Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

Chapter 52

, Lin Pai yelled several times, but there was no response, so he held Xu Rui's head and pushed him away, but Xu Rui stuck to it on purpose as if he had installed a magnet.

"Can you pretend not to be a little bit less?" Lin Pai stood up and walked out with Xu Rui's head stuck together.

"Yes!" Xu Rui responded with a smile, and began to push forward. He not only rested his head on Lin Pai's shoulder, but also stretched out his hand to wrap him in his arms. Lin Pai looked like a walking human-shaped pillow.

Zhou Ning went to the bathroom, and Li Cheng waited for them alone at the exit of the screening room, but he ran into this scene head-on.

He scratched his head, puzzled and speechless.

"You are here, where did Zhou Ning go?" Xu Rui raised his head, but his arms were still around Lin Pai and refused to let go. Lin Pai bumped him with his elbow, and he let go belatedly.

"He's going to... go, go, go to the toilet." Li Cheng replied.

"I'm back! Fortunately, I'm a man, and the women's restroom team..." Zhou Ning trotted over from behind, and put his hand on Li Cheng's shoulder, "Old Li, why are you so stiff? Is it poisonous?"

"He just now, they..." Li Cheng pointed to Xu Rui, pulled Zhou Ning aside, and finished the next words in his ear.

After Zhou Ning listened, he turned around and said something in Li Cheng's ear. He was shocked at first, then quickly recovered his expression, and walked towards them.

"Actually, I have long felt that something is wrong. You are now completely within my expectations. Let's go, let's go out first." Li Cheng turned around and walked out of the cinema calmly.

Zhou Ning followed and kindly reached out to help him.

"Don't help me!" Li Cheng resolutely pushed his hand away. Under the bright sunshine, his back showed an air of independence from the world.

Lin Pai punched Xu Rui's arm, "You seem to have scared him."

"It's okay, this is the price of growing up, it's dad's love...what do you want to eat tonight?"

"I can't eat anymore, the movie is too boring, I ate all the popcorn."

"I'll ask them again... I'm going to the gym to practice more tonight, and I won't be with you in the Internet cafe anymore. If you put old pigeons, he should treat me like a pigeon."

Lin Pai stopped, slapped him twice on the chest, and said, "If he really boils you like a pigeon, that's also my father's love."

"Lin Pai, you these few days..."

"what happened?"

"The courage is getting fatter and fatter!"

Xu Rui reached out to catch him, but Lin Pai ran to avoid him. He chased after Zhou Ning and pointed to Xu Rui behind him, "Brother Rui, what do you want to eat tonight?"

"I'm so stuffed, I can't eat...Hey, you guys!"

Before Zhou Ning finished speaking, Lin Pai had already run away, Xu Rui only stayed beside him for a while, not knowing if he listened to his words, he ran to chase Lin Pai.

Li Cheng looked at them and couldn't believe his eyes, "My God, is it Lin Pai who is running and laughing on the road?"

Xu Rui hooked Lin Pai's neck from behind, and took him into his arms. Lin Pai couldn't see the way, so he could only be staggered by him. He took out his mobile phone in his pocket, and begged for mercy, "There is a phone, there is Telephone!"

Xu Rui let go of him a little, and watched the caller ID with him, it was his grandma.

"Hello, grandma? I'm outside... what? Lin Kangrong can't be found... All right, my dad, did you call him?

Don't answer... But I can only call him when I go back... Well, I'll go back now... Don't worry, he is such a big person, it's not so easy to lose..."

43. Chapter 43

It was almost time to change shifts. Lin Pai called Lin Kangrong while walking to the Internet cafe. Just like his grandma said, no one answered.

The setting sun hangs slantingly on the horizon, elongating the silhouette of a row of houses on this street.

Lin Pai No. pressed the dial key 15 times, walked into the Internet cafe impatiently, and only then deeply realized the meaning of the saying "There is no place to find if you break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it".

Lin Kangrong was sitting in front of a computer near the gate, and a common online game was opened on the screen. He stretched his neck and almost brought his face to the screen. The operation was not smooth, but he still enjoyed playing.

Lin Pai walked behind him, and unceremoniously turned his shoulders, "You didn't know to say something when you went out? Grandma is looking for you everywhere."

"What did you say?" Lin Kangrong asked, taking off his headphones.

"Don't you know how to answer the phone? Grandma couldn't find you, so she was in a hurry."

Lin Kangrong took out his mobile phone from his coat pocket, and he saw dozens of missed calls. He turned his neck and said, "Got it, got it, I'll go back to the head office now!"

Lin Pai snatched his mobile phone, called his grandma's number, and then returned it to Lin Kangrong, "Talk to grandma yourself."

