My girlfriend died in the past

Chapter 319: Initial clues
"To find out the cause of my father's death?"

After all, so many years have passed and Dong Zeyu has long since moved on.

In other words, on the surface he has already moved on, so he doesn't shy away from talking about his father.

"My dad died in the line of duty, how could this be false?"

"It's definitely true that he died in the line of duty, but maybe there are some clues in there."

Zhuang Xiao played with the one-dollar coin in his hand, then looked up and asked, "Grandmaster, can you find the original file?"

"I don't know. I have to go back and ask my master." Dong Zeyu scratched his head. "Actually, my mother is in charge of the information, but firstly, I'm afraid she will be sad about this matter, and secondly, it's not official business after all, so it's not easy for me to find her."

"Okay, then you contact your master, and I'll have someone investigate what happened back then to see if there are any clues."

Zhuang Xiao said this, looked at the time, and then stood up.

The others also stood up, and Dong Zeyu asked, "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to the chicken farm." Zhuang Xiao turned around and ordered, "Yueyue and Xiaodie stay here first, we'll have lunch together later."

"Okay, my master is on duty today, I'll go back to the police station and ask him." Dong Zeyu also planned to leave with him.

Gu Shiyue had no objection, and Shu Die wanted to go with them, but was stopped by Gu Shiyue.

After leaving home and entering the elevator, Dong Zeyu asked, "Brother Zhuang, are you planning to go and see if the charred body has appeared in the basement?"

"Yes." Zhuang Xiao did not deny it. "My time reversal also works on the 'Shadow World'. So if we follow the original timeline, the body should be there now."

Dong Zeyu suddenly realized, "So if there is no corpse there, it means that something is wrong with the 'Shadow World'. At least it has become different from what you saw before!"

"Almost. This can be considered as indirect confirmation."

After exiting the elevator, Zhuang Xiao patted him on the shoulder and said, "If you encounter any problems, don't handle them by yourself. Remember to come back and tell me. Even if there are no problems, remember to come back for lunch and tell me everything in detail."

"Don't worry, Brother Zhuang. I'm not a fool. How could I be so stubborn?" Dong Zeyu was also happy. "I won't do the suicidal things in horror movies."

"Okay, contact me anytime."

After saying goodbye to Dong Zeyu, Zhuang Xiao drove to the abandoned chicken farm in the suburbs.

Arriving at the entrance of the chicken farm, Zhuang Xiao drew out his dagger and carefully observed his surroundings.

When we first entered the village, there were no problems along the way and no signs of anyone having been here.

The door was also closed and locked.

Zhuang Xiao went over, took out the key, unlocked the door and entered the chicken farm.

The situation in the chicken farm is similar. There is no sign that anyone has been here.

When Zhuang Xiao arrived in front of the warehouse, his nostrils flared, but unfortunately, he did not smell any burnt odor.

However, he did not rush to go down to the basement. Instead, he walked around the warehouse and checked it carefully. Only after confirming that no one had been here recently did he go to the basement.

There was nothing in the basement except the surveillance equipment.

There were no flames, no charred bodies, and no other traces.

At this point, Zhuang Xiao could be sure that no one had ever been here, and that something was indeed wrong in the "shadow world".

After a moment's silence, Zhuang Xiao hurried back to the flat.

Secretary Zhang also sent over the information he had investigated.

Zhuang Xiao greeted Gu Shiyue and Shu Die who were watching TV in the living room, and then went back to the study to watch.

To be honest, there is not much information. Secretary Zhang mainly found news interviews about the death of Dong Zeyu's father in the line of duty.

[Today's news: A hostage-taking incident occurred in Wangfujing, Shinan. Our city attached great importance to it, deployed defenses on the scene immediately, and finally successfully rescued the hostages. ]

This news was obviously taken from a newspaper, and the newspaper must be quite old, and has turned yellow and old, including the photos under the news.

Judging from the yellowed and blurred photos, the person who was rescued should be a young woman. She was walking outside with several policemen surrounding her and protecting her. The backdrop behind everyone was the collapsed four-story Wangfujing supermarket.

"So, who kidnapped the people? Who rescued the people? Why did Wangfujing collapse?"

The doubts that Zhuang Xiao had through the photos and news content could not be answered, after all, they were not written in the news.

Zhuang Xiao continued to read other news, but all the news that mentioned this incident seemed to be tight-lipped. They all only said that the hostages had been rescued, and nothing else.

At most, there was news mentioning the reconstruction of Wangfujing after its collapse.

Zhuang Xiao's intuition told him that something must be wrong!
There must be some crucial information being concealed!
Those news outlets were either warned or key information was withheld from them from the beginning.

Zhuang Xiao feels that both possibilities exist and may even coexist.

That is, they were warned but also had key information withheld from them.

But what is this key information?

