The performance at the party went very smoothly, and after playing the piano piece, Fang Nuo left, she ran to the archives, and easily turned to the archives of Lu Yao's session.

took pictures of the information about Lu Yao's classmates.

Mu Lan, Cheng Xiaoya, Ge Zheng. These three people were very close to Lu Yao before her death.

But Cheng Xiaoya fell ill and died five years ago, and Ge Zheng University was admitted to J City and stayed there to settle.

Only Mu Lan should still be in the city, and according to the home address on the file, Fang Nuo found Mu Lan's home.

A very old-looking residential building, only three stories high, surrounded by electrical wiring and a foul smell of garbage piled on the side of the road.

"Is Mu Lan's home here?" Fang Nuo climbed the stairs in confusion and knocked on the door of a house.

After a while, someone answered the door, "Who is it?" The old hoarse voice came from behind the door, and the door creaked open, and a wrinkled face poked out of the door, staring at Fang Nuo outside the door with cloudy pupils.

"I.... I...... Is Mu Lan here? Fang Nuo stammered.

"Mu Lan? Scold! Are you looking for her? The old lady pulled at the hoarse throat.

"Ah, yes, I'd like to ask her something." The more Fang Nuo spoke, the quieter he became, and the old lady was a little more frightened.

"I'm her grandmother, she doesn't live here anymore." The old lady wanted to close the door.

"Wait, where does she live now?" Fang Nuo hurriedly stopped the old lady from closing the door.

"I don't know, you can go to West Street and ask!" After saying that, he slammed the door shut.

"Grandma doesn't know where her granddaughter lives? Does this sound like a word? Fang Nuo muttered.

West Street? West Street is a famous ghost street, notoriously dirty and messy, if it weren't for daytime, Fang Nuo would never dare to come here alone.

"Next time, I'll be sure to bring Xiao Ran along." Fang Nuo walked on the deserted street, how could he not even have someone to ask for directions?

Suddenly, she noticed that there was a shop open not far in front of her, so she ran over in a hurry.

It's a shroud shop, and the outside of the store is full of fake flowers and paper figures. Fang Nuo was about to give up and ask, but he turned around and looked at the empty street, so he gritted his teeth and walked in.

There was no one in front of the counter, "Is there anyone, please?" Fang Nuo cautiously walked inside.

Suddenly, a paper figure staggered up from the counter, and pounced on Fang Nuo with teeth and claws.

"Ahh!!h Screams pierced the roof.

"What's it called, it's scared to death." The paper figure poked his head out and shouted impatiently.

"Ahh Fang Nuo was still panting unevenly, "It turned out to be a person, scared, scared me to death." ”

"You're still scaring me!" The young man behind the paper figure said impatiently, "What to buy?!"

"Well, I—" Fang Nuo said embarrassedly, "I'll ask for directions."

"Asking for directions?" The young man kicked the paper figure aside, sat down in his chair and lit a cigarette, "What way?" ”

"This is West Street, isn't it?" Fang Nuo asked.

"You don't have eyes? Can't you see the two big characters on the plaque on the side of the street? The young man spat out the smoke ring and said impatiently.

"Excuse me, do you know that there is a man named Mu Lan around here?" Fang Nuo asked without giving up.

"Dead? I don't know if I'm not dead. The young man stood up with a cigarette in his mouth and began to arrange the wreaths, "I only do the business of the dead," said Fang Nuo with a sly smile. ”

"Thank you." Fang Nuo smiled awkwardly and turned to walk to the door.

"Little girl." The voice of a young man sounded behind him: "Don't wander around here, don't come during the day, and don't come at night." ”

"Why?" Fang Nuo walked to the door and asked back.

"There's already a dark shadow behind you, I'm afraid it will be bad for you." The young man said leisurely.

"Hmph, you know how to scare people." Fang Nuo turned his head and left, "Do you want me to book a coffin here in advance so that I can take care of your business." ”

Fang Nuo muttered as he walked: "It's still a dark shadow, who are you fooling?" Profiteer! ”

Fang Nuo turned a corner and walked into a dilapidated neighborhood that didn't even have a gate.

The neighborhood is also very quiet, but you can see a few people more or less.

