Chapter 1

I followed the security guard out of the office and saw my dad standing at the entrance, going through the formalities.

I sized him up and immediately knew he wasn't my dad!

My dad never wore farming shoes. Not only was the man wearing a pair of farming shoes, but the surface of the shoes looked like they'd been fished out of the water, covered in wet patches. His hands were frighteningly white, as if they'd been soaked in water for too long.

As I came out of the room, the man turned his head and looked at my face: "Li Po, I'm taking you away."

I immediately shuddered.

The older generation used to say: When picking someone up, nobody says "taking you away." People only say that when the dead want to take the living.

I was so scared that I kept backing away: "He's not my dad! I'm not going with him!"

The security guard in charge of registration was also stunned. He compared the household registration book and ID card several times: "If he's not your dad, who is he? Hurry up and go with him!"

"He really isn't my dad!" As I retreated, I noticed that the man was standing in the shadows.

The man chuckled: "Li Po, come here! I'm here to take you away."

My dad told me not to go to anyone who called me from a place where the light didn't reach.

Wasn't that man in the shadows?

The head of the security section, who had brought me out, looked at the man at the door and said, "Wait outside for a while. I'll talk to the child."

The man agreed and retreated to the base of the wall, squatting down with his hands in his sleeves. He looked like an old farmer who had never seen the world, but the position where he squatted was right in the shadows of the corner.

He was waiting for me in the shadows!

As I followed the head of the security section back, I glanced at him twice. The second time I turned my head, I saw the man looking up at my face. There was no light in the man's eyes, they were clearly the eyes of a dead man.

I was so frightened that I followed the head of the security section into the office. He sat down opposite me: "Why didn't you go with that man? Isn't that your dad?"

"No!" I didn't know how to explain it to him, but he was very kind and sat opposite me, comforting me for a long time before I told him about my dad chasing me away.

The head of the security section listened to me with a smile, and finally said slowly: "Your dad asked you to change your clothes because he wanted you to cover up your scent. He was afraid that someone would find you by following your scent."

"You didn't change your clothes last night. The person looking for you actually came last night, but you had a knife on you. He didn't dare to look for you directly, so he waited for you to get on the bus and take your knife away."

The head of the security section said in a low voice: "Think carefully, was there anything different about the security guard who brought you back?"

My mind went blank. When the security guard took me away, I was only concerned about my knife, and I didn't pay attention to anything unusual about him.

Now that I thought about it carefully, the security guard had been walking along the shadows of the wall when he brought me into the security section. After entering the security section, he was also standing in the same position as the man who had picked me up, where there was no sunlight.

As I felt a chill run down my spine, the head of the security section sitting opposite me suddenly said: "Then do you see anything wrong with me?"

I suddenly raised my head and met his eyes. He was looking at me with a sneer, and large drops of water fell from the brim of his hat onto the table between us.

Before long, the water on the table flowed towards me.

I was so scared that my legs went weak, and I wanted to run but couldn't stand up. The person opposite me stared at me without moving: "Li Chunfeng has a lot of nerve, daring to touch me. If he dares to touch me, I'll touch his whole family. You can't run away, just come with me!"

As the old saying goes, people always come up with bright ideas when they are at their wit's end.

At that time, I didn't know how, but an idea popped into my head.

Since he was here, why hadn't he caught me and taken me away?

There must be something on me that he didn't dare to touch.

It was the cloth bag that my dad had told me to put in my clothes!

That thing must be more than just used to cover up the scent. He didn't dare to touch me because I had that strange scent on me. Otherwise, he would have grabbed me when I was at the station.

Now, I calmed down a lot and turned to look around the office.

The office door was tightly closed, but the window was open. If I wanted to run, jumping out of the window would be the fastest way.

I was about to stand up, but I immediately sat back down.

Was that person opening the window on purpose to make me jump out? Was there something under the window?

I glanced at the window a few times, and the person sitting opposite me suddenly kicked the table with his leg. The water on the table rushed towards me, and I subconsciously stood up, wanting to run towards the door.

Before I could move, the security guard sitting opposite me raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, and stared directly at my face: "You're quite smart! You can't run away."

Before the man could finish speaking, I heard someone outside shout, "Why isn't this person breathing? Call an ambulance quickly... Where did this person come from... His name is Li Chunfeng..."

When I heard someone outside shout that Li Chunfeng had stopped breathing, I frantically pounded on the door and shouted, "That's my dad! That's my dad! Call an ambulance! He has a bad heart..."