Chapter 39 Humbert Humbert VI

The house was too big to be soaked in by its limited popularity, and it exuded a lifeless smell.

It was a dead air that sunlight, flowers, and lights could not dispel.

He stood at the entrance, hesitating.

Logically speaking, this should be his home, but every time he steps on this spotless porch and faces the sunlight coming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, he is filled with fear.

At this time, vague music came from upstairs, and the melodious female voice was singing the chorus repeatedly. He was in a trance for a moment, as if he vaguely knew what was going to happen, he slowly stepped forward and walked inside.

The touch of the sunlight falling on him became very strange, it was cold, wet and cool, not like the sun, but like the wind in the rain, and it passed his forearm, which was exposed outside the summer school uniform, with a layer on it. Fine skin bumps.

He walked up to the second floor, and the sound of the music became clearer and clearer. The familiar melody stuck in his chest like a choker. He had difficulty breathing, and suddenly stopped, trying to escape.

However, when he turned around abruptly, he realized that everything behind him had melted into the darkness, everything seemed to be predetermined and arranged, and there was only one way and one destination in front of him.

The ubiquitous darkness surrounded him from all directions, forcing him to retreat up the narrow stairs, forcing him to push the door open—

"Boom" with a loud noise, he felt something explode in his ear, and then he looked down and saw the woman lying on the ground.

Her neck was unnaturally slanted to one side, her body was already a stiff iron blue, but her eyes were open - as if her body was dead, but her soul was still alive.

The woman stared straight at him, with two lines of blood and tears in the corners of her eyes, and asked coldly, "Why didn't you save me?"

His breathing suddenly tightened and he stepped back.

The woman stood up staggeringly, and reached out to him a hand that had grown corpse spots: "You can feel everything, why are you hiding from me? Why don't you save me?"

That hand was entangled by the swept darkness. The darkness seemed to have life, engulfing her without any reservation. She kept screaming and questioning, struggling to reach for him, but was constantly being pulled. into darkness.

He subconsciously grabbed the cold, corpse-spotted hand, listening to the whistling scream, feeling that he was falling. Suddenly, something grabbed him behind him, his back rested on a hard, warm body, and a pair of hands wrapped around him and moved up, covering his eyes.

He smelled a faint smell of smoke on the well-knotted hand, and immediately, a light exploded between his fingers—

Fei Du woke up suddenly.

He was sitting in his study room, flipping through a somewhat boring project book, and saw that he was half asleep.

At this time, it was in the afternoon, and a cool breeze came in from the window. didn't know when the wind was surging outside the window. Seeing that a heavy rain was brewing, the roaring noises and the qiáng light in the dream suddenly fell. , it turned out to be lightning and thunder, and the phone kept ringing next to it, and it showed that there had been three missed calls - no wonder he heard that music in his dreams.

Fei Du took a deep breath, and while standing up to close the window, he picked up the phone: "Hello?"

Zhang Donglai's voice squeaked into his ears: "In the daytime, Master Fei, why are you unable to get on and off from this beautiful woman? I called you several times, but you didn't answer!"

"Lei is too big, I didn't hear you." Fei Du's head was still a little heavy, and he rubbed his eyebrows, "Why?"

Zhang Donglai: "Wind, rain, sun, baby, come out làng!"

Fei Du walked to the window, and felt that the water vapor in the air was about to burst out, and the plants by the window lowered their heads slightly: "This is breaking the sky, where are you going?"

Zhang Donglai: "There is a new cross-country racing track in the Xiling Ecological Zone, and they are not good enough. They have specially opened a 'death track', which is only opened when the weather is bad. What are you talking about? Haiyan'er, let the wind and rain come more violently!"

After hearing this, Fei Du felt that all the muddy ideas were splashed into his ears with those words.

"Listen to what you said, you are so sullen, and you don't have the liveliness of contemporary youth at all. People have eaten and seen them in their entire life, what else can they do? Isn't it left to play to death?" Zhang Donglai said plausibly. , "If you don't like to drive the car, don't drive it, just come and show your face, I tell you, they have a club in this parking lot, and they have brought a small art troupe here. There are all kinds of beauties in it, including black, long, straight and big beautiful girls. Er, there is also Xiao Wenqing who plays the qin, who is not in the same class as those snakes with jingy faces, it is completely in line with your taste in things, the opportunity is rare, come over quickly, don't be obsessed with old men at home - not everyone Are you looking for someone?"

