Chapter 3: The Impossible Disappearance

Pinching his fingers, the time of the case should have been more than a year after Shi Zuo opened the news website. Tracing back to the roots, it can be said that it started on September 19 a year ago.

On the morning of September 19th, a simple-looking Chinese female student came to a small town with a small population.

The female student's name is Lin Yushang, who transferred from Chenhui Middle School in Guangzhou, and it is said that her parents did business in China and let her study overseas alone.

She has an innocent and harmless baby face, which is not a particularly eye-catching beauty, but it is comfortable to look at. In addition, the character is extraordinarily likable.,In a limited time.,It's very liked by the residents in the town.。

There is no other reason for saying that she has a likable personality - it is nothing more than a simple and kind nature, lively and outgoing, and when she first settles down in the town, she will visit the neighbor's house from time to time, and occasionally help an old man who lives alone clean the yard.

This is certainly not easy for a student whose parents are doing business in China and studying abroad. Therefore, an old man named Susan once asked her about the trivial things in her life when Lin Yushang helped her clean the fallen leaves. Lin Yushang seemed to be quite unconcerned, and just told Susan lightly that he had met another girl who was also Chinese when he first came to town; As the so-called fellow villagers are very kind, with her helping to run errands and go through school procedures, there are many fewer difficulties in life.

The population of the town is quite limited, and the few Chinese female students are naturally quite easy to identify, and the investigators almost immediately concluded that the person who helped Lin Yushang run errands and arrange for the relevant check-in matters was Liu Yanshi, who was already studying at Baiqiao Middle School, and the archivist's statement also confirmed this.

In the near future, this became the most direct evidence when Liu Yanshi was suspected.

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Lin Yushang's life in the town is not too much recorded in the newspapers: first, she has not lived in the town for a long time and there is nothing to describe, and second, her life is really ordinary and there is no doubt.

The newspaper took only a few lines to brush over the limited fragments of her life, nothing more than that she was a housemaiden, who did not usually appear outside, and at most occasionally helped others with errands, cleaned the yard, or went to school to get some files—she rented an apartment after settling in, and the photos of the apartment could prove it: pink sheets, walls with pink and purple wallpaper, and a patched bear on the bed. No matter which way you look at it, it is no different from an ordinary girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.

Compared to the trivialities of her daily life, or her incredible disappearance, it is much more extraordinary.

She suddenly disappeared in broad daylight in front of thousands of spectators at a much-anticipated model show.

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Nicole's fashion show is the town's pride – and in a sense, one of the signs that the town is still connected to the bustling modern world.

Interestingly, this town is somehow far from the economic centre of Australia, and even further away from the world's fashion centre, but it is home to a famous fashion designer. With the idea of giving back to his hometown and boosting the fashion value of his hometown, this friend immediately organized the first Nicole Town fashion show, which lasted for nearly 20 years.

Of course, that's not the point of this case. For this case, there are only two notable features of this year's Nicole fashion show.

First, Nicole's fashion show was crowded, with nearly 3,000 spectators.

Second, in order to strictly manage the audience and ensure that the culprit can be caught after theft and other cases, the Nicole fashion show has only one entrance and exit for the audience.

Although there are some blind spots in the surveillance inside the show, it is almost impossible to let a large living person disappear out of thin air here: any attempt to commit violence against someone or abduct someone on the scene will undoubtedly cause an uproar in the crowd, which in turn will attract well-trained, armed security guards to the teeth; What's more, to ensure that suspicious people who commit crimes in the show are brought to justice, eight high-definition cameras are installed at the entrances and exits of the Nicole fashion show, so that no one will miss a single audience entering and leaving the show.

At 16:24 p.m. on September 30, Lin Yushang hummed a little song and jumped into the show, and eight cameras captured her appearance when she checked her ticket from different angles in the crowd. At 18:30, people began to leave the venue one after another, and at 19:58, the last spectator walked out of the venue; In the entire hour and forty-eight minutes of video, no trace of Lin Yushang was found.

At 23 o'clock that night, Anna went to the town police station to report the crime. Almost at the same time, the love scene of the fashion show was officially completed: no one was found stranded in the venue, except for the staff.

Under the gaze of 3,000 people, in an almost completely enclosed venue, Lin Yushang disappeared mysteriously as if he had evaporated into the air.

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The police spent three days reviewing the footage of the entrance and exit of the venue, and were disappointed to find nothing - due to the strict rules of the fashion show, spectators were not allowed to bring items with a volume of more than 500 milliliters of mineral water; In fact, the audience is also quite acquainted, and most of the water bottles that enter the venue are 300 milliliters. The video analyst was blindfolded, and he didn't see any sign of a large living person in a bottle of mineral water.

The interior of the runway was so impregnable that an ordinary girl could not leave without going through the entrance and exit - in fact, except for a window ten meters above the ground, there was only a chandelier and vents on the roof thirty meters above the ground.

The only thing that is more suspicious is the catwalk in the center of the show - as we all know, there is enough space under the catwalk, and it seems that it is not difficult for criminals to take advantage of the audience's inattention, to subdue or kill Lin Yushang at a fast enough speed, and then put it under the catwalk in the dark, just think about how to disassemble the catwalk and transport it out of the runway.

But the ensuing investigation almost completely shattered this only possibility. All the parts of the catwalk were stopped and inspected as soon as they were shipped out of the venue, and nothing suspicious was found – and more importantly, all the staff of the show were from a fashion company in Sydney, and although they had been to town before, they had nothing to do with the newcomer Lin Yushang. Let them go and attack Lin Yushang, unless they have water in their heads.

In this way, Liu Yanshi, as the only local friend Lin Yushang knew and the only object with a social record, was naturally the number one suspect. The day after Lin Yushang disappeared, he was thrown into the detention center and grounded.

During this period, what she said and did belonged entirely to the prison's encrypted files, which were not made public and could not be found.

But what is certain is that Liu Yanshi did not stay in prison for long. Two days later, she was released from prison by the police.

The day after Liu Yanshi was under strict custody in prison, a model who had participated in the catwalk was found missing.

In the same way that is silent and leaves no trace at all.