Chapter 1 The Woman

The two walked out of the administrative building. Chen Yuanjun scanned the area and spotted a strikingly beautiful woman in the parking space to the left of the entrance.

She wore a business-like white suit, low-heeled light gray shoes, and a Burberry scarf around her neck.

Sunglasses perched on her high, straight nose, and her hairstyle was fashionable and exquisite.

She was tall and fair-skinned. Although she wore sunglasses, her features were clearly attractive; she was an outstanding beauty.

"Let me introduce you. This is Xie Anna, from the Xie family, an excellent musician," Li Dongze said with a smile, raising his hand towards Chen Yuanjun. "This is Chen Yuanjun, the team leader of our Public Security Department."

Xie Anna smiled and extended her hand. "So, you're the Captain Chen who rushes faster than a Lingjing Xingzhe (spiritual realm walker) when encountering evil professions, and hides slower than a Lingjing Xingzhe when encountering danger. It should be okay to talk about Lingjing Xingzhe now, right? It's an open secret after all."

Li Dongze joked, "I once suspected he was a lucky goddess profession, but unfortunately, there isn't one in the Lingjing (spiritual realm)."

As a public security team leader with real power and working on the front lines, Chen Yuanjun had access to information about Lingjing Xingzhe in the context of frequent cult activities.

However, he only knew about the existence of the Evil and Guardian camps, as well as all the information on the transcendent professions of the major camps. He did not have the authority to know higher-level intelligence.

After learning of the existence of Lingjing Xingzhe, Chen Yuanjun was very worried about his family being affected, and even thought about sending his family to the countryside.

According to the information he controlled, evil professions were either in sparsely populated areas or lurking in prosperous cities.

The countryside, which was neither remote nor prosperous, was currently a rare pure land.

He had good reason to think so. His aunt, who was worth a lot and worked hard outside, and his cousin, who was studying at a famous university in Songhai.

His aunt working in the hospital, these three were all likely to be attacked by evil professions.

The former came into contact with social elites, while the latter two were in units that evil professions liked to attack, and they were all ordinary people without the power to restrain a chicken.

His unreliable old father, who wandered around outside every day, might also encounter danger.

The safest people in the family were his grandparents and his mother. They only moved within a narrow range and were ordinary residents.

Chen Yuanjun looked around and said, "Let's get in the car first."

He walked towards his car not far away and drove Li Dongze and Xie Anna out of the Public Security Department. 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 told me to help hypnotize two ordinary people and asked me to keep the operation confidential."

Chen Yuanjun nodded, looking ahead, and said, "That's right. When we were restoring the database, we found a deleted file, which was a missing person's file. The missing person has not been found yet, and the internal personnel who deleted the file have not been found either."

"I once visited the missing person's family, and the strange thing is that his family doesn't remember ever reporting the case."

Xie Anna frowned thoughtfully for a moment. "So, you suspect that the missing person's family may have been hypnotized and forgotten about this."

Li Dongze nodded, "It's also possible that the person who reported the case wasn't his family. That's another direction."

Xie Anna glanced at the two of them and probed with a smile, "The missing person must be extraordinary for you to be so concerned, 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 (Wanderer Swordsman) listened to the phone while looking at the scenery outside the window. He said, "That's the situation with Lei Dabing. He happens to be on your search list. Do you want to investigate his home? I'm also very curious about what's going on with that restored missing person file."

A cold voice came from the phone, "My intuition tells me that he has nothing to do with Yuanshi Tianzun (Celestial Worthy of the Primordial Beginning). The timelines of the two do not overlap. Lei Yibing disappeared in Jiangnan Province in April last year. At that time, Yuanshi Tianzun had not yet become a Lingjing Xingzhe, or had just become one."

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 please."

The Chunyang Zhangjiao (Pure Yang Sect Leader) was silent for a few seconds and scoffed. "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 Pingcheng Community, Chen Yuanjun stood in front of the anti-theft door of apartment 402 and pressed the doorbell.

"Ding-dong~"

After pressing it twice, footsteps came and a middle-aged woman in her fifties with good spirits opened the door.

"Yuanjun, why are you here!"

Seeing Chen Yuanjun, she immediately smiled, her face 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 grabbed Chen Yuanjun's arm eagerly, her eyes full of anticipation.

Chen Yuanjun whispered, "Aunt Zhou, let's talk inside."

The three entered the house, and Chen Yuanjun turned his head to look around. "Uncle Lei isn't home?"

"It's not the weekend, he's at work." Aunt Zhou took out disposable cups from the drawer in the coffee table and opened them to make tea for them.

Chen Yuanjun waved his hand.

"No need, Aunt Zhou, we'll leave after asking a few questions."

