Soul Patch

Chapter 121 There's someone standing here?

Back in his office, Wenjie stared intently at the file folder on his desk.

This is a hot potato; whoever takes it is doomed.

Why is Tan Ju being dragged into this?

Everyone in the bureau knows that Wang Ju and Tan Ju are in charge of the same area of ​​business, and they are constantly vying for power, making their relationship quite delicate.

Just as they were hesitating, Bai Yu leaned over and asked mysteriously, "Why did you come with Wang Ju this morning?"

Uh... boxer shorts

Wenjie could picture it all again.

He chuckled and said, "...By chance, I ran into him."

"By the way, where did you go last night instead of attending the boss's company's opening banquet?"

Bai Yu tilted his head to look at Wen Jie, his brows furrowing slightly as he spoke.

Uh……

That's a good question... a very pointed one.

He didn't know how to answer.

He lowered his head, avoiding Bai Yu's questioning gaze, and tried hard to recall what he had done yesterday.

Injured hand?

He looked at his hand; it was perfectly fine.

Clearly, this was after the parts of his memory related to Jia Nan disappeared.

There were gaps in my memory.

In a daze, he remembered receiving a phone call last night...

A woman's voice, broken and fragmented, echoed in my mind, but I couldn't remember what she said. I had changed direction halfway to the thank-you banquet.

If I force myself to think further, I can't remember anything.

Memories from before and after correction, being fragmented, interfere with and overlap with each other.

It made him unable to distinguish what hadn't changed and what had been changed!

After trying to think it through again, Wenjie clutched his head in anguish.

Headache!

My head feels like it's going to explode!

Wenjie rubbed his head, feeling that his eyes were also very uncomfortable.

He knew he couldn't concentrate anymore; his head was throbbing with pain, and it felt like something was churning inside his brain.

"I... wasn't feeling well at the time, so I didn't meet up with you."

This three-year correction of his life trajectory completely messed up his memories.

Bai Yu listened to his words with skepticism, and his gaze toward him turned colder.

Wenjie felt guilty under Bai Yu's gaze and was unsure how to change the subject.

The phone in my pocket started buzzing!

The phone rang—a lifesaver call!

Wenjie took out his phone and saw the cell phone that had always been with him, and he felt a sense of familiarity.

Thankfully, it wasn't the one I bought at the last minute because I was afraid of being tracked down.

He waved his phone apologetically at Bai Yu, got up and was about to leave when he caught a glimpse of the file bag on the table.

I opened the drawer and locked the file bag inside.

He then got up and walked down the corridor to the smoking room.

He watched as a phone number he had saved as Ms. Mei flickered on the screen.

Ms. Mei?

I have a vague impression of it.

"So? Who was that person?"

As soon as the call was answered, the other party asked a direct question, which surprised Wenjie.

Wenjie really wanted to bang his head against the wall.

"Who is it?" Wenjie really didn't want to play dumb anymore.

"Didn't you say Sisi got a mysterious boyfriend? You told me to trust you, and that this matter would be resolved." The other party roared hysterically.

Did I go and keep watch yesterday?

Did I really go and keep watch?

But how could I do such a thing!

"Wenjie, I felt from the beginning that you were lying to me. But I chose to believe you this once, and I never expected that you really were lying to me. Qianqian is definitely beyond saving!"

A clear sobbing sound came from the other end of the phone.

It was the kind of heart-wrenching crying that made you want to cry along with it.

Wenjie became irritable. He reached for his cigarette pack, only to find that he had finished the entire pack that morning.

The pockets of his pants were empty.

He looked out the window; M City was shrouded in fog today.

The morning traffic jam already gave a glimpse of the problem, and now it's shrouded in thick fog. Looking out from the window of the General Administration's smoking room, you can't see the cars and people on the ground clearly.

Such dense fog is truly rare.

Wenjie had a sense of floating on clouds, and the things that happened to him also had a mysterious and unpredictable feel to them.

"You...you stop crying, can you tell me what happened?" Wenjie lowered his voice and said slowly.

"It's too late, the police are already calling." The other party abruptly hung up.

"Hello...hello, Ms. Mei?"

Wenjie shouted a couple of times into the phone, but all he got in response was a busy signal.

This foggy morning is really... inexplicable!

He had no idea what incident he had gotten himself into, and there was a tricky document waiting for him to deliver.

Perhaps, what awaits them is a bottomless political vortex.

Wenjie stood silently for a while, his mind a jumbled mess, unable to make sense of it all.

But then he suddenly remembered that he had successfully deployed the patch in the early hours of the morning, but had not yet claimed the system reward.

I don't know which celebrity said it, but when you can't figure something out, you shouldn't think about it anymore.

Wenjie also decided to do it this way!

He quickly started the system.

Who cares? Let's collect the mission reward first.

【System startup】

[Should I adjust my life trajectory?]

and many more……

Why isn't there a reward?

Last time, Jia Nan was the target individual, and his life trajectory from 2016 to the present was corrected. Why was there no reward?

System, are you being dishonest?

What the heck was that? After starting the system, there was no option to choose whether the task was beginner, intermediate, or advanced difficulty...

That means you've already made your choice.

Damn, the system assigned me a task, which I obviously didn't complete last time.

What kind of task is it?

Before Wenjie could think about it further, the system automatically switched to the screen.

Before him appeared a dark room with an antique chandelier, a rose-red sofa, and a frosted glass on the coffee table.

Isn't this Wang Ju's mistress's house?

Unlike in the early morning, the room was quiet now. There was no sound of a woman shuffling in her slippers, no yawning, and no screaming...

The air was thick with the smell of blood. Wenjie pinched his nose and cautiously walked toward the bedroom.

then……

He witnessed an extremely terrifying scene.

A woman covered in blood lay sprawled on the floor in the center of the bedroom.

The ceiling chandelier crashed down on her body, making her already horrific death even more gruesome.

A ribbon was tied around her neck; the ribbon was soft like a long snake that flicked its tongue, coiled around her body, and locked her throat.

Wenjie stood at a distance, not too far, watching the woman on the ground.

The semi-transparent nightgown was covered in blood, as if the woman were wearing a blood-stained garment.

She was clutching a piece of paper in her hand.

The ordinary white paper, when associated with the woman's gruesome death, appears very eerie.

Wenjie walked around it, trying to see the text clearly.

Suddenly, they heard the sound of the door being broken down, followed by someone shouting, "Don't move!"

Could this be... a police officer?

Wenjie quickly logged out of the system, and his figure disappeared in a flash.

The lead officer rushed to the bedroom door just then. He walked in surprise to where Wenjie had just been standing, turned to the officers who had followed him, and asked, "You guys, do you see someone standing here?"

The policemen standing at the door looked at each other in bewilderment: "Boss, we see you! You're standing there!"

(End of this chapter)