As he spoke, there was a gentle knock on the door.

"Professor Tao, I brought you a fruit bowl, would you like to taste it?"

"Li Li, come in." Tao Xianlin said plainly.

Then a beautiful girl with long hair and big eyes, who looked to be at most twenty-four or five years old, stepped on high heels and entered the door.

As soon as Li Li came in, her eyes turned around Fang Ruohua and Lin Zhe, with a gentle and well-behaved expression.

"Senior Sister Fang, Senior Lin is also there? Eating fruit bowls together? ”

Fang Ruohua smiled, people specially brought it, she didn't eat it for nothing, she took a toothpick herself, and handed it another to Lin Zhe.

Then while eating, I listened to this girl praise Tao Xianlin with a look of adoration, and simply blew Professor Tao into the appearance of the first person in the domestic mathematics community.

Fang Ruohua thought it was quite interesting.

Tao Xianlin is also very good at talking, his words are gentle and considerate, he is a good elder and a good teacher at first glance, and he also introduced Fang Ruohua, "This is Li Li, an intern researcher at our research institute, Li Li, Fang Ruohua You should know, a celebrity of Yan University, now in Stanford, is Dr. Brown's favorite general, the winner of the Chern Prize in Mathematics, you have to learn from her." ”

Li Li obediently responded: "Then I want to ask the senior sister to take more care." ”

It's really quiet and beautiful.

Dressed in a fashionable way, the makeup is not thick or light, but it is very delicate, and the eyebrows are very natural.

Fang Ruohua said a few polite words, and saw Tao Xianlin change the topic, talking about the current research, with a serious face, and asked Li Li a few words from time to time.

As a result, after a while, the little girl couldn't resist it and hurriedly said goodbye.

When the others left, Tao Xianlin lazily slumped to the side and sat on the side, smoking a cigarette, just in his mouth.

Although he doesn't pay much attention to his image in front of students, he also refuses to smoke, especially in front of non-smoking students.

Fang Ruohua smiled: "This girl doesn't look like she studies mathematics and physics. ”

"Uh, English major, don't worry, Li Li, this kid can't get in your way, she participates in some small projects for students outside of us, it's just a gangster qualification, it's just good-looking."

Tao Xianlin explained two sentences, and Fang Ruohua didn't ask much, probably a related household.

There are many related households, both at home and abroad.

However, the face of the institute is very large, even if there are related users, it will not be too much, at least their current project will not be interfered with.

After a few words of gossip, Officer Xiao Sun, who was in the logistics management, came over sweatingly and said in a low voice: "Director Tao, just now Researcher Qi's father called and said that he couldn't contact her, and asked us if she was in the institute now?" ”

Tao Xianlin was stunned: "Xiao Qi? Did she take a leave of absence? ”

Director Sun's face was a little embarrassed, and he whispered, "Researcher Qi has been absent from work for three days......"

Tao Xianlin frowned and got up to see what was going on.

Fang Ruohua was a little surprised, in a research institute like this school, researchers only work overtime, and there are not many absences, after all, everyone cherishes their hard-won work, where is there a casual death?

As a result, in the afternoon, Researcher Qi's father and the research institute called the police together.

People are missing.

"Missing?"

Tao Xianlin couldn't accept such words for a while.

Don't look at the title of Xiao Xiaoqi, in fact, it is a thirty-nine-year-old man.

"A man who is almost forty years old, and he is not a beautiful girl, can't he be abducted, right?"

Moreover, he is just an ordinary researcher on the periphery, who has no access to particularly important research, and his family background is ordinary, so he has no value of being kidnapped.

Something happened, Tao Xianlin hurriedly found someone to inquire about the specific situation of this Xiao Qi.

After checking, I couldn't find half of the people who could tell where Xiao Qi might go.

"We don't know each other."

A group of sub-researchers frowned.

This is a research institute jointly established by Qingda and Yanda, there is no shortage of funds, there is no shortage of topics, usually everyone is very busy with work, and there are many researchers, and they are bored all day long doing their own things.

The researcher surnamed Qi is inconspicuous, not many people pay attention to him, there are not many achievements, and like thousands of researchers at the most basic level, he is just engaged in the work that any researcher who has worked in the institute for more than two years can do.

Judging from the attendance, he used to be conscientious, and there were no habits such as absenteeism and tardiness.

But after leaving three days ago, he didn't go home.

Because there used to be overtime work, he didn't go home for a day or two, and his father didn't care about an adult man, but after three days, he couldn't get through the phone and couldn't find anyone, so the old father was a little worried and found his unit directly.

The police came to investigate, checked the man's computer, and pulled out an electronic invitation letter.

