Chapter 40: Shadows in the Sunlight

When the two arrived at the classroom, they saw many people gathered together, discussing something, and everyone's face showed anxiety and nervousness, as if something big had happened.

This made Lu Yan He and Li Pengfei a bit surprised, not knowing what had happened.

"What's wrong?" Li Pengfei immediately leaned over to ask.

What everyone was discussing was a piece of news that circulated in various group chats last night: It is said that a corpse was found in a garbage dump last night, and it was a murder.

Now it is no longer the chaotic era where countless accidental deaths occur every day. In this peaceful era, a corpse that appears occasionally due to unnatural death is like a bomb, which will explode a huge splash in a calm pond.

Just like this group of students now.

Murder.

This word is too far away from their lives, so when it happens in the city where they live, they also feel it is too close to them.

"It seems to be a woman," a classmate said in an uncertain voice.

But this sentence made the woman named He Ting inexplicably appear in Lu Yan He's mind.

Wearing a sun hat, small in stature.

She stood in the crowded bus carriage and looked back at him across the crowd.

It was just that it was dusk at the time, and the bus door had already opened, and her face was trapped in a shadow against the light, so Lu Yan He didn't see her face clearly at all and didn't know what kind of expression she had at that time.

It wouldn't be her, right?

When this thought popped out of Lu Yan He's mind, it was accompanied by a feeling of hair-raising.

Lu Yan He quite liked watching crime films, especially those crime films where ordinary people are accidentally involved in a conspiracy or accident, not stories like "Mission Impossible" or "The Bourne Identity" that don't live in the world of ordinary people, but stories like "A Cool Fish" that happen in a real world. Only when the background of the story happens in a world that can be seen everywhere around you will it have more substitution.

However, at this moment, Lu Yan He realized that movies are movies after all. You know it's a movie, and no matter how much substitution you have, you know it's just a story.

But the real world is not like this.

Lu Yan He sat down and sent a message to Officer Qiu to ask: Officer Qiu, my classmates discussed that a woman was murdered here last night. Is it true?

Officer Qiu, who replied in seconds yesterday, didn't reply to the message until the morning self-study started today.

It shouldn't be such a coincidence, right?

Lu Yan He frowned slightly, suppressed the feeling of anxiety surging like an earthworm in the depths of his heart, forced himself to concentrate, and started listening to the class.

Old city area.

Clearly, it was raining heavily on the other side of the 13th Middle School, but it was sunny here.

The same city, different weather.

A breakfast shop on the roadside set up seven or eight tables along the street.

A man wearing a white vest with a fierce tiger head tattooed on his right arm walked over and sat down at a table on the side.

"Boss, bring a bowl of beef noodles and a portion of xiaolongbao!" he shouted.

"Okay!" the boss responded.

After a while, the boss brought a bowl of steaming beef noodles and a steamer of xiaolongbao over.

He brought the noodles to the man and smiled, saying: "Eat slowly."

Halfway through eating, a woman wearing sunglasses appeared.

She sat down at Luo Hu's table.

This scene didn't cause any strangeness to the people around.

This piece of the old city area is home to both lazy people who are lazy and sit and eat the sky, and many elites in suits or exquisite makeup. The former are the remnants of this city, and the latter are the outsiders of this city. If there is any common ground between the two, it is that they have not been accommodated by the bright and beautiful side of this city, so they can only live in this backward old city area.

Lazy people can eat slowly for an hour, while elites must solve it within ten minutes and rush to work in the CBD area ten kilometers away. The old city area is just their dreamland, and the CBD is their dream.

But this woman wearing sunglasses and with an elegant posture was not in a hurry.

After she sat down, she took apart a pair of disposable chopsticks, ate a xiaolongbao slowly, and then asked in an inaudible voice: "Did you handle the person?"

"I brought her, I handle her," Luo Hu didn't even raise his eyebrows.

"Surveillance shows that she secretly took photos and recorded videos. Did she say who she gave the things to?" the woman asked.

"She said she wanted to give it to a police officer before, but didn't have time. After you reminded me, I kept watching her, and she didn't find a chance."

"Just in case, it's time to withdraw," the woman said. "You brought the person, saying she was honest and reliable, but I didn't expect her to play tricks behind her back. It was hard to get a foothold here, and now I have to give it up again."

"Hibernate for a period of time, look at the wind direction, just a person died, as long as no one sees those photos and videos, no one finds out what we are really doing, I have checked her phone, she is a woman from the countryside, and she doesn't know how to use computers, no problem, don't worry."

"You also said before that she was from your hometown, let us rest assured, didn't she still play tricks behind her back?" The woman frowned.

"Alright, I caused the trouble, I solved it myself."

"The police have already discovered the woman's corpse."

"No matter how you check, it's suicide," Luo Hu said. "I didn't kill her."

"You didn't kill her? Who did you find to kill her? You are crazy, you still dare to find someone else to handle this matter?" After the woman sat down, her emotions were a bit excited for the first time.

"Calm down, no one else came to handle this matter," Luo Hu smiled slightly. "Just suicide."

The woman was stunned.

"Since I dare to bring her, I naturally have a way to restrain her," Luo Hu said this, put down his chopsticks. "Avoid the limelight for a while, look at the wind direction and then contact, gone."

Luo Hu left.

He just told a lie. He Ting didn't find a chance. Before she died, she told him that she almost gave the things to a police officer she had seen before that night, but she found him, so the hard-won opportunity was ruined.

Luo Hu sighed. Thinking of last night, He Ting kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, Luo Hu felt a burst of irritability. Why, why couldn't she just clean honestly? She had to force him to use her daughter to threaten her to jump off the building.

But he didn't intend to tell this woman any of this.

She didn't need to know. She just needed to know that the crisis was lifted.

The woman continued to eat xiaolongbao until the last one was finished, then she paid the bill and walked in another direction.

This is the old city area, and the surveillance in this area has not been installed, so they can eat breakfast slowly here and then leave slowly.

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