Apparently, it was not just the communication that was affected. Even the power transmission in some areas was affected.
When Arnold walked into the public toilet, he found that it was dark all around. Only the emergency light inside was on. Arnold shook his head and cursed his bad luck. Then, he quickly placed his backpack on the basin and took out clean clothes to change into.
He was just about to take off his shirt, but at this moment, he seemed to have thought of something. He had only flipped through half of his shirt when he immediately put it down again. Then, he looked around cautiously.
Finally, he seemed to see a dark shadow in the mirror … standing behind him!
Arnold was startled. He quickly turned around and immediately felt a sense of horror — he didn't know when, or even silently, someone had already stood behind him.
He could tell that it was a woman … however, the woman seemed to be lowering her head. Her long wet hair hung loosely in front of her face and her body was soaked.
She looked like a drowning person who had been rescued by the shore. Arnold could vaguely make out a pair of eyes filled with hatred through the gaps in her hair.
Arnold was so shocked that he stumbled backward and bumped into the basin. He subconsciously placed both hands on the basin to steady his body. At that moment, the woman's arm suddenly moved!
It was a Western-style knife — the kind used to cut steak!
The knife was directly pressed against Ah Nuo's throat. The hard touch made Ah Nuo feel a chill run down his spine. For a moment, he dared not move. He was afraid that if the woman took another step forward, the Western-style knife would stab into his throat. If that happened, only death would await him.
"Don't be impulsive!" Arnold called out nervously.
"Where is it?!" The woman screamed and raised her head.
The faint emergency light from the public toilet shone on her face, making her look like an evil spirit. Arnold sucked in a breath of cold air and said in horror, "What, where is it?"
"Where is it?!"
The woman screamed again and rushed forward. The Western-style knife that was protruding from Arnold's throat pierced slightly into his flesh.
However, this blunt object only pressed down on Arnold's skin, causing his skin to sink into his muscles. It did not really pierce through, but it was enough to make a person scared!
"What … I don't know what you're talking about …" Arnold took a deep breath and tried his best not to provoke her. "Miss, you … Did you recognize the wrong person?"
"You … you murderer! Bandit! "The woman grew even more agitated and she appeared to have gone mad." You killed Livier and stole my money! You unforgivable scum!!! "
"Li … Livia?" Arnold was stunned for a moment before he quickly said, "You're the woman who escaped this morning!"
The knife stabbed into his throat again. Arnold could feel that the next time this woman exerted force, even if it was not a sharp object, it could pierce his throat.
"You're asking the obvious! You scum!! I'll kill you!! "
"Relax! Relax! Listen to me! Listen to me! I'm not the person you're talking about! "Arnold instantly grabbed hold of the woman's arm.
As a man, he was much stronger than this woman. The two of them got tangled up and fell to the ground at the same time. However, this woman seemed to have gone mad and Arnold was incapable of holding her down.
"Scum!"
"No! Listen to me! I'm really not the person you're talking about! "Arnold hastily said." I'm Arnold! Which scum are you talking about? Haili! My brother! My twin brother! He has the same face as me and has done all sorts of bad things! You have to believe me! "
"Scum! You're still lying to me! "
"I have proof! I have proof! "Arnold struggled to speak." I really have proof! "
Arnold was finally able to subdue this woman. Both his hands pressed down on the woman's hands and his body pressed down on hers, making it impossible for her to move. Then, he said agitatedly, "Listen to me!"
"Listen! You cannot resist now! As long as I shout a few words, I'll be able to find someone. Then, I'll get them to call the police over and take you away! See, I'm not doing that at all. I'm even trying to calm you down! Why is that? "
The woman continued to struggle and scream!
"If you want to prove your innocence, if you want to find that scum you're talking about, then relax!"
"Do you think I'll believe a scum like you?"
"But you have to believe me now, don't you?" Arnold panted. "At least you still have some hope! But Miss, if you continue to go crazy, then I'll have no choice but to call for help! Truth be told, there's no need for me to explain all this to you! Look, I've already subdued you. I can call for someone to take you away at any time. Then, when you get to the police station, you won't be able to defend yourself! Because there, you won't be able to get a fair trial! Isn't that right? Think about it! Calm down and think about it carefully. If I'm the murderer, do I have to say all this to you? "
The woman's resistance seemed to weaken slightly.
Arnold quickly said, "Think about it. If I'm the person you're talking about, why didn't the police take me away too? Because I wasn't at home last night! The police will only believe me if they find something to prove it, right? "
The woman's resistance weakened slightly again.