The origin of the invitation is unknown, and there is only one line written on it - leaving this filthy earthly world, the boundless sea of suffering, we will walk together towards eternal peace.

At first, the police didn't care, but now these young people, middle school and second teenagers, all like to be different, maybe this is some kind of anime-obsessed otaku organization to hold a party.

As a result, someone died in S City, and it was accidentally discovered that the disappearance case was a bit complicated.

It's not just this researcher Qi who is missing. This has happened in several major cities across the country, and more than a dozen people have been victimized.

Not only is there a large number of people, but also a wide range of regions.

Recently, at an intersection in S City, the body of a missing person appeared.

At this time, the police could not afford not to ignore it, and after a short time, they formed a special task force and transferred police officers from all over the country to join.

On the research institute's side, Qi Xiong, a researcher surnamed Qi, is considered to be the one who has disappeared recently, and the focus of the police investigation is naturally on him.

Although this serious thing happened, the research did not stop.

The institute has become very concerned about the safety of important experts and researchers such as Professor Brown, not only strengthening the security work and strengthening the access control, but also deliberately moving Brown, Fang Ruohua and others from the hotel back to the family area of the institute.

Fortunately, their current tasks are relatively heavy, and they don't have the heart to go out to play, so they don't have to worry about going out to keep up with several bodyguards, which is inconvenient.

"What are you doing, concentrate on your job!"

Brown turned his head and saw his two students muttering together, not knowing where to fly, and his always gentle face couldn't help but sink.

"There's time to gossip and don't have time to write papers, do you?"

The two students smiled and hurriedly went back to work.

Fang Ruohua raised his eyebrows, it seems that this kind of thing has no impact on the work.

At least the big guys are a little distracted.

If you want to be completely distracted, it is indeed a bit difficult for a strong person, the police people are in and out of the research institute, all kinds of discussions are continuous, and the explanations are also chaotic, not to mention those young researchers, even some old people, are inevitably a little worried.

Fang Ruohua is okay, maybe it's her own 'ill-fated', it's easier to accept all kinds of accidents that suddenly appear in life, but now she only doesn't know anyone, barely a colleague who just worked with her is missing, and she doesn't feel much, as for adding security personnel...... She didn't feel any difference at all, so her work was still relatively normal.

"Ruohua? Have you returned home? ”

As soon as Fang Ruohua turned around, she saw Tao Leng looking at her in special surprise, and couldn't help but smile, and suddenly, "You guys are here for the disappearance case?" ”

"No, the boss took me into the task force to run errands."

Tao Leng sighed, "Have pity on me...... Never mind. ”

Fang Ruohua remembered that when he contacted Xiao Twist a few days ago, he heard that Tao Leng had a boyfriend, this time he was very serious, the other party was a physical education teacher who knew a little about judo, and he met Tao Leng in the judo gym.

It seems that the two of them just have to mix oil in honey at this time, and now that Tao Leng is on a business trip, he is naturally reluctant to let his boyfriend go.

However...... "If you can see Ruohua, if you don't see your boyfriend, you won't see it." ”

Xiao Twist poked in the back and snorted: "It's been recorded, go back and listen to your physical education teacher." ”

"I have to tell him that if you are with Ruohua, you can live faster."

As he spoke, Xu Mo came out of the elevator opposite, although his clothes were not famous brands, they also lined him with a straight figure, very elite, and extremely capable.

"Little twist, release it for everyone to see."

Xu Mo directly pulled Fang Ruohua into the conference room, he is a little superstitious now, he always thinks that classmate Fang is his lucky star and mascot, and he has no objection to revealing the case to her.

While fiddling with the machine, Xiao Twist briefly introduced Qi Xiong's situation.

"Qi Xiong, 39 years old, graduated from Yenching University of Science and Technology, specializing in polymer materials, Ph.D., unmarried, uh, and has no girlfriend, he has a crush on a primary school girl in the English Department of the same school for five years, and his hobbies seem to have nothing else but the Internet."

At this point, a web page has appeared on the projector screen.

Fang Ruohua looked at it and couldn't help but be startled: "Suicide forum? ”

It's full of all sorts of rhetoric, all about suicide.

Various suicide scenarios.

All kinds of depressed emotions are rife in the meantime.

At first glance, this kind of forum will almost feel that life is tiring and difficult, and it is painful to do it.

Tao Leng frowned: "...... These little young people really don't know what to say, but it's a good day, what's the trouble! ”

Still suicidal?

She is as tired as a dead dog every day, trying to find a partner, from her father to her grandfather, and she is dragging her feet vigorously.

Then her mother and her grandmother vigorously encouraged her to go on a blind date.

