Chapter 20 Chess and Card Room

At the time of the accident, only girl E lived alone in that house, and the Taiwanese boy happened to go back to Canada to see his grandfather. Since both of them often skip classes, do not participate in group activities, and do not listen to honest parents, the teachers, classmates and parents around them have become very numb to their habitual absences or disappearances, and no one will deliberately ask them about their whereabouts.

According to the Taiwanese boy, when he first arrived in Canada, he was able to video chat with the girl all the time, and then the girl said that her parents urged her to go to class, so she planned to go out and hide for two days, and then the two lost contact. The Taiwanese boy thought that the girl E was protesting against his parents by playing missing, so he didn't care about her disappearance, until the boy returned to China a week later, and found that he couldn't find the girl E anywhere, so he panicked and guessed that something happened to his girlfriend, so he hurriedly called the police.

Unfortunately, except for her boyfriend, no one believes in the disappearance of girl E, including her biological parents. When the police told them the news that their daughter had disappeared, her parents were calm and persuaded the police not to worry, saying that they would definitely be able to go home when their daughter spent all the money. Therefore, no one knows the specific time and place of the disappearance of the girl E.

The next disappearance of the girl is even more bizarre, because this disappearance involves not one person, but four people, four girls. That is to say, in the new university town of Wudu, there is a female dormitory that has disappeared collectively, but why no parents and teachers have investigated this matter, why there is no media to report this matter, and why no classmates have discussed this matter, the reasons are also very revealing.

This women's dormitory belongs to the Wudu Academy of Fine Arts, and the four girls are all juniors in the oil painting department, and unlike the other missing girls, these four girls are all part-time students, which is commonly referred to as students of the Chengjiao College. The social relationship between four-person girls is more complex than that of ordinary full-time students, and the scope of activities will be wider than that of ordinary full-time students.

For example, they will often go to galleries, convention and exhibition centers, private museums and other places in the foggy city, and at the same time, they will also work part-time jobs, such as gallery sales, convention and exhibition center customer service, mannequins, etc. In fact, the disappearance of these four girls is not together, but the cause of the disappearance is the same thing.

The first girl to go missing was the eldest in their dormitory, the eldest girl. In order to earn more money, she worked part-time outside the school and worked as a mannequin for a gallery for a long time. I heard from other students that although the boss is nominally a mannequin of the gallery, in fact, he has long been the underground lover of the gallery owner. This reason also explains the behavior of the boss who is often absent from school, and the bed in her dormitory is just a decoration, and she rarely sleeps on it.

Although the boss of the dormitory has been away from school for a long time and has not spent the night in the dormitory for a long time, this does not affect the relationship between the four girls in the dormitory, not to mention that the four of them are still fellow villagers. They are all from Chengdu, Sichuan, and they are all beautiful southern girls, and their feelings are naturally surprisingly good. The four of them often eat hot pot together, chat, and go out to play, which can be said to be inseparable, and they also have a common hobby that is surprising, that is, to go to the chess and card room in the residential building outside the university town to play mahjong.

I have always heard that Sichuan people love to play mahjong, but among female college students, there are still a few girls who can go to the chess and card room to play mahjong so much. Speaking of the disappearance of the boss, it is natural to talk about the mahjong they love to play and the chess and card room, perhaps it is that strange thing that predicts the tragedy of the four girls in the future.

At that time, it was the ghost month of the year before the school anniversary, and the four girls went to the chess and card room to play cards together after class in the afternoon. The chess and card room they frequented was in a residential building outside the southeast gate of Wudu's new university town, only twenty minutes away from their dormitory. Usually, the people who go to the chess and card room to play cards are retired old men and old ladies nearby, or idle unemployed people, full-time mothers and the like.

In the chess and card room, it is rare to see young and beautiful female college students, so the owners and regulars of the chess and card room have a particularly deep memory of these four girls. They said that usually the four girls come together, and they all play their own and never play cards with other people. The eldest of the four girls, the girl known as the eldest is the most outgoing and lively, often greeting and chatting with other people in the chess and card room, while the other three girls are much more shy and rarely take the initiative to talk to others.

In those days, Halloween was approaching, and the owner of the chess and card room was very superstitious and insisted on closing at 5 p.m. every day, which made those who often come to play cards very unhappy, especially those who lost money and needed to turn over the card fans. It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when the four girls got out of class that day, and when they arrived at the chess and card room, they had just played for a while, and the boss urged everyone to pack up their things and prepare to close the door and go home.

The four girls quit when they heard this, they felt that there was too little time to play mahjong, and the activity fee paid when they followed up the door was not proportional, so they quarreled with the boss. At this time, the other guests who lost money and were in trouble also quarreled, and the boss saw that the regulars were very unhappy, and he did not want to withdraw the money put in his wallet, so he had to agree to everyone to play for two more hours, and this game was a big game.

Anyone who has played mahjong knows that the more you play, the more addictive you are, and the more you don't let it play, the more you want to play, otherwise no one will lose and ruin your family. And the four girls, it was in this crazy state at that time. They and the others pestered the boss and insisted on playing round and round. In order to have a good time, after everyone else left, they also stuffed the boss with an extra 100 yuan for the activity, just to have fun.

By the time they started to play the last round of mahjong, the clock in the chess and card room had already pointed to 12 o'clock in the morning, which meant that it was Halloween. They are students of Chengjiao College, and there is no such thing as lights out and closing the door in the dormitory, so they are not nervous about the passage of time at all, but the owner of the chess and card room, and the whole person is anxious.

He paced back and forth in the chess and card room and rubbed his hands, and begged the four girls to tell their grandfather and grandmother: Today is Halloween, and something will happen if you play so late! Let's go back to school! The girls disagreed with his words, saying that if the boss was willing to return the money, they would leave. The boss of the money fan naturally refused to return the extra 100 yuan, so the four girls continued to play cards, and laughed at the boss: The boss is calculating other people's money by promoting feudal superstition.

Who would have expected that something would happen to the four girls while talking and laughing.