eighth story

Wu Qinyang made up his mind and hurried downstairs with his book.Qi Rui was sitting in front of the computer watching a Disney animation movie. From time to time, he raised the corner of his mouth and showed a knowing smile. He raised his eyes and saw Wu Qinyang coming down the stairs. He took off his earphones and greeted him, "How's it going? I remember correctly. Bar?"

Wu Qinyang said: "I remember correctly, thank you for your help. But I still have a question..."

"Huh?" Qi Rui said with a smile, "Let's talk."

Wu Qinyang said: "I remember you just said that this is a famous urban legend... You must know something about this matter, right?" As he spoke, he turned to the last page of the article and blacked out that line pointed to Qi Rui, "I want to find the original copy of this news, so I would like to ask if the library has the evening paper of City K...or is there any other place where I can find something related to this news?" News, paper version or electronic version is fine, troublesome."

Qi Rui shook his head, and said with certainty: "There is no evening paper from City K in the library, let alone one from [-]." Wu Qinyang was a little disappointed when he heard the words, and suddenly heard Qi Rui change the subject, "But... Maybe you can find it."

Hearing what he said, Wu Qinyang hurriedly said, "Then..."

"Don't worry, let's sit down and talk slowly." Qi Rui said and motioned Wu Qinyang to go to the reading area over there to get a chair, "It's rare to meet someone who is interested in this kind of thing, I still think It's very kind." Qi Rui first expressed the joy that a bosom friend is hard to find, and then said to Wu Qin in a mysterious way, "Actually, I really like this kind of stories since I was a child, but it's a pity that I don't have the time and energy to research them one by one. I can only comfort myself by collecting information, hey."

Wu Qinyang actually understands Qi Rui's feelings quite well. He was brainwashed by Qin Yao's bedtime stories about monsters and goblins since he was a child. I don't always want to go to a group to join in the fun and watch them handle cases.Wu Qinyang nodded, and then heard Qi Rui say: "So I chose the library major in college. There are often some unexpected things in the library, right? Well, let's not talk about this for now, let's continue talking about what we just said. thing."

Qi Rui changed into a more comfortable posture as he spoke, and continued: "I knew about this when I first entered junior high school, and it has been more than ten years now. At that time, someone posted on the forum to discuss supernatural events. I mentioned this 'disappearing bus incident'. However, it has been more than [-] years since this incident happened at that time, and the information is updated so quickly, it is just that some people still remember this incident. But I can't stand the magic power of netizens Da Guang, you actually found the original news article. After reading that post, someone adapted the incident into a novel and submitted it to a magazine. Here, it’s the one you’re holding.”

Wu Qinyang hurriedly said: "That forum is now..."

"It went bankrupt a few years ago. It is said that it was due to poor management." Qi Rui said, "But you don't have to worry. I didn't have much time to surf the Internet at the time, but the content was very attractive to me, so I printed out the entire post and made it It’s a newspaper clipping, it’s very prescient. But my mother thought those things were too cumbersome, so she didn’t let me bring them over. They are all at home now. I’m worried about the paper turning yellow or something, oops, but it’s not a big deal Son, if you need me, ask my mother to send it to me, so I can review it, how about it?"

Wu Qinyang felt that he had to be prepared to ride a roller coaster when talking to Qi Rui. First, "there was no newspaper" and then "the forum closed down".Wu Qinyang finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that, and said to Qi Rui, "That's troublesome...thank you."

"You don't need to be so polite." Qi Rui said, "How about this, classmate, please leave me your mobile phone number. It will take two or three days for the courier to arrive here from our house. I will call you when the time comes."

Wu Qinyang exchanged phone numbers with Qi Rui, only then did he realize that he had been in the library for almost three hours.I was looking for books and reading stories. I just chatted with Qi Rui for a long time. Now it is almost ten o'clock. The library closes at ten o'clock, so I should go back now.Wu Qinyang borrowed the magazine in his hand, said goodbye to Qi Rui, and left the library.

On the way back to the dormitory, I ran into Tan Yi who came back from self-study by accident.Tan Yi glanced at him in surprise: "Are you coming to the library for self-study?" He felt that the sun really came out from the west, and Wu Xiao was a top student in science both subjectively and objectively. Tan Yi has never seen him enter the library and come back so late.

Wu Qinyang said: "It's not from Xi... just looking for something."

