Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

"Lei Heng."
"Ok?"
"Are you hungry?"
"I'm not hungry," Lei Heng said, and then he looked at the expressions of the people around him and said, "I'm not like some people who don't like to eat breakfast. Do you feel uncomfortable now?"
Xie Qingfei held his chin up in dismay: "I thought the mission would be over soon, but it's been delayed until now and there's still no movement from Master."

The two of them were huddled in a van, which was a temporary rental. Apart from spare parts, the only foreign objects were garbage, which was impossible to chew. There was no village or store in the middle of nowhere, and Xie Qingfei regretted not getting up five minutes earlier to buy some food along the way.
She held her stomach and sighed, "There's no bread in the van. How hateful."

Lei Heng searched his pockets and miraculously took out two chocolates from his trouser pockets: "Here, to cushion you."
I don’t know why the man’s body temperature is so high. Xie Qingfei looked at the two half-melted balls with an expression that was hard to describe. But the next second, the sound of her stomach protesting interrupted her pretentiousness, and she ate the chocolate with a frown.
Lei Heng looked at her expression that looked like she had taken poison and said, "You're still looking down on me? This is the wedding candy that I carefully selected. No one else has tasted it yet. You're the first one to get a taste of the good fortune."
Xie Qingfei suddenly felt that it was not so hard to swallow, and asked in surprise: "Really? When is the wedding date?"
"She's still studying. We've planned to hold the wedding after she finishes graduate school this year." Lei Heng, who is usually quite loud, blushed when he mentioned his fiancée. "Why are you grinning like an idiot? Give me a definite answer whether it's delicious or not. I need to choose a few other dishes later."
"It's delicious." Xie Qingfei couldn't help but smile, "Congratulations to Comrade Lei Heng, I wish you a happy marriage!"
"Thank you." Lei Heng accepted her blessing solemnly, rubbed his fingers on the seam of his pants twice, and said, "Qingfei, I have something else to tell you, I..."

The headset suddenly rang, and Xie Qingfei quickly gestured to him to keep quiet.

"The target person has appeared. All team members, please pay attention. Surround the scene in three minutes."
Lei Heng also became serious, and heard Pu Yu's instructions in the channel: "Lei Heng, take Qing Fei in from the east gate. The target person will meet there. Your mission is to capture him and not let anyone escape."
"Yes!"

Everything was going well.

Xie Qingfei's fuzzy consciousness shuttled back and forth between the scenes in her memory. She heard herself asking Lei Heng if they could go to eat chicken hotpot at noon and let the master treat them, but Lei Heng said that he preferred the copper pot hotpot that had just opened opposite the unit.
In a blink of an eye, there was a loud explosion, and the impact force knocked people out. The feeling of being suspended in the air for a few seconds deprived people of all their thoughts, and their whole body lost weight and was thrown heavily to the ground. The telegraph sound in Xie Qingfei's ears became a long line, and she could only feel that her chest was pressed down by the solid floor.

"Lei Heng, Lei Heng!"

Her eyelids were heavy, and a great emptiness suppressed her consciousness. Her ribs and chest seemed to be crushed into powder. Xie Qingfei's scattered soul was pulled back by the pain one by one. Her dizzy mind gradually regained control of her sensory organs, allowing her to vaguely hear some noise.

What was all this chattering about? She was slow to decipher the vague words.

"Save her, save her! You knew it was an explosion, so why didn't you protect her and push me away? Are you crazy?"
With such a loud voice and being rude to everyone, Xie Qingfei thought silently that this man who had transformed his loudspeaker into a spirit must be Zhao Chongyun.
So the person he was scolding should be Wei Cheng?
Sure enough, the next second she heard Wei Cheng say: "If you keep making noise and disturbing her rest, go home."
Xie Qingfei wanted to laugh. Wei Cheng looked quite serious when he was fierce. He also sounded very strong, so he should not have been seriously injured. In fact, according to her judgment of the amount of explosives, as long as he dodged in time, there would not be any big problems.
But Zhao Chongyun, who was unaware of the situation, was so angry after being rebuked that his fear of Wei Cheng disappeared instantly. He angrily retorted, "Why don't you let me stay here? Who are you to her?"

Xie Qingfei thought: He is quite good at picking out the key points. How should he answer if you ask him that?
Then she could no longer hear Zhao Chongyun's voice. She must have been asked to leave by the young master through special means. Then the familiar footsteps sounded from far to near. She really wanted to open her eyes to see who was coming and confirm with her own eyes that he was okay, but she really didn't have the strength to lift her eyelids. But soon she was glad that she was still in a semi-comatose state, because she felt Wei Cheng holding her hand.

His hot breath brushed across the back of her hand, causing it to feel a little tingly.
Did she sleep for many days? Wei Cheng actually had a beard. He was such a delicate and face-conscious person that he wanted to dress up every time he saw her, and there was even a day when he forgot to shave.

