Chapter 234

With a "thud," Qi Fei fell off the sofa, muttering sleepily: "How did I fall asleep?"

Zhong Kui smiled slightly: "It's okay, I've already asked clearly. This game has begun, and we all have to be on high alert."

"My mother has already been killed by him, my father cannot have an accident." Qi Fei said.

"You finally admit he is your father." Lu Man said with emotion.

"My dears, now is not the time for tenderness. I know Xi He very well, he won't waste any action, judging from the situation you recalled." Zhong Kui looked at Lu Man. "Rather than saying you bumped into it when Xi He kidnapped Qi Dongjun, it's better to say he was waiting for you to arrive after everything was arranged."

"Waiting for me?" Lu Man was surprised.

"You want to say that insignificant you are not worthy of Xi He specifically designing this scene?"

Zhong Kui's words poked Lu Man, and she suddenly opened her eyes wide, her lips trembling and unable to speak.

Zhong Kui continued: "This is no wonder for you, you have stayed by his side for too long. You are like a little white mouse in his hands. He used various means to manipulate people's hearts to establish authority in your heart. But it's very interesting, he didn't let you become his accomplice, but let you play the role of a failed savior time and time again." She thought thoughtfully, suddenly smiled at herself, and then turned to the bewildered Qi Fei and said, "Xi He's messenger has arrived, and the next step depends on us."

"What accomplice? Savior? I don't understand what you are talking about." The worry in Qi Fei's eyes when he looked at Zhong Kui. "Zhong Kui, at such a critical time, I couldn't have fallen asleep for no reason." He only remembered that he was discussing how to save Lu Man with Zhong Kui the second before, and the next second he lost consciousness.

This feeling was familiar. He took a step forward, arrived in front of Zhong Kui, and suddenly grabbed her wrist: "In Zhong Kui's memory, Xi He is blank. Only Zhong Xiaoyu understands Xi He. When did you come back?"

The woman in front of him suddenly became strange to him.

"Qi Fei, I have always been me." She suddenly sneered. "There is no Zhong Kui in this world. She is the same as the characters in the novel, it's just that my way of fictionalizing is a bit special.

Qi Dongjun only has ten days left to live.

If you want to save him, don't waste time on this boring question."

"I don't know what happened between you, but Qi Fei, she is right, the top priority is to save President Qi. What should we do next?" Lu Man volunteered to become Zhong Xiaoyu's assistant on the side.

Zhong Xiaoyu's attention fell on Lu Man: "Every time Xi He plays a 'game' with you, there is a hostage. Those people in the past, when he conducted obedience tests on you, where were they controlled?"

"Every time is different, but one thing is certain, he will make full preparations. As long as the time is up, unless he decides to let the other party go, that person will definitely die." Lu Man said, her eyes full of fear.

However, Qi Fei was very disdainful: "In this world, no one is omniscient and omnipotent."

"Unless he is Xi He," Lu Man said without thinking.

"You haven't told me yet, where did you find the marbles in the end?" Zhong Xiaoyu asked Lu Man.

"In the garden."

"Where in the garden?" Zhong Xiaoyu pressed step by step.

"I, I don't remember, the rain was too heavy, I was looking for it like crazy there..."

"No, you remember." The silver pendant appeared in front of Lu Man, swinging left and right. Lu Man's gaze moved back and forth with the direction of the pendant involuntarily, and her anxious expression relaxed.

She said like a ghost: "In the southwest corner of the garden."

"What's there?" Zhong Xiaoyu guided.

"There is a maple tree there, the maple leaves are very special, they are golden even in summer..."

Hearing Lu Man's words, Qi Fei's face changed: "That tree, I know, it was planted there by my mother, how did he know..."

The pendant in Zhong Xiaoyu's hand stopped suddenly, and she said in a deep voice: "Sure enough." As she spoke, she looked out the window. "The rain has stopped, Qi Fei, you should go home."

The sky was just breaking dawn, and the sound of police cars broke the quiet morning.

The morning mist was thicker by the river, covering the white building and the small garden.

"The news that Qi Dongjun was kidnapped cannot be known by the outside world. Being the focus has always been what Xi He desperately craves. Once this matter is fermented, many of his behaviors cannot be predicted." Zhong Xiaoyu exhorted everyone, especially Lu Man, "As for the company, it depends on you to deceive everyone."

"I have already sent an email to notify the group that President Qi is going abroad for a meeting temporarily. It should be able to hold up for a short time." Lu Man was still very professional in her work state.

And Qi Fei had already rushed toward the small building.

Liu Tong looked at his back and came to Zhong Xiaoyu's side: "I heard you are Zhong Xiaoyu, not Zhong Kui."

"Officer Liu, oh, no, Team Leader Liu, hope you've been well." Zhong Xiaoyu was much gentler than Zhong Kui when she spoke, but she was soft-spoken and not as straightforward as Zhong Kui. One could distinguish the two people just by listening.

Liu Tong unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup and took a sip: "I heard you had a mental breakdown and couldn't take care of yourself. It seems that's a rumor."

Zhong Xiaoyu put her hands in her pockets and took a breath of the cold morning air: "I just needed time. Then what about you? Your colleagues have basically resigned, only you are still a police officer. You are really not an ordinary person."

"You think too much. I have no other specialties besides this line of work. To earn a living, I have no choice but to continue doing it." Liu Tong smiled slightly and tightened the lid of the thermos cup again. "Let's go, since we are all here, let's see what kind of trouble this legendary madman is making this time?"

As he was speaking, Qi Fei's shouting came from the depths of the thick fog: "There is a situation here!"

The thick fog faded as the sunlight gradually brightened.

Under the maple tree, the soil dug up by Lu Man had become a huge pit after the rain last night. The tree roots were exposed, intertwined, and a section of white bones held in the embrace was particularly eye-catching.

"This looks like human bones," Liu Tong bent down slightly to observe and said, then turned his head to look at Qi Fei, who was already panicked. "What are you worried about? In this amount of time, people won't skeletonize. This is not Qi Dongjun."

How could Qi Fei, as a police officer, not know this? But he still looked ashen and muttered: "My mother said that this tree was planted by her own hands in the year I was born... with her own hands..."

He and Liu Tong looked at each other, and both knew that with the situation of the bones and tree roots, these bones could not have been buried afterward.