Chapter 183 - Follow-up on the Strange Van

    “I missed you too, but you are a big girl already. You can tell your big brother if you have any problems. Your big brother will help you vent, but don't you let others laugh at seeing you like this.”

    Wei Xiao Bei flexed his muscles while saying this to display that he was now very strong.

    “Okay, Xiao Yun, stop embarra.s.sing your brother. Don't you see that your brother brought back a guest?”

    A happy voice came from within the room. Wei Xiao Bei raised his head and noticed that his mother and father were standing there. Among them, his mother's expression was the most excited.

    He was even able to guess what his mother was feeling right now.

    Just from the expression on her face, he could tell that her words meant, “Stop being so enthusiastic toward your brother already. You will be laughed at by your sister-in-law.”

    He could also tell that the most important thing his mother wanted to do was to pull Zhu Xin Yi over and interrogate her.

    Xiao Bei finally yielded interest!

    He found a girlfriend, but he did not report back about it, causing this mother of his to go around and ask for marriage interviews. Did he think it was simple?

    When they finally entered inside the house, Wei Xiao Bei introduced both sides. His mother quickly went to the kitchen and prepared a meal. Wei Xiao Yun, on the other hand, moved her attention to Zhu Xin Yi and pulled her into her room.

    Many things happened that night.

    In brief terms, his mother was very satisfied with this daughter-in-law, while his father, who did not express his opinion, was smiling the entire night.

    Instead of being happy, this made Wei Xiao Bei worry. If his lie was exposed, his ending would probably be ugly.

    The Wei family's upbringing was a bit strict. At night, Zhu Xin Yi slept with Wei Xiao Yun, while Wei Xiao Bei slept in his brother's room.

    The next day, Wei Xiao Bei had overslept. When he woke up, he sighed as he felt that the atmosphere in the house had completely changed.

    He never imagined that he would actually have such a serene sleep the first night he returned home.

    It must be known that Wei Xiao Bei never had such a comfortable sleep back in Cui Hu City.

    Today was a Sat.u.r.day. His little brother had returned home from school, but because he had many a.s.signments during his third year senior high school, he quickly returned to his school after eating lunch.

    When Wei Xiao Bei saw his little brother, he felt that his changes were too huge.

    Now, his little brother's height was almost the same as his.

    While Wei Xiao Bei was sighing, he did not know that his parents were worried for him.

    In the afternoon, Wei Xiao Yun volunteered to serve as a guide for Zhu Xin Yi and pulled her to go window shopping.

    Her situation was different from Wei Xiao Peng. No matter how many a.s.signments third year junior middle schoolers had, it could not be compared to the workload of third year senior middle schoolers. With her grades, her mother would not say much even if she idled a bit.

    When the both of them left, Wei Xiao Bei's father called him over. The two of them sat on the sofa. His serious expression startled Wei Xiao Bei, causing him to think that the fake relations.h.i.+p between them had been found out.

    After all, neither Wei Xiao Bei nor Zhu Xin Yi had been in a real relations.h.i.+p before. This made it awkward for the both of them, making it easy for people to see through this falsehood.

    “Xiao Bei, is your body alright?”

    His father asked worriedly while his mother was a bit nervous.

    “Body? There's nothing wrong.”

    Wei Xiao Bei was baffled by this sudden question from his parents.

    Naturally, he also sighed in relief. As long as the truth about his relations.h.i.+p with Zhu Xin Yi was not exposed, then everything was still good.

    “Nothing wrong? You have suddenly grown so tall. Could it be that something bad is growing in your brain? Why not go see a doctor this afternoon?”

    Before his father was able to continue his question, his mother spoke up with concern.

    Height?

    Wei Xiao Bei immediately understood it.

    He had thought about it before going to sleep the night before. He was originally 1.71 meters tall, but now, he was 2 meters tall.

    With such a huge change, how could his family not notice it?

    He never imagined that his family was actually waiting for him like this.

    They actually thought that his brain had a tumor, which resulted in him growing so tall in such a short period of time.

    This also had its precedents.

    Now that information had spread so much, many things that were unknown in the past became clear in the modern era.

    Everyone knew that there was an illness known as gigantism. This was caused by a brain tumor, resulting in abnormal secretion of the growth hormone and increasing a person's height at a fast speed.

    It was no wonder that his parents were tense. His little sister also shared their concerns as she pulled Zhu Xin Yi outside so that they could talk.

    After noticing this, Wei Xiao Bei did not know whether to laugh or cry.

    He felt moved by his family's concern and care, but he felt a headache on how to explain this to them.