Arnold saw that his words seemed to be effective, so he relaxed a little. "Miss, please believe me, okay? I can prove what I said, and maybe I can help you a little. "
The woman suddenly stopped moving.
Arnold heaved a sigh of relief and relaxed a little again. But at this time, his daughter suddenly slammed her forehead into his eyes. Arnold cried out in pain, and the woman directly opened her mouth and bit his palm.
She was given the opportunity to resist, and she quickly extricated herself from Arnold's suppression. Then, she quickly picked up the table knife that had fallen to the ground and quickly stood up.
Ah Nuo also quickly got up. The two of them were less than half a meter away from each other and were in a deadlock. Ah Nuo grabbed the place where he had been bitten … This woman was really vicious. She had directly bitten through his skin.
At this time, someone walked into the public toilet.
Seeing this, the woman angrily threw the table knife at Arnold. At the same time, she knocked the man away and rushed out of the toilet.
"Hey! What the hell happened? Bro, are you having sex with your girlfriend here? "
Arnold smiled bitterly, grabbed the table knife from the ground, and stammered a few words. Then, he lowered his head, ignored the man, and quickly left.
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Along the way, Arnold looked back from time to time with a vigilant look.
He didn't take the bus. At this time, the bus system seemed to have stopped a lot. His footsteps were very fast. After walking for more than two hours, he finally walked across the road and into the nearest slum.
Arnold seemed to be very familiar with this place. Finally, he came to a shabby house.
He took out the key, looked around, and then opened the door and walked in. This place seemed to have stopped because of the strange storm in the afternoon.
But soon, the house was lit up. It should be a candle or something like that.
A'Nuo found something in the room and then returned to the hall. He had lit the candle on the table, so he directly pulled out a chair and sat at the table.
Arnold sighed, and suddenly said, "Miss, are you here?"
He called into the darkness, but didn't get a response. Arnold continued, "Miss, I didn't lock the door. You should be able to come in, right? I know where you are hiding … Come, this is the evidence I want to show you, the evidence to prove that I am not the scumbag you are talking about. "
As he spoke, A Nuo looked around nervously. In the end, he placed the thing he had found — the photo album — on the dining table and opened it.
Arnold said slowly, "I have an older brother. His name is Haley. He has been a naughty person since he was born …"
He pointed at a photo in the album, "This is him, and the person next to him is me."
This was an old photo. The photo should have been taken in an elementary school. In it, a pair of twin boys were looking at the camera at the same time, smiling.
Arnold opened the album page by page, and slowly talked about his past. "… This was taken when I was in high school, after a football game. Haley wanted to be a football player since he was a child. But he was too good at causing trouble. Once, he got into a fight with someone and hurt his knee. He had the opportunity to join a good local football club, but he gave up because of the injury … This is our graduation photo when we graduated from high school. Miss … are you here? "
There was still no response in the darkness.
Arnold, however, continued, "Haili and I are like the heads and tails of a coin. He is the scumbag that people call trash. But I … I have always been recognized by people. I got a scholarship with my own efforts and walked out of this place. I also got a lot of funding in the university … I took this photo during the opening ceremony of the university. It was taken by my father … Miss, are you here? "
There was still no response in the darkness.
Arnold sighed and smiled bitterly. He shook his head and closed the album.
He rubbed his forehead and propped it with his hand. But then, a strange sound rang out.
Arnold abruptly opened his eyes. Under the flickering candlelight, the woman who had attacked him in the public toilet appeared across the table.
She flipped open the photo album and flipped through the pages quickly without saying a word.
"Miss … you are really here," Arnold called out softly.
The woman frowned and raised her head to look at Arnold. She suddenly asked, "You really weren't at home last night?"
"I was studying at school last night. I can find someone who can be my witness. I did come back this morning!" Arnold quickly said.
The woman frowned again. "You have a twin brother. Why didn't Livia mention it to me? Didn't you tell her? As her boyfriend, why did you keep it from her? "
Arnold quickly waved his hand and said, "Miss! Firstly, I don't know this Livia you are talking about. Secondly, she can't be my girlfriend! "
"You!" The woman stood up in agitation. Then, she seemed to have thought of something and she suddenly said, "White Hell."
"What?" Arnold was stunned and he looked at the woman in confusion. "What hell? Miss, I know you must be feeling terrible right now. But … at the very least, it is not hell, right? "
The woman, however, sat down and stared at Arnold without blinking. "Do you rarely come home?"
Arnold said, "In the past two months, I have been busy with my studies, the experiments at school and my internship. Most of the time, I rarely come home."
The woman continued, "This person … I am talking about your brother. Does he have the key to your house?"
