There is a night breeze outside the complex, which is very cool.
There are no people outside the apartment building, and the lights of some buildings can be seen outside the community, only the road here is lit by street lights.
Li Mei followed behind Chen Zhen, staring at his back.
When she was almost at the place where the car was parked, she couldn't help asking: "The doll you gave Qiu Ling is so big, it must have cost a lot of money."
"...It's only a few thousand yuan." Chen Zhen said.
Li Mei's mouth felt bitter when she said it lightly.
The two of them work in the same company and have been college classmates for four years. Don't they know his family background and salary
Chen Zhen's family background is average. Except for the first semester after entering university, she knows all about the book fees and accommodation after that.
And that doll, she knew someone who played with this kind of doll before, and there are basically such delicate ones, which are more than half of Chen Zhen's, and they are more than one meter long.
It is absolutely impossible for this doll to have less than 10,000 yuan.
This is basically equivalent to his one month's salary. Chen Zhen said before that he would save money to buy a house, but she didn't expect that he would let it go like this on this birthday.
Before she came, she asked Chen Zhen what gift he gave, and he must have liked it when he returned to Qiu Ling.
It's so pretty, it's weird if you don't like it.
"Thousands of dollars, that's quite expensive." Li Mei said, "But Qiu Ling seems to like it quite a bit. You are a good gift."
Chen Zhen didn't answer, but her expression was much happier. She could see clearly from the rearview mirror.
This also let Li Mei know that he still likes Qiu Ling, and it hasn't changed from before to now.
In college, Qiu Ling and the two of them were not in the same class, but in the same association. They got to know each other because of a lot of activities, and later became good friends.
Qiu Ling is pretty and has a cheerful personality. It is only natural that Chen Zhen is attracted.
But they didn't know that Li Mei had fallen in love with him since the first year of freshman year, but she never said it out. After Qiu Ling's incident, she couldn't open her mouth anymore.
It has been seven or eight years until now.
Li Mei took the initiative to change the topic, and said casually: "I see that the doll you just hugged is a bit heavy."
Chen Zhen paused for a moment, did not answer the question, and opened the car door, "Get in the car, I don't know when it will be back."
Li Mei got into the back seat.
She could still see Chen Zhen's face in the rearview mirror, which fascinated her as always, but when she thought of his feelings for Qiu Ling, she panicked.
I was rejected in college, and I still like her so much now.
The two of them didn't speak a word along the way, they didn't look like college classmates at all, until more than half an hour later, Chen Zhen parked the car on the side of the road, "Here we are."
Li Mei's home was on the way, she opened the car door, and when she was about to close the door, she suddenly remembered something, "By the way, Qiu Ling seems to be in a relationship with Lu Jian."
Chen Zhen in the driver's seat was startled, "How do you know?"
"What Liu Huanxin told me just now, Qian Yun guessed." Li Mei glanced at his face from the corner of the eye, and found that there was no anger in it, "Aren't you sad?"
Chen Zhen said, "Why am I sad?"
Li Mei said: "Qiu Ling has never liked you, why do you still like her so much?"
"This is my own business." Chen Zhen glanced at her, "Li Mei, don't worry about me and her, it's getting late, you go back and be careful."
How could he not feel that Li Mei likes her.
Li Mei lost and said: "I'm going home first, you should pay attention to safety."
She turned and left.
Chen Zhen pressed the car window, watched the people over there disappear at the end of the road, snorted coldly, turned the steering wheel, and drove away quickly.
After he left, Li Mei appeared at the intersection again.
***
Shen Yuanye looked around downstairs in the apartment and found the car.
Lu Yue has arrived, and the car is parked at the same location as she said before. Shen Yuanye got into the car and said, "Wait first before leaving."
The murderer definitely didn't know her car, and it was at night.
Under the night, only the street lights were still on, covered by the leaves, and the shadows falling on the ground looked a little blurry.
Ten minutes later, Lu Yue suddenly asked: "Miss Shen, what are you waiting for?"
Shen Yuanye said, "See if anyone shows up."
In fact, this person may not necessarily appear here, because there are surveillance cameras here, and although there are blind spots, they should be able to be photographed.
Unless there's something wrong with monitoring.
Just as she was thinking about it, Shen Yuanye glanced between the trees, but she was not very clear, so she simply asked Lu Yue, "Did you see that surveillance camera running?"
Lu Yue pressed the car window and glanced, and said after a while, "Not here."
Shen Yuanye's heart skipped a beat.
The monitoring of an apartment complex is not so easy to go on strike. Generally, it is more man-made. She has encountered it many times before.
The murderer was probably already prepared.
Until more than half an hour passed, there was not even a ghost here, Shen Yuanye's eyes were sore, she rubbed the corners of her eyes, and whispered: "Lu Yue, if there is anyone, call me later."
Two people are better than one.
…
"Miss Shen, is that the person you are waiting for?"
