In an extremely awkward atmosphere, Xu Jinghao walked out. Walking back to the staff office door, she stopped, took a few deep breaths, and touched her face to make sure it wasn't hot before walking in.
"Sister Jing!" Anne trailed off in a long voice, "I found it!"
Faced with Annie's request for credit, Xu Jinghao could only smile bitterly. Recalling the news of Zhang Li's disappearance, the awkward feeling just now completely dissipated, and she lay helpless on the chair, her mind going blank.
After learning the news of Zhang Li's disappearance, Annie was no longer as lively as before. She sat in a chair depressed and murmured: "Missing? How could this happen? Could it be that she was eaten by a monster?"
"Monster?" Annie's whims reminded Xu Jinghao that yesterday, Lao Luo not only talked about Zhang Li's disappearance, but also said something before that, "... do you think that is really a snake?"
Not a snake? Does that mean that the snake shadow at that time was not an illusion, but something like a snake? Xu Jing didn't know how to describe it. Of course she didn't think it was a monster or anything like that, but she was certain that the snake-like shadow must be absolutely connected with Zhang Li's disappearance!
Xu Jinghao quickly thought of one person, and that was Jiang Manman, who had resigned. Jiang Manman once claimed to have seen a snake in the office. Only then did Xu Jinghao realize that what Jiang Manman said was true!
"Lao Luo is out!" Annie reminded in a low voice.
Xu Jing couldn't help but turn her head and look at the door. Lao Luo was nodding and bowing to send the two police officers away. Just as she passed the door, she clearly saw Feng Ye's eyes full of meaning.
"Why are you still doubting me! The suspect is obviously Lao Luo!" Xu Jinghao shouted in her heart. She had suffered unjust injustice, and there was an unquenchable resentment in her chest.
"What kind of policeman? You can tell at a glance that they are unreliable!" Xu Jinghao made up her mind and must find the criminal evidence to find Lao Luo. Driven by such thoughts, she thought of Jiang Manman.
"I put Zhang Li's information back." Annie walked back to the information cabinet with some disappointment. Xu Jinghao suddenly said: "If you help me find Jiang Manman's address, the previous conditions will still be valid."
"It's a trivial matter!" Annie became happy again, but she did not rush to the information cabinet to find it. Instead, she returned to her seat and sent a link to Xu Jinghao.
"To prevent you from going back on your word, promise me to look for you again." Annie said to Xu Jing slyly.
Xu Jing opened it and saw that it was a foreign brand-name perfume. The brand looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it. But when she looked at the row of zeros behind the price, she took a breath and said, "You want me to bleed!"
Anne looked at her leisurely, "How is it?"
Xu Jinghao gritted her teeth and nodded: "Okay! But I have one more request!"
"What request?" Annie blinked like an innocent little animal.
Looking at the clock on the wall, Xu Jinghao calculated the time and said: "I have some personal matters tonight, please help me work overtime. If you don't agree, the deal is cancelled!"
Anne hated working overtime the most, but after considering the pros and cons, she still agreed.
When it was time to get off work, Xu Jing was the first to rush out of the company. She stopped a car downstairs and rushed over to Jiang Manman's address. In the car, Xu Jinghao tried to call Jiang Manman, but the phone was shut down like Zhang Li.
Xu Jinghao's heart skipped a beat, "Could it be that Jiang Manman also..."
No one could answer this guess. She could only sit in the car, and a strange place was quietly waiting for her arrival.
In the police station.
Ji Qiuhong walked into the empty office with her folder under her arm. In the darkness, a person was sitting at his desk in a daze. She shook her head and reached out to turn on the light. The room was illuminated, Feng Ye came back to his senses and looked at Ji Qiuhong who was walking towards him.
"What? Still thinking about this case." Ji Qiuhong pulled out a chair and sat in front of Feng Ye.
"I have a headache!" Feng Ye raised his neck and murmured with his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling: "Based on the current situation, the most likely person responsible for Zhang Li's disappearance is Xu Jinghao."
"What's the motive?" Ji Qiuhong asked calmly.
