C5 Town village

After some confirmation, I learned the exact information about the missing girl. Her name was Ye Gui, and she was a girl from Class 32 of Chongyang City's No. 1 Middle School. A week ago, she asked the head teacher for a sick leave and told him that she had a bad cold and needed to go home to recuperate before her head teacher gave her permission.

At this moment, the head teacher of the missing girl was sitting in front of me. After she poured a glass of water for me in the office, she sat down, and all the other unrelated teachers sensibly retreated outside the door. However, from the minute sounds, I could hear that they didn't actually leave, but were listening from behind the door, as though they wanted to know some gossip.

"Did you really notice that she was ill when she asked for leave? Or did you notice something was wrong with her? " I went straight to the point.

She hesitated for a moment before glancing at the ceiling, as if recalling the scene from before. She had cried her eyes out, so even though she was still trembling, she was much calmer than before.

Oh, I remember now. At that time, she wasn't the one who came to ask for leave herself, but a student in the class called me over to the classroom and told me that Student Ye was sick. Only then did I realize that she really had a bad fever and that I would immediately ask for leave when a student was sick. She shook her head to herself, as if to deny what had happened.

"Have you seen her parents?"

She shook her head awkwardly and told me that because she still had classes, she had not waited for Ye Gui's parents to return to school. Most of the students in her class were able to testify that she was telling the truth.

"Then don't you wonder why this student hasn't come to class for a week?" She quickly answered my question.

I even called her parents to ask, but they told me that Ye Gui is very sick and might need to rest at home for a while before coming to class. Look at what their parents have said, as a teacher, I'm too embarrassed to say anything. She was in a hurry. I don't know if it was because she wanted me to confirm what she said or for some other reason...

Just as I was about to ask her other questions, she opened her mouth first. "Officer, I have classes for next week, and I haven't even prepared for them yet. If you have any other questions, ask them immediately."

I looked at it, then swallowed it and stood up. Before I left, I specifically instructed her to let me know if there were any new clues. She nodded and escorted me out of the office.

When the door opened, I saw a group of teachers behind it, still in the same position, smiling awkwardly at me. Everyone looked at me in silence, and I squeezed my way through the crowd.

After I left the office, I asked the students of Ye Gui. They told me the same story as the head teacher, except that there were some details that the head teacher didn't understand.

I dialed Song, the technical department of the bureau, and asked him to investigate the hospital Ye Gui had been to at that time, the First People's Hospital of Chongyang City, in hopes of finding some clues.

Coming out of the school gate, I threw a cigarette at the doorman. What I couldn't understand was the teacher's statement and Ye Gui's parents' response on the phone.

Hypothesis 1:

If what the homeroom teacher said was the truth and she did call Ye Gui's parents, then why did the headmaster tell me that Ye Gui's parents claimed that they didn't know his daughter had taken a leave of absence? Even if this wasn't strange, then the homeroom teacher called Ye Gui's parents and asked them what they meant by what they said …

Hypothesis 2:

If what the homeroom teacher said was a lie, then why is it that the memories described by the entire class weren't wrong at all? Even if they did answer the confession, it would be impossible for the whole class to have the same answer.

The moment I closed the car door, the biggest possibility left in my mind was that the parents of the deceased were probably lying …

I then drove to Ye Gui's house, where the car finally stopped at the address indicated on the text message — Yinhong District, which had become very old. It was located in the old industrial district, where the houses were half blackened by the smoke.

After I got out of the car, I surveyed my surroundings. Due to the slightly cold weather, I subconsciously looked at my thin jacket tightly wrapped around me. I almost stepped on the dog shit that was already a footprint on the ground.

I was going to say hello to the security guard before I went in, but I didn't realize there were no guards in the security room, only a man with a thick blanket over his lazy chair.

After entering the district, I found that the place was basically deserted. There were wild dogs running around everywhere under the building, and a few buildings downstairs were surrounded by an iron fence that formed a crude chicken coop. Dozens of chickens were reared inside the coop, and the smell of chicken dung filled the surroundings with an unpleasant odor.

I covered my nose all the way to the bottom of Building 13. There was no light on in the corridor, which gave off a gloomy feeling, and it was raining outside. I reached out to turn on the light, but when I pressed three or four switches, there was no reaction, so I was sure that the light was broken.

I skirted the hallway where bicycles were strewn in all directions, accidentally knocking over a bicycle and causing a domino effect. The sound of metal hitting metal echoed throughout the corridor.

I bent down to pick up the cars one by one, and suddenly I felt something slam into my back. I spun around and saw only a shadow running away.

He went in front of the elevator and pressed the button that did not emit light. Through the loud sound, he was able to confirm that the elevator was still functioning properly. The moment the elevator door opened, a strong stench of urine assaulted his nostrils.

Inside the elevator was a mirror that shattered like a spider web, projecting a distorted image of me. The floor of the elevator was dilapidated, and yellow marks could be seen on every corner. From the looks of it, there were probably many people who had been pissing here for a long time.

It's more like a village in a city than a neighborhood (in some big cities there's a place like this, where they live a rural life, even though they're in the city).

When the elevator finally stopped on the sixth floor, I stood in front of 603 and didn't knock on the door. The door of this house was nowhere to be seen, except that it was blocked by a wooden board that made it impossible to see the interior of the house.

I knocked on the wooden door, and from inside came the sound of a rough woman's voice, accompanied by the sound of a string of slippers hitting the ground. I looked around, and although the other families didn't seem particularly well off, none of them were as poor as Ye Guiyi's.

The door opened and the woman in the room was wearing a pair of red flip-flops. Her hair was tied up in a mess and her clothes were loose.

When she saw me, she looked me up and down for a moment and then asked me if I was here to ask for a debt, if I wanted money, if I was going to die for a family of three, I was in civilian clothes, and she didn't know I was a cop.

"I'm not in debt. I want to ask, are you Ye Gui's mother?"

She glanced at me more carefully and asked why I asked, and I held out my ID to her. "Your daughter, Ye Gui, is missing. I don't think you don't know?" "I am Huo Zhong, a police officer with the Criminal Police Division of the Chongyang City Public Security Bureau. I have been sent by the police to investigate the disappearance of Ye Gui." She invited me to come in and sit down.

He could see everything in the room. The living room was very simple, there was only a table and three chairs. It was unknown what was on the counter.

At the table sat two men, one middle-aged, the other about eighteen years old, facing each other as they worked on the intestines of the pigs, their white-gloved hands full of pig dung. The smell of the dung rushed into my nose, and I suddenly felt an uncomfortable feeling in my stomach.

I only feel pain at the back of my head and I don't know what happened afterwards …