Sometimes, if a person was thinking about something, they couldn't help but say it out loud.
This was especially true for Tang Bingyao, who had a simple and pure personality.
Not to mention, she couldn't believe Lin Feng's words at all. Based on her understanding of her best friend on the other side of the ocean, it was absolutely impossible for her to do such a thing. She also didn't believe that such a thing could happen.
"No way!"
Tang Bingyao's eyes widened as she looked at Lin Feng and quickly added, "That's right, Lin Feng, I'm not going to kill you. I'm going to kill you.
"Steamed Bun would definitely reply!"
Lin Feng paused for a moment. He slowly raised his head and looked at Tang Bingyao.
"Have you been in contact with her lately?"
Tang Bingyao couldn't help but choke. She hesitantly replied in a small voice, "Um … Last week."
She couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
After all, she had always kept in contact with Steamed Bun a secret. Apart from that, she had never done anything to deceive Steamed Bun.
Fortunately, Lin Feng didn't seem to mind this at all. He just nodded in a daze.
"So … she didn't change her number."
It wasn't some kind of result that he guessed. Even though the phone number followed the girl to Manchester, England, across the ocean, it was still kept and used by the owner of the number.
Tang Bingyao nodded repeatedly.
"Yeah, she didn't change her number.
"Steamed Bun kept her number because she was hoping that you would contact her again one day.
"Really, you have to believe her!"
Her voice was filled with unprecedented seriousness and anxiety.
She absolutely did not want this pair of childhood sweethearts to have their relationship take a turn for the better because of another misunderstanding. As she spoke, the girl racked her brains to think of an excuse for her best friend.
"Maybe … Steamed Bun didn't see the message.
Maybe she was busy and didn't check her phone.
If she saw it, she would definitely reply! "
Unfortunately, even though Tang Bingyao had a better understanding of many things than most people, she didn't know what had happened in Manchester's St. Edmund Hospital in the past two days.
This made her extremely confident in defending her best friend at this time.
But …
Sometimes, confidence alone wasn't enough to prove anything.
Because in the next moment, Lin Feng looked at Tang Bingyao and seriously asked another question.
"But, a whole day has already passed."
There was no news for an entire day.
In this day and age, not to mention the fact that almost every adult and student had a mobile phone, it wasn't an exaggeration to say that they had to keep their heads down 24 hours a day. But at the very least … there was no reason for a person to not look at their mobile phone for 24 hours.
And as long as the phone was switched on and the screen was lit up,
It was impossible for him to ignore such a message.
Furthermore —
"On the way here tonight, I tried calling Steamed Bun."
Lin Feng hesitated for a second and then said slowly. He then bit his lip and said: "I tried but nobody picked up."
Even though Lin Feng was trying his best to control his emotions and act as if nothing had happened, at that moment, Lin Feng's face still showed that he was at a loss of what to do.
Tang Bingyao, who was sitting across from him, couldn't help but tremble slightly.
The call went through.
No one answered.
Those six simple words revealed a lot of information.
If the call went through, it meant that Tang Bingyao's phone wasn't powered off, which eliminated the possibility that she hadn't seen Lin Feng's message.
But no one picked up …
There could only be one conclusion.
No one picked up.
Tang Bingyao didn't understand Lin Feng's emotional journey from last night until now. Otherwise, she would have understood his struggle and heaviness even more clearly.
This morning, he even said to Su Xue, "Why don't we just let it go?" It was as if he had accepted his fate, but also as if he had really chosen to let it go.
But in the evening …
However, he still couldn't hold it in. Even though he was nervous and uneasy, he still mustered up all his courage and dialed that phone number.
However, no one answered after he dialed the number, which was undoubtedly an even more intense and heavy blow to his heart.
Looking at Lin Feng's blank expression, Tang Bingyao suddenly felt an indescribable pain in her heart. She couldn't help but reach out and hold his hand, as if she wanted to bring some comfort to the boy in front of her. At the same time, she tried to organize her words.
"It can't be … Maybe something happened to Steamed Bun …"
Using such words as an excuse was rather feeble and powerless.
So in the next moment, Lin Feng almost reflexively asked,
"What could it be?"
"What could it be?"
Yes.
What kind of thing could make a person not look at his phone for a whole day? He didn't even hear the ringtone when he dialed the number.
Tang Bingyao opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say.
Because it really didn't seem possible.
Unless …
Unless …
Suddenly, as if a bright light flashed across her mind, a possibility that she had subconsciously ignored rose in her heart, almost unbelievable, causing the girl's body to stiffen uncontrollably at this moment!
Unless …
For a moment, countless scenes from the past came flooding back like a tide. The girl's best friend's figure kept flashing in her mind. In the end, it was closely connected with those shocking bottles and jars of medicine, as well as the incomparably rare and obscure name of the disease.
Her heart began to tremble violently.
If there was anyone else present, they would be shocked to find that Tang Bingyao's face had suddenly turned incomparably pale, as if all the blood had drained from her face.
Fortunately, Lin Feng, who was distracted, didn't notice the change in Tang Bingyao's expression due to the steam rising from the wonton bowl.
But after not getting a response, he finally looked at Tang Bingyao again.
"Tang Tang?"
"Hm?" Tang Bingyao snapped out of her daze, but she was still a little absent-minded. Even her voice seemed to be trembling.
Lin Feng still didn't notice it. He just stared at Tang Bingyao.
"When I sent Senior One off at the eSports arena, I felt like he wanted to say something to me."
"But he didn't say anything."
"I don't know what it is either."
"You …"
"Do you?"
Lin Feng paused for a moment. He looked down at the bowl of wontons in front of him, which he had barely touched.
"Is there something else that everyone is hiding from me?"
Outside the wonton shop.
Thunder rumbled in the clouds.
The night rain, which had stopped not long ago, began to fall once more.
At the same time, at the Pudong International Airport on the outskirts of Shanghai, a plane headed for England took off and disappeared into the night sky.
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