Chapter 39: The Last...Opportunity...

Shen Que did not answer Meng Zhiyi's question, but stretched out his hand and led her to another empty room.

"Wait here and send me a message if you have anything, okay?"

After settling Meng Zhiyi down, Shen Que turned around and prepared to leave.

"Wait, are you and my third brother hiding something from me?" Meng Zhiyi pulled him and asked puzzledly.

Because Shen Que hated the original owner in the original book, he had basically no contact with the Meng family.

Now, he inexplicably appears in the police station with Meng Yanchuan. There must be some reason.

Shen Que had no intention of hiding the truth from her. He glanced at the family members who were still crying and grieving outside and said, "The missing girl this time is an intern at Shen's company. She had just been working at the company for a week and she went missing not long after she got off work."

Hearing this, Meng Zhiyi withdrew his hand thoughtfully.

[Just keep searching like this. By the time you find her, the girl will have been killed.]

Shen Que pursed his lips. At this moment, he really wanted to ask Meng Zhiyi directly what he knew, regardless of whether it would be exposed or not.

But he still held back.

The soul of the girl in front of me is no longer the same as before. She hides many unpredictable secrets. If I rashly expose her identity, it will probably backfire.

Thinking of this, Shen Que's thoughts were interrupted. He turned around and sat down next to Meng Zhiyi again.

"Aren't you going to look for my third brother?" Meng Zhiyi looked at the person beside him puzzledly.

Shen Que shook his head: "Wait a moment, your third brother should be communicating with the police right now."

"What does the missing person case have to do with my third brother? Isn't he a forensic doctor?"

Shen Que: "There have been a lot of dismemberment cases recently, and your third brother happened to be in charge, so I suspect this missing case is related to the dismemberment case."

"oh."

[Missing is missing, dismemberment is dismemberment, these are two separate cases. However, I seem to remember that because the girl's body was dumped after being killed, the police mistakenly linked this case to the dismemberment case, causing the real murderer to remain at large.]

There was a slight glimmer in Shen Que's eyes, and then he lowered his eyes to hide the turmoil in his heart.

Meng Zhiyi rested his chin on his hand, looking absentmindedly at his family members who were being taken to the interrogation room by the police.

These family members were dressed very simply, and my parents and other elders were all very honest people.

The fact that she was able to intern at Shen's company showed that she was quite capable, or at least that the family had spent a lot of effort in nurturing her.

[Ah... Hemp rope is good at cutting small details. ]

She sighed secretly in her heart.

Shen Que was concentrating beside her, trying to get any useful clues from her inner thoughts.

[The parents were working class and saved money to hire a tutor for their little daughter, but they ended up hiring a pervert.]

[This man was introduced by their fellow villagers. We should be on guard against others.]

Meng Zhiyi was thinking about his own thing and didn't notice that Shen Que beside him was contacting Meng Yanchuan on his phone.

At this moment, Meng Yanchuan in the interrogation room received the message from Shen Que.

Then he put away his phone, looked at his parents who were crying and telling the police how outstanding their daughter was, and pursed his lips.

"Have there been any strangers in your house recently?" he asked.

The crying mother shook her head at first, and then said vigorously that they were the only ones at home.

At this time, the little daughter, who was a little bit at a loss, tugged at her mother's clothes and whispered, "Mom, Teacher Wang was at home."

The mother stopped crying suddenly, and then she said hurriedly, "Yes, yes, yes, I recently hired a tutor for my little daughter. My family introduced me to him."

"Could it be him? That child is very pretty and polite."

The mother never seemed to suspect that such a person would be the murderer who kidnapped her daughter.

"Don't judge a book by its cover. Nothing is certain." The police officer in charge of the inquiry replied.

Next, the police asked for Teacher Wang’s information and contact information.

After hearing from the mother that he had been coming home regularly to help her little daughter with her studies, the police also came up with a preliminary plan.

When Meng Yanchuan came back from the interrogation room, Meng Zhiyi was already asleep on the table, covered with the small blanket that Shen Que had brought from the car.

