In the dimly lit room, the alarm clock went off as promised once 6:00 arrived.
It rang for ten seconds before a hand reached out from the bed not far away to stop its clamor.
Lin Xianfu sat up straight from the comforter and yawned.
"It's six o'clock, time to get up and go to that unprofitable crap class again."
Sitting on the bed, staring at the gray walls of his cheap rental room, Lin Xianfu fumed for a while before sighing and getting up to get ready to go out.
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It was already 6:20 when he left the house, leaving Lin Xianfu with plenty of time to take the bus.
It was rush hour, and when he arrived at the subway gates, there was already a long line there.
He stood silently at the very back, glanced down at the time, and when he looked up again, someone in front of himself had already cut in.
It was a middle-aged woman.
Lin Xianfu expressionless, looking at her head down to look at the phone pretending to "do not know what happened" innocent side face, have the heart to say something, but finally let it go, consoled himself with a "ladies first." Then he gave up.
He is not in the mood to take care of these trivial matters. Daily work, repetitive labor, long ago taught him what is called: "small things into nothing, get over it."
Ten minutes later, the subway gates opened, the other side of the door was crowded with people, pushing and shoving to get off the train, at the same time to get on the train also aiming at the gap to squeeze on the train, which led to the consequences of the scene became a chaotic.
"There is no quality! Get off first, get on later, do you understand?!"
I don't know who shouted such a sentence, fell in the crowded crowd. Although the reasoning was sufficient, it was a pity that no one cared about his words at all.
Lin Xianfu didn't go up to squeeze, he just silently followed the crowd and went with the flow.
Crowds of people one after another on the car, it happens to be Lin Xianfu's turn, the door of the warning lights sounded, the middle-aged woman just inserted into the queue crowded in the doorway, to block the door with his own body, neither to the gap in the car, but also not allowed to come up.
See Lin Xianfu's action, she also said, "Oops, crowded to death, you wait for the next one!"
-When the words fell, the door of the car closed.
The place where the woman stood should have been her own place.
Lin Xianfu stood in front of the door, looking at the distant subway, clenching his fists and taking a deep breath before slowly unclenching them.
"Forget it. Don't count with the villain."
He so comforted himself, although it's useless to calculate, the station people come and go, the chance of meeting for the second time is very slim. The chance of meeting again was very slim. We were just passers-by.
The next train is 10 minutes later, Lin Xianfu managed to go up, after sitting for half an hour, to the exit station.
Unfortunately, today's bad luck was a chain of events.
"Wow... .... Wow..."
Just out of the subway entrance, he saw that it was raining heavily outside, the raindrops falling on the ground splashing water and dust blocked Lin Xianfu who did not bring an umbrella to go out.
He could only stand still as the bustling crowd passed by to his left and right, either going out or coming in. Everyone had umbrellas, and everyone consciously and silently avoided him, which made him even more out of place.
It seemed that he was the only one without an umbrella.
Lin Xianfu sighed again, lamenting that today was really unlucky.
But fortunately, this small matter was not enough to affect Lin Xianfu's state of mind.
He in the daily two o'clock and one line of boring life in the work of a thousand hammer, has long been sharpened a kind of numbness of mind.
Come out to work for a few years, he is indifferent to everything, not interested in things, as if the purpose of living in the world, only left to work well for the boss at the end of the new car to enjoy life to provide a little end of the help.
Lin Xianfu's workplace is a remote and old-fashioned veterinary clinic, with working hours from 8:00 to 6:00 or 10:00 p.m. The time now is already 7:00 p.m., and he has to go to work. The time was already 7:26 p.m. Late arrival was a foregone conclusion.
I'm numb, it doesn't matter.
Lin Xianfu sighed as he looked out at the pouring rain.
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Skip the late Lin Xianfu was verbally educated, with boring work not to mention, the time quickly came to 9:00 pm.
After 9:00 pm, it was actually still raining heavily outside the house, and it had been raining for the whole day today, causing the clinic to not have much business.
Even so, two people were still needed to stay until 10pm tonight. Lin Xianfu and another veterinarian named Xu Youcai were honored to be chosen.
As usual, whenever they stayed on the night shift with Lin Xianfu, Xu Youcai got up to pack his things after 10 minutes once the others had left.
As he packed, he said with an apologetic voice, "I'm sorry, I have an appointment tonight and I have to leave first. Ah Fu, please stay until 10:00, remember to turn off the water and electricity before you leave."
--You're so full of things. This is already the eighth time this month.
Lin Xianfu silently looked at the way he couldn't wait to run away, buried the words in his heart, and only casually replied back on his mouth, "Oh."
The relationship between the two was average, there was usually not much communication, and only when they had to leave early would they say the longest words to Lin Xianfu with an apologetic face. Lin Xianfu had gotten used to his early retirement. Recently, there had been problems with the surveillance, and the number of conversations with each other had instead increased as a result.
After Xu You Cai left, and his cell phone was out of battery being charged, Lin Xianfu could only sit on a stool to stay up for a while, watching the TV set in boredom.
Unintentionally, a piece of news on the TV caught his attention.
The content describes that at 10 am yesterday, the remains of a human were found in the outskirts of the city.
The deceased was a woman, her clothes were torn into cloth remains, her internal organs were missing, and her face had several crisscrossing scars from sharp objects, and the autopsy report showed that the deceased had been dead for three days.
After the murderer killed the victim, he casually dumped him in a half-man-high weed bush until he was found yesterday.
The picture on the TV had been coded, but the grass behind the body... Lin Xianfu couldn't help but sit up straight... this suburb, it felt a bit familiar?
"Boom!"
As he was thinking, a thunderstorm exploded out of nowhere from the torrential rain outside the window, startling Lin Xianfu.
He subconsciously turned his head and glanced at the door, only one glance, but he froze.
At this time, the clinic door, I do not know when, there is a person standing there, is looking at the clinic.
Physical appearance, that is a man, he stood alone under the rain curtain, no umbrella, wearing a curry-colored long raincoat, hood on the head, rainwater dripping down the raincoat downstream.
Lin Xianfu's head turned just in time to meet his eyes, the man then pushed open the glass door, coming toward the inside.
Lin Xianfu saw that he was able to push the door open and figured that it couldn't be some kind of ghost or something.
Although his outfit was quite strange, Lin Xianfu had been in the service industry for a few years, and it wasn't like he hadn't seen strange people before.
But having said that, Lin Xianfu still had a minimum of wariness. He subtly put the veterinary scalpel on the table into his right hand coat pocket.
-With a sharp object in his hand, in case he really has any plans to do something wrong, he can also protect himself a little bit.
After doing this, Lin Xianfu turned off the TV, pushed the glasses pressed on the bridge of his nose, put on a professional smile, and got up to welcome the guest, "Welcome, how can I help you?"
The man walked up to Lin Xianfu and said in an anxious tone, "Please, doctor, please save me!"