When Gao Qian stepped out of the Infernal Realm, he happened to see an old lady wearing a red armband holding a broom to chase Shang Ke, and the red armband had two bright gold letters on it: On duty.

The old lady scolded while beating: "Call you a thief, I will kill you thief......"

Shang Ke, a big man of 1.8 meters, was beaten by a wilted old lady: "Misunderstanding, auntie, don't fight, it's really a misunderstanding." ”

This scene is not common, Gao Qian grinned for a while, and then stepped forward to dissuade: "Auntie, don't be tired of you, I have a lot of strength, I'll help you fight the ......" said and snatched the broom off half-persuasively and half-grabbing.

The old lady gasped, pounded her waist, and looked at Gao Qian suspiciously: "Where did you come from? Why didn't I see you just now? Are you all in a group?"

"Auntie, we are Zhang Wu's colleagues. Gao Qian said as he tossed the broom, which leaned impartially against the trash can in the corner of the building. But the old lady didn't see it.

"My name is Gao Qian, and I am the team leader in Zhang Qian's company," Gao Qian pointed to Shang Ke, who was rubbing his neck, and couldn't help but smile, "His name is Shang Ke, he is a programmer, and we and Zhang Wu are in the same department." ”

The old lady looked Gao Qian and Shang Ke up and down, Gao Qian looked like a company white-collar worker, and Shang Ke had the words computer otaku written all over his body. The old lady said suspiciously: "Since it's Zhang Wu's colleague, why are you sneaky?"

Gao Qian glanced at Shang Ke, who did not speak with an aggrieved expression.

Gao Qian raised a very decent smile: "Auntie, you probably read it wrong." That's the case, Zhang Wu hasn't come to work for a few days, and no one answers her mobile phone, so we are more worried about her, so we come over after work to have a look, but she doesn't seem to be at home?"

The old lady seemed to believe Gao Qian's words, and put away the look of a thief: "Sister-in-law Zhang went back to her hometown to get married, didn't she tell you?"

"Ah?" Gao Qian's monk Ke was a little stunned, marrying someone? Zhang Wu? Isn't Zhang Wu celibate? It's no problem to talk about friends, but she will never want to marry someone.

"Who did you listen to??" Gao Qian thought about the black lines he saw in the room just now, and felt that something was wrong, "Think about it again, is it true that Zhang Wu himself said to go back to his hometown to get married?"

"It's not that Zhang Wan said, it was one of her old watches who came to pick her up, and I bumped into her, and the old watch said it. Zhang Wu's child is shy, and she only lowered her head when she saw me, really, her daughter always has to marry when she grows up, what is there to be shy about. The old lady smiled and tapped her shoulder, and turned as she spoke, as if she was going to leave.

Gao Qian hurriedly took two steps and followed behind the old lady: "Auntie, you are in good health, are you still on duty at this age, what did you see that old watch look like that day?"

"What's wrong with my age?" the old lady turned to glare at the high dive.

"No, no," Gao Qian hurriedly remedied, "I mean, you look very young, you look like you're in your early forties at most, I'm not surprised why you didn't go to work." ”

"Hehe, you said that you are the leader of Zhang Wu, this leader is able to speak. The old lady turned her anger into joy, "This duty armband was issued to me when I first retired ten years ago, when I followed the watchman project in the community, and now I have long since quit." ”

The old lady stopped in front of another resident's house and said to Gao Qian: "I am Zhang Wu's landlord, and I live next door, if this big man hadn't made such a big noise just now, I wouldn't have bothered to meddle." ”

Gao Qian said twice: "That's that, auntie, how old is that sister-in-law's old watch?"

"Age, quite young, looks like you, height is about the same as you, as for appearance," the old lady frowned and thought for a moment, "and you are ...... too"

"It's not going to be the same," Shang Ke protested, "Auntie, think about it, can that old watch be as handsome as me?"

The old lady glanced at Shang Ke, and snorted heavily: "It's about the same as you," and looked at Gao Qian and smiled "kindly", "You are much more handsome than him, that old watch is quite dark, but he is very polite, and he speaks with a little accent, it should be from Xiangxi." ”

"Oh, so did he say what his name was, or when and how he left the city?"

"I didn't say that, but it had been a few days since I met them, and I guess I'd have returned to my hometown by now. ”

Gao Qian's heart sank, and he said with the last glimmer of hope: "Auntie, can you remember the day when you saw Zhang Wu and her old watch leave?"

"This ......," the old lady looked at the roof and thought for a while, "I remember that day the street was very lively, as if it was a foreigner's birthday festival." ”

Gao Qian understood that it was the second day after Zhang Wu held a devotional meeting...... He glanced at Shang Ke, and the two thanked the old lady and left the community.

Standing on the side of the road, Gao Qian pulled out his new cell phone and called Sherlock. Asked her to help find Zhang's whereabouts, Sherlock readily agreed. Gao Qian suggested that the man who took Zhang Wu might be from Xiangxi, and he felt Sherlock on the other end of the phone hesitate.

"What?" asked Gao Qian.

"It's nothing, this Zhang Wu is ...... with you"

"Colleagues in our group. Gao Qian said succinctly, "I'm her team leader. ”

"Well," Sherlock pondered his words, "I have a few similar cases on my side, and we've put a lot of effort into it, and I'll let you know as soon as I get any news." ”

"Wait, you said there was a similar case, did those girls find it later?"

Sherlock was silent for a few seconds: "Found it." ”

Gao Qian's heart suddenly hung up: "Are you alive?"

“...... High Div," Sherlock said slowly, "I'm not sure that there are any obvious similarities between this Zhang Wu's disappearance and the case in our hands. And you said that the suspect is from Xiangxi, this is the first time we know this news. ”

Gao Qian knew that Sherlock was trying to ease his heart, and he took a deep breath: "Then please leave it to you." Please notify me as soon as there is any news. Gao Qian hung up.

Shang Ke on the side stared at him gloomily: "Do you think something happened to Sister-in-law Zhang?"

Gao Qian sighed heavily: "I hope not, if it is, if only the two of us ...... that day"

If the two of them had gone to that spiritual retreat that day, maybe what happened to Zhang Wu wouldn't have happened.

Shang Ke was silent and did not answer.

Gao Qian looked at the traffic shuttling in the night, drawing bright lines in the ink. He vaguely felt that the seemingly chaotic spider silk in the dark seemed to be about to gather together, and what kind of things would these spider silk weave?