360: Chapter 158: The Bad News Is She’s Not Quite Normal 360: Chapter 158: The Bad News Is She’s Not Quite Normal Early in the morning, Wang Yunxiao climbed out of bed and ran to the headquarters of the Special Service Bureau without even having breakfast.
“Hello, I want to inquire about the suitcase that was sent from the Nantong District branch at the beginning of the month, the one marked with the owner being Li Mumu…”
“It was just returned to the person concerned.”
“Did the person come to pick it up in person?”
“Let me check the signature…
Yes, it was collected on behalf by Section Chief Yao, and taken to the hospital building.”
“Hospital?”
Wang Yunxiao felt a tightness in his heart and immediately turned and ran into the hospital building.
He didn’t know which room to search for, so he had to search floor by floor and almost got mistaken for a spy and caught.
It wasn’t until he reached the special care ward 303 on the third floor that he saw Li Mumu lying on the hospital bed.
The young girl had her eyes tightly closed, her complexion pale, lying under the covers on the hospital bed, seemingly still in a deep sleep, with the suitcase quietly placed in front of her bed.
She had actually come back!
If he hadn’t seen her in person, Wang Yunxiao wouldn’t have quite believed it.
Of course, this had absolutely nothing to do with any male-female affection issues.
It was purely…
well…
he felt that the sudden disappearance of Li Mumu had, to some extent, something to do with him.
Otherwise, how could a naïve and simple heiress like her get inexplicably involved in something like this?
Wang Yunxiao felt very guilty.
He had to admit that he had indeed been somewhat negligent at the time, as he hadn’t followed up on the clue when he saw the words “save me” written in the notebook.
Now, thinking back, if he had gone there a bit earlier that night…
A bit earlier my ass, I didn’t even know where she was!
No, of course it wasn’t Li Mumu’s problem, it was mine.
Not studying hard enough usually, and not having a sufficient knowledge reserve in relevant areas, resulted in being completely useless at the critical moment.
In the future, he must study diligently, dig out all the goods from Nurse Liu.
He wanted to sit by Li Mumu’s window and take a good look at the girl, but he felt as if he didn’t have the right to do so.
Who are you to her?
You’d sit by her side while she’s sleeping?
It wouldn’t matter to him if someone else saw, but what about the reputation of the girl’s family?
Wang Yunxiao thought about it and took out his notebook to write a line of text— “If you need help, you can find me.”
He didn’t reveal more information; this way even if someone else saw it, it wouldn’t matter, only Li Mumu herself, upon seeing this piece of paper torn from the notebook, would understand the meaning.
Folding the paper neatly and placing it beside Li Mumu’s pillow, Wang Yunxiao tiptoed out of the hospital building.
Before leaving, Wang Yunxiao also specifically went to observe the “explosion site” of the Special Service Bureau.
It could be seen that the explosion was quite severe, with half of the building being replaced with new construction.
The Special Service Bureau’s bucket-carrying uncle was even more impressive; he had only taken one night to repair the entire building.
If one didn’t observe closely, the seams between the old and new sections were hardly discernible.
Wang Yunxiao wasn’t too surprised.
It’s the Special Service Bureau, after all, a place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers; it wouldn’t be odd to have a big shot who could wave a little stick, mutter “restore to original” and handle it all.
I’ve witnessed Red Alert-style troop explosions; what can’t I accept?
Back at school, Wang Yunxiao bumped into Little Gourd wearing a look of silent resentment.
“Final exams are coming up, and you actually sneak out for a date with a woman at this time?”
“Don’t talk nonsense, who said I went out on a date with a woman?”
Wang Yunxiao denied with an unchanged expression, refusing to admit.
“A friend of mine is sick and in the hospital, I went to visit.”
“What friend do you have that I don’t know about and you dare not tell me?”
“What do you mean ‘dare not tell you’?
I have nothing I ‘dare not tell you’!”
Wang Yunxiao became annoyed and angry.
“Am I your elder brother or are you my elder brother?
You turning things upside down now?”
He steamed Little Gourd until his face turned as puffy as a bun.
Of course, he had to admit that Little Gourd was right, the final exams were right around the corner, and Principal Zhou was not someone to show mercy.
Now was not the time to be thinking about women, the last few days were especially crucial, they would determine whether his brothers would be drinking thin porridge or eating dry rice.
For the entire week that followed, Wang Yunxiao was at school with his brothers, dedicating all his time to tutoring, without receiving any messages from Li Mumu.
Then, on June 24th, the final exams finally ended.
After handing in the last paper, Wang Yunxiao stretched, letting out a long yawn.
The semester had finally come to an end, and up next was the joyous and lengthy summer vacation.
Summer vacation, for him, had become a distant and unfamiliar term, he hadn’t even made any plans for it.
Apart from a trip out of town with Old Master He, there didn’t seem to be any other plans.
Should he take shifts at the police station or find some other way to earn a living?
Wang Yunxiao hadn’t made up his mind yet.
He had just laid down in his dorm when he took out his notebook for a glance and to his surprise, there was a message written on it.
“Who are you?”
???
Fuck, you’ve got to be kidding me?
Wang Yunxiao felt darkness before his eyes; he sat up, took out a pen, and was about to reply.
But before his pen touched paper, he hesitated.
What was Li Mumu’s current state?
Was it her who had left the message?
After weighing it in his mind for a moment, he wrote: “Don’t you remember?
Last time at the gate…”
If it was Li Mumu, she should be able to recall their first exchange of diaries… spit, what diary exchange?
It was when they discovered the notebook’s communication function at the Western restaurant across from the Special Service Bureau.
This was a secret known only to the two of them.
However, the reply came quickly: “Who am I?”
I…
My heart is tired.
Was Eldest Miss Li suffering from a psychotic break, or had she caught the poetic sickness?
Don’t play such high-level tricks; I can’t take it!
“Where are you?
I’ll come find you.
Let’s talk when we meet.”
“I’m at home.”
A few seconds later, another message was added: “Nearby the small square.”
The small square, huh?
Wang Yunxiao remembered, it should be the place where he last got into a fight.
“Okay, I’ll be there in thirty minutes!”
After writing this, Wang Yunxiao stood up, changed clothes, and prepared to leave.
But just as he was leaving the dormitory, he saw Youtiao and the others laughing and playing around downstairs, and from the looks on their faces, they seemed to have done well on their exams.
“Big Brother, where you off to?”
“I’m going out for a bit.”
“Together?”
Little Gourd said somberly from the side: “Go where?
Big Brother is going on a date, what are you going to do?”
“Huh?”
“Who?”
“What’s the story here?”
Once she mentioned this, everyone got excited.
Initially not too interested, now they simply had to go!
“Cut it out!”
Seeing their hyper state, Wang Yunxiao knew that today he probably would not escape their company.
But he was without guilt; Laozi wasn’t actually going out on a date or picking up girls, why should he feel guilty?