"Hello, this is 110."
"Gone...all gone..."
"Did you lose something? Or is someone missing?"
"Seeds...those seeds! If stolen...the whole city is in danger..."
"Seed? Can you explain in detail? What kind of seed is it?"
"That's... No, I can't say!"
"Where are you now, and when did the thing go missing?"
The call to the police stopped abruptly. Ji Qiuhong turned off the recording and looked at Feng Ye standing aside.
Feng Ye frowned, "Is this what you mean by calling the police?" He spoke in a bad tone, as if he was about to get angry.
Ji Qiuhong saw that Feng Ye was angry, but did not panic. Instead, he said, "I paid special attention to the police calls in the past few days, and then I found this. I have a hunch that this police call is related to those disappearances."
After hearing Ji Qiuhong's explanation, Feng Ye asked in a deep voice, "What's the reason?"
"The person who called the police mentioned that the entire city will be in danger. I think it refers to the recent disappearance cases." Ji Qiuhong analyzed, "There have been dozens of disappearance cases in the city recently, and they have no connection with each other. I think it is very possible. Something special happened, which indirectly led to the disappearance. That’s why we can’t directly find patterns in the disappearance cases.”
"It makes sense." Feng Ye calmed down this time, "But what are the seeds he mentioned?"
Ji Qiuhong shrugged and said simply: "I don't know."
Feng Ye sighed. After all, the call to the police lasted only two minutes, and the person who called the police was vague. It was not easy for Ji Qiuhong to analyze these things, and he really couldn't ask for more. Although this call to the police sounds like child's play, Ji Qiuhong's analysis makes sense. He thought for a while and said to Ji Qiuhong: "Your idea is not bad. Anyway, there has been no breakthrough in the case so far. You might as well continue to follow up on this clue and maybe you can make some new discoveries. Anyway..."
Feng Ye smiled bitterly, but did not say the following words. But Ji Qiuhong knew that Feng Ye had been under great pressure recently, and his superiors had begun to issue death orders, asking him to solve the case within a month. He now allows himself to follow up on this clue, perhaps with the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor. However, Ji Qiuhong always believed in her intuition. She had a hunch that this phone call was the key to solving all the mysteries.
Time passes little by little, the weekends are over, and people are back to their work life between two o'clock and one line of work.
Annie discovered that Xu Jinghao has become very strange recently. She often does things carelessly, and even makes mistakes in simple signatures. This would never happen in the past. Something must have happened to Xu Jinghao, so she was so distracted all day long. Ever since, Anne's spirit of gossip was burning brightly again.
During the lunch break, colleagues left the office in small groups. Only Xu Jinghao was still sitting at her desk in a daze. Seeing that there was no one else, Anne quietly walked over.
"You haven't been normal lately!"
Xu Jinghao was startled by Annie. She suddenly came back to her senses, stared at Annie and asked, "What? What's weird?"
Annie stared at Xu Jinghao's face carefully, making him feel embarrassed. Then she nodded and said, "Why are you so absent-minded lately? You don't have the demeanor of the strong woman Jing back then. Could it be..."
"Is it what?" Xu Jinghao actually felt guilty.
Anne shook her head pretending to be profound and spoke eloquently: "As a professional woman who has been in the workplace for a long time, ordinary things have no impact on you at all. But you have changed so much now that you are almost a different person. So. Something must have happened, and it’s something big. Combined with recent events, my inference is—"
Anne deliberately dragged out the last word, which successfully attracted Xu Jinghao's attention. The other person's eyes widened wider and wider, his expression was filled with surprise and uncertainty, and there was even a layer of sweat on his forehead. Annie felt a sense of accomplishment for a moment and said decisively: "It must be a relationship problem! Did you confess your love to Du Xian and was rejected?"
When Xu Jinghao heard these words, her heart that had been in her throat finally relaxed, and she felt like she was surviving a disaster. She exhaled slowly and couldn't help but admire Annie's imagination. This matter is indeed related to Du Xian, but it only accounts for a small part.
"Is that so?" Annie asked Xu Jinghao excitedly for confirmation.
Xu Jinghao smiled bitterly and shook her head, but that expression gave Annie a new guess.
"I know!" cried Anne.
"What do you know?" Xu Jinghao held her forehead, feeling so tired.
"Could it be that the handsome guy Du Xian confessed to you and then you rejected him?" Annie stared at Xu Jinghao with her big dark eyes.
Annie's ability to observe people's emotions should not be underestimated. She seemed to have discovered a new world and exclaimed: "No! You are so heartless! That's Du Xian! We can't find anyone better than him in this office building." I'm a man, you... you..."
Anne looked as if she hated iron and was so angry that she couldn't even speak.
"Okay, okay." Xu Jinghao comforted her repeatedly, as if the protagonist at that time was not herself but Annie.
"What on earth do you think?" Annie took a sip of water to calm down her shock and asked again.
Xu Jinghao just shook her head, turned and left the office, leaving Annie with a confused look on her face.
Annie stared at Xu Jinghao's back, as if she wanted to use her gaze as a shovel to dig out the secrets in the other person's heart. Of course, this was still Anne's fantasy, but soon she saw another strange scene. Just when Xu Jinghao was going out, she met Lao Luo walking back. The two looked at each other, and then... greeted each other politely? !
"Lao Luo didn't actually touch Xu Jinghao? And the two of them... It's like they have a model superior-subordinate relationship. How... how is this possible!" Countless question marks appeared in Anne's heart. At that moment, she almost felt her own The worldview is about to collapse.
"What's going on with these two people?" Annie stood stupidly, and then she saw another weirdo - Du Xian.
Du Xian walked in with an expressionless face, his steps were shaky like a puppet on strings, and he seemed about to fall down at any time. Anne watched worriedly, and she didn't let out a sigh of relief until the other person successfully sat down. In Anne's memory, Du Xian had always been cheerful and generous, but she didn't expect that he had become so depressed in the past few days.
"The adult world is so scary!" Annie sighed.
In the women's restroom, Xu Jinghao was hiding in a cubicle. She covered her mouth hard, and two lines of tears ran down her cheeks, passed over her fingers, and fell on the ground. Just when she came out, she saw Lao Luo. Although the two didn't talk much, Xu Jinghao could feel it. Lao Luo looked at her with eyes filled with pride and unbridled evil.
Just a few days ago, on the night Wen Yufan was killed, after Du Xian left, she received another call from Lao Luo.
"What do you want?" Xu Jinghao picked up her phone and asked, but no matter how she pretended, it was clear that she lacked confidence.
What responded to her was Lao Luo's laughter, as if a devil lurking in the dark was admiring a blasphemous masterpiece.
After a long while, Lao Luo started to say: "I don't want to do anything! This is just a kind reminder."
"Remind what?" Xu Jinghao asked tremblingly.
"Remind you..." Lao Luo couldn't help laughing again, and said while laughing: "We are the same kind of people!"
"Stop laughing!" Xu Jinghao finally shouted, "Believe it or not, I will fight you to the death!"
Lao Luo continued to smile provocatively and said: "You don't dare! Because you are afraid. You are younger than me and have a bright future. You are more afraid of others knowing this secret than me. Am I right? Same kind! "
"Sister Jing!" Annie's voice came closer and closer, pulling Xu Jinghao out of her memories. Xu Jinghao hurriedly wiped away her tears and tried to calm down her emotions. At this time, the toilet door happened to open, and Annie was shouting inside.
"What's the matter?" Xu Jinghao asked calmly.
"Someone is looking for you." Annie's voice came from outside the door, "It's the same two policemen from before."
"Police?" Xu Jinghao's breathing became rapid.