Chapter 17 She Disappeared
"Oh, you mean the old house in the woods? No one has lived there for a long time."
The wrinkled lady looked nostalgic: "That family moved away ten years ago...
There is no girl. They only have one boy, and he said he was going to the south to do business... Who did they sell the house to? I don’t know.”
"Thank you, Auntie." Lu Mingfei nodded with a smile, turned around and left empty-handed.
The moment he turned his back, the forced smile on his face quickly disappeared, replaced by a solemn look.
At this moment, he no longer cared about the traffic consumption. He opened his phone and searched on Tieba for the girl who had amazed countless boys in Shilan Middle School throughout their youth.
No one! There was no girl around Chu Zihang who was in the same class as him in elementary school and junior high school, and even sat at the same table with him for a long time! The girl who had walked hand in hand with her good brother through his youth and youth, and was about to walk hand in hand through middle age, old age, and countless spring, summer, autumn, winter, birth, aging, sickness, and death...
Gone.
An uncontrollable panic suddenly surged in his heart, as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss. The feeling of weightlessness of falling from a high altitude but never being able to touch the ground surrounded and entangled him.
Goose bumps appeared all over his body at this moment. Sweat oozed out of Lu Mingfei's palms holding the phone, and wet marks appeared on the back half of his plain shirt.
"Impossible, this is impossible."
Lu Mingfei refused to believe what he saw. How could two people who were so vivid suddenly disappear? Influenced by his butterfly, the lives of Lao Tang and Su Xiaoqiang were just developing in different directions. They did not lose contact or disappear! If history began to change from the node of their parents' accidental death five years ago, then the two siblings should have left traces in this city!
He walked quickly towards the gate of the community, his thumb pressing the down button frantically, searching through the vast number of posts for evidence that there was a girl around Chu Zihang.
However, not at all!
All Lu Mingfei saw was Chu Zihang winning the title of the city's three-good student, scoring 58 points wearing the No. 11 jersey on the basketball court, representing the school in the city's youth basketball team and leading the team to the runner-up in the national league...
He was also the undisputed first on the school's college entrance examination list last year.
In those messages and photos, Chu Zihang was always alone, with no expression on his face, as if he was carrying an iceberg big enough to sink the Titanic.
Lu Mingfei's mood was getting worse and worse, and when he saw a photo with a reply floor of 999+, he was suddenly stunned.
It was a photo taken four years ago. The angle was obviously a candid shot, but the photo was extremely beautiful.
At the moment the photo was frozen, the gray-black sky seemed to be lightly painted with ink, and the drizzle was continuous.
In front of the teaching building, a black-haired boy in school uniform stood quietly, looking into the distance, wondering when the drizzle would stop.
In the wind and rain, his back was as lonely as a knife.
The poster captioned that at that moment, he was like a lone knight roaming the world alone, not attracting the dust of the world, not needing a partner, and facing the endless storms of the world with just his courage.
But Lu Mingfei didn’t think the back view was handsome or cool.
With just one glance, he knew - something had happened!
And it was a big deal! He and Chu Zihang had been friends for half their lives, and they had long been brothers who wore the same pants, and they had even agreed to become in-laws in the future.
But in the fifteen years they had known each other, Lu Mingfei had never seen him like this.
Although he seems strong, he actually has countless sorrows that are hard to describe. These sorrows seep out bit by bit from the cracks between his bones, and each strand carries marrow fluid and bone blood.
What on earth had happened to make this guy, who was stronger than anyone else, so fragile? Countless scenes from his past and present lives flashed back, and Lu Mingfei felt as if his brain was turning into a mess.
Suddenly, the broadcast from the guard room hit my ears, like a bolt from the blue: "Informed sources revealed that our city's well-known company Black Prince Group intends to enter the film and television industry and plans to invest in the Sino-US co-production of the film "Yangtze River..."
Lu Mingfei could no longer listen to the subsequent words. He just stared at the old radio, and the words "Heitaizi Group, a well-known enterprise in our city" kept echoing in his mind.
Didn't the Black Prince Group fall apart due to internal conflicts a long time ago? Uncle Chu's Tianjiao Group also played a big role behind the scenes, making a lot of money while absorbing a lot of talents.
How could...
Recalling the photo of Chu Zihang watching the rain alone, Lu Mingfei suddenly recovered from his stiff state, and his two fingers turned into afterimages to search for Tianjiao Group.
The search result was a chemical company in the north, which had nothing to do with the Chu family’s business!
Not believing in evil, he changed the complete company name, and the result was still another company.
The Tianjiao Group, which is the most powerful group in the city, has never existed?
This heavy fact made Lu Mingfei's eyes red.
He was like a young lion surrounded by vultures, and he let out a hoarse roar from his throat: "How can it not exist! Uncle Chu is a major taxpayer and the president of the local Federation of Industry and Commerce. How can he just say it doesn't exist?!"
Recalling what the taxi driver told him yesterday, that the Maybach was scrapped and that only the driver was in trouble, Lu Mingfei felt an endless panic in his heart.
He put away his cell phone, rushed out of the old neighborhood, went straight to the roadside and hailed an oncoming taxi.
Seeing is believing, he wants to go there to verify it in person!
The taxi turned on the turn signal and waited for the green light to change lanes at the intersection.
However, before he arrived, a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano that was as red as a flame suddenly appeared and stopped steadily beside the boy.
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There was a beautiful girl with flying red hair sitting in the driver's seat. She was driving the Ferrari with one hand in a chic and enchanting manner.
"What a coincidence, we meet again."
The car window was lowered, and Nuo Nuo pulled down the sunglasses on her face with one finger, revealing her dark red eyes. She raised her chin to indicate that there was an empty seat in the car: "Where are you going? Sister will give you a ride..."
“Crack! Bang!”
Lu Mingfei opened the car door and got in without waiting for Nuo Nuo to finish her words.
After fastening his seat belt skillfully, he gave an address in a slightly hoarse voice.
The red-haired girl was still secretly observing Lu Mingfei's condition. Her eyes were red, her breathing was a little heavy, and her movements were too large. It was obvious that she was on the verge of some kind of explosion.
Just when Norma was about to ask him to check what he was looking for, she was stunned when she heard the address he gave: "Black Prince Group? Why are you going there?"
Nuonuo had been curious for a long time. Lu Mingfei had nothing to do so he went to the old street to inquire about a non-existent cake shop, and then went to the old neighborhood to explore the haunted house in the forest, with no idea where his starting point was.
It was understandable that he went to the e-sports club for a trial before, but now he is going to the Black Prince Group, which he has no connection with at all. What is going on?
Applying for a job in a listed company with a degree that does not even amount to a high school diploma?
Lu Mingfei looked straight ahead, unaware of the gaze coming from the driver's seat.
The moment he heard that the address of Tianjiao Group was changed to Black Prince Group, flames seemed to burst out in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed them.
"It's none of your business, drive." The young man's voice was low and aggressive, as if he was going to get out of the car if you keep talking.
Anyway, the taxi just now hasn't left yet, and the driver is looking at this fiery red supercar, muttering to himself, I wonder if he is talking about how taxis and supercars are stealing business.
The red-haired girl who was observing secretly began to rebel when she heard this.
But seeing Lu Mingfei's low-pressure look, curiosity finally got the better of him.
She snorted coldly: "Hold on tight, I drive very fast."
"The speed limit in the city is fifty (kilometers per hour)." Lu Mingfei was unmoved. "There are surveillance cameras all along the way. Your car and appearance are so obvious. Don't implicate me if you get caught by the traffic police."
"you……"
(End of this chapter)