Chapter 137
Yu Leng half-knelt in front of the little boy, put his hand on his, and connected with the boy's mind again. Last time he just took a quick look, this time he tried to dig deeper into the other's memory.
However, the little boy was too young when he entered the base, and many of his memories were vague and chaotic, with fleeting fragments of light.
Yu Leng searched patiently, but he could not remember his parents' faces at all, nor where he lived before. In his memory, only a brief glimpse of an orphanage seemed clear, with a cross hanging on the top of the orphanage building.
Kouman had finished washing up and came out of the bathroom. His complexion looked a little better and he glanced at Yu Leng.
Yu Leng shook his head, indicating that he had gained nothing.
Coleman sat on the sofa, took a deep breath, and talked about what he encountered when he came back.
She held the little boy in her arms, and many low-probability events that rarely happen on normal days happened one after another along the way, such as tree branches hitting each other or objects falling from high altitudes.
If it weren't for her stubbornness, she might not have come back today.
The little boy couldn't stay for long, otherwise he would be in trouble, but no one knew where to send him.
As the organization that took him in, the base must know his background best. But now no one wants to contact them rashly.
“Maybe we can only start with that welfare home.”
Kou Man gave him the phone, and Yu Leng searched for all the welfare homes in the city on the map, and clicked on the street view icons one by one. But none of them looked the same as the one he saw in his memory.
Maybe the orphanage is out of town. It's really a headache.
The little boy heard them discussing his placement and huddled in a corner in fear.
Coleman, who had calmed down after taking a shower, looked relieved and added, "If it is within my ability, I will try to keep you longer."
The next morning, Coleman woke up early. If it weren't for the possibility that the school might be involved in a subsequent attack, she would have quit.
Kou Man looked at the two people who came out haggardly, took out one of his bank cards and handed it to them: "Go buy a mobile phone today, at least you won't be unable to contact me in the next few days. ... Remember to buy a cheaper one."
Yu Leng took the bank card and was very touched: "Thank you rich woman for supporting me."
Coleman ignored him and quickly left the house.
Yesterday she suddenly asked for leave verbally at school, and left without even handing in a note. She was not seen for the whole day, and today she was scolded by her boss as soon as she came in. But fortunately, considering that she might really have something going on at home, she was not fired.
Yu Leng went out with his bank card and quickly bought two mobile phones, which gave them a means of communication again. The two of them had nothing to do at home, so they started to go out and post missing person notices along the way.
The day passed quickly. After get off work, Coleman took a detour to the convenience store to buy some things and asked the owner if anyone had contacted him today.
Coleman was so polite and would buy things from the shop, so the boss was naturally very patient with her and welcomed her arrival: "I've been here all day, no."
Kou Man was a little worried. When he got home, the other three people had already posted the missing person notice and came back, and they had thoughtfully prepared dinner.
Hearing that Wei Xiaoyan was still missing, Yu Leng comforted her: "Maybe she didn't go out much these two days. She will come to find us in a few days."
But after three days, Coleman went back to the convenience store to buy things after get off work every day, and asked if anyone had called, but the boss said no.
During these three days, Lu Jiamu and Yu Leng had nothing to do, so they kept an eye on several types of energy storage devices and prepared several plans that they didn't know whether they were reliable or not. At the same time, they had distributed missing person notices throughout the city in their spare time.
Now, five days have passed since the last incident in the Internet cafe.
But until now, we still haven't found where Wei Xiaoyan is, which means we don't know where the incident happened. If that place is attacked first, Wei Xiaoyan, who is completely unaware of the situation, may face the threat of death.
But if that side wasn't attacked first, the ones who would be hurt would be the children in the school. Coleman didn't know where to look for a moment.
At a loss of what to do, Lu Jiamu said, "I actually wrote down a phone number."
Yu Leng had a very bad impression of the base. Every time Lu Jiamu mentioned this phone number, he would mock and sternly refuse.
But this time, he was silent for a while and then said, "Then write down the number."
Lu Jiamu wrote down Ban Yan's phone number on a piece of paper. Yu Leng quickly prepared a virtual number on his computer and asked uncertainly, "Call or text?"
"Send a text message."
Yu Leng felt nervous when he thought of the people in the base. He was at a loss for words and turned to look at Lu Jiamu: "How about you come?"