Arnold shook his head. "I am not sure. Once, he came to my house. A few days later, I found that the spare key to my house was missing. "
The woman asked again, "Then why didn't you change the lock?"
Arnold smiled bitterly and said, "There is nothing valuable in my house. If I say that I need to change the lock because I lost the key, my landlady will definitely flip. Besides, I might not know where I put it and couldn't find it. Later, I forgot about it. "
He frowned and looked at the woman. "You said that Livia is my girlfriend … but I don't know her at all. Wait, when did Livia say that she has a boyfriend? How did they meet? "
"White Hell," the woman said dejectedly. "She said that she met you in this nightclub."
Arnold quickly said, "Miss! My financial situation does not allow me to spend money in that kind of place! "
"Don't say anything first. Let me think." The woman shook her head and wiped her face.
She began to recall some of the things that Livia told her about her and her boyfriend.
She said that they met in a nightclub. That night, she drank too much and was pestered by several hooligans. Originally, it was not a big deal for her to be pestered. After all, Livia was not a good girlfriend. At most, she would just treat it as being bitten by a dog.
But he didn't expect that a man would step forward to save him.
She said that the man was very handsome and was a student of a famous university. He had earned a scholarship through his own efforts.
She said that he was usually very busy with his studies and she did not want him to know about her. Thus, she would only meet him when he was not busy with his studies. Generally, she would wait for him to take the initiative to contact her.
She said that there was no future between them, but she enjoyed this sudden love very much …
If … if Arnold was not the Arnold that Livia mentioned, that would mean … Arnold's twin brother had impersonated him and used his identity to hook up with Livia.
Indeed … compared to those hooligans who did not know what would happen tomorrow, a famous university student with the status of a future elite was more likely to attract some ignorant women.
Livia was one of those ignorant women who had the habit of daydreaming.
"Why did you come back to this place?" She stared at Arnold again, attempting to read his expression.
Arnold smiled wryly and said, "I said that I would give you evidence … besides, I had a feeling that you would not give up so easily. Thus, after coming out from the toilet, I thought that you might be following me. Thus, I came back here – this is the place where my parents lived before they passed away."
"I will take this with me." The woman suddenly stood up. "But I will not believe you so easily … If, if I find out that you have lied to me, I will not let you go! Even if I become a ghost, I will not let you go! "
She walked directly to the door.
However, before she could take two steps, she fell to the ground.
Arnold hurriedly got up and walked over to help her sit up. "How are you?"
The woman only covered her ankle with her palm, revealing a pained expression. Arnold frowned. "Did you sprain it in the toilet? You … you even walked so far? "
The woman did not speak. She stubbornly tilted her head.
Arnold said, "Wait a moment. I will get you some medicine for your sprain. My brother … Haley used to get injured often. We have a lot of medicine at home. I just don't know if it has expired."
As he spoke, Arnold hurriedly stood up and walked to a place where the candlelight could not reach. He seemed to be searching for something.
Not long after, A Nuo came back with a spray in his hand. He took off the woman's shoes and watched her reaction. Then he began to spray the spray. "It may hurt a little, but just bear with it for a while."
The room was very hot and stuffy because of the power outage. Arnold's face was covered with sweat. He adjusted his glasses and continued to focus on treating the woman's ankle injury.
Only then did the woman see a row of very eye-catching bite marks on Arnold's palm. There was even blood …
She subconsciously said, "I'm sorry …"
"It's nothing … You were wronged. I would do the same if I were you," Arnold replied casually.
The woman said, "I'm talking about the wound on your hand."
Arnold subconsciously raised his hand to take a look. He smiled and said, "It's nothing. I am a man. This little injury is nothing. You, on the other hand, walked so far with a sprain. That's really tough. How do you feel? Do you feel better? "
The flickering candlelight made Arnold's face look unusually gentle.
It seemed that a string in her heart had been plucked at this moment.
"My … my name is Caroline."
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Ding-dong … Ding-dong!
The doorbell rang for a long time. Only then did the door of this exquisite seaside apartment open. Luoqiu walked out and found that the person standing in front of the door was indeed Song Haoran.
"Mr. Song?" Luoqiu revealed a surprised expression. "I'm sorry. There was a power outage. I was busy looking for something to light up the room. That's why I made you wait a little longer."
The truth was … the boss had just returned from the club after finishing an interesting transaction.
"It's okay." Song Haoran smiled. "Today's weather is indeed a little strange. I also had some obstacles on my way."
Luoqiu nodded. After a moment of silence in front of the door, he said, "Any results?"
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