"Falling asleep?" Meng Yanchuan asked in a low voice.

Shen Que nodded: "Should we wake her up?"

"Let her sleep. This young lady is very irritable when she wakes up." Meng Yanchuan said, and then looked at Shen Que: "Carry her out. I'll go drive the car."

"?" Shen Que asked in surprise: "I hug you?"

Meng Yanchuan: "What else? Aren't you her boyfriend?"

"…Then you are still her brother."

Meng Yanchuan waved his hands: "Although she is her brother, she is closer to you in terms of relationship. Of course, you don't have to hug her, you can wake her up, anyway, you are the one who will be criticized."

After saying this, he turned around and walked out without giving Shen Que a chance to refuse.

Shen Que stood there, looking at Meng Zhiyi who was still sleeping soundly with a bit of headache.

After a moment, he sighed, walked to Meng Zhiyi and called softly, "Meng Zhiyi."

There was no response.

Shen Que leaned closer to her and called out again.

This time, Meng Zhi muttered in her sleep, and her beautiful eyebrows wrinkled in impatience.

Shen Que didn't say anything else, but stared quietly at the girl in front of him.

He had never looked at Meng Zhiyi so carefully in such a long time. Compared to her who gave him a headache when she was awake, Meng Zhiyi was much more obedient when she was asleep.

Her thick and long eyelashes were like little wings, casting a shadow under her eyes. She had a small and straight nose and rosy and plump lips. Every part of her was perfect.

It was not until a breeze came in from the window and blew across his cheek that Shen Que belatedly retracted his gaze, closed his eyes and soothed the fiercely beating heart in his chest.

After a moment, he gave up trying to wake Meng Zhiyi up and instead carefully picked her up.

Meng Zhiyi woke up for a moment from her sleep, but found that her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't open them at all.

Shen Que carried the person into the car and was about to ask Meng Yanchuan whether he wanted to send her back to Meng's house or to school when Meng Zhiyi suddenly leaned on his shoulder.

"Why is it so hot?" Shen Que touched her cheek when he straightened her up and found that the temperature was frighteningly high.

Meng Yanchuan turned around and asked, "What's hot?"

Shen Que's eyes were filled with worry: "Meng Zhiyi has a fever, and his forehead is very hot."

"Then go to the hospital."

Meng Yanchuan didn't think much about it and drove directly to the hospital.

However, the two took Meng Zhiyi to the hospital for a checkup, but apart from a fever, nothing else was found.

Even the doctors were puzzled and wondered if she had some rare disease.

"Cool down first. It's not a good thing to keep having a fever like this." Shen Que was relatively calm. At this moment, he suspected that it was not Meng Zhiyi's body that was wrong, but the soul inside his body.

Meng Yanchuan: "Then I'll go and apply for hospitalization and payment first."

At the same time, Meng Zhi found himself in a strange space.

There was a colorful halo everywhere around her, and there was nothing else except herself.

Suddenly, a familiar voice rang in my ears.

It's the system.

Just when Meng Zhiyi was about to call it, he heard the system seemed to be talking to someone.

Intermittently, he kept repeating some incoherent words.

Finally... an opportunity to...

Meng Zhiyi was a little confused, so in order to find out what was going on, she walked towards the direction of the sound.

After taking a few steps, I heard a voice calling my name from behind.

When she stopped and looked back, a scorching heat wave suddenly hit her from nowhere.

"No! Meng Zhiyi, don't go!"

Meng Zhiyi raised his hand to block the heat wave that was blowing on his face. When he heard the clear shout, his heart twitched violently.

"Who are you?"

Meng Zhiyi endured the scorching heat and wanted to move forward to see clearly who was standing on the other side of the flames.

Her voice also alarmed the system behind. After realizing what was going on, the system was frightened and quickly drove her out of here.

Meng Zhiyi was unable to resist the force that was pulling him backwards and could only stare at the figure behind the fire.

Shouting: "Who are you!"