The two of them just talked one after another, and went back to the dormitory. Tan Yi went to take a shower first, and Wu Qinyang sat at the table and spread the magazine in front of him, sorted out his thoughts briefly, and took out another white paper. Paper, ready to sort out the known clues so far.The yellowed pages of the book seemed to go back decades. Wu Qinyang took a pen and wrote "K City Evening News on April 2003, 4" on the first line of the white paper, and drew an arrow pointing to the old library in the library. Guan and Qi Rui, and then drew a line to briefly record several similarities between the "disappearing bus case" and "disappearing subway case".Another timeline was drawn on the right side of the white paper, recording the context of the subway disappearance case.

Judging from the clues we have so far, there is not a single word related to "Xuejun Station" in the case of the missing bus, but Wu Chunxing only started to feel wrong after hearing the name of this station.Assuming that Wu Chunxing was an insider in the case of the bus disappearance back then, would there have been a station called "Xuejun" in the original case...

and many more……

Wu Qinyang felt as if he had thought of something, and at this moment he suddenly heard Tan Yi's slightly puzzled voice: "What are you doing?" It was not intentional to interrupt Wu Qinyang's train of thought, but because he was drawing a timeline with an old magazine His behavior was really unbelievable.

"Ah?" Wu Qinyang said, "Have you finished washing?"

"Are you really okay?" Tan Yi said, "By the way, the water temperature is a bit low now, you can wash it later."

Wu Qinyang said: "It's okay." However, his thoughts were still in a mess, and he suddenly realized that Tan Yi was a good person to talk to, so he said quickly, "Jerry!"

Tan Yi said: "What's wrong?"

"I'm upset." Wu Qinyang said, "Do you have time? Would you like to chat with me?"

In fact, Tan Yi has always wanted to know the follow-up of that day, and what happened after Xuan Jue passed away. The heart of gossip has already been out of control, but seeing Wu Qinyang's performance yesterday, he has been holding back and not asking.Now that Wu Qinyang voluntarily confides, he is of course happy to see the result, nodded and said: "I have finished my homework, you can tell."

Wu Qinyang didn't know where to start, so he decided to consult Tan Yi, who was experienced, about emotional issues first, otherwise the situation of internal and external troubles would be overwhelming.Wu Qinyang succinctly stated what happened at home after Tan Yi left that day, and stopped abruptly on the so-called "family ugliness should not be publicized" after Xuan Jue came. He was not too embarrassed to say that he ate his brother's brain with sperm at night. Tofu probably made people go away again.

Tan Yi almost knelt down because of Qin Yao's brain hole breaking through the sky. He was shocked for a while, and he didn't speak for a long time, thinking that the Qin family really deserved its reputation. He just came back to his senses, coughed twice in a disguised manner, and said, "Uh, your mother... probably has been prepared for this kind of mentality for a long time." Otherwise, what mother would be the first to see that scene Thinking about that kind of thing for a while, "I think it's pretty good. If your mother doesn't talk about it, don't you mind if you have a boyfriend."

"But the boyfriend I want is my brother!" Wu Qinyang emphasized again, and after thinking for a long time, he still struggled to add, "And... I seem to have made my brother angry again. The next morning he He left without saying hello."

Tan Yi keenly sensed gossip from Wu Qinyang's tone, and deliberately asked, "What's the matter?"

"Don't ask me..." Wu Qinyang's mood was very complicated. Thinking of the charming that night, he almost had a nosebleed with rage, "I thought it would be easy to change the concept secretly, but later I found out that it's not so simple at all. What happened...My mother, probably, thought...you are my boyfriend? Will I be hunted down by your Tom..."

"You think your brother is a big girl, and he runs away from home when he gets angry?" Tan Yi said, "I can see that your brother likes you, don't ask me why, my intuition." If you don't like you, you won't take your mother for you. Dad used it as an excuse, he is such a good man, "The key is that your mother...it's really a bit embarrassing..." Tan Yi began to feel that this is a difficult problem, but he has nothing to do with family relations. Experience, even if you want to be a dog-headed military adviser this time, you won't be able to be it.

"Oh..." Wu Qinyang sighed gloomily, and comforted himself, "Let's go to another day, I'll go to my brother to clarify..." It was a bit windy and cold.

Tan Yi also felt that student Wu's love life was ill-fated, and felt sympathetic. He didn't want his roommate's emotions to drop from the previously normal sea level to the bottomless Mariana Trench, so he quickly changed the subject and said: : "What happened after that? Your parents didn't talk about it anymore?"