Lu Yue's voice woke up the drowsy Shen Yuanye, she quickly looked out the window, because she didn't press the window, so she was not very clear.
Someone walked towards the apartment building.
Shen Yuanye guessed that it might be a resident of the apartment building, but this idea was punctured in a second, because the person stopped by the flower bed and squatted to touch it for a minute.
Soon, the man got up and opened the door and entered the apartment building.
The movement of squatting and touching things was too much, and Shen Yuanye had to wonder whether this person was a resident or a murderer.
She turned her head and asked, "Luyue, do you think you can put that person down?"
Lu Yue said, "Yes."
Shen Yuanye still felt that she couldn't take the risk, so she took out her mobile phone and called Qiu Ling, and it took half a minute to get through.
"... What's wrong?" The voice sounded vague.
"Qiu Ling, are you sleeping?" Shen Yuanye asked.
Qiu Ling responded: "Well... I just fell asleep not long ago, and I was woken up by the ringing of my phone just now. What's the matter, did you forget to bring something? I'll send it to you. "
sleep!
Shen Yuanye only knew this meaning, she subconsciously looked at the time on her phone, it was already eleven forty.
Today is the date of Qiu Ling's death.
That is, within the next twenty minutes, she will be killed by the murderer.
Shen Yuanye has an 80% possibility that the person who just touched something by the flower bed is the murderer!
She didn't care about anything, and said directly: "Get up now, go to the kitchen and get a kitchen knife! Then hide inside and don't come out!"
Qiu Ling was confused by her words, "Ah, what?"
She was just woken up, and she was still in a state of confusion. She couldn't react at all to what this sudden attack meant.
Shen Yuanye became anxious, that person might have gone up the elevator by now.
"Listen to me, go to the kitchen now, grab the knife!"
Qiu Ling subconsciously listened to her words, and got up from the bed in a jiffy. Her living room was still untidy, so she ran over in a mess and took the kitchen knife.
Then I had time to reply: "I took it..."
She was standing in the kitchen with a kitchen knife in her pajamas. If someone saw her, she might think she was sleepwalking there.
Qiu Ling looked at what was on her body, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, she felt strange about Shen Yuanye's words, and felt something was wrong.
Shen Yuanye asked, "Can you trust me?"
Qiu Ling nodded: "Of course."
Having experienced that incident before, she knew that she had nothing to look forward to. Shen Yuanye had a much brighter future than her, so she even helped her.
Although the request is rather strange now, it's not asking her to do anything outrageous.
Shen Yuanye glanced at Lu Yue in the driver's seat, and lowered his voice: "Close the kitchen door, don't go out when you hear any noise, and pretend that there is no one at home."
Hearing this, Qiu Ling seemed to realize something, but her face quickly turned pale, "... I didn't turn off the light..."
The lights in the room, the lights in the living room, she turned them on...
But she still quickly turned off the kitchen light, holding a kitchen knife, her heart was pounding, and she pricked up her ears to listen to the movement outside.
"It's okay, don't make any noise." Shen Yuanye comforted.
Just as Qiu Ling was about to reply, a small voice suddenly came from outside.
This apartment is not very high-end, and it is not big, so no matter how cautious the door is opened, she can still hear a little sound.
Qiu Ling's heart was in her throat, and she couldn't help but say: "... Yes, someone opened the door!"
Only she has the key to her apartment, and no outsiders have it at all. It is self-evident who will open the door.
Soon, the door was opened and closed again.
Because it was so quiet, Qiu Ling could hear it clearly.
In the whole space, there was only her heart beating like a drum, and then the sound of footsteps outside the living room, to the room... from the room... clearly audible.
Naturally there is no gain in the room.
Shen Yuanye's voice came from the phone: "If the other party is close to the kitchen, don't move."
Qiu Ling didn't dare to answer at all.
There was no sound on the other side, but there was the sound of heavy breathing. Shen Yuanye also realized that someone might have entered there.
Shen Yuanye was below, watching a person go up, and then thinking about Lu Yue's skill, he took out the anti-wolf spray she had prepared earlier from the bag, "Let's go up and have a look."
She had asked Luyue to put an iron bar in the car before, just for this moment.
When the elevator went up, she was still comforting Qiu Ling.
Qiu Ling, who was hiding in the kitchen, watched the shadow cast by the lamp fall on the kitchen door without blinking her eyes.
A small half of the kitchen door was made of glass, so she squatted on the ground, shrunk to the side, and couldn't see the appearance of the person above even if she looked up.
The footsteps went to the next door.
Next door is the bathroom. She didn't lock the door, so she could see if there was anyone in it as soon as she opened it.
Qiu Ling had already guessed the following scene.
The other party saw that there was no one in the room and bathroom, and the kitchen was closed. He must know that she was in the kitchen, and they would bump into her.
There was still Shen Yuanye's voice on the phone: "I'm coming up."