It was past noon, and Yuquan and I rushed to Huancui Jiayuan Community on Zhennan Street.
Huancui Jiayuan Community is where Ma Ying lives.
After all, Ma Ying had been missing for almost a week. A living person just disappeared like that, and it was unknown whether he was alive or dead. I felt that there must be something fishy going on. So I decided to go to Ma Ying's house first to see if there were any clues.
Soon, after finding Building 3 of Unit 2, Yuquan and I rang the doorbell of Apartment 502 above the door.
"Ring, ring, ring!" It rang a few times.
There was a sound coming from the intercom above the doorbell.
Is a man.
"Excuse me, is this Ma Ying's home?" I asked.
A man's voice came from the other end of the intercom, "Shadow is my daughter. She...she's not here. Why are you looking for her?"
There was a sense of sadness in the man's voice. It seemed that Ma Ying's family was also worried about her.
"Hello uncle, we are from the police station and we are here to investigate some situations. If we find any clues, it will be very helpful to help you find your daughter."
I was afraid that the call would be disconnected, so I spoke in a hurry. Of course, I was just making it up when I said it was someone from the police station.
"Okay, come up!"
With a "click", the electric bolt downstairs in the apartment building was opened.
Then he opened the door and Yuquan and I entered the apartment building.
The corridor may not have been cleaned for a while, there are a lot of debris. I don't know who is having lunch, the smell of food floated into the corridor through the apartment door.
As soon as he reached the second floor, Yuquan's stomach growled twice.
"Um, Brother Yang, I'm hungry!" Yuquan said apologetically.
I looked at him and said softly, "Go up first. After I understand the situation here, I will take you to dinner."
At this time, a creaking sound came from upstairs.
It was the sound of someone opening the apartment door.
I looked up.
Through the space between the stairs in the middle of the corridor, I noticed that there was a person lying on the fifth floor, looking down.
The man looked very bad, his skin was a little yellow, and his eyes were dark. His hair was already gray at the temples, and he looked a little old.
When I looked at that person, I found that there was a hint of indifference in his eyes.
That kind of gaze makes me feel empty.
"What's wrong, Brother Yang?"
Seeing that I was stunned, Yuquan asked.
I retracted my gaze and said to Yuquan, "Let's go upstairs."
After a while, Yuquan and I went upstairs.
When we climbed the stairs to the fifth floor, we saw the middle-aged man standing at the door of Apartment 502.
The middle-aged man's gaze also shifted to Yuquan and me.
The next moment, he said coldly: "You are not the police! ... .. Tell me, what are you doing? Why are you looking for my daughter?"
I noticed that the middle-aged man had put his hand around his waist.
I looked at his waist and saw that it was bulging and there was a shiny kitchen knife stuck in it.
My goodness, are you going to chop someone with a kitchen knife
I hurriedly said, "Uncle, don't get me wrong. Although we are not the police, we are here today for Ma Ying's matter. We have already found some clues. There are still some things that need to be confirmed, so we came to your house."
My tone was polite enough.
Who would have thought that after listening to what I said, the middle-aged man said coldly: "You guys can go, my daughter is fine. She is fine."
His voice returned to its original indifference. His eyes seemed to be certain that Yuquan and I must be bad people.
"Uncle! We really have no ill intentions.
I just want to help you find your daughter..."
But at this time, the middle-aged man pulled out the kitchen knife directly from his waist.
His face was ferocious, and he shouted wildly, "Assholes! It was you who kidnapped my girl Xiaoying, right? It was you, right? ... Assholes! I'm going to kill you, you bastards..."
I could see that this middle-aged man had some mental problems.
"Brother Yang, I think we should go back. This person's brain may have been stimulated."
The young monk Yuquan lowered his voice and reminded me.
I was a little unhappy with the middle-aged man's attitude. At the same time, I didn't want to leave without any results. I thought about getting some blood from Ma Ying's family so that I could use the compass to find Ma Ying.
But now this middle-aged man is not cooperating, which is a bit troublesome.
I made a final effort and said in a warm voice, "Uncle, we can really help you. You have to believe us... We are confident that we can find your daughter, Ma Ying!"
What I didn’t expect was that when the middle-aged man heard the words “Ma Ying”, his expression became even more excited.
He bared his teeth, shook his head and roared, "I will kill you, you must have killed my daughter, she is gone, she is gone. Xiaoying is gone!..."
Then, before we could say anything, the middle-aged man raised a kitchen knife and rushed towards us on the staircase landing.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Yuquan and I hurried downstairs.
After all, it is really difficult to deal with a madman.
Just as the middle-aged man rushed to the stairs, a middle-aged woman rushed out quickly from the open apartment 502.
She looked anxious and hugged the middle-aged man's waist directly.
"Ota, Ota... Stop messing around, stop messing around, they are here to help us. I beg you, please put down the knife quickly. If you do this, how can we still find our shadows? Ota!..."
