He calmed down his emotions and said with twitching lips: "Well... just... give me a chance, I'm really curious."

"Just curious?" Xue Jianian seemed to have been teasing Su Wanxia intentionally. Now that she had had enough fun, she became more serious.

Su Wanxia saw that Xue Jianian's expression changed faster than turning the page in a book, so she quickly let go of her hand and said, "Uh... of course I'm grateful."

"Well... okay, but I'm really busy recently. When I'm free one day, I'll go directly to you, okay?"

Su Wanxia could no longer understand the girl in front of her.

Su Wanxia categorically did not believe that she was just a thin, ordinary girl traveling to Lhasa. At least judging from her performance yesterday when she seized the best opportunity to rush in and rescue Su Wanxia, ​​this girl was absolutely unbelievable.

generally.

Su Wanxia also thought that this girl might be using this method to get close to her.

But this vigilance did not prevent Su Wanxia from being involuntarily fascinated by Xue Jianian.

So even though Xue Jianian gave Su Wanxia an empty promise, Su Wanxia still nodded happily.

After sending Xue Jianian away, Su Wanxia's expression immediately changed. He found the shop owner. Before he could speak, the shop owner handed over the car keys and said with a serious face: "Hit him gently! Don't really cause any harm."

Su Wanxia didn't say anything, took the key and went out.

At this moment, Lhasa has entered a level B alert state, and armed police and mobile patrol drones flying in groups of three can be seen at every intersection.

Su Wanxia was not a local, so she was inevitably questioned along the way.

However, when these armed policemen checked Su Wanxia's credit points, they immediately released her, without any other... because I have never heard of anyone with a credit point of 970 who was still involved in crime, unless the source archive of the Sinan No. 2 system was revealed.

question.

Arriving at the outskirts of the city, Su Wanxia found that Langri Mutuo's house was compact.

She had thought that the old man must have run away, but Su Wanxia still walked around the house unwillingly until an old man basking in the sun couldn't stand it anymore and reminded him: "I left a long time ago."

Su Wanxia was stunned when she heard this: "When? Wasn't he still there in the morning?"

As a result, the old man frowned and said, "What morning? He has been away for several days. You must have remembered it wrong."

Su Wanxia was stunned again: "What? Have you been away for several days? But this morning..."

Just as he was talking, Su Wanxia noticed that the doorknob he had not touched was covered with dust, but he clearly remembered that the old man Langrimutuo looked strange, but the inside and outside of the house were relatively clean. How could it be all dust?

Thinking of this, Su Wanxia couldn't help but feel chills running down her spine, and she quickly went to find her landlord who lived nearby.

The landlord thought that Su Wanxia was here to rent a house, so he opened the door for him very diligently.

However, as soon as the door of the room that was still occupied in the morning was opened, a choking smell of dust rushed into the room. It felt as if someone had been living there a few days ago.

Su Wanxia frowned and said, "Isn't it right? It looks like no one has lived in this place for decades? Are you mistaken?"

The landlord gave Su Wanxia a strange look and said, "I found this house by myself. How could I have found the wrong house?"

Su Wanxia's heart was shocked.

yes……

He walked into the house and saw that the furnishings in the house were covered with a thick layer of dust. He asked, "Are you sure Langrimutuo lived here three days ago?"

The landlord nodded: "Of course, but the old man was very strange. When I gave him the key, he closed the door and never came out. Until I checked out three days ago, the house was still the same as before, with no trace of cleaning.

None, I really don’t know how he can live there.”

Su Wanxia was also puzzled. He turned around and asked the landlord: "Are you not qualified to clean these houses?"

But the landlord put his hands on his hips and frowned: "Are you here to check your household registration or to rent a house? Why are you asking so many questions?"

Seeing that he was getting angry, Su Wanxia quickly explained with a smile: "I don't plan to rent the house, but I am willing to pay you one month's rent, provided that you tell me everything you know about Langrimutuo.

"

The landlord was stunned for a moment, but then he gave Su Wanxia a meaningful look and said, "I've seen people inquire about people, but I've never seen someone so generous as you. What's the matter? This Langrimu Tuo owes you a lot of money?"

Su Wanxia shook her head: "That's not true. A friend of mine asked me to find his whereabouts, but whenever I go to a place, he always leaves before me, so..."

After hearing this, the landlord relaxed his vigilance a little, but he smiled slyly and said: "If I have very valuable information here, are you willing to spend more money?"

Su Wanxia didn't expect that the landlord would raise the price, so she frowned and said, "It depends on how much the news you are telling me is worth."

The landlord smiled and said: "Thirty thousand yuan, fixed price, you can pay it if you want. If you don't want to, I won't force you, and I won't charge you that month's rent. It's up to you."

