Braut mit Geisteraugen 2

Kapitel 4

One swimmer asked, "What are you doing? Driving like that?"

One swimmer replied, "Judging from this, it's probably an 'armed swim'?"

One swimmer corrected, "No way, they haven't even attacked Taiwan yet!"

Dayu was tall and a good swimmer; after a couple of splashes, he stood up in the armpit-deep pool.

The fat security guard was short and a poor swimmer; all he could do was splash around haphazardly and gulp down water.

Just as Da Yu had steadied the fat security guard, a lifeguard from the pond came running and threw a lifebuoy, which hit the fat security guard squarely on the head!

Without a word, the chubby security guard entered the water palace a second time. Seeing this, the man quickly reached out and lifted the chubby security guard up, then put a lifebuoy around his neck.

Taking advantage of the moment, Da Yu suddenly grabbed the man and angrily asked the fat security guard, "Is it him?!"

The fat security guard opened his mouth, but no sound came out, only water. He could only nod.

Da Yu gritted his teeth, grabbed the man, and walked towards the pond.

"What happened? Xu Haibing!" The woman who had been left behind cried out in a soft voice, on the verge of tears.

The man—Xu Haibing turned around and replied, "I'm baffled too! Mengliu, you go back first, I'll be there soon!"

QQ Lost 4(1)

"Achoo!"

In the office of the West Suburbs Police Station, Da Yu, who had suddenly become a "lotus emerging from the water," sat at the desk and, before he could even speak, let out a loud sneeze.

On the opposite bench sat Xu Haibing, still seething with indignation. He was in his late twenties, with a robust build and a handsome appearance; his angular face exuded a stern arrogance.

"Name?" Dayu asked.

"Huh? So you don't even know who I am, and you brought me here without even knowing who I am!" Xu Haibing was completely uncooperative.

Da Yu tapped the table: "This is the interrogation procedure."

Xu Haibing was so angry his mouth twisted into a crook: "What?! Are you interrogating a thief?! What law did I break? You're like herding pigs in an alley—straight to the point, don't beat around the bush..." He heard his cell phone ringing at his waist, took it out and answered: "Hello... Mengliu, are you home yet?... I'm at the police station right now... I'm still completely confused, I'm asking them..."

Da Yu gestured towards Xiao You, and Xiao You got up and snatched the phone that Xu Haibing was using.

Xu Haibing jumped up, strode to the table, and pointed at Da Yu: "I'm warning you, don't break the law! I'm not getting any younger, and I've finally found someone I like. Today is my first time meeting her parents and being interrogated by them, and I never expected to be dragged here for your interrogation. If you detain me without cause, ruining my good time and causing me to remain a 'diamond bachelor' for life, I'll immediately—no, you don't even have the right—I'll immediately sue your director! You believe me?!"

Da Yu retorted coldly, "I believe you, I believe you. Who do you think you are? You're just the old governor's grandson!"

Xu Haibing rolled his eyes, speechless: "I... I'm the old beggar's grandson, and I'll still sue you! Because I am a citizen of the People's Republic of China, and my personal freedom and dignity are protected by the Constitution!"

The phone on the table rang again, and Xiao You turned it off first.

"Fine, fine, I don't want the phone anymore, you can keep it and play with it." Unable to bear it any longer, Xu Haibing turned and walked out.

Xiao You quickly got up to pull him away, but Da Yu stopped her: "Let him go, let him go... You still know you're a citizen of the People's Republic of China, you still know there's a Constitution. As a citizen, you have the responsibility and obligation to actively cooperate with the public security organs in investigating and handling cases, and to provide any intelligence or clues you know. This is also stipulated by the Constitution..." He scratched his head and turned to Xiao You, "Which chapter was it written in?"

Xiao You shook her head truthfully.

"...Oh, I don't remember the exact words, but that's the gist of the constitution. Your roommate suddenly and inexplicably died in his room, and wasn't discovered until two or three days later. Who else should we ask if not you? The old lady selling popsicles at the school gate?"

"What?! Shen Daxing is dead?!" Xu Haibing was suddenly shocked and turned around.

"Who would joke about a living person like this?!"

"What caused your death? Was it suicide or homicide?" Xu Haibing hurriedly pulled up a chair and sat down at the table.

"If we knew, would we have gone to all this trouble to invite you? Do you think we wanted to invite you, on a Sunday?"

"What does his death have to do with me?"

"Whether it matters or not is not up to you to decide, nor is it up to me. Think about it, when was the last time you saw him in the dorm?"

