The cool air was absorbed into his lungs. Ye Hui pressed his hood and leaned on an overpass.
It was just early in the morning, and this second-tier city had not yet 'started up', and the streets were sparsely populated and very quiet.
Ye Hui flicked the cigarette butt in his hand and looked at the light on the horizon. The sun was rising, and a piece of news was playing in a loop on his mobile phone.
"On the evening of August 13, a man committed a knife attack, killing one person and injuring three others. The police revealed that the assailant had been killed... "
Listening to the news looping in his hand, this meant that he was dead in the eyes of the public, but Ye Hui had no way of knowing what would happen to the police, but he had channels.
Ye Hui picked up his hand, found a number, and dialed it.
"The number you dialed is unavailable..."
Listening to the voice coming from the phone, Ye Hui raised his eyebrows. This phone number was his main source of intelligence. If Ye Hui was judged dead, this number would be automatically destroyed.
After Ye Hui thought for a moment, he walked slowly into the distance. He had other things to do, and the seven-day stay was obviously not enough.
…
Near a certain university, this university is not a university, but a private institution. Although it is not prosperous in the suburbs, it is not deserted either.
There is a long T-shaped street across from the university. It is a commercial street with everything from food, accessories, clothing, hotels, etc... to everything.
Because there is a university opposite, the business of all the stores is pretty good, but there are always surprises. At the end of the T-shaped street, there is a deserted coffee shop.
Ye Hui stopped in front of the coffee shop and casually took off the small note on the rolling shutter door. The content was as follows:
"Boss, I'm sorry that I can't resign to you in person, please forgive me."
Judging from the tone of the text, this is a student, and there is an apologetic emoticon drawn on the lower right corner of the note.
"Are there another group of people leaving?"
Ye Hui murmured to himself that he was the owner of this cafe, and he would not be obsessed with revenge all the time in the past three years.
According to the clues, I came to this second-tier city and used the money I saved to open a cafe here. After successfully revenge, I tried to live peacefully as the owner of the cafe.
"If I had succeeded last night, I would have been sitting at the front desk today, reading a book and trying to contact..."
Halfway through speaking, Ye Hui paused slightly and shook his head to suppress the beautiful scene he yearned for.
After opening the smart home app and entering a 25-digit password, Ye Hui found that the rolling shutter door in front of him showed no signs of moving.
"Is it broken again?"
Ye Hui's face gradually darkened under his continuous operations. When the continuous operations failed, he simply put away his mobile phone and dragged the lower gap of the rolling shutter door with one hand to open it with brute force.
"Hey! What are you doing?"
A rough voice came, and Ye Hui heard it and turned around, only to see a tall man wearing a greasy linen apron speaking loudly.
"I'm telling you, don't act rashly, I have the police phone number here!"
Hearing that the burly man wanted to call the police, Ye Hui had no choice but to stop what he was doing, feeling a little helpless.
"I am the owner of this cafe, and the rolling shutter door is broken."
Ye Hui tried to explain aloud that with his current sensitive status, he could never attract the police.
"You're lying! I've been here for 2 months, and there are only a few young people working in this cafe. I've never seen you before, and you look pretty young. You're a recent graduate. Why can't you learn it well?"
"I… "
Ye Hui was speechless for a moment. He still wanted to live a peaceful life in the real world. It was not necessary. He didn't want to show his strength yet.
"Butcher Wang, why are you so crazy so early in the morning?"
I saw a head popping out from the second floor of the jewelry store opposite and shouting at the big man.
"Monkey Li, don't worry about this for now, I'll catch a thief!"
"Thief?"
Hearing this, Li Houhou immediately became interested. He put on a coat and a pair of slippers and jumped down from the second floor of the jewelry store.
"Oh? Isn't this Ye Hui? What have you been busy with in the past two months?"
"I went out to do some errands and just came back today."
Ye Hui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the person coming, now he could explain clearly.
"Li Houhou, do you know this person?"
When Butcher Wang saw that the two of them knew each other, he subconsciously felt a sense of embarrassment. He had misunderstood.
"Hahaha, Butcher Wang, I am worthy of you, but you have only been here for 2 months, so it is normal not to know. Ye Hui has been here for almost 2 years, and he is just a hands-off shopkeeper who rarely sees me at all. "
After hearing what happened to Ye Hui just now, Li Houhou patted Butcher Wang on the shoulder and laughed involuntarily.
"Brother, I'm sorry, I thought..."
Butcher Wang looked embarrassed and wanted to scratch his hair, but found that he was holding a knife in one hand, a mobile phone in the other, and the apron on his body didn't even have a pocket.
"It doesn't matter. Just clear up the misunderstanding. If there's nothing else, I'll prepare to carry the door."
"let me help you!"
I saw Butcher Wang putting his mobile phone and table knife on the spot, and holding the gap under the rolling shutter door with both hands.
Before Ye Hui could make a move, Butcher Wang exerted force on his arms, and his originally seemingly fat figure suddenly tensed up like a swimming dragon.
Just listen, bang! With a sound, the rolling shutter door was lifted up. Seeing this scene in Ye Hui's eyes, he couldn't help but frown slightly.
"Ever practiced kung fu?"
Ye Hui asked, with such strength, Butcher Wang was definitely not an ordinary person.
"I practiced with a master when I was a child. It's not an honorable thing. What's the use of fighting in a society ruled by law? It's better to sell two pieces of meat to make some money."
As he spoke, Butcher Wang wiped the sweat from his eyes, smiled, and the loneliness in his tone was deep.
"You can open a martial arts gym, that way the money will come in faster."
After hearing this, Butcher Wang waved his hand, as if he was touched by something sad, and left a sentence: "How can I not do that?" Then he picked up the knife and mobile phone on the ground and left in a hurry.
"Brother Ye, there's something you don't know. Butcher Wang once had a martial arts gym in the west of the city. Later, his apprentice killed someone, and the martial arts gym became obsolete. It's a pity for such a capable person. ”
Li Houhou patted Ye Hui's shoulder, looked at Butcher Wang's back, and said helplessly.
"Monkey Li, how much do you know about the murder at Bandai Hotel?"
Ye Hui asked. Li Houhou was the gossip center of the whole street. He was jokingly called an 'intelligence dealer', but he was only limited to the information on the surface, which was far from the real information dealer.
"Oh? Brother Ye, are you starting to care about gossip too?"
"Wherever I passed that day, I was ready if the police came to my door."
After hearing Ye Hui's description, Li Houhou didn't have too much doubt and said directly,
"It is said that the assailant first destroyed the surveillance system and then committed the murder with a knife. The identity of the assailant and the identity of the deceased are still a mystery. I guess the assailant may not be dead, or even..., eh~, don't leave, I haven’t finished yet.”
"A simple murder case, you said it was like an urban legend, I'm not interested anymore."
Ye Hui waved his hand, slowly pushed open the door of the coffee shop, and turned the wind chime on the door to make a "dinging" sound.
(End of chapter)