"Ah?" Wu Qinyang said, "This is the second thing I want to tell you." First, he talked about his parents' reaction when they found out that Xuejun was standing that day, and then Zhong Liyin's The story and the clues I got from the library, "Jerry, help me analyze and analyze, does my dad know anything..." can be regarded as regaining the previously interrupted train of thought.

Tan Yi said: "It's possible. You think, according to the statement in the article, it was because more people reported the crime that they attracted the attention of the police, right? That means no one knows what happened to those missing people on the bus. So it can be assumed that they have encountered the same situation as now, the terminal of the bus and subway may be the 'Xuejun Station'... I think you should talk to your aunt and the police station, the police are better than you Single-handedly effective."

Wu Qinyang said: "Isn't my aunt not here..." At present, he has no clear evidence that the two cases are indeed related, so if he went so rashly, he might be angry and ridiculed by Pingfan, who was anxious to get angry, "I Let's wait for Qi Rui's news, at least read the news."

Wu Qinyang made up his mind in this way, and after communicating with Tan Yi, he felt a lot more open-minded.After waiting like this for three days, I finally received a text message from Qi Rui.

Qi Rui: "Wu Qinyang? My mother sent things over. Come to the library if you have time."

Wu Qinyang went straight to the old library after class, completely ignoring Zhu Mingyue who was trying to call him back.Zhu Mingyue has had a hard time these two days. It has been three days since the love letter was sent out. She waited for Wu Qinyang's reply with a mobile phone all the time when she was eating in class and squatting in the toilet.But when I saw Wu Qinyang in class these days, he didn't mean that at all, he was angry and ashamed, so he could only comfort himself by saying that there was no high math class these two days, and Wu Qinyang didn't need to review every day, probably he hadn't opened the high school these days. Count the books.

I have to say that women's intuition is still quite sharp, and the excuse Zhu Mingyue made for herself is really the truth.It's also fortunate that Wu Qinyang hasn't opened the advanced mathematics textbooks to pass the time these days, otherwise he would have to add one more thing to his worries.

Wu Qinyang ran to the library, and Qi Rui was sitting in front of the computer flipping through a thick book of "The Detective Sherlock Holmes". Seeing Wu Qinyang coming, he showed a standard smile with eight teeth, and casually picked up a yellowed book. The clippings were handed to him: "I bookmarked those pages, you can read them yourself."

Wu Qinyang felt that Qi Rui's attitude was a bit strange. He was very enthusiastic and active in discussing with himself that day, but today he didn't watch it with himself.But the most urgent thing is to read the original text of the news as soon as possible, Wu Qinyang didn't care about these details, and turned to look at the clipping.

Qi Rui's newspaper clippings were quite neatly done, but the pages may have turned yellow due to the passage of time, and the ink on some original newspapers had also become blurred. Fortunately, the part about the missing bus case was printed out. Still relatively clear.Qi Rui clipped three bookmarks in total. The first is the police soliciting clues about the disappearance from the public, the second is the report on the bus fire, and the third is the police statement on the disappearance after the fire. That's the one at the end of the novel.

Wu Qinyang took a quick look at the first news. At the end of the first news, there was a list of missing persons at the time, including basic information such as name, gender, age, etc. It was a simple missing person notice, but there was no identity information in line with the situation of elementary school students in the list. .Wu Qinyang was a little puzzled at first, but after reading the second news, he understood that the elementary school student should have disappeared after the police published the first news.Because the second news mentioned that the only survivor was an elementary school student, and the third news also clearly pointed out the connection between the elementary school student and the disappearance, but probably out of the need to protect privacy, the name of the elementary school student was artificially mosaic up.

Wu Qinyang read it line by line: "...the survivor is Wu xx, a student of xx elementary school in this city. The police are investigating the specific situation..."

and many more.

wait!

Wu Qinyang didn't think "Wu" was a common surname. He had never met a few people with the surname Wu since he was a child, and he once had a sense of superiority of the minority.At this moment, this familiar word stimulated his sensitive nerves, and he subconsciously said: "...No way..." It was an inference that he vaguely had a premonition but didn't dare to think about it.

His own father was born in [-], and was ten years old in [-], which happened to be the age of primary school... Wu Qinyang felt that he had grasped the point of the matter, which was the one he was least willing to accept.No wonder... If this elementary school student is really his own father... no wonder he would have that kind of reaction when he heard that station, maybe he has personally experienced the station that can make people disappear!Wu Qinyang was stunned for a moment... and didn't care about what to say to Qi Rui, he grabbed the newspaper clipping and rushed out.