Wei Chiyan was stunned and said in disbelief: "Missing? Where is he now?"

Song Yinyin took off her sunglasses, her face full of impatience: "What nonsense are you asking? If I knew where he was, would it still be called missing?"

Wei Chiyan: "..."

Too.

It was Jiang Yushi who interrupted their meaningless conversation and asked, "Is it because of the ranking in the monthly exam?"

Song Yinyin nodded, her eyes becoming more complicated: "He is like this, forcing us to do our best in everything. Actually, I looked and found that Xia Mu was only two points higher than Song Zhili. He was just luckier. He got it back with just one multiple-choice question... By the way, who are you? Why haven't I seen you before?"

Song Yinyin looked at Xia Wan and frowned.

Xia Wan: "..."

Xia Wan: "I am the luckier Xia Mu."

The scene was a bit awkward for a while.

Song Yinyin put on her sunglasses again and said, "I won't talk nonsense with you. To put it simply, my dad beat him up and he disappeared. I can't contact him now. If any of you can find him, ask him to send me the plan he promised a few days ago. Also, ask him to come back and apologize as soon as possible, otherwise my dad will really beat him to death if he finds him."

"...Huh?" Wei Chiyan was amused by Song Yinyin and asked, "Do you have any conscience, woman? I thought you came to us because you cared about Song Zhili."

Song Yinyin retorted: "How could I not care about him? I am the one who wants to find him the most now. Why are you glaring at me? I am more annoyed than you all."

Xia Wan reached out and pulled Wei Chiyan back a little, then shook her head to signal him to stop talking.

For them, Song Yinyin is their only channel to understand the specific situation of the Song family, and they cannot break up with her for the time being.

So Xia Wan said: "We will try our best. As for the Song family, I'll trouble you. Don't let your father find him first."

Song Yinyin replied: "Of course I know that. I have taken care of all the people under him. They are just looking for him symbolically."

Song Yinyin didn't care much about Song Zhili, but if anything happened to her brother, she would suffer a great loss.

Because no matter what task she gave him or asked him to do, he could complete it very well, and his biggest advantage was that he kept his mouth shut.

Over the years, Song Zhili has done a lot of things, but in her father's eyes, she is always the best daughter.

She had tried to test Song Zhili several times, giving him the opportunity to reveal the truth to Song's father, but he chose not to reveal the truth, and even took the initiative to protect her.

The young man had never shown any ambition over the years. He just knew that the Song family had already swallowed up a lot of the Ye family's business resources. He only hoped to get his mother's share back in the future and didn't want to have anything to do with the Song family anymore.

So for Song Yinyin, as long as it does not affect her interests, she naturally has to keep Song Zhili, so that she can better use him for her own benefit.

To Song Yinyin, Song Zhili is like an obedient dog.

Well-behaved, excellent, and submissive.

Song Yinyin has already thought about it. When she inherits the family business in the future, if Song Zhili is still loyal to her, it would be fine to return the half-dead companies of the Ye family to him. She is not so unkind that she can give him a sip of soup while eating meat herself.

Song Yinyin obviously didn't want to stay here any longer, so she left after saying this.

Xia Wan said, "Let's not go to eat. Let's go back to the dormitory and discuss what to do next."

Wei Chiyan and Jiang Yushi naturally would not object.

The three of them entered Song Zhili's dormitory and made several calls along the way, but Song Zhili's phone kept showing as turned off.

Song Zhili's dormitory is simply furnished, with almost no extra items except basic necessities such as quilts and clothes. It is so clean that it even looks a size bigger than their dormitory.

Xia Wan always felt that what happened yesterday was not that simple. With Song Zhili's character, he should have held back no matter what Song's father did.

For a good student like him to run away from home and skip classes, there must have been an emotional outburst.

So Xia Wan guessed: "Is his mother's memorial day coming soon?"

"No." Jiang Yushi shook his head, thought carefully and said, "I don't know the exact date, but it will be in March."

If it wasn't his mother's memorial day, what else could have caused Song Zhili to lose control?

As Xia Wan was thinking this, she found a desktop calendar on Song Zhili's desk.

This is a new calendar for this year, with one month on each side and some dates circled.

Xia Wan flipped through it and asked, "What is April 16?"

Wei Chiyan: "My birthday."

Xia Wan continued to turn the pages: "What is June 29th?"

Jiang Yushi: "...My birthday."

Xia Wan was certain that these circled days must be relatively important to Song Zhili and needed to be remembered, which was why he marked them like this.

So Xia Wan turned directly to this month.

Sure enough, a circle was drawn seven days later.

Xia Wan asked: "What day is December 25th?"

Wei Chiyan answered without thinking: "Christmas."