It was very prickly. Xie Qingfei couldn't stand the prick, but this man didn't realize that he was "torturing" her at all. He occupied her hand and rubbed it more and more excitedly. Xie Qingfei closed her eyes hard and mobilized all her strength to give him a hint. Suddenly, her fingertips were burned.
She recalled the warmth she felt at that moment and realized it was tears.

Wei Cheng didn't say a word from beginning to end, but Xie Qingfei magically calmed down, silently savoring the touch of the water stains on her fingertips from warm to dry. This became her only connection with the world that had not yet recovered, clearer than any external sense. After her mind was no longer impetuous, the feeling of fatigue came back. She wanted to see the beautiful man crying before going to sleep, but the remaining physical strength could no longer support her wish.

This time she slept very soundly, her head didn't hurt as much, and all the memories that were frozen before she fell into a coma were released.
Because it was not her first time experiencing an explosion, she was very sensitive to all signs. However, the human body is not indestructible after all. It was obviously unrealistic to be able to sense danger and want to quickly avoid it under the circumstances at the time. She could only be thankful that there was a marble square table on the terrace, which helped to block the impact from behind at the critical moment.
In addition, the tacit understanding between her and Wei Cheng, who reacted almost at the same time, also minimized the damage.
Xie Qingfei thought dejectedly, when she wakes up, will she praise him first or be scolded by him first?
She spent the longest period of her coma thinking about this question.

After she was transferred to the general ward, many people came to visit her every day. Xie Qingfei couldn't tell the time, but he could still catch some important information from their voices, which were deliberately lowered after being warned by someone.

Lv Shaohui had already investigated the scene. The black powder and purple snow water she saw were potassium permanganate. The entire explosive device was a pressure cooker as a carrier. The mixture of potassium permanganate and absorbent cotton was the explosive agent. Because there was a washing machine installed in the cabinet under the outdoor sink, there was electricity here, which made it convenient for the murderer to make an ignition device. To start the explosive device, you only need to pull the power switch connected to the clock to turn it on. The explosive will be detonated within the set time, and there is an anti-disassembly device inside, so it cannot be stopped once it is started.

"The tenant's identity information is confirmed to be Lei Heng, but he seems to have disappeared without a trace. However, judging from the compounding technology of explosives, his brother Kang Zhuo is more capable of the relevant ability. He is also missing, and we don't know whether they worked together to commit the crime or something else." Lu Shaohui was looking through the pictures on his phone. They were the evidence found after breaking into Lei Heng's house. "Four sets of clothes are all here, and they are all mannequins. I was shocked when I opened the door."

Xi Ming: "How is Deng Jinru doing?" Lu Shaohui: "She was rescued, but her arm couldn't be reattached. We thought everything would be fine once No. 5 was found, after all, there were only five victims in the novel. Who knew the murderer had no intention of letting Guo Weiqiang go? If our people hadn't gone to his house first and Captain Xie hadn't found him in time, an ordinary person like Guo Weiqiang wouldn't have been able to survive after being hit."

"But my master is not a superman. She must be in so much pain." Xi Ming saw that Xie Qingfei showed no signs of waking up and was visibly listless. "Brother Big Mouth, didn't the doctor say she is out of danger? Why can't she wake up?"
"I think he hasn't recovered yet." Lu Shaohui couldn't give him an answer, so he could only guess, "Is it because his physical fitness has declined and his self-healing ability is slow?"
Xi Ming rushed over and covered his mouth: "Don't talk nonsense in front of my master. She can't stand such words. Be careful or she will get angry with you."
Lu Shaohui was not afraid at all: "I am unconscious, I can't hear you."

Xie Qingfei: "..."

After another nap, I don't know what time it was. The ward was quiet, and the sunlight shone in through the curtains, making the monotonous white sheets warm. Xie Qingfei was dizzy from the bright light, and it took her a long time to adapt. She opened her mouth and uttered "ah" half a syllable, and the person lying next to her was immediately startled.

"Yes, Mommy is here, baby!"

Gu Mingxu touched Xie Qingfei's face excitedly. Seeing that she really opened her eyes, he immediately pressed the bell to call the doctor. After he had done everything, his eyes turned red: "Fei Fei, you finally woke up. I was almost worried to death."
She used a cotton swab dipped in water to help her smudge her lips. Xie Qingfei's dry and smoking throat was moistened, and he was finally able to speak: "Aunt Gu, he..."
"He's fine, he's alive and well!" Gu Mingxu choked up again after saying this, and two lines of tears scratched the tip of her nose, "You silly child, you..."

She began to talk about what happened during her coma, and Xie Qingfei realized that she had only slept for two days after such a long dream. Wei Cheng was fine, and Zhao Chongyun was even more unharmed. Pu Yu also came to see her, but she had a case to attend to and couldn't stay to take care of her. Wei Cheng himself had to be examined by the doctor, and when he couldn't get away, he was worried that a group of men would be clumsy, so he called his mother.

