In Ouyang's ancient mansion, Dong Muya and Min Entong have a new research object, and the mysterious figure of Madame Lan has aroused their great interest. So one big and one urinated completely immersed in the underground database, to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat.

Xia Qiu helped them prepare dinner alone, neither the two of them came up, nor did Ouyang Xiaoleng appear, and was about to go to the Yongchuan Forest to look for him, but saw his figure swoop down outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room.

She opened the window for him from the inside, stared at him for a long time, and asked, "What is that girl?" ”

"Hehe, out of thin air, there is an extra sister, she said that her father and my mother are brother and sister." Ouyang Xiaoleng responded to her. In fact, the moment he entered the living room, his sensitive nose smelled the aroma of the food, guessing that it must have been made by Xia Qiu, and he felt warm in his heart.

"Oh?" Although Xia Qiu thought that this was really an unexpected development, she still had some questions, "Why did she choose to appear at this time, why didn't she come to recognize you before?" ”

"She didn't come to meet me, but she wanted me to help her find out what happened to her father, who she said had returned to China alone many years ago and started investigating the cause of my mother's death, only to lose contact with her shortly after." Ouyang Xiaoleng repeated what Ran Mingzhu told him to Xia Qiu.

"Why hasn't anyone ever mentioned that you had an uncle? Does Momiji know these things? The more Xia Qiu listened, the more bizarre he felt.

"I also think it's strange, and it's still uncertain whether the so-called Ran Mingzhu is true or not." Ouyang Xiaoleng responded.

"Go ask Momiji, if what she says is true, will you help her?" Xia Qiu continued to ask.

Ouyang Xiaoleng's eyes suddenly revealed a trace of loneliness, and he replied faintly: "My mother cut off contact with her family in order to unite with my father, and I still know about this. Their marriage was not recognized, and the family had never asked me about me, and I didn't belong to that family at all, so I didn't want to have anything to do with them. ”

"Well, I can understand. But don't you think his disappearance may have something to do with Qingyun? Xia Qiu felt distressed by the loss under Ouyang Xiao's cold and frozen appearance.

"Maybe ......"

Ouyang Xiaoleng had long thought of this possibility, but Ran Mingzhu's aggressiveness reminded him of the situation when the entire family isolated his mother at that time. He didn't want to have too much contact with the people who had hurt her, that family was incompatible with demons as a family of demon hunters, so why did he bother to worry about himself?

Xia Qiu was about to continue chatting with Ouyang Xiaoleng, but the mobile phone in his pocket rang. She took out her mobile phone and saw that the screen was showing an unfamiliar number, and when she picked it up, it was a girl's voice on the other side.

"Hey, is it Xia Qiu?"

"You are?"

"Ran Mingzhu, please come to me at No. 53 Pufang Street, I have something I want to show you."

"What?"

Xia Qiu was just about to ask her what she was going to show herself, but the other party hung up the phone.

"I told her not to involve you, but she's going to do it against me." Ouyang Xiaoleng was unhappy in his heart, and his face became even colder.

"I still want to see what her purpose is, and I'm familiar with the place she said anyway." Xia Qiu didn't worry about his safety at all.

"I thought you would say that, I'll go with you, and she won't be able to play any tricks." After Ouyang Xiaoleng finished speaking, he glanced in the direction of the restaurant.

"Are you hungry?" Xia Qiu asked him with a smile.

"Hmm!" Ouyang Xiaoleng responded. In fact, he didn't have any hunger, but he didn't know why he wanted to eat it immediately when he thought that it was Xia Qiu's cooking.

So after the two of them had a simple meal, they walked towards the place agreed with Ran Mingzhu. They arrived at their destination, No. 53 Po Fong Street, a four-storey apartment building that was a bit out of tune with the Chinese style of the whole street.

Ran Mingzhu was standing at the door of the apartment, she seemed to have expected that Ouyang Xiaoleng would follow Xia Qiu to the appointment, so she was not surprised by his appearance.

After nodding to the two of them, she said, "Come in with me!" ”

"Wait, what is this place?" Ouyang Xiao asked coldly.

"Isn't it clearly written? Tulip Apartments. Ran Mingzhu pointed in the direction of the top of the apartment door, and then continued a little impatiently, "Don't ask so much, you'll know when you enter." ”

As soon as I entered the Tulip Apartment, Xia Qiu was attracted by the huge crystal chandelier overhead, which was a little too gorgeous in this not too wide lobby. The man standing at the front desk had gray hair, white ruddy and energetic, he was dressed in a white shirt, a black vest, a black suit and trousers neatly ironed out of the trouser line, and a small black bow tie.

"Is there anything I can do to help you, this young lady?" He asked Ran Mingzhu politely.

"My name is Ran Mingzhu, and I've called before!" Ran Mingzhu replied bluntly.

"I remember, you're here to get that diary?" The apartment manager continued to ask.

"Exactly!" Ran Mingzhu nodded.

