when the moon whispers

Chapter 186 Thief - scolded

The fourth thief
25 scolded
The hour hand of the wall clock on the wall of the training room was about to cross the scale of the dial. Wen Xi, who had made a thrilling comeback and survived the promotion round, casually pushed away the keyboard and mouse that had struggled to complete the battle task, and walked out of the e-sports with stiff arms and legs. The chair bounced up, stretched out and rolled a few times on the sofa in the middle of the training room, and poked his head towards Shao Jie, who had turned off the computer and was still sitting in the gaming chair.

"Brother Jie, aren't you going to sleep? Do you still have a stomachache? If I had known better, I wouldn't have dragged you to accompany me to the promotion competition..."

"It's okay, I'm staying here anyway."

Shao Jie held his phone and browsed through the 24-hour takeaways, selected a few businesses with the shortest delivery times in the middle of the night, and quickly scrolled through the ordering page with drooped eyelids - he repeatedly jumped between the spicy and spicy food or the clear soup. He was really not interested in the extreme menu. He hesitated and hooked Wen Xi, who was lying on the back of his chair to join in the fun. While he was busy in the promotion competition, he didn't forget to eat and stuff himself. With a tap on her round and thin belly, the kid Wen Xi, who had taken advantage of a gap in rankings to destroy an entire six-inch cream cake by himself, and tried to eat a salty late-night snack with Shao Jie, was hilariously coaxed to sleep, and then he leaned on the computer. There was silence for less than 2 minutes. He yawned, picked up his phone, took out his coat, stepped out of his long legs that were almost unconscious under his own weight, and limped to the restaurant to check if there was anything he could fill up quickly. Instant noodles or bread to fill your stomach.

As soon as the door panel of the training room opened a gap, a fat orange cat wrapped itself around Shao Jie's numb and itchy ankles.

Judging from the coat color and pattern, it should be the big orange that was homeless and free-range in the base, but it seems that I haven’t seen it in the past few days, and it has quickly expanded from a fat cat to a fat cat, eating and drinking somewhere.

Shao Jie raised his feet, but before he could dodge, Daju yawned loudly, contentedly leaning in front of him, and lying down completely relaxed.

The little chubby guy didn't know how he squeezed in and out through the fire door in the stairwell. Looking at the marks on the wall that looked like territory, he probably already wandered around the training room floor leisurely and gracefully, and turned back the way he came. She tried to scratch the door to leave but failed, and missed the opportunity to ask for help from Wen Xi who quickly slipped back to the dormitory floor. Then she smelled the familiar smell in the air and obediently guarded the door of the training room, waiting quietly for free. The human porter came to the rescue and acted like a favor.

Shao Jie lowered his head and bent down to pluck the sticky cat hair wrapped around the legs of his dark sports pants. With one hand, he grabbed the orange cat that was lying on his rabbit slippers and wouldn't move from its nest, holding the meat that could leak out from his fingers at any time. With a swollen belly, he glanced hesitantly at the dark cotton clothes on his body, but finally squatted down, held the weighty little chubby guy in his arms, and walked him downstairs with one step and two swings.

The ceiling lights in the hall were turned off long ago, so the Christmas tree, which had been forced to wait for a long time during the New Year's Eve, flickered with the atmosphere, splashing red everywhere in a festive and weird way.

Shao Jie put the fat cat down on the sofa without any exercise. He was so hungry that his eyes were filled with stars and his head was empty. He rubbed the top of the cat's head twice, took out his phone and stared at the silent information bar for a while. Wrapping up my coat tightly and stepping on my slippers, I shivered into the dark and cold night.

I haven't received a reply yet when I inquired about Officer Jiang's well-being and whether he was off duty. There is a [-]-[-] chance that I forgot to reply and that I was too busy to take off and didn't bother to check.

Apparently a week ago, Shao Jie could still accept this quite common situation with great calmness.

However, after tentatively breaking the conservative distance that had been maintained for quite some time, Shao Jie now vaguely realized that the concern in his stomach that overrided curiosity had grown out of control. He got up, and in a daze, he was greedy and lost the initiative that was the purpose of the temptation at the beginning.

Shao Jie stood in front of the instant noodles shelf and sighed. He rubbed his aching stomach with open eyes. He was in a daze for three or two minutes before he came back to his senses. He grabbed a box of flavors that he could barely swallow and paid for the drink. , without thinking, he brought the instant noodle bowl to the glass window facing the road.The plastic fork that pierced the lid of the instant noodles bounced with a pop, and the hazy water vapor condensed on the glass happened to gather into a small ball. The hanging water droplets reflected the bright lights of the cars driving slowly on the road at night and parked in the opposite parking space. Suddenly, the water droplets rolled down without warning, hitting the small puddle on the edge of the dining table, and then slowly seeped into the gap and disappeared silently.

Shao Jie drooped his eyelids to avoid the almost direct glare of the car lights. He pulled his eyes that were unconsciously lowered. When he lifted the lid of the instant noodles, he raised his eyes. Then he squinted his eyes as if to confirm and saw clearly the parking lot on the opposite side. The steady license plate, and the side face of the man who slammed the car door tightly, hunched his shoulders and glanced left and right as he walked quickly across the road.

Jiang Mo's solemn brows and eyes were almost covered by a heap of tired anger.

She kept her head half lowered, and the slightly dim streetlight cast a small circle of light on the top of her hair. When she stepped on the curb, she noticed that the loose shoelaces were covered with mud, water and dust, but they did not seem to be bent. The idea of ​​​​tying the waist was simply staring at the black shoelaces twice and raising his head expressionlessly.

Shao Jie guessed that his motionless and trance-like expression at the moment might be a bit stupid. He was so stupid that the moment Officer Jiang focused on him, his heavy expression relaxed a little, and the corners of his eyes filled with murderous aura were slightly twitching. Bend.

He didn't smile, he just looked at the silly look on Shao Jie's face against the light source and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"What a coincidence, Shao Jie."

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"I know almost everything about Manager Xu going to Shengcheng International..."

Jiang Mo held the bucket of instant noodles that had just been filled with hot water and sat down on Shao Jie's left hand side. Hearing Shao Jie help her open the milk straw and mention Xu Muyang in a low voice, he shook his head in thought and bit down. Zhuzi took out his cell phone and pressed it on the instant noodle bucket, and then clicked on the string of information that Shao Jie had sent in detail earlier. Manager Xu asked inexplicably about the hit-and-run case, "Really speaking, Liang Ming is her quasi-brother-in-law. , it’s strange that she’s not curious about these things at all. It’s just..."

It's just that Jiang Mo always felt that Xu Muyang's good intentions of going round and round to find Shao Jie, who was almost out of reach, to get to the bottom of things, seemed a little bit... unnecessary.

"You should have Manager Xu's contact information, right? Is it convenient? If it's convenient, send it to me and I'll contact her directly." Jiang Mo took off the instant noodles cover impatiently and picked out the crispy and hard noodles twice. After waiting for a long time and not hearing any reply, Xian glanced at the hazy reflective glass filled with water vapor for no apparent reason. Then he turned his head slowly and looked at Shao Jie, who had been staring at her silently for a long time, blinking a little messily. Blinked.

"...Shao Jie?"

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