The Investors

Chapter 35

Feeling unsatisfied, Cia Yonggan tried to enter further into his house. From the front room, he was now walking while fumbling the walls towards the back. In the dark like this he did not feel the need to have lighting, after all he had also memorized the entire structure of this house building.

"Yonggan," at this moment came the voice of Xiao Meilin calling out her name from the front.

Xiao Meilin began to feel impatient because outside it started to feel the wind getting cold. At least inside the house, it won't be as cold as when outside.

"I'm here, Cici, you wait a minute" replied Cia Yonggan.

Its faint smell captures the delicious aroma that usually comes out of the food that has not been cooked for long. The scent that invited the serela came from the dining room, then that was where he stepped.

It felt much darker, as he continued to fumble, his hand finally touching the dining table. The scent came not far from this, there must be food on this table.

It is not strange if the house is inhabited there is a delicious aroma of food, but according to the mind of Cia Yonggan still strange, he smelled the aroma of food, but there was no one at home.

While walking around the table, his hands continued to fumble around the surface of the table until then he felt the pot filled with food. The pot is no longer hot, but the surface still leaves a little warm flavor that indicates the food in the pot was cooked not long ago. It means Gao Mei Gui some time ago ***** cooking here, but why didn't he eat his cooking?

"Degh," he snapped.

"That car. That last car, he must have been in that car!" Cia Yonggan cried out unconsciously.

He thought that Gao Mei Gui was forced to leave here, otherwise he would have finished the dishes he had just cooked. They just crossed the road. The last car that passed them, the car that was almost hit by a tree fell with it earlier, it turned out that there was Gao Mei Gui in it!

"Who's in the car?" suddenly Xiao Meilin was already behind Cia Yonggan.

"Cici, it's shocking," Cia Yonggan was of course shocked by Xiao Meilin's sudden presence there.

Xiao Meilin did not press her, instead the girl walked to the side of Cia Yonggan while directing the flashlight in hand to illuminate the surface of the table. Only then clearly seen, in the pot it contains kwetiau which is still warm and not located chopsticks there.

"Hmmm.. This cuisine smells delicious, it must taste good" Xiao Meilin said, bringing her nose closer to the pot and inhaling Gao Mei Gui's kwetiau scent

Cia Yonggan recalled, before he parted with Gao Mei Gui, the girl had left meat for him to cook this kwetiau. How could he now suddenly be able to cook kwetiau, were they not then out of food stock? More and more questions came to Cia Yonggan's mind, questions that he certainly would not be able to answer for now.

"It hasn't matured long. Still a little warm. Yonggan, I think your lover has just left this place," Xiao Meilin said.

"Yes, Cici. My guess is he was in the last car that passed us in the forest earlier" he replied. Then he asked. "Cici, I'm sorry, I wanted to ask you a favor."

"What is that?" Xiao Meilin asked back.

"Cici, I will have to trouble you. Can we go back to Nanping? I think we could catch that car. I just wanted to make sure, if he was picked up by his uncle," Cia Yonggan said excitedly.

According to him, when Gao Mei Gui was picked up by Ou Julong, then there was nothing for him to worry about anymore. But what if that person wasn't Ou Julong?

"I came here to ask you, is there any other path besides the one we passed? That road we certainly can't get through. You know the tree blocked the road. And is there usually no cellular network? Because my phone has no network at all" Xiao Meilin said.

Cia Yonggan's spirit suddenly disappeared hearing that. He just remembered, the tree that was struck by lightning just fell right on the road body. Usually if there is such an incident, residents around here will contact the road maintenance officer and together they remove the tree from the road body. But now that the mobile network is not available, how to notify the officer?

It's likely that the road maintenance officer will be here tomorrow morning. As a result, they're stuck here tonight. The desire to catch up with Gao Mei Gui became instantaneous.

"Hhhh... Unfortunately there are no other paths, Cici. And as always, the cellular network will be lost if the electricity goes out like this" he said resignedly.

Realizing that resigned Cia Yonggan, Xiao Meilin then thought for a while. He has an idea. Although the idea is not necessarily able to solve the problem of Cia Yonggan immediately, but being late some time is also okay. After all, if they could get out of here, Cia Yonggan could still catch up with Gao Mei Gui to his uncle's place.

"You wait a moment," Xiao Meilin said and with the flashlight lighting in her hand, she walked to the front of the house.

Cia Yonggan was still struggling with his own thoughts. If so, what else can he do? While to call Ou Julong's number directly, he also can't, besides there is no network, he also does not have a mobile phone, and Ou Julong's number is on his cellphone which does not know where. It must be Wei Chung's men who took the phone. And did Xiao Meilin who seemed to have such a strong enough influence ever store Ou Julong's mobile number?

"Ah.." she shook her own head.