As soon as Lin Kangrong heard the old man's voice, he gave in. He echoed repeatedly, and walked out of the Internet cafe.

Lin Pai went back behind the counter and changed shifts with the people in the day shift. As usual, he worked as a network administrator while reviewing his homework.

A little later, people who were surfing the Internet in the Internet cafe suddenly started to go out one after another. Often, one or two people came back and said something beside other people, and those people followed them out.

Lin Pai didn't take it seriously at first, but later he was the only one left in the Internet cafe, so he went out to see what was going on.

There were very few people at the entrance of the Internet cafe. Most people gathered at the intersection along this street. From a distance, a house at the corner was the center of the circle, forming an incomplete encirclement.

He squeezed to the front and saw a group of people fighting in front of the house. At a glance, there were about a dozen people. At first glance, a red viscous unknown liquid was spilled on the cement floor.

Maybe it was blood, he didn't have time to think too much, Lin Kangrong suddenly rushed towards him from the side, muttering, "Hurry up, hurry up!"

Among the people in the huddle, one noticed Lin Kangrong. He held an iron rod in his hand and swung it towards Lin Kangrong's back indiscriminately.

The people who joined the fun immediately backed away with sighs, Lin Pai ran forward and grabbed Lin Kangrong by the collar, threw him aside, rolled on the ground with his head in his arms, and avoided the iron bar.

The man holding the iron rod wanted to continue to swing at them, but was kicked to the ground by another person from behind, so he turned around and wrestled with that person again.

Lin Pai sat on the ground and patted his knees, intending to stand up. From his angle, he happened to see a woman who was obviously shorter among the fighters. She was standing in the middle, holding a kitchen knife in her hand. Waving wildly.

Lin Pai was startled, the woman holding the kitchen knife was He Hui who had been missing for nearly a month!

Lin Kangrong was so frightened that his legs trembled and he couldn't stand up. He scrambled and ran to Lin Pai, led him to the crowd, and shouted at them, "It has nothing to do with us. Ah! We don't know them!"

Lin Pai shook off Lin Kangrong, stood in front of the crowd and yelled to them, "Have you called the police? Have you called the police!"

He looked around, dozens of pairs of eyes stared at him in horror and confusion, while shaking their heads, they stepped back to distance themselves from him, as if the strange thing was not the group of people fighting, but the shouting He wanted to call the police.

Lin Pai hurriedly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, hesitated for half a second between the alarm call and Xu Rui's number, and chose the former.

"Hello? At the intersection in front of the Xinsheng Internet Cafe in Heshan Town, there is a crowd fighting. About a dozen people have iron bars and kitchen knives in their hands...Someone must be injured, please call the ambulance...Hurry up!"

After hanging up the alarm call, he immediately dialed Xu Rui's number, but the busy signal kept showing until he was automatically hung up.

Lin Pai dialed again, but there was always waiting to be connected, "Quick answer, quick answer... Usually the answer is so fast, what happened at the critical moment..."

"what--"

There was a male scream from behind. Lin Pai held up the mobile phone and turned around, seeing that He Hui had moved to the side at some point. She swung the kitchen knife and almost cut off a piece of flesh from the scalp of a strong man opposite. .

"You smelly and shameless! How dare you ask someone to punish me for owing money!"

Not to be outdone, the brawny man looked as if he would smash a pot and smash it. He held a fruit knife and slashed at He Hui. A long knife mark was cut from her back to her arm, and blood flowed profusely immediately. Her clothes were immediately wiped off. stained red.

He Hui lost strength in her right hand, and the kitchen knife fell to the ground. She had no choice but to run around covering her right hand with her left hand.

Lin Kangrong slowed down a little bit, saw Lin Pai standing so close, and tried to pull him back, "Lin Pai! You are stupid for reading! You will die! Come back!"

He Hui poked around in a group of people, but the strong man still refused to give up. He found He Hui's position, held a fruit knife and stabbed at her...

Lin Pai threw off Lin Kangrong and ran towards He Hui, trying to do it again like pulling Lin Kangrong just now, but He Hui was already in a daze at this time, she grabbed Lin Pai like a life-saving straw, and the two fell on the floor together. on the ground.

The burly man missed, and swung at them in another direction. Seeing the blade coming towards him, Lin Pai raised his hand to block it. A gust of wind blew by, but when the blade fell, it suddenly turned, leaving only the blade on his arm. There was a scratch.

"I think you're tired of working!" Xu Rui stood in front of them. He moved his wrist, kept avoiding the wildly swaying blade, and took the opportunity to control the strong man's wrist holding the fruit knife. With a little force, The strong man's wrist was dislocated, and the fruit knife fell to the ground and was kicked away by him.

He glanced back at Lin Pai's situation.