Feng Ye blurted out without thinking: "There are too many, competitors, love rivals. How could these two people with so many conflicts not find a motive for committing the crime?"
Ji Qiuhong continued to ask unhurriedly: "What about the method of committing the crime? It is not easy for a weak woman to kill a big living person, and Zhang Li has probably been killed, so where is the body?" Already?"
Feng Ye rubbed his temples vigorously, "This is the most troublesome part! I always felt that something must have happened when they were arguing, so I went to the monitoring room of the office building and tried to call up the surveillance of their quarrel that night. Nothing happened. I thought it was gone!"
"No more?" Ji Qiuhong leaned forward, "Could it be..."
"It's not a special reason." Feng Ye put a cigarette into his mouth and said vaguely: "The surveillance system in the office building is too old and the video can only be saved for two weeks. Today is exactly two weeks and one day."
Ji Qiuhong nodded and said: "According to the information we know, Zhang Li has never appeared in the company since the dispute between Zhang Li and Xu Jinghao that night. Even her resignation was submitted over the phone instead of in person. Resignation. So something must have happened to them at that time!"
"It's a pity that only Xu Jinghao knew about the situation at that time, but she said that the two of them just argued for a few words before fainting, and did not get any valuable information." Feng Ye sighed, "I'm a little doubtful whether it was Zhang Li was already killed."
Ji Qiuhong also said: "Comparing the time between Xu Jinghao's arrival at the company and being sent to the hospital, it seems that it was not enough for her to do such a complicated thing as killing someone and then destroying the body and destroying traces."
Feng Ye sighed and said: "Anyway, continue to observe. I always feel that all this has something to do with Xu Jinghao, and my intuition has always been very accurate!"
Ji Qiuhong nodded before remembering to hand over the folder in her hand.
"What is this?" Feng Ye asked.
"There have been two more disappearances in the city, and this should be the fifth case." Ji Qiuhong's face was not very good, "The frequency of disappearances recently makes me suspect that this is a planned collective crime. But there is no connection or similarity between the victims, which is really puzzling."
"Missing again?" Feng Ye frowned and sighed: "What happened to this city?"
In a residential building, Xu Jinghao knocked on the door, but the person who opened the door was not Jiang Manman, but a strange man.
The man wore earrings and asked Xu Jinghao angrily: "Who is the beauty looking for?"
Xu Jinghao took a look inside and found that this was a shared house. She never thought that Jiang Manman, who was wearing famous brands in the company, would actually live in a shared house, so she asked, "Is Jiang Manman here?"
"Jiang Manman? I don't know you." The man with earrings answered casually, and then teased Xu Jinghao: "Beauty, can you leave your phone number?"
Xu Jing's disgusted expression flashed away, and she ignored the man with earrings and walked into the shared house. She knew that it was common for tenants in a shared house to not know each other, and that there would be no results if she continued to struggle with the man with earrings. It would be better to find him room by room. After taking only two steps, a door next to him suddenly opened, and someone inside asked: "What do you want from Jiang Manman?"
Xu Jinghao turned her head and saw an honest-looking man looking at him, with some kind of expectation in his eyes.
"Who are you?" Xu Jing asked warily.
"My name is Wen Yufan, and I am Jiang Manman's...ex-boyfriend." The other party replied.
"Ex-boyfriend?" Xu Jinghao looked at Wen Yufan and said, "So, Jiang Manman no longer lives here?"
"Yes." Wen Yufan said with a bitter smile, "About three months ago, she suddenly broke up with me and moved away."
"Three months ago?" Xu Jinghao raised her eyebrows. During that time, rumors were spreading wildly in the company that Jiang Manman and Lao Luo, who had just arrived, were hooking up. Since Jiang Manman no longer lives here, there is no point in staying any longer. Xu Jinghao turned around and left with some disappointment.
"Wait!" Wen Yufan suddenly stopped her.
"What's the matter?" Xu Jing remembered the unanswered phone call.
"Help me!" Wen Yufan became excited, "Jiang Manman is missing!"