The two walked out of the administrative building. Chen Yuanjun scanned the area and saw a striking woman in a parking space to the left of the entrance.
She was wearing a business-like white suit, light gray low-heeled shoes, and a Burberry scarf around her neck.
She had sunglasses perched on her high, straight nose, and a fashionable, sophisticated hairstyle.
She was tall with fair skin, and although she was wearing sunglasses, her features were clearly attractive, making her a standout beauty.
"Let me introduce you. Xie Anna, from the Xie family, is an outstanding musician," Li Dongze said with a smile, raising his hand towards Chen Yuanjun. "This is Chen Yuanjun, the captain of our Public Security Department."
Xie Anna smiled and extended her hand. "So, this is Captain Chen, who rushes to face evil professions faster than The Way of the Extraordinary, and hides from danger slower than The Way of the Extraordinary. It should be okay to mention The Way of the Extraordinary now, right? It's a public secret, after all."
Li Dongze joked, "I once suspected he was blessed by the goddess of fortune, a lucky profession, but unfortunately, that doesn't exist in The Way of the Extraordinary."
As a captain of the Public Security team with real power and working on the front lines, Chen Yuanjun had access to information about The Way of the Extraordinary given the frequent occurrence of evil cults.
However, he currently only knew about the existence of the evil and righteous factions, as well as all the information about the transcendent professions within the major factions. He did not have the authority to know higher-level intelligence.
After learning about the existence of The Way of the Extraordinary, Chen Yuanjun was worried about his family being affected, and even considered sending them to the countryside.
According to the information he had, evil professions were either in remote areas or lurking in bustling cities.
The countryside, being neither remote nor bustling, was a rare haven of peace.
He had good reason to think this way. His aunt, who had a good income and worked part-time outside, and his cousin, who was studying at a prestigious university in Songhai.
His aunt working in a hospital, these three were all potentially vulnerable to attacks from evil professions.
The former came into contact with social elites, while the latter two were in institutions often targeted by evil professions, and they were all ordinary people without the power to defend themselves.
His unreliable old father, wandering around outside every day, was also at risk.
The safest members of his family were his grandparents and mother, whose activities were limited, and who were ordinary residents to the extreme.
Chen Yuanjun looked around and said, "Let's get in the car first."
He walked towards his vehicle, not far away, and drove out of the Public Security Department with Li Dongze and Xie Anna. Chen Yuanjun maintained a steady speed and said, "Ms. Xie, Li Dongze has told you about the situation, right?"
Xie Anna glanced at Li Dongze beside her and smiled, "He only said that he needed my help to help two ordinary people sleep well, and asked me to keep this operation confidential."
Chen Yuanjun nodded, looking ahead, and said, "That's right. While we were recovering the database, we found a deleted file. It was the file of a missing person. The missing person has not been found yet, and the internal personnel who deleted the file have also not been identified."
"I once visited the missing person's family, but strangely, his family didn't remember ever reporting the case."
Xie Anna frowned and thought for a moment. "So, you suspect that the missing person's family may have been hypnotized and forgotten about it."
Li Dongze nodded. "It's also possible that the person who reported the case was not his family, which is another direction."
Xie Anna looked at the two of them and smiled tentatively, "To make you so concerned, the missing person must be more than ordinary, right?..."
Li Dongze and Chen Yuanjun did not respond. One focused on driving, and the other looked out the window.
Songhai, in an office, in front of a floor-to-ceiling window.
Tianya Jianke listened to the phone while looking at the scenery outside the window, and said, "That's the situation with Lei Dabing. He also happens to be on your search list. Do you want to go to his house to investigate? I'm also curious about what's going on with that restored missing person's file."
A cold voice came from the phone, "My intuition tells me that he has nothing to do with Yuan Shi Tianzun. Their timelines don't overlap. Lei Yibing disappeared in Jiangnan Province last April. At that time, Yuan Shi Tianzun had not yet become The Way of the Extraordinary, or had just become The Way of the Extraordinary."
