Vampire Manual

Qi Qi didn't react for a while, and Li Shuang made a new discovery.

"Fuck, even the keys look alike."

With a start, Qi Qi suddenly reached out and snatched the key, and stuffed it into the bag with lightning speed.

Li Shuang was puzzled, and said with a smile: "Why are you nervous, I can still go to your house to pick the lock."

Qi Qi didn't speak, just swiped the things into the bag in twos and twos, and then lay back on the chair with the bag in his arms.This time, both earphones were plugged into the ears.

Li Shuang looked at his empty palm with a dazed expression.

We had a good chat before, so, what's the situation?He doesn't think he's an annoying person, who doesn't like him in the neighborhood and the neighbors, not to mention that this kid is really nice?Why is he so unpopular in front of half of the older children? If you say he doesn't look like a bad guy.

"Adolescence, don't worry too much, children at this time are awkward." Liu Ting appeared out of nowhere, and patted him on the shoulder with a little comfort, "Come on, the brothers over there are playing cards, three missing one, shouting looking for you."

"Oh." Li Shuang looked back at the child while following Liu Ting out.It's really small, with a small nose and mouth, small arms and legs, just like... like a cute cat.

Later, Li Shuang never saw Qi Qi again, he was dragged to play cards all night, woke up the next day, it was noon, the leisure was over, and he drove back.On the contrary, Pata was with them. Everyone else regarded him as Mint's roommate, who still needs love and care, so he felt quite normal. Only Li Shuang knew the truth, so the consequences of holding back and being unable to tell were extra internal injuries.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Shuang arrived at his community.

As soon as he entered the unit building, Li Shuang felt that something was wrong. In the past, this corridor was desolate and lonely. You can cosplay Lanruo Temple by putting a plaque on it, but now it is inexplicably noisy, with gossip constantly floating down from upstairs. Listen carefully, oh, there are not enough people few.

Li Shuang's vigilance was raised in an instant, and he walked up three steps in two steps. Originally, he wanted to learn from Dayu and went straight to the source of the incident, but he never thought that the scene of the crime was at his door.

As soon as the landlord saw him, he immediately rushed out from the crowd, and his movements were as vigorous as the pacesetters of the whole police force.

Li Shuang took two steps back subconsciously, as if what flew in front of him was not the landlord but a javelin.

"What are you doing? The phone has been turned off!" The landlord is a middle-aged woman, and Li Shuang has not yet figured out where she is from. Anyway, she is not from the north, maybe Sichuan. The whole thing is full of hot peppers.

"Well, the mobile phone is out of power," Li Shuang said, looking at his home, sofa, TV, water dispenser, feeling sad, "Sister, you are too ruthless, you just pick the lock if you can't get through the phone."

Unexpectedly, the landlord exploded as soon as he heard this: "I haven't asked you for the unlocking fee yet! Xiao Li is not talking about you, I don't care about you when you go out to play, and I don't care, but you should check the water, electricity and gas, you go in Look, the house has become an artificial lake, and the downstairs is leaking, what are you doing!"

Halo, no way.

Li Shuang quickly pushed aside the crowd and went into the room to have a look.

Uh, well, rhetoric is indeed a woman's talent.The house was indeed flooded, but the hardest-hit area was the bathroom. I don’t know if the sewer was blocked or something else. In short, the water in the room was completely flooded. The faucet was turned off, and the bathtub was full of water.But the bedroom was completely fine, and the living room was just a little watery.The downstairs was indeed affected, but it was not as serious as a mess, but the bathroom was ticking, and a wall above the TV in the living room had faint water stains.

Li Shuang immediately cleaned the scene of the crime until it was confirmed that there was no sound of water ticking downstairs. As for the damp walls, he had to wait for them to dry naturally.Fortunately, the guy downstairs was easy to talk to, usually he didn't look up and down, and he had a good impression of the guy upstairs, so Li Shuang made a few apologies and it passed.