Xu Haibing thought for a moment: "Hmm... the Friday before last, perhaps."

Da Yu asked again, "What was he doing at the time?"

Xu Haibing looked up and thought for a moment, then answered definitively, "On the internet!"

Da Yu then asked, "If we push forward, what is he doing?"

Xu Haibing thought for a moment and then replied, "I'm online."

"What if we push it further back?"

"Browsing the internet."

...

"Seriously!" Da Yu angrily slammed down his large tea mug. "Oh, he doesn't eat or drink all day, does nothing but surf the internet?!"

Xu Haibing looked completely innocent: "What's the big deal? Not eating or drinking? Some people don't even pee or poop! Let me tell you, some people go online wearing baby diapers and stay online for three days and three nights straight..." He turned to Xiao You, "Isn't that right?"

Xiao You nodded truthfully: "Yes, that's right, I think I saw it in the evening paper."

Da Yu was puzzled: "Wow, this is really weird! In the past, Cai Yongxiang said, 'I can go a day without eating, but I can't go a day without studying Chairman Mao's works.' Now it's become, 'I can go a day without eating, but I can't go a day without going online.' I just don't believe that going online can be more addictive than drugs!"

Xu Haibing chimed in, "You're right. Internet addiction is no less than drug addiction these days. Do you know what people call the internet? They call it 'internet opium,' 'electronic heroin.' People who are used to the internet feel restless and anxious if they don't touch a keyboard for a day. They feel like they can't live like that."

"Isn't that just crazy?!"

"You were right again. There really is such a disease, it's called 'Internet Famine Panic'! Quite a few people..." Xu Haibing suddenly stopped talking and stood there stunned.

The two policemen curiously craned their necks to get closer to him.

"Bang!" Xu Haibing slammed his hand on the table and stood up abruptly.

The two policemen reacted instinctively and stood up abruptly as well.

"Did he... die while surfing the internet?!" Xu Haibing asked mysteriously.

The two policemen neither confirmed nor denied it.

Xu Haibing continued his wild speculation: "...Prolonged and continuous internet use leads to high levels of mental stress, extreme physical exhaustion, hormonal imbalances, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, a sharp drop in immune function, and increased strain on the brain and heart, triggering a series of complex physiological changes, resulting in cerebral hemorrhage or sudden heart attack, which went unnoticed and without timely rescue..."

The two policemen seemed to understand something.

"Ding..." The fax phone on the desk suddenly rang.

Xiao You picked up the microphone: "Hello...yes...okay...good...I'm giving you a signal." He pressed the green receiver button and told Da Yu, "Shen Daxing's autopsy results are in."

Da Yu exclaimed in surprise, "Oh, that was really fast!"

QQ Lost 4(2)

The fax machine slowly ejected two pages of the autopsy report. Da Yu hurriedly grabbed them and went straight to the second page, reading the final conclusion word by word: "Sudden death due to myocardial cell damage caused by shock." It took the three of them a long time to raise their equally bewildered faces…

QQ Lost 5

Xu Haibing took a taxi straight to the subway station after leaving the police station, rushing to his girlfriend's house.

Logically speaking, given his own circumstances, both good and bad, he shouldn't be facing such difficulties that he's almost thirty before starting to worry about finding a partner. But Xu Haibing is Xu Haibing after all. With a family background of veteran revolutionaries and having grown up in a traditional, closed military compound, he developed a somewhat independent and arrogant personality. This meant he wasn't likely to proactively express his feelings to girls, nor was he likely to passively accept advances from them, whether overt or covert. It wasn't until his junior year of college that he developed a slight interest in a female classmate who was also a student council member. However, two donkeys can't share the same trough, and her early display of a strong, independent woman greatly dampened his enthusiasm for pursuing the relationship, causing their progress to stagnate until graduation. Without a solid foundation, everything crumbles. Later, their career aspirations and destinations didn't align, and their relationship ended without fruition. Unable to resist his family's wishes, he reluctantly entered a political career after graduation, responding to the Party's call to work in a remote and impoverished township. His job was to spend the entire year either collecting taxes and levies, urging sterilization, forcing cremations, or leading people to dig ditches. In his spare time, he had to play cards and eat and drink with the Party secretary and township head. At the time, his only thought was to get through those two or three years of training; he had no time to think about finding a partner. Later, Qingyuan, where he worked, was upgraded from a county-level city to a prefecture-level city, giving him the opportunity to enter the municipal government early, become a part-time graduate student, and finally, sparks flew between him and Mengliu, who happened to be visiting his father at the university and asking about him. Originally, Mengliu had planned to do things secretly, considering her parents' arrogant and intellectual attitude. However, that night, when the two were getting intimate by the lotus pond, they ran into the fat security guard who wanted to curry favor and get promoted early. He exposed their little secret without any leniency or mercy, forcing him to bite the bullet and go to Mengliu's parents' house to be interrogated before the day was over.

