Three people and one ghost solved 43 mysterious cases.

pc1486 returned home, took a nap, and in the afternoon went out to the Missing Detective Agency.

I checked the address online. It's a very old building. In a dilapidated residential area, the houses are at least 50 years old and don't even have an elevator.

Following the stairs to the third floor, there was a sign saying "Passby".

Pass, by, broken down, means "passing the gap". As the saying goes, a white horse passes by without leaving any trace.

pc1486 thought, the name is indeed strange, but this is the Missing Person Detective Agency.

She knocked on the door, and it was quickly opened. Standing through the iron door was a man who looked charming and good-looking.

But this man seemed to be deliberately pretending to be older. He had a thick beard and long hair, which was combed back with hair wax.

He was wearing an expensive handmade custom-made suit, a pair of red Christmas-style socks, and old tennis shoes.

Strange outfits, strange men.

"Hello." pc1486 said, "I'm here to find someone."

"Is it Chen Tong? Your takeout!" A food delivery boy went upstairs and shouted into the room.

"Yes! I am."

It turns out that this man's name is Chen Tong, and he is the boss of Passby Missing Detective Agency.

Chen Tong opened the door and pc1486 entered the room.

Chen Tong opened the takeout and placed it on the table, fried hairtail fish, tofu pork belly, honey-glazed barbecued pork, boiled kale, and a box of white rice.

"Have you eaten yet? Do you want to eat together?" Chen Tong handed the chopsticks to pc1486.

"no need."

When Chen Tong ate, it almost tasted bad. Yes, Chen Tong took out a dried chili pepper from the pocket of his expensive suit and took a bite.

pc1486 sat aside and talked about the person she was looking for——

He only had a pseudonym, Contra, and he probably lived in the Dongshui area in 1990. He had a tape.

Chen Tong continued to eat and said, "Just put the information on the table. I will look at it carefully in a moment. Can you accept 3 yuan?"

"Can you find Contra?"

"Don't worry." Chen Tong took a bite of dried chili pepper, the spicy taste stimulated his tongue.

Someone once said that spiciness is not a taste, but a pain.

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The city of longing.

The plane flew through thunder and lightning, and the cabin shook violently.

There are airplanes in the City of Missing, and all the passenger planes that have lost contact with the human world in the past few decades have appeared in the City of Missing.

In the human world, airplanes carry the mission of traveling to and from all over the world.

In the city of longing, planes carry the mission to travel to various eras.

The huge city of longing, with the earth as its unit.

Each era is an Earth. For example, from 1980 to 1990, there is a "decade" of Earth.

All the buildings from 1980 to 1990 are preserved on this earth, and people who died in these ten years can live there.

Of course, these ten-year-old ghosts can also take a plane and go to 2000 or 2010 to settle there.

Return to this plane that passed through thunder and lightning and broke through the sky, this plane heading to K City in 1990.

Yao Ruolan was sitting in the first-class cabin, watching the plum tea in front of her swaying on the folding dining board. The frozen plum tea had turned into ice, which was a condensation reaction caused by traveling through time and space.

She just sat there, watching the plum tea boil and steam after it melted from the ice.

"Passengers, we have successfully arrived in K City in 1990. The plane still needs to run for a while. Please don't unfasten your seat belts." The stewardess's gentle voice came from the cabin speaker.

Do you need to wear a seat belt to be a ghost? What's the point?

Everything seems to be in vain, but restrictions, rules, and order maintain the illusion of the city of longing.

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The plane arrives.

After getting off the plane, Yao Ruolan got into a taxi and came to a small mountain village in K City, He Shuimei's home, the first scene of the murder.

She took out the black and white portrait of the female murderer and thought, who is the murderer and where does he live?

A down-and-out robber, a drug addict, actually killed someone for a few dozen dollars.

Yao Ruolan stood in front of the village house where He Shuimei lived, closed her eyes, and imagined that she would be involved in this murderer.

Me, I'm a murderess.

Why should I rob? I'm addicted to drugs and have no money. I need to get some money to buy the things I can't quit.

But how did I come to this village?

I must have been penniless. There was no bus service in this village at that time, so there was no way I could take a taxi and rob someone.

There is no other way. Did I come here on foot?

Walking, how many kilometers can a person walk on foot?

It's only about 3 or 4 kilometers. No matter how long the journey is, you will be out of breath and tired.

I can't go far either. I am a person in poor health who has been corroded by poisonous thoughts.

Therefore, taking this village as the center and a radius of three kilometers, any place with a house should be the home of the female murderer.

But with a radius of three kilometers, the area is very large.

Zooming out again, the female murderer escaped from the village and was chased by her brother He Jindi, running towards a mountain.

Human instinct is to hide in familiar places.

Therefore, the place to the east of that mountain is the path the female murderer took when she came.

Walking along, Yao Ruolan goes up the mountain. After going down the mountain and passing the national highway, three kilometers later, I saw a area of ​​dilapidated houses - Dongshui District.

The scene in 1990 is completely preserved here.

Cheap rental houses, tea restaurants, and food stalls. Long-haired young people are playing football in the football field, while groups of outsiders are sitting on the roadside waiting for work, reading horse racing newspapers and playing cards.

Several women wearing very little fabrics walked by, and frivolous whistles came from the darkness.

There are also people who are trading secretly.

Brother, do you have any goods?

What's in store?

that thing.

Even if you die, you still want to smoke?

Oh, right! I'm already dead, hey, but I can't quit. That thing is like a bug, I feel like it's crawling around in my head...

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Yao Ruolan looked at the Dongshui District where dragons and snakes were mixed, and thought that this should be where the female murderer lived.

How to find it?

Yao Ruolan walked into the Dongshui District Police Station.

A dozen deceased police officers were holding a welcome party.

The leader took a sip of tea and said, "Today we have a new post-00 generation here. He is very brave and will be honored when he hunts down drug traffickers in 2022."

Now we are parachuted into the 90s, our Dongshui District Police Station. All welcome.

The policemen applauded, so young.

The leader said sincerely to the post-00s generation who had just joined the company:

When you are alive, you are a policeman, and your purpose is to chase the murderer.

Nowadays, you are still a policeman, and so are we. The purpose is still to pursue the murderer. When the ghost comes here, he will still do evil, and the crime has not stopped.

But the City of Missing is not a lawless place. If you commit a crime, you will be punished.

I am very optimistic about you, you will become the youngest underworld detective born in 00 in Dongshui District.

Yao Ruolan stood at the door and listened. It was indeed true. No matter it was a ghost town on earth, as long as order was established, it would be a "ghost civilization."

At this time, the old leader saw Yao Ruolan outside the door.

With pink hair and a stunning appearance, the old leader shouted excitedly, "You, you are Yao Ruolan, right? Oh, it's you."

"Am I so easy to recognize?" Yao Ruolan smiled.

"Of course, your appearance is so dazzling, female doctor, what do you want to do today?"

Yao Ruolan told the situation that she was looking for the murderer of the 1990 murder.

Yao Ruolan took out the portrait of the murderer. She said that the female murderer should still be alive, but I speculated that she may have lived here.

There's a case!

The old leader immediately assigned work, and more than a dozen police officers worked separately, asking around Dongshui District if anyone knew who the female murderer was.