In the end, the landlord dismissed the good old man and old lady, and gave Li Shuang a 15-minute ideological and political lesson. He didn't coax him away until the latter swore to the police badge that he would not be an example.

After a battle, Li Shuang slumped on the sofa tired and didn't get up for a long time.

Bad luck!Li Shuang made a verdict on this matter in his heart.What else can I say, the water was cut off the night before yesterday, and at first he thought about turning on the water pipe, so that he would know when the water came, but he would forget it when he turned around.It's a good thing that the water only came today. If it came yesterday, what would happen if the water flooded the golden mountain?

Having had enough rest, Li Shuang got up and wanted to go to the kitchen to get something to eat, but he didn't want to lose a slipper, and he didn't know where he kicked it when he was on the sofa just now. I searched under the sofa, but found the slippers, just under the sofa, but they were already soaked.

I don’t know what kind of terrain is under the sofa. There is nothing else but a small puddle there. Li Shuang took a rag and stretched out his arms to wipe it. He felt that there were no potholes under his hands, and it was quite smooth, so he felt that this place was becoming more and more strange. slope.Feeling that it was almost cleaned up, Li Shuang took a flashlight to take a picture, fearing that some water would slip through the net, but he couldn't find the water, so he took out a photo.

It was a Polaroid.Dusty, but clear in color.

Sunlight came in from the window and shone on Li Shuang.He stared fixedly at the two people in the photo, struggling to breathe.

Qi Qi, the child just told him this name yesterday.He asked if it was Qiqi of the July [-]th Incident?The child said, have you ever seen someone whose surname is Arabic numerals?What did he say then?Oh yes, he said look at my brain, I'm Qi Jiguang's relative, my name is Li Shuang, let's get to know him formally.

Qi Qi in the photo didn't look like a dead child, instead he was dumb, harmless and innocent.He didn't seem ready to be photographed, as if he didn't understand the situation.On the other hand, the grinning ignorant thought he had won 500 million yuan, and the hand around the child's shoulder was also very natural, as if to say, hey, did you see, this is my brother.

No wonder he found the child inexplicably familiar, no wonder the child reacted so strangely to him.

The thumb lightly strokes the four Arabic numerals in the lower right corner, 2007.

Something has been cut from memory.

He was sure.

"What's the matter?" Bo Xiyan never said "Hello" when answering the phone, as long as it was not an unfamiliar number, he would always use these three words, as if he was certain that no one would chat with him.

Well, actually mint is right.

"Is Pata there?"

Mint paused, and then said, "Say it again."

If it wasn't for the other party's flat tone, Li Shuang would have thought that he wanted to fight him desperately: "Uh, you don't have auditory hallucinations, I'm looking for Pata."

Soon, Pata's brisk but slightly puzzled voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Shuang, mint said you were looking for me?"

Li Shuang really didn't like the abbreviation Pata gave him: "Well, I have something to ask you, is that okay?"

"Of course. Mint's friends are Pata's friends. But what do you want to ask?"

"How long have you known Liu Ting?"

"Uh, it seems like a little over half a year."

That was what happened in August and September last year. While thinking about it, Li Shuang asked, "What about Qi Qi, when did you know him?"

"Shuang, your question is very strange. The two of them live together. I have known you since I met Liu. They are together."

"Then do you know me?"

"Mint, your friend seems to be out of order..."

"Whoa, I mean before this year, before I sent hazelnuts and walnuts to your house, did you see me?"

"Li Shuang," Bo Xiyan was on the other end of the call this time, "I don't know what you want to ask, but if you're still so unimportant, I'll just hang up."

Li Shuang blinked and realized: "You shameless, you actually turned on the speakerphone!"

"three."

"Ok?"

"two."

"Hey!"

"one."

"I found a photo of me and Qi Qi under the sofa at home. I'm not sure if it was the beginning of last winter or the end of the year. I'm a little messed up now."

"..."

"Mint, you didn't hang up the phone, did you?"

"Qi Qi?

"Ok!"

"who is it?"

"..."