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Chapter 71 [70] Chocolate
After Zhou Li'an was stunned for a few seconds, he stood up from the ground and patted the dust off his pants.

He wanted to chase after it.

After all, part of the reason for the girl's runaway was her own.

It was a girl with a mental illness.

In Zhou Li'an's mind, he could clearly remember the expression on the girl's face the moment before.

Twisted with anger, baring teeth and claws, it seems to be full of hatred for the whole world, and no other emotions.

But looking at the open door, he hesitated for a moment and walked in, wanting to know more about the father and daughter.

He had a bold idea in mind.

But, it's just an idea.

This father and daughter no longer belong to this world...

inside the house.

It was cleaned neatly, just like Jonah's clothes, very shabby and cheap, but not dirty at all.

The curtains in the house are all closed, no sunlight comes in, instead forming a temperature environment like an ice cellar.

But what surprised Zhou Li'an was...

There was a faint warmth coming out from the end of the corridor.

He walked in curiously. The bedroom was decorated in the pink color that little girls like, but it was also old.

Warmth comes from the floor.

After Zhou Li'an squatted down, he felt warmth.

It is floor heating.

But apparently only this bedroom had been turned on.

It reminded him of the first time he met Jonah.He didn't accept charity because there was still food at home, but as a father, he hoped that his daughter could eat some beef.

That's why the girl is only wearing thin pajamas.

The stubborn and bewildered father, no matter how bad his life was, he did everything he could to provide his daughter with everything.

Inside and outside the bedroom, there are two worlds of severe cold and warm spring.

The walls of the house are covered with wallpaper.

There are countless scratches on the wallpaper, and there are even blood stains that cannot be cleaned.

A scene of a girl waking up in the middle of the night screaming and scratching frantically jumped into her mind.

Zhou Li'an did not stay long.

Close the door casually, and don't worry about being stolen.

For the poor do not harm the poor.

Mainly nothing to steal.

He drove in the car and searched in the direction the father and daughter ran.

Soon, Zhou Li'an found Jonah who was looking around blankly at the end of a street. Obviously he was lost.

Zhou Li'an lowered the car window and shouted: "You go to the east, I'll go to the west, regardless of whether there is any harvest, we will meet at your house in two hours."

"I'll help you call the police."

Jonah was still very angry, but he held back and nodded as a thank you.

The soldiers divided into two groups, and the two continued to search.

Zhou Li'an called the police and informed that a girl with severe mental illness had run away from home and was wearing thin pajamas without shoes.

The police station said to arrange for the patrol to be dispatched immediately.

Zhou Li'an was actually not too worried.

Even a crazy girl can't run very far in the snow with bare feet, so he didn't go too far.

Instead, he stopped the car and walked through the alleys of the community streets.

What he didn't expect was...

Ten minutes later, he discovered something.

Outside a fetid garbage room, sour juices are frozen to ice.

The daughter in pink pajamas huddled in the garbage dump trembling.

Zhou Li'an breathed a sigh of relief and approached slowly.

When the girl heard the movement, like a cat reacting to stress, she turned around like an electric shock.

Zhou Li'an saw a dirty and hairy head exposed from the opening of her pajamas.

is a dog.

"Patricia, I'm your father's friend, come on, come back with me!"

The girl's hair exploded, and her face, which was calm a moment ago, suddenly became ferocious, and her throat let out a low-pitched roar like a wild beast.

And the dog in his arms also barked at Zhou Li'an.

hard to imagine……

One person and one dog can foster friendship in such a short period of time.

And now Patricia is like a mad wild dog, she is shivering from the cold, and she grins her teeth to vent her unreasonable anger.

Zhou Li'an suddenly felt very tricky.

Jonah didn't have a cell phone, so he couldn't make contact.

On his own, it was difficult to convince this manic girl.

If time goes on, the girl will be sick.

Helpless, he had no choice but to take out his mobile phone, call the alarm station again, explain his location, and ask the police for assistance.

Next, is to wait quietly.

He thought for a while, took off his clothes, and threw them over: "Put on, it's cold!"

The girl was unmoved, still roaring like a beast.

On the contrary, the little puppy in her arms stopped baring its teeth, and curled up in the opening of the skirt, babbling and yelling.

Zhou Li'an has no experience in dealing with mentally ill patients.

He thought for a moment, planning to find a way from the dog and take a detour.

"She's just a little lunatic..."

