"The people in this damn place are so vigilant. If I had known earlier, I would have been better off not wearing a mask."
"In the past, I wouldn't have dared to come to a place like this."
Ai Liang muttered after entering the game hall.
Ai Liang was the only one in the whole street wearing a black mask, and most people watching the scene would look at him twice.
Ai Liang didn't go around looking for information about Shoupi as soon as he got here. Instead, he exchanged dozens of game coins and sat down in front of a slot machine.
This chaotic zone is no better than the Hunter Bar.
If a stranger were to ask for information in a place like this, no one would give him a hard time.
If you randomly invite people to inquire, you will definitely have conflicts with those watching the show and waste your time.
There were already people in front helping to explore the way, Ai Liang just needed to prick up his ears and listen attentively.
The bounty hunter who first noticed that Shoupi was missing was currently talking to Shoupi's younger brother in the cubicle inside.
"When did he disappear?"
"Brother Pi was still playing cards with us in the afternoon, and after dinner..."
"Get to the point! Tell me when was the last time you saw him!"
"Uh, let go! I said, I said! After dinner, Brother Pi said he was going home to get something, and then we couldn't contact him! I'm just a handyman, I don't know anything else!"
"Damn it, I've been talking about something that can be explained clearly in one sentence for a long time!"
The bounty hunter was cursing inside, but little did he know that the people outside heard the screams and started walking towards the room with their belongings.
"I'm fucking helping you find someone!"
"Who the hell told you to attack our people here?!"
Listening to the sound of fighting coming from the room, Ai Liang sighed and stuffed the remaining coins into his trouser pocket.
The person inside seems to have no hope tonight.
Fortunately, he got the address of Shoupi's family from Shoupi's brother, so at least the clues were not broken.
Ai Liang was about to leave when a strange idea suddenly came to his mind.
Why should we follow the clues given by others to find the whereabouts of Shoupi step by step?
I am not the only search method that follows the clues.
Thinking of this, Ai Liang turned around and entered the internal staff room while the front desk was entering the room to have a fight.
According to the skinny guy's memory, he went to the lounge and found the locker.
Ai Liang picked up the skinny knitted hat and put it in front of his nose and smelled it. After noting the smell, he put the hat back in place and left the game hall through the back door.
Shoupi's residence is not far from his place.
After leaving Fish Street, hail a taxi and you'll be there in a few minutes.
Compared with the backwardness of Fish Street, the place where Shoupi lives finally looks a bit like modern society.
Ai Liang did not go through the main entrance, but directly found a corner and entered the community.
The boy only knew the community where Shopi lived, but he didn't know which building, which floor or which household.
The next search will depend on Ai Liang himself.
Ai Liang narrowed his eyes and twitched his nose, letting go of the restrictions on his sense of smell.
In an instant, all kinds of messy smells, such as sour, sweet, smelly, milky, fishy, smoke, were surging in front of me.
Ai Liang abandoned those irrelevant smells and focused on the smell he smelled on the knitted hat before.
In a daze, he seemed to see gray fog of different shades hovering inside the community.
Obviously, these "mists" are the smell left by various gland secretions such as sweat glands and sebaceous glands on the skin.
Among them, the "fog" along the road from Unit 2 to the underground parking lot is the thickest.
"Building 2?"
Ai Liang followed the scent's guidance to the third floor and saw a security door that was ajar.
No breathing or heartbeat of a living person was heard inside, so Ai Liang pushed the door open and entered boldly.
Sofas, tables, chairs, towels...the residual smell on various daily necessities and furniture is exactly the same as skinny skin.
Ai Liang was not in a hurry to find clues. He had never received relevant training and didn't know where to start.
So I simply continued to use my cheating senses to find the whereabouts of Shou Pi.
"Someone else came to Shoupi's house not long ago."
Ai Liang soon made a new discovery: "He is a male, and his smell is very abrupt. There is no residue of his scent on the sofa or bedroom. He has not lived here for a long time, and the contact time is very short."
"The smell of burnt skin...the thin skin was burned by fire? No, if it was a fire, the residual smell in the air would not be so light, electric shock device?"
Ai Liang turned his attention to the bathroom, where the burnt smell was the strongest.
But before that, the light brown footprints on the ground were even more eye-catching.
"It looks like a shoe print. It was rubbed on the foot pad, so the mark is very light."
If it were a murder scene, this footprint would be an extremely important clue, but to Ai Liang, it was useless and not even worth mentioning.
"The clothes have been wet with water, and the sweat has been mixed with the tap water for a long time. The source of the burnt smell is also here."
Ai Liang crossed his arms, looked at the wet floor and began to think.
Could it be that someone sneaked into Shoupi's house and hid in the bathroom, attacked him with a stun device, stunned him and kidnapped him?
Ai Liang turned around and looked carefully at the living room floor. There were no traces of dragging on it.
I turned around and continued to observe the bathroom. The water stains on the floor were concentrated in a small area. The cup for brushing my teeth was thrown in the sink. It looked like someone was trying to wake up Shoupi with water after he was stunned.
Ai Liang didn't know if his guess was right or not, he could only see so many things.
"Whether I'm dizzy or not, I must have followed the owner of that strange smell in the end. Then I just need to follow the place where the two smells appeared at the same time, and I should be able to find the real owner."
Ai Liang marked the scent of the stranger as a key point and followed the path where the two smells appeared at the same time.
Soon, he came to an empty parking space in the underground parking lot.
"It's hard to handle a skinny car. I don't know if I can keep up."
Once the car door is closed, most of the smell is blocked.
Even if you open the windows of your car with people passing by and cars passing by, the residual smell will be almost gone.
"Someone also saw Shoupi during dinner. He disappeared less than three hours ago. I hope there is no strong wind on the road."
Ai Liang muttered something in a low voice and took note of the smell inside the skinny car.
After leaving the community and coming to the road, the smell in the air became more mixed.
Fortunately, Ai Liang could still smell the smell of two people and a car.
Walking and stopping along the way, while tracking the scent, he also marked the sections of road he had already traveled in his mind to avoid repeating them.
After walking for nearly half an hour, when I finally passed by a small hotel, the smell suddenly became stronger.
Ai Liang quickly stepped forward to check, and sure enough he found the skinny car at the door.
But here comes the question, why bother kidnapping Slim Belt and bringing him to a place like this?
Make a time difference before anyone else reacts, and use Pan Junyuan's information to earn the 800,000 bounty?
Ai Liang shook his head: "No matter what his purpose is, it has nothing to do with me looking for Shopi. For the sake of saving my life, Shopi will at least help me solve the problem."