Not far away, the three old men were playing chess in the pavilion, and Fang Nuo walked towards them, finally seeing a normal person.

Walking into the pavilion, the two masters were playing chess, and one stood aside and watched the game seriously.

"I'm sorry." Fang Nuo asked first.

The old man who was standing and watching the chess turned around and asked, "What's the matter, little girl?" ”

"I want to ask, is there a woman named Mu Lan in this community?"

"Mu Lan?" The old man said, "Is it the daughter of the Mu family?" ”

"You only have one family here, right?" Fang Nuo seemed to see hope.

"It should be, the Mu family has two daughters, the younger daughter died a few years ago, and now there is an eldest daughter left, but I don't know which one is called Mu Lan."

"Dead one?" Fang Nuo gasped, "Do you know where her family lives?"

"Keep walking ahead, the innermost building, the middle door, I don't know how many floors." The old man who played chess didn't raise his head.

Seeing that the other two old men didn't mean to talk, Fang Nuo thanked him and left.

"But if you want to find someone, it's a lot of effort, if Lu Yao is a person, I will definitely knock her hard for a few meals."

Fang Nuo walked downstairs and looked at the door in the middle, should I knock layer by layer? Don't people think I'm a thief?

Just as he was about to walk in, a woman walked out wrapped in a windbreaker, carrying a garbage bag in her hand, and her face was very pale.

"Hello." Fang Nuo asked behind the woman, "May I ask if there is a person named Mu Lan in your unit?" ”

"Mu Lan?" The woman suddenly turned around, startling Fang Nuo.

"What are you looking for Mu Lan for?!"

"Ah, do you know her?" Fang Nuo asked.

"Looking for Mu Lan? Hahaha! The woman burst out laughing.

Intuition told Fang Nuo that this woman was not in good spirits.

"Who are you? Her friends? Mu Lan has been dead for several years, would you not know? ”

"Mu Lan, it's dead!!" Fang Nuo opened his mouth wide, what was going on.

"Yes, after three years of death, he fell off the roof of our house." The woman's eyes widened suddenly, and she looked at the roof.

"Lan'er, Lan'er, don't jump, don't jump." She suddenly shouted loudly and rushed up the stairs.

Fang Nuo also looked at the top of the building, but he didn't see half a figure, thinking that this woman was afraid that she was sick.

So he hurriedly chased after her and hugged her, and the two couldn't help tearing together in the corridor.

The two of them were arguing.

"Mom, what's going on?" Suddenly, there was another person at the door of the building, and he ran to this side.

"Mom, Mom, you're sick again." The girl hugged the woman behind her and shouted loudly.

"Mu Lan? Mu Lan? The woman's eyes suddenly returned to clarity. Gradually, the struggle stopped.

"Mom, I'm Mu Qing, I'm Mu Qing." The girl said anxiously, "Take a good look at me." ”

"Qing'er, Qing'er." The woman finally came to her senses, "You're back?" ”

Seeing this, Fang Nuo quickly let go of the hand that was holding the woman.

The girl in front of her is very similar to Mu Lan in the graduation photo, but there is a mole in the corner of her eye, she should be Mu Lan's sister.

"Who are you?" Mu Qing asked suspiciously, with a defensive look on his face.

"She's Mu Lan's friend, tell her to come up and sit down." The woman's eyes began to become cloudy again.

"Lan'er will be back in a while, you wait first."

"Mom, you go home first, I have something to say to her." Seeing that the woman was about to get sick again, Mu Qing said to her gently.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it for too long, snub the guests." The woman smiled and hummed a song and went upstairs.

Hearing the sound of his mother closing the door, Mu Qingcai asked.

"What are you looking for Mu Lan?"

"I, I wanted to ask her about more than ten years ago, but I didn't expect..." Fang Nuo looked embarrassed.

"My sister has been dead for three years, there's nothing you want to know here, don't come again." Mu Qing had a send-off expression on his face.

"Can I know how she died?" Fang Nuo asked cautiously, for fear that he would be beaten in the next second.

"Suicide." Mu Qing coldly spit out two words in his mouth, and left Xia Nuo to go upstairs alone.

"Suicide, her mother also said just now, Mu Lan jumped from the roof of their house."

