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"Mr. Xu, your rose."

When the young man who worked in the flower shop chased him out, Xu Mo had already opened the car door and was about to go in.

In November, Lianyu City has officially entered autumn. Even if there is sunlight pouring down from the gaps between the lush trees, it will be quickly blown away by the wind, unable to bring the slightest warmth to pedestrians. Affected by the bad weather, he is slightly With a cold, even wearing a heavy camel-colored windbreaker, you can tell that something is wrong with your pale face.

Xu Mo turned around, took the red rose from the young man's hand, and smiled kindly. Although his voice was a little hoarse, he could still hear a bit of relief and joy from his tone: "Thank you, I almost came here today The most important thing here is forgotten."

"You're welcome, didn't Officer Bai come with you?" The young man also put on a smiling face, looking a bit simple and honest.

If Xu Mo remembers correctly, Bai Qi ordered a bouquet of flowers from this store about three months ago as a gift for the fourth anniversary of their relationship. Lively arranged into a wedding scene.

But when the flowers were delivered, Bai Qi realized that something had gone wrong.

He originally ordered a whole bouquet of passionate red roses to describe the growing love between them, but what he delivered that day was a bunch of elegant white roses, which were eclipsed by the bright light in the room .

The grumpy police officer Xiaobai turned his face on the spot after getting the flowers, and directly called the shop owner. After some investigation and questioning, the whole story of this matter finally surfaced, but it was the new clerk who placed the order Mixed up, a small mistake.

Bai Qi was obviously not very satisfied with this result, thinking that this matter directly affected the harmonious and happy married life between himself and his wife, and demanded that it be dealt with seriously. In the end, Xu Mo said that he liked the purity of white roses more, so he gave up. , and the young man in front of him happened to be the new clerk three months ago.

Recalling this point, Xu Mo shook his head, and couldn't help jokingly said: "Why, last time the trouble was so unpleasant, do you still want him to come?"

The person standing opposite was obviously startled for a moment, then stretched out his hand and rubbed his hair, smiling a little forcedly: "Haha, although Officer Bai has a bad temper and is a bit irritable, he still looks very handsome."

The young man finished talking on his own, only to find that Xu Mo's face became more and more ugly. After a few seconds of silence, he said lightly: "I'm sorry, I don't like people saying that my Mr. Bai has a bad temper. OK, can you apologize?"

Although Xu Mo's tone was very light, and he could barely hear any emotional fluctuations, the displeasure in his words was very clearly expressed, as if his usual gentleness was slowly cracking, and the young man was instantly taken aback. Wrapped by a strong sense of oppression, he nodded, and said with an embarrassed expression: "I'm sorry."

Xu Mo raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and his face softened a little. He didn't say anything more, but directly opened the car door and left. The temperature of the air conditioner in the car warmed him a lot, and his mood gradually relaxed.

The car was running smoothly on the road. After about 5 minutes, the comfortable temperature in the cabin just now was suddenly suppressed by a cold current, and it became colder and colder. Xu Mo was forced to park the car in the On the side of the road, he checked the air conditioner switch but found no problems. He frowned, feeling vaguely that something was wrong.

Just when he took out his mobile phone and was about to call someone to fix it, a young man in black came out from a fork not far away. He was wearing a dark green peaked cap with the brim pressed down very low, and his facial features and eyebrows were all hidden. In it, he couldn't see his face at all, and the withered and yellow leaves were trampled under his feet, making a small sound, like the prologue of a lamentation.

After seeing the person coming, Xu Mo's brows furrowed even deeper. He raised his head with a look of contempt in his eyes.

The man didn't care about his expression, and said with a low laugh, "Hi, great scientist, long time no see."

Xu Mo paused for a moment, without any intention of coming forward to say hello.

"If you haven't contacted for such a long time, why are you still such a stinky character that you don't want to communicate?"

"Long story short."

"Okay, let me ask a question first." The man lowered the brim of his hat, and added a bit of sternness in his voice: "When I was tracking Bai Qi that day, why did you suddenly appear and interrupt the dean's plan?"

"You seem to have made a mistake." Xu Mo interrupted him with cold eyes: "Bai Qi is mine, and no one can touch it. I seem to have emphasized this point many times."

"But you clearly know that his physical fitness is the best among all the experimental products, and he has already noticed what you are doing. How do you think, as a policeman, he will treat a serial kidnapper?"

