Chapter 17:
“Where do you get the information?” – “Mom!”

He probably felt that admitting that he was single was too feeble. Tang Song held it in for a while and unexpectedly asked, “Are you going to introduce me to someone?”

Old Xiao was stunned for a moment when he was asked and dumbly responded, “Huh? Oh.”

After a vague response, Old Xiao quickly came back to his senses and suddenly the middle-aged man’s inherent skill of talking about youngsters appeared, “No, I know that young people nowadays are pursuing freedom. You like to fall in love freely and don’t like others to introduce you to blind dates and so on… hahaha! Sorry, sorry. You have never been a parent, so you don’t know. The college entrance examination has a huge impact on the lives of many ordinary children.”

After being bombarded by Old Xiao, Tang Song tried to defend himself, “…I also took the college entrance examination back then.”

Old Xiao said, “Then you should also know that during the college entrance examination, some senior high school students are very nervous and cannot be disturbed casually! How many examples are there of children who were affected by family changes and failed to perform well in the college entrance examination?”

Tang Song looked at the Old Xiao, speechless.

The young and promising Tang Song probably never imagined that one day while executing a mission, he would find himself facing difficulty because the parents of high school seniors were worried about college entrance examination issues…

Jing Qizhen happened to be sitting next to Tang Song. He originally wanted to pat Tang Song on the shoulder sympathetically, but considering they were not familiar with each other, he retracted his hand and just looked at the soldier sympathetically. After thinking about it, he just pulled the pile of snacks from Tang Song. Inside, he picked a bottle of iced black tea and deliberately unscrewed the cap before handing it to Tang Song.

Looking at the iced black tea with ‘One More Bottle’ written on the inside of the bottle cap, Tang Song wiped his face silently: … I really thank you!

After temporarily rejecting Tang Song’s plan to directly invite Ms. Li Jiangli to meet, Jing Qizhen explained the bubble universe hypothesis given by the Earth and detailed their previous plans for Store A, Store B1, and Store B2, as well as their guesses about the identity of the two monsters.

Listening to Jing Qizhen and the others suspecting the monster was transformed from an employee of the store, Tang Song was a little stunned. In the end, he complained, “Is this a murder caused by a relationship dispute? Fortunately, I don’t have a partner.”

Jing Qizhen glanced at him silently.

You are very sensitive about this issue, brother. Even now when we get down to business, you still can’t forget it.

However, Tang Song only muttered this and then said, “The two biological samples that Professor Fang collected are still in a closed key laboratory because of the uncertainty of their risk. I’ll ask them to prepare a copy of DNA data in advance to compare with the DNA of employees in the store tomorrow.”

After a pause, Tang Song continued, “As for Ms. Li Jiangli, I will send someone to invite her over when her daughter goes to school tomorrow, what do you think?”

Jin Guijuan nodded immediately and couldn’t help but say, “Please arrange for someone to protect her, Officer Tang…”

As she spoke, she looked at Tang Song. Dressed in military uniform, the cashier girl didn’t know what to call him.

“Just call me Tang Song.” Tang Song gave a friendly smile, “Don’t worry, Ms. Li will be fine.”

Jin Guijuan nodded, her eyes full of gratitude.

Jing Qizhen put his mobile phone on the table and said, “We just saw in the news that the sudden disappearance in public seems to have happened to more than just a few of us. If I guessed correctly, that’s probably why you came to see us in person!” Jing Qizhen looked at Tang Song.

Tang Song responded simply and nodded directly, “Yes.”

After all, the disappearance happened in public. Whether it happened in the Yunhai Wancheng Department Store in China or at a campus party in Massachusetts abroad, there were too many on-site witnesses.

In addition, the news also reported the disappearance of tourists on the sunny beaches of the Mediterranean coast, the tourist attractions disappearance in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, the Shinkansen disappearance in Tokyo, Japan, and many disappearances around the world within one day.

There were too many people present, and the news had already spread. There is no need to hide or tuck in anymore.

Tang Song directly projected the reported global disappearances on the big screen.

Manman frowned slightly, “There were five disappearances in just one day?”

Tang Song nodded, “Yes.”

Jing Qizhen called the Earth in his mind that had been humming to come online, and he asked keenly, “What is the current situation of the other four disappearances?”

Tang Song took a deep breath, and then replied softly “Missing status.”

Everyone in the conference room said almost in unison, “Still missing?!”

“Yes,” Tang Song nodded, looking around the eight people at the conference table, and said with a smile and admiration, “You are the only group of people who have come back intact so far.”

Jing Qizhen suddenly understood, “The reason why you did not deliberately block the news is so that the other countries where disappearances have occurred can take the initiative to contact you, right?”

Tang Song did not hide it, “Yes, there are too many uncertainties about these bizarre disappearances, and we don’t know what will happen next.”

Manman asked, “Are the five disappearances confirmed so far related to each other?”

Tang Song explained, “Based on the longitude and latitude of the places where the disappearances occurred, the time of occurrence, and the number of missing people, combined with local folklore, urban anecdotes and other information, after comprehensive analysis and comparison, the conclusion our staff drawn so far is–”

“What?” was asked in unison again.

Tang Song stated, “There’s no logic behind them.”

Everyone: …??? We’ve been waiting for so long and you’re telling us this?