Tianya Jianke said calmly, "My intuition tells me that you should investigate. Of course, if you think your intuition is stronger than a swordsman's intuition, then do as you wish."
Chunyang Zhangjiao was silent for a few seconds and said, "I don't want to waste time, but the recent investigation has yielded nothing. Anyway, I have to investigate Lei Yibing, so I'll just do it in advance. Send me his home address."
After speaking, he hung up the phone.
Kangyang District, in an old residential building in the Pingsheng community, Chen Yuanjun stood in front of the anti-theft door of apartment 02 and pressed the doorbell.
"Ding-dong~"
After pressing it twice, footsteps came and a middle-aged woman in her early fifties, in good spirits, opened the door.
"Yuanjun, why are you here!"
Seeing Chen Yuanjun, she immediately showed a smile, full of enthusiasm. Then, she looked at Li Dongze and Xie Anna and asked, "Who are they?"
Chen Yuanjun introduced, "They are my colleagues."
Colleagues... Aunt Zhou's smile faded, and she quickly asked, "Is there any news about Abing?"
She eagerly grabbed Chen Yuanjun's arm, her eyes full of expectation.
Chen Yuanjun said in a low voice, "Aunt Zhou, let's go inside and talk."
The three entered the house, and Chen Yuanjun looked around. "Uncle Lei isn't home?"
"It's not the weekend, he's at work," Aunt Zhou said, taking disposable cups from the coffee table and preparing to make tea for them.
Chen Yuanjun waved his hand.
"No need, Aunt Zhou. We'll just ask a few questions and leave."
He scrutinized the woman and said with relief, "You look much better than before. No matter what happens to Lei Yibing, you and Uncle Lei still have to continue living your lives."
Aunt Zhou sighed and said, "I'm very grateful to Yuanzi for coming to accompany and comfort me every now and then. He said that if Abing comes back one day, but my body is weak, then good things will turn into bad things. I have to take care of my body and wait for Abing to come back."
Chen Yuanjun was silent for a few seconds, sighing inwardly. In fact, based on his years of experience in handling cases, Lei Yibing has been missing for almost a year, which is basically equivalent to declaring him dead. But whether Lei Yibing is alive or dead, he promised Yuanzi that he would investigate, and he would definitely investigate until he confirmed Lei Yibing's death.
"Aunt Zhou, we are indeed here for a visit this time," Chen Yuanjun said, looking at Xie Anna. "This is a very talented profiler from our Public Security Department. She would like to learn some information about Abing from you."
After speaking, he nodded slightly to the musician, signaling her to begin her performance.
Xie Anna conjured a silver "Ferris wheel" ornament from her pocket. She placed the ornament on the table without making a sound and spun the Ferris wheel with her finger.
"Before asking questions, I like to play with some small toys. I hope you don't mind," she said with a smile.
"It's okay..." Aunt Zhou said, her eyes instinctively drawn to the rotating Ferris wheel.
Her gaze gradually became blurred. The Ferris wheel seemed to turn into a vortex, sucking her soul into it.
In a daze, she heard the young female profiler ask, "When did Lei Yibing disappear?"
Her eyes were empty, and she murmured, "April 12th last year."
Xie Anna asked again, "Think carefully, when did Lei Yibing disappear?"
Aunt Zhou gave the same answer again.
Xie Anna was not in a hurry and said, "Captain Chen found Lei Yibing's missing person file in the Kangyang District Public Security Department's records. Did you report it to the police?"
Aunt Zhou shook her head blankly. "Not me."
Xie Anna said in a gentle tone, "You went to the Kangyang District Public Security Department to report the case, you went to the Kangyang District Public Security Department to report the case, you went to the Kangyang District Public Security Department to report the case."
She repeated it a full three times, and Aunt Zhou said with a blank expression, "I went to the Kangyang District Public Security Department to report the case, I went to the Kangyang District Public Security Department to report the case."
