Chapter 53: Too Weird Li Ci stood at the door in a daze, his expression blank...
Li Ci stood at the door in a daze, his expression confused and a little dazed. Opposite him were the two housekeepers who took care of his food, clothing, housing and transportation in the villa. At that time, they stared at him with wide eyes in disbelief, panicked and shocked.
They have been looking for someone like crazy in the past few months, and everyone in the Li family is very secretive about Li Ci's affairs.
He disappeared without any warning and left no clues, as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth. For so long, although they didn't say it out loud, they all felt in their hearts that he was probably in great danger.
But on such an ordinary morning, he appeared without anyone noticing.
In my own bedroom.
They looked at the young master who had disappeared for a long time. He had lost so much weight that he looked a little different. He was still wearing the same uniform he had worn when he disappeared, but it seemed a little loose now. His hair had grown longer, almost covering his eyes.
But what flowed from those eyes was unfamiliar to them.
This young master practically grew up under their care. He appeared to be gentle and elegant on the surface, but in fact he was a wicked person at heart. There was often a smile in his eyes, but the smile was full of malice.
But now, he stood there, his eyes numb and dull, even revealing some confusion and cowardice.
This kind of thing should never appear in those eyes.
"Young Master, when did you come back?" One of them felt a pang of pain in his throat. "Where have you been these past few months?"
Li Ci looked at them with a blank and mechanical look in his eyes. His reaction seemed a little slow, as if he didn't understand what they were saying at all, as if he was having difficulty understanding. He paused for a long moment before speaking.
When he opened his mouth, his voice was extremely hoarse and his words were awkward: "What...what do you mean?"
"Where have you been these past few months? Mr. Li and your family are very worried about you," said the housekeeper.
He seemed even more confused: "A few months, what a few months?"
The two butlers choked and looked at each other in confusion.
"You...you've been missing for the past few months. Where have you been during this time?"
Missing?
Li Ci's mind was in chaos.
It was like waking up from a hangover, completely blacked out.
Li Ci placed his hand on the door frame and scratched it hard, as if he wanted to grab something, but there was nothing.
He looked up, and faced a mirrored ornament. His eyes met the other self in the mirror, and a chill of fear washed over him. He looked at the half-human, half-ghost figure in the mirror, and the long, messy hair on his head, and felt that it was terribly unfamiliar. He tried to recall something, but suddenly a headache came over him.
The person in the mirror and he were both tortured by the headache, their expressions were hideous. The violent emotions in his bones seemed to be suddenly ignited by something. He suddenly felt hatred for no reason and his heart was trembling. He didn't know what he hated, but the desire for destruction that rose up in that instant almost shattered him to pieces.
His eyes were extremely red, and his pale, sickly face was thin and unrecognizable. His usually handsome and gentle face showed a distorted and somewhat terrifying expression. "What do you mean? What do you mean by missing? What nonsense are you talking about?"
The housekeeper was immediately frightened, "I..."
"I'm asking you a question," Li Ci walked over and grabbed the butler's collar. "What does 'missing' mean? Who's missing?"
After Li Ci finished yelling, he looked at his hand that was grabbing the butler's collar. He didn't know what he remembered, and his movements paused, and he suddenly withdrew his hand.
He looked at his hands and suddenly held his head in pain.
The tall and upright figure seemed to have lost its support and squatted limply on the ground.
"My head hurts, my head hurts..."
Then he tried to stand up again, but halfway through, before he could even straighten his body, he fell to the wooden floor and fainted.
"Call a doctor!"
......
"There's nothing serious wrong with my body. It's mainly malnutrition. I'll be fine after some treatment. But..."
"Just what?" A voice that sounded intimidating without being angry came from the computer screen.
"It's just that his mental state isn't very good," the private doctor said respectfully, looking at Li Mingxin's face on the video. "I've just reported the young master's condition to you. His current mental state is very poor, and he has lost large sections of his memory. He may have suffered trauma during his disappearance. I suggest you find a psychiatrist for him."
