Chapter 56 The Missing Person
Inside a small house at the crossroads of Yin and Yang.
A black book suddenly visited this place.
This book was the Black Book in Liu Haoyu’s hand.
Black and White Impermanence stood before the book. Neither dared to be negligent, bowing slightly respectfully.
Black Impermanence, who was good at interacting with people, spoke.
“Welcome, Lord King of Rebirth.”
As they spoke, the black book gradually transformed into human form.
Soon, a young girl in her early twenties appeared before Black and White Impermanence.
The girl had fair skin like jade and delicate features like a painting. She casually crossed her legs, her expression crisp yet icy cold, carrying an air of unquestionable authority.
This was the King of Rebirth, the tenth Yama King.
No one knew her name, or perhaps her name had been completely forgotten in the vast expanse of time.
However, she vaguely remembered her name was Youtan, but she had never told anyone.
Looking at the two before her, Youtan said calmly.
“No need for formalities, I am just an ordinary book for now.”
Regarding why the King of Rebirth had become a book, the two ghost messengers tacitly chose not to speak of it.
After all, for the dignified tenth Yama King to transform into a book that was completely filled with scandalous material…
The mere thought of it felt too abstract.
“May we ask what instructions Lord King of Rebirth has for us?”
Facing Black and White Impermanence’s question, Youtan sat on a chair, propping her chin with her hand as her slender index finger tapped the armrest.
“As everyone knows, I transformed into a book and came to the human world to observe the fate of the guide, Qin Liu, and to control her direction as much as possible.”
“Unlike everyone else, her fate is shrouded in mist. I spent a lot of effort to find a few points where her fate intersects with others.”
“And one of these lines is the path Liu Haoyu is currently on. Although it’s full of problems, it can be considered to have entered the right track.”
A person’s destiny always has countless branching points and decision points. In Youtan’s observation, the path Liu Haoyu was taking was fraught with danger.
He was like a dancer walking on the tip of a knife, liable to lose his life at any moment.
Qin Liu’s fate remained unclear, and only through Liu Haoyu could the intersection points of her destiny be explored.
Therefore, the King of Rebirth naturally could not allow Liu Haoyu to encounter any accidents.
Compared to combat personnel, she was more like a scholar. Liu Haoyu, as the only sample, had to be a priority for protection.
And the monster Liu Haoyu was facing now was far more powerful than the remnant soul before. What was even more troublesome was that this man was still very prone to showing off and recklessness, which was truly…
A trace of helplessness flickered in Youtan’s cold gaze.
“Black and White Impermanence,”
“Here!”
“In my current state, I cannot exert my full strength, and the guide is also very unstable at the moment. Therefore, I need you two to provide some covert protection for Liu Haoyu’s future actions.”
Even though Black and White Impermanence’s strength could not compare to Gu Qianyang’s, they were the only soul-collecting envoys the King of Rebirth could mobilize in a short time.
“Yes!”
Black and White Impermanence left the room, and Youtan transformed back into that small notebook filled with inappropriate content.
“Sigh… I’m more worried than his mother.”
Youtan’s figure gradually disappeared at the boundary of Yin and Yang.
***
Time flew to the afternoon of the next day. Liu Haoyu’s home had a rare few guests.
They were police officers, and Liu Haoyu found one of them somewhat familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.
“You again?”
The leading police officer was stunned when he saw Liu Haoyu.
Upon hearing the voice, Liu Haoyu also remembered.
“Officer Ma, is there something you need me for?”
“It’s about a missing person case. This case is a bit strange, so Officer Wang Wenqi asked me to come and find you…”
As he spoke, Ma Jianhua glanced back at Liu Haoyu’s house and couldn’t help but say.
“Before I came, I doubted if Wang Wenqi was bluffing me, but now it seems his recommendation was indeed correct… After all, you are the first person I’ve met who dares to live in a haunted house.”
Liu Haoyu responded with a smile.
“There are no ghosts here. If there were female ghosts, wouldn’t I, a bachelor, be overjoyed?”
“Alright, alright, this case has something to do with you, so let me tell you first.”
Ma Jianhua said calmly.
“This missing person case happened three days ago. The missing person, you know her, she’s that girl named Shirley Lai.”
Upon hearing this, Liu Haoyu immediately straightened up, his eyes exceptionally serious. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and offered it to him.
“Officer Ma, please elaborate.”
Ma Jianhua declined the cigarette and continued.
“This young girl sent a message to her mother five days ago saying ‘I’ll be home soon,’ and then there was no more news.”
“Her mother tried to call her many times without success, so she reported it to the police.”
“We checked the surveillance cameras and found that the girl left Jiangliu University at 4:50 PM. But strangely, all the surveillance cameras on the way from school to her home did not capture her figure. She just vanished into thin air.”
“We also checked her phone’s location. The last place she disappeared was the old industrial zone in the west of the city, but the problem is that it has long been abandoned and uninhabited, with only some homeless people still living there. We questioned them one by one, but none of them could find her whereabouts.”
“With the help of a large number of police officers and police dogs, we found her schoolbag in an abandoned old house. Inside were her mobile phone, wallet, and student ID, but the person was nowhere to be found.”
“According to her mother, the day before she disappeared, she kept receiving calls from unknown numbers. However, when we checked her phone, there were no communication records as her mother described.”
“Later, we found her shoes by the river.”
“But we searched the river several times and for several days, but found nothing. It was as if she had evaporated into thin air, neither alive nor dead.”
“We initially suspected it was a kidnapping or murder case, but until last night…”
Ma Jianhua paused here, his expression solemn and his gaze steady.
“Her friend, Deng Xiaolin, received a call.”
“According to Deng Xiaolin’s own description and the call recording, the call said, ‘Xiaolin, I’m in the old industrial zone, can you come and find me?'”
“After verification, the caller indeed used Shirley Lai’s own number, and the voice was also Shirley Lai’s.”
“But do you know where the problem lies? Because her mobile phone has been locked in a cabinet at the police station…”