Shortly afterwards he heard the car in front of his house seem to be moving away from his residence. Then Xiao Meilin's figure came back in after him. But in the girl's hand there was no longer a flashlight, Xiao Meilin walked by turning on the flashlight on her mobile device which of course was far less when compared to the lighting produced by the previous flashlight.

"Cici, I heard the sound of a car running. Is that your car?" Cia Yonggan asked.

"really. I ordered my two subordinates to look for cell phone signals. If they succeed, then there will be heavy equipment coming here tonight. While we are forced to wait here," Xiao Meilin replied as she pulled out a chair at the dining table and sat there.

"Where are they going to look for a signal? Isn't the road blocked, and impassable?" Cia Yonggan was astonished and worried about the two subordinates of Xiao Meilin.

"No matter where they go, walk or how. Whether it rains or not, they should be able to bring the heavy equipment here as soon as possible" Xiao Meilin said firmly. Then he connected. "Yonggan, he's too fond of not being eaten, I happen to be hungry. I know you're hungry too, let's eat."

Cia Yonggan only resignedly obeyed Xiao Meilin's request. It is not good to waste food, as both parents taught. He picked up the plates and chopsticks and the two of them ate only with Xiao Meilin's cell phone lighting.

When the two of them after eating the kwetiau, they engaged in a light conversation. Xiao Meilin seemed to dominate the conversation, while Cia Yonggan was more often pensive.

For Xiao Meilin, it was fine to wait here in the darkness with this young man who was still a stranger to her, rather than him joining his two subordinates and waiting for them in the car. Wasn't the place where the tree fell in the forest? As a girl, however, she was still horrified to be left alone in the forest.

Besides, there was nothing for him to worry about Cia Yonggan. From his greeting and appearance, he was a trustworthy young man. He was injured anyway, could not do anything to him, even if the young man had bad intentions.

While Cia Yonggan is actually a bit awkward alone with this girl. In this place usually he and Gao Mei Gui ate together and chatted, but now the one present here was not Gao Mei Gui, but another girl. Although he had no ties to Xiao Meilin, there was still Cia Yonggan's guilt towards Gao Mei Gui.

Not to mention later, even if the two subordinates of Xiao Meilin managed to carry out the order, it would definitely take a long time to get to this place. As a result he thought, then where this Xiao Meilin was going to sleep, didn't he only have one bed that was commonly used by Gao Mei Gui? The more guilt haunted him.

But what needs to be said, is already the situation. So before the girl began to feel drowsiness, it was good for her to return to the room and provide a place for Xiao Meilin if at any time the girl wanted to sleep, while he will sleep outside as usual, with a mat.

"Cici, wait a moment huh," Cia Yonggan said as he stood up.

"Where are you going?" Xiao Meilin asked a little worriedly.

However, she is still a girl who will be scared when left alone when dark.

"I'm going to the front room for a second. It's gonna take a minute, you just wait here, Cici," he said.

"You don't stay for long, I'm afraid here," Xiao Meilin started to turn on her phone screen.

As long as the young man left, if he did not concern himself with cell phones, of course his mind would wander everywhere.

Cia Yonggan opened the door again as soon as he arrived. The lighting in this room is still the same as when he first looked here. She could faintly see the silhouette of the bed in the room. Isn't this weird? If earlier he could capture the lighting in the room because of the reflection of the car lights, now the car has gone, but the light in this room is still left behind.

Cia Yonggan's eyes were instantly fixed onto the floor in that corner, the light source inside the room coming from that floor. Already this age, and having grown up in this house, he had never seen the light coming from the floor of the room like it was today.

Curiously he walked to that corner and saw the size of the light from under this ceramic floor was quite large. In this room the floor is a white ceramic, as well as the floor in the corner, all the same. Why is there light from below?

Crouching down, he shook the glowing floor. "Tok tock.."

He repeatedly knocked and compared the sound emitted between the floor that gave off the light with the floor that did not glow. It seemed like the radiant floor was choosing the empty space inside, not as dense as most ceramic floors.

If this floor had empty space underneath, it must have been the light coming from that space. This floor can also be opened. To be sure, he swept his finger around the bright floor and found a lever in the form of a small button. Without a doubt, he pushed the button.

Unexpectedly the floor was two meters in size and one meter wide it suddenly opened upwards and was driven by a spring at the end. As soon as the floor opened, Cia Yonggan's eyes immediately turned to the light source. Down there, about three meters from the surface of this floor he saw a ball the size of twice an adult's fist located on a table.

From here it looks that round object is black, but why can emit a fairly bright white light? Isn't dark matter so unlikely to give off any light other than its original color?

Increasingly curious, Cia Yonggan swept his gaze around the room below. In front of him there are steps made of stone steps that connect to the base of the room surface below it. Slowly, it seemed as if the blackish-black ball was pulling itself closer, he started walking down the stairs.