"It's not that easy."
Lu Xiaoyao tried her best to ignore the other party's hints, and instead chuckled lightly as if she were listening to a joke. However, she packed her books faster than usual. Her contradictory behavior made Mona unable to help but smile.
She understood that the more she tried to avoid it, the more it meant that the other person had remembered what she had just said.
Seeing Lu Xiaoyao's bright and cheerful state during the live stream, and then noticing Mona's ambiguous smile, I couldn't help but shake my head and sigh.
She felt that Lu Xiaoyao's situation was a bit precarious.
Can Lu Xiaoyao really pull through?
"What's wrong?"
Yuan Fang watched Mingmei sighing as she heated up hot dogs in the kitchen, so he couldn't help but ask her another question.
"Ah, it's nothing, it just feels a little unreal... Our game should be ending in a few days, right?"
Mingmei snapped out of her thoughts and took out the hot dog. There were no customers in the store, so this would serve as the staff meal.
"yes."
Yuan Fang took the hot dog, took a bite, and didn't say anything more.
"By the way, where's Bai Xiao? I haven't seen her for days. Did she find a new job?"
Mingmei, holding another hot dog, lowered her head and began to read the newspaper with great interest.
"Ah, I don't know."
Mingmei paused in her reading of the newspaper, looked up at Yuan Fang eating a hot dog, and saw him eating with his head down and expressionless face. Mingmei slowed down her chewing and asked, "Have you two been arguing lately?"
"No." Yuan Fang shook his head and looked up at Mingmei, not moving. Why did Mingmei ask that?
"Oh, I was just asking." Mingmei lowered her head again, feeling guilty, and continued reading the newspaper.
The recent news in the newspapers is still the same as before, focusing on things like caring for the mental health of minors and some social news.
If Mingmei didn't watch the news every day, she probably wouldn't have noticed anything, but Mingmei watches it almost every day.
Therefore, she suddenly remembered that since Hu Yue went offline, the social news about couples having affairs in the newspapers seemed to have disappeared overnight.
As she thought about it, her bright gaze fell on the newspaper, where there seemed to be more and more reports of unidentified male corpses in the city.
It seems that every few days a male victim appears, his death is gruesome, and a heinous murder case involving the mutilation of his genitals makes the news.
This was not as simple as it had only happened once or twice. Mingmei stared at the contents of the newspaper, lost in thought.
If the newspaper's hints are related to content in the game... the marital infidelity alludes to Hu Yue and Qi Haikui, and the news disappeared after the two went offline.
If the events concerning caring for minors correspond to Mona's themed messages, then what about these?
Serial murders, all committed by men...
"Hey, what's the wind blowing today?"
The law enforcement officers looked at Mingmei's appearance and then at what was behind her. Mingmei was not followed by "Big Tail" Mu Chen.
"It's not windy. I need you to help me find out some things." Mingmei got straight to the point, making the long story short, which only made the other person raise an eyebrow.
"You're not just asking me for information, you're actually making me run errands and investigate the identities of the dead people who recently appeared in the newspapers?"
"Otherwise what? If I ask, you know what I'll do? I'll still have to investigate, won't I?"
Law enforcement officer: "..."
The law enforcement officer couldn't respond to this, and he made an appointment with Mingmei that he would tell her the definite news the next night.
On her way back, Mingmei rode her electric scooter past Chengdong Middle School and saw the school gate open. The security guard in the guardhouse next to it seemed to be dozing off.
She glanced around at her surroundings.
There is no surveillance.
After confirming, Mingmei, just in case, put on another mask and quietly slipped inside.
[Host, what are you going to do?]
"Could you check the school's archives for me? Let's search for information on previous students and teachers. Oh, and by the way, could you also check if the school has an intranet or... a relevant campus forum?"
Okay.
Mingmei had a feeling that this place held some great secret.
The previous times she passed by, the door was never opened, but this time, with such an obvious loophole, it would be a disservice to the security guard who was slacking off and sleeping if she didn't come in.
Gui Gui helped Ming Mei find out the map of the school's archives and helped Ming Mei sneak into the archives while avoiding pedestrians.
In addition to paper documents, the archives room also housed computers at the time.
"Hey, can you export the data?"
[Host, why do you think I asked you to come in?]
Bright and beautiful: ?
Don't worry, I've hacked the security cameras in the archives. Just keep an eye on things.
Upon hearing Gui Gui's words, Mingmei immediately went to the computer to search for information without saying a word.
"The staff information is quite comprehensive, including those who left many years ago. Mona's father must have it too." Mingmei glanced at it and then began to carefully examine the information by time, and then—
"By the way, what's Mona's character's dad's name in the game?"
Gui Gui: [...]
The silent ghost seemed bright and cheerful; the question she had just asked seemed to be the real key point.
However, even Mingmei was unaware of this crucial point.
I know her father's name now.
Mingmei: "I know that too."
The two of them stood silently in front of the computer, so silent that even the air seemed awkward.
"Oh, his dad died. I can just search the list of deceased employees from last year. Although many people died at the school, can we narrow down the search? Male, middle-aged, died in a fire, the scope isn't too narrow..."
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