She doesn't mind blind dates, but can she not be so frequent, and don't be a crooked melon and cracked dates in front of her?

Also, I have to work overtime every day, and if I have a case, I don't get off work, and I can't pick the door, and I am the daughter of a deputy director, and I work for half a day either to eat instant noodles, or to eat fast food that can be stopped for ten yuan. 、

Shouldn't you mix a meal of crayfish from time to time to be worthy of your own efforts?

Years of insomnia and lack of sleep, making her skin rough, as a woman, she didn't even want to commit suicide if she couldn't even keep her beauty, what kind of fuss are these idlers!

"You're a rough nerve, you don't understand."

Xiao Mahua sighed, "There are a large number of people who actually have suicidal thoughts of self-harm, and the smarter the person, the more likely they are to have suicidal tendencies." ”

"Because people live in the world, no matter what kind of living environment they are in, it is difficult for him not to encounter difficult things at all, and it is impossible for him to be happy every day.

"Especially in this society now, everyone is under a lot of pressure, those who have money may be less worried, but they must also be worried, as for those who have no money, they are even more worried, worrying about money, housing, cars, wives, and children."

"The current situation of the number of depressed patients increasing year by year does not show this, hey, it is not unusual to have such a forum."

Xiao Twist sighed.

Xu Mo slapped him in the face and told him to go to work: "Investigate all the comments of the missing people, see what they all read, everyone has to check, starting with Qi Xiong, who disappeared recently." ”

Xiao Mahua hurriedly shrank her head and went back to work.

Judging from the information obtained so far, it seems that it is an organized suicide case.

Xu Mo stood up and was about to leave, when a stack of photos fell out of his pocket.

Fang Ruohua glanced at it, and at a glance saw that these should be the victims who were blown up and disappeared found in S City.

The victim was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, neatly dressed, very bright and beautiful, with a ruddy face and a serene expression, holding a string of copper coins in her left hand and a very responsible wheel-like pattern engraved on her right hand, full of ritual.

Xu Mo lowered his head and picked up these photos, and since Fang Ruohua had seen it and was interested, he simply handed them over.

"A student in No. 1 Middle School, her parents refused to accept the fact that she was dead, and lived in the world where the child was thrown into the world every day, covering her child with a quilt every night, preparing three meals a day for her as usual, sending her to school, and buying fruits she liked to eat......"

Before Xu Mo finished speaking, Tao Leng's tears fell.

Fang Ruohua sighed: "How difficult it is to raise a child until she is in high school!" ”

As long as it is a normal and conscientious parent, raising a child until high school, it is more than half of the flesh and blood, the child is the heart and soul of the parents, and if there is a little damage, it is also digging the heart and lungs.

A good child says it's gone, who can accept it? Whoever becomes a parent has to go crazy.

Xu Mo sighed lightly: "Before this child's accident, let her father beat her, her academic performance has dropped badly recently, she likes to play games, skips school all day to go to the Internet café, her father was not in a good mood that day, and when he saw the report card she took back, he couldn't help but beat her, confiscated her mobile phone, confiscated her pocket money, and strengthened discipline, who would have thought ......"

"Who would have thought that just being a father's discipline and disciplining the child, he moved his hand a few times in a hurry, said a few angry words, and the child said no, no!"

Fang Ruohua didn't take this case very seriously, after all, they were all people she didn't know, but at this moment, she couldn't help but care more about Qi Xiong's situation.

Not to mention the dead people, even if it is an organized suicide, maybe not so fast, if the police find someone quickly enough, maybe Qi Xiong still has a chance of survival.

For a group of researchers working in the institute, Qi Xiong is a person with no sense of existence, and it is not much different from the background board, and most people's evaluation is that he works hard and hard, does not like to talk, and is a bit introverted or something.

But no one felt that he was any different before his disappearance.

Xu Mo and the others also called and asked about the flower that Qi Xiong had a crush on, and the other party only said that he and Qi Xiong were just classmates, not even friends, but they just nodded their heads.

The monitoring only monitored that Qi Xiong got off work three days ago, took a taxi to the southern suburbs, and got off on Jiefang Road.

The daily flow of people in the section of Jiefang Road is very large, the traffic extends in all directions, and there are many blind spots in the monitoring, as soon as you lose Qi Xiong's traces, you can no longer find him.

Although she is somewhat concerned about the case, Fang Ruohua can't spare much time to think about this every day, the work of the institute is very busy, and Professor Brown does treat her as a capable general, and he can't wait for her to stay in the laboratory every day from opening her eyes to closing her eyes.

On this day, Fang Ruohua was having a small meeting with Lin Zhe, and Tao Leng called - "Zhou Xiaoyu is missing." ”

Fang Ruohua: "......"