"I don't remember..." Ning Letong's fingers grasped her knees tightly, "but I know where he appears for a long time."
Wu Weiwei: “Hmm?”
"When we were in the car, he talked to me and said that he often appeared in the Wei Line area, and asked me to find him next time if I wanted to take a bus." Ning Letong gritted her teeth, her expression suddenly twisted, "But not long after that, he drove the car to a deserted place. I was so scared at the time, I wanted to get off the car, but he locked the door!"
The memory of that day was the beginning of her fall into the abyss and the beginning of all her hatred.
If she could choose again, she would not have gotten into the white car just to save time. But fate had already made its move, and she had no power to change her fate.
"He just wanted money at first, but later he had dirty thoughts. He threatened me with a knife and asked me to take off my clothes..." When Ning Letong talked about the past, her expression suddenly calmed down. Her eyes fell into the distance, empty and as if these terrible past events could no longer arouse any emotions in her.
But Wu Weiwei found that her nails had almost scratched her knees to make them bleed.
—All of Ning Letong’s pain was buried beneath the seemingly calm surface.
"Of course I refused. I scratched and clawed at his face desperately. At one point, my nails almost dug into his eyes... It was at that time that the knife in his hand fell and I picked it up..."
Ning Letong remembered that she felt like she had found a life-saving straw at that time. She held the knife handle tightly with both hands and threatened the driver to let her go.
The driver raised his hands and pretended to give in as he unlocked the car for her.
At the moment when Ning Letong opened the door to escape, a pair of hands reached out from behind, tightly grasped her shoulders and pushed her back. Because it happened so suddenly and she was only thinking about escaping, she was completely unprepared and the fruit knife slipped out of her hand and fell into the groove of the central armrest.
The tip of the knife pierced straight into her back as they struggled.
Perhaps the pain had reached its extreme and she no longer felt anything. Ning Letong did not feel much pain at the time. She just felt a black flash in front of her eyes and her body temperature was getting colder.
The driver was frightened by her appearance and was stunned. He thought that even if he saved the person, this woman would not let him go. So he drove to a reservoir where few people went, dragged the dying Ning Letong down and pushed her into the water.
"… After he drowned, he was planning to dump the body." Ning Letong sneered, "But there happened to be a few kids holding swimming rings, and he was afraid of being discovered, so he had to take me away first."
Wu Weiwei felt pity and lowered his voice involuntarily: "What happened next?"
"Later..." Ning Letong said, "Later he dragged my body around and finally chose a village in the city near the warehouse."
There is basically no surveillance in the urban villages, and most of the people living there are from other places, including some gangsters or other criminals who have already violated the law.
The idea of the black car driver is simple, he will drop the person here, and then drive away in a swagger. Even if the body is found, the police will determine that the urban village is the first crime scene.
If he's lucky, there might even be some gangsters who will take the blame for him.
But he never expected that someone would help him dispose of the body. Even more unexpectedly, he never expected that the dead person could speak and identify the murderer.
Wu Weiwei looked for help at Li Hongyu, who was leaning against the supporting column holding the copper coin sword: "What should we do next?"
Li Hongyu looked at Ning Letong: "If you want to reincarnate directly, I can help you. If you want revenge..."
"I'm going to kill him!" Bloodshot filled Ning Letong's eyes, spreading to the whites of her eyes. "I must kill him!"
Li Hongyu nodded: "Okay."
Wu Weiwei raised his hand and asked, "Do you want me to call Brother Chen for help?"
Brother Chen now has a powerful backer, so he should not waste his resources by making use of the relationship.
Li Hongyu also had no objection to using connections, "Yeah."
Soon after the call was made, the underworld sent someone up to register Ning Letong's affairs and issued a revenge permit. After that, they respectfully said to Wu Weiwei and Li Hongyu: "You two, the matter has been settled. If you need anything else, please feel free to call us."
Wu Weiwei bowed to the Yinchai, and after watching him leave, he couldn't help but sigh: "It feels really good to be a person with connections, and the work efficiency is high."
Seeing his happy expression, Li Hongyu couldn't help but curl his lips and said, "Let's go find the murderer first."
Wu Weiwei asked as he walked: "What about the Special Investigation Department? Should we notify them?"
Li Hongyu: "While you were talking to Ning Letong, I had already sent a message to the department to explain the situation."
Wu Weiwei nodded, stopped at the side of the road and hailed a taxi.
