192 Meeting the Parents
◎It's so embarrassing◎
Qi Qiuxue was of course worried about her going alone, so she quickly glanced over and said, "I'll go with you."
After finishing his words, Li Yiqing paused for a moment, then smiled softly and said in a low voice, "Okay."
Qi Qiuxue looked back at the returnee in front of her: "By the way, I have something else I want to ask."
"What?"
"It's about a missing girl," Qi Qiuxue said. "Twenty years ago, a little girl went missing here. Do you remember her name or where she lived?"
——Qi Qiuxue has always been interested in finding out about this missing girl.
From the fragmentary information she had previously obtained from the web, Qi Qiuxue only knew the girl's approximate age and clothing when she disappeared. She had no idea what she looked like, where she lived, or who her family members were.
In an S-level dungeon, she shouldn't let go of any doubts or clues, regardless of whether the clue would play a role in the future mission. However, compared to asking ordinary villagers or special villagers, Qi Qiuxue was more willing to trust the answers given by these returnees.
Most of the people in front of them were in their twenties or thirties. They had not left Chigu Village when the girl disappeared. When they mentioned the missing girl, everyone did have some impression of her.
"Yes, there was such a person," someone nodded. "But I was still young at the time. If you ask me for her specific information, I really can't recall it."
"Me too."
"Me too."
"It doesn't matter." Qi Qiuxue shook her head, paused for a moment, and then asked about another clue she got on the Internet.
It was the report titled "Shock! Such a Tragic Event Happened in This Small Mountain Village": "What happened here ten years ago? Do you remember what major event happened here?"
"Are you talking about that fire?" The memory of the incident became noticeably clearer when they brought it up. "We no longer lived in the village at that time, but I heard from some relatives who still lived here that one day, ten years ago, several large reed piles in the village suddenly caught fire. The fire was very fierce, and the strong wind that day carried the fire even further, and the entire village was on fire."
Fire.
Qi Qiuxue instantly thought of the scorching temperature every night and the howling hot wind outside the window.
Li Yiqing, who was standing by, had obviously connected the two points and concluded, "The fire started at night, right?"
"Yes." The returnee nodded.
Li Yiqing: "Which day exactly?"
"The 27th day of the twelfth lunar month," someone said. "The day the fire broke out was my birthday. I called home and happened to find out about this."
According to the time in the copy, six days from now, it will be the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month.
Qi Qiuxue frowned and asked, "Were there any casualties in the fire?"
"No." The man shook his head. "Although it was already late at night, fortunately, no one was injured. Everyone woke up in time and escaped to a safe place."
"But unfortunately, most of the houses were burned down and many public facilities were destroyed, so the whole village was later renovated and rebuilt."
Qi Qiuxue: "What caused the fire in the reed pile?"
The returnee scratched his head in response, somewhat distressed, and said, "Actually, we still don't know why the reed pile caught fire, but I heard that another strange thing happened that day. It may be related to this incident, or it may not be."
"What's strange?"
"Later, someone found several empty gasoline barrels where the reeds were placed, as well as a set of worn and dirty clothes."
"Some people have combined these two facts to speculate that someone set fire to someone or set themselves on fire in the middle of the night. But if that were the case, there was no body found at the scene. Even if it's possible that the fire burned it to ashes, why are those clothes and gasoline cans intact?"
"Later, a reporter from a newspaper came and took a lot of photos, including those pieces of clothing and the gasoline can. She published the story in the local newspaper. I haven't read the newspaper, so I don't know if all the photos were published. I heard the content was quite grotesque."
"If you're curious, you can ask other villagers. Maybe someone still has the newspaper from that time. But ten years have passed, so the chances of finding it are slim to none."
"Yes." Qi Qiuxue memorized these clues one by one. "Thank you, I understand."
"I miss my phone so much," the returnee sighed, and began to whine once more. "This is so boring."
"I haven't completed my game mission yet..."
