Chapter 372

Su Zhao stayed to take care of Yi’s mother, while Lin Qianhuan and the other two got into the off-road vehicle and headed towards Building 125.

Snowflakes fell lightly, sticking to the front windshield and turning into water droplets under the influence of the car’s heating.

Lin Qianhuan glanced at Yi Zhonglin through the rearview mirror, “If your father really did something unforgivable, what do you plan to do?”

Yi Zhonglin had obviously thought about her question long ago. He gave a bitter smile, “If you make a mistake, you should be punished. Even if he is my father, there are no exceptions. But we have a deep friendship, and I don’t want to lie to you. He is my father, and I can’t just watch him die.”

At this point, Yi Zhonglin leaned wearily on the back of his seat, his whole body exuding extremely low pressure. “Am I very stupid, very ridiculous? When persuading my mother, I spoke eloquently, but when it comes to myself, I can’t bring myself to be ruthless to that guy.”

Lin Qianhuan, sitting in the passenger seat, shook her head gently, “He is your biological father. Although he wasn’t very attentive to you and your mother, at least he gave you good living conditions and didn’t resort to beating and scolding. He is not a good husband or a good father, but he is better than those beasts who commit domestic violence, abuse alcohol, and tear families apart. Yi Long is bad, but not completely bad, still leaving you with a glimmer of hope for him. For you, this remnant of hope is both torment and pain. Therefore, no one can stand on the moral high ground and accuse you.”

Yi Zhonglin was a little surprised that Lin Qianhuan would say this, and he felt quite touched. He thought Lin Qianhuan would righteously criticize him, but he didn’t expect her to understand his feelings so empathetically.

The off-road vehicle quickly stopped at the unit door of Building 125. Lin Qianhuan got out of the car first and walked towards 1201.

“Knock, knock, knock.” She rapped three times on the door, and then heard hurried footsteps from inside the house.

“Coming! Who is it?” The man who opened the door was stunned when he saw Lin Qianhuan in full gear and didn’t recognize her. It wasn’t until his gaze fell on Yi Zhonglin that he suddenly woke up.

“District Chief Yi, what brings you here? Who are these two?”

Yi Zhonglin recognized the man in front of him as one of the staff members in the transaction area, and their relationship was pretty good. “This is the base leader.”

After figuring out Lin Qianhuan’s identity, the man nervously opened the door wider, “Base Leader, please come in quickly. There’s a fireplace burning in the house, it’s warmer.”

Lin Qianhuan didn’t refuse, stepped into the house, took out a folding stool from her space, and sat by the fireplace to warm herself.

Yi Zhonglin looked around the house, “Gao Wei, do you have someone named Yi Chongde in your house?”

Gao Wei nodded repeatedly, “Yes, District Chief, are you here to find him?”

“Yes, where is he?”

“He’s been missing since the extreme cold started. I haven’t seen him for a long time.”

Lin Qianhuan frowned upon hearing this, “Missing since the extreme cold started? Do you know where he might have gone?”

Gao Wei shook his head a little embarrassedly, “He usually ignores us, so he naturally wouldn’t reveal his whereabouts to us. But on the night of the extreme cold, a strange man came here looking for him. Yi Chongde called that man Mr. Zhao.”

Mr. Zhao, again Mr. Zhao. Reaching this point, Lin Qianhuan only felt as if she was in a fog, unable to find any light.

Who exactly is this Mr. Zhao? Why would Yi Chongde work for him? How did Yi Long get involved?

No one can answer these questions for her. But now it seems that the key to breaking the situation is this Mr. Zhao.

She must find him!

Lin Qianhuan sat in her seat, quietly watching the flames flickering in the fireplace.

Now it is the extreme cold period, they must have a place to stay, otherwise they will not be able to survive. In order to cover their tracks and avoid being discovered, these people will definitely not choose to live in the living area. Moreover, the snow outside the base is thick, making it impossible to go out, so they must still be inside the Xiangyang Base.

Now every day, snow removal teams are using de-icing agents to clear the snow on the roadsides in the base. In order to avoid being discovered by the snow removal team, they will naturally choose to live in a place where the snow removal team cannot patrol.

In the entire Xiangyang Base, the only place where you don’t have to spend energy removing snow is the planting area.

Lin Qianhuan’s eyes suddenly lit up. There is a small bungalow in the northwest corner of the planting area, which is a house for the night watchmen to rest in.

Since it is a place for people to live in, the house has naturally undergone systematic renovation. Not only have the walls and glass been thickened, but there is also a fireplace inside!

In this way, this is very likely to be their current hiding place!

“That’s quite clever, knowing that no one would go there during the extreme cold period.”

Lin Qianhuan didn’t delay, quickly got up, and drove towards the planting area with Jiang Xing and Yi Zhonglin.

From afar, they saw the planting area, which looked like a snow mountain.

“Get out of the car, let’s look for it separately to see if there are any passages leading to the inside of the snow pile.”

Lin Qianhuan left first, carefully circling the edge of the planting area, but without any gain.

Bamboo’s furry body moved in her pocket, then crawled out and ran towards the right front.

Lin Qianhuan quickly followed and stopped next to a pile of garbage under the guidance of Bamboo.

“Is it here?”

She disgustedly used her mental power to clear all the piled-up garbage, and there was indeed a tunnel below that could provide passage for one person.

Sharing the location with Jiang Xing using the communicator, Lin Qianhuan didn’t stop to wait, but bent down and searched.

The tunnel was very long, and countless messy footprints were printed on the snow under her feet, indicating that someone had once passed through here.

“They really know how to hide.”

She bit her back molars, quickened her pace, and finally stood outside the bungalow.

This group of people is really smart, using metal walls to separate the snow and digging ventilation holes in the center to transport oxygen.

Lin Qianhuan cautiously stepped forward, reached out and pushed open the door, but there was no one in the house.

She was a little annoyed, protected herself with a mental barrier, and then walked into the house to investigate carefully.

There was still a fire burning in the fireplace, and the wood had not been burned out, indicating that the people living here had obviously left not long ago.

They escaped so quickly, someone must have informed them.

Lin Qianhuan carefully searched the house again, and found a piece of paper from the wooden bed in the corner.

【Long time no see, Lin Qianhuan.】

The handwriting was slightly messy, and the final period was obviously used with 100% of the person’s strength, and the paper was poked with a hole.

The person who wrote this note obviously hated her extremely.

Mr. Zhao…

Hated her extremely…

Lin Qianhuan stood there thinking for a moment, and a name immediately appeared in her mind – Zhao Zhuqing.

When Jiang Minhui left Yuncheng Base, she told her that Zhao Zhuqing was taken away by a group of people who didn’t look very good.

Now this guy has actually come to her door and joined forces with Yi Chongde.

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