Chapter 332 Passing by
Lu Lixuan worked until very late that day. When he walked out of Xiaomeng Tao Tea House, the lights of the shops on this street were almost all off except for the dim street lights.
For a long time he stood opposite and watched the first snow of New Glen in the dark shadow.
A fellow clerk said behind him, "I've asked around, the boss lady is fine. The doctor said it was malnutrition and hypoglycemia, she hasn't eaten much in the past few days. Alas, even a strong man can't stand this."
Lu Lixuan didn't say anything.
The store manager asked, "Still no news? What did the police say?"
My fellow clerk shook his head.
"Ex-husband. Doesn't she have a divorced husband? Let the police investigate her ex-husband!"
"I heard the police went to look for my ex-husband a long time ago. But the problem is they didn't find anything."
"That's strange. Where can a little girl go?"
"It's hard to say. Most likely he met a kidnapper."
Lu Lixuan murmured in a low voice: "Kidnappers, illegal traders who sell local humans for profit."
A fellow clerk sighed and said, "Xiao Nan is quite pretty. She might be able to survive if she encounters a kidnapper, but she must not encounter anything..." She swallowed the rest of her words.
"Don't make wild guesses. It's only been a few days. Maybe she'll be found soon. God will surely open his eyes." The store manager said. He has two children of his own and can't bear to see such a tragedy happen to his children. Just mentioning it in words made him feel bad for Zhu Xiaojing. He stopped the topic and turned around to pull down the shutter.
A new day always comes, and life goes on slowly.
After the closure of New Gelan's Chuxue, the only milk tea shop left on this street was Xiaomeng Taocha Liao. As my colleague said, they won the milk tea war.
Nowadays, Xiaomeng Taocha Liao is crowded with customers. Lv Lixuan is very busy, but he rarely thinks about the next new product. Without the competition from Newglan's Chuxue, he also lost the motivation for research and development.
Zeng Liangcai still didn't come back.
After closing the shop that day, Lv Lixuan walked across the street and came to the store of Chuxue in Xinglan. Under the street light, he saw a line of words written on the shutter door: "Shop transfer, please contact mobile phone 139XXXXXXXX."
He stared at the line of words for a long time.
There was the sound of a door being opened and a man came out from the shop next door. He was the owner of the shop next door and was holding the key to lock the door.
Lu Lixuan said: "Is this store going to be transferred?"
"Yes, the boss's wife and daughter are gone, so how can she focus on running a business?" said the boss next door. "Even if she closes the shop and doesn't do business, she still has to pay the rent every day. How can she survive?"
"oh."
"It's such a pity for the boss lady. Her career was obviously on the rise, but why does she have such a miserable life?" The boss next door sighed and left.
Lu Lixuan stood at the door of the store for a while, then returned to his store.
He stood in front of the counter, which was wiped clean and had a little water sheen on it. His eyes roamed around the store, and he didn't know what he was looking for. There were measuring cups of different sizes, an ice maker, a teapot, an electric cooker for making grass jelly, and various raw materials sorted into different categories. There was a gap in the corner of the counter, and Lu Lixuan looked over there, revealing a corner of a plastic bag. This was his temporary garbage bag one day. He had stuffed the unpacked bag into it, and then the plastic bag fell into the gap next to the counter, and he didn't notice it when he was cleaning.
He reached out and pulled out the plastic bag.
The garbage inside was scattered on the ground, including coconut milk bags, straws, disposable milk cups, napkins, bottle caps, and a small paper cup.
Lu Lixuan stared at the small paper cup.
He found himself completely unable to move for a moment.
Her hands were so small that they looked like little white flowers. Her little hands tightly grasped the small paper cup. Every time she finished drinking, she would stick out her little tongue and lick the paper cup. Then she would make a funny face at him again. "It's not tasty at all!" She returned the small paper cup to him, her big black eyes rolling around, and her little face was stained with milk tea stains, like a kitten.
Lu Lixuan reached out and grabbed the small paper cup from the ground.
Plop, plop.
He heard his heart beating, and it was beating so hard that the sound was like exploding in his ears.
His eyes began to scan the small paper cup.
His built-in analysis system quickly analyzed the remaining substance on the small paper cup. It was a very small trace, and it contained Xiaonan's cells.
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The next day, Lu Lixuan did not go to work.
He wandered the streets of the city.
