58. Missing persons
Recently, there seems to be an increase in missing person notices. She flipped through the magazines in the cafΓ© and found that in the past two weeks, there have been more missing person notices than ever on the Xizihu website, as well as in the magazines, and most of them were lost by children or the elderly, but during this time, many young men and women have disappeared. Could it be that these people collectively went on an expedition somewhere and were killed?
"Spike, what would you like to drink?" Tie Yirou asked her.
"Hmm...... Take the trouble to have a hot latte with whipped cream. She didn't look up.
"That...... Xiao Sui ......" Tie Yirou seemed to be a little swallowed.
"What's wrong?" Could it be that she is wearing her clothes backwards today, or is the corner of her mouth stained with the grains of rice she ate at noon?
"I heard you have a new relative?" Tie Yiran walked over at some point and said without any expression.
"Hey, Yiran, still on vacation?" She greeted.
Tie Yiran smiled, but the smile somehow didn't reach the bottom of his eyes.
"You're not going to believe it's really my relative, are you?" She said angrily.
"Is there any fake?" Tie Yiran asked rhetorically.
At this time, Tie Yirou walked out from behind the bar and said, "Aren't you still unsure?" β
She shrugged her shoulders and said, "He took me out for dinner last night and already told me that he was going to use that sapphire in my hand. However, I also promised to give him the gem, and I don't think I will come to trouble me again in the future. But something was wrong, after meeting Xuanyuan Yue just now and handing over the "Blood Mermaid" to him, she still felt a subtle uneasiness.
"But you've been frowning, okay? Is it reluctant to give up that gem? Tie Yirou asked.
"How can you be reluctant? If you don't want to, you won't hand it over so easily. I just thought, why keep treating me like a relative when he's already got what he wants? β
"That is, you still have what they want in you." Tie Yiran glanced at her and said.
"But my family doesn't have anything inherited from their ancestors." Both parents are orphans, and they don't know where their "ancestors" are! "Aside from the sapphire, I didn't get anything of value or unknown origin." Besides, she is a tourist and food article, and she has no channels to get information, let alone some unknown secrets - except for the existence of Bai Qi and Bai Fei. But if Xuanyuan Yue wanted to know Bai Qi Bai Fei's whereabouts, he must have known about their existence, then as long as he investigated the places she had been, she should be able to find out quickly, and at least she could get a lot of clues.
"Then it may not be a simple object." Tie Yiran stared at her.
"Not an item? What would that be? She scratched at her hair.
"Could it be that he is trying to find someone through you?" There seemed to be some kind of temptation in Tie Yiran's eyes, but what did he want to test?
"Find someone through me? Just kidding, right? Do I seem like a very broad person? She smiled dumbly, if she wants to say that she has a wide range of people, she must be inferior to Xiao Mo and other colleagues who run social news, right?
"This has no absolute relationship with whether the people are wide or narrow." Tie Yiran propped his head, "As long as you know the people who should know, it's enough." β
Sounds reasonable. "It's good that it's not because I'm a descendant of a prehistoric civilization who wants to find an opportunity to arrest me for research." She joked.
"Bang dang!"
"Yirou, knocked something over!" She saw that Tie Yirou knocked over the vase next to her, and the water in the vase spilled on the table but there was no response, so she had to rush to the bar and find a rag to wipe the table clean, "Yirou, I'm also a guest anyway, don't let me wipe the table." β
"Uh, sorry." Tie Yirou hurriedly took the rag in her hand, "I'll just come." β
It's strange, Yirou's reaction seems to be a little abnormal. "Are you alright?" She asked, a little worried.
"It's fine." Tie Yirou smiled, "I'll go make you coffee." β
Weird ...... She turned her head to look at Tie Yiran and asked, "Did I just say something bad?" β
"You say you're a descendant of a prehistoric civilization?" Tie Yiran looked at her suspiciously and said, "Really? β
"How so?" She smiled and waved her hand, "It was an aquarium owner jokingly. β
Tie Yiran touched his chin and thought about it, and said, "What a boss with rich associations and a sense of humor...... I want to meet him too, can you introduce me? β
"Huh?!" So suddenly? "It's not impossible, I have to ask his opinion...... "Bai Qi is a mermaid, and Tie Yiran is a scientific researcher - although he studies archaeology, he is also worried about whether Tie Yiran will also be interested in mermaids and take Bai Qi and them to study."
"Seems a little embarrassed?" Tie Yiran asked her with an eyebrow.
"Hmm...... He doesn't like to meet strangers casually......" she laughed dryly.
Tie Yiran stared at her for a few seconds before he smiled meaningfully, and said, "It's okay, I'll just talk about it, don't mind." With that, he walked over and patted her on the shoulder and walked into the staff room behind the bar.
She just said it so casually, why did the brother and sister react so abnormally? "Yirou, I was just joking casually, you and Yiran don't take it seriously." She sat down at the bar and looked at Tie Yirou who was making coffee. They seem to be quite sensitive to the "descendants of prehistoric civilizations".
"Hmm......" Tie Yirou regained her usual indifferent smile and nodded, "Even if it's true, from prehistory to the present, the bloodline has long been as light as boiled water." β
"That's it!" She deeply agrees with Tie Yirou's point of view.
"Haven't you been busy lately?" Tie Yirou expertly squeezed the cream and placed the coffee in front of her.
"Okay." She shrugged and said, "I think there have been a lot of missing person notices lately, maybe it's a series of kidnappings." It's such a mess, where do I dare to run around? β
"I didn't pay attention, and besides, what do those people have to do with me?" Tie Yirou smiled faintly, and seemed to be a little cold-blooded, "If one of the missing people is you, maybe I will pay attention to the news." β
"Phew! I won't be kidnapped and disappeared! "Crow's beak!" However, if it is a kidnapping, it seems that the family members did not receive a ransom call, so they reported the disappearance. "Will those people be deceived somewhere, and then their hearts, livers, spleens, lungs and kidneys will be cut off by organ traffickers? Tut-tut, it's scary just to think about it! At this time, her mobile phone rang, "Spike! Do you know where Zhong Yi went to?! It was the editor-in-chief's angry voice, and the eardrum almost piercedβ
"I don't know, no one answered his phone?" are all men in their thirties, so they won't get lost, right? "Maybe the phone is broken or stolen? What about the phone at home? β
"You think I haven't hit? His wife said he didn't come home at all! The editor-in-chief shouted on the other end of the phone, "Oh my God! He still has a bunch of manuscripts that he hasn't finished reviewing! Did he simply forget what the publication date was?! β
It's useless to yell at me! She rubbed her numb ears, she didn't expect the editor-in-chief's treble to be so strong. "Are you in such a hurry? Maybe Zhong Yi just went to drink and eat with his friends, but he didn't find that his phone was out of battery. "Even if you don't really come home, there's nothing to be so surprised, right? At most, it's an affair - but it's Zhong Yi's wife, not the editor-in-chief, who should be nervous, right?
"The problem is that he said he was going to talk to you about the final revision of the draft of this episode of the detective series, and you said you didn't know where he was?" The sound of the editor-in-chief grinding his teeth can be heard on the phone.
"But I didn't see him." Heck, Zhong Yi won't also become one of the protagonists of the serial disappearances, right? If it is, it's troublesome.