Successive plans

  But the problem now is not to investigate these, but to find people. After running for several days in the police station, Peng Ye and others were silent, and I had no great hope for the police. The two men brought by Lao Wu can be ignored, but Peng Ye cannot. Not to mention our team, he must not be absent, more importantly, he is a companion.

  I got to know Peng Ye earlier than Jiahe, he was a top student who had just been admitted to university, I was a lonely drifter in the city; he had brains, I had ideas, and we hit it off immediately, so we started on this path. Jiahe was pulled in by Peng Ye later on.

  After seeing me moved, he didn't rush up, but stood in the creek and said his own set of plans.

  He called over two brothers, found two familiar police officers from the team, and invited a local Yi hunter. Then he planned to enter the valley personally to search for people. Because only by going deep into the hinterland can we know what reasons led to the disappearance of people in batches.

  They came to me because they had a number in mind and still had doubts about me. Half a month ago, when they first found my door, they hadn't searched for his girlfriend's online communication records, but only investigated among relatives and friends. As he said, it was only after discovering that I used data simulation terminal to send text messages that he thought of the internet, broke into his girlfriend's computer, checked her chat records, and then tracked down to this Heizhugou Town. In fact, he had been here many times in the past half month, obtained information from the police, and asked about the situation through connections with those two surviving donkey friends, which took up a lot of time.

  He inferred that his girlfriend had once used the online name "Lí Gē Qiǎn Chàng" for a reason, because she liked Shin Hye-sung's music very much, especially the song "Lí Gē", and her computer had played it on repeat over a hundred times.

  Admitting his reason is sufficient, but it has been nearly two and a half months, if his girlfriend was really one of the missing persons, how could she still be safe?

  I didn't say that, but Lu Xun will probably think of it anyway. He still insisted on finding it and bringing me along, no matter what the reason was, which was beneficial to me either way. We had basically reached a consensus, and I also put away my unhappy expression. Seeing my calm face, he looked up and stretched out his hand, saying "Hey, give me a pull." I lowered my gaze, glanced at his suspended hand, shrugged, and ignored him.

  "He... never mind." As soon as he finished speaking, he pushed against the rock with his hands and flipped it over from underneath. When he stood up straight, I looked down and couldn't help but laugh. The water was still dripping down, and when I raised my head, our eyes met. He glared at me with a look of annoyance, but didn't scold me further and turned to walk down the mountain instead. I stared at the back of his head, thinking that he wasn't a nagging person after all.

  "Aren't you leaving yet? Please, I'm cold too." Lu Xun shouted without turning his head.

  I couldn't help but burst out laughing, quickly catching up to him. After walking silently side by side for a while, I asked: "Did you have a fight with your girlfriend and that's why she ran away?" The person beside me stopped abruptly, turned his head, and fixed his gaze on my face, "How did you know?"

  My eyelids didn't lift, my feet didn't stop, and I irritably replied: "Put away the little nine in your heart. I sent you a message for the last time on June 1st at dawn, before the news report. A team that went missing in the valley was one month ago, assuming she was among them, it's been six months since then, and you only came to find me half a month ago? Without even thinking, I can guess that you had a conflict with your girlfriend."

  This time, he fell silent again, and after a while, he said with a bitter tone: "It was indeed my fault. On June 1st, she suddenly quarreled with me for no reason and broke up with me. I was so angry that I left to work elsewhere. After being busy for over a month, when I called her back, the call couldn't get through, and I thought she was still sulking." At this point, he glanced at me, cleared his throat twice, and said: "Men always have some pride, not wanting to be around women all the time, so I didn't think much of it. It wasn't until the end of the month that I received a call from her family asking if Dongdong was with me, as she hadn't returned home for two months. That's when I realized something had happened. I quickly searched for her on social media, but there was no news at all. Finally, I found her phone left in the apartment, and there was a record of a call on June 1st. That's how I ended up finding you."

  This is a deep and painful love story, I'm surprised he actually told me so much.