Different signals were flashing in his retina. He was tracking Xiaonan's whereabouts based on her genetic information. As long as he was within a certain range and was close to the biological genes of the target, a green light signal would appear on his retina. This aimless pursuit was actually just a matter of luck in a sense, but for Lu Lixuan it was the most effective method for him at the moment.
As long as Xiaonan is still in this city, there is still hope.
On the first day, he explored every street in the three districts of the city center.
On the first night, he traveled to the three major districts in the northern part of the city.
The next day, he wandered the streets of Shinan.
Lu Lixuan felt that it was better for him to explore at night. The daytime in human cities was too noisy, and there were all kinds of information interference everywhere. The streets were filled with exhaust from vehicles, the sound of human conversations was everywhere, and the radio waves buzzing in the air instantly crowded his senses. If he wanted to track Xiaonan's biological information to the greatest extent, Lu Lixuan could only open up his information reception to the maximum. Although the current information explosion gave him a physical headache from time to time, Lu Lixuan felt that this was bearable.
Xiaonan's survival depends on every second.
On his first day on Earth, he had just swallowed the egg pod like a newborn baby, and opened his senses without restriction like now, greedily receiving all the information around him. But at that time, he knew nothing about this planet, and everything on this planet was just cold data to him. He read it only for the future that would eventually be destroyed.
But at this moment, all the noise made sense.
He knew Xiaonan was in the city, maybe she was near a certain street. Maybe he would be able to get close enough to sense her next.
Biological information is constantly inputting and flashing on the retina. Perhaps a miracle will happen in the next moment.
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Four thirty in the afternoon.
Lu Lixuan found himself overloaded.
He received and processed a huge amount of biological information without filtering, which caused his central brain to overload. The specific manifestation was that he suddenly lost consciousness while standing in the middle of the street.
When he regained consciousness, he found himself sitting on the side of the road, with passers-by looking at him. A primary school student standing next to him asked with concern, "Big brother, what's wrong with you?"
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The parent next to the elementary school student asked him: "Are you okay? You don't look right."
Lu Lixuan shook his head.
"Do we need to call an ambulance for you?"
When Lu Lixuan was about to say no, he suddenly froze.
A faint green light flashed on his retinas.
That faint green light that seemed to be there and not there.
He stopped breathing.
"You look so bad, is it really okay?" the passerby asked nervously.
Lu Lixuan stood up and walked straight forward.
Xiaonan.
Passersby looked at him and talked about him.
They didn't know that this flickering green light, which sometimes appeared and sometimes disappeared, was finally located through the tracking of biological information that was invisible to the human eye. It was a miracle located through the mysterious technology of the alien biological weapon that was supposed to destroy humanity. That was Xiaonan, she was right next to this street. So close.
Lu Lixuan took a step, his heart beating hard. One step after another.
He started to speed up.
Green light flashes.
Xiaonan.
She is nearby.
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This is a run-down residential area, with a dozen residential buildings from the last century forming a residential area. There is no property guardhouse at the entrance, and it seems that due to lack of management, garbage and debris are piled everywhere.
Lu Lixuan walked in.
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When he pried open the window and climbed in, he saw Xiaonan.
Xiaonan was sitting on the bed. When her eyes met Lu Lixuan, she recognized him and immediately jumped up and rushed towards him.
"Where's my mother? Are you taking me back to see her?" Her voice was tearful.
"Yes." Lu Lixuan picked her up. The little girl was as light as a piece of paper.
The door was pushed open, "Who is it?" Two men walked in one after another, staring at Lu Lixuan in surprise.
He replied: "I'll take Xiaonan home."
"Bullshit!" A man rushed towards him. Lu Lixuan raised his fist and punched him in the face. With a bang, the man screamed, stepped back a few steps and fell to the ground.
Another man swung a stool at him, and Lv Lixuan dodged it sideways. He stretched out his foot and gently hooked the man's lower body. The man missed. Lv Lixuan seized the opportunity and punched him in the face as usual. The man spat out a bloody tooth.
He turned around, hugged Xiaonan and walked towards the window. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!" Xiaonan suddenly screamed.
Lu Lixuan turned around and saw a man stabbing him with a switchblade. His legs were already on the window frame, and he subconsciously moved Xiaonan away.
The knife pierced his abdomen.
Xiaonan kept screaming.
He turned over and jumped out holding Xiaonan.
This is the height of two floors.
If he used himself as a cushion to slow down the impact, the girl in his arms would be fine. This was the result he calculated within 1 second.
