Chapter 131 Chapter 131
"Oh my God, how could I forget her?" Anaïs covered her mouth with her shaking hands. "Where is my sister? She hasn't been home for two days. Where did she go?"
After seeing the photo of herself and her sister on the table, all the memories about her sister Sylvia were unlocked. Anaïs was horrified that she had forgotten the most important sibling, and then she was worried about her life safety.
After not seeing her for two days, is her sister still alive?
"When was the last time you saw her and did she say anything?" Gerard asked anxiously.
Anaïs recalled carefully: "…she disappeared on the day the sky turned red! She said she wanted to see if the vineyards were affected, and then…she never came back."
From then on, Anaïs' memory of her sister began to become blurred. She started by thinking "Sylvia is so slow" and then "Is the vineyard okay?" Gradually, her sister's name seemed to be erased from her mind by some force. Anaïs only remembered the vineyard and could no longer think of her sister.
There are only three people in the sisters' family, and their mother passed away a few years ago.
When his father came back in the evening, he didn't think of Sylvia. When they sat down to eat dinner, they completely ignored the third empty chair at the round table.
Then the next day, Anaïs saw the chair, thought it was in the way, and moved it away, muttering, "Why is there an extra chair here?"
"Gerard, help me find Sylvia, okay?" Anaïs cried.
Gerard nodded: "Sure, but before that, can you accompany me to my home?"
Anaïs looked at him.
Gerard's face was covered with sweat. "There is a small room in the attic of my house. It is... a storage room. But I wonder if it is really a storage room."
He began to doubt his memory.
The attic is not small, but because the roof is slanted, only half of the space is usable. However, that half is big enough for an adult to stand. It can be said that the attic room can be used as a bedroom.
Gerard was very scared. In his memory, he was an only child without any brothers or sisters. But what if, what if he had a little brother or sister living in the attic?
The storage room is usually not opened unless necessary. As far as Gerard can remember, the small attic has not been opened for several months.
"Okay, I'll go with you!" Anaïs took Gerard's hand, "Let's go now!"
Gérard's house is smaller than Anaïs's, but it has one more floor and a very high attic. Unlike Anaïs's attic, it can only hold some sundries and adults have to bend over to get in.
Gerard used a hook to lower the ladder, and the two looked at each other. In the end, Gerard was the first to step on the ladder and climb up to the attic.
As soon as he entered, a layer of dust blew all over his face. Gerard coughed twice, walked into the attic, and stared blankly at everything in the attic.
Anaïs poked her head in from behind him and said, "It seems you don't have any brothers or sisters."
"Yeah." Gerard breathed a sigh of relief.
There was no habitable furniture in the attic, just a few boxes and some random junk. It was just as Gérard remembered it, a storage room.
"Let's go down quickly." Anais climbed down the stairs.
Gerard hummed and was about to leave the attic when he saw something in the cardboard box. On the top was a thick photo album. Gerard looked at the album and picked it up as if possessed. They went downstairs together and put the stairs back.
"Now you can rest assured. Come with me to find Sylvia." Anais said anxiously.
Gérard hummed, put the photo album into his backpack, and left the house with Anaïs, heading straight for the vineyard.
Anaïs's vineyard is next to Gerard's vineyard. Both of them have been tending the vineyards for the past two days. If there was anything to be discovered, they would have seen it long ago.
After searching in vain, the two went to other people's vineyards to check, but they didn't see anything suspicious, but they did meet other residents who grew grapes. Anaïs asked them one by one about the whereabouts of her sister.
However, the answers of those people were similar: "Sister? Where is your sister from?" "Sylvia? I have some impression of her. Where have I heard of this name?" "I don't know. I have never seen a girl like that."
After asking several people in succession, everyone had a confused expression on their face. Anais was almost crying in anxiety.
Gerard remembered something, he opened his schoolbag and took out a photo album, flipped through a few pages and found a photo of himself and Anaïs and her sister, and immediately handed the photo to Anaïs.
Anais then remembered that she still had the photo. She held the photo and asked the middle-aged man in front of her: "This is my sister! You remember her, right? Your lawn mower broke down before, and it was Sylvia who lent it to you!"
The middle-aged man scratched his head and said, "I remember this incident. You lent it to me. Thank you so much, Anaïs."
"It wasn't me. I was in class at the time. I was at school!" Anais defended herself, pointing at her sister in the photo. "It was her. My sister!"
The middle-aged man stared at the little girl in the photo: "I think you have seen this child before, your relative, before... um, where did you see her?"
The middle-aged man in front of him was thinking seriously, but for some reason, he always felt that the memory of the girl was covered by thick gauze. He could only see a little hazy shadow, and could not remember more.
"Is she really your sister?" asked the middle-aged man.
Gerard stopped talking and handed the photo album in his hand to the middle-aged man: "Look for yourself."
The middle-aged man took the photo album and flipped through it one by one. Sure enough, he saw the shadow of the girl in many photos. Not only that, he also saw himself.