Lu Jiamu didn't have any psychological burden towards those people. He moved forward, holding the table with one hand and quickly typing a message with the other hand: Please pay more attention to the primary and secondary school department of No. 1 Middle School and Wei Xiaoyan in the near future.
After typing it out, I clicked send directly.
Yu Leng felt a little casual: "Why don't you say more?"
Lu Jiamu shook his head: "If you want to say anything else, just send it yourself."
After the message was sent, it fell into oblivion. I didn't see any response for a long time and I didn't know whether I sent it to the right person or not.
The two waited for a while and then put the computer aside.
After leaving school after work that day, Coleman went to the convenience store as usual to ask if anyone had called.
This time, as soon as she walked into the convenience store, before she could ask, the middle-aged boss cheerfully took the initiative to say, "Someone called today. They must be looking for you."
Coleman was overjoyed, but she soon noticed a man in black leaning against the shelf reading a magazine between the shelves of the convenience store.
He heard what they said. The man in black closed the magazine, stood up and looked over.
Coleman was not as weak as those two men. He was not afraid of a stranger and looked back at them frankly.
The man in black walked over expressionlessly, and stopped when he was almost close to Coleman. He said in a low voice: "I'm looking for you."
The distance was too close to be comfortable. Coleman took a small step back and asked, "Who are you?"
"Police." The man in black took out his ID and showed it. He looked down at the delicate lady in front of him for a moment, then took out two photos from a magazine and asked, "Have you seen these two people?"
When Kou Man saw the photos of Lu Jiamu and Yu Leng, he didn't want to make any noise and wanted to just say he had never seen them.
But the man in black continued to talk: "I heard that he is your brother."
Seeing that he was coming for him, Coleman admitted directly: "Yes. What happened to my brother?"
The man in black put the photo back into the magazine. "But we did a background check before, and it seems that they don't have any sisters."
Coleman: "The brother I recognized later."
The man in black nodded, stared at her, and said simply: "I need to see them for something. Are they at your house?"
Coleman looked at the man in front of him calmly.
He was wearing a black overalls, his trouser pockets and waist were bulging, as if he had put a lot of things in them, and he was holding a small box in his hand. He was a head taller than her, and every move he made was oppressive.
"Are you here alone?"
The man in black frowned slightly, seemed to disagree with the question, and did not answer.
Coleman asked again: "Then should I call them over now?"
"Don't call." The man in black had a threatening look in his eyes and said simply, "Go directly to your house."
Coleman felt that if he took out his cell phone at this time, the other party would snatch it away directly, so he smiled friendlyly.
It would be better to go directly to her house and then do it secretly when you get home. If you knock him out outside, it would be bad if his teammates hiding in the dark saw it.
Coleman nodded: "Okay...Okay."
The man in black watched her movements all the way, fearing that she had somehow informed the two men of her visit in advance.
When the two people arrived at the residential building one after the other, the man in black squinted his eyes to examine them, raised his chin slightly, and motioned for her to go in first.
Only after Coleman entered the corridor did he follow him in with big strides.
When they were in the elevator, the man in black also stood cautiously in the corner behind her.
In Kou Man's house, Lu Jiamu, who didn't like to exercise much because of his leg injury, was sitting on the sofa alone thinking about something. The little boy was curled up on a mat not far away watching TV.
After playing on the computer for a while in the morning, Yu Leng's shoulder, which was pierced by a bullet, hurt so much that he could only stand up and walk around aimlessly.
When he heard Coleman's return, he immediately went to the door.
But as the door was opened, Yu Leng saw a man in black work clothes following Kouman silently. He looked extremely familiar.
"Fog."
Yu Leng cursed softly and subconsciously wanted to control the other person's mind, but found that for some reason, he suddenly could not sense the other person's mind.
Yu Leng wanted to run away immediately, but then he remembered that Kou Man was still present, and he seemed to have regained his backbone and held back.
The man in black gave Yu Leng a cold look, as if he saw through his thoughts, and greeted him with a fake smile: "Long time no see. How is your injury?"
When Yu Leng first saw the man in black, he only thought of the base. But as soon as he opened his mouth, the gloomy voice instantly reminded him who the other person was.
Hearing the other party's provocation, he felt his shoulder hurt even more.
