Chapter 76 (Minor Repair)

The moment he heard the sound of the door, Gongye Shengliang instinctively wanted to escape.

Morobushi Kagemitsu showed up too soon, and he didn't have time to sort out what happened last night with the system. What if, as the system said, he did something terrible to Zero in his sleep (although Kouno Seira firmly believed that he didn't), wouldn't it be very embarrassing to meet Kagemitsu now? !

Seeing that the door was about to be pushed open, the luxurious hotel room was too spacious at this moment. Even if Gongye Shengliang immediately ran out of the bed and jumped out of the floor-to-ceiling window to relieve his worries, he would not have enough time.

He thought quickly, rolled up the quilt and quickly lay back on the bed. Before closing his eyes, he did not forget to smooth out the wrinkles on the other side of the sheet, pretending that he was still asleep.

The text message on the phone screen on the carpet lit up for a few seconds, then no one paid any attention to it and it went silent.

The knock on the door was just a notification, not a polite inquiry. Morofuku Jingguang outside the door had another room card, so there was no need for the person inside the room to come over to open the door.

The door was pushed open and then gently closed, and the footsteps of the person coming were almost inaudible.

Kono Seiryoshi closed his eyelids tightly, and the image of Morofuku Keimitsu in his mind moved to the front of the bed, and then stood there motionless, his heart in his throat.

He called out to the system: [Are my heartbeat and breathing rates normal? And my eyelashes and eyeballs, are they moving properly?]

The light ball carefully and responsibly displayed the data, indicating that it was correct. When the contractor breathed a sigh of relief, it hesitated for a long time and finally decided to tell the truth: [Actually, you don’t need to be so nervous. Most people won’t pay attention to these.]

Kouno Seiryoshi: [How can I not be nervous! Jingguang's observation ability is one of the best among the police academy students of that year, and his perception of micro-expressions is also extremely sensitive!]

Pretending to sleep isn’t embarrassing, but being caught pretending to sleep is so embarrassing that it makes you want to jump off a building!

Light Ball: [...] How can it tell the contractor that Scotland is now unable to observe his expression calmly?

Forget it, I won’t say anything more.

Consistent with the system's calculation, Morobushi Jingguang on the other side just subconsciously wanted to check whether the person on the bed was asleep, and after he stood beside the bed, he began to hesitate whether to leave temporarily.

Morobushi Kagemitsu's feelings were so complicated that he didn't know how to describe them.

Yesterday at midnight, after he went to bed, he received two more calls.

The first call came from Shirley. Even though it was past midnight, the young researcher's tone was as cold as usual, without any trace of fatigue from staying up late.

Her voice was very calm, but Zhu Fu Jingguang could vaguely sense a bit of anxiousness that was being forcibly suppressed.

Shirley asked straight to the point: "Shengjiu is not at the base, and I can't contact him. Do you know where he is?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang hesitated for a moment: "...Isn't he at home either?" As he spoke, he quickly sent text messages to a series of numbers. There was neither a reply nor a read status, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Aren't you responsible for protecting his safety? Why are you asking me?" Shirley's voice was cold. She could almost imagine the brown-haired girl questioning him with a stern face.

Morofushi Jingguang didn't know how to answer for a moment. After a moment of silence, he whispered an apology.

"I'm sorry. It was my oversight."

Zhu Fujing quickly grabbed his coat and said to the person on the phone, "I'll go look around the apartment."

"Forget it, I can't blame you for what I've said recently."

Shirley on the other end of the phone paused, and her tone softened slightly: "The matter at the institute is not urgent, but this is the first time I can't contact him. Shengjiu's phone is not turned off, but I can't receive a reply."

Zhu Fu Jingguang hesitated and analyzed: "Is he taking a rest at this time?"

"It would be nice if it were so."

Shirley sighed as if she had a headache: "But it's impossible."

"But he would wake up if the surrounding noise exceeded 40 decibels. It was impossible for him not to hear the phone call."

40 decibels is the normal sound of human speech.

Zhu Fu Jingguang secretly wrote down this information.

There was a vague conversation coming from the other end of the phone. The research institute was still busy late at night. Shirley was called away. Before she hung up the phone, she repeatedly reminded him: "Anyway, if he finds the holy wine, let him call me back."

All the Fu Jingguang responded.

Before going out, he checked the time on his watch.

It's already past two in the morning. If Shengjiu is neither at the base nor at home, and cannot be contacted, where would he be at this time?

Morofu Jingguang lost all desire to sleep and took on the task of finding someone seriously and responsibly.

While driving to the apartment he had visited last time, he received a second call.

"Zero? Why are you calling me so suddenly?"

Morofushi Jingguang was surprised. When he asked, he remembered that the other party was still on a mission, and his heart sank. "Is there something wrong with the mission?"

"No, the mission is fine." The voice on the other side paused, "But other things are a bit troublesome."

The next moment, Morofushi Jingguang heard Yu Huanran throw out a thunderbolt: "I am with the holy wine."

The car's trajectory almost formed an S-curve. Morofu Jingguang stepped on the brakes, and the tires left two black marks on the asphalt road.

The person on the other side also heard the brake sound and asked in surprise: "Are you outside, Hiro?"

"……Um."

Morofushi Jingguang tried hard to calm himself down and briefly summarized the content of his conversation with Shirley.

He thought that after telling this, Furuya Rei would suspect whether this was a trap set by the organization, but the latter's reaction was surprisingly calm, and even - he accepted it a little too quickly.

"I see." Furugaya Ling said, "Shengjiu is fine, but I don't have Shirley's contact information. Please tell her."

Zhu Fu Jingguang heard something was wrong: "Wait, where is the holy wine? Can't he make a phone call?"

There was a pause of a few seconds on the other end of the phone, and then a gentle tone came out when the other end spoke again: "He's drunk and is resting."

“…”

Zhufu Jingguang was silent.

"...Zero," he said with difficulty, "Are you two drinking together?"

He remembered that not long ago, Furuya Rei sternly warned Matsuda, "That man's identity is very dangerous, don't get close to him." But just a few days later, how come Rei and Shengjiu have become friends drinking together in the middle of the night?

Morofushi Jingguang felt like he had missed a season of the show.

The other party explained: "It happened suddenly, and I didn't know he would come to the bar. And Belmode was also there, I couldn't expose myself."

Hearing this, Zhu Fu Jingguang felt relieved. Yes, very cautious, this is what he was taught since childhood.

“We didn’t drink together.”

The cautious Yu Xunran sighed and seemed to move away from the microphone, and the voice sounded a little far away.

"We're just spending the night together."