Bailian's stand-in has collapsed [Transmigration Book]

In the past month, including Ye Linyun's case, there were a total of six missing reports.

The first missing person appeared in mid-to-late August. A young couple who came to Yuncheng from other places to work? Because of a quarrel, the woman ran away from home in a rage, and never came back.

Because the woman had a previous record of threatening to run away from home, the man didn't take it seriously, and only realized something was wrong after missing for five days and called the police.

The second is a female student from a vocational university. Her family is poor. She often skipped classes and went out to work. After three days of staying out at night, because the dormitory management made temporary ward rounds, the roommates were unwilling to help sign in, and the counselor was in the group. There was no response to the roll call and criticism for a long time before the school realized that she was missing.

The third one is a nurse. Because of a conflict with a patient, she was suspended from work at home. However, she did not come to work on time after the suspension period ended. A colleague knocked on the door but found no one at home, and her family could not contact him.

The fourth is the writer. The actual disappearance should be before the nurse. But she lived alone. After handing in the manuscript, she said that she would go out to relax and travel. Because there was a problem with the proofreading, the editor asked her to discuss it, but no one was there. Reply, so I went to the door in person and found no one at home,? And the diary that I persisted for five years has not been recorded for eight days.

The driver of the property is the fifth.

There is no intersection between these people on the surface, the only thing in common is that the disappearance cases all happened in the west of the city.

And the people around don't pay much attention to it.

"Sounds like some fantasy legend about urban ogre." Someone on the other end of the phone complained.

A large number of people disappeared in a short period of time. Even if there is no intersection on the surface, it is difficult not to make people think about it together.

Officer Gao ignored the complaints from his colleagues behind him, and still maintained a calm tone, discussing the disappearance case with Lin Jianqiu.

"The few missing persons on record are basically relatively introverted people. They don't have many friends, and they don't even have much contact with their parents. They won't be easily discovered if they disappear for a few days."

"This doesn't match Ye Linyun's situation."

"After discussion in our group, most people still feel that Ye Linyun's disappearance has nothing to do with the previous incidents, but was taken away by He Xianhua out of revenge."

Lin Jianqiu asked him, "Then what do you think?"

Officer Gao replied, "I think the opposite."

Lin Jianqiu: "Huh?"

Officer Gao: "I didn't want to be discovered at the beginning, but it doesn't mean I didn't want to be discovered all the time. Kidnapping so many people but not extorting phone calls is obviously not for money, but to satisfy some hobbies that do not conform to secular norms."

Torturing people, killing people, researching...

Or some other reason for novelty, after all, it cannot be put on the stage and cannot be tolerated by the world.

"The longer the distance between missing persons, the higher the interval, and the easier it is to be discovered. It is not impossible for desire and courage to further expand."

"The timing of He Xianhua's escape and Ye Linyun's disappearance did not coincide, and he was already a fugitive at that time. It is not realistic to kidnap Ye Linyun without any preparations and leave no trace."

Officer Gao finally concluded: "I think He Xianhua's escape is just a cover-up, deliberately cutting off the connection between the cases."

"But if this is the case, it means that He Xianhua must also have some connection with the real murderer behind the scenes. Maybe it's better to investigate the people he has been in contact with recently—"

Officer Gao asked without hope: "Do you think he will reveal some inside information to Qi Yueze?"

Lin Jianqiu asked back, "What do you think?"

Officer Gao sighed: "I don't think it's possible."

The two were silent for a moment at the same time, somewhat regretful.

"I'll go and ask later." Officer Gao said, "I heard that the missing person was also involved in today's murder case? Do you think there is any relationship between the two cases?"

"It's all easy to find out." Lin Jianqiu said.

"What do you mean?" Officer Gao didn't know much about today's case.

"The murder case at the garbage dump." Lin Jianqiu explained, "It seems that the murderer really wanted to attract the attention of the police. The disappearance of Ye Linyun is also the same. A person with his identity is missing and will be found soon."

Officer Gao continued: "But first of all, we will suspect He Lianhua."

Lin Jianqiu: "After all the current disappearance cases in the homicide case, apart from things to prove the identity, the only thing on the scene that has no direction for the time being is the number plate marked with the number '13'."

He was attracting everyone's attention openly, as if shouting something arrogantly.

