Preparing to Fish

The news Bai Yun shared left Su Ran momentarily stunned.

A teacher from Beizhou Academy had gone missing at this time?

“I had already contacted Teacher Shen before I came back, preparing to hand over my leave materials to her. But when I went to the destination today, I found that Teacher Shen wasn’t answering my calls. I went to her home, but no one was there either.”

According to Bai Yun’s description, this Teacher Shen had been missing for a long time.

If she wanted to know the details, Su Ran looked at Li Shanhai beside her.

Logically, he should have had contact with the other party as well.

So, Su Ran briefly explained what Bai Yun had encountered to Li Shanhai on the spot.

“Teacher Shen is missing? When we met with her before, she was fine. How could she just go missing?”

Hearing Su Ran say this, Li Shanhai also felt that this matter was a bit strange.

He carefully recalled his meeting with Teacher Shen and also briefly introduced Teacher Shen’s basic information to everyone present.

“Teacher Shen, whose full name is Shen Yue, is in her thirties and single. She has been working at Beizhou Academy since she graduated. Because her own sequence is not high, only around Sequence Two, and her practical combat experience is not outstanding, she is in charge of the academic affairs office.”

“After learning that the two attacks might be related to Beizhou Academy, we sought out Pan Rui and Shen Yue for separate questioning, wanting to find out from them if they had encountered any abnormal situations on the night the insurance policy information was leaked.”

“And the result?”

Listening to Li Shanhai’s words, Su Ran couldn’t wait to ask for the result.

This was information she couldn’t find out for now.

“Their answers were surprisingly consistent. Neither of them had encountered anything abnormal that night. They could even match up on whether the other party had left their respective duty rooms.”

“When did the police station ask them to come in for questioning?”

Winnie’s question hit the nail on the head.

They only needed to know the approximate last time Shen Yue had appeared to narrow down the suspicious time frame.

Clearly, Winnie’s words also reminded Li Shanhai.

He calculated for a moment and confirmed, “It’s been about half a month.”

On the other end of the phone, Bai Yun also checked her chat history with Shen Yue.

“I sent Teacher Shen a message after I came out of the ruin, and then came back to Jiangbei City. It’s also been about half a month.”

“So, Teacher Shen’s disappearance time is very likely half a month ago?”

There were now two pieces of evidence that could support the approximate time of Shen Yue’s disappearance.

To disappear at this delicate point in time seemed to be an attempt to cast everyone’s eyes on Shen Yue.

“I suggest you go to the scene to see for yourselves. It’s the same principle as us researchers: bold hypotheses, careful verification.”

At this moment, Ma Kun spoke up.

He had been listening quietly on the side, and just as Su Ran was about to draw a conclusion, he stood up, hoping they would calm down.

Hearing this, Su Ran nodded.

“Since we’ve asked almost everything about the Glitch energy, let’s go and take a look at Teacher Shen’s place.”

Coming to the underground of the police station today, Su Ran’s harvest was not small.

She had personally seen the body of the mutated Earl and sensed the Holy Stone energy from it.

At the same time, these researchers had also personally promised to help find the identity of the mastermind to ensure the safety of Jiangbei City.

“We researchers will continue to stay here and study the energy, to see if we can find any more clues about the mastermind. If you find a convenient way to detect the energy, remember to tell me.”

As a researcher, Ma Kun would not be going around with Su Ran and the others.

After all, this was not his job.

Su Ran’s group left the underground.

Driven by Li Shanhai, they soon arrived at Shen Yue’s residence.

“Here, here!”

Bai Yun, with her white hair, saw Su Ran appear and waved at her, pointing them in the right direction.

Bai Yun, who had opened the door, did not enter.

The property manager was standing beside her.

Looking in from the doorway, one could see that the furnishings inside the room were not in a state of disarray.

The owner of the house seemed to have just left as usual.

If it weren’t for the thick layer of dust on the table by the door, plus the fact that the other party was not replying to her messages, Bai Yun would not have thought that she was missing.

Isa arrived at the door.

Su Ran’s brows furrowed slightly.

She, like Bai Yun, had also noticed the dust at the door.

This meant that Shen Yue had not returned to this room for some time.

“Half a month’s time would accumulate this much dust?”

Li Shanhai showed his credentials to the property manager and asked him.

“Our community is not near the main road. How could such a thick layer of dust appear in half a month? This is at least two months without cleaning.”

The property manager shook his head.

He knew that the resident here was a teacher at Beizhou Academy.

If Bai Yun hadn’t explained her purpose and shown him her Beizhou Academy credentials, he would not have helped her open the door.

After seeing Li Shanhai’s security officer’s credentials, he was also trying to cooperate with the other party.

The property manager at the scene gradually realized that things seemed to be not that simple.

Su Ran sat in her wheelchair with her head bowed, not paying attention to their conversation.

She was talking with Isa to confirm something more important.

‘Shen Yue is missing. If I can find her hair in the room, can I use the tracking potion Isa made to find her whereabouts?’

“Your Highness, the tracking potion I made needs the target’s hair from within the last seven days to be effective.”

At this moment, Isa had already gone out of Tukulu to train.

Her fair skin and smooth wrists showed that she was still handling things with ease.

The people who had tailed Isa in the city last time seemed to have not found her tracks.

Seeing that Isa had not encountered too much danger, Su Ran was relieved.

However, the path of finding Shen Yue through the tracking potion seemed to be a dead end.

Unlike Su Ran, who was deep in thought, Winnie, who had come here, had keenly sensed a fluctuation of magic essence.

If it were an ordinary fluctuation of magic essence, it would not have attracted Winnie’s attention.

But she had seen Li Ming, who had become a puppet, and this fluctuation was similar to the one on Li Ming.

‘If she’s not mistaken, Shen Yue may have already been killed and become a puppet like Li Ming.’

‘If things are really as I think, then there’s an explanation for why their answers were consistent when facing Li Shanhai’s questioning.’

‘Then the other teacher who was on duty with Shen Yue is, nine times out of ten, the suspect.’

‘But puppet magic is a vampire’s magic. Humans have no chance to come into contact with it.’

‘Winnie wants to find an opportunity to lure out the vampire behind Pan Rui!’