Returning from the abyss

Chapter 180 The Disappearance Incident
There is something wrong with the school atmosphere today.

Originally, as a day like Friday, when you can go out again, most of the students should be overjoyed, but Lu Ning found that the students who gathered in small groups in the corridor seemed not very happy.

"Han Qing, did something happen yesterday?"

After talking with Cheng Yurun, Lu Ning was quiet for a day, and checked some important places in the city in private, and didn't go out casually.But such a lone ranger will always miss some news, so Lu Ning turned to ask the friend behind him.

"Several girls from class three went to sing together yesterday, but they didn't come to class this morning. They have been searched at home and in the karaoke hall, but no one has seen them." Han Qing is also very familiar with gossip in school, and immediately said, " Fortunately, we went to the Queen's Golden Crown, if we went to a wild store like them, I don't know if we will encounter the same thing."

"This kind of thing can make people panic?"

"Hush——White Butterfly Killer." Han Qing hastily raised his finger to signal her to whisper, "People who were killed by that guy have strange death conditions, and we don't want to be like that."

"So sure?"

"It's almost inseparable. The people who were killed by the white butterfly before disappeared like this. Speaking of which, where did you move, Lu Ning? I called your house and no one answered."

"Oh, I changed to a place with higher security. You also know that the place where I lived was mixed with people."

Lu Ning's original apartment was near the main road from District [-] to District [-], with convenient transportation, but judging from what happened in the first few days, the safety was really worrying.Now, although living in District [-] is a bit on the edge, at least it is close to the scientific research base, and at least it can be taken care of a little bit.

At this moment, there was a loud noise from outside the door, and a somewhat thin boy was directly pushed into the classroom from the door, fell to the ground, and yelled in pain.

"Who is Han Qing!"

A girl yelled at the door. Lu Ning looked up and realized that she was the tall girl who fought in the toilet that day, and now she is leading two or three people to block the door of the classroom.

"How to find you?" Lu Ning turned her head and asked Han Qing.

Han Qing was also a little puzzled, and walked not far from the door.The tall girl nodded as soon as she saw her, and took out a few printed photos from her pocket: "Did you pass by here yesterday?"

"Who are you? Why do you come to me and ask me about this and that?" Han Qing didn't look at the photo at all, and stared at the tall man directly and yelled.

As a result, she was pulled by the collar just after she finished saying this sentence.

"Answer my question seriously!" The tall girl pulled her in front of her with one hand, and held the photo in front of Han Qing's eyes with the other hand, "Baihua Park Pedestrian Street in the Ninth District, at the entrance of Banyue Song and Dance Hall, the camera has captured You passed by there at that time, don't think I can't recognize you because the resolution is not high."

"Nonsense, where did the camera come from?" Han Qing stretched out his hand and opened the tall girl's hand, and said angrily, "What is this broken photo? It was synthesized?"

"Synthesis?" The tall girl sneered, "I'm afraid you don't know that the owner of a convenience store on that street installed cameras all over the store for fear of others stealing things, and the one facing the door happened to capture you! Six o'clock in the afternoon 31 points, have you ever been there?"

"Can't I go shopping?" Although Han Qing still had a tough attitude, his tone was a little weak.

At this time, Lu Ning also came over.

"What's the matter? Did you go out to play again yesterday?"

"Yesterday, I went to buy a CD to practice at home. I heard that it was cheaper to rent a CD in that street, so I went there. Who knows what happened there!"

"Then you are hesitating?" The tall man couldn't help curling his lips when he heard Han Qing's words.

"I stole my mother's wallet and ran away! Damn—you don't think I have anything to do with the disappearance?"

Lu Ning raised her head and glanced at the tall girl. She had heavy dark circles and bloodshot eyes, and it seemed that she hadn't rested for a while. Now that Han Qing cleared up the relationship, the spirit that was lifted just now quickly disappeared. languished down.

"You... have been looking up this?"

She scratched her hair, nodded and said, "I've asked seven or eight people, and they all passed by by chance. Why don't I believe that so many people are by chance..."

