When returning to the dormitory, Lu Ning received news from Lu Jingyi. Meng Xilin had the campus card she used at school, so it was easy for the police to find her. After contacting the school, Lu Jingyi also learned about Meng Xilin's death from her class teacher. She was probably shocked, but she simply sent a message to Lu Ning and said nothing more.
After returning to the dormitory, the two sorted out the shopping. Li Xian was no longer in the dormitory, which was normal. She usually went to the Internet cafe or the school network center to grab tickets. The Internet in the dormitory sometimes did not work well. Lu Ning placed the set of monster ornaments on the cabinet next to her desk. She completely suppressed the slight distortion and could not act as a monster.
But Lu Ning never expected that when she and Ying Caiyi were going to have dinner, they would receive a call from their head teacher.
The phone call was to Ying Caiyi, but Lu Ning was also mentioned. The head teacher first asked if the two were together, then asked about today's schedule, and then asked the two if they could come to the department office. Ying Caiyi told Lu Ning with some confusion. After Lu Ning agreed, they went to the department office building together.
Lu Ning vaguely knew what happened after seeing the two police cars at the door.
In addition to the head teacher and the department head, there were three people in the department office. Two were wearing police uniforms and one was wearing casual clothes. Ying Caiyi was a little surprised. Although she saw the police twice today, both times she just watched the crowd. She never expected that there would be people looking back.
Perhaps sensing Ying Caiyi's surprise, the man in casual clothes spoke first: "Two classmates, don't be nervous. It's just because we want to know more about today's things that we found the school. If we delay you two I'm deeply sorry for the time."
"No... we should cooperate with the police... but we don't know anything..." Ying Caiyi was still a little dazed.
"It doesn't matter, we can talk slowly. By the way, my name is Meng Bin, and I am the person in charge of the case this time. But this time I may need to talk to you two in private, and I need to ask for your permission. Can I do that?" Meng Bin ask.
"Okay." Lu Ning nodded, "But just stay here. You don't need to leave the school?"
"Of course, the director has prepared a small conference room. We can move there. It won't take too much time, please." Meng Bin laughed.
He didn't ask the two policemen to follow him. Lu Ning and Ying Caiyi walked into the small conference room. It was said to be small, but it was actually quite big for three people. After Meng Bin asked the two of them to sit down, he pulled the chair over, then took out the tablet from a leather bag he was carrying, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"You two, just answer my questions truthfully. Don't worry, you are just cooperating with the investigation. After all, today... cough."
Ying Caiyi nodded.
"Did you go to Zhaoxing Pedestrian Street today?"
"Yes." they both replied.
Meng Bin scratched his tablet and continued: "Can you tell me what time you arrived?"
"Let's pack up and set off... It will be about ten o'clock when we get there, right?" Ying Caiyi said with some uncertainty.
"Ten o'clock, um. Our police handled a theft that occurred there at half past ten, and you happened to be at the scene at that time?"
"Yes." they said again.
"Hmm...according to some testimonies obtained there at that time, it was one of the two who restrained the thief, right?" Meng Bin laughed, "Which one was it?"
"Me." Lu Ning answered simply, "I happened to run by me and I tripped the person. It didn't count as stopping him. After he tripped, the people around him came over to help hold the thief down."
"Be brave when it comes to justice, good, good." Meng Bin praised.
"Is this incident related to the later one?" Lu Ning asked.
"Hahaha, actually there is a little connection there." Meng Bin laughed, "Do you two still remember the person whose things were stolen?"
"After the lady gave her contact information to the clerk, didn't she take her mother to the hospital?" Ying Caiyi said.
"Yes, it was that lady. Our police then tried to find out the situation from her according to the contact information, but the phone number could not be connected. Later, after checking the service provider, we found out that this number had stopped using it a long time ago."
Lu Ning frowned, but she didn't see any problem with the lady at that time.
