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The air was quiet for a moment.
"Hey, where are my slippers?"
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Chapter 382 Method
"I searched all downstairs, but didn't see Xiaoxiao."
"It was the same upstairs. We searched every room, even under the beds, but we couldn't find anyone anywhere."
"Have you called yet?"
"I called, but her cell phone was in the room. She didn't have it with her."
In the living room, Ouyang Lianyu, who was only wearing a coat, was extremely anxious. She looked at the heavy rain outside the window with worry, "It's raining so hard, Xiaoxiao can't possibly go out, right?"
Zhong Yin also frowned: "I checked, Xiaoxiao's shoes and slippers are in the room. If she goes out, she won't go without shoes, right?"
“But Xiaoxiao is indeed nowhere to be found.”
Gu Zheng wiped the sweat from her forehead. She was in good physical condition, so she naturally took the initiative to take on the task of searching the entire villa and searched almost every place personally.
She took the tissue handed to her by Zhong Ling, looking worried, "Even if she was hiding from us on purpose, with so many of us searching for so long, we should have found her long ago."
Han Zhou nodded on the sofa and thought, "That's right. There aren't many places to hide in this villa. With so many of us looking for her together, it's impossible for her to remain undiscovered unless she's not in the villa."
As soon as these words were spoken, the living room suddenly became quiet. The originally heavy atmosphere became a little subtle, and everyone looked at him with strange expressions.
Gu Zheng looked suspicious and said, "Han Zhou, tell me the truth. Did you hide Xiao Xiao in your room?"
"Do you think I'm such a boring person?" Han Zhou gave her an unpleasant look.
The air was quiet for a few seconds.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him more and more strangely, and even Zhong Ling had an expression that seemed to want to say something but hesitated, his face couldn't help but get hot, and he coughed dryly to cover up his embarrassment, "Okay... I admit that I am a little bored, but I can't joke with you about this kind of thing, and you've already looked for my room, haven't you?"
He felt a little guilty, not because he really hid Xiao Xiaoxiao, but because in Guzheng's opinion, she should have been the first person to hide in his room. Asking such a question probably meant that she had begun to doubt whether she was really the first person to enter the room.
Gu Zheng probably didn't notice Mo Yixia when she left the room before. At that time, she was really worried that Mo Yixia would disappear with Xiao Xiaoxiao. But Mo Yixia is now in the living room, which inevitably makes Gu Zheng think too much.
There is no time to think about it now, but once Xiao Xiaoxiao is found and she has free time, Gu Zheng will probably be able to sort out her thoughts quickly and have more doubts.
Of course, it wasn't just Gu Zheng who didn't have time to think about it. Han Zhou was not in the mood to think about countermeasures at the moment. He knew Xiao Xiaoxiao better than anyone else present, so he was more worried about her condition.
"I believe Han Zhou and Xiaoxiao would not joke with us about disappearance, but where on earth would Xiaoxiao go?" Ouyang Lianyu asked worriedly.
"Since we've searched everywhere in the villa, Xiaoxiao can only be outside..." Zhong Ling looked towards the gate of the villa and tugged at the corner of her clothes.
The sound of the heavy rain outside was enough to make her heart palpitate. She couldn't imagine how dangerous it would be for a girl like Xiao Xiaoxiao to be outside.
It's a pity that no one could hear her voice.
Fortunately, Han Zhou still helped translate at this time, and then shook his head to deny this guess, "Sister Yin just said that Xiaoxiao's shoes and mobile phone are in the room. She can go out without a mobile phone, but she can't go out without shoes."
"Yes, there's no need to go out of your way to not wear shoes," Guzheng agreed, "unless there's some special meaning."
After the words fell, Wang Lengqiu, who had been silent all this time, rarely expressed his opinion, and said slowly: "I heard that some people who commit suicide will take off their shoes before committing suicide."
Everyone looked stiff.
suicide?
It would have been better if Wang Lengqiu didn't say anything. Once he said it, everyone's already panicked emotions seemed to be ignited instantly. The scene of Xiao Xiaoxiao walking out of the villa alone barefoot in the heavy rain emerged uncontrollably in their minds.
If I remember correctly, there is a river near the villa.
Could it be that Xiao Xiaoxiao really committed suicide?
"No, I have to go out and take a look..."