"That's nothing. I haven't paid the balance yet! It's so frustrating."
Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing looked at each other and naturally left the crowd. No useful information could be obtained from these people. The most urgent thing was to find more returnees and obtain more information.
Later they asked many people and got similar clues as before. Because it happened so long ago, no one could remember much about the missing girl.
Until I met a man in his fifties.
He was the oldest of the returnees. "That little girl you're talking about must be Chen Yifei, right? She's the only child in our village who's lost. She was lost when she was very young, so it must have been over 20 years ago."
The information the man said matched what Qi Qiuxue had basically grasped. Upon hearing this, Qi Qiuxue hurriedly asked, "How much do you know about her?"
"Actually, I don't remember much. One reason is that so much time has passed, and the other is that her family wasn't very prominent before, and we weren't very close to the villagers."
"I vaguely remember that her family was quite unfortunate. Her mother and father died early, leaving only her grandmother. I don't know whether she is dead or alive now. Anyway, I haven't seen her in the village in the past two days. After so many years, I have long forgotten what this girl looks like. If I hadn't happened to find her ID card a few days ago, I almost didn't recognize who she was."
This made Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing ask in unison: "Have you seen her since returning to the village?"
"Yes, she was found a few years ago, didn't you know?"
"Yes, that's it." The man looked around for a while, and finally raised his hand to point at a girl selling vegetables in the square, "That's her, she is Chen Yifei."
"I can't remember more. If you have any questions, just ask her." The man said this, and then changed the subject. He began to talk to the two of them about how much the village had changed after not being back for many years.
"The relationships among villagers weren't this good before. After all, there are only about 2,000 people in this village. It's impossible for everyone to remember who is who and match names with faces. Take Chen Yifei's family, for example. It took me a long time to finally remember the general idea."
"Besides, when I left home, there weren't that many people in the village doing the corpse business. Now it's rampant. It's quite scary at first glance. Is this thing really that profitable?"
"But generally speaking, our village is getting better and better. The scenery is beautiful, the relationships are good, and there's money to be shared. Oh, it's really getting better and better."
He talked a lot.
Qi Qiuxue picked out some useful clues from his words and quickly found an excuse to leave.
“…”
She and Li Yiqing did a lot of things afterwards.
He asked Chen Yifei some questions and confirmed that she had indeed been lost and her family background was exactly the same as what the man said.
They tried to express their desire to leave the village at various times and with various excuses, but each time ended in failure. There was only one road leading out of the village, and whenever they proposed to leave or prepared to leave, they would always encounter various obstacles.
Just as Qi Qiuxue said, the villagers deliberately did not intend to let them leave, and they were always united and very focused.
The sky gradually darkened.
After a busy day, the players gathered together one after another and exchanged the information they had obtained. Today they had been looking for the man who came back from the dead, but they still could not find any trace of him.
"After all, the village is large and populated, so it's normal that we can't find him." Qi Qiuxue said, "I even went to his residence and knocked for a long time, but no one opened the door."
"We'll continue tomorrow. He must have some information we want to know." She said, glancing at the time on the wall. It was almost seven o'clock. "You guys can take care of dinner on your own. Lock the door, and go to bed early after dinner."
"But remember, don't sleep too deeply and protect your personal safety."
Liu Ge understood the meaning behind her words: "You still want to go out?"
"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue nodded and naturally took Li Yiqing's hand.
"I want to go back home with Qing to meet her parents."
Somehow, this sounds a bit ambiguous.
After a while, Li Yiqing tilted his head and bent his knees, resting his head gently on Qi Qiuxue's shoulder, pretending to be sweet and making an excuse: "Oh, I'm so embarrassed."
After he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the room fell silent for a moment.
Liu Ge, who witnessed everything: "..."
I’m really impressed.
【Author’s words】
Here it comes! There are too many clues to lay in this copy, it’s a headache QAQ
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