The middle-aged woman hugged the middle-aged man tightly and cried.
It was not difficult to tell from her words that the middle-aged man was Ma Ying's father, and the woman was Ma Ying's mother.
However, the middle-aged man looked almost crazy, shaking the kitchen knife in his hand. He shouted, "Let me go, let me go. I want to avenge my daughter. They must have killed Shadow. Shadow is gone! ... ... I want to avenge Shadow."
The middle-aged woman didn't have much strength to begin with. In addition, the middle-aged man kept shaking his body. In just half a minute, the middle-aged woman was thrown away heavily, and her body hit the door of the apartment.
The middle-aged man rushed down the stairs shouting.
His eyes were cold, as if there were countless kitchen knives hidden in them.
He might be planning to kill both me and Yuquan.
Faced with such a lunatic, I really feel a little helpless.
But Ma Ying's home is right here. Although the middle-aged man is not in a good condition, the middle-aged woman is quite normal. Perhaps Yuquan and I can learn something from her.
Now I feel a little regretful. If I had known there was a madman in Ma Ying’s family, I would have told Ding Yuan to send a few policemen to me.
"Brother Yang, what should we do? He's already rushed down. If we don't run, he will definitely cut us."
I stood on the stairs and without answering Yuquan's words, I directly took out a talisman from my cloth bag.
Under the stimulation of the good karma, the talisman that had been consecrated flew out quickly.
Just when the middle-aged man was two steps away from Yuquan and me, the talisman was attached to his chest.
The middle-aged man's body was frozen in an instant.
But he was still shouting nonsense.
The middle-aged woman supported her waist and slowly stood up from the ground.
She had seen me when I activated the immobilization spell just now. Seeing her husband being immobilized there, motionless, the middle-aged woman muttered tremblingly, "Who are you? This... Is this a witchcraft?"
The middle-aged man was already in a very bad condition. If the middle-aged woman was frightened, the Ma family would probably be finished.
I quickly explained, "Auntie, don't misunderstand me. This is not witchcraft, it's a Taoist magic. Your husband is fine, he's just been immobilized by my immobilization talisman."
I was afraid that the middle-aged woman didn't understand, so I explained: "This immobilizing talisman is equivalent to 'acupoint pressing kung fu', which can stabilize the body."
After the explanation, the middle-aged woman's expression eased a little.
Then, she actually ran down the stairs and rushed towards the middle-aged man.
After a while, she snatched the kitchen knife from the middle-aged man.
She hugged the middle-aged man and sobbed. Her tears made her look haggard.
"Amitabha! Benefactor, we really have no ill intentions. We are here to help your family find your daughter Ma Ying."
The young monk Yuquan spoke.
I hurriedly reached into the cloth bag and took out the paper sheet that Ding Yuan gave me and handed it to the middle-aged woman.
"Auntie, please take a look at this. This is what Captain Ding from the police station gave me. He asked me to cooperate with the police in investigating this case. This time, I came here specifically to investigate the matter of your daughter Ma Ying. Moreover, I have a way to find your daughter."
I glanced at the paper in my hand. I don’t know if the middle-aged woman saw the contents of the paper clearly. Anyway, the look in her eyes when she looked at me was not as panicked as before.
After thinking for a while, the middle-aged woman said with a bleak expression, "Okay! Come upstairs with me first, and we'll talk upstairs. It's not convenient here."
Then, with the help of Yuquan and I, the three of us finally carried the middle-aged man into Apartment 502.
After getting the middle-aged man into the bedroom, Yuquan and I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Slowly closing the bedroom door, the middle-aged woman walked out of the bedroom.
She stared at me expectantly and asked anxiously, "Young man, is what you just said true? Can you really help me find my daughter?"
I nodded without hesitation.
When the middle-aged woman saw me nod, she hurriedly said, "Then take me there. I want to see my daughter now. Yingzi must have encountered something, otherwise, she wouldn't be missing..."
As she spoke, the middle-aged woman began to cry.
"Wow... If I had known that Fanghua Women's University was so unsafe, I would have said that I shouldn't have let her apply there. I didn't expect that the school didn't take good care of my daughter, and now I can't even find her."
The middle-aged woman grabbed my hand and said, "Young man, tell me, where is my daughter? You just said you can find her!"
The middle-aged woman may not know that even if I helped her find her daughter, I couldn’t be sure whether her daughter was dead or alive.
After thinking about it, I turned to the crying middle-aged woman and said, "Auntie, it's no problem to help you find your daughter. But this is not an ordinary case. Even the police are a little confused. Although your daughter can indeed be found. But..."
Having said that, I stopped talking.
The middle-aged woman wiped the tears from her face and asked me excitedly, "But, what? Did something really happen to my daughter, Yingzi? You... you... you tell me quickly, okay?!"
(to be continued)
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