Officer Gao was stunned for a moment: "Number?"

Lin Jianqiu continued: "There are six people who have disappeared, but not including those who did not report. After the writer disappeared and before the driver disappeared, Xue Che was beaten with a sap."

"I have a little impression of the writer before that. Qiu Tianyun mentioned that she was originally planning to participate in the folk gathering, but she suddenly turned it down temporarily. If I guess correctly, it should be about the same time as her disappearance."

"In addition, in Qiu Tianyun's kidnapping case, there is another murderer who has not been caught until now."

Officer Gao asked, "Do you think these cases are all related?"

"Perhaps." Lin Jianqiu was noncommittal, and continued on his own, "Counting these two together, there are eight in total, and the deceased is nine."

After Lin Jianqiu finished speaking, he paused for a long time, which was so long that Officer Gao felt strange.

"What's wrong with you?" Officer Gao asked.

"It's nothing." Lin Jianqiu came back to his senses and continued, "If in the early stage, we specifically picked this kind of soft persimmon with no sense of existence, then we should consider the possibility that there are other missing persons who have not been discovered."

"Maybe, there will really be a dozen people in the end."

Ye Huaishuang parked the car on the side of the road.

It wasn't because he had already reached the destination, but because he felt something was wrong with Lin Jianqiu's mood on the way.

Ye Huaishuang reached out and pressed Lin Jianqiu's wrist, preventing the other party from continuing to unconsciously pinch her palm with her fingertips.

Lin Jianqiu turned his head to look at him, and it took him a while to focus his eyes.

"What are you worried about?" Ye Huaishuang asked him, "It's not your fault."

Lin Jianqiu avoided his question, pressed the center of his eyebrows, and showed some troubled expression; "I always feel that I should buy more lottery tickets recently."

Nothing seemed to go well.

Ye Huaishuang reached out and gently rubbed Lin Jianqiu's palm.

Lin Jianqiu was a little ticklish, and subconsciously wanted to withdraw his hand, but Ye Huaishuang held down his wrist again.

He didn't really want to struggle, sighed lightly, and leaned back on the back of the chair.

"Driver, singer, female college student, doctor, writer...Among the thirteen people are hackers, couples, entrepreneurs, little girls, thieves, murderers, and detectives."

While talking, Lin Jianqiu turned his head to look at Ye Huaishuang: "Do you think it's a coincidence?"

This is the part he didn't tell Officer Gao.

That was originally the content of the novel, but now they are listed one by one, but some of them are subtly matched.

But it seems far-fetched to say it.

In contrast, this is even more far-fetched than the coincidence that He Xianhua and Ye Linyun disappeared at the same time.

It's just the stress response caused by the little bit of accumulated anxiety.

Ye Huaishuang also learned some tact: "Maybe it's just a coincidence."

They decided to let go of these subtle feelings for the time being, at least go to the place where they can investigate the clues first, and try their luck.

Lin Jianqiu kept staring at the phone in a daze.

Ye Huaishuang knew that his mind was probably full of things, just like a high-speed machine, constantly deducing different possibilities repeatedly, while capturing clues from memory.

He was not going to disturb Lin Jianqiu, and he never questioned his guess.

Unfortunately, they failed to reach their destination in the end.

Lin Jianqiu and Ye Huaishuang received calls from Officer Gao and the company respectively.

A colleague from Ye Huaishuang's laboratory called and said that an intern seemed to be missing, and the police had just gone to investigate the clues.

On the other hand, Officer Gao had just received another case of disappearance.

"A young couple disappeared on the way to travel. It is conservatively estimated that at least two days ago, they lost contact when they drove out of Yuncheng."

This time, someone found the car that the couple left in the wilderness.

When the police tried to contact the owner of the car, they found that the couple's mobile phones were left in the car, but they searched all the places around where people could hide, but they did not find the couple.

Parents and colleagues were also unable to reach them.

Lin Jianqiu stared at the phone for a long while, took a deep breath, and remained calm.

"Ms. Ye." Lin Jianqiu said, "Please turn around."

Outside the film and television city.

As soon as Zhong Xinyue came out with her bag, she saw Lu Wanfeng holding Nan Nan's hand and standing by the side of the road waiting for her.

She couldn't help but smiled, and quickened her pace to meet him.

