C24 (1/2)

Driving on the crowded road, looking at the crowds and vehicles, the towering skyscrapers, I felt a wave of disappointment.

The international metropolis under our feet is just a speck of dust in this world. How easy would it be to find a person who has been missing for 25 years?

Dad, why did I see despair when you gave me hope? Perhaps you think the same as I do?

An hour later, I arrived at the airport. He took out his phone and looked at the time. It was still about ten minutes to midnight. Bored, he searched through his contact list and found Liao Mengfann's name.

I've only been on the phone with her four times in the past three months. She never took more than five minutes each time, because she was too busy.

Ever since she had solved the 12.1 big murder case, Liao Mengfann had been promoted to the leader of a group, with many cases in her hands. And I realized that we didn't seem to have anything to say on the phone, which made me depressed. Sometimes, I would go online to check up on the art of picking up girls, but unfortunately, people like me simply can't learn it.

He dialed Liao Mengfann's cell phone, and very quickly, a moving female voice came out: ”Sorry, the phone you called was turned off. ”Sorry …”

”F * ck!” I cursed silently in my heart and could only stand there foolishly in the wind.

After another 20 minutes, it was already 12: 15. I looked at the sparse crowd around us. The ones that should have left have already left, but the ones I wanted to pick up still haven't arrived. Could it be that the contract had been changed? Thinking of this, I hurriedly took out the phone to call Dad to ask.

”Hey! Long time no see! ”

Following my familiar voice, a pair of white hands patted on my left shoulder. I hung up quickly and turned my head.

I saw Liao Mengfann standing behind me with a small suitcase in her hand. She was as charming as ever in the wind, but a little thinner. I was so excited that I wanted to take her in my arms.

However, I saw a familiar person standing behind her. That person was actually Wei Shijie, he was holding onto his stomach with one hand and holding onto a box with the other, his expression was painful, and he even smiled at me.

I didn't have time to pay attention to Wei Shijie. Looking at Liao Mengfann's charming face, I asked, ”The two of you … It can't be the person I want to pick up, right? ”

”You got it right!” Liao Mengfann opened the car trunk and put the trunk inside. She opened the door and sat in the front passenger seat.

I opened the car door and got into the driver's seat. Wei Shijie quickly followed me into the car, and when I looked back at him, I asked: ”Bro, are you alright?”

”He's fine!” Liao Mengfann interrupted, saying, ”This is the first time Little Wei has flown, he's a little airsick, and he has even eaten too much. ”It'll be fine after a while.”

”Little Wei?” I almost drove the car into the fence, Liao Mengfann's way of addressing Wei Shijie was too strange. What's that? My thoughts were in a mess as I asked Liao Mengfann, ”You guys are talking about friends?”

”Puchi!” Liao Mengfann covered her mouth and laughed, then said: ”Your thoughts are truly complicated, Little Wei has worked with me for two months, do I have to call him Wei Shijie all day?”

”Ha!” I said, ”It's my mind that's not simple! ”I'm sorry!”

At that time, I was a little sad. I listened to Liao Mengfann speaking to me with a voice as calm as water. Normally, when a woman talks to you like that, her heart is almost free of you. I thought, maybe in her heart, I'm just an ordinary friend?

Thinking about this question, there was no longer any need for me to ask. Sighing to myself, I changed the topic and asked, ”Did you guys come to the capital for a business trip?”

”It should be a long-term business trip!” Liao Mengfann said, ”Yesterday, Wei Shijie and I received the Ministry of Public Security notification to report to the Ministry with all the information and photos of the murder case at 12.1.”

”Oh?” I chuckled. ”It seems that we'll be colleagues from now on!”

”That's right!” I really did not expect this! ” Liao Mengfann extended her hand and patted my shoulder, and said: ”I and Little Wei will be relying on you to protect us in the future, Young Master Lu.”

”Ha, let's pull it down!” I said, ”I'm just a small agent. How can I compare to you, Captain Liao?”

Originally, I thought that Liao Mengfann would come and chat with me, but who would have thought that she would open the car window and look at the scenery outside. She had one hand on her cheek, and when I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye, I saw that she looked a little sad. Maybe it's because I've just arrived in this city and I'm not used to it, so I asked caringly, ”What's wrong? Do you miss home? ”

She shook her head, closed the car window and looked at the road in front of her: ”Zhang Qingya got married last month.”