Ouyang Lianyu was suddenly distracted and didn't even bother to go back to change her shoes or get an umbrella. She rushed to the villa gate, but was quickly grabbed by Han Zhou by the arm.
"Han Zhou, don't stop the teacher! We have to find Xiao Xiao as soon as possible!"
"Teacher Ouyang, don't worry." Han Zhou comforted.
"I don't want to rush, but Xiao Xiao..."
Ouyang Lianyu was anxious and annoyed. She regretted why she didn't go back to her room earlier so that she could take good care of Xiaoxiao and not let her disappear inexplicably.
"Don't worry, Teacher Ouyang, Xiaoxiao will be fine. She didn't go out." Han Zhou said patiently.
On the sofa, Mo Yixia, who had been drinking hot tea, said, "Even if Xiao Xiaoxiao really wanted to commit suicide, she wouldn't choose to do it tonight, otherwise everyone in the villa would be considered a suspect. She has a good relationship with you all, so she shouldn't ignore this."
"As for whether she has suicidal tendencies, you should know this better than me, but in my opinion, she should be a person who loves life very much."
"Also, Xiao Xiaoxiao did not leave the villa, at least not through the main gate. There is a surveillance camera at the gate of the courtyard. Han Zhou and I just checked it and there is no record of Xiao Xiaoxiao leaving."
Everyone then noticed that Mo Yixia's hair and clothes were a little wet, obviously because she was caught in the rain when she went out to check the surveillance camera.
Gu Zheng wanted to complain about how she was still in the mood to drink tea, but she swallowed her words and asked suspiciously, "Why did you emphasize that she didn't leave through the main entrance? Do you suspect Xiao Xiao left from somewhere else?"
"I just tend to try to list as many possible possibilities as possible for a given outcome, especially when there are few clues."
Mo Yixia took a sip of tea and said slowly, "But it's unlikely that she left from somewhere else. If she wants to leave this villa, besides going through the door, she can only climb out through the window. But I checked and all the windows were locked in the afternoon."
She didn't finish her words, but her meaning was already very clear - if Xiao Xiaoxiao really left the villa through the window, there would be no way to lock the window from the inside. In this way, there would be at least one unlocked window in the entire villa, and this situation did not exist.
Gu Zheng had to admit that although Mo Yixia was a little annoying, she was still very thoughtful. However, she could not learn her way of thinking because it required her to consider the problem from the perspective of a bystander.
Whether it was Teacher Ouyang's encounter with a ghost not long ago, or Xiao Xiaoxiao's disappearance now, Mo Yixia seemed to be able to maintain absolute rationality to think about the problem, without being affected by unnecessary emotions.
Gu Zheng thought she couldn't do that. She couldn't analyze with a blank expression whether a person really wanted to commit suicide.
Gu Zheng was not the only one who had the same idea. Ouyang Lianyu also felt that Mo Yixia was very calm, so she humbly asked, "Yixia, do you think there are other possibilities?"
Her expression relaxed a little. Whether it was that Xiao Xiaoxiao had not thought about committing suicide or that Xiao Xiaoxiao had not left the villa, these two were both good news. Perhaps she had thought the situation was too complicated and too bad.
"of course."
However, Mo Yixia's next words quickly made her heart sink.
"Teacher Ouyang, do you remember the ghost you saw tonight?"
Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed outside the window. Under the pale light, the shadows of the trees in the distance that were blown to and fro by the wind were stretched out and extended all the way to the river bank.
The wind was howling incessantly, accompanied by the sound of raindrops hitting the windows, which sounded strangely eerie.
The atmosphere in the room became somewhat depressing.
After a moment of silence, Zhong Yin opened his mouth and asked the question that everyone was wondering: "Yixia, you don't mean to say that Xiaoxiao was taken away by a ghost, do you?"
"It's just a possibility." Mo Yixia replied.
"Do you really think there are ghosts in this world?" Gu Zheng frowned.
“When you can’t find the answer to a problem using conventional thinking, you can try to think in an unconventional way. I don’t think there are ghosts in this world, but there may be some things that we cannot understand.”
"For example?" Gu Zheng asked.
"do not know."
Mo Yixia shook her head and sighed, seeming a little tired, "Although I am not stingy about sharing my experience with others, can't you think a little bit for yourself?"