Lu Wanfeng was looking down at his phone, as if he was chatting with someone, he was so engrossed in the conversation that he didn't even notice that Zhong Xinyue had walked in front of him.

Zhong Xinyue walked very lightly, and when she stood in front of her boyfriend, she felt wicked, and raised her index finger to make a silent gesture to her daughter.

Then she suddenly raised her hand and patted Lu Wanfeng in front of her.

"Snapped--"

A crisp sound exploded in Lu Wanfeng's ear.

"Ah!" Lu Wanfeng screamed in fright, hugged Nan Nan, and took a few steps back suddenly, almost bumping into the lamp post behind him.

Before he came back to his senses, he kept looking around: "Is there any bad guy coming? Don't be afraid, Nannan, uncle will protect you!"

Zhong Xinyue: "..."

Nan Nan tugged on Lu Wanfeng's sleeve and reminded him in a low voice, "It's mom."

Lu Wanfeng: "..."

Turning around and looking at Zhong Xinyue for a moment, Lu Wanfeng fell silent, rubbing his nose to hide his embarrassment, he could only look up at the sky and down at the ground, because he was embarrassed to look at people.

Zhong Xinyue couldn't help laughing, picked up the bag, walked over to hold her daughter's hand, and asked a little strangely: "Why are you so nervous today? What happened to you?"

Lu Wanfeng coughed a few times, managed to recover, glanced at his phone, and couldn't help complaining: "It's not because of seeing Qiu."

Zhong Xinyue was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What happened to him?"

Lu Wanfeng replied: "I just asked me if Nan Nan was there, and asked me to be more careful, make sure Nan Nan doesn't let her run around, I thought something happened."

Zhong Xinyue guessed: "Did you encounter another case?"

Lu Wanfeng continued: "Basically, it's not the first time. But every time I only remember Nan Nan, why don't you care about our adults by the way..."

He muttered a few words, but he wasn't really complaining.

Zhong Xinyue couldn't help laughing: "You also know that you are an adult." At least you won't be easily abducted.

Lu Wanfeng sighed: "You're right. But I doubt if he just prefers his daughter. He and Mr. Ye will definitely not have a baby, so he can only be greedy for someone else's..."

Zhong Xinyue said something fair: "He is very gentle with children. If it weren't for you, maybe he wouldn't come here often."

Lu Wanfeng did not refute.

This is a fact.

Want to say that Lin Jianqiu likes Nan Nan?Of course I like it.

But I never liked it so much that I had to see it every day.

He has a natural tolerance and preference for all children, which may be related to his own experience.

But Nan Nan is the only one who has really kept in touch.

It wasn't because he saved Zhong Xinyue's mother and daughter, or because he was moved by Yu Nannan's closeness to him.

It's just because Lu Wanfeng and him are friends, so they get in touch with him more incidentally.

In fact, Lin Jianqiu has been trying his best to avoid too much contact with children.

Lu Wanfeng still finds it a bit incomprehensible when he thinks about it.

"Is Jianqiu too sensitive?" Lu Wanfeng complained to Zhong Xinyue, "How can there be so many boring people stretching their hands so long?"

"Besides, if you really want to take revenge on him, it would be more useful to cut off his money directly..."

Who would give their minds to irrelevant children.

That's what he said, but every time Lin Jianqiu reminded him, Lu Wanfeng would still raise his spirits and never let Nan Nan disappear from his sight.

It's enough that something like this happens once.

The two adults exchanged a few words, but never let go of Nan Nan's hand. When they reached the intersection, they looked around, and Lu Wanfeng first confirmed the direction.

"I remember that the cake shop is in that direction. We've already visited it before, and we're just waiting for you to choose the style."

Turning around the intersection is a pedestrian street, which has been around for some years, but because of this, there are many old shops with good reputation hidden.

Their destination was not too far away, and after bypassing a few small stone piers, they could see the signboard of the cake shop.

"It's that one. I heard from others that the taste is really good." Zhong Xinyue said, "But are you sure you don't want to ask Lin Jianqiu in advance? Maybe someone has already ordered a cake for him."

"That's not necessarily the case. I doubt whether he can still remember his birthday after spending time in various cases." Lu Wanfeng said, "At least make sure to leave him a surprise."

