What do you do when you're looking for someone and don't have any clue?
First, ask someone close to this person, preferably a mutual friend of you and this person.
Ye Gucheng found the people from the Magic Guild. This guild has existed in name only since the end of the world. The leader of the guild is missing and its members are scattered. However, most of the members are now in the underground survivor base in S City.
"Where is Xie Wan? I don't know. There has been no news about her since the end of the world. If you need it, I can provide you with the whereabouts of her home."
"Who knows where people like Xie Wan will go... What, did she cause some trouble again, or did she get into trouble with some big shot?"
Walking out of the second acquaintance's room, Tan Yue asked curiously: "Did she offend a big shot? Does she have a criminal record?"
Ye Gucheng said: "Once... there was a time when the Magic Guild was approached by a rich second-generation man. The rich second-generation man brought more than twenty bodyguards with him and broke in. There were also people with superpowers inside. It is said that she plotted to assassinate the young master from the upper class of city S. The young master’s family came to make trouble, which is quite serious.”
Tan Yue asked curiously: "How is the young master doing?"
"died."
"ah?"
"Don't get me wrong, he slipped and fell while climbing. However, there are doubts about this matter in the Magic Guild. After all, Xie Wan is a dreamer, and the law has not been perfect since the emergence of superpowers. She wanted to kill someone silently. It’s too easy not to be held accountable by the law.”
Ye Gucheng and Tan Yue took Qin Heng and drove to Xie Wan's last residence.
"What do you think the probability is that she's in there?"
Ye Gucheng said: "The possibility is zero."
Tan Yue wanted to knock on the door, but Ye Gucheng took out a tool and pried open the door lock.
Tan Yue was surprised: "You..."
Ye Gucheng looked back with doubts.
"……nothing."
After all, Ye Gucheng has always given her the impression of being elegant and sophisticated. It is impossible to pick the lock at the slightest disagreement.
Ganqing is still a beast in disguise.
The floor was covered with a thick layer of dust and there were no traces of footprints. As soon as the door opened, the dust was picked up by the wind brought by the door panel and smeared on the two people's faces.
"Ahem!"
Tan Yue's body has improved a lot since he awakened his powers. Now he was choked by dust and coughed non-stop.
"It looks like an ordinary person's house."
Xie Wan's home is not big, about 80 square meters. On the left side of the door is the living room, with an LCD TV, a dark blue fabric sofa, and a photo of a family of three hanging on the wall.
A family of three refers to a middle-aged woman with an elegant temperament and two young girls who are as beautiful as flowers and jade.
On the right is the dining table and open kitchen. There is a vase on the kitchen with a withered rose in it. The petals are black and wrinkled and scattered on the porcelain white tabletop.
Tan Yue simply walked around the living room and kitchen without moving too many things, and then walked into the bathroom.
Surprisingly, this house does not seem to be where Xie Wan lives alone.
There are two tooth cups and two toothbrushes in the bathroom, along with two pairs of plastic slippers in the bathroom. She looked at the bathroom mirror. There were cracks on the mirror, and there seemed to be red traces in the cracks - maybe blood?
There was no movement from Ye Gucheng's side, and Tan Yue couldn't help but asked: "What do you think?"
Ye Gucheng didn't answer. Tan Yue chased him out. When he saw the scene in the bedroom, he suddenly understood why Ye Gucheng kept silent.
There are two identical princess beds in the bedroom. The walls are painted pink, and the long desk is filled with various small ornaments that girls like. The whole bedroom is very warm.
Only then did Ye Gucheng come back to his senses and said, "I didn't expect her to be so..."
"Um?"
"So unlike her."
There was no second bedroom in the house. Tan Yue was afraid of disturbing the tranquility of this room, so she asked softly: "Is this where Xie Wan and her sister live?"
"Looks like, yes."
Tan Yue looked at the two beds carefully and suddenly felt a little inconsistent.
She stepped forward and bent down to carefully examine the surfaces of the two beds. Then with a solemn expression, he straightened up and asked, "When you were in the Magic Guild, did you ever hear that she had an older sister?"
Ye Gucheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Never."
Tan Yue turned around and stared at the bed in trance: "This is the strange place."
"how?"
She pointed to the princess bed and said, "Come and take a look."
I saw a thin layer of dust on the princess's bed near the door, and it looked like it hadn't been occupied for a few days. It is certain that the bed was in use just a week ago.
The princess bed far away from the door was not only dustier, but also the bed was extremely flat. It seemed that no one had been inhabited for a long time after the sheets and quilts were laid flat.
Even if the bed is frequently used, wrinkles can still be seen even if it is made well.
"So, although this house is furnished for two people, only Xie Wan lives there alone. You are right, she should not have had contact with her sister for a long time." Tan Yue analyzed.
The two of them carefully exited. Tan Yue found that Xiaolong was missing and called out: "Qin Heng?"
Xiaolong made a sound in the study room, motioning for the two of them to go over and take a look.
Tan Yue pushed open the ajar study door and saw Xiaolong holding a small thing in his mouth. It flew to the desk and flapped its wings against the laptop on the table.
Tan Yue walked over and found that there was a USB flash drive in Xiaolong's mouth.
She looked at Ye Gucheng and inserted the USB flash drive into the computer.
There is only one folder and only one video in it.
Tan Yue clicked on the video without hesitation.
The picture on the screen lights up.
The moment she saw the picture, Tan Yue's heart skipped a beat and she almost vomited!
It was a corpse. The corpse's eyes were wide open, and the frightened expression before death had not dissipated. That face looked familiar, it was the elegant middle-aged woman on the photo frame in the living room——
What's going on? Why is this kept in Xie Wan's study?
Tan Yue didn't want to guess the worst possibility of human nature. She glanced at the progress bar and saw that two-thirds were left.
Immediately afterwards, a masked man walked in from outside the screen. The masked man was playing with a knife in his hand, and a joking male voice sounded: "Xie Wan, you should know who I am."
"I know it's wrong to implicate innocent family members, but who said you were the one who made the first move?"
The masked man suddenly came closer to the camera, and Tan Yue could see clearly that the man's eyes were light blue. A strand of blond hair was exposed from the hood, and the masked man then realized that he slowly stuffed his hair into a hat and arranged it in front of the camera.
A twisted smile appeared on his face under the mask: "You should ask yourself, why didn't you protect them?"
"Don't question me. I don't feel guilty at all. After all, you did such a bad thing."
The masked man took a deep breath and said with relief: "Now, my brother can rest in peace."