He looked at the woman, gratified, "You look much better than the last few times. No matter what happens to Lei Yibing, you and Uncle Lei still have to continue living."

Aunt Zhou sighed, "I'm grateful that Yuanzi has been coming to accompany me and enlighten me every now and then during this period. He said that if Abing comes back one day, but my health collapses, that good thing will turn into a bad thing. I have to take care of my health and wait for Abing to come back."

Chen Yuanjun was silent for a few seconds, sighing inwardly. In fact, with his many years of experience in handling cases, Lei Yibing has been missing for almost a year, which is basically equivalent to being declared 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're indeed here for a follow-up visit." Chen Yuanjun looked at Xie Anna and said, "This is a very outstanding profiler from our Public Security Department. She wants to learn some information about Abing from you."

After speaking, he nodded slightly to the musician, signaling her to start performing.

Xie Anna conjured a small silver "Ferris wheel" ornament from her pocket. She placed the ornament on the table without making a sound and flicked 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 looking at the rotating Ferris wheel.

Her gaze gradually became dazed. The Ferris wheel seemed to turn into a vortex, sucking her soul in.

In a daze, she heard the young female profiler ask, "When did Lei Yibing disappear?"

Her eyes were empty, and she喃喃道, "April 12th last year."

Xie Anna asked again, "Think carefully again, when did Lei Yibing disappear?"

Aunt Zhou gave the same answer again.

Xie Anna was not in a hurry. "Captain Chen found Lei Yibing's disappearance file in the archives of the Kangyang District Public Security Department. Did you report it?"

Aunt Zhou shook her head blankly. "Not me."

Xie Anna said in a gentle tone, "You reported the case at the Kangyang District Public Security Department, you reported the case at the Kangyang District Public Security Department, you reported the case at the Kangyang District Public Security Department."

She repeated it three times. Aunt Zhou said with a dull expression, "I reported the case at the Kangyang District Public Security Department, I reported the case at the Kangyang District Public Security Department."

She suddenly showed a painful look and said in a sharp voice, "I didn't report the case. I didn't report the case."

Xie Anna's eyebrows twitched, and she quickly comforted, "Forget what you just said."

Aunt Zhou's expression calmed down.

Xie Anna turned her head to look at her two companions and said, "Just now, I wanted to hypnotize her and forcibly instill in her the knowledge that she went to the Public Security Department to report the case because her son was missing. Under normal circumstances, she would have been hypnotized by me and believed that she had indeed reported the case."

"However, she had a strong resistance to my hypnosis. The knowledge that she had not reported the case overwhelmed the knowledge that I instilled in her that she had reported the case."

"This can only show that a musician more powerful than me has hypnotized her, making her firmly believe that she has not reported the case."

Li Dongze took a 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 did she go 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 of a higher level than me. If he wants to crack the other party's hypnosis, he 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 are tired. Now, please lie on the sofa, close your eyes, and have a good sleep... You will be reunited with your son in your dream and remember everything about him."

With the guidance of the voice, Aunt Zhou lay on the sofa and slowly fell asleep.

Xie Anna's ethereal and gentle voice guided her, "Now you will slowly remember everything about Lei Yibing, his childhood, his studies, and 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..."

Aunt Zhou was silent, silent, and did not respond for a long time.

Outside room 402, in the stairwell.

A man wearing a mask and a baseball cap jumped and disappeared.

He then manifested 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 was the person who made you forget this?

Chunyang Zhangjiao "Tsk tsk." twice.

"A Saint Realm musician actually couldn't make her remember anything. The matter involving this Lei Yibing is not simple."

He walked up to Aunt Zhou, his eyes filled with madness, and ripples of invisible undulations spread out. "Who is the person who made you forget Lei Yibing's disappearance?"

Aunt Zhou's dream began to change, and the objects quickly outlined Aunt Zhou's bedroom.

On the bed, Aunt Zhou was exhausted and fell asleep, 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.

Aunt Zhou, who was lying on the sofa in the hall, finally responded: "I don't know."

Xie Anna said helplessly to her two companions, "Maybe my ability is limited, maybe she doesn't know who hypnotized her. There are too many ways for a Lingjing Xingzhe 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 used a gentle and ethereal tone to ask, "Lei Yibing is missing, do you remember the time you went to the Public Security Department to report the case?"

She asked repeatedly.

In the dream, Chunyang Zhangjiao waited for a while. Seeing that the dream was blank, he immediately used the dream, like just now, with invisible ripples rippling in his eyes, and repeated the question that was echoing in the dream.

At this time, the dream suddenly changed, showing the Kangyang District Public Security Department building, and Aunt Zhou with an anxious face and worried heart.

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 will contact the colleagues in the Public Security Team for you."