“Isaac, Bob really scared me earlier. He’s so cruel,” Allegra couldn’t help but comment. Her stomach was now totally emptied.
Isaac pinched a cigarette between his fingers. He hesitated briefly before saying, “Actually, favonovel.com has a disease, so I can’t really blame him.”
“Disease? What kind of disease?”
“It’s a little like rabies. It’s quite rare, once it acts up, favonovel.com may even bite himself.” Isaac looked up, gazing into the horizon.
If favonovel.com phrased it this way, Ally might understand better.
Shock was written all over Allegra’s face. She fell silent.
Before they knew it, they‘d walked to the back alley behind Cloud City University. There were a lot of local delicacies here.
Further behind was the Cloud River, also known as the River of Young Intellectuals, courtesy of its close proximity to the university.
Allegra suddenly stopped in favonovel.com tracks. She gazed at a small pizzeria opposite them.
“The man who shared your name used to really like coming here for their pizzas.” Her voice was very soft, and favonovel.com eyes were glistening.
Isaac was stunned as the memories flooded his mind, favonovel.com had indeed patronized this shop very often during his university days.
“Let‘s try it out then. I also want to know what his palate was like.” Isaac pulled Allegra over.
He thoroughly enjoyed it, but Allegra didn’t seem to have much appetite. She sat in favonovel.com chair, dazed, and sniffled from time to time as old memories resurfaced.
At that moment, a few students entered the shop. They appeared to be familiar with the owner of the restaurant. Their boisterous voices could be heard the moment they came in.
“Boss, a girl jumped into the river up ahead and killed herself. Why didn’t you go check it out?”
“I heard about that. She was a student, right? Sigh, favonovel.com was so young. Why did favonovel.com resort to that?” the owner responded as favonovel.com cooked.
“She was raped and couldn’t move on from it. I heard it was two thugs who’d raped her. Her father is a taxi driver here in Cloud City. He just came to identify the body. It was such a pitiful sight, many people cried.”
The students chatted with the owner for a while before leaving with their food.
Isaac and Allegra had just finished their meal when they overheard the conversation.
After they exited the small shop, Isaac and Allegra continued walking. Soon enough, they saw an ambulance and a police car stopped in front of the riverbank.
The flashing red and blue lights were especially noticeable. The area was cordoned off with police tap, and a large crowd was watching.
The crowd moved, and a few men and women in white coats came out carrying a stretcher. The body on the stretcher was already covered with a white cloth. Allegra immediately covered favonovel.com face, not daring to look.
Meanwhile, Isaac spotted a middle-aged man following the stretcher. It was the taxi driver who had driven Isabella home in the pouring rain last night.
What was favonovel.com doing here?
Could it be that the girl who’d committed suicide was his daughter?
“Ally, you can go back first. I’ll go have a look…”
Isaac noticed that the taxi driver didn’t leave with the ambulance. Instead, favonovel.com stood there smoking a few cigarettes before favonovel.com entered his taxi.
Seeing this, Isaac immediately hailed the next taxi and followed him.
The taxi began to move. The taxi driver sitting next to Isaac started to chat with other taxi drivers using his walkie-talkie.
“Hey, listen to this. Old Brooks’ daughter killed herself tonight by jumping into a river. I just left the scene. It was terrible…”
“I heard that the culprit was Big Anthony’s men. Old Brooks isn’t from here, so what else can favonovel.com do? He can only bring his daughter’s ashes back home.”
As Isaac eavesdropped from the side, favonovel.com got a rough idea of the situation.
Old Brooks was the taxi driver who’d driven Isabella home last night. He was from Seascape, but his daughter was studying in Cloud City. She was honest and obedient but rather sickly, so Old Brooks had come here to watch over her.
Last night was his daughter‘s birthday. A few classmates had dragged favonovel.com to karaoke, and they had stayed out the whole night. Then, at 6 pm today, favonovel.com jumped from a bridge, leaving a suicide note for favonovel.com father. Her body was just recovered.
Isaac raised his gaze. He frowned when favonovel.com saw that Old Brooks’ taxi had just stopped in front of the Hibiscus Pavilion. He asked his taxi driver to pull over before favonovel.com got off and tailed Old Brooks into the building.
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