C27 (1/2)

But his fear was far from settled, even stronger than before. Why? Was he the clown himself?

No, it must be a clown's prank.

It must have been him, sneaking into his house in the middle of the night in some special way, slicing the meat from his fridge, turning his closet upside down, and making his face look like his own. No wonder he could hear someone talking in his ear.

Xiao He worked from 5 in the morning until dawn. He heaved a sigh of relief. Finally, it lit up.

He decided to go to the police station.

At this moment, his phone rang. For some reason, the ringtone seemed to have been tuned in by someone. It sounded especially loud compared to usual.

The moment it sounded, Xiao He was scared out of his wits.

It rang for a long time before he reacted and hesitantly picked it up.

”Hello, may I ask, is this Captain Xiao He?” It was an old voice on the other side of the phone. It sounded like an old man's voice. When the Wukang case was over, he became the prime minister of the Murder Squad, but he couldn't hang up the phone like that.

At that time, some drug lord gang or anti-sheihua people would come over to provoke him or even threaten him. That would be too much for others to handle.

Xiao He replied as he thought:

”Yes, may I ask who you are?”

”I'm a resident of Guangren Lane. I want to respond to something.”

”Please speak.”

”She's my neighbor. She's the little girl who lives right next to me. Her name is Celery, and she's very small. She's only six years old. I haven't seen her for several days.”

Xiao He turned the phone into a hands-free mode and listened while he dressed and brushed his teeth.

He expected another case to come.

”I asked her mother, and her mother said she went to play at her grandmother's house. But, but this is not a holiday, the other children are in school. She was in kindergarten at school and came to my house every day to beg for snacks. However, I haven't seen her for the past few days. ”

”What about his father?”

The old man on the other end of the line sighed. ”Her father died in a car accident six months ago. Alas, that child was really pitiful. His mother did have one, but it was a stepmother. Everyone in the corridor said that they often heard Jiang Qinglan beat her up, so I'm a bit suspicious.

Xiao He felt that the amount of information in it was a little too much, so he said to the old man:

”Grandmother, what's your name?” Where does your family live in Guangren Lane? As for the specifics, we'll directly come to your door to get to know you. What do you think? ”

”Alright, alright. My name is Zhang Yulian and I live in Building 502, Block 27, on the south side of Guangren Lane. You can come over in the morning. I was home all day. ”

”Alright Grandma Zhang, we will be there as soon as possible. ”Goodbye.”

”Goodbye.”

Actually, from her description just now, Xiao He already had a bad premonition. He quickly rode his ”BMW” to the police station.

Everyone was dozing in their seats. After dinner last night, they even went to sing KTV. Only Xiao He and Ning Ruonan returned home in advance.

Now, they were all exhausted and had fallen flat on the ground.

Xiao He clapped his hands.

”Everyone get up, we have work to do again.”

”What?” Jiang Han was the first to raise his head. ”I've only rested for a few hours. Here we go again.”

After that, he shouted at Peng Wenyin, ”Captain, we want to apply for an annual leave. We want to add the bonuses.”

Xiao He slapped his head:

”You wish.”

Peng Wenyin, on the other hand, had an anxious expression on his face:

”What's wrong, Xiao He? What happened?”