damaged

Before Wang Bing finished speaking, Zhang Ailin hurriedly hung up the phone, put on some clothes hastily, and hurriedly opened the door.

The lights in the living room were out.Zhang Yeqiu and Chi Lan also returned home from the trip, and laughter came from the room not far away.

It's so late and I still don't sleep.

Zhang Ailin didn't have time to hear what they were talking about, and the urgency in her heart could no longer accommodate too much thinking.

She pressed the elevator and watched the numbers on the small display on the elevator constantly change. She bit her lips tightly, and anxious emotions spread throughout her body.

She kept thinking about everything that happened in the afternoon, every word, every detail, every movement, every look that Zhou Zhou said.

Suddenly, she suddenly remembered the abnormality of Zhou Zhou's route home.

Zhou Zhou's direction of going home was originally opposite to hers, but today she chose to go with her.

This is connected with what happened to Zhou Zhou in Wang Bing's office today.

"Isn't that still because of me?" The regret that had just been suppressed in Zhang Ailin's heart rolled up again.

The alarm sounded for the arrival of the elevator.

Before the elevator door was fully opened, Zhang Ailin squeezed out through the gap.

She looked down at her phone, and the screen showed that the current time was 21:[-] in the morning.

There are already few people on the street, only the lights on both sides of the road are sprinkled on both sides of the road, making it even more desolate and desolate.

Even if the daytime brings the heat of approaching summer, it is inevitable that there will be some chills at night.

Where can I find it?have no idea.

Zhang Ailin took out her mobile phone again, and dialed Zhou Zhou's number with some expectation.The sound heard was nothing more than the operator's prompt tone: "The number you dialed is temporarily unavailable, please try again later."

Zhang Ailin has tried all the ways to contact her.

She ran in the nearby streets, sweating profusely, and almost asked a passerby when she saw it, but she found nothing.

Zhang Ailin stood beside the poplar tree planted by the roadside, supporting the trunk with her hands in order to rest slightly.

She repeatedly confirmed the message on the phone, and the blank dialog box with Zhou Zhou made her disappointed again and again.

It was one past two in the morning.

Zhang Ailin dialed Wang Bing's phone: "Hello, are you home?"

Wang Bing's tone on the other end of the phone seemed more anxious than hers, and there were a few words in between: "Not yet, has she contacted you?"

Without responding to Wang Bing's question, Zhang Ailin hung up the phone directly.

Her eyes scanned the crossroads in front of her back and forth, recalling all the information about Zhou Zhou in her mind, hoping to find useful clues.

That rainy day suddenly broke into Zhang Ailin's mind.

On that rainy day, when Zhou Zhou realized that someone was following him, he deliberately took Xiao Hua around many streets, almost turning around every nearby street.

However, there is a somewhat remote and dilapidated commercial street, which Zhou Zhou walked many times and even entered a few small shops.

Will it be there?

Grasping a possible clue, Zhang Ailin ran towards that street without thinking.

"Don't have an accident." She was thinking while running.

Finally, that small commercial street finally appeared in front of Zhang Ailin's eyes.

Panting heavily, she looked at the colorful billboards on both sides of the small street.

The shop has been closed, but the signboards framed by colorful lights hanging at the door of the shop are all lit up at the same time, illuminating this not-so-spacious street brightly.

28:[-] AM.

Just as Zhang Ailin was about to search again after taking a break, a girl's voice came faintly from the alley.

Zhang Ailin pricked up her ears vigilantly, carefully distinguishing the small voice, and her steps unconsciously probed towards the source of the voice.

Turning left and right, and crossing two small roads, at the end of the street, Zhang Ailin clearly heard the girl calling for help.

"Help!" she yelled.

Also beside the girl, there was a lowered man's voice, warning the girl: "Don't shout, don't shout!"

Zhang Ailin hid behind the wall at the corner, poked her head out cautiously, and by the light of the billboard, she saw clearly the two entangled people not far away.

The man embraced the girl with one arm, and covered the girl's mouth with the other hand, trying to suppress the girl's cry for help.

And the girl kept twisting her body, struggling with all her might.

"Fuck me." Seeing the girl's face clearly, Zhang Ailin couldn't help saying this in her heart.

Isn't that girl in the distance Zhou Zhou!

Zhang Ailin forced herself to calm down. She looked around, tiptoed down, picked up a long wooden stick, and held it tightly in her hand.

She pressed her shoulders against the wall, her eyes looked up and down the man's figure, and she kept estimating the attack route in her mind.

"save……!"

"Stop fucking yelling!" Before Zhou Zhou could yell out, the man quickly pushed Zhou Zhou away, causing her to hit the wall.

Zhou Zhou's back hit the wall hard, and then fell to the ground along the wall.

The man looked down at Zhou Zhou who was lying on the ground with a smile on his face.

It's now.

Zhang Ailin rushed out from the back of the man, stared at the back of the man's neck firmly, clenched the wooden stick in her hands with both hands, concentrated all her strength into that point, and slammed it fiercely on the back of the man's head.

