Chapter 44
Seeing Li Ke's sincere plea, the driver had no choice but to give in. He waved to Li Ke helplessly and unlocked the car door.
"Oh, go ahead, I'll wait for you here."
Li Ke breathed a sigh of relief, quickly thanked the driver, got out of the car immediately, and rushed upstairs.
As soon as Lu Yu arrived at the gate of the community, he saw a taxi parked in front of the gate. The model of the taxi was the same as the one in the photo sent by the property. Lu Yu's eyes turned cold. He walked to the taxi, bent down and knocked on the window.
The driver rolled down the window and without even raising his eyelids, he said,
"Wait a little longer before you leave. I have something else to do right now, so I'll be delayed for a while."
Lu Yu looked towards the back seat and didn't see Li Ke, but he caught a glimpse of the jewelry on the seat. The necklace among them was the gift he gave to Li Ke last time. His eyes couldn't help but gloomy.
The driver didn't hear a response, but he saw someone outside the window hadn't left. He raised his eyes and looked at him with some doubt. Seeing his eyes fall on the jewelry in the back seat, he spoke in an impatient tone.
"Those are the girl's things. If I don't sell them, she'll come back to take them back later."
Hearing this, Lu Yu took out his phone and asked,
"I paid for her car fare. Just give me the things."
The driver was puzzled and looked a little defensive. He looked at Lu Yu with an unfriendly look.
"Girls' stuff, what are you doing here?"
Lu Yu explained,
"I'm her boyfriend, and we're getting married soon. I paid for her car fare."
The driver then put away his guard, opened the back door, asked him to take the things away, and simply reported a number.
“20.”
After Lu Yu paid the money, he immediately turned around and went upstairs, running up to find Li Ke without stopping.
Li Ke took the spare key from the property management. The moment he opened the door, he felt uneasy, his throat tightened, his hands began to tremble, his heart was beating fast, and he felt panicky.
Li Ke quickly walked into the bedroom and searched the room thoroughly, but still couldn't find his phone. He muttered in panic,
"Where is it? Could it be that Yu has hidden it?"
Unfortunately, I turned the room upside down but couldn't find the phone.
But she accidentally found a photo in the bedside table. It was the photo taken on the day Li Ke and Lu Yu started living together. But Li Ke clearly remembered that when she was looking for the photo two days ago, Lu Yu said that the photo was lost.
But now, this photo appeared in the bedside table.
The only difference was that the photo was torn into two halves and then glued together again, and a cross was drawn on Lu Yu's face in the photo with a marker.
Thinking about what happened during this period, Li Ke felt a sense of unknown fear in his heart, and the guesses in his mind became clearer and clearer. Everything that happened in the past two days seemed to prove one thing - the current Lu Yu was not the real Lu Yu.
Li Ke reached out and picked up the photo, her eyes full of fear. Horrible thoughts were running through her mind, and she didn't notice the figure approaching from behind.
Until the person behind him reached out and pulled Li Ke into his arms.
Li Ke's whole body stiffened instantly, his thoughts stopped working at that moment, he stared at the photo with dull eyes, not daring to move, he only heard the cold voice of the person behind him, as if his whole body was emitting waves of coldness,
"Keke, you're not being nice. You'd better give me a reasonable explanation."
Li Ke had never seen Lu Yu like this before, and her voice became trembling. She tried to break free from Lu Yu's embrace, but found that Lu Yu tightened his arms and hugged her even tighter. Li Ke immediately gave up the idea and tried to please Lu Yu tremblingly.
"Ah...Ayu, why are you back? I just suddenly wanted to come back to get something, and I'll be back soon."
Lu Yu didn't seem to listen to her explanation at all. He leaned his head on Li Ke's shoulder and asked suspiciously in a bad tone,
"Oh? Really? Why don't you tell me before I leave? I can bring it back to you after get off work."
Li Ke's heart was in his throat, his whole body was tense, he didn't dare to relax at all, he forced a smile and spoke,
"I...I'm afraid of delaying your work."
Lu Yu didn't have the patience to continue fooling around with Li Ke and planned to pull him away.
“Wait…wait a minute!”
Li Ke called Lu Yu in time, his eyes met Lu Yu's dim gaze, and his heart began to beat fast. He explained,
"I'm going to get some change. I didn't pay the fare when I came here, and the driver is still waiting for me downstairs."
After saying that, before Lu Yu could answer, Li Ke ran to the living room, took out a black marker where Lu Yu couldn't see, pretended to take out money, and wrote something on the cupboard.
Lu Yu stood not far behind her and spoke in a cold tone,
"Alright? I've already paid for your taxi. Take whatever else you need now."
Li Ke paused, pretending to take out money, and continued to fiddle with the cupboard for a few times. In front of Lu Yu, he took the money in his hand, put it back, stood up, and faced Lu Yu with a forced smile on his face, and responded,
"There's nothing to take, let's go."
Seeing how obedient she was, Lu Yu's stern expression relaxed slightly. He stopped holding on to Li Ke, and the two of them left, talking and laughing, as if nothing had happened between them.
After returning, Li Ke behaved very calmly and never mentioned going out again, letting Lu Yu do as he pleased.
Until the evening, Lin Sheng waited in the live broadcast room early, but did not see Li Ke online. Looking at Li Ke's gray avatar, Lin Sheng frowned slightly, and a slight panic arose in his heart.
Good evening, Master. You are here very early today.
[Waiting for that beautiful lady from yesterday? ]
[Why hasn't the beautiful lady come yet? I've been waiting for so long that the flowers have wilted.]