    This was different from his master and apprentice brothers.

    No matter how close they were, there would still be personal s.p.a.ce left in between them.

    However, parents were different. They would care for you in every possible way and force you to go to a check-up and other things.

    It was not that Wei Xiao Bei disliked it, but he had no way of explaining this at all.

    “It's just secondary growth. I already had it inspected the previous month by the best hospital in Cui Hu City. It's real since I value my own life.”

    Luckily, Wei Xiao Bei's thought process was faster than before. He was able to quickly find a dependable excuse and attempted to cover this matter.

    However, his mother was not easy to fool. She immediately followed up with more questions, almost making Wei Xiao Bei speechless.

    In the end, Wei Xiao Bei also brought out the ace card known as Zhu Xin Yi and told them that she also knew about this, making them drop the topic.

    Afterwards, Wei Xiao Bei took the opportunity to go to the toilet and sent a message to Zhu Xin Yi to urge her to support his claims.

    Only when Zhu Xin Yi and Wei Xiao Yun returned was the matter settled.

    In the next few days, Wei Xiao Bei enjoyed his family's company. At the same time, he also tried to gather information about the strange van.

    In the end, Wei Xiao Bei found out more about it when he brought Zhu Xin Yi to his cla.s.smate's reunion party. A cla.s.smate who worked for the police talked about it which attracted his attention.

    For this reason, Wei Xiao Bei grabbed onto him and poured him more wine to loosen his mouth.

    Originally, before 10 p.m. on that day, there was person in a different car that noticed the empty vehicle, so they called the police.

    Afterwards, the traffic police and the criminal police were sent over there, but just like Wei Xiao Bei, they were not able to find any clues. The only clue that they found was that the van came from some village and was heading toward the county. When the van left the village, it was half full of people.

    However, because it pa.s.sed through several villages, people would depart and join, so there was no fixed number of pa.s.sengers. Thus, it was hard to count how many pa.s.sengers there were.

    Without any clues, the traffic police could only tow the van to the side of the road and did not dare move anything inside. Only two criminal police remained there to guard the place, and then they continued the inspection on the next day.

    Something unexpected had happened in the wee hours of the day before 2 a.m.

    While the two police were smoking and chatting, they would look at the van from time to time.

    One of them joked, “Xiao Li, do you think that this van is a ghost van? How could a car full of people suddenly disappear? It's probably impossible for each of them to jump down from the car and jump into the river, right?”

    The other police was just a new recruit that had not yet reached two months of his training. He was still considered as a newbie without any experience. When he heard this, all his hairs stood on their ends as he looked at the river ten meters away from the road.

    If he had heard of this in the day when people were around, he would not have been scared.

    However, under the night where the road was rarely used and the darkness surrounded the place, even the sound of wind would be chilling.

    The old officer's sudden words were truly frightening.

    “Old w.a.n.g, do-don't joke around. How could that be possible.”

    Although Xiao Li's back chilled when he heard this, he was not willing to express his fright. If he did this, he would have lost face once Old w.a.n.g spreads the news.

    Being afraid of the supernatural as a police officer was a truly embarra.s.sing thing.

    “Joking? We have already encountered many cases like this in the force. Tomorrow, you should go to the archives and check those old cases that could not be solved. For example, a woman had hung herself by the river, and a corpse appeared inside of a van in the middle of the night. Many other cases like these  had taken place.”

    The old police smiled. Who knew if he was lying or not, but his tone had changed.

    f.u.c.k!

    If it wasn't scarier outside, Xiao Li would have opened the door and jumped out. In his heart, the thought of Old w.a.n.g being a demon arose.

    Bang. At this time, a striking sound suddenly came from above the van.

    In the quiet night, the sound was extremely clear.

    “Ah!”

    At this time, Xiao Li's mind snapped from the tension. He opened the door in fright and jumped down from the car while crazily shouting.

    The following scene had startled Old w.a.n.g, but his psychological resistance was higher than Xiao Li's.

    He never expected Xiao Li's psychological resistance to be that bad.

    He pulled out his gun and went down from the car. Then he gave Xiao Li two slaps on the face and shooted, “Wake up! Something happened in the direction of the van!  Quickly inform the team. I will go take a look first!”

    After being slapped, Xiao Li finally became clear-headed. He quickly pulled out his phone and made a call, but he never imagined that this would be the last words he would hear from him.

    “Vice-captain, this is Xiao Li. Something happened in the direction of the van….” Xiao Li was still tense, but he calmed down after making the call.