The sky was covered with dark clouds, the rain was heavy, and thunder streaked across the sky, illuminating an old three-story building.
Through the laser light, you can see that there is an old wooden sign hanging at the door of the small building, with the words "Special Incident Investigation Bureau" vaguely written on it.
In the reception room of this small building, Wan Qi was sitting opposite a man about thirty years old.
In the corner, there is a girl burying her head in writing a note.
Wan Qi is the leader of the investigation team of this investigation bureau, and the man opposite him is a customer who braved this rainy night to come to carry out a commission.
On the coffee table between them, there is a black business card, lying quietly on it.
Wan Qi picked up the information filled out by the man before, looked at it, and put it aside.
He took out two cigarettes from the cigarette case on the coffee table and handed them to the other party, then lit himself up and took a deep breath before saying.
"Mr. Zhang! The reason you came to us is to find your missing girlfriend. Can you tell me what's going on?"
After hearing Wan Qi's question, the man lit the cigarette in his hand before speaking.
"My name is Zhang Yuanming and I am a sales executive. My girlfriend is called Xiaoyue. She is my first girlfriend and my only girlfriend so far!
We have always been very loving, but her disappearance happened after she left my master’s house!
It has been almost three years now and I have been looking for her. Maybe I am the only person in the world who is looking for her."
As Zhang Yuanming spoke, he took a puff of the cigarette in his hand, looking a little depressed and sad.
"Mr. Zhang! You came here with this business card. Based on what you said, it seems that your girlfriend is not an ordinary disappearance!"
Wan Qi did not have any reaction to Zhang Yuanming's expression, but directly asked the question that he felt was more critical.
"Well! Yes! My girlfriend disappeared, just like she disappeared from the world! There is no trace of her presence in our home!
And the most bizarre thing is that I asked my colleagues and friends around me, but they didn’t know that I had a girlfriend!”
Upon hearing Wan Qi's question, Zhang Yuanming took a deep puff of the cigarette in his hand and answered with a slight trembling of his body.
"It's like the world has evaporated? No traces were left behind? So before your girlfriend Xiaoyue disappeared, did she appear any different from usual, or change?"
After hearing Zhang Yuanming's words, Wan Qi thought for a while and continued to ask.
"Yes! She has changed a lot. It's not so much that he disappeared three years ago!
In fact, it is more accurate to say that six months before he disappeared, I felt that she had been transferred to someone else!"
At this point, Wan Qi could clearly see that Zhang Yuanming's smoking hand began to tremble a little.
"Switched the package? Please tell me in detail! Try to be more careful!"
Zhang Yuanming's words aroused Wan Qi's curiosity, and Wan Qi also felt that this might be the key to Xiao Yue's disappearance.
"That's right! It was Xiaoyue's birthday, and I had dinner with her.
But I was not in a very good mood that day! Because that day, a business I had been chasing for almost half a year suddenly disappeared!
The company's upper management was very dissatisfied with this, and I had to protect my subordinates that day.
I also had to show weakness to the senior leaders, so I was a little irritable and not in a good mood.
When Xiaoyue saw me like this, she said there was no need to go shopping after eating, just go home!
I didn't think much about it at the time and agreed with a nod. As a result, on the way back, the company made a lot of phone calls to me one after another.
At this time, I felt that Xiaoyue might be angry, and she shook off the hand that was holding me.
She walked forward on her own, and when I put down the phone, she was already a long way away from me!
Quickening my pace, I trotted up behind Xiaoyue, grabbed her and wanted to say sorry to her.
But when Xiaoyue turned around, I couldn't help but take a step back.
Because I discovered that I had attracted the wrong person, that woman was not Xiaoyue!
It’s just that her clothes and back are exactly the same as Xiaoyue’s, and her appearance is also somewhat similar.”
Having said this, Zhang Yuanming smoked the cigarette in his hand fiercely into a cigarette butt.
He pressed it into the ashtray, took a sip of tea and refilled himself a cigarette before continuing.
"Seeing me like this, she said dissatisfiedly, Zhang Yuanming finally remembered me?
Why are you looking at me like this? Are you angry? She said and pinched the back of my hand gently.
This tone and demeanor are exactly the same as Xiaoyue's, plus the pinching of me, this is Xiaoyue's little tempered move when there are outsiders."
Having said this, the expression on Zhang Yuanming's face was very complicated, and you could see that his eyes were a little red.
"You mean that after catching up with Xiaoyue, you suddenly couldn't recognize her face!
Mr. Zhang, have you ever considered that there was nothing wrong with Xiaoyue at that time, it was just that you suddenly became blind and could not recognize him?"
Wan Qi flicked the cigarette ashes from his hand and gave a hypothesis.
"It's not like I haven't thought about this, but I checked it later and found that none of the symptoms of prosopagnosia fit me! Because I think everyone else feels very normal!"
Zhang Yuanming directly shook his head in denial of Wan Qi's hypothesis and said that he had also thought about this issue.
"Then if you go back home and look at those old photos or videos, is Xiaoyue on them the same person as you remember?"
Wan Qi continued to ask.
"Of course! I checked it out as soon as I got home! The Xiaoyue in those photos and videos is that woman!"
Zhang Yuanming smoked a cigarette and said silently.
"So, after discovering this, have you ever thought about breaking up with your girlfriend Xiaoyue?"
After receiving Zhang Yunming's denial, Wan Qi continued to ask.
"No! I didn't even tell her this doubt because I had a feeling at that time.
This Xiao Yue is the last connection between me and the previous Xiao Yue! Once we break up, I will have no contact with the Xiao Yue in my memory at all!"
Hearing Wan Qi's question, Zhang Yuanming suddenly raised his head, choosing a very serious tone, but then he lowered his head again.
"It's ridiculous! In the end, I was never able to find Xiaoyue, and I couldn't even keep the fake one!"
Zhang Yuanming said mockingly to himself, and the atmosphere suddenly fell into silence.
"So, did anything special happen next?"
Finding that the conversation had fallen into silence, Wan Qi continued to ask. After all, this matter was quite interesting to him.
And for this commission, the current information alone is not enough.