"Um···"

The girl lay on the stone railing along the river, and the crowds of people were passing by behind her. The evening breeze blew her light-colored pleated skirt. Her slender and beautiful palm gently pressed the hair floating in the wind. She looked at the sunset reflected in the river.

"Maybe I'm afraid of becoming a burden."

"Um?"

Jiang Ling couldn't understand Mo Yue's narrative, but she felt that seeing the girl standing between the bustling city and the quiet river was full of a sense of loneliness and melancholy beauty. She couldn't help but want to take out her phone to take a picture of this scene.

"Hey!"

She patted her pocket in surprise and found that something seemed wrong.

"What's wrong?"

Mo Yue also turned her head and looked at Jiang Ling who was turning out all her pockets.

"My phone seems to have dropped," Jiang Ling was a little helpless, "Let's go back and look for it."

"I was stolen when I bought the candied haws?"

Mo Yue asked softly.

"Maybe it fell to the ground. I have been like this several times. My phone accidentally dropped and I didn't pay attention."

Jiang Ling smiled, not as if she was worried. She took Mo Yue back the same way. She had just walked a few steps and found a cell phone lying on the ground in front. She walked over and picked it up in three or two steps, and shook it at Mo Yue.

"It should have just happened to fall here accidentally."

Mo Yue was a little confused. When they walked here just now, she did not notice that Jiang Ling's phone had fallen. At this moment, she felt a figure flashing in the crowd.

"who?"

She chased after her.

"Hey? Mo Yue, what's wrong?"

Jiang Ling watched Mo Yue run away and quickly chased after him in the direction.

After she ran for a long time, she saw Mo Yue parked at the door of a remote small stairwell.

"Mo Yue," she walked up to take a breath, and then slowly continued to ask, "What happened?"

"It disappeared," Mo Yue shook his head in confusion and explained casually, "I just saw someone following us, so I chased after him. He had some way of secreting his own existence, and he should be a superpower."

"Was it attacked us today?"

Jiang Ling asked.

"The breath doesn't look very similar," Mo Yue shook her head, then turned around, "Let's go, maybe it's a person from the relevant forces, the soldiers come to block the water and the soil."

"good."

Jiang Ling followed Mo Yue in a daze.

At the entrance of this dark staircase, the figure of a young man in a white robe slowly emerged from the void, but he stopped halfway through the appearance, frowned, and disappeared again.

And the moment he disappeared, Mo Yue's figure appeared at the entrance of the stairs.

The girl looked at the empty stairs and shook her head. The panting Jiang Ling chased after her again with difficulty.

"Mo Yue, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," Mo Yue shook her head, "it should have run away completely."

Jiang Ling looked at Mo Yue, leaned against the wall and breathed hard, "Why should we wait here?"

"No," Mo Yue raised her foot and was about to leave. She found that Jiang Ling was almost slumped against the wall and could not move at all, so she leaned over, "Your physical fitness still needs more exercise."

“Ah… Huh…”

Jiang Ling took a breath and couldn't speak for a while. She said slowly after a while.

"You run too fast, I can't keep up."

The two girls chatted for a while, and then Jiang Ling seemed to have recovered some of her physical strength, and the voices of the two gradually faded away.

The stairwell fell into silence again. After about half an hour, after confirming that Mo Yue would not kill another shot, the boy in a white robe slowly emerged from the void.

He walked into the depths of the stairwell, where there was a hidden small iron door. The boy opened the small iron door, revealing the chaotic utility room inside. A thin-faced man was lying on the miscellaneous items, and several mobile phones were vaguely overlapping the bag of the man's clothes.

The man was breathing slightly, his chest was up and down.

The boy closed the door of the utility room, walked slowly out of the stairs, and merged into the crowd.

——

At this time, Mo Yu had already arrived at Chang'an No. 9 Middle School. Because there was no suitable apron nearby, they found a rope and slid directly to the roof of a tall building next to the school, and then went down from the stairs.

"Chang'an No. 9 Middle School is one of the oldest middle schools in Chang'an. Its original body is the earliest middle school education school in Dongtu. Chang'an Middle School. Later, the middle school was reorganized and became Chang'an No. 9 Middle School. Now Chang'an No. 9 Middle School is also one of the best middle schools in Chang'an in the whole of Chang'an."

While walking towards Chang'an No. 9 Middle School, Yu Mengsi introduced it.

