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It's still raining.

As soon as he walked out of the bathhouse, Ni Lu couldn't help shivering.

No kidding, it's really cold.

After a while, my toes were numb from the cold, and I just wanted to go back to the dormitory and shrink into the bed.

The soap and shampoo that Ni Lu brought into the bathroom were not taken away, even the umbrella was taken away by the two boys and discarded.

Usually Ni Lu really doesn't care about the rain, but right now, he is wearing Zhang Yucheng's clothes, a long windbreaker that looks very expensive at first glance.

Seeing Ni Lu's predicament, Zhang Yucheng opened his umbrella and walked into the rain without saying a word, then turned around and said, "Come here, I'll take you back."

This time Ni Lu didn't hesitate any longer, and quickly walked under Zhang Yucheng's open umbrella.

The area of ​​an umbrella is limited, and two tall and burly boys are squeezed inside. Unless each other's arms are attached to each other, one shoulder will always be wet by the rain.

When Ni Lu just ran under the umbrella, he subconsciously wanted to keep a little distance from Zhang Yucheng, but he saw that the other party tilted the umbrella towards him, and most of the other shoulder was exposed outside the umbrella. Push the umbrella pole with your fingers to tilt the umbrella towards Zhang Yucheng.

Zhang Yucheng glanced at him, but did not move the umbrella to Ni Lu.

The weather is very cold, they are very close, and the body temperature of each other is constantly coming from the place where they are touching. It is strange but strange and there is no sense of rejection.

After taking off the windbreaker, Zhang Yucheng only had a hooded sweater and a pair of trousers, which looked flimsy. Ni Lu didn't ask if the other party was cold, because it was obviously nonsense.

The two didn't talk much at first, until they came to a fork in the road, Zhang Yucheng wanted to go left, but Ni Lu turned right.

Zhang Yucheng looked at him puzzled, "Isn't the dormitory of the School of Architecture going this way?"

Ni Lu said, "I've moved out."

Zhang Yucheng was silent for a moment: "Where did you move?"

"The old dormitory building of the former Academy of Fine Arts."

Zhang Yucheng raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Isn't that old building already sealed off?"

Ni Lu: "I live here."

Zhang Yucheng didn't ask why he moved, and he guessed the reason before Ni Lu said that he had moved out of the original dormitory.

Public opinion is overwhelmingly biased towards the woman, and Ni Lu is no different from a criminal in the eyes of people, so much so that it has already had a great impact on Ni Lu's daily life.Just judging from the fact that the two boys stole the clothes Ni Lu placed in the dressing room and discarded them as a matter of course, it is enough to know how embarrassing Ni Lu's current situation is.

The crime of stealing alone is enough to make other people in the same dormitory treat him as a thief, so Ni Lu is nothing more than being squeezed out by the people in the same dormitory, so he can only move out and live in an old dormitory that is about to be closed for renovation and has long been unoccupied. in the building.

Otherwise, if you can’t live in a new building with water, electricity and heating, you have to live in an old building with nothing, looking for abuse?

On the way to the old dormitory, amidst the patter of rain, Zhang Yucheng suddenly said, "Is there any progress from the police on the matter uploaded on the Internet?"

The two stood very close. Ni Lu's left arm was close to Zhang Yucheng's right hand holding the umbrella. When he spoke, his deep and gentle voice seemed to ring in his ears. Ni Lu only felt that his left ear was a little hot.

He is indeed the most outstanding and perfect boy voted by the whole school. Even his voice is so nice, like the sound of a cello string being gently plucked, coming from the left ear, and the apex of the heart trembles slightly.

Ni Lu couldn't help but raised his hand to touch his burning ears, suppressing this weird and unfamiliar feeling, "The police said they would contact me if there was any progress, and asked me to keep my phone open, but I haven't received a call from them."

Hearing him talk about the mobile phone, Zhang Yucheng remembered one thing, he sent a message to the other party but didn't wait for a reply.

"You lost your phone too?"

