qihan's palm, leaving crescent-shaped blood marks on his cold white skin.
"What did you see?" His voice was deep.
There were chaotic footsteps all around, and other police officers were gathering around.
Xia Lili let go of her hands and found that her palms were covered in cold sweat.
Leng Xiaohe noticed that Xia Lili looked a little strange and patted her tense back gently: "Lili, did you see something?"
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