"Can I see those pictures?"

"Well, are you willing to help?" The corners of the tall man's mouth began to rise immediately after hearing this. She seemed to have no memory of yelling at Lu Ning in the toilet a few days ago.

"I'll try my best. By the way, I don't know your name yet. My name is Lu Ning."

"Sang Baiye."

Lu Ning nodded in agreement, her eyes swept over the photos in her hand one by one.

The pixels of the camera are not very high. Sang Baiye has tried to use color printing to print a large image to restore the image, but it is still only to the extent that the face can be blurred.In a total of nine photos, eleven people were circled with red pens. These people all passed in front of the camera between 05:30 and [-]:[-] last night.

In addition, there are four girls circled with a blue pen walking together, probably the girls who disappeared last night.

"Are they your friends?"

"Sister." Sang Baiye pointed to the photo, "This is the latest image record I can find. They passed by here at 24:[-] yesterday, which is very close to Han Qing's time."

"Have you asked all these eleven people?" Lu Ning asked again.

"Well, each of them has a reason..."

"But why do you suspect it's someone from the school?"

"Because they sent me a message saying that they met a classmate and went to have a meal and practice singing together, but there was no more news!" Sang Baiye gritted his teeth and said, "Someone they know must have tricked them away! "

"Wait, you are friends with them, but you don't even know their social circle?" Han Qing couldn't believe it.

"Do you still care about each other's social circle when you're dating? Do you know who your friend knows?" Sang Baiye motioned to Lu Ning, and Han Qing was immediately speechless.

"But if the kidnapper didn't pass in front of the shop, you wouldn't know it, would you? Besides, if it was a gang of people, it would be even more difficult to find the suspect with this method." Lu Ning had already read all the pictures and returned them to the Sang Baiye's hand, "Any other clues?"

"It's no use anymore...Damn it! If only I could be more alert..."

"It's not your responsibility."

"I've been looking for it all night, and we're doing our best."

Several people around persuaded her one after another.

At this time, the class bell rang.

"Hurry up! There must be some clues that haven't been found, we won't be in class!" Sang Baiye greeted, and several girls ran downstairs quickly.

"What a bunch of inexplicable guys."

"It's understandable."

Lu Ning pulled Han Qing to turn around, and happened to see a map of Sin City posted at the back of the classroom.

"Han Qing, when was Sin City established? Has the entire urban area been planned?"

"I don't know when it was established. After all, it's better to be vague about many things in such a place. I heard my dad talk about urban planning. At first, it was just some relatively hidden small places, such as the black market in District [-] and the red light district in District [-]." It was originally operated underground, and the overall planning and connection were carried out later. Anyway, it has been like this since I can remember. The surrounding districts have been expanding. Now except for District [-] near the mountain, there are Districts [-] and [-] that have fixed locations. Now, other districts have a lot more area than before.”

"Go back to your seat, class is on." The teacher walked into the classroom and ended the conversation.

After school on Friday, Lu Ning went straight to the place where the apartment was before, found the shopping center and hung up on Jiangshanlu.

"Hello?" Jiang Shanluo's breathless voice came from the phone.

"What are you doing? Why are you panting?"

"Exercise, do you think athletes are so easy to be? Is there something?"

"I'll make a long story short, I want two 'clues', and I need to confirm some things."

"You want clues?" Jiang Shanluo hesitated, "What did you find?"

"Pointing, I just need to point, tell me where is the clue that you are triggering now?" Lu Ning walked into the elevator, pressed the floor, and soon came to the tenth floor, followed the direction of memory to find " Dragon House Fitness" office.

Knock on the door, and rushed in when there was a response from inside.

"Cough cough cough... Lu Ning?"

Tan Xiao hurriedly put the thermos cup aside, then put away the newspaper in front of him, and hurriedly reached out to gesture to the seat next to him.

"How many clues have you triggered now? I'm here with Tan Xiao." Lu Ning spoke to Jiang Shanluo with her ears sideways, and sat down on the chair. At this moment, a male voice came from the phone.