There was a muffled sound of "bang", mixed with the man's scream.

Zhou Zhou, who was lying on the ground, opened his eyes. He didn't expect Zhang Ailin to appear in front of his eyes, and he was so surprised that he couldn't speak.

"Why are you standing still, run!" Zhang Ailin threw the wooden stick in her hand and ran to Zhou Zhou, trying to pull Zhou Zhou up from the ground.

Zhou Zhou reacted suddenly, quickly got up from the ground, and put his hand in Zhang Ailin's.

The man not far away covered his neck with his hands, and was about to run towards the two of them staggeringly.

Zhang Ailin's blow, although it didn't hit the vital point, it was after all with enough force.

Even though he was slightly unsteady from the beating, he still raised his arms, reaching out to pull Zhang Ailin's shirt.

Zhang Ailin was afraid that he would follow her again. With a physique of about two hundred catties, how could she have a chance if she didn't get rid of it.

Before she had time to think too much, Zhang Ailin blocked Zhou Zhou behind her, pointed at the man's crotch, and kicked her leg.

The pain made his facial features shrivel up.

"Run!" Zhang Ailin shouted at Zhou Zhou.

Zhou Zhou responded and ran desperately in the opposite direction with Zhang Ailin.

The two of them didn't know how long they ran before stopping.When I stopped, the buildings beside the road had been completely changed.

The tall and short flat-style buildings have become high-rise buildings rising from the ground, and the colorful billboards have become street lamps on the side of the road.

Zhang Ailin looked back for a few times, and after confirming her safety, she gasped and said, "It's all right."

When I looked back at Zhou Zhou, I found that Zhou Zhou was already lying on his side on the ground from exhaustion.

Her dress was soaked with sweat, her hair was also wet with sweat, sticking to her cheeks, and her chest heaved violently.

Zhang Ailin squatted down, looked at Zhou Zhou, and asked, "Are you all right?"

Zhou Zhou raised his eyes, paused for a while, and then said: "It's okay."

Zhang Ailin scanned Zhou Zhou's body with her eyes, and after confirming that she had no trauma, she breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground beside Zhou Zhou.

There was a bit of blame in his tone, a bit of worry, and he said angrily: "Why don't you go home alone at night? Do you want to practice fighting?"

Zhou Zhou laughed after hearing this, glanced at her face secretly, and after confirming that she was not really angry, she responded: "I didn't expect it to be so dangerous."

Zhang Ailin turned her head, lowered her eyes and asked her: "You don't know how to escape, and you don't know where to go. You run into that kind of small alley in the middle of the night."

"I didn't think of it either." As he spoke, Zhou Zhou propped himself up with his hands, adjusted his posture, and sat next to Zhang Ailin, with his legs curled up and his arms wrapped around his legs.

"How did you come here to find me?" Zhou Zhou asked, putting his broken hair behind his ears.

"Just think about it."

"Just think about it?" Zhou Zhou repeated Zhang Ailin's words, with a wider smile on his face.She thought it was very childish.It's like the younger brother of the neighbor next door who received the praise, on the surface he didn't care.

"If you run again next time, don't come to such a dangerous place again." Zhang Ailin pulled her gaze into the distance.

Zhou Zhou looked at her profile, and her outline was outlined by the lamps beside the road.

"Shouldn't it be to persuade me not to run out like this next time?" Zhou Zhou asked.

Zhang Ailin only looked at the street lights in the distance, did not speak, and kept silent.

Zhou Zhou suddenly felt a surge of heat in his heart.Moved almost to tears.

Zhang Ailin's silent company.It seemed that Zhou Zhou didn't need to say another word, she already understood everything.

The night wind between night and dawn blows on the two of them, and the two of them follow the street at the same time, looking towards the end that cannot be seen clearly in the distance.Occasionally one or two vehicles pass by the side of the road.The sound of tires rubbing against the road is so reassuring.

"Call Wang Bing back, he is very anxious." Thinking of the conflict between Zhou Zhou and her family, Zhang Ailin deliberately concealed the family who mentioned Zhou Zhou.

Zhou Zhou unzipped his pocket and turned on the phone.

It was two eleven in the morning.

"It's already so late." Zhou Zhou's tone was a little surprised.

"Fortunately, you also know." Zhang Ailin still kept some blame in her tone.

Zhou Zhou called Wang Bing to keep him safe.

Zhang Ailin sat beside her with her hands on her knees, listening to them silently.

The pain on the wrist came belatedly, and Zhang Ailin realized that there was a long tear in her wrist, but it was not deep.But the bracelet with the name of "Jiang Man" engraved on his wrist disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Ailin hurriedly rummaged through her body.No.

She stood up, bent down and searched carefully around her.not found.

She recalled the man's tug in the air just now.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Zhou had already hung up the phone and asked after seeing Zhang Ailin's movements.

"I have to go back again."

Zhou Zhou heard her choked up voice.