Chapter 204: Centenarians
Contact number: , those who provide clues, there will be a lot of thanks!
To the left of the missing person advertisement is a black-and-white photograph of the missing old man, holding what appears to be his grandson, smiling.
It seems that this is just a very ordinary missing person notice, and there is nothing special about it.
"Mr. Cheng, look here!"
I was staring at the missing person notice, Ah Kang suddenly beckoned to me, I walked forward quickly, followed Ah Kang's gaze, only to see another missing person notice, pasted on a telephone pole not far away.
"There's that too!"
"And me!"
"I also saw a ......"
Before I could take a closer look, Cortana nearby was quiet, and Lonnie and the others screamed.
More and more missing person notices have been found and plastered all over the streets and alleys of the county, and the missing people are all over 60 years old without exception!
Why are so many old people missing in this county, are they all abducted?
This is strange, there are abductors and traffickers of women, children, and even adult men, but it is the first time I have heard of the abduction and trafficking of so many elderly people!
After all, these old people are all old, and even if they are abducted, they won't be able to sell them for any money, right?
I suppressed the doubts in my heart and continued to look through the missing person notices, trying to find out what was inside.
Suddenly, I stopped in front of a missing person notice, this missing person, a centenarian!
The photo of the old man looks very weird, his chin is sharp, his two tentacles are turned outward, and his eyelids are drooping downward, how to say, at first glance, it looks like a big catfish!
I know that this view of mine is a bit inappropriate, after all, the old man is very old, and his physical appearance will change a lot, and the photo is black and white, which looks a little weird, which is understandable.
It's just that when I saw the way the old man disappeared under the missing person notice, I was stunned again, and the notice said that the old man disappeared when he was running outside his home at five o'clock in the morning!
A centenarian who gets up at five o'clock every morning and goes outside for a run?
No matter how you look at it, it feels a little weird, because this is not something that a normal old man can do!
I called Bai Ze and the others over, and after seeing this missing person notice, everyone has always believed that there must be an inside story in this.
So I decided to start the investigation with this missing centenarian and see if I could find any clues.
I took down the missing person notice, followed the phone number above, and dialed it.
The phone rang a dozen times in succession, but no one answered, and just as I was about to give up, suddenly, an old voice came from the other side.
"Who......"
I hurriedly said, "Hello, we saw the missing person notice you posted and want to provide you with some clues to facilitate the interview?" ”
"Oh, that's it......"
The old man's reaction seemed to be a little sluggish, and after a pause of a few seconds, she said, "Okay, come on, my family lives on the fifth floor of Unit 2, No. 8 Guangming Hutong......"
Hanging up the phone, I found a store, bought a local map, and found that the address mentioned by the old man was in the western suburbs of the county seat.
We walked all the way, and when we reached Guangming Hutong, it was getting late.
Guangming Hutong No. 8 is an old-fashioned residential building, and the dilapidated wall tiles are at least a few decades old.
The building has a total of five floors and three units, but the whole building is pitch black, and there is no light in sight, and it doesn't seem to be inhabited.
But since I'm here, I'm sure I'm going to find out, and when I came to the second unit in the dark, I walked with Bai Ze and Hu Zihua at the front, Xiao Na and Ah Kang stood in the middle, and Langnie and Jing Jing were in charge of the back of the hall.
The group walked up the dilapidated staircase and soon reached the fifth floor.
Each unit here has one staircase and two households, and looking at the doors on both sides of the stairs, I didn't know which door to knock on for a while.
On closer inspection, I noticed that the door on the left side was covered with cobwebs, and my hands were covered with a thick layer of dust, and it seemed that no one had been in or out for a long time.
So I pointed to the door on the right and knocked lightly.
"Hello, anyone?"
After knocking a few times in a row, there was no movement coming out of it, and I was wondering, only to hear a squeak, and suddenly the sound of the door opening behind me.
When I looked back, I saw that the old door had been opened, and an old woman with silver hair, on crutches, was standing opposite us!
This old woman looks very old, her body is withered, hunched over, and she is almost lying on the ground!
"Who are you looking for?"
The old man slowly raised his head and let out a hoarse voice.
When I saw the old man's face, I couldn't help but feel a tightening in my heart, just to a trace of inexplicable familiarity.
His chin is sharp, his eyelids are drooping downward, and the corners of his mouth are turned outwards by two tentacles that resemble them......
Doesn't this look the same as the old man on the missing person notice!
"Old woman, we saw the missing person notice you posted outside, and we want to help you find the missing old man!"
I tried my best to keep my composure and said to the old man with a smile.
"Oh, you're here to help me find my missing wife, please come in......"
As she spoke, the old lady opened the door and invited us in.
Bai Ze and I glanced at each other, and then followed the old lady into the room.
The room was dark and damp, and I wondered very much, why didn't this old man turn on the lights when the lights were so dark, was it to save electricity bills?
As if sensing my doubts, the old lady groped her way to the corner, and with a click, a light came on overhead, and although it was still dim, she could see something clearly.
"Don't be surprised, my wife and I have bad eyes, almost like a blind man, so I don't usually turn on the lights."
The old lady said and sat us down on an old sofa in the middle of the living room, and she slowly sat down across from us.
"Can you really help me find a wife?"
Once I was seated, the old lady asked me.
"Well, we're private investigators, and we're very good at finding missing people, so if you are willing to provide us with the information we need, we'll be able to help you find it!"
I made up an identity at random and said to the old man.
"Well, it won't cost a lot of money, will it?"
The old man asked tentatively, as if he was afraid that we would ask for a price.
"Don't worry, mother-in-law, we are here this time mainly to make a name for ourselves as a detective agency, so this time we are looking for you for free!"
In order to reassure the old man, I said to her.
"That's great, what do you need to know?"
The old man relaxed, and then asked us slowly.