I don’t know how long I stood there in silence until Bai Longfei shouted my name loudly on the phone, which pulled me out of my thoughts.
"Ji Wen, what's wrong with you? Did something happen? Where are you two? I'll go find you right away!"
Seeing that I finally responded, Bai Longfei asked me anxiously, and I was going to tell Bai Longfei what happened just now and my guess, but when the words came to my lips, I swallowed them and said with a forced smile: "It's okay, just now the hotel waiter asked me to help her lift a heavy object. Everything is fine here, don't worry, Brother Long."
"Really? I always feel like you don't mean what you say. Anyway, if you're in danger, call me immediately. Don't be polite. I'll go find out where my dad is and we'll talk later."
After Bai Longfei finished speaking, he hung up the phone. I listened to the beeping sound on the phone. At this moment, I had completely given up the idea of chasing after the man wearing the evil ghost mask. I slowly put the phone into my pocket, took one last look at the emergency exit, turned around and prepared to go back to my room to rest.
I don’t know when it started, but I became more and more cowardly. When it comes to issues concerning my family or friends, I always choose to escape to numb myself, because I don’t know how to face the truth.
But when I turned around, I found that there was someone standing behind me! Because I turned too fast, I almost bumped into that person. Because of what happened just now, I didn't see who that person was, so I turned around and prepared to run away.
"What's wrong with you?"
As soon as I turned around, I heard the familiar voice of Lin Yingxue behind me. I immediately turned around and found that the person who had been standing behind me unknowingly was Lin Yingxue. At this moment, she was staring at me with some confusion, as if she was suspicious of my actions just now.
"It's nothing. I was feeling a bit down and wanted to come out to smoke a cigarette. Why are you here too? Aren't you going to talk to the teacher?"
As I spoke, I took out another cigarette and lit it, but this time the hand holding the cigarette had begun to tremble slightly and was completely out of my control.
Lin Yingxue didn't answer me, but kept looking at me with a puzzled look. When I was halfway through a cigarette, she said, "That Shen Zhao is my senior brother, and he's a playboy. Although he often pesters me, I never pay any attention to him. You have to believe me."
Hearing Lin Yingxue's words, I nearly choked myself to death on a puff of cigarette. I coughed violently and smiled helplessly, "Of course, I'm not upset about this. Who do you think I am? Why would I be jealous of that kind of person?"
After I said this, I realized what I had just said. My face immediately turned red. I coughed to cover up my embarrassment and said, "Actually, when I came out to smoke just now, I saw the man wearing the devil mask again."
Lin Yingxue had her head down, but when she heard what I said, she immediately looked up and said solemnly, "Where is he? Did he do anything to you?"
At this time, the abnormal behavior of Lin Yingxue and I attracted the attention of the cleaning lady nearby. I immediately pulled her to the emergency exit of the corridor, and told her what had just happened and the content of the call that Bai Longfei made to me.
This was the first time that Lin Yingxue had an expression of disbelief when she listened to me speak. After I finished speaking, she kept shaking her head and said to herself, "Impossible, how could Commander Bai be the one who wanted to kill you? This is absolutely impossible, absolutely impossible."
Seeing Lin Yingxue's sad face, I also said with great heartache: "To be honest, I don't believe that Uncle Bai is the man wearing the evil ghost mask, but from all the signs, Uncle Bai is indeed very suspicious! The reason why he lied that day might be to cover up the fact that he pretended to be the man wearing the evil ghost mask to kill me, and today when Uncle Bai secretly left, the man wearing the evil ghost mask appeared. Is all this really just a coincidence?"
"But why would he want to kill you? Doesn't he value you the most? Besides, if he really killed you, wouldn't he be afraid of Senior Ji Yong's crazy revenge?" Lin Yingxue's voice was already a little tearful, and she said stubbornly while biting her lips.
At this moment, I felt a splitting headache again. I reached out and grabbed my hair to relieve the pain in my head. I squatted on the ground and said, "I don't know, I really don't know, what happened, why have so many people changed so much recently?"