"You're quite well-informed," Fei Du sneered. He was a CEO who grew up in a greenhouse. He didn't want to be a lively little idiot, playing to the death in the heavy rain. , "I don't..."

At this moment, Fei Du leaned against the window and suddenly saw his dimly lit study room. For some reason, he remembered the upside-down dream just now... and those hands that smelled of smoke.

It had been more than a month since he gave Tao Ran a meal at the house. Fei Du, who had been harassing Officer Tao twice in the past three days, didn't even make a phone call. First, he knew that Tao Ran had someone he liked, so it was inconvenient to be too intrusive. It's because every time he sees the unfortunate game console, something is wrong with him.

Today is even worse, and has nightmares.

"Okay," Fei Du changed his words temporarily, "You send me the address."

At the end of July, the rainy season in Yancheng is also coming to an end. However, the continuous rain does not mean to die, but becomes more and more frustrating.

Luo Wenzhou went back and forth two hours after getting off work. He threw the car at the entrance of the city bureau. He didn't take an umbrella. He put the hooded clothes over his head and rushed into the building in the rain.

"Team Luo, the conference room on the second floor, hurry up!"

Luo Wenzhou shook his wet jacket, revealing three bloodstains on the back of his hand, and ran up to the second floor in three steps, the breath caught in his chest, and then he gasped: "What the hell is going on?"

"I don't know, I just arrived," Tao Ran rolled up the umbrella, "what's wrong with your hand?"

Luo Wenzhou scratched the wound on the back of his hand that had stopped bleeding angrily: "Our light bulb is flat, and I'm just changing the lights in the dark. The old man suddenly called and urged my life, so that I accidentally stepped on the ancestor's tail— Land Bureau!"

Speaking of the old man, the old man will arrive immediately.

Lu Youliang quickly waved to the two of them, and a gust of wind blew toward the conference room. Luo Wenzhou and Tao Ran hurriedly followed.

"Today is the last day of the enrollment summer camp for the No. 16 Middle School in the city. The school organized the students who participated in the summer camp to visit the ancient ape-man ruins memorial hall in Xiling, and rented a minibus. In addition to the driver, there was a leading teacher and ten Eight elementary school students who started school and entered the graduating class ended their visit around 5:00 p.m., and they set off to go back. They were originally scheduled to arrive at the school at 7:00, but now they have lost contact with each other."

In the middle of the night, the Criminal Investigation Team of the City Bureau was alerted, thinking that it was definitely not a car accident. Luo Wenzhou and Tao Ran looked at each other, and neither of them said anything. Bureau Lu raised his hand and pushed open the door of the conference room. The people in the conference room were about to stand up when Lu Youliang raised his hand and pressed down: "Don't worry about me, keep talking. !"

The slideshow in the conference room changed in response, and a huge live map was spread on it.

"The license plate number of the missing minibus is Yan NLXXXX, from Hengtong Leasing Company. The driver is Han Jiang, male, 41 years old, with 15 years of driving experience, and the leader of the team is Hu Lingling, female, 32 years old, from the Sixteenth Middle School. Teacher, a native of Yancheng. The car departed from the back door of the museum in Xiling at 5:05 and entered the national highway. Around 6:00, several parents of students learned that due to sudden extreme weather, some sections of the national highway were temporarily suspended. The road was closed, I called to confirm with the teacher, and got the news that the detour has been detoured, but the road conditions are not very good, and the expected time to arrive at school is one to two hours later than planned."

"Around 7:40, the parents called again and wanted to know where they were, but the phone of the leading teacher, Hu Lingling, was turned off. At this time, the parents did not realize that there was a problem, and immediately called the child and answered the phone. After the call, I heard a child crying, screaming and a man roaring and scolding, and before he could ask what happened, the phone was hung up four seconds later."

