"Indeed," Keke also saw the contents of the ledger. "Do you have any insights?"
"If you just want Zhao Shuang to regain her mory, I do have a good idea," Gu Mian said, looking at the vehicle rental bill in the ledger. "Go to their rental company, rent an identical bus, invite thirty-sothing people, and I'll drive us all up Fenshan Mountain. We'll go to the spot on the mountainside where the police found Zhao Shuang, and I'll kick her out, recreating the entire scenario..."
Keke was silent for a while. "Are you planning to drive the bus off the cliff in a barrel roll next, taking us all down with you?"
"It's not out of the question," Gu Mian considered seriously. "Depending on the direction and landing spot of the bus's barrel roll, maybe we can find a few more of the missing people."
"Whether or not we find the missing people is another matter, but I guess we'll make the news that day." Keke no longer wanted to talk to Gu Mian.
She had miscalculated. She thought she was accustod to Gu Mian's eccentricities, but she hadn't expected him to be even more abnormal at a critical mont...
Keke took a few deep breaths. "Fine, do whatever you want."
As long as he doesn't attract all the ghosts to this area...
"Then I'll go look elsewhere first," Gu Mian said, pushing two love letters toward Keke. "Show these two letters to the others later."
Having said this, he headed for the exit. The office had a wall of floor-to-ceiling glass by the door, allowing a clear view from the outside. Thus, Keke could see which direction Gu Mian went after he left. He exited the office and headed toward the stairs on the other side, presumably to go downstairs. Keke didn't know if he was really going to get a bus. But after a while, she saw Gu Mian return.
"What happened?" Keke asked, looking at Gu Mian, who had reappeared at the doorway.
Gu Mian shrugged. "The door to the stairwell over there is locked due to disrepair. They're worried it's not sturdy and might collapse on soone if opened."
As he spoke, he walked toward the stairs he had co from, apparently going downstairs that way.
By the ti the players had finished their search, Gu Mian was long gone.
The only useful clue Cang Yue and Wang Chuan found was a group photo. Zhao Shuang and Xia Jianren found nothing. Apart from the two love letters, Keke also ca up empty-handed.
When they gathered at the stairwell landing, everyone else realized Gu Mian had disappeared again.
"Where did he go?" Cang Yue asked Keke, shining his flashlight.
Keke touched the two love letters in her pocket. "After looking around the storeroom, he suddenly had so peculiar ideas. I guess he might have gone to rent a car now."
They all looked at each other. Wang Chuan was the first to ask, "Rent a car... to do what?"
"He said he wants to take all of us, find about thirty more people, and he'll drive us to Fenshan Mountain to recreate the scene. He says it'll help Zhao Shuang regain her mory." Keke's expression was anything but calm as she said this.
The others also had strange expressions.
"Anyway, it's not the first ti he's acted abnormally," Wang Chuan said, regaining his composure. "Let's first discuss the clues we've found."
He first looked at Xia Jianren and Zhao Shuang. "Did you two find any clues?"
Xia Jianren shook his head. "Nothing. The office was full of useless files, otherwise just so tattered magazines. The cactus by the window was quite prickly..."
At this point, Cang Yue suddenly spoke up, "By the way, Zhao Shuang, you still rember your desk, right? It's in the room Wang Chuan and I searched."
Zhao Shuang nodded. "Yes, I rember where my desk is."
Cang Yue continued, "How about I go with you to take a look? Maybe seeing your desk will help you rember sothing."
Zhao Shuang didn't object. "Okay."
The two of them then walked towards the office at the far end of the hall.
Xia Jianren instinctively wanted to follow but was pulled back by Wang Chuan.
"What's wrong?" Xia Jianren asked, surprised.
Wang Chuan watched the two figures leave and said quietly, "Zhao Shuang, with her amnesia, isn't one of us. We need to discuss so things about her. If she finds out we know nothing about her, wouldn't that be troubleso?"
"Oh," Xia Jianren said, finally understanding. "You're afraid Zhao Shuang will find out we aren't her original colleagues."
Wang Chuan nodded. "Because the clue Cang Yue and I found is about Zhao Shuang." As he spoke, he took out a photo. Keke and Xia Jianren looked at it; it was a photo of Zhao Shuang with a man.
The mories instilled by the instance allowed them to recognize the man. "Sun Zihao?" Keke identified him at once.
Wang Chuan also looked at the photo in his hand. "Yes, that's him. The police confird he's dead. I guess they might have been a couple."
"So you're saying Zhao Shuang's boyfriend beca a ghost?" Xia Jianren's eyes widened.
"Yes," Wang Chuan replied. "After seeing this photo, Cang Yue and I suspect our previous guess was wrong. Maybe killing Zhao Shuang isn't the 'path to survival,' but the 'path to death.'"
As he said this, he kept glancing back, afraid Zhao Shuang might overhear him. Thankfully, Cang Yue was keeping her occupied over there.
Wang Chuan continued, "The 'path to survival' might lie with this Sun Zihao, or perhaps with those colleagues who are missing, neither seen alive nor confird dead."
At this point, Keke also took out the two love letters from her pocket. "Gu Mian found these. I didn't take them out when Zhao Shuang was here. Take a look."
As she spoke, she pulled the papers from the pink envelopes and spread them out. "The content... well, how should I put it... see for yourselves."
Wang Chuan shone his flashlight on the two sheets of paper in Keke's hand.
"'You are like the moon in the sky, anchored in the heart of the water, forever anchored in my heart...' Wait, haven't I seen this line on so website before?"
Wang Chuan nodded. "Indeed, I've seen it too. It's obviously copied."
Keke had no experience searching for love letters online, so she didn't realize the text was from a website; she just found it cheesy. She guessed Gu Mian hadn't searched for such things online either, so he wouldn't know Sun Zihao had copied it.
There were two love letters in total, both quite cheesy. The crucial part was that both Xia Jianren and Wang Chuan found these two love letters very familiar, strongly suggesting they were copied from a website.
It seed both of them had rich experience copying love letters.
Xia Jianren looked at the love letters in Keke's hand. "This should confirm that Zhao Shuang and Sun Zihao were boyfriend and girlfriend, right?"
"Most likely," Wang Chuan nodded. "So, I'm thinking if we make a move on Zhao Shuang, Sun Zihao might go berserk?"
Xia Jianren asked doubtfully, "He's a ghost now. Can he still have old feelings for Zhao Shuang?"
"Anything's possible. It would be great if Zhao Shuang could recover her mory quickly. When she returns, we should first ask her if she rembers Sun..." Wang Chuan's voice trailed off abruptly.
"What's wrong?" Xia Jianren asked, looking at him curiously.
Wang Chuan's lips froze, half-open. He was facing the stairwell door, and through its open fra, he could see the stairs leading to the twelfth and fourteenth floors. In his peripheral vision, at the landing of the stairs leading to the twelfth floor, half a pale, bluish face peeked out.
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