I kept grasping my hair and thinking, and before long, I felt Lin Yingxue squatting beside me. She touched my hair and pushed my hands away, then said softly, "I believe you can find out the real reason for all this, because you are now recognized as the new 'First Detective' within the special case team. I have a feeling that the matter of Commander Bai and Qiongqi will soon be completely revealed."
I don't know when the special case team gave me this nickname, but I felt very guilty when I heard it, because I know that I am not worthy of the word "detective". I am just a loser who was caught up in a series of inexplicable events.
"I'll try my best. I also want to put an end to this matter as soon as possible, then resign and leave the special case team. This kind of life doesn't belong to me. I'm too tired."
After Lin Yingxue and I squatted on the ground and chatted silently for a while, we returned to the teacher's room again. The teacher saw that our mood had changed a little, so he asked us what happened. Of course, I would not tell him such a thing, so I said that we just chatted just now.
The teacher obviously misunderstood and immediately said with a smile: "When young people get along with each other, there will always be some friction. Small quarrels can make people happy, but don't hurt feelings."
It seemed that the teacher thought that I had just had a conflict with Lin Yingxue, which made me feel a little amused and helpless. However, I did not explain anything and continued to chat with the teacher. Soon it was four o'clock in the afternoon. The teacher said that the people he had made an appointment with had arrived and were going to demonstrate experiments on hypnosis therapy and potential discovery. We could just go in and watch it.
I was still full of questions and curiosity about this mysterious statement. I thought to myself that if this teacher was really that amazing, I must learn his unique skill no matter what, as it would be of great use.
Not long after, there was a gentle knock on the door. We followed the teacher to open the door and saw more than 20 people standing outside. Except for Shen Zhao and Lin Yingxue's senior sisters whom we had met before, all the others were older men. Judging from their serious attire and the degree of their glasses, these people should be experts in this field like the teacher.
After this group of people came in, they immediately started chatting lively with the teacher. Lin Yingxue and I didn't know these people at all, so we had to stand aside and listen quietly. The scene was very awkward for a while.
The fat man Shen Zhao and his senior sister seemed to know this group of old men and joined in the lively chat. However, after they chatted for a while, the teacher raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "Now that everyone is here, let's start the experiment and discuss. I will let my student Shen Zhao be the subject of our experiment. I think everyone has no objection? Shen Zhao is a medical expert in brain science. Having him be the subject of hypnosis can better reflect the rigor of our experiment this time."
I was very puzzled when I heard this. I thought, if the experiment really needs to be rigorous, why not find someone I don't know to do it? Would it be suspicious to find the fat man Shen Zhao
The others obviously had the same doubts, but for the sake of the teacher's face, they all nodded in agreement. Then the teacher was about to lead everyone towards the room inside the house. However, before we entered the room, I heard the door of the room behind us being opened again.
I immediately turned around and saw a handsome young man about eighteen or nineteen years old standing at the door of the room that was opened behind me.
Everyone heard the sound at the door and looked in the direction of the door. Just when I was wondering who it was, the young man suddenly said excitedly: "Teacher, I'm back! Sister Xiaoxue, you are here too! That's great!"
I turned to look at Lin Yingxue and found that when she saw the young man, her eyes softened immediately. She smiled and nodded to the young man. The teacher who was about to do the experiment asked in surprise, "Why did you come back so suddenly?"
Seeing this, I finally understood who the young man was. It seemed that he was the youngest of the four children adopted by the teacher.
The young man first came to Lin Yingxue and gave her a childlike smile. Then, without paying any attention to Senior Sister Shen Zhaohe, he rushed to the teacher and gave her a big hug. Then he said, "There's nothing going on in school recently. I've finished all the courses I should take. I heard that the teacher is going to hold a seminar here, so of course I have to come and study together."
The teacher shook his head helplessly and said, "You didn't skip class, did you? Forget it, since you are here, come and watch together. This time I am going to do an experiment on Shen Zhao, so be quiet while you watch."
But who would have thought that as soon as the teacher finished speaking, the young man suddenly seemed to have changed into a different person. His eyes instantly became cold, and he stared at the teacher and said, "Teacher, don't you know Shen Zhao well? You let him be the subject of this experiment. Do you think this beast will be willing to cooperate?"