Xia Wan: "..."

Xia Wan ignored Wei Chiyan's answer, but walked to Jiang Yushi with the calendar and told him her discovery.

Jiang Yushi frowned, then took out his cell phone and started searching on Baidu for Song Zhili's father's name.

As one of the most well-known local entrepreneurs, there are many introductions about Song Zhili's father on the Internet, but most of them are related to his business, or he took Song Yinyin to attend some charity dinner.

until--

"Found it." Jiang Yushi clicked on a piece of news and handed the phone to Xia Wan.

[Famous entrepreneur Song Ze paid tribute to his late wife on their wedding anniversary and announced that he would invest tens of millions of yuan to help teenagers with depression]

The content of the news is very simple. It says that Song Ze is doing charity work to help teenagers with depression to receive treatment, and calls on parents to pay attention to their children's mental health in a timely manner. Once depression occurs, seek medical attention as soon as possible, and don't be like his wife, who was already seriously ill when she was discovered.

There is also a video in which Song Ze tearfully tells the story of his love with his late wife. He says that during all the years they were together, she was a very lively and outgoing person, so he never thought that his wife would have experienced so much pain. In his words, he attributed his wife's eventual depression and suicide by jumping off a building to her original family, and that he had always been a good husband who loved his wife.

But the date of this news report is December 25th, three years ago.

Xia Wan understood and said, "It's almost the wedding anniversary of Song Zhili's parents."

Jiang Yushi nodded, then turned off the phone screen and said, "Song Zhili's parents' wedding was held in Lincheng, and this event is very famous. It takes at least two hours to drive from here to Lincheng. Wei Chi and I will go over to take a look, and you stay in the imperial capital and wait for our news. By the way, you can contact Xie Yan again to see if he has returned and help look for him together."

"Okay." Xia Wan nodded in agreement. She didn't say much, but she knew this was the best arrangement.

Jiang Yushi and Wei Chiyan immediately arranged for the vehicle to set off, while Xia Wan called Xie Yan.

The call was connected quickly.

Xie's voice sounded a little sleepy: "What time is it... Why are you calling me out of the blue?"

Xia Wan: "..."

From the disgusted sound of Xie's voice, I could tell they must be jet-lagged.

So Xia Wan asked directly: "You haven't returned to China yet?"

Xie Yan said with a smile: "You guessed it right. What? Song Zhili asked you to threaten me? Tell him to go to Master Wei Chi to complain. Now I can..."

"It's not about that." Xia Wan interrupted Xie Yan and said, "Song Zhili is missing."

Xie's tone obviously turned cold: "What do you mean?"

Xia Wan told Xie Yan everything that Song Yinyin said today, as well as what they had just discovered and speculated, including the fact that Wei Chiyan and Jiang Yushi had already set out on the road to Lincheng.

Xie Yan corrected Xia Wan: "That's not called missing. Since Song Zhili jumped out of the window and ran away, he ran away from home. This is a belated rebellious period."

Xia Wan was a little annoyed and asked, "Are you still in the mood to joke?"

"This is not a joke, he is Song Zhili." Xie said with disgust and yawned again, and continued: "If he deliberately wants to hide, neither the Song family nor us can find him. And you think too superficially, although Lincheng is where his parents got married, but... forget it, I do know a place, you can go and take a look, just try your luck."

Xie Hate sent Xia Wan a new address and an extra message.

[This place is not auspicious. If you are afraid, you can go with Su Qi.]

Looking at the message sent by Xie Yan, Xia Wan was stunned.

Ah...Su Qi?

Why did she want to find Su Qi? Didn't he and Song Zhili have a quarrel? And with Su Qi's girlish heart, if there was any danger, she would have to protect him, right? So Xia Wan didn't plan to look for him at all.

But when Xia Wan saw the address Xie Ren sent, she frowned again.

It was a famous unfinished building in the imperial capital, where many ghost stories had occurred. There were also rumors that there was once a cemetery underground.

I'm not afraid.

Because--

This is Mary Sue's world, not a horror or suspense world, so there are absolutely no ghosts in this world. At most, some people are pretending to be ghosts.

【……】

The system is speechless with praise [The host is really smart]

Xia Wan said proudly: "There's nothing I can do about my good brain."

After saying that, she took a taxi and rushed to the address Xie Yan gave her.

At this moment, it was dark.

After hearing Xia Wan's address, the taxi driver asked in surprise: "Young man, I see you are still a high school student. What are you doing in a place like that so late at night?"

Xia Wan could only make up an excuse: "My parents bought a suite there, and it hasn't been completed yet. But we are leaving the capital soon, so I thought I had to go take a look."