Ni Lu shook his head, "I didn't take my mobile phone to the bathroom, it was charged in the dormitory."

Zhang Yucheng's eyes dropped slightly, and he could easily see the scar at the corner of the eye of the person around him. It was the first time he looked at it so closely, and he realized how shocking this scar was. It was about three centimeters long, directly cut off the eyebrows, and even penetrated the upper eyelid And the lower eyelid, so deep and so long, maybe the left eye will be blind.

In the past few days, the wound has healed and new flesh has grown, and the color is obviously different from the rest of the skin, so an ugly centipede-like scar was left on Ni Lu's face, destroying his original clean facial features, It made his face look more ferocious.

It's easy to make a bad first impression.

Zhang Yucheng knew this was not the case. Once he got rid of prejudice, every time he looked into Shang Ni Lu's eyes, he always felt as if he saw a pool of crystal clear lake water. Peek into the introverted vastness of the truth.

Just as he was thinking, the person Zhang Yucheng was watching suddenly raised his eyelids and looked sideways at him. His gaze suddenly met, like a soft knife, directly piercing Zhang Yucheng's heart without injury or pain.

Looking at each other silently, Ni Lu first said, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Yucheng squeezed his hands in his trouser pockets, only to realize that his palms were already hot and humid.It was so cold, but he was so hot that his palms were sweating.

His Adam's apple slipped slightly, swallowed, and said, "Are you worried?"

"How should I say it?" Ni Lu looked away, looked at the raindrops dripping from the umbrella beads, and said calmly, "Because I know it's useless to worry, so I try to calm my mind and try not to worry about it." Think, wait for the results. I didn't do those things, and I believe the police will clear my name."

"I have arrived."

Zhang Yucheng looked up, only to realize that they had already walked in front of a three-story dormitory building.

This dormitory building was completely immersed in darkness, only the street lights not far from the gate on the first floor were on, like a beacon to guide the direction.

Black tiles and blue bricks, old-style wooden lattice doors and windows, mottled walls covered with moss, all tell the age of this old building.

"Just send me here. Thank you tonight, Chairman Zhang."

After all, before Zhang Yucheng could speak, Ni Lujian ran into the rain with his slippers and a plastic bag containing shampoo and soap, and ran towards this old building.

Zhang Yucheng stood where he was, watching him off.

Ni Lu didn't stop on the first floor, but ran up to the second floor in the dark.Soon, a dormitory on the second floor near the stairwell lights up.

It was the light from an old tungsten bulb, yellowish and not bright enough.It was the only light coming from the whole building.

Standing downstairs and looking towards the second floor, Zhang Yucheng felt that the moment the light came on, it drove away the nighttime silence that surrounded him.

The first thing Ni Lu did when he returned to the dormitory was to take off his windbreaker, tear off the sweater around his waist and throw it away, then tremblingly found out his long clothes and trousers and put them on.When he took out the quilt and wrapped it around his body, he walked out of the dormitory door and stood in the corridor, what he saw was the back of Zhang Yucheng walking away with an umbrella under the rain in the middle of the night.

Ni Lu stood for a long time, until Zhang Yucheng's figure completely disappeared from sight, then wrapped up the quilt tightly and walked back to the dormitory where he was alone.

Insert the key into the lock and turn it, and the door was pushed open with a "click", the room was pitch black, Zhang Yucheng felt the switch on the wall, "snap" the room lights turned on, and the dormitory was empty at a glance.

The dormitory that Zhang Yucheng lived in was a double room, and his roommate was a graduate student from the same department as him. He was already busy with his studies and had a girlfriend, but he came back less frequently than Zhang Yucheng, who lived off-campus.

After returning to the dormitory, Zhang Yucheng immediately went to the bathroom to take a shower and changed into clean clothes. Then he felt a little warmer and sat down in front of the computer.While waiting for the computer to turn on, he tapped his fingers on the desktop one after another, looking full of thoughts.

