Last Christmas they met a winter solstice god, this year, Benny secretly prayed for all peace in his heart.

When he arrived at the police station and greeted the officers expertly, Benny came all the way to Hope's office and pushed the door in. The next moment, he closed the door again and walked out.

"Man! What did you do in the office!"

Benny yelled through the door.

The sour smell seemed to penetrate the thin wooden door and drilled straight into his nose, which made Benny sneezes several times in a row.

"If you live here for a week, you will taste this way too."

Hope opened the door dissatisfiedly and let Benedict in.

"Noah and the others work overtime, why didn't I smell this on them." Benny stood at the door holding his nose, resolutely refused to take a step inside.

"Man, you should really take a shower. By the way, where's your secretary?"

Hope has a secretary, but that secretary has always been used as an operator.

"She refused to come in four days ago."

Hope rolled his eyes and said.

"Didn't it mean that Bob's parents are back? Why didn't I see anyone?"

"Oh, those two guys went to a lawyer. They thought our closing case was weird."

Hope sneered and patted the papers scattered on the table, stood up and walked towards Benny.

Benny stepped back and raised his hand to signal Hope to stop.

"Wow! Man, stop! Stop it!"

"Please keep a certain distance with me, just say that if you have anything. My nose is broken and I don't want to lose other organs."

Hope raised his arm and smelled it, and asked suspiciously, "Is there? Why didn't I smell it?"

"There is a very famous saying in China that it is you." Benny frowned, looking at the half of the socks on the file box and the underwear that was thrown behind the Hope chair. It smells; enters the orchid room and doesn’t smell its fragrance for a long time

Do you know what it means? "

"What's the meaning?"

"It's about you now. After staying in this smelly room for a long time, you can't smell it. God, didn't Joey come here? Didn't she help you clean up?"

"After she cleaned up once, I wasted all night looking for documents, so." Then, Hope shrugged.

"Now that Bob's parents are gone, what are you doing here?"

"Have you forgotten?" Hope stared at Benny with wide eyes. Seeing Benny with a puzzled face, he turned around and picked up a folder from the table and handed it to Benny. "The witch you are talking about. I checked it carefully. The list of suspects is here."

Benny drew it in his pocket, pulled out a pair of gloves that he had put up at home before, and took the file carefully.

"Okay, I'll go back and read the files. Now you need to go back with me and clean yourself up. Oh my god, you are like this. I doubt that Joey will let you in. Listen, man, you Before you clean up and make sure you don’t smell, you must not approach JK."

With that said, Benny grabbed Hope’s clothes and started walking outside.

"Now you have to clean up. To prevent you from being locked out, I suggest you go to the motel and clean it first."

Hope was dragged out, announcing that he was off work as he walked, and asked the officers to go home to rest. Cheers broke out in the police station immediately.

"what?"

When he arrived outside the police station, Hope, who was about to get in the car, was locked outside by Benny, he asked dissatisfiedly.

"I only changed my new car for a month. You should drive your police car until it is cleaned up."

Benny pointed to the car, started the car and drove away.

"I'll wait for you at Old Barry. Hurry up. The Christmas dinner is about to begin."

Hope curled his mouth in dissatisfaction, and raised his arm again to sniff.

"Does it really taste that great?"

…

When Hope came to the place agreed by the two, Benny had already opened the room for him. He was chatting with the little girl from Barry’s house in front of the bar. Seeing Hope walked in, the little girl frowned, no Hiding back sensibly.

"Uncle Hope, are you here to open the room too? Sorry, the room is full today."

"He used the room I opened, and that room was opened for him." Benny explained quickly and handed the key to Hope. "Go ahead. I'll be waiting for you here."

Sending Hope away, Benny turned his head and said, "Don't worry, Hope is just here to take a bath and will leave soon. You can sell this room at that time."

The little girl nodded, and glanced intently in the direction where Hope had left.

Time passed slowly by the ticking of the clock, and the sky soon got dark. Benny had talked with the little girl all the way from Hawkins to Washington. Seeing that there were very few topics left to talk about, Hope hadn't come out for a long time, which made Benny frowned.

Reminiscent of the **** of the winter solstice last Christmas, Benny had a bad premonition.

"I'm going to see Hope."

After speaking, Benny walked into the hotel in the little girl's weird eyes.

Across a dimly lit corridor, Benny came to the door of room 205.

"Hope! Alright!"

Benny patted the door and asked.

There was no response from the room.

After waiting for a while, Benny asked again, but still did not respond. On the contrary, there was a low sound of water coming from inside.

"Hope?"

Still no response.

Benny turned and came to the counter. "Do you still have the 205 key here?"

The little girl shook her head, "There is only one key."

Benny nodded and went back to the door of the room at FA=205. He called out one last time, but there was still no response. This time even the sound of water was weakened.

Benny stopped hesitating, kicked open the door, and broke in.

"Hope!"

Benny was a little dumbfounded when he broke into the room. The room was not very spacious. A cloud of fog filled the room. The air conditioner was not turned on in the room. It looked very cold. The water flowed out of the bathroom and had already filled most of the room. Hope’s clothes were thrown away casually. On the ground, drifting slowly with the flow of water.

"Hope?"

With a tentative cry, Benny walked into the bathroom, his face changed slightly.

In the bathtub in the bathroom, Hope was holding an iron box, his upper body and his head were sunk in the water, the iron box was pressed against his chest, motionless. Above the head, when the faucet was opened wide, hot water rushed down, making Hope's skin hot and flushed.

"Fuck!"

Benny hurriedly moved forward, moved the box away with difficulty, helped Hope out, and after turning off the faucet, picked Hope up to the bed outside and covered it with a quilt, shaking his hands and trying to breathe, his face became difficult to look.

He pressed his lips tightly and touched his neck. Fortunately, he was able to detect the faint twitching of the carotid artery.

"Hope, hold on!"

Benny raised his hand and pressed it on Hope's chest, and the stars scattered slowly into his chest.