Bang!!!
He landed on the ground, more perfectly than he had imagined.
"Big Brother!! Big Brother!! You're injured! You're bleeding!!"
He heard the sound of an alarm not far away, and it turned out to be the right decision to call 110 before climbing up the stairs to invade.
He put Xiaonan on the ground, and his consciousness began to become blurred. Was it because of the overload caused by long-term high-intensity tracking? He needed to rest.
“Big Brother!!! Big Brother!!”
In a daze, he heard the little girl crying in his ear: "Big brother, please don't die! Big brother! Your milk tea is delicious, really delicious!!"
Then, all the sounds faded away.
A few days later.
Police officer Zhao Anliang is writing a report. They have cracked a child trafficking gang and arrested three suspects. They were trafficking children across the country and across provinces. In addition to rescuing a victim the day before, they were also found to be related to several child trafficking cases in other provinces two years ago.
If the digging continues, it will mean solving more old cases.
His colleague said: "The three suspects are too cunning. The place they chose to stay in the local area is also a blind spot with no property management and no surveillance. It is difficult to find them even if the surveillance is checked in a short period of time. It is really unexpected that Lv Lixuan, who often goes to the detention center, has made a great contribution."
"It's good that the young man is on the right track."
Another policeman pushed the door open and said, "Xiao Zhao, someone sent us a large box of milk tea."
Zhao Anliang and his colleagues looked at each other, "No one is ordering here?"
"Your name is written on it. And everyone in our police station has a copy."
The police opened the plastic bag and found a simple plastic box filled with cups of freshly made milk tea. Next to the milk tea was a simple card with "Thank you" written on it.
"This kid." Zhao Anliang looked at the words "Xiao Meng Tao Cha Liao" on the milk tea and couldn't help but smile.
Ren Anzhi looked at the cute little peach tea house not far away, which was surrounded by a bustling crowd.
He thought for a while with a melancholy look on his face, and prepared to turn and leave.
A voice suddenly came from behind him.
"Are you worried about a future where this world will be destroyed?"
Ren Anzhi turned around and saw a man slowly walking out from the shadows. He looked at him and suddenly realized that he had seen him before.
When was it? Where was it?
Did this ever actually happen?
Ren Anzhi asked in a low voice: "Are you... Han Junqian?"
Mr. Han Junqian, the only local fox dealer, replied in an exaggerated tone, "It is me."
It’s closing time at Xiaomeng Tao Tea House.
Lu Lixuan was preparing milk tea with his head down as usual.
The store manager grumbled to the side: "You were injured the day before yesterday, so you should have rested up. Why are you here to work again?"
"I suddenly thought of what I want to do." Lu Lixuan replied.
"A new product again?"
"Um."
"What's new?" A female voice came from outside the counter.
"Hello, Manager Zhu!" "Hello, Lady Boss!" The manager and his colleagues and staff immediately greeted her.
"Hello." Zhu Xiaojing had returned to her usual state, her eyes full of smiles and her face rosy. She looked at Lu Lixuan with a smile, and there was something else in her bright eyes, "Can I shamelessly ask to try your new product?"
"Sure." Lu Lixuan answered readily.
The store manager and his colleague looked at each other, and they immediately understood each other, so they left the counter empty for the two of them.
"Please have a taste." Lu Lixuan pushed the cup to Zhu Xiaojing.
Zhu Xiaojing picked up the cup and took a sip. At that moment, her pupils froze, "This, this..."
"how?"
"This is too strong." Zhu Xiaojing took another sip. "My tongue is a little numb. Did you use dill seeds?"
"Yes, specifically for that slightly numbing feeling."
"Ha. You really like to take unconventional approaches. I think customers' preferences for this product may be quite polarized. You'd better be cautious." Zhu Xiaojing asked, "What is the name of this new product?"
"It's called Ryouzai-chan."
"ah?"
"This new product was specially made to commemorate the feeling I had when I first saw her."
"she is……?"
"I fell in love with her at first sight ," Lv Lixuan said frankly. "I put my first memory of her into this new product. I hope she can understand my feelings in the future."
"..." A fleeting look of disappointment flashed across Zhu Xiaojing's face, and it disappeared so quickly, like a beautiful meteor flashing across the sky. Then she kept smiling and chatted with them for a few more words, then turned and left Xiao Mengtao.
So in these few seconds, the Earth narrowly escaped destruction.
