Is something strange happening in town?
The few people exchanged glances. Shen Xinyi was too impatient, hanging up the phone before explaining anything.
"Ru Yan! I need to go to town to check. You feed these chicks some water," Lu Fan said to Liu Ru Yan, then turned and left the room.
Liu Ru Yan naturally understood that Lu Fan meant for her to feed the chicks spirit liquid water.
Lu Fan hopped on his motorcycle and sped towards town.
At this moment, Shen Xinyi was searching the town streets, followed by two police officers, a man and a woman. The woman was Meng Yuhong. Meng Yuhong was originally a clerk at the police station and wouldn't usually go out on cases. However, the task was urgent today, and with limited personnel, Shen Xinyi had dragged her along.
*Toot toot toot...* A motorcycle sound approached. Shen Xinyi looked up and saw Lu Fan riding his motorcycle over. She immediately went to meet him, "Lu Fan! You're here!"
"Sister Xinyi! What happened?" Lu Fan asked as he parked his motorcycle.
"Early this morning, two girls in town suddenly disappeared. According to their families, they were out for their morning exercises, and then they vanished. Their phones were all turned off and unreachable.
What's most puzzling is that we found a surveillance video from a house with a camera installed outside their gate, and we saw the traces of the two girls..." Shen Xinyi said, pulling out her phone and finding a video to hand to Lu Fan.
Lu Fan took the phone. The video showed two decent-looking girls in sportswear walking down the road, one after the other. They seemed fine. However, Lu Fan frowned slightly. The girls' expressions appeared numb and vacant, with a hint of strangeness.
The video was taken very early, and there were hardly any people on the road. The video lasted only a few seconds before the two girls disappeared from the camera's view. In a rural town, there aren't many places with surveillance cameras, so this video was quite precious.
Lu Fan watched the video twice, scanned his surroundings, and checked the time. He suddenly said, "These two people have been out for their morning exercises for four or five hours by now. Is it appropriate for us to search within this small area?"
"Missing persons reports can only be filed after twenty-four hours. It's only been a few hours. We haven't even eaten yet!" Meng Yuhong grumbled from behind Shen Xinyi. She had never endured such hardship before.
"Hmph! If they really encountered bad people, they could turn to ash in twenty-four hours. What's the point of saving them!" Shen Xinyi shot Meng Yuhong a glare, scaring her into silence.
"Indeed! Especially for girls, a few hours is already very dangerous. But, Sister Xinyi! What do you mean by strange?" Lu Fan asked urgently.
"This surveillance video clearly shows the two girls walking back after their morning exercises. However, we've searched these dozen or so houses they passed, and found nothing! Others have expanded the search area, but I still feel that the expressions of these two girls are a bit off.
So, I was wondering if you might have some other methods to help us find these two girls," Shen Xinyi said quickly.
"Other methods? You're not going to use me as a police dog, are you?" Lu Fan was baffled. Girls aren't snakes. I have beast-taming skills, but you can't treat me like a police dog!
"Uh... Of course not! I don't have many friends here, and you can barely be considered a friend, right? So, when something happens, I naturally think of you. So, will you help or not!?" Shen Xinyi said, but inwardly she muttered: Hmph! You brought back a wild boar from the mountains, caught twenty snakes in one go. You even dug up treasure at the bottom of the river while fishing. You made fifty million from gambling on stones! You've become a god in my eyes, so who else would I look for?
"Alright! Let's analyze this. The two girls in the video were heading home, but they didn't get home, and they disappeared. And you searched here and couldn't find them. So... could it be that they passed by their homes but didn't go in? Instead, they went in another direction away from home?" Lu Fan said after thinking.
"Are they stupid? Not going in when they're at their doorstep?" Meng Yuhong said with a disdainful glance at Lu Fan. She dared not talk back to the chief, but she wouldn't be polite to this guy. She was pulled out to search for people right after starting her job, and she hadn't even had time to eat her breakfast. Hmph!
"Perhaps they were forced!" Lu Fan said.
"The video only shows them, the two of them, before and after. Who could have forced them? Hmph! Maybe they agreed to run away from home together!" Meng Yuhong said dismissively.
"Stop the nonsense, let's go search the other side!" Shen Xinyi snapped and immediately walked in another direction. The other young police officer quickly followed.
Meng Yuhong looked reluctant, gave Lu Fan a dirty look, and wiggled her big butt as she followed.
Lu Fan ignored her and slowly followed behind them, his expression grave. From the expressions of the two girls in the video, he vaguely sensed something unusual, but he couldn't quite pinpoint what it was.
*Woof woof...* Suddenly, a small puppy ran out from the yard of a nearby house and barked fiercely at Lu Fan and the others. The puppy looked only about a month old, plump and round like a meatball. Despite its fierce appearance, no one could be scared by it; instead, they found it very cute.
Huh? Lu Fan's eyes suddenly lit up, and a smile appeared on his lips. *Snap...* He snapped his fingers at the puppy and said, "Little fellow, come here!"
The puppy's small head shot up, staring at Lu Fan with a surprised look. However, its eyes gradually changed.
"Lu Fan! Didn't you say we were going in the opposite direction? Why are you walking so slowly!" Shen Xinyi turned back and saw Lu Fan playing with the puppy, and she was instantly furious. With the safety of two girls at stake, this guy still had the mood to play with dogs. Hmph!
"Alright! Coming!" Lu Fan responded, stood up, and caught up. As he stood up, the puppy also started to run forward.
Lu Fan didn't know if the puppy could understand him, but seeing the little guy sniffing around on the ground was quite amusing. Let this little thing pretend to be a police dog!
"Sister Xinyi! Do those two girls have any clothing or items that a police dog can identify?" Lu Fan asked Shen Xinyi urgently as he caught up.
"What? You really think you can be a police dog?" Shen Xinyi's eyes widened. Could this guy really have such abilities?
"Come on... What police dog? The police dog is right there!" Lu Fan pointed at the puppy running ahead. This puppy had only seen the video of the two girls, so Lu Fan didn't dare to be sure if it could recognize people. However, if there were personal items belonging to the two girls, perhaps it would really work. After all, scent tracking is a natural ability of puppies.
"It? That's just a little mongrel! And it's a puppy. Judging by its appearance, it's hard to say if it's even weaned yet! It can be a police dog?" Shen Xinyi felt like slapping Lu Fan. Didn't she see that this guy was so idiotic? If any dog pulled over could be a police dog, what would the actual police dogs say?