"Of course, it doesn't matter if we can't find the lady. We went to interrogate the thief again, but got an unexpected news..." Meng Bin paused here and glanced at Lu Ning and Ying Cai. Yi's expression said, "He didn't originally intend to attack those two people, but he seemed to have seen something at that time. Then he immediately stole the wallet as soon as his mind got hot. When he reacted, he tried to escape and was discovered. That's what happened next. If the thief didn't lie, maybe we should find the mother and daughter and ask about the situation."
"But what does this have to do with us?" Ying Caiyi said, "We met them by chance and didn't recognize them."
"Actually, we have asked several other people present before. We just asked you two to check. What impression do you have of the mother and daughter?"
It was quite simple. The woman came out in a hurry. Lu Ning and Ying Caiyi both remembered her face, dress and voice quite clearly. After they finished speaking, Meng Bin took note of it, compared it, and nodded: "Thank you two, no. I know that mother...do you two still remember her?"
At this moment, the two of them were stunned.
Even Lu Ning didn't pay attention to the old man's face at that time. She fell to the ground and was... helped up by someone? It seemed like he kept his head down the whole time and didn't say a word? Of course she herself moved, but...it was very blurry.
No matter who it was at that time, their attention was not focused on this old lady who was the victim.
"What's wrong with that old man? As long as you check whether there are any elderly women of similar age in the nearby hospitals during that time, you can probably filter out the target." Lu Ning said.
Meng Bin nodded: "That's true, but the key problem lies here. We investigated all the patients in nearby hospitals and clinics between ten and twelve o'clock, including many elderly people. However, there was no such pair of mother and daughter. Get up."
"Ah? Could it be that the old man found nothing on the way and went home directly?" Ying Caiyi said in a daze.
"I don't know, but the case must at least find the person who was stolen before it can be closed. I hope you two will think carefully about whether you still have any impressions."
Lu Ning didn't believe this. The thief himself confessed, and the police did not have to go through the victim's path if they wanted to close the case. Meng Bin must be hiding something, but if this matter is related to the distortion point, he should be so cautious.
"Officer Meng, you still haven't explained the connection between the two things." She said.
"Ah, this is our internal matter. It's better not to get too involved. I can tell you that this is indeed somewhat related to a major case we are investigating, and the sudden death of the street marchers later is confirmed. There is no doubt that they are related and we need to consider whether to merge them into the same case team."
"Ah!" Ying Caiyi suddenly slapped her hands, and both of them turned their attention to her.
"I remembered it! The old lady seemed to be wearing... something like a Tang suit? In short, the color was blue and black. It was a traditional coat. It was quite impressive. Yes, that's right, on that little gown I embroidered some patterns with silver thread, but... I can’t tell what they are, and I don’t know if they are words or paintings. In short, that dress looks very expensive!"
"Oh? This is information that has not been obtained before. Many people have no impression of the old lady." Meng Bin immediately recorded this, "Is there any more?"
"She... wears a hairpin on her head, because not many old people use hairpins these days, so I have the impression that it is probably silver? Well... that's right! She still has it in her hand A small handbag, also a type I have never seen before, like a small cloth pocket, it should be hand-sewn, right?"
"Really? This is also a clue. Thank you very much." Meng Bin quickly recorded it.
Ying Caiyi had no more impression. Lu Ning looked at her carefully. There was no abnormality in her condition, so she probably wasn't specially affected? If there is a problem with the mother and daughter, they may have to be more cautious.
"Do you have anything to say, classmate Lu Ning?" Meng Bin asked again.
"No, I tripped over the thief and moved away. I didn't pay attention to the lady and her mother."
"It's okay. Classmate Ying Caiyi has already provided us with valuable information. Okay, let's do this for today. Can you two leave a phone number? If we find the two mothers and daughters in the future, we may need you to go Recognize the person."
"Okay." The two told Meng Bin their phone numbers, and he wrote them all down. Then he stood up, opened the door of the conference room, and told the two that they could leave.
After leaving the department office building, Ying Caiyi and Lu Ning went straight to the cafeteria. On the way, Ying Caiyi was quite surprised: "Then why didn't mother and daughter leave their real contact information?"