"so……"

Whoosh!
Zhou Li'an waved his hand, and the bison meat stored in the system space appeared in his palm.

There is still blood on the beef, and there is no time lapse in the system space, it is as fresh as it was just slaughtered.

He conjured another dagger and cut off a small piece.

"Give it to the dog, he must be hungry."

Zhou Li'an threw it over, just in front of the girl's feet.

The girl was stunned.

She was attracted by Zhou Li'an's magic, and her anger was replaced by doubts.

The little milk dog smelled the scent, barked and struggled.

Patricia took it out, and the puppy gnawed at the beef crazily, gobbling it voraciously, until it was about half a year old. big.

Watching dogs eat...

Patricia smiled, happy.

Dripping, dripping.

The sirens of the police car sounded and they arrived.

It was Jonah who got out of the car first. He should have asked the police for help halfway and got into the car.

After seeing Patricia, he didn't rush over in a hurry.

Instead, like Zhou Li'an, he stood far away and coaxed her: "Patricia, come on, can you come here? It's too cold, let's go home."

Patricia ignored him and just watched the dog eat the meat.

Two police officers also came.

Looking at this scene, they looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Sir, it's not an option to go on like this, she will be frostbitten!"

"How about forcing her into the police car?"

Jonah immediately said: "No! She will be scared and even crazier. I know her, so I can't use drastic methods."

The police officer had nothing to do. After waiting for a while, he lost his patience: "Sir, I think our mission has been completed."

Jonah nodded and said a few words of thanks.

On the contrary, he was a little worried about these policemen, in case his daughter was to be quarantined forcibly and sent to a welfare mental hospital.

This kind of thing has happened.

Because Patricia scratched a passerby after fleeing once.

After the police car left, Zhou Li'an asked, "Hurry up and think of a way, he should listen to you, right?"

Jonah looked a little sad, and the answer was ready to come out.

Based on Lao Wang's original description.

The girl has been completely crazy since she was five years old.

But now it seems that this kind of madness is more serious than others imagined, and it belongs to the situation of disowning relatives.

"Where is your car? Can you drive here? I'll try to carry Patricia into the car and bring it back."

Zhou Li'an agreed.

But just as he was about to turn around and leave, an accident happened.

"You, meat!"

The girl's voice became calm, completely different from the previous angry growl.

Jonah froze.

Zhou Li'an also stopped and turned to look.

The girl looked at him, and said again: "Meat."

Jonah didn't know what happened to the two of them, but was very pleasantly surprised: "You, how did you do it? Patricia has never said a word to outsiders!"

Zhou Li'an thought for a while, and threw the key to Jonah: "Go and drive, the door of the laundromat two streets away."

Jonah's surprised look went cold, and he was a little worried.

Zhou Li'an said: "If I wanted to harm her, I wouldn't call the police for you, and I found this place, go quickly, teach me here, and I will try to communicate with her."

"Didn't you say that too? She hasn't spoken to anyone else!"

Jonah finally chose to accept it, and quickly ran away with the car keys.

At this point.

Zhou Li'an did the same, took out the beef from the system space, cut a small piece and threw it over.

He took back the piece of meat and the dagger.

The whole process, the girl watched very carefully.

Even after the magic was over, her eyes kept jumping back and forth between the puppy and Zhou Li'an.

Knowing that she was interested in him, Zhou Li'an said, "How about we be friends? I can play games with you."

"For example, I can show you magic tricks."

Whoosh whoosh.

He takes out various things in the system space.

Food, melons and fruits, long knives, and even guns... Then he waved his hand and took the things back.

The girl stared blankly again.

Her eyes trembled, and she said the third sentence: "Gun, you have a gun."

"Yes."

"give me!"

When Zhou Li'an heard this, he automatically put her in the seat with the anti/social/society/personality, and the manic patient took a gun...

It's on the news tomorrow.

"Kids can't play with guns!"

"Be friends, I promise you, you give me a gun!"

Zhou Li'an was silent for a moment, "What do you want a gun for?"

The girl's expression was ferocious again, and she said coldly:

"--kill him!"

……

In the car.

Zhou Li'an was driving, and Jonah was in the co-pilot.

In the back row is Patricia with a dog.

Luke Jonah's eyes kept sweeping over Zhou Li'an, and in such a confined space, people's perception would become very sharp.

"What are you looking at me for?"

"How did you do it? Why did Patricia listen to you?"