Gu Zheng said angrily: "What do you mean by that?"
Han Zhou had a headache, so he hurried to speak before the two of them started arguing, and said seriously: "Gu Zheng, Teacher Ouyang, you should all know that the girls' dormitory in the school is haunted, right?"
"I have heard a little bit about it..." Ouyang Lianyu thought for a moment and asked doubtfully, "But does this have anything to do with Xiaoxiao's disappearance?"
"I think it's related."
In order to let Zhong Yin, Wang Leng Qiu and others understand the cause and effect of the whole incident, Han Zhou first briefly recounted the rumor that the girls' dormitory was haunted, and then said in front of everyone's incredulous eyes that this incident was most likely related to Xiao Xiaoxiao.
He had discussed with Xiao Xiaoxiao before whether to tell everyone about this matter. He actually had a lot of concerns about this, but strangely, Xiao Xiaoxiao did not hesitate at all and told him to say whatever he wanted to say without having to think twice.
It is worth mentioning that they discussed this matter this afternoon.
If it were just this, it might not be surprising, but combined with Xiao Xiaoxiao's abnormal behavior of being sleepy all day, and the fact that she clearly still had sleeping pills but wanted to send Ouyang Lianyu away on the pretext of helping to get the pills, it is hard not to wonder if she was preparing for something.
Thinking about it now, what the other party said in the afternoon even had a sense of "making arrangements for final affairs".
After hearing Han Zhou's words, everyone except Mo Yixia showed varying degrees of shock, including Wang Lengqiu, who had been expressionless all this time, now revealed a complicated expression.
"This is unbelievable..." Ouyang Lianyu said blankly, "I have never heard of such a thing..."
If she hadn't believed that Xiao Xiaoxiao would not cooperate with Han Zhou to tease everyone, she might have begun to suspect that this was a prank that was decided on at the last minute.
Gu Zheng was also quite shocked and a little unhappy, because Han Zhou had actually kept such an important matter hidden from her. Even though he had occasionally revealed a few words before, it was obvious that he didn't want her to know the truth.
She knew that now was not the time to question Han Zhou, so she asked, "So Xiaoxiao's disappearance might be related to the strange phenomenon happening to her?"
"Probably."
It was Mo Yixia who answered her, "There are many unreasonable things about Xiao Xiaoxiao's sudden disappearance. If there is a reason that sounds unreasonable, then the explanation is reasonable."
Zhong Ling looked at Han Zhou and asked softly, "If the problem lies with Xiao Xiao herself, how can we find her?"
Zhong Yin was also thinking about this question: "Han Zhou, according to what you just said, Xiao Xiao has never disappeared before, at most there were just strange footsteps, why is it like this this time?"
She was skeptical about Han Zhou's words.
"I do not know either."
Han Zhou shook his head, but his intuition told him that this might be related to the fact that Xiao Xiaoxiao had been feeling sleepy all day.
"What should we do? We still can't find Xiaoxiao?" Zhong Yin frowned.
Han Zhou pondered for a moment: "Don't worry, give me some time, I have a way."
In fact, he had already thought of a way to find Xiao Xiaoxiao.
As Mo Yixia said, unreasonable things must be solved with unreasonable means, and the status bar is the unreasonable means he has.
With the help of the status bar, there are actually many ways to find Xiao Xiaoxiao, but he plans to try to use the mysterious kit before that -
[Mysterious tip bag: a one-time item, you can get a piece of mysterious information after opening it, which may provide some tips or help for your current situation, or it may provide invalid information. Please choose to use it carefully according to the current situation. The number of times it can be used ×3, disappears after three uses, priced at 66 points, can be purchased once a month]
The prerequisite for using the mysterious sachet is to be in some incomprehensible environment, and Xiao Xiaoxiao's mysterious disappearance now obviously meets this condition.
Han Zhou had already used the mysterious magic bag when he had been searching for Xiao Xiaoxiao in vain, but he had never had the chance to check the information on it.
He stood behind the sofa and seeing that no one noticed him, he took out the brocade bag and opened it.
He was a little nervous because there was a possibility of failure in using the secret bag, and even if it succeeded, it might provide invalid information. It was not that he was reluctant to give up those points, but he felt that there were not many opportunities to use the secret bag, and it would be a pity if he could not get the information.