The taxi driver was delighted when he heard the two people say they were going to maintain the line. The night taxi business was usually not very good, who would have thought that he would be so lucky today and pick up such a long-distance driver. A rough calculation showed that he could earn dozens of dollars for this trip.
He was so happy that he was driving and talking to the people behind him at the same time.
"Are you working on the construction site?" Seeing that the two men were neatly dressed and had handsome looks, he guessed that they were not ordinary workers but probably small leaders at the management level.
Wu Weiwei responded vaguely and asked, "Master, do you know where there are illegal taxis near Wei Road?"
"Illegal taxi?" The taxi driver was a little unhappy. "Brother, I can take you wherever you want to go. Why do you need an illegal taxi? It may be cheaper, but it is not safe."
Wu Weiwei sighed and said, "No, I lost something in a black car before, and now I'm running to look for it in the middle of the night."
"That's a difficult problem," the driver said. "The area around Wei Line is the old city, and there aren't as many surveillance cameras as in the new city. If there's no surveillance camera where you got on the bus, even if you find the black car driver, he may deny it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt the temperature around him drop a little.
The driver quickly closed the open window.
Wu Weiwei and Li Hongyu looked at each other, put their fists to their mouths and coughed, signaling Ning Letong to be quiet and not scare people.
Ning Letong curled herself up into a ball, squeezing in the gap between the passenger seat and the car door.
There were fewer cars at night and the road conditions were good, so we arrived without passing many traffic lights along the way.
Although the area around Wei Road is an old city, there are many bars and KTVs. As soon as I got off the car, I saw two young men holding onto a tree trunk by the roadside and vomiting violently.
Li Hongyu paid the fare and walked directly to the bus stop with Wu Weiwei. "Are you the driver I met here?"
Ning Letong nodded repeatedly: "It's here."
The house she rented was right behind a bar. Although it was noisy, the rent was cheap and the landlord was a good person. He never suddenly raised the rent like other landlords.
Originally, she had already decided to move out and share a house with her colleagues next month.
Wu Weiwei stroked his chin and thought, "I just checked. There are indeed few surveillance cameras in this area, but it's not completely absent." He raised his hand and pointed to a crossroads in the distance. "There is one over there. I wonder if it can capture this side."
Li Hongyu: "I'll send someone to check the surveillance."
After receiving the call, the people from the Special Investigation Department quickly contacted the police. The two people and the ghost stood on the roadside for less than ten minutes, and the other end gave the news based on the time provided by Ning Letong.
As luck would have it, the surveillance at the intersection happened to involve the bus stop.
According to the processing of the technical department, the blurry surveillance screenshots were enlarged and then made clear, and the license plate number and its owner were easily found.
Someone from the Special Investigation Department called Li Hongyu back and said, "Team Leader, I have sent the address to your phone. You decide whether to notify the police to arrest him or use other methods to deal with him."
"The underworld has approved Ning Letong's revenge for herself. We don't need to worry about it." Li Hongyu looked at his watch and estimated, "I'll come and deal with it in about an hour."
With an address, everything becomes simple.
Li Hongyu and Wu Weiwei sent Ning Letong to the downstairs of the black car driver's building and did not go any further inside.
Ning Letong bowed to the two of them to express her gratitude, and then disappeared without a trace in an instant.
The voice-controlled lights in the dark corridor did not light up because of the appearance of a soul, and the color was still deep, depressing and terrifying.
About half a minute later, Wu Weiwei suddenly heard a knock on the door.
Looking up, I saw lights on in the corridor on the fifth floor. That was the floor where the black car driver was.
The black car driver had been driving around all day today and came back with some cold dishes and beer. He was watching a pirated movie and eating a midnight snack.
The knock on the door interrupted his grip on the beer bottle, making him very impatient.
He walked to the door and looked out through the peephole.
There was no one outside the peephole, only the dark security door opposite was quietly closed.
He spat, turned around and sat back on the sofa. Just as he picked up a peanut and put it into his mouth, the door rang again.
This time the knocking on the door was more urgent than before, "dong dong dong, dong dong dong", making people inexplicably nervous.
The black car driver sat up straight suddenly, turned around and looked at the newly enshrined Bodhisattva. He didn't know if he was dazzled, but he felt that the Bodhisattva, who should have had a kind face, now had a gloomy look and a strange look.
He swallowed, quickly got up and walked to the shrine, clasped his hands together and bowed several times, "Buddha bless you, Buddha bless you."
The knocking on the door continued, alarming even the people upstairs.