Gu Mingxu fed her a few sips of water and asked distressedly, "Fei Fei, are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere else?"
Xie Qingfei smiled at her and said, "I'm hungry."
Gu Mingxu wiped her tears and coaxed her: "Okay, let's eat after the doctor finishes the examination. Auntie will make you whatever you want to eat."

The doctor came quickly, and Xie Qingfei looked up and saw Wei Cheng standing at the end of the crowd.

He didn't come over. Xie Qingfei looked at him while checking him: Fortunately, he doesn't look like he's in trouble, but he looks a little lost. His hair has grown a little longer, but unfortunately he has shaved his beard. She has never seen him with a beard. Xie Qingfei imagined the young master's elegant and handsome face with a chin and beard, and couldn't help but curl her lips.
Wei Cheng couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he saw that she was still smiling.

"It's good that she's awake. The patient is in good physical condition. She originally had a concussion, but the brain examination showed no damage. She may have been unconscious due to emotional disorders. Family members should make sure she stays in bed and rests, relaxes, and avoids overexertion."
Gu Mingxu was still thinking about Xie Qingfei's comment about being hungry, so he asked, "Are there any dietary restrictions?"
"Just eat light food and pay attention to balanced nutrition." After the doctor finished speaking, he looked at Xie Qingfei's report again. He probably felt that she was strong and comforted her, "She is in good health and will recover quickly. Don't worry too much."
After hearing this, Gu Mingxu hurried back to prepare food, and soon there were only two people left in the ward.

Wei Cheng stared at her for nearly a minute before she spoke. He then slowly moved to the bedside and asked, "Does it hurt anywhere else?"
Xie Qingfei stared at him: "Yes."
Wei Cheng suddenly became nervous: "Where?"
"My shoulders and waist," Xie Qingfei thought for a moment and added, "My butt and legs are all sore and painful."
Wei Cheng breathed a sigh of relief: "You've been lying down for too long, it would be strange if you don't feel sore, let me give you a massage."
He rolled up the bed, and Xie Qingfei let him move her into his arms, leaning her back against him while enjoying the massage.
She smelled the scent of aftershave, which was different from the usual scent on him. Xie Qingfei lowered her eyes and looked at a corner of Wei Cheng's clothes. She guessed that he probably hadn't been home in the past two days, and the smell on his clothes was much lighter.

"Hey, you can be a little stronger." Her meridians were unblocked, and she squinted her eyes and gave the command comfortably.
Wei Cheng snorted: "My strength is so weak, otherwise I wouldn't have been knocked down by you."
Could Xie Qingfei still not understand his hidden meaning? Turning his head, he could only see his chin: "You just didn't expect me to save you."
Her hair swept back and forth in the crook of his neck, just like her words, although the volume was not loud, it made people feel sad and itchy.
Xie Qingfei added: "I am very sad that you have wronged me like this."
Wei Cheng pressed her arm and turned her back: "Say less, the doctor just told you to have a good rest."
"It's not tiring to talk."

Xie Qingfei discovered that there was a wound on the back of his hand, which was caused by the fact that he was clearly pinned down by her at the time, yet he insisted on hugging her.
Then she laughed again.
Wei Cheng wrapped the quilt around her and asked, "What are you laughing at again?"
Xie Qingfei said: "I remembered the meme about a real man never looking back at the explosion."
Wei Cheng threatened, "Don't you feel like there's something missing from your back?"
Xie Qingfei was stunned: "What?"
Wei Cheng touched her hair.
Xie Qingfei: "..."
She almost screamed and asked tremblingly, "So what hairstyle do I have now?"
Wei Cheng laughed: "I was kidding you."

Xie Qingfei realized that she had been teased by him. She was so angry that she wanted to push him away. However, it would take a lot of energy to move twice. Before she could carry out her revenge plan, she leaned back into his arms, panting: "No, no, I feel dizzy."
Wei Cheng held her head, his smile faded: "You know you're dizzy, don't try to be a hero next time."
She didn't mention the issues she was thinking about while in a coma, and Wei Cheng didn't scold her either.
Xie Qingfei's hand was on the back of his hand, gently stroking the circle of gauze. Just as she was about to say something, his embrace suddenly tightened a little, his chin resting on her shoulder, his voice was very light, with a hint of cherishment that had been lost and regained: "You scared me to death."

After hugging her for a long time, Wei Cheng heard Xie Qingfei coughing. He turned around and saw that the water in the cup was gone. Only then did he let her go temporarily and go to the bathroom.

Xie Qingfei leaned back on the pillow, thinking that it was not as comfortable as being in his arms. After a while, he heard the door handle being turned, and just as he was about to let the "human pillow" continue to work, the words stopped at his lips.
Lei Heng stood at the door, pulled down his mask and raised the brim of his hat.
"Qingfei."

(End of this chapter)