Hearing these words, Lin Yu's heart skipped a beat, and a refusal blurted out.
"Not going!"
"Uh..."
The boy standing outside the door who had come to pass the message felt a bit awkward.
I haven't even told you who's looking for you yet.
And you've already made up your mind?
While the boy outside secretly grumbled, Lin Yu also astutely realized this.
No.
What if it's something very important?
It's better to ask clearly.
"Who is looking for me?"
"Gu Xinran."
The boy outside the door replied with a name.
Hearing this name, Lin Yu's tense heartbeat immediately slowed down.
Who did he think it was?
Her?
Even if she tripped over her own feet and tumbled down a hundred and eighty flights of stairs doing Thomas flares, it wouldn't be any of his business.
Now Lin Yu was relieved. Turning his head back to look at the champion selection screen on his computer, he refused:
"You can go."
"I'm not seeing her."
The boy outside was only responsible for passing the message. Seeing Lin Yu's firm attitude, he didn't say anything more and turned to leave.
The game started. The teammates he matched with this time were much more human than the previous ones.
For a whole six minutes, there was no news of victory from the top lane, making Lin Yu feel a bit unaccustomed.
"Knock, knock, knock."
A knock sounded on the door. Lin Yu subconsciously turned his head and found that the closed dorm door had already been pushed open.
The boy who had come to pass the message earlier poked his head in again and said:
"Gu Xinran says she has something urgent to see you about."
Lin Yu withdrew his gaze and unconsciously let out a cold laugh.
Something urgent?
What urgent matter could she have?
No matter how urgent her matters were, they had absolutely nothing to do with him!
Lin Yu moved the mouse, controlling the champion on the computer screen, and said coldly without looking away:
"Her matters have nothing to do with me."
"It's about Tao Yaoyao."
"Fuck!"
"Where is your Flash!"
Lv Pengju, who was playing in the bottom lane with Lin Yu, cursed loudly as he watched helplessly while the enemy AD carry wiggled their little butt and slipped away with only a sliver of red health left.
Lv Pengju was both anxious and angry.
With that little health, even a ranged minion waving its little magic wand could have killed them.
Lin Yu had his Flash ready; if he had Flashed and fired a shot, he could have easily finished them off.
But Lin Yu surprisingly didn't Flash to auto-attack, letting the enemy AD escape.
Great.
What was supposed to be a one-for-one support trade suddenly turned into a disadvantage. Their bottom lane was already at a disadvantage in terms of champion matchup, and now they had let the enemy AD gain an advantage. The game was completely unplayable now!
Lv Pengju turned his head to look at Lin Yu. Just as he was about to pressure him, he saw his gloomy face, and the words of questioning instantly stuck in his throat.
What was wrong?
Lang Hua and Wu Zhen weren't as dense as Lv Pengju. When they heard the name Tao Yaoyao, they had already shifted most of their attention to Lin Yu.
Sitting in his chair in silence for a long time, Lin Yu suddenly stood up with a dark expression. As he put on his jacket, he said:
"I have something to do and need to go out for a bit. You three can just surrender later."
Putting on his clothes, Lin Yu quickly went downstairs.
Downstairs at the boys' dormitory, Lin Yu saw Gu Xinran with a hint of anxiety between her brows.
Seeing Lin Yu come downstairs, Gu Xinran immediately went up to him and asked anxiously:
"Lin Yu, have you seen Tao Yaoyao today?"
Lin Yu shook his head and said truthfully:
"No, I only got back at noon today."
"Then give Tao Yaoyao a call."
Gu Xinran urged.
Lin Yu took out his phone. While sending a voice call request to Tao Yaoyao, he looked at the anxious Gu Xinran and asked:
"What's going on?"
"Tao Yaoyao is missing."
Gu Xinran stared intently at the phone screen and said.
Missing?
Lin Yu frowned.
The WeChat voice call didn't go through, so Lin Yu switched to dialing her phone number, but it still went unanswered.
Seeing that both calls went unanswered, Gu Xinran was so anxious that she was almost spinning in circles.
Lin Yu faintly realized that things were not simple, and he asked:
"What exactly happened?"
"How long has Tao Yaoyao been missing?"
Lin Yu clearly remembered that just the night before last, Tao Yaoyao was still chatting with him about the competition.
It hadn't even been two days. Tao Yaoyao was a living, breathing person with hands and feet. It was just an unanswered phone call; nothing bad could have happened to her, right?
Gu Xinran glanced at Lin Yu and said:
"She went missing this morning."
Hearing this, the faint anxiety visible on Lin Yu's face was completely swept away, replaced by a look of utter speechlessness.
Are you sick in the head?
Missing since the morning, and it wasn't even evening yet. She had probably been missing for less than ten hours. What the hell are you panicking for?
Lin Yu couldn't be bothered to scold her. Rolling his eyes, he turned around and planned to go back to the dorm to continue playing his game.
What an idiot.
I shouldn't have come down.
Wasting my gaming time!
"Hey, wait, listen to me first."
Gu Xinran grabbed Lin Yu's arm, but Lin Yu impatiently pulled his hand away, shaking her off.
You've got to be kidding me. What else is there to say?
An adult out of contact for less than ten hours, and that's called missing?
When I go to a bathhouse for a soak, I stay there for more than ten hours!
She's purely out of her mind!
Watching Lin Yu's back as he strode away, Gu Xinran stood where she was and said loudly:
"Yesterday, Hu Hao confessed his feelings to Tao Yaoyao!"
Gu Xinran's voice echoed downstairs in the dormitory. Lin Yu stopped in his tracks, turned around, and looked at her with a face full of doubt, asking in confusion:
"Is there any connection between these two things?"
Gu Xinran took two steps forward to Lin Yu and said with a serious expression:
"I suspect there is."
"Yesterday, after the awards ceremony ended, at the celebratory banquet in the evening, Hu Hao confessed to Tao Yaoyao in front of everyone."
"Tao Yaoyao rejected him very straightforwardly. For the rest of the dinner after that, Hu Hao's face looked extremely awful."
"When we left this morning, Tao Yaoyao didn't show up, and Hu Hao didn't show up either."
"We couldn't get through on the phone. We originally wanted to look for Tao Yaoyao and Hu Hao, but someone said the two of them returned to school early, so we didn't go looking for them."
"After returning to school, I couldn't find Tao Yaoyao anywhere, and I still couldn't reach her on her phone. I asked some friends, and they all said they hadn't seen Tao Yaoyao at all."
"I also looked for Hu Hao's friends, and they likewise said they hadn't seen Hu Hao."
"Then who said the two of them returned to school early?"
Lin Yu frowned, realizing that the situation was indeed a bit unusual.
"It was Ye You."
Gu Xinran replied:
"She said she received a message from Tao Yaoyao's phone this morning, saying that she had things to attend to and wouldn't be returning to school with us."
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