Volume 3 Winter Solstice Chapter 9 Gear
"It's not safe to rent a house outside," Jiang You followed up on Li Sheng's question and asked, "Are the two missing students a couple?"
"No, it's two girls, from different majors," Li Sheng spoke quickly, spreading gossip like spilling beans. "There are many rumors now. Some say they were tricked into doing pyramid schemes, some say they were kidnapped by human traffickers and sold to the mountains, some say one of them stole the other's boyfriend, and some say there's a magic circle set up where they live..."
" Do you know them?" Jiang You asked.
"I know someone, Wang Jie. She and I are both in the animation club, but I haven't participated in activities for a long time, so I'm not very familiar with her." Li Sheng thought for a while, "She is from the mechanical department, has strong hands-on skills, can make a lot of props, is a tailor, and is also good at drawing."
Tang Butian listened to the conversation between Jiang You and Li Sheng. She took out her cell phone, transferred the information to Jiang You, and then opened the address book.
The bell rang again.
Li Sheng screamed, "It's over, it's over. I'm late. I have class later. I have to go to class first..."
She broke into a run.
Jiang You looked at her gradually shrinking figure, "She looks like a little rabbit, quite cute ."
Tang Butian said: "I found Taoist Qingyang."
"Don't you want to recruit people?"
"Recruiting people can wait, but they can't."
"Go to the police station now?"
"right."
"Then I'm going back?"
"You 'll come with me."
Tangjiang University and the Public Security Bureau are both in Ning'an District, one in the south and the other in the north.
It took less than half an hour to get there by taxi.
While in the taxi, Jiang You looked at the information Tang Butian sent him.
The two missing girls are Wang Jie, who studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Gu Lingke, who studies in the Department of Foreign Languages.
Wang Jie's father was a watch repairman. He died of illness when she was 10 years old. When she was 15, her mother remarried and took her with her. After entering college, she earned her living expenses on her own. Because she often had to work all night to finish drawings, she moved out in the second semester of her sophomore year.
Gu Lingke is from the English Department. She had a conflict with her roommate, and the counselor mediated several times without any effect. She saw Wang Jie's roommate recruitment information in a group, so she contacted Wang Jie and moved out together.
Jiang You yawned, rubbed his eyes, and put his phone back into his bag .
He looked out the window. It was almost noon and the snow was beginning to melt.
He closed his eyes.
——
Gu Lingke walked forward and arrived in front of the dormitory building.
I walked past the message room. The light was on, but the dormitory manager was not there.
So quiet.
She went up to the second floor and the lights in the corridor were on.
It's very quiet, no one is there.
She looked up and saw the dormitory number 207. She hesitated for a moment and reached out to open the door.
The lights are on.
It's empty, there's no one there.
She walked to her bed, where a layer of dust had accumulated on the desk.
She pulled out a chair and sat down.
Where did they all go?
Is it winter vacation? Have you all gone back home?
No, it's not like that. There are no final exams yet, winter break hasn't started yet, and she doesn't live here.
She remembered.
She pushed open the door of the room. Wang Jie was sitting in the middle of the living room, smiling at her strangely.
Gu Lingke stood up suddenly. She wanted to rush out of the dormitory, she wanted to leave here, she wanted to escape. The lights suddenly became distorted, the windows, walls, bed, and desk all began to distort, twisting into the shape of gears, turning.
Stuck in a maze of gears.
——
Jiang You and Tang Butian got out of the taxi and walked into the Public Security Bureau building.
Waited for the elevator.
Tang Butian reached out and pressed the button for the twelfth floor.
"Officers from the Ning'an District Police Station investigated the issues between Gu Lingke and her roommate."
"What's the contradiction?" Jiang You asked.
"Her roommates said she didn't like cleanliness. She didn't wash the sheets once in a semester. She would always pile up clothes until they became smelly before washing them. She would not wring them out after washing, so other people's clothes got wet. She would always find excuses to not be there during the dormitory cleaning..."
"I can imagine," Jiang You thought about the situation in the rental house, "If my roommate was like that, I think I wouldn't be able to hold back either..."
"What?"
"Kick her out," Jiang You turned and looked at Tang Butian, "What did you think it would be?"
The elevator reached the twelfth floor and the door opened.
Jiang You and Tang Butian walked out, turned right and went to the second office.
Tang Butian opened the door and Jiang You followed her in.
Sun-woo is not in the office.
"Have you found out about the boyfriend-stealing incident?"
"Not yet. Wang Jie's boyfriend is not a student of Tangjiang University. His identity is still under investigation."
"I haven't eaten in the cafeteria here yet. I heard that for five yuan a meal, you can get a lot of dishes and fruits," Jiang You sat down. "Let's go have lunch so that I can enjoy the benefits of the system?"
"Taoist Qingyang will be here soon." Tang Butian rejected Jiang You's proposal.
"All right."
"You don't care much whether they live or die."
"Maybe," Jiang You did not deny it, "You are the leader, it's OK as long as you care."
"After I gave the photo of the statue to the technical department, they found some information."
The office is warm.
Jiang You unzipped his down jacket, revealing a blue and black striped wool sweater underneath. "Master Qingyang will thank you."
The door of the Special Operations Department was pushed open, and Sun Yu walked in. After seeing Tang Butian and Jiang You, he said, "I just went to eat. Have you found the two missing girls?"
"No, I'm waiting for Taoist Qingyang to come."
"Didn't you notice?" Sun Yu asked Jiang You.
"There are some. Let's find them first. By the way, do we have the contact information of those former special operations staff?"
Sun Yu thought for a moment and said, "Not necessarily. After they left the Special Operations Department, their identities and experiences were all dealt with."
"Organize their information for me." Tang Butian said.
"Okay, I'll sort it out today. When I read the old case files, I felt like I was reading an online novel. Some of them are even more exaggerated than the novels. Can we also..."
Jiang You looked at Sun Yu's expression and asked, "Are you looking forward to it?"
"I became a policeman because I wanted to do something," Sun Yu smiled and changed the subject, "Does Jiang Mo like the car I gave him?"
"I like it very much. I have been playing with it these past few days. I think I should buy a car so I can take him around."
"It's much more convenient to have a car. He's home alone now?"
"He's sleeping. After it snowed last night, he was very excited. He woke me up early this morning before daybreak to make a snowman. But after playing for a while, he got sleepy," Jiang You yawned. "He's sleeping in the room, and I'm also very sleepy."
"It's been a long time since Tangjiang has had such heavy snow."
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in, the door is not locked." Sun Yu said.
The door opened and Taoist Qingyang walked in.
