Volume 1: Night Visit to the Vampire Chapter 3: Missed

  The Criminal Police Brigade of Jingjiang District Public Security Bureau has a room that is warmer than an interrogation room and lower-grade than a reception room. There is a water dispenser, instant coffee, and a can of cheap tea leaves in the room. Two gray-brown three-person sofas are placed facing each other, with a reddish-brown wooden tea table in between.

  "There are drinks here, help yourselves. Captain Gu is holding an emergency meeting, don't worry, it won't take long." Yuan Jun hastily bid farewell to the three girls and left in a hurry.

  Ling Lan noticed that after she first sat down on the sofa on this side, neither Yue Tong nor Feng Jia was willing to sit next to her. The two of them didn't say a word all the way, and Ling Lan's intuition told her that these two girls seemed to have formed some kind of alliance, excluding her from it. After thinking about it, she looked at her roommates across from her again, feeling even more like their eyes were flickering, and every move they made was off.

  Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her mind. Could it be that at the moment she bent down to pick up the DV, she missed something? Ling Lan tried hard to suppress her excitement and didn't dare ask about that bold guess at this time. Even if she asked, they probably wouldn't answer anyway. However, Ling Lan had already gained some confidence in her mind - it must have been at that moment when they saw the face of that "vampire"!

  In less than ten minutes, Gu Hanhao had already chaired the meeting and returned to their room. Ling Lan could imagine how concise this young dry detective was when he opened the meeting.

  As soon as he entered the house, Gu Hanhao felt the awkward atmosphere. He thought that at this time, the three girls should be huddled together and chattering, but unexpectedly they were sitting separately, facing each other in silence, unusually quiet.

  Gu Hanhao sat down beside Ling Lan, using his eyes to signal her to move to the opposite side. Ling Lan got up and sat on the opposite side, but the small group did not accept her. Both Gu Hanhao and Ling Lan were aware of this.

  Ling Lan told them how the idea of finding and visiting vampires came about because of "The Vampire Diaries" and "Twilight", to the four girls searching for information on vampires, then collecting and summarizing the various versions of rumors circulating in the city, finally deciding to set out last night to the abandoned industrial base where the vampire was said to appear. She reported everything to Gu Hanhao's latest chapter of "Evil God". She thought Gu Hanhao would give them a lecture on their thoughts, but unexpectedly, Gu Hanhao didn't care about lecturing them at all and directly threw it to the school. He just said lightly, "I will notify your school."

  Ling Lan heard some suspiciousness in Gu Hanhao's questioning, and the focus of his inquiry was on the moment of the murder, what exactly did the murderer do to the victim. Ling Lan recounted the truth, only seeing the black-robed man quickly embracing the victim, two pale white hands shaped like withered branches tightly grasping the victim's body, lowering his head, then hearing a heavy groan and a flowing sound.

  At this point, Yue Tong and Feng Jiaming's bodies were trembling slightly, the two people tightly holding each other's hands.

  Gu Hanhao also noticed this and asked again, "What did the murderer look like? Did you see?"

  Three girls shook their heads, and Ling Lan shook her head again and looked at her two roommates beside her.

  As they were about to leave, Ling Lan deliberately walked at the back, waiting until the two girls got on the car. Gu Hanhao handed a business card to Ling Lan and said, "About that video, I want to hear your explanation."

  Ling Lan's face turned bright red.

  Gu Hanhao expressionlessly sent Ling Lan onto the car and instructed Yuan Jun to send them back to T University, repeatedly reminding him that if he remembered any overlooked details, he must notify him at the first opportunity.

  At a little past 7 in the morning, three girls returned to their dormitory room 115 at T University. After a night of excitement, their tired bodies stuck to the bed and couldn't move anymore. Ling Lan slept like she had been asleep for three days and three nights. Fortunately, they were already in the second semester of their senior year, so apart from writing papers and finding internships, they didn't have anything else to do. But it was precisely because of this that they had time to watch American dramas all day and night, and then think wildly about playing a dangerous game like visiting vampires at night.

  When she woke up, it was already evening. Ling Lan was so hungry that her stomach was stuck to her back, and she didn't even have the energy to get out of bed to cook a package of instant noodles. She was the only one left in the dormitory. If her boyfriend Peng Ze could bring her a steamer basket of hot dumplings at this time, it would be great. However, this thought only flashed by, and she couldn't count on him.

  Just then, Yue Tong and Feng Jia pushed open the door and came in, both of them chatting and laughing as if nothing had happened last night. It wasn't until they noticed Ling Lan still lying awake on the top bunk that their laughter abruptly stopped.

  "Ling Lan, the school already knows about what happened last night. The department will hold a meeting to decide on our punishment. It's very likely that we'll be penalized." Yue Tong said in a low tone. Ling Lan was confused, even if this were true, why were they still laughing and chatting just now?

  "What's going on?" Ling Lan finally gained some strength and sat up.

  "Feng Jia said with confidence, 'Don't worry, the department head will plead for us. After all, we've been behaving properly and normally. I just called the department head and she mentioned that she's taking a holiday tomorrow to do some cleaning at home. We can go help her out and say some apologetic words. I believe it should be fine.'"

  Ling Lan nodded, and indeed, Director Wang was a good person to talk to.

  After chatting for a while, Ling Lan got out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash up. When she came back, she didn't directly push the door open because she heard that the two problematic girls in the room were discussing something. Their voices were low, and Ling Lan only clearly heard one sentence, which was said by Feng Jia: "Fortunately, Ling Lan didn't see it."

  Ling Lan's basin nearly fell to the ground, she hastily turned around and tiptoed away, then walked normally with her slippers dragging on the floor to the door and pushed it open.

  Ling Lan didn't go to the cafeteria because she didn't want to see some eye-piercing scenes. She came alone to a small steamed bun shop outside the school and ordered two baskets of buns. While waiting for her food, she took out that business card and called Gu Hanhao.

  "Hey, Captain Gu, I'm Ling Lan. About my two roommates, I can be sure that they saw something at the time! And I missed that crucial moment because I bent down to stop the DV from falling." (Download this book by entering or searching for "book name + Ha Shi Ba") You can search for "Mystery Pursuit Murder Ha Shi Ba" on Baidu to find the latest updates of this book.