Xia Wan's words did not arouse the driver's suspicion. He said, "Young man, you can see that her family is well-off. Those who could afford to buy that property were all wealthy people."

Xia Wan didn't know much about those dilapidated buildings. On the way, she tried to search on Baidu, but found that the related news had basically been deleted.

Xie Yan just told her to look here without telling her the specific reason, and she still knew nothing about this place.

Seeing that the driver obviously knew something, Xia Wan quickly asked: "Uncle, my parents haven't told me much about this property. If you know anything about it, can you tell me about it?"

The driver was a passionate person. When he heard Xia Wan said she didn't know, he immediately started talking nonstop.

The property was called Longfeng Garden, and it was the most popular property in the capital 20 years ago. At that time, if you wanted to buy a house there, you even needed to have some connections.

However, after the homebuyers paid the down payment, the investor's funding chain broke and construction stopped.

The beautiful new house in their dreams of the future has not yet arrived, and all they have is a bare house without even doors and windows.

At first, some people moved into these rough houses collectively, hoping to protest against the investors. They lived together for warmth, but "supernatural" incidents occurred one after another.

For example, the installed doors were removed, the plastic sheets used to block the wind were punctured, and the rest tents were thrown into the stinky gutter downstairs.

It's not a ghost, but someone who wants to drive them away from here. Everyone thinks so, so they become more united and want to resist the foreign enemy together.

Until an old man fell from the third floor and died in the middle of the night. He was not found until the morning when people went to work. A few days later, a drunk young man died in the same way. In the following nights, more than one child saw the so-called wronged spirits.

The adults all scolded the child for talking nonsense, but as the child cried, they actually saw those strange things with their own eyes.

Although they refused to admit it, saying it was because they were dizzy after dark, those who were a little more capable moved out of the rotten-finished buildings one after another in the next few years.

Now, twenty years later, the last family moved out of these unfinished buildings two years ago. No one lives there anymore and they have become the legendary "haunted houses".

The time of chatting passed little by little, and the taxi finally drove to the dilapidated back building.

The building looked dilapidated during the day, and was surrounded by weeds. It had rained heavily two days ago, and the water on the ground has not yet dispersed. It looks extremely cold.

The driver kindly reminded me, "Be careful when you walk. You will be crossing a meadow and there will be a lot of muddy puddles on the ground. You'd better find a branch to use as a crutch to explore the way. Go home early after you finish your visit and don't let your family worry."

"I understand. Thank you, uncle." Xia Wan smiled at the driver and got out of the car.

The road beneath her feet was muddier than she had imagined, but Xia Wan's pace kept getting faster because she saw a run-down building not far away, and there was a light on in a room on the third floor.

The driver just said that the last family moved out here two years ago, so the person who is still here now is most likely Song Zhili.

Although Xia Wan still didn't understand the relationship between Song Zhili and this dilapidated building, she believed that Xie Fan would never lie if Song Zhili was missing, so she walked forward firmly.

Xia Wan walked into the building and felt the cold wind was still as biting as when she had just got off the car.

Most of these unfinished buildings don't even have doors or windows installed, so the wind blows in strongly, and there is no effect of keeping out the cold at all.

Xia Wan couldn't help but shout upstairs: "Song Zhili? Is that you here, Song Zhili?"

Xia Wan didn't get a response, but in this case, no response was also an answer.

She continued walking upstairs until she reached the third floor.

What I saw was a suite with three bedrooms and two living rooms, but there was no door to separate the room. What I saw was a huge empty space, but there was a bed, a table and chairs, and even a simple wardrobe. It looked like someone had lived there.

She stood at the entrance, with a few tattered tents piled up at her feet that looked quite old.

Xia Wan looked up and called out his name: "Song Zhili."

Xie Shi is right, Song Zhili is really here.

The boy was standing at the other end of the room, in a place that should perhaps be called a balcony.

He turned his back to Xia Wan, and said in a gentle voice as always: "I saw you a long time ago, but I didn't want to be found, so I just wanted to hide."

Xia Wan asked: "Then why are you still waiting for me here?"

Song Zhili said in a very soft voice: "It's not safe here. There are almost no doors or windows. I'm afraid if I turn off the lights you won't be able to see the road clearly."

As he spoke, he raised his hands and covered his eyes helplessly, not knowing how to face his friends who had come.

Under the not-too-bright light, the boy's fair wrist had an extremely glaring bruise, and one could imagine how badly the injuries to the covered parts of his body were severe.

Xia Wan walked forward, her voice firm and gentle: "Song Zhili, don't be afraid, I'm here.

I will protect you, come home with me, okay?"

The author has something to say:

In Song Zaiwan's heart before: the gentle holy father

Song Zaiwan now thinks: Poor little

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