Liu Chao watched Sheng An Ning leave with the lunch box. He originally wanted to chase after her, but in the end he was afraid that his purpose was too obvious and he would be discovered. So he touched his nose and pretended to exchange his meal ticket with a classmate next to him.

Sheng An Ning could guess that Liu Chao was looking for her and must have approached her on purpose, but as for his purpose, she couldn't guess it yet.

After getting some food, I found the place where I had agreed to meet Mu Xiaowan and waited for her in the pavilion in the garden on the west side of the school.

Mu Xiaowan is picky about food. Today, she wanted to eat Chenji’s braised pork and pan-fried dumplings. After school, she told Sheng Anning and ran to buy braised pork.

Sheng An Ning waited for half an hour, and Mu Xiao Wan came back jogging with a particularly large lunch box in her arms: "Oh, I'm still too late. The pan-fried buns are sold out. There's only stewed pork. I bought a large portion and added two sesame cakes, which is enough for the two of us."

Sheng An Ning pointed to the lunch box on the stone table: "Today the cafeteria has pickled eggplants, I also ordered one portion, and two steamed buns."

Mu Xiaowan likes pickled eggplant. The only food in school that she never gets tired of is pickled eggplant. She was very happy: "Okay, okay, I can finish all of this."

The two of them sat under the pavilion and ate their lunch leisurely. Mu Xiaowan looked at the occasional classmates passing by and eating steamed buns while reading books, and couldn't help sighing: "I really admire their love of learning. If I loved learning so much, I would definitely be number one."

Sheng An Ning clicked his tongue: "You are so talented, others envy you. You don't seem to study, but your grades are so good. Isn't it infuriating?"

Then they talked about the cafeteria and Liu Chao deliberately struck up a conversation.

Mu Xiaowan was very puzzled: "What does he want to do? He doesn't really want to traffic women, does he? Then isn't he being too blatant? Sun Xuemei and Xue Zhenzhen just disappeared yesterday, and he's still doing it?"

Sheng An Ning was also a little confused: "If that's the case, shouldn't he be targeting our female classmates in the medical school? That would be a big target. Besides, Liu Chao's family is supposed to be well-off, how much money can he make from trafficking women?"

It is more likely that they use their status to play with women.

Mu Xiaowan was not sure either: "I'll ask someone later to see if there are any missing female students from other colleges?"

Sheng An Ning shook her head: "No, the school will notify you immediately. If a student doesn't come to school for three days without asking for leave, it's a big problem. The head teacher has already started asking where Sun Xuemei and Xue Zhenzhen are. I guess they've called the police."

Even if they didn't want to call the police, they couldn't stop it.

Just as Sheng An Ning guessed, the head teacher reported to the school that Sun Xuemei and Xue Zhenzhen were innocently absent for two days, which still attracted the school's attention.

Finally, they held a meeting and decided to call the police.

The disappearance of two female classmates became big news in the school, and all kinds of rumors emerged from all directions.

Some people said that the two people must have been killed while walking at night, and they should be searched in distant farmlands and dense woods.

Others said that he might have been cheated away after leaving Beijing.

Either statement makes sense.

After the police were called, two police officers came and went to the classroom to learn about the situation of Sun Xuemei and Xue Zhenzhen, whether there was anything unusual before they disappeared, and who they were close to.

A classmate saw Sun Xuemei getting close to Liu Chao from the history department recently: "The day before Sun Xuemei disappeared, I saw her, Liu Chao and a few male classmates eating in the second cafeteria."

The police took careful notes and also went to the second canteen to conduct an investigation.

However, the final investigation result was that although Sun Xuemei and Liu Chao had contact the day before her disappearance, her disappearance had nothing to do with Liu Chao, and the two never met again afterwards.

Another classmate provided clues, saying that he saw Liu Chao, Sun Xuemei and Xue Zhenzhen together at the entrance of the People's Shopping Mall, which was the day Sun Xuemei disappeared.

This clue was supposed to be very important, but I don't know why it ended up in nothing.

The news spread like wildfire in the college.

Mu Xiaowan found it amazing: "Sure enough, you guessed it right. The police here must be protecting Liu Chao. They definitely didn't go to the mall to investigate."

Sheng An Ning sighed: "Liu Chao must have used his family's connections, I'm afraid my family doesn't know about it."

Mu Xiaowan was so anxious that she wanted to scratch her head: "What should we do? We can't just ignore it. It's not convenient for Luancheng and others to take care of this place."

There seems to be no better way than to investigate privately.

Sheng Anning thought for a moment and said, "I have photos of Sun Xuemei and Xue Zhenzhen here. Let's take them to the mall and ask. There must be someone who has seen them. Since they appeared at the entrance of the mall, someone must have seen them."

Mu Xiaowan agreed: "Let's go after school this afternoon."

After school, Sheng Anning took the photos of Sun Xuemei and Xue Zhenzhen and went straight to the mall with Mu Xiaowan.

I asked around on the first floor, but no one had seen Sun Xuemei and Xue Zhenzhen.

Sheng Anning and Mu Xiaowan were not giving up, so they took the photo to the second floor to ask. When they got to the counter selling scarves, they happened to meet the salesperson from that day.

The salesperson had been criticized, so her attitude had improved a lot in the past two days. In addition, Mu Xiaowan and Sheng Anning both looked good, so she didn't dare to neglect them. When Sheng Anning came to her with the photo to confirm, she was also very enthusiastic and leaned over to look at it. After a closer look, her face changed, and she looked at Sheng Anning and Mu Xiaowan with a strange look in her eyes: "Who are you to them? What do you want from them?"

She had a very deep impression of these two girls, but now she suspected that Mu Xiaowan and Sheng An Ning were here to cause trouble. Did they want to help these two country girls vent their anger?

Sheng An Ning felt that there was a way, so she quickly introduced herself: "We are students from Beijing University. These are my two classmates. They haven't been back to school in the past few days. Someone saw them coming to the People's Shopping Mall on the last day they were gone."

The salesperson was surprised: "You are all students from Beijing University, college students?"

Then he muttered softly, "I didn't notice it that day either."

Mu Xiaowan had sharp ears. When she heard this, she quickly asked, "Sister, have you seen these two girls? Did they come by themselves, or were there others with them?"

The salesperson did not hide it: "There was another young man who came with them and bought a silk scarf. He said he was giving it to someone, but I didn't understand the details."

At that time, I was so busy arguing that I didn't pay attention to what the three people said specifically.

Sheng Anning and Mu Xiaowan's eyes lit up: "What did that boy look like? Do you remember?"

Of course the saleswoman remembered that it was that young man who kept pestering her and caused her to miss the opportunity to be selected as a model worker this year. Thinking about it now, she still feels resentful: "He was about 1.75 meters tall, with a fair face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a mole at the corner of his mouth."

The characteristics were already very obvious. Sheng Anning and Mu Xiaowan looked at each other and knew it was Liu Chao.

Sheng An Ning quickly thanked her: "Thank you, elder sister. Did you hear where they were going later? Or did they say anything else?"