Lin Sheng stared at the time displayed on the screen. It was now 9:30, a full hour later than yesterday, but Li Ke still did not come online. Lin Sheng had no choice but to secretly calculate his fortune, but the fortune showed that his life was not in danger.
Lin Sheng was very confident about her fortune. When Li Ke didn't come online for a long time, she felt a little confused. However, she still had to rely on the police for some things. She had to hold back her temper and called Xu Guannan again. Seeing that the other party answered the phone quickly, she asked directly,
"Did your police station really not receive any missing persons reports? I now suspect that the person I was on the phone with yesterday is also missing."
Seeing that she was still brooding over what happened during the day, Xu Guannan kindly reminded her,
"No report has been filed yet. The police can't mobilize officers to cooperate with you in investigating people just because of your words. Without evidence, I can't help you at the moment."
It was still the same official rhetoric. Lin Sheng felt speechless for a moment, but it was difficult to explain this matter to Xu Guannan. She really couldn't produce any evidence. She just felt a lump in her throat and retorted unhappily.
"If I had evidence, would I still need you to investigate? Do you police have to wait until someone dies and a murder occurs before you can come out and deliver justice? Is justice delayed still justice?"
After Lin Sheng finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly. He didn't want to hear Xu Guannan say anything more. He even complained outside the phone.
"Rules are dead, but people are alive. Can't we be flexible for once?"
Unfortunately, Lin Sheng could only watch things develop but could not take any action to stop it. Any behavior that disrupted the natural development of things would backfire on Lin Sheng, unless he did so with the help of others.
After Xu Guannan hung up the phone, his brows furrowed, as if he felt something was wrong. He turned around and assigned a task to Tang Ziyan, specifically instructing him to:
"Check the missing persons reports again. Also, check if there have been any firefighters or ambulances deployed recently. Report anything unusual to me."
Tang Ziyan frowned and asked hesitantly,
"Boss, the hospital has ambulances almost every day. The workload is really too large. You can't just give up because of Sister Lin's words..."
Xu Guannan did not give Tang Ziyan a chance to continue speaking and directly blocked his mouth.
"You still want to turn into a pig's head?"
As soon as the words fell, Tang Ziyan instantly calmed down, put away his teasing tone, and answered without hesitation,
"In no mood!"
"Then do as I say."
"Yes, command."
As expected, the next day, Xu Guannan received a call from Tang Ziyan.
"Boss, Sister Lin was right. Yesterday, the fire department received a call for help with a fire in the Sendai Residential Complex in the third block of East Road. However, upon arrival, they discovered it was just a prank by a resident. They said they didn't see the prankster, but the noise was quite loud."
Xu Guannan's face darkened, and a dark look flashed in his eyes. He began to regret that he should have believed Lin Sheng at that time.
"Can you tell me exactly when this happened?"
"It was around 2pm. The neighbors were alarmed and realized it was a prank. Everyone was very impressed by it and they probably remembered it correctly."
Xu Guannan was thinking about how to talk to Lin Sheng, and continued to remind Tang Ziyan verbally,
"There's no need to investigate the missing persons report. Leave it to me."
Tang Ziyan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had been staying up all night, and now his face was full of fatigue. Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind, and he immediately spoke to Xu Guannan.
"Boss, are you going to investigate this case with Sister Lin? And please apologize to Sister Lin for me. I'm not doubting her divination. I will absolutely obey Sister Lin from now on!"
"Okay, stop being so funny. Apologizing in person is more sincere. Tell her yourself that you can take half a day off to have a good rest."
After saying that, Xu Guannan hung up the phone and immediately drove to the villa in the suburbs. Seeing that the gate of the villa was closed, he had to ring the doorbell.
Lin Sheng was woken up by the doorbell early in the morning. He was very impatient and lay on the bed with a frown on his face. He pulled up the quilt and buried himself in the bed. He had no intention of getting up and muttered impatiently,
"Who is it, knocking on the door so early in the morning? Isn't it closed and cannot receive guests?"
I thought that if I didn't open the door, the other party would leave, but I didn't expect the doorbell to keep ringing. Lin Sheng was really annoyed and kept complaining.
"Forcing someone to wake up early is like killing someone slowly. Do you understand the rules?"
Wangcai was lying in his nest beside the bed. Seeing that Lin Sheng had no intention of paying any attention to him, he opened the door and walked out. He jumped onto the table in the study, stuck his head out of the window, and looked towards the door. When he saw Xu Guannan's figure, a look of understanding appeared on his face.
He calmly jumped off the desk, walked downstairs to the front door, transformed into his usual puppy appearance, jumped up, pressed the door-opening button, and opened the door.
As soon as he opened the door, Xu Guannan was about to say hello, but he didn't see Lin Sheng. He looked down and saw Wangcai sticking out his tongue, guarding the door, with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
Xu Guannan understood what was going on, and a smile appeared on his lips. He stepped forward, touched Wangcai's head as a sign of praise, and asked slowly,
"Where's your master?"
Upon hearing this, Wangcai wagged his tail, looked towards the second floor, and barked twice at that floor.
Xu Guannan finally reacted.
"You haven't woken up yet. It seems I came too early."
Wangcai wagged his tail at Xu Guannan and nodded at him to show his agreement.
Since he was here to investigate the case, Xu Guannan had no intention of leaving. Instead, he touched Wangcai's head and asked,
"You haven't eaten yet?"
Upon hearing this, the smile on Wangcai's face immediately disappeared, revealing a pitiful and aggrieved expression. He couldn't help but hum something, and his ears drooped down.
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