Zhou Li'an glanced at the girl in the rearview mirror, she was lowering her head to tease the dog, as if she was indifferent to the existence of the two.

"We're friends."

"Friend? That's impossible!"

Zhou Li'an smiled and shouted: "Patricia, are we friends?"

At this time, the girl still didn't look up, but said: "Yes, friend."

"My God...oh shit!"

"I mean, it's not scientific."

People who lost their faith called out the name of God again.

Zhou Li'an thought he was funny.

However, now he has found a breakthrough.

"Jonah, oh no, Luke, can I call you that?"

Jonah hesitated for half a second, then nodded, "It's up to you."

Zhou Li'an said: "Help me write, for Patricia's sake, how about it?"

Jonah didn't resolutely refuse this time, but remained silent.

But after a minute, he still shook his head: "No, this is a matter of principle."

Zhou Li'an gave an 'oh', then turned his head and said, "Patricia, I won't be friends with you anymore, your father doesn't like me!"

Right at this moment.

"what--"

Patricia screamed without warning.

"Friends! Friends!"

"Promise! Friends! Ours, promise!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah."

She yelled like crazy, her limbs were thrashing, and she started banging her head on the car window.

Bang bang bang!
One sound after another, the sound was exhausted.

Jonah was taken aback, completely taken aback.

He didn't understand how his daughter was bewitched by this man, and why he couldn't communicate with Patricia after more than ten years.

But this man only took less than an hour! !

"me……"

"I promise, I promise, you, please let her stop bumping, please, please, please?"

The old man in his forties, with tears running down his cheeks, even cried out heart-piercingly.

But let him vent, Patricia in the back row was not moved.

Zhou Li'an opened his mouth: "Patricia, go to my farm tomorrow to play, and I will fulfill my promise to you."

The screaming stopped abruptly.

It seems that there is a secret valve controlled by Zhou Li'an.

The girl lowered her head and continued to ignore the world.

And Jonah continued to cry, his ten years of solid inner defense was broken on this day, and he also needed to release and vent.

Go back to Jonah's house.

Zhou Li'an got his wish and sat on the sofa in the living room.

Patricia went back to the bedroom with the dog in her arms.

Jonah brought a cup of hot water: "Sorry, I don't have coffee."

When an American can't even afford instant coffee, you can imagine how bad his day is.

But Zhou Li'an knew very well that he waived unnecessary expenses and used them all to raise his daughter and even provide her with heating.

"So, let's get down to business. You agreed to the job, right? Otherwise, I wouldn't be visiting Patricia tomorrow."

"Can you tell me how you did it?"

"You will know tomorrow, but before tomorrow comes, I want to see a trial draft."

"Are you only threatening me with this?"

"Threat?" Zhou Li'an shook his head, "This is the second time I've met you, and this is the first time I've met your daughter!"

"Patricia likes me, it's not in my or anyone's hands. You're sure I'm going to make her brighter, but I'm not obliged to do it for you, so it's a fair deal, no There is no form of coercion."

"You can agree, or you can refuse."

On the way back, Zhou Li'an had already figured out one thing.

Luke Jonah's obsession with reversing the case is largely due to Patricia.

because……

Perhaps only in this way can Patricia get out of the closed psychological haze.

And right in the garbage room, Patricia proved it.

Zhou Li'an asked her why she wanted a gun.

She said, kill him! ! !

Then, if Patricia can be redeemed without overturning the case, it is impossible for Luke Jonah to miss this opportunity.

The only meaning of his existence in this world is his daughter.

"I promise." Jonah bowed his head and made the final choice.

Zhou Li'an took out the outline again and put it on the coffee table: "Let's start writing, I'll go out and pack some takeaways."

"Oh, you don't have to refuse, this is what I asked Patricia to eat."

Just when Zhou Li'an was about to go out.

The girl in the bedroom ran out again, frowning, looking at him quietly, without saying a word.

Zhou Li'an laughed: "I'm going to buy food and come back. Do you have anything you want to eat? I invite you, your father, and the puppy."

Jonah looked back at the scene.

Patricia's brows stretched a little, but she was still slightly frowning, but this expression was thinking...

"Pie, chocolate pie, okay?"

At this moment.

Jonah on the sofa made a strange 'hiccup' sound from his throat, and his tears poured down unconsciously.

He covered his face and buried his head in tears.

Zhou Li'an ignored him.

just wondering...

Chocolate, is it that delicious?

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