Li Mingxin was sitting in the conference room. He frowned when he heard this, then looked across the screen at the butler standing beside him: "Got it, please contact Butler Zhou."
"Okay, okay." Butler Zhou paused, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Aren't you going to come back and take a look?"
Li Mingxin's face turned cold. "What can I do if I go back to him in this state? He's useless. You guys take good care of him."
"Don't worry," Butler Zhou nodded hurriedly, "We will definitely take good care of the young master."
"This matter has been reported to the police," Li Mingxin said. "They must investigate thoroughly."
"Hey, hey, okay, don't worry."
The video call ended, and the housekeeper and the doctor looked at each other.
The female doctor glanced in the direction of Li Ci's room and sighed softly, "Actually, there's something I didn't say. Family companionship is sometimes even more helpful than a psychologist."
The housekeeper gave a dry laugh and said, "Boss Li is abroad. It would be difficult for him to come back."
The female doctor smiled and said nothing more.
While he was stunned, there was a loud noise suddenly coming from Li Ci's room, like the sound of something glass hitting the ground.
The female doctor and the housekeeper looked at each other and walked over quickly.
When they pushed the door open, Li Ci was standing barefoot on the living room floor, next to him was a pile of broken glass. As they pushed the door open, Li Ci looked at them with a terrifying look in his eyes: "Who messed up my room like this?"
The housekeeper was frightened by his somewhat crazy eyes and was a little confused. "Except for the maid who comes in to clean regularly, no one has touched your room."
"Nonsense!" Li Ci stared at him, his face extremely pale. "What nonsense are you talking about? Don't I know what my own room looks like? This is wrong, absolutely wrong. Change it back. I order you to change it back now!"
The housekeeper cried out in injustice, thinking, who dared to change your room without your consent? Your room looks like this now. Who touched your room?
The housekeeper's forehead was covered with sweat, and he gritted his teeth and agreed with him, "Okay...Okay, change it back. So, what should your room look like?"
What should it look like?
should......
Li Ci was suddenly stunned.
The madness and rage in his eyes were replaced by an almost fragile confusion, and there was a moment of blankness.
What should his room look like?
Why... he didn't remember either.
He thought hard, and his head started to hurt again, "What should it be like..."
Li Ci squatted down and hugged his head in pain. At least it wasn't like this now.
"You know, you will definitely know!" Li Ci looked at them hatefully, "You must know, change it back now, change it back!"
The housekeeper wanted to wipe his neck, but he couldn't really do it. His smile was uglier than crying. "Okay, change it. I'll change it right away."
The housekeeper went out and came back in, bringing with him a large group of people. Everyone didn't know what to do, and frantically tried to move the bed and the sofa, and each time they moved, they would secretly glance at Li Ci's expression.
Li Ci stared at their actions, his face becoming increasingly gloomy, as if water could seep out of it.
Those people tried here and there, changing the position of the sofa eight times in half an hour, but no matter how they changed it, it was not right, and it was not to the young master's liking. Under the heavy pressure, everyone was on edge.
When they were whispering again about whether they should move the coffee table and try again, there was a loud noise behind them.
Li Ci stepped on the broken glass with his bare feet, picked up a baseball bat from the wall, and smashed an antique vase into pieces.
The fragments of the blue and white porcelain vase were scattered all over the ground. Li Ci looked at the mess and suddenly laughed.
It wasn't just the vases. In his opinion, all these things shouldn't exist. They were an eyesore and should all be kicked out. After smashing the vases, he smashed the decorative ornaments and even the car models and exquisite figurines in the window that he once cherished. He smashed everything in the room.
No one dared to come up and stop them.
His condition was so frightening that they had no doubt that if he didn't smash those things, he would smash them.
But his body was too weak. After smashing the last thing he could, he fell straight to the ground and stopped breathing.
