Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 122: The Crime Scene Ten Years Ago
At this point in Ning Mo's story, everyone except Tang Zheng showed a hint of surprise. No one expected that the originally heartwarming story of brother and sister would take such a sudden turn for the worse.
Right in front of Ning Mo, his sister suddenly disappeared, and no one knew whether she was alive or dead.
Tang Zheng interrupted Ning Mo's story and asked, "What was your reaction when you found out your sister wasn't in the cellar?"
Ning Mo recalled: "Because of my years of experience in the spy camp, I forced myself to calm down immediately. The light in the cellar was very poor at the time. After I looked around and found no sign of my sister, I used the secret method of the army to investigate and confirmed that there was no star power or breath of living people in the cellar."
"After finding nothing in the cellar, I became a little anxious. Although I didn't know how the other party used them, I concluded that my sister must have been kidnapped by the accomplice of the Shadow Mountain assassin, because I also found a lost two-star Shadow King Order on the floor of the cellar. So I chased after them like crazy and searched everywhere. As long as there were warriors nearby, I went to check, but there was still no trace."
"She has been missing for ten years. Although I still have a glimmer of hope in my heart, reason tells me that Yingshan almost never leaves anyone alive. The chance that my sister is still alive..." When Ning Mo said this, his voice had become so low that it was completely inaudible.
Tang Zheng thought for a moment and then asked, "Has your sister ever practiced martial arts?"
Ning Mo shook his head: "Since I was young, all the family resources have been tilted towards me. My sister has always said that having a brother like me who practices martial arts and can protect her is enough, but... haha, I'm such a waste!" Ning Mo shook his head and answered with a sad and dejected face.
"Have you been investigating this matter for the past ten years? Are there any other clues?" Tang Xiaotang and the others were also moved by Ning Mo's story. They temporarily forgot the resentment they had for his previous assassination of Tang Zheng and asked with concern.
"No, I have hardly found any useful clues. I have also suspected that my sister might have offended some enemy, but she has been very gentle and kind since she was a child. She would even leave food for stray cats she met on the road when she couldn't even feed them herself. It is unlikely that she would make enemies with people."
"Moreover, I specifically asked the neighbors next to the stone house, and they all said that in the ten years since I left , my sister has been living the same life as usual, still kind and frugal, and I have never seen her have a big conflict with anyone."
"So, I can only think that it was the demon tribe or human traitors who I offended when I was serving in the intelligence camp. They still hold a grudge against me. After knowing that I returned to my hometown, they asked Yingshan killer to deal with me, but in the end, my sister was implicated..." Ning Mo said here, shaking his head in pain.
After hearing Ning Mo's conclusion, Tang Zheng raised his eyebrows but did not refute. He just suggested, "No matter what case it is, the crime scene is always important. Although it has been ten years, let's go to the place where the crime took place and investigate."
Including Ning Mo, everyone had no objection to Tang Zheng's proposal, so the group set out directly, led by Ning Mo, to the stone house where they, the brothers and sisters, lived in the past.
From the famous house where Tang Zheng lived, to the stone house where Ning Mo and his sister lived, they almost crossed the entire Fei Shi City.
The environment and public security along the way were getting worse and worse. When they reached the end, even Tang Xiaotang and his companions felt a little uncomfortable with the dirty and messy environment near Shiju.
Only Ning Mo's expression became more complicated the closer he got to the stone house. It was unknown whether he had gotten used to it or his eyes could no longer accommodate anything other than the stone house. In short, his eyes were firmly fixed on a stone house that looked very old and simple, and he never left for a moment.
"Master, do you feel a little guilty coming here?" Tang Xiaotang asked Tang Zheng in a low voice while looking around the stone house.
"Oh, why do you feel guilty?" Tang Zheng's eyes had just moved away from a small pile of ashes in the corner of the stone house, and he said absentmindedly.
"Looking at the place where you live, and then looking at here, I suddenly remembered a line of poetry you taught us before - the rich have wine and meat, while the rich freeze to death on the streets. Master, as a typical example of a rich man who lives for the rich, you don't even reflect on yourself?" Tang Xiaotang teased.
"Nonsense. With my Han Jiangxue here, the wine and meat in my house are always fresh all year round. How could they possibly go bad?" Tang Zheng shook his head disdainfully.
"Then your life is more extravagant than that of the rich, isn't that too much?" Tang Xiaotang said speechlessly.
However, before she had time to make a more profound criticism of Tang Zheng's hedonism, Ning Mo had already pushed open the door, stood at the door for a while, looking at the furnishings in the room, and invited Tang Zheng and others in.
"Wait, I have a question, Ning Mo, after the day of the incident, have you lived here and moved anything here?" Tang Zheng took a look at the furnishings in the house, suddenly raised his hand to stop everyone from entering, and asked Ning Mo.
Ning Mo shook his head and said, "Since the day my sister disappeared, I moved out of here and bought a small house close to the academy. I have never touched anything here since that day. Haha... It's funny to say that over the past ten years, I sent all the military pay and rewards I saved in the barracks to my sister, but in the end I found that she had most of it left at home. In the past ten years, I didn't even use a third of the money. The rest was eventually spent by a useless brother like me, who often went on a drunken spree over the years."
After listening to Ning Mo's words, Tang Zheng nodded, took out , threw them to the people behind him, took the lead, wrapped his shoes with thick cloth, and then slowly walked into the stone house that no one had entered for almost ten years.
As soon as he entered the house, he found that, just as Ning Mo had said, his sister lived a very frugal life. The house could almost be described as bare. Apart from the most basic daily necessities, there was no extra furniture or decorations.
The house was empty and simple. After walking around the house, everyone did not find anything wrong. However, Tang Zheng took a closer look at a dusty rectangular box on a large wooden table in the main room.
"That year, my sister disappeared in this cellar." Ning Mo stood in the main room, looking around, as if recalling that unbearable night. He gritted his teeth and pointed to a wooden board with a handle in the corner of the main room.
After saying that, he walked straight over, wiped off the cobwebs and dust on the wooden handle with his hands, pulled open the board, revealing a long ladder and a dark cellar entrance.
"Let's go and take a look down." Tang Zheng used his star power, opened his folding fan, and fanned it vigorously at the cave entrance several times. Then he took the lead in crawling into the dark cellar entrance and went into the cellar along the ladder.