When we arrived at the school gate, there were already teachers waiting at the school gate.

"Hello, are you a staff member of the special investigation team?" A bald middle-aged man with shirt and trousers reached out and shook hands with Mo Yu and the other two. "I am the vice principal in charge of student affairs at Chang'an No. 9 Middle School. My name is Xue Yuanchu."

Then he pointed to the rich middle-aged lady with glasses around him, "This is Chen Yingxue's head teacher, Teacher Yang Yu."

"Hello."

Yang Yu quickly greeted Mo Yu and the other two. Although Yang Yu, as the head teacher, usually rarely went home at night, and kept watching students' evening self-study in the office or classroom.

But she was called out so late today and faced with the "Special Investigation Team for the Homicide Case" from the government. She was a little nervous.

Then Xue Yuanchu took Mo Yu and Yang Yu to the school conference room. In fact, Xue Yuanchu and Yang Yu were both a little nervous. After all, teachers had never been involved in murder cases and did not want to be exposed to these things. If something went wrong, the school would take the blame and the whole career might be ruined.

"Relax, we just understand the situation. We suspect that Chen Yingxue's disappearance may be related to a serial murder case that happened before, so we come to you to find out the situation."

Yu Mengsi took out her notebook and said slowly.

"Has Yingxue been killed?"

Hearing this, Yang Yu asked with some concern.

"We have not found Chen Yingxue yet, and we cannot be sure whether she was killed. Maybe she is just missing." Yu Mengsi shook her head gently, spread out her notebook, and brought the topic to the right track.

"Have you shown any strange situation before Chen Yingxue disappeared?"

"Strange?" Yang Yu shook her head, "Yingxue has always been well-behaved and very serious in studying. Every time she sees me, she greets me warmly. It was normal for her two days before she asked for leave and did not show any abnormality."

"Did you approve her of the leave at that time?"

Mo Yu, who was beside him, suddenly asked.

"yes."

Yang Yu nodded.

"Then was there anything different from what she did when she asked for leave? For example, personality, actions, language, etc."

Mo Yu continued to ask.

"It seems...no..." Yang Yu tried to recall, shook her head, and then she seemed to suddenly remember something, "Her actions are not very different from usual, but if she insisted on saying something different, the students in the class told me that she seemed to be much quieter that day and had a lot less smile."

"A lot of silence?" Mo Yu asked softly.

"Yes," Yang Yu nodded, "The student said that she smiled less on the day she asked her leave. In the past, her classmates were very patient when they asked her questions, but she seemed a little impatient that day, but it was quite normal when she came to me to ask for leave. I didn't feel any difference."

"Is her roommate and classmates in school now?"

Yu Mengsi asked on the side.

"They are in the third year of high school and the school has started," Xue Yuanchu replied. "They are all in school now, so I can call them over."

He got up and walked towards the door of the conference room. As soon as he opened the door, he turned his head and looked at Yu Mengsi and added, "The college entrance examination is coming soon. If there is no special situation, can you be faster? It's better not to delay their studies."

"OK,"

Yu Mengsi nodded gently.

Then I asked the students and the answers I got were very different. Basically, they all said that Chen Yingxue was good, and of course there was some special information.

For example, a student said that she felt that Chen Yingxue seemed to have changed that day, and the reason she gave was: in the past, Chen Yingxue answered questions to her, but in the past, she was directly given the answer and method to let her verify the right and wrong by herself.

Another student said that Chen Yingxue became much colder that day, and she didn't get along so well, but instead felt a sense of alienation.

These were also found when taking notes before, but they were not obvious, because the focus of the investigation was not here at that time. Today I asked and dig deeper into this information separately.

"It's all very detailed changes. Her overall actions are not different from usual, but some details that belong to Chen Yingxue when she took out her notebook."

At this moment, Mo Yu and the other two were alone in the teacher's lounge. Yu Mengsi looked at these records and slowly concluded,

"It feels like there is someone pretending to be 'Chen Yingxue'."

Mo Yu expressed his guess.

"If jealousy is swallowed up, jealousy will not have the memory and personality of its original body, but have its own personality? It has its own consciousness?"

Yu Mengsi pondered.

"But when the murder case outside Chang'an No. 9 Middle School happened, Chen Yingxue's perfect absence proved that her classmates, teachers, and school surveillance all proved that she was in the school during that time and had never been out."

Wei Qiyuan responded.
To be continued...