"The parents immediately called the police. There were several children in the car with mobile phones with child positioning systems, but the tracking results showed that they were scattered at the foot of a mountain, presumably they were ordered to throw them away. But there was also a child wearing sneakers. There is a GPS chip on it, showing that their position has now deviated from the established route, and they are still traveling in the southern mountainous area of ​​Xiling County."

"Are the kidnappers in the car or did they meet the robbers on the way?" Luo Wenzhou asked, "Have you taken the initiative to contact the outside world, and what requests did you make?"

"not yet."

"Luo Wenzhou," Director Lu raised his head, "This matter involves several districts and counties in our city. Various departments and the SWAT team need to cooperate closely. It is up to you to make overall arrangements and report directly to me. Can you do it?"

Luo Wenzhou was stunned for a moment. For a while, he could clearly feel several eyes falling on him. Fortunately, his psychological quality was excellent.

"Everything is based on the personal safety of the children, speed!"

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, with no sign of weakening.

The girl was sitting next to the teacher leading the team, her little floral dress had been wetted by the rain that drifted in from the car window, but she didn't dare to close the car window.

She heard Mr. Hu's pleading voice: "Brother, what do you want? You can take the things and money in the car as you like. We will never talk much, and we will definitely not tell others... I also have some parents' contact information here. If there is any difficulty, I can contact them immediately..."

"Shut up." The man sitting beside the driver interrupted her coldly, with a flash of knife in his hand, "I told you to gān what you gān, why is there so much nonsense! Continue to drive forward!"

The young female teacher raised her head pleadingly, looked at the bus driver through the rearview mirror, and looked forward to the middle-aged man holding the steering wheel in his hand to come up with something.

But the driver only returned her a frightened look, and then dodgedly avoided her sight, obeying the gangster's words.

After the minibus full of students was diverted, it encountered a car that broke down on the side of the road on a muddy road.

That section of the road was very narrow, and the other side took the first block so seriously that the minibus was a bit difficult to pass, so the driver and teacher had to get out of the car and talk to the owner. The owner of the car was a young man with a sloppy appearance, but he was very good at talking. The three adults worked together to move the broken down car a little to the side, and finally cleared the way. Before Mr. Hu could straighten up, he was held back by a steel knife. lower back.

The wipers made an overloaded "squeak" sound, and the CMB drove completely into the Xiling Mountains. There was no one in the distance, and a thunderstorm struck down, illuminating the gangster's pale face.

"Drive into the clearing ahead," he said, "and stop."

The minibus stopped obediently at the designated location, the sound of the engine turned off, the surroundings became quieter, and the atmosphere became more terrifying.

The female teacher's heart was already in her throat. She heard the girl around her sobbing uncontrollably. She quickly covered her mouth with her hands, and desperately shook her head at the surrounding children, telling them to keep quiet and not to provoke them. The gangster took a few deep breaths at the same time, she tried her best to suppress her panic and fear, and quietly put her hand into her bag.

"You," the gangster held a machete around the driver's neck and pointed at Hu Lingling, the female teacher's hand was frozen in the bag, and the gangster's cold eyes were fixed on her, "don't hide behind and make small moves, Come forward."

In the blink of an eye, Hu Lingling touched what she was looking for. She retracted her hand, quietly stuffed the thing into the hands of the student in her arms, and touched the girl's hair.

The girl's eyes widened, the teacher didn't speak, she just pointed her eyes towards the direction of the window, then stood up slowly, showed her hands, and walked forward according to the gangster's request.

The girl in the floral dress tightly squeezed the self-defense alarm that the teacher had put into her hands, and carried it behind her back.

Less than three kilometers away from this place, the crazy dudes went back indoors. At first, they wanted to play with off-road vehicles, but halfway through it was not fun, so they replaced them with off-road motorcycles, screaming and running. After a circle, I poured a chill through my heart.

Fei Du unbuttoned his neckline, threw his helmet aside, took a towel, and raised his hand to brush his wet hair behind his head. He had to admit that the entertainment method of suicide was indeed very relaxing.

