Chapter 14 Missing

"This is not a vacation."

The fat man seemed to have thought of something, his face pale, "So you mean that Sister Nuan just now is a ghost?"

"I'm afraid so." Jiang Cheng nodded.

"Then the real Sister Nuan, and the girl named Chen Xiaomeng in the room, isn't it..."

"Okay," Jiang Cheng interrupted him, and said a few seconds later, "Let's go to the living room."

In order not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, Jiang Cheng did not deliberately lighten his steps when he went down the stairs, but when he and the fat man came downstairs, there was only the burning firewood in the fireplace.

Fan Li, who was supposed to be by the fireplace, disappeared.

The fat man was a little scared and asked, "Could he have been in trouble too?"

Jiang Cheng looked around and then said, "Come out, we are people, not ghosts."

As soon as the voice fell, a strong figure like a bear stood up from behind the sofa. Fan Li stared at them with a vigilant face, and a sharp knife in his hand reflected the cold light.

"Why did you come down?" He quickly glanced at the stairs and then focused his eyes on Jiang Cheng's face, "Where are the other two?"

"Something happened to them."

Fan Li stared at them suspiciously. According to the previous inference, women should be safe in this mission. How could such a thing happen?

The fat man quickly told Fan Li about what happened just now.

Fan Li's face changed slightly, and then sighed, "According to what you said, they are probably in danger."

More than that, the fat man thought, I just hope that they don't die as ugly as Xie Yu.

Since the ghost has appeared tonight, Jiang Cheng and the other two are relatively safer, but after what happened just now, even the fat man has lost his sleep.

"Let's rest for a while," Jiang Cheng said, "I won't sleep, I'll wake you up in two hours."

Fan Li may have experienced such things many times, so he got used to it. Anyway, he lay down, but not on the sofa, but in front of the fireplace.

No one knew if he was really sleeping, and the sharp knife he found in the kitchen was put away by him, and it should be hidden somewhere on his body.

Facing the warm fire, the fat man's nerves began to waver. He hadn't had a good sleep for a long time, and only the remaining consciousness was still holding on.

He sat on the sofa, and the scene in front of him became blurred little by little.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already dawn. Jiang Cheng and Fan Li were discussing something in a low voice. Jiang Cheng's face looked the same as usual, but Fan Li was a little excited from time to time.

The fat man moved his body, and the sofa made a slight pressure sound.

Jiang Cheng turned his head and looked at him and said, "Are you awake?"

"Well," the fat man rubbed his face a little embarrassedly, "It's dawn, should we go upstairs to take a look?"

"Don't worry, wait until it's all light."

In this way, they waited for about half an hour. During this time, the three of them simply ate some small bread and other things, which barely filled their stomachs.

The sky was bright, Jiang Cheng stood up and said it was almost time. The three of them took the things in their hands and started to go upstairs.

Fan Li still held the sharp knife from last night, Jiang Cheng had a rolling pin in his hand, and the fat man saw that there was nothing left in the kitchen, so he carried the cutting board away and used it against his chest as a shield.

The three of them slowly came to the corridor on the second floor and approached the master bedroom little by little.

At this time, they were sure that something must have happened to Sister Nuan and the others.

The door of the master bedroom was one-third open, and there was no sound inside.

Jiang Cheng reached out and pushed the door open.

The fat man immediately raised the cutting board.

They had originally prepared to see two corpses, and even a ghost pounced on them, but when the door opened, there was nothing inside.

No corpses, no ghosts, no bloodstains.

There was not even a trace of struggle.

The quilts in the room were neatly folded, the things on the tables and chairs were in order, and there was a silk nightgown on the sofa, as if the hostess had just left.

"Where are the people?" The fat man asked with wide eyes.

Jiang Cheng went to check under the bed, while Fan Li went to the closet with a gloomy face, then to the bathroom, behind the sofa, and finally they even searched several nearby rooms, including the one where Xie Yu's body was found.

No.

No.

It seemed as if Sister Nuan and Chen Xiaomeng, two living people, disappeared out of thin air.

Jiang Cheng thought for a while, and suddenly said to Fan Li: "Is there such a possibility that the two of them are not dead and have successfully left here."

"Are you saying that they have completed the mission?" Fan Li's face was gloomy, but after a moment he still replied: "The possibility is very small, but this possibility cannot be ruled out."

Fatty interrupted, "If that's the case, then how do we explain the ghost we met last night?"

Jiang Cheng knew what Fatty wanted to say. Since the ghost turned into Sister Nuan's appearance and appeared in the master bedroom where Sister Nuan and Chen Xiaomeng were, they should have encountered it.

Before encountering the ghost last night, Jiang Cheng had been on the second floor. He did not hear the sound of anyone walking in the corridor, which means that Sister Nuan and Chen Xiaomeng did not leave the room.

The windows in the villa could not be opened, so there was no possibility of leaving through the windows.

So either Sister Nuan and the other two had been killed by the ghost, but the bodies were hidden, or Sister Nuan and the other two had already completed their mission and left the dream world and returned to the real world before the ghost appeared.

Regarding the way to leave the mission, Fan Li gave his own experience. He said that usually after finding all the clues, a black iron door will appear.

Through that door, you can return to the real world.

But he also emphasized that black iron gates can appear in any location, but generally they are not too remote, and most of them are related to important clues in the mission.

"Like the iron door we pushed open in our dream?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Fan Li nodded, "Yes, you can think of it as a passage connecting the dream world and the real world."

Back in the living room on the first floor, Jiang Cheng sat on the thick carpet. Fan Li and Fatty also sat down, opposite Jiang Cheng.

The situation they face now is somewhat complicated.

"Okay," Jiang Cheng raised his head and said, "Now let's assume that Sister Nuan and the others have successfully left here. Let's think about how they did it."

The fat man shrank his neck and hesitated, "But why do I think the two of them were killed by ghosts?"

Jiang Cheng looked at him and said coldly: "This question is meaningless. If you insist that they have been killed by ghosts, then we will just wait to die."

Fatty was frightened by Jiang Cheng's attitude and didn't dare to speak for a while.

Fan Li then nodded and said, "You are right, Sister Nuan and the others must have found a way to leave!"

"So it's our turn next," Jiang Cheng patted his trouser legs and stood up.