"Hi, I'm Jiang Shanhao. Among the murderous opportunities we encountered in the past few days, two came from District [-], two from District [-], one from District [-], and one from District [-]. I won't tell you the specifics. Are these enough?"

"The number is wrong." Lu Ning said, "There are five of you, and six positions are really too few. Is there any position that is uncertain?"

"Yes, it's still being investigated. What? Is there something urgent that must be settled now?"

"That's not true. What is the total number of murderous attempts you have encountered so far?"

"Nine times, three of which have been completed."

"Okay, I get it. I saw you in Yang Qingyu's live broadcast room, how is your force level?"

"No problem against ordinary criminals."

"Thank you. I will call you tomorrow. I need to check some things." Lu Ning hung up the phone and looked at Tan Xiao.

"Haha...do you want tea?" Tan Xiao wanted to bring up a topic in embarrassment.

"I've talked to your captain. This time it's a secret scene, but it's also survival, even if the conditions are not so strict. Now each of us has a few clues, and these clues can't be broken." Lu Ning took the post-it note I wrote two notes, folded them and handed them to him, "If I don't go to class tomorrow, I will hand these two notes to your team leader. After so many days, you probably have figured out the identities of the main tourists here. Better be in time."

"In time? What can I do in time?" Tan Xiao froze for a moment.

"Avoid death."

Lu Ning waved her mobile phone, turned and walked out of the office, and went upstairs to the shop without a signboard.

This time the boss was sitting in front of the TV by the wall and was playing a game with a controller. When Lu Ning entered the door to say hello, the boss who was concentrating on shaking his hands, was immediately punched hard by the BOSS on the screen three times, and was executed with one blow.

"Oh oh oh oh oh oh!" The boss yelled like a ghost, turned his head and saw that it was Lu Ning, and immediately stood up and changed into that lazy posture, "It's you again? Come to buy something ?”

"Poison, knives and other things, do you have them here?"

"Did I remind you? Sword chariots are not suitable for poisoning."

"I didn't want to poison it either." Lu Ning waved her arm, "By the way, are there any gloves inlaid with metal? I don't want to cut the back of my hand all the time."

"Huh? Come here." The boss walked to the door of the warehouse and pushed the door open.

Lu Ning walked over and followed the boss into the storage room.

As the boss said, he doesn't have gunpowder weapons here, but there are things like compound bows, and more are exquisite combination weapons.These weapons are placed in glass windows one by one, and the white lights shine a cold light, but it is extremely pleasing to the eye.

"Here, do you want this?"

The boss uncovered a piece of canvas in the corner, and there were all kinds of small weapons piled underneath. Throwing knives, daggers, caltrops, darts, hidden swords, and steel claws were all randomly piled together. It seemed that the creators didn't bother to distinguish them.

"Yes, the flying knife is the best." Lu Ning picked up a flying knife. Its length is about the length of the palm, the overall shape is slightly curved, and the blade is slender and flat. For Lu Ning who is used to blades Also works well as a melee weapon.

"The price list is on the wall. This room is full of products. After you've selected the products, go to the front to pay the bill. I'm going to play games." After the boss finished speaking, he walked out of the room impatiently.

Lu Ning has never seen someone who is so indifferent to business.

However, the things in this room are indeed high-quality products. If she saw these before buying the house, she would have to buy a lot, but now... she has no money.

Those deformed and reorganized weapons do look powerful and beautiful, but the price of each is more than [-], and Lu Ning doesn't have that much spare money to spend on it.

The biggest difference between this scene and the previous experience is that a lot of information came to the door actively.

Lu Ning read from it a sense that the scene is urging you to act as soon as possible.Now I have been involved in the two incidents of organ trafficking in the tenth district and the disappearance of high school students in the eighth district, and other people may also have contact with some problems in each district.These things are really common in Vice City, but no matter how dull the tourists are, they can feel that this is the task reminder.

According to past experience, after the scene gives a reminder, it is the time of crisis.

(End of this chapter)