"The victims and perpetrators may not be what we see." Lu Ning said.
"Ah? Could it be that they wanted to steal the thief?"
"The thief is definitely not a good person, but what if a bad guy meets a bad guy? It would be a bizarre thing for the mother and daughter to disappear like this. Ordinary people wouldn't have to do such a weird thing."
Lu Ning only spoke so far and didn't say the rest.
Even if they are not good people, the average bad person would not worry about leaving contact information at this time. And the mother and daughter had to fake even this. The most likely explanation is that they can't even appear in front of the police, that is. Said the police would identify them immediately.
It is not impossible to trace it. Although "Requiem" requires Lu Ning to remember the opponent's angry characteristics as a basis for tracking, which is more difficult, she still has "Judgment Day" in hand. Blue Judgment [Desire] can mark the target that Lu Ning wants to find most. As long as that woman does something that makes Lu Ning extremely concerned, Lu Ning can find her even if she runs to the edge of the world.
And if she was really related to the Distortion Point Incident, how could she not be a demon?
After thinking about the next thing, Lu Ning went to the cafeteria with Ying Caiyi to eat.
But she didn't expect that nothing out of the ordinary would happen on campus for two weeks. The game company issued a statement, in response to the previous problem among players, saying that when entering the game, it had written reminders such as "addicted to games are harmful to the body", and advised players to pay attention to rest during the game, not to be too tired, etc. The game is still running normally.
Lu Ning played all the game modes. She already had a basic foundation in positioning and awareness. After getting familiar with the rules of the game, she quickly got started. She occasionally played in double queue with Ying Caiyi, and she was quite happy to play, even Sometimes we also cooperate with Ying Caiyi’s live broadcast to create some program effects.
Everything seemed to have returned to a peaceful routine. Meng Xilin's death was not spread in the school, probably because the case was not over yet and the police required confidentiality, so people who knew about the death would not go out and spread rumors. Lu Jingyi met Lu Ning after that, looking haggard. Now Lu Ning felt that her previous judgment might be wrong, and she was indeed an uninformed person.
In mid-November, winter has begun to show its harshness. Two consecutive rains a few days ago dampened the temperature, never to rise again. Lu Ning put away her autumn clothes, took out her cotton-padded clothes and cold-proof clothes, and had a regular phone call with her father to check on her safety, and then participated in some club activities. In the evening, she went to the playground to wait for dinner with Lu Chunxiao, but when she arrived, she saw something unexpected happened.
People formed a circle on the playground, a few coaches passed by in a hurry, and even some members of the medical team. Lu Ning glanced around, found Lu Chunxiao among the crowd, and walked over.
Lu Chunxiao looked anxious, as if he was about to cry.
"What happened?"
"Lu, Lu Ning, Chu Wei suddenly fainted just now! He was bleeding from all his orifices! We don't know what happened... The coach is also panicked. He has already called someone from the school hospital, but he probably needs to call an ambulance... What should I do? , what should I do..." Lu Chunxiao said incoherently.
"Bleeding from all seven orifices?" Lu Ning was startled and quickly looked at the crowd. However, Chu Wei's vital signs feedback was normal and did not look fatal.
Bleeding from the seven orifices is not fatal, it’s really a ghost.
"Has he done anything special recently?" Lu Ning knew that Chu Wei knew some magic to subjugate monsters and catch ghosts, and wondered if this kid was secretly dealing with monsters again and was cursed.
"No, training as usual..." Lu Chunxiao said with a grimace, "Originally, he wanted to treat me to a meal today. He has always been in good condition."
"I mean, calling you to tell you something like that, just like half a month ago."
"No." Lu Chunxiao thought for a while and answered.
At this time, the ambulance that was called also stopped outside the playground. Everyone carried Chu Wei into the ambulance on a stretcher. Lu Chunxiao and the coach accompanied him. Lu Ning could only go back and inform everyone that Lu Chunxiao might be there tonight. It's late to go back to the dormitory.
But... Chu Wei is weak in her eyes, but it doesn't mean that he is really weak. What is the situation?