Lu Jiamu had heard the noise in the hallway. He stood up silently, moved to the window and looked out, then drew the curtains to block any possible peeping from outside.
Coleman watched his movements closely. Seeing that he didn't seem to be inclined to take out a weapon, he walked in and spoke in a low voice, very softly: "Come in, remember to close the door."
The man in black entered the room carrying a small box and gently pushed the door open with his backhand.
Coleman looked at him twice and saw that he had closed the door himself. No one outside could see what was going on in the room. He suddenly kicked the man in black in the chest.
The man in black had been on guard the whole time. When he saw that she was about to attack him, he reacted very quickly and threw the small box away. He crossed one arm across his chest and reached for his waist with the other hand.
With a "bang" sound, she felt like she had kicked a piece of steel.
Coleman just wanted to deprive him of his ability to fight back so that he could sit down and talk properly. He didn't want to cause any death, so he didn't use all his strength in this kick.
But even so, the kick was still quite heavy. The man in black was hit hard and fell backwards. Because there was a door behind him, he just hit the door.
But at the same time, he had successfully taken out the stun gun on his waist.
□□ can knock a man down in an instant, but Coleman can also break his neck in an instant.
Fortunately, the two people separated immediately after the conflict, and neither of them had the intention of continuing to fight to the death.
The man in black moved the arm that was kicked, making a slight clicking sound, and his eyes were filled with intense, almost fanatical interest: "You are so strong."
When he decided to meet them this time, he had naturally made enough mental preparations, knowing that he might fall into a group of psychics who could kill him at will.
To this end, he was fully armed before setting off, with the base's most advanced exoskeleton hidden under his clothes as a means of defense.
But Coleman's kick just now made the man in black seem to hear the sound of funds flowing away.
However, if he didn't have this exoskeleton, it might have been his arm that was broken.
The man in black didn't know whether he should feel satisfied or fortunate.
Coleman looked at him without much warmth in his eyes and did not respond.
The man in black added: "I have no ill intentions. I come with good intentions."
But he brought a very oppressive feeling from the very beginning when he appeared, and it was hard to see much goodwill in him.
The man in black put down the weapon without waiting for reminder, to show that he still had the ability to fight back, and that he did not want to fight with them completely voluntarily and not under duress.
Seeing that he had let down his guard a little, Coleman didn't intend to fight him to the end, so he just stepped aside and made way.
The man in black picked up the small suitcase again.
Although he was almost beaten and had his bones broken just now, he quickly adjusted himself, suppressed the emotions in his eyes, and became cold and steady again.
He walked into the living room as if he was returning to his own home, without any sense of incongruity, and sat down opposite Lu Jiamu without being invited.
The man in black was still very impressed by his strange and abnormal ability, but because they still maintained a friendly relationship, the man in black resisted the urge to capture him.
The man in black glanced at his legs, nodded to him, and greeted him: "I'm glad to see that you're not dead. Can you still speak now?"
"Thanks."
The mute effect is really only temporary.
"I'm here this time to remind you that the base has been watching you all the time."
The man in black seemed to have no awareness that he was in the home of the three people. He said shamelessly and confidently: "I will let you go this time. Of course, there is no reason for me to come back to settle accounts with you and take you back. You two should understand this sincerity."
Not everyone can understand this provocation.
Yu Leng also strolled over, pointed his finger at the black-clothed man's neck and asked, "What are you doing here? And what's that behind your neck?"
The man in black dodged for a moment and lifted his collar.
Coleman also noticed that there was a glowing electronic device behind the black-clad man's neck, which was now half covered by his collar.
In fact, she could have pulled the thing off and taken a closer look, but in order to leave some dignity for the other party and promote an atmosphere of mutual respect, she did not do so.
"I prepared this especially for you." The man in black raised his hand and placed the suitcase on the small table in front of him. He looked around and asked, "Are there only the three of you and that little brat here?"
"Um."
The man in black asked in a businesslike tone, "Does anyone among you have the ability to prophesy?"
None of the three spoke.
"Then why should we pay attention to the primary and secondary school? Is there something special about it? Or is it just because one of your people works in that school?"
It turned out that I had received a text message and was about to come over and talk to them.
Lu Jiamu replied: "Nothing, I just think it's special."
