Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Zheng Yu’s death was too strange, and the results of the autopsy report were too horrifying. Even the police didn’t know how to conclude it. But in any case, all the evidence at present pointed out that Zheng Yu’s death was not man-made, but an accident.
When several people came out of the police station, Captain Guan sighed first. The deep wrinkles on his face made him look a little older.
Guan Shui finally recovered from Zheng Yu’s strange death and looked at Jiang Lan for help, as if hoping he could give him some reassurance: “Will those turtles continue to kill people?”
However, Jiang Lan could not give him a definite answer. He shook his head slowly under Guan Shui’s expectant eyes: “They have been completely enraged. If we don’t find out what Zheng Yu and the others have done and can’t calm the anger of those turtles, it’s hard to say what else they will do.”
No matter how smart these turtles were, they were not human beings after all. They could not expect these animals to know when to stop so as to not implicate innocent people.
Guan Shui wiped his face and said, “Let’s go find Zhang Zi first. Even if I have to break his other leg, I will make him explain what stupid thing he did.”
But as soon as he took out his cell phone, another call came in.
It was the call from his junior fellow student who was looking after Zhang Zi. Guan Shui felt something was wrong and turned on the speakerphone. He then heard the junior fellow student on the other end hurriedly say, “Senior brother, Zhang Zi is missing!”
The junior fellow student stayed in the ward all the time, but they both had to eat at noon, and when he went to buy lunch, Zhang Zi disappeared.
There were many people in the inpatient department, with family members and patients coming and going, so the nurses did not notice when Zhang Zi left.
He thus called Guan Shui in desperation.
After turning off the water and hanging up the phone, he quickly called Zhang Zi again, but he was hung up every time even after calling several times.
His expression was grim: “If he doesn’t answer the phone, it seems he has been planning to run away for a long time.”
Ying Qiao sneered: “If a man wants to die, even heaven cannot stop him.” Then he turned to Jiang Lan and said, “Let’s go have lunch first?”
Jiang Lan hesitated for a moment and looked at the master and disciple who looked much more haggard. He certainly didn’t care much about Zhang Zi’s life or death, he just felt that the master and disciple shouldn’t suffer such an unprovoked disaster.
Not everyone could be a corpse retriever. They floated on the water all year round, risking going into the water, and bringing corpses back to the shore so that the deceased could rest in peace and their families could find comfort. This should be a respected profession.
At least it shouldn’t be implicated and ruined because of one or two bad apples.
Jiang Lan was wavering, but Captain Guan was more open-minded. He smiled and said, “If a person doesn’t repent, you can save him once, but you can’t save him twice. Everyone has their own destiny.” He thanked Jiang Lan first, and then said to Guan Shui, “Thank him for troubling Brother Jiang for so long. Please treat him to a meal and pay him as agreed. I will take care of the team’s affairs.”
Guan Shui’s eyes widened: “How do you plan to do it?”
Captain Guan said, “Under the current circumstances, we can’t let everyone go into the water rashly. Let’s take a long vacation first. We’ll see what happens after this is over.”
When he said this, his straight back hunched slightly. His expression was calm, but he couldn’t hide the reluctance in his eyes.
Guan Shui choked and wanted to say something, but Captain Guan waved him away: “Go ahead.”
Guan Shui’s feet seemed to have grown roots, and he stood still: “I won’t leave.”
Captain Guan’s face turned serious, and he was about to teach him a lesson, when he heard Jiang Lan say, “Let’s find Zhang Zi first. Think carefully about where he could go after leaving the hospital. If we can find him and figure out why those turtles are angry, I am sure I can prevent them from implicating the entire corpse recovery team.”
Everything had a cause and effect. Zhang Zi and Zheng Yu were the first to anger the turtles, so it was reasonable for the turtles to retaliate. Besides, they were not under the jurisdiction of the Demon Management Bureau, so even if Jiang Lan was Taotie, it was impossible for him to kill all the turtles in order to help the corpse recovery team.
All he could do was to clarify the entanglement, calm the turtles’ anger, and prevent them from continuing to retaliate and implicate innocent people.
“Okay, I’ll go find him first.” Guan Shui looked much more excited: “I know where his hometown is, I’ll go there first to take a look.”
After that, he bowed to Jiang Lan again: “Thank you very much. I will treat you to dinner when this is over.”
Jiang Lan waved his hand: “Go find someone first.”
The situation was urgent, so after expressing his gratitude, Guan Shui took Captain Guan and drove to Zhang Zi’s hometown to look for him.
Jiang Lan followed them with his eyes and murmured, “I hope they can find him. I have a feeling those turtles won’t let Zhang Zi go.”
Ying Qiao lowered his eyes to look at him, took out a mint candy from his pocket, tore open the package and fed it to his mouth: “You don’t have a deep friendship with them, why worry so much?”
Jiang Lan subconsciously opened his mouth to take the mint candy and rolled his tongue over his slightly warm fingers. He reacted belatedly, his eyelashes trembling, an inexplicable emotion welling up in his heart, as he replied vaguely: “I just think the corpse recovery team is pretty good, and it would be a pity if it was disbanded because of this.”
He still remembered the proud expression on Guan Shui’s face when he talked about the corpse recovery team that day.
It would be a shame if it just broke up like this.
“Hmm…” Ying Qiao stared at the wet mark on his fingertips and responded randomly. He raised his hand and pressed the corner of his lips. The finger that Jiang Lan accidentally licked just brushed his lips.
Ying Qiao curled his lips and his mood suddenly became very good.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little strange.
His tongue swirled around the mint candy, and the cool sweetness filled his mouth. One of his cheeks was bulging due to the pressure of the candy, but Jiang Lan’s eyes were always looking at the ground, his eyelashes trembling constantly, and there seemed to be a lingering heat on the tip of his tongue that did not belong to him.
He crunched the mint candy into pieces and swept his gums vigorously with the tip of his tongue.
This feeling was so weird.
Ying Qiao didn’t notice his abnormality. He was still immersed in the kiss just now. Although it was only an indirect kiss, it was a breakthrough for a dragon who had never been in love.
He couldn’t help but think that if he used his mouth…it would definitely feel better.
His eyes could not help but move to Jiang Lan’s plump, pink lips…
The air seemed to become sticky, and finally Jiang Lan broke the strange silence: “Let’s go have lunch first.”
Ying Qiao: “Okay.”
Jiang Lan got into Ying Qiao’s car and went to find a restaurant to have lunch.
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