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Chapter 189: Airport's Spinning Top

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"You come over here, I'll kill you!" Xiao Hei looked around, its distracted appearance completely out of rhythm with this fierce tone. Qi Fei bent down to listen carefully to Xiao Hei's words. Indeed, when it said the word "you," the trailing end began to rise, exactly the same as the tone Lv Ying imitated Chen Hao when she was hypnotized.

"I asked people from the ticketing company to find a few voice messages sent by Chen Hao, which can be used for reference," Wu Shanqiu said, taking out her phone and playing Chen Hao's voice message.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Chen Hao's voice came out, Xiao Hei's state immediately fluctuated. It flapped its wings, seemingly wanting to escape, and the chain on its feet pulled the rack, making a "clanging" sound.

Seeing this, Liu Binjie immediately stepped forward to comfort it.

"Where is my stuff?! Kill you!" Xiao Hei repeated these words, all of which it learned on the night Chen Hao died.

"Could it be that these words were said by Chen Hao to Xiao Hei?" Wu Shanqiu's eyebrows were high and low, looking at Xiao Hei, who was shivering in Liu Binjie's hands. The voice message of Chen Hao playing on the phone obviously scared it.

Qi Fei's gaze also focused on Xiao Hei, repeatedly recalling its words: "If the person speaking was really Chen Hao, he was obviously looking for something, but he asked Xiao Hei where his stuff was. Is this reasonable?"

Liu Binjie immediately said after hearing this: "If it's really like this, then this person is too whimsical. I know Xiao Hei's habits best. It is indeed a very smart bird, but the things you see it say or react to are all conditioned reflexes. For example, when it comes to live streaming, it will perform, but it actually doesn't understand the true meaning of these words. To put it this way, even if you ask it where the stuff is, it won't give you an answer."

"At most, it learns this sentence, 'Where is my stuff,'" Zhong Kui described what Liu Binjie wanted to express incisively on the side.

"Right! Of course, like we usually train it consciously, for example, some specific words, it will give corresponding reactions," Liu Binjie said, and began to demonstrate to Xiao Hei, "Xiao Hei, sing a song."

"You are my, little, little apple~" Xiao Hei immediately hummed and sang properly.

"Xiao Hei, Gong Xi Fa Cai."

"Idiot!" Xiao Hei said the familiar word.

Liu Binjie smiled bitterly: "This is a failed case, but indeed, if you say this to it, it will return an 'Idiot' now. It can be considered the result of training..."

"It seems that people often say, a myna's mouth, can speak but not do. That's what it means," Zhong Kui said leisurely.

"It seems that the deceased didn't know the habits of these birds. He went to such great lengths to sneak into the Bai Niao Guan at night. What exactly was he looking for?" Qi Fei looked puzzled.

"On Chen Hao's body, apart from his mobile phone, wallet, and an empty black plastic bag, he didn't bring anything. It seems that no matter what he was looking for, he didn't find it successfully on the night he died," Wu Shanqiu said on the side.

"Hoo... freezing to death!" As soon as Wu Shanqiu walked out of the Bai Niao Guan, she immediately wrapped her sweater jacket tightly.

The spring in Nancheng has plummeted this year. The temperature was heading toward thirty degrees in the past two days, and it has dropped to only ten degrees in these two days.

Zhong Kui only wore a silk cheongsam, walking leisurely in the cold wind, making Wu Shanqiu dumbfounded: "Xiao Kui, aren't you cold?"

"Um, it's okay. My perception is relatively dull."

"You are still dull, then we are turtles."

"Perception is dull, but the brain is still useful," Zhong Kui smiled, "Listening to this, our deceased, before he died, lost something important."

"But, what exactly is so important? You say it's normal for others to lose things, it's just this Chen Hao, I don't even understand what he is anxious about. Didn't we initially fail to find his residence? When I was studying airport monitoring, I discovered one thing. This Chen Hao, at least on the day Lv Ying returned home, basically didn't leave the airport for 24 hours," Wu Shanqiu said shivering.

"Taking the unit as home? It seems to be a model worker, heh," Zhong Kui smiled.

These words reminded Qi Fei, and he immediately said: "That is to say, he solved eating, drinking, and pooping at the airport? It seems we have to go to the airport to see."

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the T2 terminal of Nancheng Airport, watching silver-gray planes sliding on the runway outside the glass. Wu Shanqiu pointed to the monitoring video just retrieved on her phone and said: "Fei-ge, look, this is Chen Hao's trajectory for the past three months—every day from 2 am to 4 am, he will appear in the corner of the massage chair in the B-zone departure hall."

The two crossed the bustling passengers and came to the B-zone. The artificial leather massage chairs had been worn out, and the stains of years were shining with oil under the fluorescent lights.

Qi Fei squatted down to check the seats. The cleaning lady pushed the cleaning cart over, looked at the two people in plain clothes, didn't know they were police, and asked curiously: "What are you looking for?"

Qi Fei showed her Chen Hao's photo: "Do you know this person?"

As soon as the aunt saw it, she immediately recognized it: "I know this man! I don't know what he is doing in the airport. Just see him holding a briefcase, running around on the phone, and sleeping on the chair when he is tired. Look!" She said, pointing to the rest area not far away, "Over there, get a blanket to spread and sleep on the chair. When it's dawn, go to the toilet on the side to brush your teeth and wash your face, just like at home."

"Um? Do you know where he puts his luggage?"

"He, just like playing guerrilla in the airport, dragging a suitcase, stuffing it wherever there is space. Recently, he stuffed it in the locker of the baby care room over there. Once I saw him take a blanket out to spread on the chair to sleep when I was cleaning," she lowered her voice and pointed to the back diagonally, "That side is not filmed by the camera."

Qi Fei looked in the direction she indicated. A notice of "Equipment Maintenance" was posted on the door of the baby care room.

They climbed over the temporarily pulled isolation belt, pulled open the cabinet door inside, and the moment it popped open, the faded toiletry bag rolled out of the half-open suitcase. The lid of the mint-flavored shaving foam had dried and cracked, and simple clothes and toiletries were stuffed messily. This was all of Chen Hao's belongings.

The terminal broadcast suddenly sounded a boarding prompt. Wu Shanqiu looked at the flights taking off outside the window and pursed her lips: "His colleague was right. This person took the airport as a carousel that never stops."

In the monitoring room, in the thirty-times-speed playback screen, Chen Hao's figure appeared in every corner of the airport: shaving in the washroom in the morning, squatting by the charging pile to eat rice balls from the convenience store at noon, covering his head with a jacket on the massage chair late at night...

Because the airport is a special place, Chen Hao, whether dragging a suitcase or staying overnight at the airport, mixed in the crowd of rushing passengers, appeared completely unobtrusive.

"Hey, this Chen Hao is really a spinning top that puts all his strength..." Wu Shanqiu sighed. ===== CHAPTER 190 =====

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