"Shut up!" Xu Mo suddenly shouted, he paused, and then took a deep breath, as if to calm down his tone: "This is a matter between us, and it's not up to outsiders to interfere. And I don't like it when you call him a guinea pig, understand?"

After he finished speaking, he got into the car and slammed the door hard. At the same moment as the engine started, the man came over and tapped on the car window twice, and Xu Mo's hands stopped. He put down the door glass a little irritably: "What else is there to do?"

"Bai Qi already guessed it." The man stood outside the car, looked down at him, and smiled maliciously: "If he wants to destroy the dean's plan, how do you plan to deal with it then?"

Xu Mo frowned slightly, but did not speak.

The atmosphere was deadlocked for nearly 2 minutes before he gritted his teeth and said slowly: "If there is a day, I will personally get rid of him."

"..."

During the whole process of driving back home from the flower shop, Xu Mo's eyebrows and eyelashes kept fluttering uneasy. He was so chaotic that he couldn't calm down. When he finally arrived at the door of the house, he found that the door was ajar and not locked at all. Something flashed through his mind. The word thief, then pushed the door open and walked in cautiously.

The light was not turned on in the living room, Bai Qi was sitting on the sofa, his burnt cigarette butts were thrown all over the floor, his shaved and three-dimensional facial features were soaked in the moonlight, looking a little distorted.

Xu Mo frowned and turned on the switch of the chandelier, and the scene in the room suddenly became fine and clear. Together with his pale and gloomy face, he was stunned, walked over and asked softly, "What's the matter with you?"

Bai Qi paused for a moment, did not speak, but reached out to take the cigarette on the coffee table, put it in his mouth and lit it, his face was shrouded in the lingering smoke, although he was very close, he felt that he could not see clearly from afar .

He opened his mouth, his voice was a bit hoarse: "Where did you go just now?"

"Buy flowers."

"Xu Mo, what kind of person are you?" Bai Qi flicked the cigarette in his hand, and the gray ash fell on the carpet, and it seemed to dissipate in an instant: "Sometimes I wonder if I really understand you."

Xu Mo didn't speak, but it seemed that Bai Qi didn't need anyone's answer, because he continued to ask, "Where are you from 07:30 to [-] o'clock in the afternoon three days ago?"

Immediately after the end of this sentence, the huge living room became audible, only the breathing of the two people was infinitely amplified in the long silence, and the pictures of the past flashed through Bai Qi's mind. He was clearly sitting on the sofa But it feels like the whole body is floating in mid-air.

It was a deep sense of powerlessness that cannot be described in words.

Don't lie to me again, he thought.

As long as you admit that you went to that restaurant three nights ago, no matter what the reason is, I will trust you without reservation and continue to treasure and love you as a treasure in my heart, so don't lie to me, please.

Xu Mo's movements froze for a moment, and he had a faint premonition of reluctance, but he couldn't explain why, as if a very important person had been here before, but left in the end.

He sighed, and said three short words extremely difficult: "I am at home."

The anticipation looming on Bai Qi's face immediately oxidized. He stared at Xu Mo with a complicated expression for a while, and then gave a short laugh, which sounded like it was forcibly squeezed out of his chest, a little stuffy.

Xu Mo closed his eyes, suppressed the soreness in his heart, and asked in a cold voice, "You doubt me?"

No one spoke in the room, it was surprisingly quiet, and the question sounded like a deep sigh.

After a while, Xu Mo walked past Bai Qi with a dark face, put the rose in his hand into a vase, then without looking at him again, took the car keys and rushed out.

Bai Qi still maintained the posture just now, he sat on the sofa with his back stiff, his mind was completely blocked by messy thoughts, it took a full 5 minutes like this, before he regained some reason.

Outside the window did not know when a strong wind blew, some dark clouds were blowing, and it looked like there would be a lot of rain.The umbrella at home was still hanging on the wall next to the door. Xu Mo didn't take it away when he went out, and it was so late, and his clothes were very thin. Where would this person go?

Bai Qi turned his head and glanced at the direction he was leaving, finally got up and put on a coat, and decided to go find Xu Mo.

He thought he could stop people in the parking lot, but when he got there, he found that Xu Mo's car was gone, so he had no choice but to walk forward, planning to call a car to go directly to the research institute. He had already made up his mind, but he His movements froze for an instant.

Because he found that Xu Mo's Buick was parked in front of the parking lot at the moment, the door was open, there seemed to be dark red blood stains on the windows, and under the tires were surgical blades scattered all over the place