The man in black felt like he was just short of saying something like "The last time I heard something this nice was last time", which was completely meaningless.
The man in black changed the question: "Then what kind of investigation do you mean when we ask you to investigate Wei Xiaoyan? Is there anything special about her?"
“We’re looking for this guy.”
"I saw the strange code you sent. It must have taken a long time. This person seems really hard to find." The man in black crossed his arms. "Then did you know that there can be many people with the same name in a city?"
Lu Jiamu glanced at Yu Leng, who immediately understood. He spread the map they had bought on the table and drew a circle with his finger: "We guess she is roughly in this range."
The man in black didn't even bother looking at the map. He said directly, "Even if we narrow the scope, there are still likely to be hundreds of people with the same name in such a prosperous city. I wonder which one you want to investigate?"
The man in black looked at them and asked tentatively: "Or do you actually not know it yourself?"
Lu Jiamu felt that he must be very tired after coming here fully armed and saying so much nonsense to test them.
If he had not found something suspicious and worth his trip, he probably would not be sitting here now.
"The person we're looking for is about seventeen years old, female. Now if you have anything to say, you can just say it."
But it was obvious that the man in black just wanted to whet their appetite and did not take the initiative to open the briefcase: "What is the scale of your organization? Are there many people like you?"
Yu Leng was a little helpless: "Didn't I make it clear to you last time? We don't have an organization at all. We just gathered here spontaneously."
Lu Jiamu replied: "If there are still many people like us, the text message I send to you will definitely be very long."
He added with a fake smile: "Yes, there are actually a lot of us."
Compared to endless promises, his clumsy and unburdened rhetoric is more likely to put people at ease.
The man in black stopped dwelling on this question and looked at the little boy curled up in the corner: "Are you ready to send him back?"
Although the child was indeed troublesome and people wanted to send him away quickly, their promise to him had not yet been fulfilled.
Kou Man did not remember to express his opinion, and said in Tai Chi: "There is no hurry yet. Can I ask where he lived before?"
"You are really a group of kind people." The man in black clapped his hands a few times. It was hard to tell whether his words were a compliment or a sarcasm. "He has been in the base since he was very young. As for what happened before that, it is not something he should know."
Having said that, the man in black was finally willing to open his suitcase.
He took out a file bag from his suitcase and handed it to Lu Jiamu: "By investigating the name you wanted according to your request, we found a special case that happened several years ago. If one of the parties is still alive, he should be seventeen years old."
Lu Jiamu opened the file bag and read the file at a glance. After a while, he finished reading it and handed it to the other two people.
Kouman and Yu Leng were well aware of his reading speed, so they waited until he finished scanning before gathering together to read slowly.
The file records two disappearances from five years ago. One of the missing persons was a 12-year-old girl named Wei Xiaoyan who lived next to the dam and had just started junior high school. One day, she suddenly stopped coming to school for no apparent reason, and the emergency contact information could not be reached.
Another missing person is her class teacher and mathematics teacher. After discovering that his student had suddenly lost contact, he decided to visit her home in person.
Since that day, no one has seen him again.
The school immediately called the police after discovering that the teacher was also missing, but there were not many surveillance cameras installed near the student's home, and the police searched the area for a long time but found no clues. The investigation was at a standstill.
Other teachers in the school once believed that the math teacher had been murdered, but since no one found him alive or dead, it was ultimately defined as a serial disappearance.
This incident caused a sensation at the time, and many people privately speculated that with such a convenient environment, the murder must have been committed and the body dumped into the dam.
Some people have hired professionals to salvage the body, but after many attempts, nothing has been found.
Overall, this incident was too ordinary. Just two people were missing, and there were no subsequent abnormal developments. It did not catch the attention of the base.
Moreover, as five years passed, this incident, which was originally a vague matter, was gradually forgotten. Now, perhaps only the family members of the missing persons can still remember it clearly.
What's more, in that incident, the public was actually more concerned about the teacher who later disappeared.
If they hadn't suddenly sent a text message with this name, the base would never have remembered that there was such a group of people back then.
The man in black asked, "So do you think this classmate Wei Xiaoyan is dead or alive now?"
There is nothing to hide about this matter.
But since she didn't like him very much, Yu Leng still retorted: "Don't ask others about things you already have the answer to."
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