Chapter 39: Fright on a Rainy Night My sister is still young, but she is already independent...
"Drip, drip..."
A few dozen kilometers after they left Shanghai, dense raindrops suddenly fell from the sky. Although the road ahead was still covered by smog, the concentration of smog had decreased.
Li Ming stared at the scene outside the window and said without hesitation: "Jiang Huai, why don't I drive from now on? You can also take a break."
"I think I can do it." Jiang Huai, who recently performed on the set of 'Fast and Furious', said calmly.
The wipers swayed from side to side.
Li Ming looked at the clean glass window, quietly took out a map and said, "The map we got only covers the cities adjacent to Shencheng. If we want to move forward, it's best to look for a map in a nearby city."
The rapid development of electronic information has led to almost everyone relying heavily on electronic maps for navigation. Physical maps are not easy to find, but fortunately: every city's library always has a backup.
"Yeah." Jiang Huai responded softly, and then he asked, "Can I let you drive tomorrow?"
"If you think it's okay, then it's okay."
Li Ming said as he lowered his head to think about the route. This road to find his relatives was more lonely than he had imagined. The empty streets, the dead silent houses, the biting cold wind... all these made Li Ming feel empty inside.
It was hard for him to imagine what it would be like for a person to walk on this road.
Should he talk to the giant whale?
A giant whale with telepathic powers. Li Ming felt that no matter what he said, he would be willing to listen.
Ah...he really knows how to commit suicide...
"Why do you want to go to the South?"
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the sound of rain inside the vehicle was getting louder and louder. In this particularly hollow and mechanical silence, Li Ming suddenly asked.
This is a question he has asked himself before, and it is the most appropriate topic to talk about while driving.
Li Ming was extremely curious about this.
Although the forum has given him the answer, he still wants to get Jianghuai's answer.
Jiang Huai fell silent after hearing this.
He said dully, "I can't explain it, I just feel that I should do this."
"Then take a guess, or give a vague answer." Li Ming said eagerly. He was really curious about the answer to this question.
"I don't have anywhere to go." Jiang Huai said in a dull tone, "When you said you wanted to go home, find your girlfriend, and find your sister, I found that I was the only one who didn't have to go anywhere."
"Hmm?" Li Ming tilted his head in confusion, "You have a bad relationship with your family and don't want to go home?"
“They were very nice to me.”
Jiang Huai replied: "But there will still be a gap between us."
Can't understand.
Li Ming smiled awkwardly but politely. He thought for a moment and then organized his words: "Do you mean that you are not familiar with your family?"
"Uh..." Jiang Huai fell silent.
It seems not to be the case, right?
Li Ming raised his eyebrows: the interpersonal relationships in Jiang Huai's family seemed to be more complicated than he had imagined. Why didn't any readers spoil the story for him this time?
“We are all very nice to each other and we are all familiar with each other.”
Jiang Huai's tone was peaceful and calm, but the content of his words was unusual: "But they all had a bad life."
How on earth could this happen?
Li Ming blinked.
Just when he subconsciously wanted to ask the reason, Jiang Huai suddenly asked: "Li Ming, can you tell me what's going on with your sister? I rarely heard you talk about it before."
"This will also make it easier for me to help find someone."
"My sister?"
When the topic of Li Yixi was brought up, Li Ming was instantly stunned: "She is a freshman this year, 19 years old, and just participated in the Mathematical Olympiad not long ago. She is from Lingcheng University, majoring in drama, film and television literature, and is in Class 1. Her student number is 14. She is 167 cm tall, and her weight is not disclosed. Her blood type is AB, and she has a ponytail. Her favorite animal is a rabbit, her favorite entertainment activity is watching old movies, and her favorite snack is milk tea."
Jiang Huai was caught off guard: "..."
"It was very beautiful in the end, and you can tell it apart from the crowd at a glance."
Jiang Huai could only smile bitterly: "Can you show me a photo?"
"OK!"
Li Ming took out his turned-off phone from the drawer and restarted it, saying sadly, "But I only took secret photos. My sister doesn't like taking photos."
"Look, this was taken secretly a few months ago when we went hiking during winter break."
Li Ming handed the phone to Jiang Huai.
In the photo, a girl wearing a new Chinese retro dress is resting with her eyes closed on her brother's shoulder. The warm winter sun penetrates the shade of the evergreen trees, casting soft light and shadows on the sleeping girl.
She has a beautiful and gentle appearance and a temperament as peaceful as water.
“…”
Jiang Huai fell silent for a moment: She seems to be really beautiful.
He originally thought that it was because of Li Ming's natural "sister control" filter, but when Jiang Huai looked up at Li Ming's appearance, he suddenly had the answer in his heart:
Both the brother and sister are the type that are pleasing to the eye.
It won’t make you feel amazing at first sight, but it will become more and more beautiful the more you look at it in daily life.
"Why are you suddenly observing me?" Li Ming blinked.
So Jiang Huai quickly retracted his gaze, continued to look directly at the road ahead, and pretended to be calm and said, "Nothing, I just think you and your sister look quite similar."
"Does it look alike?" Li Ming tilted his head in confusion. "This is the first time I've heard someone say that."
"Hasn't anyone said that before?"
"Maybe I did, but I don't have any recollection of it." Li Ming answered hesitantly, "Because I don't have any recollection of my childhood."
But it's not just him.
Li Ming turned his head to look at the increasingly violent rain outside the car window, and thought absentmindedly: because his sister also had no memory of what happened in her childhood.