"Mu Lan is dead, Cheng Xiaoya is also dead, and now only the man named Ge Zheng is left."

Fang Nuo left with a question in his head, and after asking for directions just now, the shroud shop didn't pay much attention.

The young owner of the shroud shop leaned against the door fiddling with the paper figure, and looked up: "Ho, it's only been a while, and there is a black shadow behind this girl, which is really a hot item." ”

The day before the exam, Fang Nuo went to the piano room to find Lu Yao, but he didn't wait for her, and he didn't know where to go to play. Fang Nuo complained, it seems that he can only wait for the exam to be finished.

The day after the exam, Fang Nuo quietly assigned the key of the old janitor and sneaked into the school while he was napping at noon.

"Lu Yao! I've delayed my pleasant vacation for you, and if you don't show up again, will you be right? Fang Nuo pushed open the door to the piano room.

Lu Yao was sitting by the back door, the place furthest from the sun.

"I said, auntie, you finally appeared." Fang Nuo walked over, "I waited for you here the day before yesterday for the afternoon. ”

"I had something yesterday." Lu Yao smiled embarrassedly.

"What can you do, you can't even get out of school." Fang Nuo thought it was strange.

"Secret." Lu Yao said.

"Cut, it can't be a date." Fang Nuo sat down across from her.

"What's the matter?" Lu Yao diverted the topic.

"Oh, yes, yes, I went to find Mu Lan, the same I told you, your former good friend."

"Hmm." Lu Yao's face was expressionless.

"She's dead." Fang Nuo said: "I committed suicide by jumping off a building just three years ago. ”

"Suicide?"

"Well, her mom is now irritated to be delirious, one will be normal and the other will be abnormal."

Lu Yao frowned thoughtfully.

"Also, you have a friend named Cheng Xiaoya, who died of illness 5 years ago, but I don't know what kind of disease it is." Fang Nuo said.

"You said that the death of the two of them, will it have anything to do with it?"

"What does it matter if one is sick and the other is suicidal?" Lu Yao sighed.

"Now there are fewer and fewer clues."

"It's okay, don't be discouraged, you don't have a good friend named Ge Zheng, it's just that he is too far away now, Fang Nuo took out a snack from his bag. After the college entrance examination, I told my mother that I was going to travel to J City, and by the way, I would see if I could find him. ”

"Funoch." Lu Yao opened his mouth and said, "If there is a next life, I will definitely repay you." ”

"Hey, you have to make me a cow, a horse, and a maid in the next life, otherwise, I will haunt you as a ghost." Fang Nuo took a bite of potato chips.

Lu Yao smiled and nodded.

"I still have something to do, so I'll go first, I'm afraid that the old guard will patrol me as a thief for a while, and I'll come back to you in a few days." Fang Nuo put the snack back in his bag and slurred as he stuffed potato chips into his mouth.

"I think Mu Lan's sister is very suspicious, I want to investigate, if you see the door of the piano room open one day, it's me, remember to come to me."

Fang Nuo smiled mysteriously, always feeling that he had been doing something big recently, with a sense of mission.

"Fang Nuo, thank you so much." Lu Yao wanted to hug Fang Nuo very much, but she couldn't.

"What's polite, anyway, you still have to repay me in the next life." Fang Nuo winked mischievously.

"Let's go first!" After saying that, he left in style.

Lu Yao sighed softly and nodded.

Fang Nuo bent down and sneaked away from the school, and when she passed the gate, she suddenly felt someone call her name, she looked back and found that there was no one behind her. Could it be that I have hallucinated after investigating too many cases recently?

Fang Nuo shook his head, secretly opened the door and slipped out under the nose of the doorman.

Lu Yao stood by the window and wanted to watch Fang Nuo leave, but suddenly found that there seemed to be two black shadows pasted behind Fang Nuo, and she couldn't see what they were, like a black fog on her back.

Fang Nuo, Lu Yao shouted her name anxiously. Fang Nuo stood and looked back, not seeing her. When Lu Yao avoided the sunlight and chased to the door, Fang Nuo had already left, and Lu Yao was blocked by the enchantment on the gate.

Looking at Fang Nuo's back, which had already walked away, Lu Yao suddenly had a bad premonition.