Tang Song explained, “Based on the information we have so far, it’s impossible to find out the pattern of disappearances.”

After speaking, Tang Song’s eyes once again fell on the eight people present. He shook his head with a helpless smile and continued, “With the complete image data you have provided so far, our staff has a new guess. However, this guess is only based on the isolated case of your disappearance in China, and it cannot be regarded as a very definite conclusion.”

“It’s normal that these speculations need more proof,” Jing Qizhen nodded and said to Tang Song, “Let’s talk about that first?”

Tang Song responded, “As you have assumed, Store A, Store B1 and Store B2 are basically the same. Based on the clues you provided, we found that the situation in your area of disappearance is very closely related to our real world, but we suspect that there have been certain changes based on the real world. This change is not illogical, but is still affected by the real world.”

In this regard, Si Jiayang responded quickly, “Something like the shopping card that the female ghost Ms. Li gave us. Does Li Jiangli in the real world also have it?”

Tang Song said, “I have just verified that Yunhai Wancheng Department Store has not launched a shopping card with this black design. Even Ms. Li Jiangli does not have any project like it on her private computer.”

Jin Guijuan suddenly became anxious, “Then will my manager still believe what we say?”

Manman glanced at the cashier girl and reminded in a low voice, “Don’t worry about this. Your manager will at least trust the police.”

Jin Guijuan suddenly said, “Ah… yes, thank you, Manman-jie.”

Manman smiled and said, “It’s okay, you’re welcome.”

At this moment, the Earth suddenly said, “Wow,” in Jing Qizhen’s mind.

Jing Qizhen was startled by it and asked hurriedly, “What’s wrong?”

The Earth: =口= “You humans have only recorded five disappearances?!”

Jing Qizhen suddenly felt a bad premonition in his heart and asked as calmly as possible, “How many are there?”

The Earth answered, “I saw at least a dozen balls! One! Dozen! Bastard! Balls! Ptui! Tak guna! **! ! Die ! Verpissdich! Get those balls away!!”

Jing Qizhen: …

Listening to the series of crazy insults from the Earth with all kinds of English, Japanese and German onomatopoeias came out, the ominous premonition in Jing Qizhen’s heart became more and more intense. He tried to interrupt the Earth that was still shouting at other balls in anger. After two attempts, he was finally able to calm the angry ball down temporarily.

Jing Qizhen asked as concisely as possible, “Are the people in the other erosion areas not out yet?”

The Earth scolded for a long time and panted, “Yes!”

Sure enough!

Jing Qizhen took a breath of air, “Are their situation similar to ours?”

The Earth said, “Huh, it must be different.”

Jing Qizhen wondered, “Must be different?”

The Earth clarified, “The erosion area will be affected by the mutual influence of the two balls. For example, the formation of the erosion area you are in was affected by the female ghost, so almost everything comes from the Yunhai Wancheng Department Store!”

The Earth’s statement actually confirmed Tang Song’s speculation just now.

Jing Qizhen suddenly thought of something, and immediately asked Earth, “The erosion area we fell into was almost exactly the same as the scene in the real world, but it may be different?”

Earth said matter-of-factly, “Of course, it may be different, the formation of erosion area has a certain degree of randomness. The so-called Store B you see was the dilapidated appearance of Store A after a few years. However, if you come to the time before Store A is finished renovating and opening, you might see an unfinished building. Isn’t this a very simple truth?”

There was confusion in the ball’s tone on how the human couldn’t understand such a simple truth.

Jing Qizhen: “…How is the situation in the other dozen erosion areas?”

The Earth: “No one has come back yet!”

Jing Qizhen asked patiently and in detail, “I mean, what is the scenario in the erosion area? ”

The Earth: “I don’t know!”

Jing Qizhen was stunned for a moment and immediately asked, “You don’t know? I asked you last time if you could see the situation in other erosion areas, and you didn’t deny it!”

The Earth: “I went to see the situation in the erosion area, but the situation is unknown!”

The Earth was also puzzled and didn’t understand why Jing Qizhen didn’t understand. But Jing Qizhen was not a ball, after all, so the Earth understood Jing Qizhen’s mood, and it muttered in detail, “I can talk to you, so I see the situation of your erosion area through your vision. Other humans can’t receive my signal, so of course I don’t know what’s going on inside the erosion area.’

Jing Qizhen: “…Then you are really great.”

The Earth: “Thank you for the compliment. Hey, why do I think your tone is weird and a bit sinister?” 0.0

Jing Qizhen: …

He chose to shut up.

Jing Qizhen glanced at the iced black tea in front of Tang Song and took a deep breath. Just as he was about to grab some snacks to calm himself down, Tang Song next to him tacitly threw over a bottle of rock sugar and snow pear drink. He smiled empathetically and said, “You seem to like this one more. Why did your expression suddenly look wrong?”

“Thanks.” Jing Qizhen unscrewed it, took a sip, and then threw a thunderbolt out, “There may be more than a dozen erosion areas!”

Tang Song’s pupils constricted for a moment, “Where do you get the information?”

Jing Qizhen said in a subtle tone, “Mom!”

Tang Song and others: …???

The Earth was stunned. It suddenly jumped up in anger and cursed, “Jing Qizhen, I@#$^&%7#…%&￥…”

Jing Qizhen: “Swear words are automatically censored, thank you.”