RPAGF Chapter 271 Come to the door
Chapter 271 Come to the door
Tang Huilan has disappeared, and no one knows where she went.
The night before, she was sitting in a daze at the theater entrance, not knowing what she was thinking, just muttering to herself.
When the other people in the theater saw her like this, they assumed it was because her daughter had disowned her, which had hurt her deeply.
Xi Xi even tried to show concern for her, but only received a cold shoulder in return.
Good deeds go unrewarded, so naturally no one paid any attention to her anymore.
Not long after, Tang Huilan returned to the theater's staff dormitory by herself. After dusk, someone saw her sneaking away, and she was never seen to return.
Tang Huilan is vain and always loves to slack off and throw tantrums. She was only allowed to work in the theater to make a living because she was Tang Shi's aunt. So when no one saw her in the morning, no one paid any attention to it and went about cleaning the theater and preparing the equipment needed for the next performance.
It wasn't until lunchtime that everyone realized something was wrong.
Tang Huilan does enjoy being cunning and sly, but she won't let herself go hungry for no reason.
Tang Shi went to her room and knocked on the door, only to find that it was empty. Everyone searched around but couldn't find any trace of her.
In other words, Tang Huilan left last night and never came back. However, there is a curfew in Yuecheng after 8 p.m., and no place will accept her except the guards.
Things seem to be getting serious.
They waited until the afternoon but still didn't see Tang Huilan. Finally, they decided not to wait any longer and went to the guard team to get the surveillance footage.
Then Tang Shi received bad news: just last night, rats had chewed through the power lines on three streets, including Huashen Street, rendering all surveillance cameras unusable. Unless Tang Huilan left these three streets, no equipment could record her whereabouts.
Undeterred, Tang Shi reviewed the videos from the other streets but still couldn't find any trace of Tang Huilan. He had to admit that she seemed to have disappeared between these three streets.
"Don't be too anxious. What if she's just throwing a tantrum and ran off to a friend's house? No one disappears without a trace in Moon City," the guard said.
Tang Shi shook her head. She knew her aunt's personality too well. Let alone friends, it was already a good thing if they didn't make enemies.
...etc., it's not like there's nowhere to go at all.
Didn't she find her daughter?
Thinking of this, Tang Shi immediately said, "Thank you for your hard work. I'll go look for it again."
"It's alright, it's the right thing to do. Take another look. If you still can't find him by 6 p.m. tomorrow, you can report him missing, and we'll investigate thoroughly."
The rule in Moon City is that if a person cannot be found within 48 hours, they are considered missing, and the guards will join the search team.
However, since this rule was established, it has hardly been used. After all, as long as one does not leave the city, it is difficult to find the person. If the family cannot find the person, it can only mean that the person is deliberately hiding and does not want to be found.
The guards watched Tang Shi leave, then turned back to check the surveillance system that had just been restored, their brows slowly furrowing.
What he didn't say was that there had never been a case of rats gnawing through public power lines in Yuecheng before.
The public power lines are too important for the shelter, so the electrical boxes are protected by multiple layers. Putting aside how the rat got in, the fact that three power lines were cut at the same time in a short period of time is particularly strange.
Another missing person case happened today, and the location just so happens to be on Huashen Street.
Could it be... that a mutant has appeared in the city?
Thinking of this, the man couldn't help but laugh at his own wild imagination. If it were really a mutant, there would probably have been a bloodbath long ago. How could things be so calm? Those flesh-eating creatures wouldn't have the patience to lie in wait.
Moreover, he had just looked through Tang Huilan's file, and this woman had quite a few affairs, big and small, in the city.
These two things are probably just a coincidence.
……
Not long after dinner, a man who wasn't a complete stranger arrived at Miao Yin's residence.
Tan Ling opened the door and saw Tang Shi; her eyes held a somewhat enigmatic expression.
"Hello, I'm the owner of the theater you visited before. I'd like to ask if Tang Huilan came here?"
Tang Shi first went back to the theater to ask for the detailed address before finding this place. Just before knocking on the door, she still had the same unease she felt when entering a wealthy family's home.
"No." Tan Ling answered crisply and was about to close the door.
"Wait!" Tang Shi pressed down on the door, his tone somewhat anxious. "It's like this, my aunt has gone missing. She has nowhere to go in Yuecheng, so I thought I'd come here to ask. If she's not here, that's fine, but if she comes looking for me, could you please let me know?"
Looking at that familiar face, and hearing those words that person would never say, Tan Ling felt a strange unease and could only dismiss it by saying, "Okay."
"Thanks……"
Bang! The door slammed shut. Tang Shi sighed, turned and left, but caught a glimpse of the security camera on the utility pole as he looked up.
She tilted her head and looked at it for a while, her expression somewhat puzzled.
Speaking of which, the power lines on this street must have been gnawed through by rats too.
A vague feeling flashed by, but by the time she tried to grasp it, it had vanished. She shook her head and decided to search the vicinity first to see if she could find any clues.
Curfew will begin in two hours.
"Tang Shi came to our door, but I sent her away," Tan Ling said to Miao Yin as she entered the living room.
The woman, as beautiful as an oil painting, simply nodded casually, turning a page of her book: "Without evidence, it's useless for her to go anywhere."
With the body destroyed by the fire, they will never be able to find Tang Huilan again. This will be an eternal mystery unless they can find a superhuman with the ability to make history repeat itself, but that is basically impossible.
Miao Yin pulled her attention away from the book and praised Yan Shuzhou, "Xiao Zhou is getting smarter and smarter. He knows how to erase the traces without being told."
Yan Shuzhou pursed his lips and gave a shy smile: "On the first day I arrived here, I had the rabbits scout out the surrounding area."
To make the matter less obvious, he deliberately had the rabbits damage several electrical boxes, leaving marks similar to rat gnaws. He also wiped away the footprints Tang Huilan had left along the way, and cleaned up the entire residence the next day.
Everything happened quietly. At most, they would only approach Miao Yin because of their blood relation, but as long as she stubbornly denied it, who could prove that Tang Huilan had come?
"If something is still left behind that makes them suspicious, I can just have the Moon-Treading Pig disguise itself as a mutant and eat a few people. That way, we can rule her disappearance as death." Yan Shuzhou said nonchalantly, launching into a series of bloody and scathing remarks.
"That's great! I only feel at ease when you're here," Miao Yin said, blinking.
"However... although it's quite interesting, I still hope for a little more peace." She closed the book and looked out the window.
"Almost there, the people from Dream City should be here soon."