Chapter 26 chapter eight

April 9.Monday.Afternoon, 13:01. Hospital, fourth floor, former infectious disease area.During the SARS epidemic, many critically ill patients were isolated, and more than one person was sent to the morgue every day.At the end of the long and silent corridor, Ye Xiao leaned against the wall, looking at the spotless ceiling. I just finished lunch in the hospital cafeteria, but no one talked to him during the period, not intentionally alienating, but treating him as a god above, especially after he became the hero who discovered the first survivor underground. As for the six survivors, the doctor determined the recipes according to each person's different physical conditions, and the designated chefs prepared them and sent them directly to the wards.

I don't know what kind of lunch Zhou Xuan had.bastard!Ye Xiao secretly cursed.Why are you still worried about that guy?His few "I don't know" still feel like needles stuck in his heart - not "I don't know", but "I don't want to say".Normally, when encountering this kind of "stone in the latrine", Ye Xiao has various means to deal with it. The shortest is two or three minutes, and the longest is an entire night. He can pry the secret from the opponent's iron teeth. However, when he faced Zhou Xuan, he couldn't use any of the usual methods.

Ye Xiao's parents were both born in this city. When they were young, they responded to the call of the country to join the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.He grew up between the Tianshan Mountains and the desert. He came to the hometown of his parents in the coastal metropolis in the fifth grade of elementary school, and lived in relatives' homes to study.So far, my parents are still living in the oasis by the desert, and have no intention of returning to the city to settle down.When Ye Xiao was in primary school, he was quite thin, and it was difficult for him to understand the local dialect. He was often bullied, and almost no classmates played with him, except for Zhou Xuan who was also often bullied.

And because they were neighbors, they became best friends.Later, both of them were admitted to Siyi Middle School, and they were still in the same class, and they were both heroic and tall.Ye Xiao is good at sports, and when fighting, he makes the opponent retreat, but he never uses force lightly, only when Zhou Xuan encounters a small hooligan who blackmails him, he will beat the opponent to death.They also have a common hobby - reading mystery novels, Zhou Xuan often goes to the library to borrow books, and then lends them to Ye Xiao after reading them. At that time, they almost read Sherlock Holmes.

Before graduating from high school, Zhou Xuan's dream is to become a writer, while Ye Xiao hopes to become the captain of a nuclear submarine.Zhou Xuan was successfully admitted to a key university, while Ye Xiao failed the preliminary selection for the Naval Naval Academy, so he applied for the Public Security University. Later, Ye Xiao became a police officer, and Zhou Xuan really became a writer. The last time they met was almost ten years ago.At that time, Zhou Xuan was already well-known, and he was asked to help him with a mysterious incident.For this reason, Ye Xiao went to the coast of Zhejiang to look for him, but found that Zhou Xuan had disappeared without a trace.

Ten years later, Ye Xiao became a god in people's minds, but Zhou Xuan's name became more and more difficult to see.Occasionally, I saw a mystery novel signed by "Zhou Xuan's works", but it was inserted in a corner of the bookstore and no one cared about it... I didn't expect to see him again. The joy of reuniting with old friends quickly disappeared, and the long years have almost turned Zhou Xuan into another person, a person who is also full of secrets and lies to his best friend. Ye Xiao didn't hate him, but felt sad—why him?Unless, the murderer who killed Luo Haoran was Zhou Xuan.However, Ye Xiao didn't believe it.

not him! This judgment does not come from years of relationship. At noon, the police officer Lao Wang quickly made an investigation—Zhou Xuan had been out of sight for several years, and there was reason to believe that he had been immersed in creation, living in various places of interest.A year ago, Zhou Xuan's father passed away, and his mother suddenly fell ill, so he had to go home to take care of her.Soon after his mother died, he sold the house to pay off his debts, and instead of traveling around as before, he rented a dilapidated apartment.Lao Wang visited Zhou Xuan's landlord and learned that the rent was only a few hundred yuan per month, which was only so cheap because of the murder that happened several years ago.Zhou Xuan rented the haunted house not to find inspiration, but because of extreme financial constraints.Check Zhou Xuan's bank balance, only 219.81 yuan is left, and 5286.19 yuan is still overdrafted on the credit card.

You are so poor that you can't even afford napkins, why should you stay in a five-star hotel for one night?Ye Xiao didn't believe the nonsense about writing novels to find inspiration!Is there a rich woman who pays for a one-night stand? Ye Xiao buried all the doubts in his heart, rearranged his police uniform, and went to interrogate the next suspect. He put on the anti-epidemic suit, entered the ward, and opened the protective glass door as soon as the nurse exited the room. There was a young man lying on the bed, he was a little nervous when he saw Ye Xiao coming in - if it wasn't for the infusion tube on the back of his hand, he might have jumped off: "Who are you?"

Ye Xiao ignored his question: "Your name is Tao Ye?" "Yes." Tao Ye stared at Ye Xiao's feet, feeling scared that he was so close. "My name is Ye Xiao." "Ye Xiao? I've heard of you a long time ago. The doctor said you saved us. Thank you so much!" "This is what I should do." He came to the hospital bed, not wanting to talk nonsense, "Are you an employee of Calfort Supermarket?" "Yes, the supermarket tally staff on the second basement floor." Ye Xiao thought of the rotting corpse that was crushed under the wall of the changing room in the supermarket: "Mr. Steiger is your immediate boss?"

"That's right, when the earthquake happened—no, I heard that there was no earthquake." Tao Ye scratched his head in embarrassment, and his sentence fluently said, "When the disaster happened, he and I were in the locker room, and I was the only one who crawled out .I don’t know if he was under the pressure, but I didn’t see him again. I went to the locker room once, and everything turned into ruins. Is he still alive?” Ye Xiao shook his head: "Do you know that before you were rescued, one of you survivors was brutally murdered!"