The person on the sixth floor opened the door and did not go downstairs. He just shouted angrily outside: "Is there anyone home in 506? Your door is about to be smashed!"
The black car driver heard the shouting outside and quickly turned around and ran to the door. He opened the door and found no one outside. The owner of the sixth floor just slammed the door.
A cool breeze blew across his exposed arms and legs, and the corridor was unusually quiet.
He shuddered, stepped back as quickly as possible and closed the door.
After standing at the door in a daze for a while, he locked the security door and warned himself that if it happened again, he must not open the door no matter what.
Fortunately, everything was fine afterwards and there was no knocking on the door again.
He sat on the sofa and watched the movie for a while. His emotions went up and down with the plot, and he soon put his previous fear behind him.
At around one in the morning, the illegal taxi driver finally felt sleepy.
He finished the last sip of beer, stood up and went to the bathroom.
The bathroom was small, and he, a fat man, looked a bit crowded. He took off his clothes, turned on the shower, and tilted his head back to rinse his hair.
With his eyes closed, his vision was in darkness, which heightened his other senses.
So when a pair of cold arms hugged him from behind, he jumped up and subconsciously wanted to look back, but found that he couldn't move his body at all.
The song he was humming in his ears was the one he listened to most often and the one he played most often in the car.
The black car driver shuddered all over, having guessed what had happened to him. His breathing quickened, and he closed his eyes in fear, his eyeballs trembling under his eyelids, trying to break free.
But only he himself knew that his body could not move at all.
The "person" who was clinging to him didn't torture him for too long. Soon, the hands slowly moved away from his neck, along his jawbone all the way up, and stopped at the corner of his right eye. "The thing I regret most is that I didn't dig out your eyes that day..."
As the words fell, a fingernail was inserted along the edge of the eye and between the eyelid and the eyeball...
Downstairs, Wu Weiwei, who was dozing off, was awakened by a miserable scream.
I suddenly opened my eyes and found that I had fallen asleep on Li Hongyu's shoulder.
He sat up awkwardly, raised his hand to touch the corner of his mouth... Then he looked at Li Hongyu awkwardly, "I'm sorry, I got your clothes dirty."
Li Hongyu followed his gaze and looked at his shoulder. His saliva wet the white shirt and it stuck tightly to his skin.
"It's okay." He stood up. His legs, feet and arms felt numb from sitting in the same position for so long.
Wu Weiwei felt a little sorry, so he quickly stood up and said flatteringly, "I'll help you clean it up when this is over."
Li Hongyu looked at him quietly until the other party seemed to want to escape under his gaze. Then he asked, "Wu Weiwei, do you talk so much to everyone?"
"Ah?" Wu Weiwei was a little hurt. He pursed his lips and looked at Li Hongyu cautiously, "Do you think I'm too noisy?"
Li Hongyu: “No.”
Wu Weiwei frowned: "Then why do you ask that?"
"You answer me first." Li Hongyu stubbornly sought the answer to the previous question.
Wu Weiwei thought about it carefully and realized that he didn't seem to talk much to anyone, except Chen Ling. He seemed to be more relaxed only in front of Li Hongyu.
But why
Chen Ling gave him a meal, helped him change his previous wrong ideas, and led him on the right path. So he was full of gratitude and trust in Chen Ling, and regarded him as his closest family and friend.
But what about Li Hongyu
Wu Weiwei remembered that he really disliked this man at first. To put it bluntly, he was actually jealous. He was jealous that the other person was more talented than himself, had a higher starting point than himself, and did not need to cheat and defraud people outside, and was born with the support of others.
However, as they worked together on several cases, his dislike and despicable jealousy towards Li Hongyu disappeared unknowingly, and they became friends who could face difficulties together.
In fact, it doesn’t seem to be friendship.
Friends should eat barbecue together, sing karaoke together, and chat and laugh together...but these things never happened between him and Li Hongyu. Apart from work, the two had no intersection.
In this case, are they still friends
If it didn't count, why did he get so angry when he saw Li Hongyu being splashed with dirty water by Li Daoxuan that he wanted to curse him? Why did he secretly observe Li Hongyu's every word and action every time he met him when he took an order? Why did he vent his anger on others when he saw Li Hongyu's shirt being rubbed dirty by the pipe...
Wu Weiwei couldn't understand why he would invest so much attention and emotion in Li Hongyu since they were not friends strictly speaking
Strange, so strange.
"Wu Weiwei." Li Hongyu's voice interrupted his thoughts, "What's your answer?"