After the computer started up, he immediately logged into the background of the student union administrator, found the file of Ni Lu who was registered, and turned to the application form he had written, "The student's conduct needs to be inspected, and he will not pass it temporarily." This line of words, I just took it for granted at the time, but now it seems that something is stuck in my throat.

He has the authority to modify Ni Lu's credit evaluation, but the reduction in credit has already affected him, and the missed ones can no longer be made up.For applications such as scholarships and grants, you have to wait until at least next year before you can apply again.

After editing and exiting the backstage, Zhang Yucheng went to the school forum and picked up the first posted video, which was the video of Ni Lu wandering outside the victim "Miss Tian"'s house.

The videos Zhang Yucheng found were all double-speed processed. He adjusted these videos back to normal playback speed and watched them over and over again.

He didn't find any useful information, so he went to the Internet to find another video, which is currently the most controversial one. Ni Lu followed "Miss Tian" into the golden leopard, and ran out after being discovered.

Whether the "Miss Tian" in the video is the victim "Miss Tian" is still in dispute. None of the two Miss Tian has come out to clarify or blew himself up.

After opening the downloaded video, Zhang Yucheng watched everyone in the video, Ni Lu who was surrounded and torn off his mask, the people who chased him and ran out of the leopard, and the "Tian Tian" who only appeared in the video for a few seconds. Miss".

Zhang Yucheng's gaze stayed on this "Miss Tian" for the longest time.

"Junior Zhang, why are you still not resting so late?"

Zhang Yucheng's roommate pushed the door open and came in, closed the door behind his back and began to take off his coat, talking to the person sitting in front of the computer.

Zhang Yucheng glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the monitor, it was 39:[-] in the morning.

"Didn't the senior say to go out with your girlfriend? It's already this time, why don't you stay outside for a night?"

"Horrible." The roommate sighed sadly, "It's raining and cooling down, my girlfriend and I went late, we looked around for hotels near the school, and they all said there were no rooms available. I have no choice but to send my girlfriend back to their dormitory and I will come back. We are usually busy, so it’s hard to make an appointment. We have to separate after eating a meal and watching a movie. The next time we make an appointment, we don’t know what it is It's time."

Zhang Yucheng clicked on the browser, entered a few words on the search engine, and clicked Search, "Since it's so inconvenient, why didn't the senior move out with his girlfriend?"

The roommate opened the closet to look for clothes to wear after taking a shower. His face was almost buried in the closet, and the voice came out a little muffled, "I'm looking for it, but the one with the right price is far away from the school, and the one close to the school is stressful for us to rent. That’s why it’s been dragging on.”

Zhang Yucheng stared at the monitor, scrolled the mouse wheel, his expression remained unchanged, "If the senior really wants to find a house to rent near the school, I can help you find it. I happen to have the resources for this."

The roommate was no longer looking for clothes. He looked up from the closet and looked at Zhang Yucheng with surprise, "Do you really have the resources for this?"

Zhang Yucheng turned the chair under his buttocks to face his roommate, and nodded at him, "I know several people who rent houses nearby, and I can help negotiate with them about the price."

"Great!"

The roommate happily closed the closet, holding a set of clothes that he found out in his hand, "My girlfriend and I don't have high requirements, we can share the rent with others, as long as there is a separate bathroom in the room."

Zhang Yucheng promised to help his roommate find a house with a suitable price, and said that he would give him an answer the day after tomorrow at the latest.

After confirming that Zhang Yucheng could really help them rent a house that met his and his girlfriend's expectations, the roommate happily walked into the bathroom humming and whistling.

Hearing the sound of water rushing from the bathroom, Zhang Yucheng logged into his computer, a chat software that he had never seen on the market, found a contact in it, and found a message for him: help me investigate a person .

The other party replied quickly: Who is it?

Zhang Yucheng sent a video: the "Miss Tian" in the video

Mystery Man: OK

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Jiuzhen: Didn't find out, since I left my contact information, it has always been the path that Zhang Xiaogong took the initiative to contact.hey-hey