Hearing this, Su Wanxia found it difficult to remain calm... He felt as if something terrible was about to happen.

Thinking about today's experience again, Su Wanxia felt more and more bizarre, so she said: "Ten thousand at most, whether you like to talk or not."

"Deal!" Unexpectedly, the landlord agreed immediately.

Su Wanxia was stunned for a moment, feeling that she had been cheated because she had paid too high.

After the payment was completed, the landlord closed the door, turned on the light and said, "Since you are here to see this weird old man Langrimutuo, you must know that he often likes to smear paint everywhere, right?"

Su Wanxia's expression was calm, but she subconsciously scratched the graffiti on her arm that had not yet been wiped off.

"Um."

"The thing is like this, that day..."

…

It was the evening of one day, probably the seventh day of Langrimu Tuo's stay.

Because a census was being conducted in a nearby community, the landlord brought community workers to find Langrimuto, hoping that he would cooperate in registering information and completing the census.

However, when the boss and community workers came to Langrimutuo's residence, they found that the house was locked from the outside and Langrimuto himself was missing.

At that time, the landlord didn't think much about it and told the community staff that he might have gone to the city. When he came back, he would take him to the community service station to register.

After the staff left, the landlord planned to go back to sleep, but on his way back, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a cold-faced Langrimutuo sitting in the darkness of the alley, staring at him.

The landlord was frightened. He walked up to him angrily and asked, "You old man, why don't you go back to sleep in the middle of the night? What's the point of squatting here and scaring people?"

Unexpectedly, Langrimutuo said: "You should thank me. If I weren't here to keep an eye on them for you, you might have died."

After saying this, Langrimu Tuo got up and went back, leaving behind the landlord who looked puzzled.

…

"Is this the useful clue you mentioned? Why didn't I catch the key point at all?" Su Wanxia was unhappy.

The landlord immediately said: "Don't worry, just listen to me."

…

Back at his place, the landlord became angrier as he thought about it, because he had heard from the B&B owner that this old man was very weird. Once he said something unpleasant to someone else, that person would definitely be in bad luck.

So the landlord thought that the old man was cursing his own death.

As a local, although the landlord was not too superstitious, he did not dare to be disrespectful to God. He felt that maybe Langrimu Tuo, an eccentric old man, did have something special, so he got dressed and went out to find Langrimu.

Tuo, he was going to have a good talk with Langrimu Tuo and ask questions to make sure that he was not casting a spell on himself.

As a result, as soon as I stepped out, the landlord and boss were frightened.

Because in the alley outside his door, some white shadows were squirming like snakes around a withered corpse. The landlord screamed and immediately called the police.

The police came, sealed off the scene, and determined that the deceased was a missing person in Lhasa city a while ago, named Sanjika, a heavy excavator driver on the grassland.

But the police did not find the white, snake-like shadows on Sanjika's body that the landlord saw.

The police told the landlord that he had frozen to death and was as cold as a popsicle.

But it was only July, and the average temperature in Lhasa was above 20 degrees. How could a living person freeze to death?

…

"That's right? Did you remember it wrong?" Su Wanxia became more and more outrageous as she listened, and even began to suspect that the landlord and boss were clearly teasing him as a fool.

But the landlord said seriously: "Of course I know it's impossible for someone to freeze to death on a hot day! But maybe someone froze to death in a cold storage?"

When Su Wanxia heard this, she just said "oh" calmly.

The landlord was a little unhappy: "What do you mean? If you don't want to hear it, I won't go on."

Su Wanxia hurriedly said: "No, I've spent all my money, so hurry up."

The landlord continued: "Later..."

…

"Who do you suspect?" The policeman who took the note was about to fall asleep, but when he heard the landlord said there were clues, he immediately became energetic.

"Langri Mutuo, a guest renting a house from me! The old man is not a local. It is said that he is a veteran who served in the army in Xinjiang. I bumped into him at the entrance of the alley earlier before I found the body today. He was

... He was sneaky, hiding in a corner, startling me, and saying, if he hadn't been there, I would have died or something, oh, it was very suspicious anyway!" said the landlord.

The policeman recorded it in detail, then frowned and said, "Then why didn't you tell me when I was over there? Look, it's been several hours. If it's really the murderer, he's probably gone!"

After saying this, the policeman hurriedly went to notify the leader.

The landlord was also very aggrieved and said to himself: I didn’t think much about it...

Half an hour later, the police surrounded Langrimutuo's residence. However, Langrimuto did not escape, and he did not even lock the door. Several armed policemen broke in and took a look, and found that the old man was just passing through this broken carpet.

He was sleeping soundly in the corner of the dusty room, and even the police barging in didn't wake him up.
To be continued...