After all, this town is very small, and it is difficult to say that I know everyone who lives here, but the neighbors living nearby and the residents who also grow vineyards are in touch with each other, especially the middle-aged man in front of me, who can be said to be an elder who watched Gerard and others grow up.
"Well, it seems that she is indeed your sister, and she has been living here. This is really strange, I can't remember it no matter how hard I try..." The middle-aged man paused, and he stood there in a daze, looking at a certain photo.
Seeing that he was stunned, Gerard and Anaïs came over to see what photo made the middle-aged man look so surprised and stunned.
It was a photo of a courtyard party. Anaïs saw herself and Gerard in the photo, so she immediately remembered that the photo was taken three years ago, when there was a bumper harvest of grapes, and the quality was better than expected. The wine merchants who had long ordered grapes from their town were even willing to pay a little more to buy all the grapes in this batch. Everyone made a lot of money and happily gathered together for a barbecue party.
The center of the photo is Gerard's father, who is happily grilling a huge fish, and Gerard and Anaïs are staring at the huge fish by the grill. Then, behind the three of them, a middle-aged man is taken in, who is snatching a bottle of wine from a teenager.
The young man looked very similar to the middle-aged man.
"My...my little son..." The middle-aged man was stunned. He raised his head and suddenly shouted excitedly, "I have another little son!!"
The roar frightened Gerard and Anaïs for a moment. The middle-aged man was very excited. He returned the photo album to Gerard and turned to leave: "My little son, how could I forget him? What happened? He hasn't been home for a day and a night. How could he..."
"Wait, when did your son disappear?" Anaïs caught up with him and hurriedly asked beside him, "You believe my sister disappeared too, right?"
"Yes, although I still can't remember what your sister looks like, but I believe you." The middle-aged man shook his head angrily, "Those police officers who are just making a living actually said that there is nothing weird here. What the hell is this saying that there is nothing weird? If anything happens to my little son, I will definitely teach those guys a lesson!"
"Did your son say what he was going to do before he disappeared?" Gerard asked.
The middle-aged man stopped walking and turned to look at the green grapevines behind him. "Yes, I remember. My little son said... he saw a strange guy in the vineyard... he wanted to catch that guy, and then... I didn't remember him anymore."
Another vineyard.
Gérard and Anaïs looked back at the rows of green grape vines. The wind blew through the leaves, making a rustling sound. The vineyards that the residents depended on for their livelihood now looked like a devil with its mouth open as if to devour people. They looked so alluring.
"I think the most important thing now is to inform the mayor." Gerard swallowed his saliva and said calmly, "The people who disappeared in this town must not only be Sylvia, but also..."
"Gabriel." said the middle-aged man.
"Yes, there must be more than just her and Gabriel. We need to find the mayor and gather all the residents in the town to check one by one." Gerard said, "I think only those who are very close to the missing person can recall the appearance of the missing person and the memories related to them through photos or some items."
"If we want to find them, we must first retrieve their memories," Gerard said. "Everything else will have to wait until then. If we're lucky, we can also use the memories we retrieve to find out what the missing people have in common, where they went, and what they found that led to their disappearance."
"What do you think?"
Anais nodded, and the middle-aged man followed suit, "Let's do as you said."
*
In Qingtong's home in China, East China.
"The probability of a mental attack monster appearing is actually very low. Generally, there are only one or two monsters among ten thousand." said the Savior System.
Qing Tong frowned: "But every time it appears, if it is not resolved quickly, it will cause a catastrophe, right?"
Savior System: "Yes. Especially the kind that can erase its own traces and modify its memory. It may have a certain intelligence. It is not as easy to deal with as the beasts you dealt with before, which acted completely on instinct. The reason why this system failed to find it at the first time is that it actually restrained its weird power fluctuations in the early stage. It does have the ability to 'think'. If it hadn't been a little relaxed, perhaps this system would have found it a few days later. Although it has some intelligence, it is not much, which is the level of 'cunning hyena'."
Qingtong frowned: "A purely physical attacking vest will be at a disadvantage against such a strange thing. For example, it will be difficult for Utol to move, and that place happens to be the area that Utol is responsible for."
Kailet and Curse Priest should be able to use it, but it may be very strenuous. Faceless Child can use mental attacks, so she has the greatest chance of winning.
Do you want to send the faceless children to the Western Continent?
While I was thinking, the salvation system spoke: "Host, you can also try to draw a card. It just so happens that my energy has increased greatly recently, so I can draw two cards in a row this time!"
Qingtong took a look at the card drawing interface and found that the seal had started burning, so he could draw a card again.
"If I draw twice in a row, will it guarantee that I can get a psychic vest?" Qingtong said hesitantly.
Savior System: "...Unsure, this system cannot interfere with the probability of card drop, but I can tell the host that among the weird vests in the card pool, psychic weirdness accounts for one-fifth, so the chance of drawing it is still quite high."
Qingtong: ...
Although I already knew that I had no chance of getting hero cards, I was still a little upset when the result of the card draw directly excluded the possibility of dropping hero cards.