The panicked look on Huang Xiaoli's face seemed to be right in front of Tang Tang.
She lost her appetite. The chopsticks dropped right onto the dining table, and she sprang to her feet, her face full of disbelief. "What did you say?"
"It's true." Huang Xiaoli was scared out of her wits at the moment. "I was playing games in my room when I suddenly received a message. When I opened it, I knew something was wrong. Tang Tang, can you come here quickly?" There was a sob in Huang Xiaoli's voice. She wasn't very brave to begin with, so it was easy to imagine how distraught she was after encountering such a thing.
"Don't panic." Tang Tang couldn't go there right away, so she comforted her softly. "I'll come with my brother right away."
"Come quickly!" Huang Xiaoli on the other end of the phone sounded like a lost soul.
Tang Tang's heart sank, and she immediately hung up the phone.
Zuo Mu was unhurried, but his eyes were sharp. He stared at Tang Tang, whose face had turned a bit pale, and asked, "What on earth happened?"
Tang Tang was influenced by the calm and collected aura around Zuo Mu, and the panic in her eyes subsided a bit. She picked up the cup on the table, took a sip of water, and then calmed down. "Brother, the one who just called was Huang Xiaoli."
Huang Xiaoli?
Zuo Mu frowned. The name wasn't unfamiliar to him.
He put down the chopsticks in his hand and lost his appetite for eating.
"Just now Huang Xiaoli said she received a text message," Tang Tang said with difficulty. "The content of the text message was a bit scary and it scared Huang Xiaoli, so she called..."
"She hopes you can go there, right?" Zuo Mu sat still and saw through the little girl's mind.
Kids, when they encounter something they think is scary and are in their rebellious period, don't want to talk to their family members. They can only pin their hopes on their good friends.
If you know, why do you still say it? Tang Tang mumbled under her breath.
Zuo Mu felt a bit stuffy, so he couldn't help but use his long, well - defined fingers to undo the buttons of his shirt.
Tang Tang felt her face heat up for no reason when she saw this.
"Brother, will you go there with me?" Tang Tang tightly clutched her phone. Her big, innocent eyes stared at Zuo Mu as if he had done something wrong to her if he didn't agree.
Zuo Mu felt the air grow even thinner. He was used to being serious on weekdays, and no one dared to order him around directly. Only this little girl did.
Defeated by Tang Tang's deliberately cautious look, Zuo Mu was almost ready to surrender. "Yes, of course I'll go. What do you take me for? At the very least, I should protect you students."
Seeing that Zuo Mu agreed, Tang Tang was happier than a kid who had eaten honey. With Zuo Mu around, things would be under control.
They didn't waste much time. Along the way, Zuo Mu drove the car very fast, probably because of Tang Tang's overly worried look.
Tang Tang was sitting in the passenger seat, feeling the trees outside the car flash by quickly. Her stomach churned uncontrollably.
"Brother, slow down." Tang Tang tightly grabbed the seat belt, and her little face turned deathly pale.
"Kid, bear with it. After all, we don't know what's going on with your friend right now." Huang Xiaoli had just been trembling on the phone and didn't say what the specific message was. Probably the message was too terrifying for her to say it directly.
Precisely because of this, Zuo Mu was even more curious.
Tang Tang complained madly in her heart, but worried about Huang Xiaoli's safety, she could only regret why she had been so greedy for the braised pork knuckle in crystal sugar sauce that Zuo Mu had made.
Finally, after a bumpy ride, the two of them arrived at Huang Xiaoli's residential complex.
Probably because it was evening, there weren't many people in the complex. Only in the secluded pavilion were there a few old people sitting there enjoying the cool.
Zuo Mu sized up the place. It was obviously a high - end residential complex with pretty good security. They had to register carefully when entering, and then waited for Huang Xiaoli to come and pick them up.
Compared with Huang Xiaoli's place, his own place was full of loopholes.
"I really don't know what kind of message could scare the fearless Huang Xiaoli." Tang Tang stared at the floor and sighed.
"Don't worry. We'll know soon. I think it's not that simple since she specifically asked us to come here." Zuo Mu analyzed logically.
"How do you know?" Tang Tang shook her head and wasn't very convinced. Huang Xiaoli never played by the rules. What if it was just a prank?
Zuo Mu played with the car keys in his hand and said in a deep voice, "She knows something about what has happened recently. We're facing extremely vicious criminals. How could your friend be so reckless? If she wasn't sure, why would she trouble us?"
Probably because he looked so confident, Tang Tang believed him a bit. She craned her neck and looked towards the elevator exit. After several groups of people walked out, she finally saw Huang Xiaoli, who looked uneasy.
"Huang Xiaoli!" Tang Tang greeted her excitedly.
Huang Xiaoli was walking absent - mindedly. When she heard the familiar voice and looked up, she saw Tang Tang waving excitedly in front of the hall.
Seeing them, Huang Xiaoli finally felt a bit more at ease.
After communicating with the property management, the three of them finally met up and went straight into Huang Xiaoli's home.
It was obvious that Huang Xiaoli was really frightened. She walked absent - mindedly and didn't even notice them.
"What's going on?" Tang Tang smiled and tried to ease Huang Xiaoli's tension by acting casually.
Huang Xiaoli looked like she had seen her relatives and almost burst into tears on the spot.
"You're finally here."
Especially when she saw Zuo Mu, who looked the same as usual, Huang Xiaoli felt a sense of security from the bottom of her heart.
"Don't be afraid. We're here now." Tang Tang tried hard to ease the atmosphere and patted Huang Xiaoli on the shoulder.
"Tang Tang," Huang Xiaoli said with a mournful face. "I think I've been targeted."
"Targeted?"
"Yeah. This message didn't come earlier or later. It came when I was home alone. It scared me to death." After seeing Tang Tang and Zuo Mu, Huang Xiaoli felt a bit more at ease and started to talk more.
The three of them walked into the elevator. Since there was no one else in the elevator, Zuo Mu finally asked boldly, "Huang Xiaoli, don't hide anything. What exactly was the message you received?"
Based on his years of experience, Zuo Mu instinctively sensed that a storm was coming.
"I had nothing to do after I got home in the evening, so I was playing with my phone. Then I received a message," Huang Xiaoli said with tears in her eyes. "Tang Tang, you know me. I'm used to opening messages when I see them. But then..."
Just thinking about the content of the message made her shiver, and she couldn't bring herself to say it.
Both Tang Tang and Zuo Mu were people she trusted.
Seeing that there was no one in the elevator, Huang Xiaoli passed her phone over Tang Tang to Zuo Mu.
Tang Tang tilted her head, looking very confused.
"You'd better not look at it directly. Brother is a doctor after all. Let him look at it and tell you." Huang Xiaoli seemed to think of something and became even more nervous. "Trust me."