"Wait a minute, I may need you to show a valid ID to prove your identity and relationship with the guest who was staying at the time." The apartment manager is quite conscientious and responsible.

Ran Mingzhu took out a passport from her pocket, the passport was impressively written Japan, and there was a certificate of the father-daughter relationship between her and Ran Tianyou in the passport. She handed her passport and certificate to the front desk of the apartment, and the man examined it carefully, then lowered his head and opened a drawer behind the front desk, and took out an old diary from it, and handed it back along with her passport and certificate.

Then he asked, "Please take this away, do you need anything else?" ”

"Were you here when my father moved in?" Ran Mingzhu always felt that people who were so meticulous about their work might be able to recall some details at that time.

"Yes, I have been running this apartment since I inherited this old house more than 30 years ago, and I have been managing it myself."

"Do you remember any of what happened?"

"Your father is an impressive man, and I have the ability to always remember the faces of the guests I have met, so I can still remember his appearance now."

"Really? Is there anything you care about? ”

"He was in a hurry when he left the apartment that day, but he gave me the diary, and then something strange happened. First of all, I was pretty sure he didn't come home that night, but the next day when the cleaner helped him clean his room, he found that all his belongings were gone. Your father had already paid for the three-month bill, so I didn't think much of it at the time, just thinking that he might have come back that night. The manager of the apartment suddenly remembered something when he said this, "That's right! ”

He flipped through his notepad, then took out a bunch of keys to open the money drawer, and counted out three old hundred-dollar bills from the bottom and handed them to Ran Mingzhu.

Ran Mingzhu asked suspiciously, "This is?" ”

"At that time, the monthly room fee was 120 yuan, which was extra money, and I kept it for him!"

"Thank you!" Ran Mingzhu said after taking them.

It's hard to imagine that after such a long time, this administrator will still keep a diary given to him by his father at that time, and the extra hundreds of yuan, which has to make Xia Qiu sincerely admire this old man. But at the same time, she was very interested in what exactly was recorded in this diary.

Leaving the Tulip Apartment, Ran Mingzhu proposes to find a place to check the diary together. At this time, Ouyang Xiaoleng was also deeply attracted by this mysterious diary, and maybe he could learn information about Qingyun from it. The three of them walked to a café on the same street, and after ordering something casually, Ran Mingzhu couldn't wait to open the diary.

The cover of the diary is leather, with a snap button in the middle, it is of good quality, and after all these years the snap button is still very tight, and it makes a thud when it is opened, and although the inner pages of the diary are yellowed, the text on it is also clear and changeable.

The diary is mixed with Chinese, English, Japanese, Latin, and even many symbols that Xia Qiu can't understand, but Tianyou should have recorded all the information he investigated directly into this book.

"It's true that my father's handwriting is true, but it's not very attached to his habits." Ran Mingzhu looked down and muttered to herself.

"How?" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked.

"He does record all the very small information, but according to his habit, he will analyze and organize it the night he gets the information, but you see that the diary does not organize it." Ran Mingzhu pointed to the corner of the diary and explained.

"Maybe he was too busy those days, or maybe he encountered a ...... in the future" Ouyang Xiaoleng just wanted to continue, but was glanced at by Ran Mingzhu.

"I know my father," she affirmed, "and although he left me when I was very young, my mother told me a lot about him, and I could not be mistakenly about his habits." ”

"There's a lot of information in there." Xia Qiu sighed as he looked at the dense handwriting in the diary.

"Yes, I don't know what information is useful for a while." Ran Mingzhu was a little depressed in the face of the dense lines of small words.

"I know two people who might be able to help you figure out what this diary is going to do faster." Xia Qiu smiled at her.

"They're human?" Ran Mingzhu asked with his first reaction.

"Hmm!" Xia Qiu confirmed her guess.

"Demon Hunter? Intelligence traffickers? Ran Mingzhu continued to ask.

"No, they are the administrators of the repository of various records and books in the demon world and the human world." Xia Qiu explained to her.

"There are such strange people in the world, and I really should meet them."

"Hey, do you really want to take her to see Dong Muya and them?" Ouyang Xiaoleng was still a little suspicious of Ran Mingzhu's identity.

"If you believe us, give this diary to me and Xiao Leng first!" Xia Qiu did not directly answer Ouyang Xiaoleng's words, but turned to Ran Mingzhu and said.

She trusts her instincts very much, but Mingzhu will not be false about the pain and shock of her father's disappearance. Although Ouyang Xiaoleng always disguised his feelings, she understood that his heart's desire for family affection was no different from that of ordinary people, if by helping Ran Mingzhu, they could not only obtain useful information, but also reconcile him with his mother's family, then it would be a perfect ending.

"Here you go!"

Ran Mingzhu hesitated for a few seconds, but still closed the diary and chose to hand it over to Xia Qiu. Rather than suspect that they would keep the journal for themselves and exclude herself, she would rather choose to believe them this time.