But Li Ming still remembers the night he was abandoned.
The young boy, holding the young Li Yixi, sat alone in the empty and silent train. The moonlight was bright that night, and passengers were coming and going in a hurry. The two children held each other's hands and did not make any noise.
It was not until a long time after the flight attendant squatted down and asked them about their identities that Li Ming could not remember where he came from.
"But it doesn't matter."
Li Ming said disapprovingly: "As long as Li Yixi is still by my side, it's fine. The most important thing for me now is to find Li Yixi back."
Everything else could be postponed, everything else could be put off. Only his sister—
is the top priority.
"That's great." Jiang Huai said sadly after hearing this.
The fog gradually dissipated, and the rainstorm became a new bridge connecting the sky and the earth. The dense, monotonous sound of rain echoed in the narrow carriage, making people wonder whether there would be floods in the future.
However, in this dull and depressing atmosphere——
Li Ming heard Jiang Huai say softly, as if with regret: "If my sister were still here, our whole family would also rush to where she is at this moment."
*
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Three gunshots rang out.
One shot shattered the glass window, one shot extinguished the lights, and one shot she was sure hit something, but that thing only froze for a moment before quickly fleeing from the spot.
It is certain that the other party is not human.
Cui Wanwan calmly reloaded her pistol. She was wearing a cool camouflage uniform and a ponytail, and her expression hadn't changed since a moment ago.
She walked lightly and slowly towards the depths of the office building.
Cui Wanwan clearly felt that she was being watched. She knew that if she chose to go back here, it would put her sister in the car in danger.
She had to solve the disaster here.
The heavy rain was hitting the glass fiercely.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the trees were blown all over the place, and from time to time one could hear the sounds of branches and potted plants moving.
Cui Wanwan looked out the window calmly.
It was pitch black outside the window, with only scattered lights.
But the most regrettable thing is that this was once the most prosperous area in Spring City. The tall buildings were brightly lit all night long, and the roads were crowded with cars and people. It was very lively.
But now everything has changed and the people have changed, leaving only a mess on the ground.
"elder sister?"
A childish voice called out from not far away.
Cui Wanwan turned her head to look in the direction of the voice, only to see her sister standing at the end of the corridor, the only bright spot, calling out calmly, "Sister."
"Yinyin."
Cui Wanwan walked quickly towards her sister. She squatted down as usual, reached out to cover her sister's red, frozen hands, and said with a worried look: "You shouldn't have come out. It's dangerous outside."
"I know, but I saw you were hurt."
Cui Yinyin said expressionlessly with a pair of unfocused gray eyes.
Under the light, one can clearly see that the color of her pupils is more like grayish-white glass beads, but also like crystal balls frozen by frost.
A pair of inhuman eyes.
"It's not worth getting off the bus." Cui Wanwan shook her head in disapproval, but after saying this, she stood up again and did not make any further criticism of her sister's unauthorized behavior.
Cui Wanwan took her sister's hand and continued walking forward.
Her sister is still young, but old enough to take responsibility.
"Sister, what are you looking for?" Cui Yinyin suddenly asked.
Cui Wanwan's footsteps suddenly paused, but soon returned to normal. She sighed and replied, "Look for the disaster that tried to attack us on the road just now. If we don't get rid of it, we might be ambushed by it again on the rest of the journey."
“He is in this building?”
“He is in this building.”
The tiles flying in the storm suddenly shattered the French window in front of the two. The wind and rain in the city cut across the sisters' faces like a blade, but they just stood there.
Two different degrees of facial paralysis.
"Your visitor has bad intentions, sister." Cui Yinyin murmured with regret.
Cui Wanwan looked down at the clock on her wrist. The time was already beyond the deadline she and her sister had agreed on.
Yinyin should be angry.
They had changed their destination twice along the way. Although Cui Wanwan still didn't know why they were going to these destinations, Yinyin's work was worthwhile after all.
"So can you help me?" Cui Wanwan said softly to her sister beside her, "If we don't end this, we will be trapped here and die."
"Sister?" Cui Yinyin was suddenly stunned.
"I don't know how long Yinyin wants to go south. But if I don't go back to the capital, I will be punished." Cui Wanwan murmured sadly.
The sound of metal colliding suddenly rang out.
Cui Yinyin noticed that there was a silver item hanging around her sister's neck.
Why hadn't she noticed it before?
Cui Yinyin tilted her head in surprise, but still pretended to be innocent and asked, "Sister, why are you talking about this?"
"I'm saying—"
Before she finished speaking, Cui Wanwan suddenly firmly grasped her sister's frail body and said in a cold voice: "My sister is still young, but she is already independent."
Even the dark shadow that attacked us was discovered by her first.
The sharp, slender silver needle suddenly pierced Cui Yinyin's Adam's apple. The highly toxic mercury penetrated her body, and dark, sticky liquid gushed out of her body.
Cui Wanwan watched coldly as the person in front of her turned into a pool of black mud.
The black mud crawled on the ground and trembled a few times, and then there was no more movement. But Cui Wanwan was still waiting -
She was waiting for the silver needle that pierced the monster's Adam's apple and the mercury that penetrated its blood to re-merge and then condense into a tiny metal ball at her fingertips.
Finally, Cui Wanwan hung the metal ball back on her chest.
The same treatment as the metal balls also included several silver nameplates.
Each nameplate is engraved with the name, number and unit. It is an identification certificate issued by the army to soldiers, and also a death certificate for identifying the soldier after his death.
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