Xu Haibing was walking down the steps amidst the hurried flow of subway passengers when his phone rang again.

"...What? Speak louder. Mengliu, I can't hear you..." Xu Haibing stopped at the bend in the steps while answering the phone.

Meng Liu's weak voice said, "...Don't look for me again."

"Huh?!..." Xu Haibing exclaimed in surprise.

At this moment, behind him stood an elderly blind couple, their hair white and wearing sunglasses, leaning on each other, holding a money box and singing "My Motherland" with great emotion:

"...This is our beautiful motherland."

It is where I grew up...

"What are you yelling for?! Can't you see he's on his cell phone?!" Xu Haibing turned around and scolded him angrily.

The blind couple remained silent, trembling with fear.

Xu Haibing pressed closer to the corner of the wall: "...What? What did your dad say?"

"...My dad said that no one in our family, not even close relatives, has ever been taken to the police station."

"And what about your mother? What did she say?"

"My mom said our family can't afford that reputation..."

"And what about you?... " Xu Haibing still clung to a last glimmer of hope, but the only answer he received was the busy tone after the phone was hung up...

"Sigh--" Xu Haibing leaned against the huge advertising poster on the wall, looking like a deflated balloon.

The advertisement featured a bare, white, beautiful woman's leg raised high, with a provocatively large foot seemingly resting on Xu Haibing's head...

The elderly blind couple who were busking nearby began to sing again, their voices filled with deep emotion and trembling with fear.

"The girl is like a flower."

"What a broad-minded young man..."

QQ Lost 6(1)

The campus under the cover of night, especially since it's located in the middle of nowhere and the lights-out bell has rung, appears eerie.

This vast wilderness was once eyed by a Taiwanese businessman who had several mistresses across the Taiwan Strait. It's said that the initial investment and development funds were transferred from across the Strait. However, after his personal feng shui master assessed the area and determined that the yin energy was too heavy, he immediately withdrew his investment and left. In the past two years, Lianjiang City has expanded rapidly, like an inflating balloon. Just as a wealthy and powerful landlord used to take a maid as a concubine, it has ruthlessly annexed the surrounding suburban counties. As a result, this area, which was originally neither a city nor a county, suddenly became a piece of fat meat that everyone was vying for, giving the municipal government a headache. In the end, they simply refused to give it to anyone and designated it as a "university town," launching a "prestigious universities leaving the city" movement, which led several colleges and universities from the provincial capital to build new campuses here. Thus, the watermelon patch on which the fat security guard depended for his livelihood suffered, but he himself benefited. As compensation, he not only obtained urban residency but also got a job at a legitimate security company, becoming a trainee security guard at the new school built on the site of the former watermelon patch. However, the only thing he couldn't do freely now was being treated like a child bride by the regular security guards, who assigned him all sorts of heavy and tiring work. Tonight, the routine patrol, which wasn't originally his responsibility, was once again assigned to him.

"Hmph, always picking on the weak. Just wait until I'm officially in charge, and after all these years I've finally become the mother-in-law, see how I deal with you all!"

The chubby security guard pushed his bicycle out of the guardhouse, muttering unhappily as he got on and wobbled off onto the road.

The dim streetlights and dappled shadows cast an eerie atmosphere along the tree-lined paths of the campus.

The chubby security guard looked nervous and hummed a little tune in a trembling voice to bolster his courage. Before he knew it, he had ridden to the end of the road. He simply abandoned his bicycle, stood against the wall, and relieved himself, which he was about to burst.

Thump! He suddenly realized something and timidly turned his head to the side—

Huh?! Standing right in front of me was the dark back wall of Building D, the student dormitory building!

The chubby security guard trembled involuntarily, and, as if possessed, began to count the rows of dark, gaping back windows on the fourth floor:

"...404, 405, 406, 4, 40..."

--Only the back window of room 407 was half open!

--A dim blue light flickered inside!

--There was also a faint dark shadow moving around!

"..." The fat security guard was so terrified he could only open his mouth but couldn't utter a sound. Forgetting the trickling flow of heat, he turned and lunged at the bicycle.

A shimmering arc shot out into the darkness of the night...