Everyone was horrified, the living room was in chaos, and they sent the man to the hospital.
.......
At the same time, the person in the police station who had remained silent all along suddenly smiled faintly.
When the police came in again, the man finally spoke and said his first words after being summoned.
"I picked up the bank card a few months ago," he said.
The two policemen were slightly surprised when they heard this, and then they calmly began to question the man.
Police: "Where did you pick it up?"
Xie Shi: "It should be September 2nd, at the school gate."
Police: "How can you remember the date so clearly?"
Xie Shi: "Because school started on September 1st, that was the second day of school. I had a conflict with him at the school gate. We fought, and he dropped his bank card, which I found. When I picked up the card, many classmates saw me at the gate, and there are also surveillance cameras. You can verify it."
Police: "Why didn't you return it after you found it?"
Xie Shi: "We just had a fight, and I found his things and gave them to him. Do I have a kind heart?"
Police: "The bank information records show that you withdrew 100 yuan the day before yesterday. How did you know the password?"
Xie Shi: "Using birthday as password, is it difficult to figure it out?"
Police: "How do you know his birthday?"
Xie Shi: "His girlfriend is from our school. Shortly after school started, on his birthday, he drove a sports car to school to pick her up and even generously treated everyone in her class to cake. This post about the incident is still hanging on the school forum. I wonder if his birthday is one of the few."
Police: “Why are you withdrawing money?”
Xie Shi: "I went to a cemetery in the suburbs to visit my mother's grave. My phone was dead and I had no cash on me. I happened to find this card while searching my bag. I tried my password and withdrew the fare."
Police: "Why didn't you tell me these things when I asked you yesterday?"
Xie Shi: "I had a fight with the person I like, and I wanted to make her worry."
The policeman's face changed, his expression hard to describe: "Then why are you saying it now?"
Xie Shi smiled slightly: "I miss her, I can only bear not seeing her for one day."
police:"......"
The police were completely speechless.
She rolled her eyes at him and went to verify the situation with the transcript.
.......
The police acted quickly and by the afternoon everything that needed to be verified had been completed, and all the evidence matched.
This neurotic high school student really didn't lie.
This result made them feel relieved, but at the same time, they also felt a sense of helplessness as their hopes were dashed.
"There's no way it could have been a high school student. We've checked everything we should have. We also investigated this kid at the time. He had a solid alibi when the incident happened."
"Tsk, so this becomes an unsolved case."
"The higher-ups are cracking down on the Li Ci case. We can't solve it if we can't find the perpetrators. This is a really difficult matter."
The two policemen were discussing the case back and forth when one of them picked up the phone and his expression changed.
After a while, the call was disconnected. The police officer looked at the people around him with a surprised and strange expression. "I just received a call from Captain Meng. Li Ci... is back?"
"Where are you going back to?"
"Go home, go back to where you want to go."
"Going home? He went back by himself?"
"He said he was in the room this morning."
"Did he go back on his own? Have you checked the surrounding surveillance cameras? What did he say? What exactly happened?"
"That's what's strange. The Li family checked the surveillance footage at the time. They checked all the surveillance cameras around the villa. There were no suspicious vehicles, and no one entered or left the Li family's house during that time, including Li Ci himself."
"Wait, there's no footage of Li Ci himself? Did he fly back? ... Well, now everyone's back, and the person involved is here. If you want to know anything, can't we just ask directly? What exactly happened? Was it a kidnapping? Who did it? Should we send the police?"
"That's the scariest part," another officer interrupted. "Li Ci has lost his memory. He doesn't remember anything. Not only has he forgotten everything that happened during the months he was missing, but he even can't remember things leading up to the incident. He must have gone through some trauma."
“I don’t remember…”
A chill crept up on me. This case seemed strange from the very beginning.
People mysteriously disappear and reappear.
The whole process happened without anyone noticing.
Finally, the person who appeared had lost his memory.
Everything is so weird.
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