Chapter 1224 — Xie Yufeng's Visit
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When Qiu Lingshan walked out of Director Chen's office, her whole demeanor was grave, her brows tightly knit!
Back when Yang Huaijun was captain, there hadn't been this many incidents. But no sooner had she taken over the captain's position than cases large and small came pouring in from all over Songshan City! The recent disappearances were growing more and more frequent, yet there was no pattern whatsoever to the victims — they came from every walk of life!
Butchers, drivers, grocery sellers, scrap collectors, hotel attendants, mall security guards, gatekeepers, street sweepers, and so on and so forth. Qiu Lingshan stared at the mountain of case files before her and felt utterly at a loss as to where to begin!
All these people had disappeared, and without exception, each of them had gotten into a minor conflict with someone, then injured the other party and fled! And the people they injured mostly had injuries that weren't serious, not enough to warrant a criminal wanted notice.
Cases of this sort were also the easiest to overlook, so the initial police reports were all very simple. No one had taken them seriously — only Qiu Lingshan had sensed something amiss and reported it to Director Chen of the police bureau.
Today, Director Chen had summoned Qiu Lingshan to discuss the possibility of consolidating the cases, and he instructed her that she absolutely must solve them as quickly as possible. Even if these cases were all coincidental, they still had to find the people who had fled! Because many families whose members had run off had also come to the police to report them missing.
Although it hadn't yet caused serious social impact, it had at least stirred panic among a minority of the population. To prevent the nature of the cases from escalating, Director Chen told Qiu Lingshan to solve them as quickly as possible!
Qiu Lingshan had a headache. Looking at the stack of case files before her, she felt as though she had gone looking for trouble. If she hadn't reported these thoughts in the first place, she wouldn't be in this mess today! But Qiu Lingshan didn't regret it. She was an upright person — she couldn't simply turn a blind eye to these abnormal disappearances. She just couldn't do it!
"Knock, knock, knock..." A knock came at the office door.
"Come in!" Qiu Lingshan didn't think much of it — after all, plenty of people came to see her during work hours.
"Lingshan, busy?" The visitor was none other than Xie Yufeng — one of the people Qiu Lingshan least wanted to see!
Hearing that voice, Qiu Lingshan's eyebrows twitched slightly. She said coolly, "What are you doing here?"
"Heh, it's noon, isn't it? I was going to invite you to lunch, but I knew you were busy. When I got here you weren't in, and your colleague said you'd gone to discuss work with the director, so I went out and bought boxed lunches!" With that, Xie Yufeng raised the plastic bag in his hand and smiled. "You haven't eaten yet, have you? Shall we eat together?"
Qiu Lingshan furrowed her brow! Undoubtedly, Xie Yufeng's gesture was thoughtful and considerate. If it had been Wei Zhao, Qiu Lingshan would have been overjoyed! But this was Xie Yufeng — that made all the difference!
"I'm not hungry. Eat by yourself. I still have work to do!" Qiu Lingshan gave Xie Yufeng a indifferent glance, then lowered her head again, fixing her gaze on the case files before her.
"Man is iron, food is steel — skip a meal and you'll feel awful!" Xie Yufeng said with a smile. "Even if we're both cultivators, we still can't go without food! It'd be fine in a place rich in spiritual energy — you could sustain yourself through cultivation — but in the city nowadays, spiritual energy is so thin there's no way to cultivate at all!"