After Transmigrating into a book, I Was Played By a Black Lotus

Chapter 51 Deeper investigations

In the past two days, Bai Xiying has been working alone, investigating Xie Yunya's disappearance while calmly laying out a plan in the company.

In the evening, she returned to her apartment to review what she and Lin Xingzhu had found over the past two days.

It had been two days since Jiang Yeyu went missing. The day after her disappearance, Lin Xingzhu called Lin Fu to inform him. They talked for a long time and ultimately decided to keep Jiang Yeyu's situation a secret for the time being. If they could find her in the next few days, there would be no need to inform the people in S City.

Lin Xingzhu had reported the case to the police the night before.

During the day, she contacted people who had attended an event with Jiang Yeyu before her disappearance. The responses indicated that after they had dinner and hung out for a while, Jiang Yeyu and her friend left together.

No one saw them after that, and when checking the surveillance footage, it showed the two of them leaving, arm in arm, disappearing into a blind spot in an alley. Unfortunately, the camera malfunctioned right afterward, failing to record what happened next or who passed by.

—It was exactly the same as the disappearance of Xie Yunya near her own neighborhood; the subsequent footage had a blank segment, making it impossible to determine what had happened at that time or who was present.

Lin Xingzhu rubbed her aching temples and said solemnly, "This isn't a kidnapping. The similar ways in which they went missing, though there's no direct evidence, lead me to believe they were taken by the same group of people."

Lin Xingzhu pulled out a stack of documents she had received today and placed them in front of Bai Xiying.

When she leveraged the Lin family's resources to investigate this case, what had seemed hopeless suddenly glimmered with a bit of hope.

While Bai Xiying buried herself in the documents, Lin Xingzhu's expression was cold and her eyes held a deep-seated disgust. "In recent months, there have been numerous disappearances. It's not surprising that people go missing every day in such a large city as A, but I've filtered the data on those who've disappeared recently, and a significant portion are young men and women."

"And among those missing young people, several vanished in a manner similar to Jiang Yeyu."

Bai Xiying flipped through the materials, which detailed everything Lin Xingzhu had mentioned.

In just two days, they had gathered such comprehensive information. Though the police had helped, it was clear how much Lin Xingzhu valued and urgently sought answers.

She felt a sense of unease creeping into her thoughts.

Lin Xingzhu's restrained and cold voice continued, masking dangerous undercurrents beneath her calm surface. "Xiying, you once asked me a question."

"You asked if there were any well-known bars in specific circles in A City." Lin Xingzhu's mind was unusually clear. "If I remember correctly, it was shortly after you met Xie Yunya and her cousin."