She suddenly showed a painful expression, her voice sharp, "I didn't report the case. I didn't report the case."
Xie Anna's eyebrows twitched, and she quickly comforted, "Forget what I just said."
Aunt Zhou's expression calmed down.
Xie Anna turned to look at her two companions and said, "Just now, I wanted to hypnotize her and forcibly instill in her the idea that she had gone to the Public Security Department to report the case because her son was missing. Under normal circumstances, she would be hypnotized by me and believe that she did report the case."
"However, she had a strong resistance to my hypnosis, and the idea that she had not reported the case overrode the idea that I was instilling in her."
"This can only mean that a musician more powerful than me has hypnotized her, making her firmly believe that she did not report the case."
Li Dongze took a cold breath. "I guessed right."
Chen Yuanjun's face was solemn, and he tentatively asked, "Can you make her remember more information? For example, who hypnotized her, and when she went to the Public Security Department to report the case. In short, the more information, the better."
Xie Anna frowned.
"The person who hypnotized her is a higher level than me. If I want to break their hypnosis, I can only perform deeper dream hypnosis. I can try, but I may not succeed."
After the two nodded, Xie Anna looked at Aunt Zhou and said in a ethereal and gentle voice, "Aunt Zhou, you're tired. Now, please lie on the sofa, close your eyes, and get a good night's sleep... You will reunite with your son in your dreams and remember everything about him."
Guided by the voice, Aunt Zhou lay on the sofa and slowly fell asleep.
Xie Anna's ethereal and gentle voice guided her from the side, "Now you will slowly remember everything about Lei Yibing, his childhood, his school days, what happened after he went missing. You remember. After you went to the Public Security Department to report the case, who did you see? Who was the person who made you forget this... who is it?"
Aunt Zhou was silent, silent, and did not respond for a long time.
Outside apartment 402, in the stairwell.
A man wearing a mask and a baseball cap jumped and disappeared.
He then appeared in Aunt Zhou's dream. The dream was blank, and Aunt Zhou stood stiffly in this blank world like a statue.
In the blank dream, a woman's voice kept echoing: Who is the person who made you forget this?
Chunyang Zhangjiao clicked his tongue twice.
"A Saint Realm musician couldn't make her remember anything. The matter involving Lei Yibing is not simple."
He walked to Aunt Zhou and, with crazy eyes, rippled invisible waves: "Who is the person who made you forget that Lei Yibing is missing?"
Aunt Zhou's dream began to change, and the fastest objects outlined her bedroom.
On the bed, Aunt Zhou was exhausted and sleeping soundly, nothing more.
"The person behind the scenes completed the hypnosis when she fell asleep." Chunyang Zhangjiao was experienced and immediately interpreted the information given by the dream.
In the living room, Aunt Zhou, lying on the sofa, finally responded: "I don't know."
Xie Anna said helplessly to her two companions, "Maybe my ability is limited, maybe she really doesn't know who hypnotized her. The Way of the Extraordinary has too many ways to hypnotize mortals silently."
Li Dongze pondered, "Then change the question. Um, ask her when she went to the Public Security Department to report the case?"
Xie Anna asked in a gentle, ethereal tone, "Lei Yibing is missing. Do you remember when you went to the Public Security Department to report the case?"
She asked repeatedly.
In the dream, Chunyang Zhangjiao waited for a moment and, seeing that the dream was blank, immediately used the dream, like just now, with invisible waves rippling in his eyes, and repeated the question echoing in the dream.
At this time, the dream suddenly changed, and the Kangyang District Public Security Department building appeared, along with Aunt Zhou, looking anxious and worried.
She strode towards the reception desk and said quickly, "Comrade police officer, my son is missing."
The receptionist, with delicate features, quickly asked, "Has he been missing for more than 48 hours? When was the last time you contacted him, and where?"
Aunt Zhou said anxiously, "It's been three days."
The receptionist's face straightened, "Please wait a moment, I'll help you contact the colleagues in the Public Security team."