"Mr. Fei isn't leaving today, right?" The beautiful girl who handed him the towel held her chin and looked at him. The fragrance of "Cheetah" mixed with the wet breath, strong and cold, and it boiled after driving in the rain. The blood that he woke up instantly matched, coupled with the girl's elegant temperament, it was simply a temptation of contrasts tailored to his taste.

Zhang Donglai laughed like a dog next to him, and Fei Du used his toes to figure out who arranged this.

In fact, it was harmless to stay overnight, but Fei Du glanced at the girl and couldn't seem to get interested. He always felt that the cheetah's wild sex was a little less interesting, as if he was someone who wanted to eat spicy millet from hell, and they served him it. A plate of steak sprinkled with a little black pepper.

He was a little itchy and wanted some stronger flavor, but he didn't and didn't plan to make do with it, so he smiled politely at the girl: "No, there's something going on at the company tomorrow morning, so I have to rush over early, I'll go back to the city later. inside."

The girl was a little disappointed: "It's hard to come here. It's so dark and the road is not easy to walk. It's not safe to go back now."

"Isn't it safer than riding an off-road motorcycle in the mud on a rainy day? Actually, I didn't plan to come today, but I had a hunch that I would regret not coming for the rest of my life." Fei Du looked down at That girl, like she didn't want money, said sweetly, "After seeing you, I realized that my hunch was accurate. It's a worthwhile trip. Even if you take a knife today, it's worth it."

The girl blushed at his glance, but she didn't answer.

Fei Du picked up a bowl of ginger soup, and was about to leave after filling it, when the club owner came out: "Master Fei, if you want to leave, wait a while, I just heard that the road here is closed, and a lunatic is kidnapping nearby. A carload of elementary school students on an outing went out of nowhere, and the special police were dispatched."

Fei Du was stunned for a moment.

The madman who kidnapped the primary school student stood guard at the only door of the CMB, holding a knife in each hand, daringly aimed at the only two adults in the car, and threw an old-fashioned non-smartphone to Teacher Hu: "Now I want you to call them."

Teacher Hu glanced at the girl in the floral dress, then looked back at the driver who shrank cowardly to one side, slowly took the mobile phone and the paper student directory, and called a parent: "Hello...I I'm Hu Lingling, the leader of the team, and a robber was caught in the middle of our car... ah!"

The gangster poked the back of her neck with the tip of the knife, and the sharp stabbing pain mixed with the cold sweat pulled the female teacher's nerves.

"Don't say superfluous words, tell them, say I want money, they can raise funds, no matter what, collect five million as soon as possible, and deliver it to my designated place before dawn, and I will call them again when it is ready. I don't care where the money is sent, if they are willing to call the police, I don't care. Anyway, these cubs are in my hands. I will do it if I see a police car. If I see a police car, I will pick a cub and kill it. This car is fried, let you have a taste of what it tastes like!"

The phone disconnected with a click, and Luo Wenzhou raised his head.

"Boss, I can probably locate it, and it basically matches the GPS information in the kid's shoes. How do we get there?"

Luo Wenzhou pondered for a moment: "How's the personal situation of the driver and teacher?"

Lang Qiao was stunned: "It's not the robber I met on the way..."

Luo Wenzhou: "How does the robber who is alone on the road know that there are children in that car? Even if he knows, even if he has a weapon in his hand, how can he have the confidence to deal with two adults alone?"

Lang Qiao was startled, and at this moment, Tao Ran's phone came in: "Captain Luo, we are in the residence of the driver Han Jiang. He sold a lot of furniture. According to the people around him, he may have contracted the virus. Addicted to gambling."

Luo Wenzhou frowned.

Hu Lingling's heart was beating very fast. The kidnapper was dancing in front of her and showing off his might. The blade in his hand was flying up and down in front of her.

"It can't go on like this." She thought, and her eyes met the girl in the floral dress again. The girl seemed to understand her eyes, and her small body curled up by the car window, and suddenly sounded the alarm in her hand and threw it away.out.

The sharp siren blasted next to the minibus, and the knife-wielding criminal was stunned on the spot. At this moment, Hu Lingling jumped up and threw himself on top of him. The two of them rolled out of the half-open door together. She ignored her.The cold blade cut through the sting of the body, and shouted to the driver: "Drive! Drive!"