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Chapter 3 The Impossible Disappearance

After counting on your fingers, the time of the case should be more than a year away from the time of opening the news website. To trace the root cause, the matter can start from September 19 a year ago.

On the morning of September 19, a pure Chinese female student came to the small town with a small population.

The female student named Lin Yushang, who transferred from Chenhui Middle School in Guangzhou. It is said that her parents were doing business in China and asked her to study abroad alone.

She has a innocent and harmless baby face, not an extra eye-catching beauty, and looks comfortable. In addition, her personality is particularly likable, and in a limited time, she has been loved by the residents in the town.

There is no other reason for saying that she is a likable person - she is simply a simple and kind person, lively and outgoing person. She just settled in the town and visited her neighbors from time to time, and occasionally helped an elderly man living alone clean the yard.

This is certainly not easy for a student whose parents are doing business in China and studying abroad. Therefore, an old man named Susan once asked Lin Yusan about her life trivial matters when she helped her clean fallen leaves. Lin Yusan seemed to be quite concerned, but just told Susan easily that she met another girl who was also Chinese when she came to the town. As the saying goes, the fellow villager was particularly friendly to her, and with her help to run errands and go through the admission procedures, she had much less difficulties in life.

The population in the town is quite limited, so it is naturally easy to identify the few Chinese female students. The investigators almost immediately concluded that the person who helped Lin Yu Shang run errands and arranges related check-in was Liu Yanshi, who was already studying at Baiqiao Middle School, and the statement of the archives administrator also confirmed this.

In the near future, this will become the most direct evidence when Liu Yanshi is suspected.

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Lin Yushang's life in the town is not recorded in the newspaper: firstly, she has not lived in the town for a long time and there is nothing to describe, and secondly, her life is really surprisingly normal and there is no doubt.

The newspaper only took a few quick lines to cover all the fragments of her limited life, saying that she was a home girl who didn't usually appear outside. At most, she occasionally helped others do things, clean the yard, or went to school to handle some files - she rented an apartment after she settled down, and the photos of the apartment can make a strong proof of this: pink bed sheets, walls covered with pink and purple wallpaper, and a little bear with patches on the bed. No matter from any angle, it is no different from an ordinary girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.

Compared to the trivialities of her daily life, her incredible disappearance process is much more ordinary.

She suddenly disappeared in front of thousands of audiences in broad daylight in front of thousands of audiences.

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The Nicole Fashion Show is the representative and pride of the town - in a sense, it is also one of the symbols that the town is still connected with the prosperous modern society.

What is very interesting is that although this town is far away from Australia's economic center and even further away from the fashion centers around the world, a famous fashion designer came from here. With the idea of ​​giving back to his hometown and driving the fashion value of his hometown, this friend immediately planned the first Nicole Town Fashion Show after he became famous, which lasted for nearly twenty years.

Of course, this is not the focus of this case. For this case, this year's Nicole Fashion Show has only two notable features.

First, the Nicole fashion show was crowded with nearly 3,000 viewers.

Second, in order to strictly manage the audience and ensure that the prisoners can be caught after theft and other cases occur, the Nicole Fashion Show has and only one audience entrance and exit.

Although there are some blind spots in the surveillance inside the show, it is almost impossible to make a living person disappear out of thin air here: any attempt to abuse others or abduct the other party on the scene will undoubtedly cause a stir in the crowd, and thus attract well-trained and armed security guards; more importantly, in order to ensure that suspicious people who committed crimes in the show are brought to justice, there are eight high-definition cameras installed at the entrance and exit of the Nicole Fashion Show, so that no audience will miss any entry or exit of the show.

At 16:24 pm on September 30, Lin Yushang hummed a small song and jumped into the show. Eight cameras captured her appearance when she checked her tickets from different angles in the crowd. At 18:30, people began to leave one after another. By 19:58, the last audience came out of the venue. There was no trace of Lin Yushang in the video for an entire hour and forty-eight minutes.

At 23 o'clock that night, Anna went to the town police station to report the case. Almost at the same time, the love work of the fashion show was officially completed: except for the staff, no one was found stranded in the venue.

Under the gaze of three thousand people, in a venue that was almost completely closed, Lin Yu Shang mysteriously disappeared as if he had evaporated into the air.

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The police spent three days to check the videos at the entrances and exits of the venue, but found nothing disappointed. Due to the strict regulations of the fashion show, audiences entering and leaving the venue are not allowed to carry items with a volume of more than 500 milliliters of mineral water; in fact, the audience was quite aware of it, and most of the water bottles that entered the venue were 300 milliliters. The video analyst almost broke his eyes and saw no signs of a living person in the mineral water bottle.

The interior of the fashion show is solid, and an ordinary girl has no possibility of leaving without going through the entrance and exit - in fact, except for a window that is ten meters high from the ground, there is only a chandelier and vent on the roof that is thirty meters away from the ground.

The only thing that is more suspicious is the runway for the show center and the catwalk. As we all know, there is enough space under the runway. The illegal man takes advantage of the audience's inattention and subdue or kill Lin Yushang at a speed fast enough, and then put it under the runway in the dark. He only needs to consider how to disassemble the runway and not reveal the stuff when transporting it out of the show.

But the subsequent investigation almost completely shattered the only possibility. All the components of the booth were stopped as soon as they were shipped out of the venue, and a detailed inspection was conducted, and no doubts were found - more importantly, all the staff of this fashion show were from a fashion company in Sydney. Although they had been to the town, they had nothing to do with the new arrival of Lin Yu Shang. They asked them to attack Lin Yu Shang unless they had water in their minds.

In this way, Liu Yanxi, as the only local friend Lin Yu Shang knew and the only object with social records, was naturally the number one suspect. The day after Lin Yu Shang disappeared, he was put into the detention center and was confined.

During this period, what she said and did was completely encrypted archives belonging to the prison, and were not disclosed and could not be found.

But what is certain is that Liu Yanxi did not stay in prison for long. Two days later, she was released from prison by the police.

On the second day after Liu Yanshi was under strict custody in prison, a model who participated in the catwalk was found missing.
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