As he said that, he turned his head to look at Nannan again: "This matter must be kept secret from Jianqiu for the time being—"

Lu Wanfeng froze, the sound of "Nan Nan" stuck in his throat, and he couldn't even spit it out.

He lowered his head stiffly and saw himself holding hands with Zhong Xinyue.

——Where is the big Nan Nan among them?

Zhong Xinyue's face also changed, and she immediately turned her head to look around: "Nan Nan?"

The flow of people on the street did not know when it increased, and the little girl's frail figure could not be seen among the crowd coming and going.

Before it was winter, it was as if a basin of cold water mixed with ice slag was poured down, and the hearts of the two adults kept sinking, and they almost couldn't stand up.

"Are you attracted by some store and ran to see it?" Lu Wanfeng realized that he quickly pulled Zhong Xinyue around, turned around and turned back to the original road.

"Nannan—"

"Where are you?"

"Come out soon, please, don't scare mom—"

Zhong Xinyue became more and more flustered, and the memories from half a year ago came back to her mind, she didn't even realize that her hands were shaking badly.

If something happened to Nannan again, what would she do?

Zhong Xinyue couldn't control herself to think in an optimistic direction, but she didn't dare to think deeply in a bad direction, she just squeezed into the crowd in panic.

Lu Wanfeng patted his forehead in annoyance, but also full of anxiety, he followed after him.

He couldn't even say any words of comfort.

"Nannan—"

"Mother--"

Faint calls came from behind the crowd.

Zhong Xinyue's eyes lit up, and the strength she had lost returned instantly. She squeezed away the crowd and ran towards the source of the sound.

Lu Wanfeng also breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time raised his voice and shouted: "Nan Nan, don't run around, we will come to you right away!"

Perhaps it was the peak time for dinner and the holiday was about to come. More and more people came out to shop. The two anxious adults felt as if they had been squeezed for a century before they managed to get out of the crowd.

"Mom?" Nan Nan stood by the flower bed not far away, tilted her head, looked at her strangely, and asked, "Why are your eyes so red?"

After speaking, he looked at Lu Wanfeng next to him, and continued, "Did Uncle Lu bully you?"

But looking to the side, she found that Lu Wanfeng's eyes were also red.

With the experience of a little girl, she still can't understand this kind of complex and changeable emotions, so she couldn't help tugging at the corner of the clothes of the person beside her with some doubts, and raised her head to ask.

"See Brother Qiu, have Mom and Uncle Xiaolu cried?"

"No! It's just that I ran too fast and got sand in my eyes!" Lu Wanfeng argued.

"... See Qiu?" Zhong Xinyue reacted first.

She wanted to rush forward, but when she saw Lin Jianqiu standing next to Nan Nan, she stopped abruptly.

She naturally has no doubts about Lin Jianqiu's character.

Did they just meet on the road?

That Nan Nan followed him and ran away was not a particularly surprising thing.

But... Since it was Lin Jianqiu, why didn't you say hello to them when you saw it just now?

Thoughts flashed through Zhong Xinyue's mind, but she finally let go, walked forward slowly, hugged her daughter and patted her on the back: "Next time you leave, remember to tell us first."

Nan Nan said "I'm sorry" in a low voice, and seemed to feel that her sneaking away behavior was inappropriate.

Lu Wanfeng relaxed and finally noticed Lin Jianqiu.

"Why didn't you say something when you came here? I thought you were busy running errands for the police again recently." Lu Wanfeng complained, "You scared me, you told me to pay attention to Nan Nan before, and then turned around and took him away , I thought Nan Nan was really lost..."

Lin Jianqiu didn't speak.

As Lu Wanfeng was talking, he finally noticed that something was wrong with his expression, so he subconsciously stopped talking.

"What, what's wrong?" Lu Wanfeng stammered and asked, "Why are you so serious, what really happened?"

Lin Jianqiu frowned tightly, and his eyes fell on Zhong Xinyue's mother and daughter.

Lu Wanfeng has known him for so long, and rarely sees him expressing his sorrow.

Originally, he almost thought that Lin Jianqiu would always look so at ease.

Because of this, Lin Jianqiu's expression made people unconsciously flustered.

Lin Jianqiu was silent for a moment, looked up at Lu Wanfeng, and said, "I just arrived."