Maybe Dong Zeyu can give him the answer.

When Dong Zeyu came back at noon, Zhuang Xiao looked at his expression first.

Seeing that he looked normal, Zhuang Xiao knew that he probably didn't notice anything wrong.

But he still asked, "How is it?"

"My master said he would go and ask about the Wen Zong Sect and give me an answer after lunch."

Dong Zeyu shrugged and said, "My master didn't know about what happened to my father. He hadn't started working at that time.

"But he also said that the files cannot be taken away. Even if I want to see them, I can only go over there. He will call me after dinner before 2pm. I specifically asked him to let me know whether it works or not."

Then he asked Zhuang Xiao, "Brother Zhuang, did you find anything?"

"It's hard to say. Let's eat first and talk about it at the table."

Zhuang Xiao took the plastic bag of vegetables and meat handed to him by Dong Zeyu and went to the kitchen.

After the meal was ready and several people were seated at the table, and they were almost done eating, Zhuang Xiaocai put down his chopsticks, picked up the teacup, rinsed his mouth, and then said, "It's not a new discovery, I just found a little problem."

Then he told the three of them all the stories from the old newspapers.

Dong Zeyu's thick eyebrows also frowned, "Indeed, my father died, but according to what you said, Brother Zhuang, my father was not mentioned in the newspaper at all."

Even if there is no name, it should be mentioned that “thanks to the heroic efforts of the police, blah blah.”

But none of the news at the time mentioned this incident.

"There must be something fishy going on here!" Dong Zeyu made a decisive judgment with the professionalism of a police officer, "And it might even be a scandal! That's why we have to suppress it!"

He thought about it carefully and suddenly raised his head, "My mother never talked about what happened at home! I always thought she didn't want to talk about sad things so I didn't take it seriously. Later, as time went by, I gradually stopped caring about it.

"But now that I think about it, it is indeed a big problem!" As Dong Zeyu thought about it, the expression on his face kept changing.

He couldn't sit still any longer. "No! I have to go and ask about the situation directly!"

Zhuang Xiao knew what he was worried about.

He was worried that his father was not a martyr as he thought, or even that great and glorious. This completely overturned the worldview he had grown up with.

Zhuang Xiao pushed him back and said, "Don't worry, if there was really something wrong with your uncle, how could he still be recognized as a martyr? There is indeed something wrong here, but it shouldn't be that serious.

"And this is not the most important thing right now. We need to understand what happened back then, mainly to find out about your sister's situation."

"Yeah." Dong Zeyu sat back in silence.

Shu Die held the bowl of rice and ate the melon with her starry eyes blinking, while Gu Shiyue ate slowly as if she saw nothing.

After she finished eating, she took out a piece of tissue and wiped her mouth, then she said calmly, "Hostage."

Dong Zeyu was puzzled, "What does this have to do with hostages?"

Zhuang Xiao continued to act as a "translator," "Yueyue means that it may not be your father who has a problem, but the identity of the hostage."

Dong Zeyu nodded, not quite understanding, "But we have to wait until we see the files before we can say anything about this. The content in the news is incomplete, so there can't be a problem with the files."

I don't know whether he was comforting Zhuang Xiao or the others or trying to convince himself.

About an hour later, his cell phone rang.

Dong Zeyu, who was lying on the sofa playing King of Glory with Zhuang Xiao, suddenly jumped up.

"It's my master's call!"

Zhuang Xiao raised his hand to signal him to take it.

Dong Zeyu answered the call without hesitation.

A few minutes later, he hung up the phone and looked up and said, "Brother Zhuang, I have to go to the Municipal Bureau. My master asked me to find Uncle Li. Uncle Li is waiting for me at the Municipal Bureau. He will take me to see the files."

Zhuang Xiao asked, "Can I go then?"

"It should be possible." Dong Zeyu said truthfully, "But I'm afraid you won't be able to read the files by then."

"It's okay. I'll just wait for you to finish reading it."

Zhuang Xiao understood.

He was able to read the files during the previous times when time went back, partly because of his status and position, but this was not the most important thing. After all, his current status and position were not bad either.

The most important thing is that the case he wanted to read the file was related to him. At that time, either Dong Weirui or Shu Die was dead, or Dong Zeyu was dead.

Zhuang Xiao also wanted to see their files, so that would naturally make the door much easier.

And this time the file had nothing to do with him telling the truth.

"Okay, then Yueyue and Xiaodie will stay at home, and I will go over with the Grand Tutor."

After giving the instructions, Zhuang Xiao followed Dong Zeyu to the Municipal Bureau.

When they got there, Dong Zeyu took Zhuang Xiao to the office to find Li Ming. Li Ming didn't say anything. He asked Zhuang Xiao to sit in the office for a while and have a cup of tea, and then took Dong Zeyu to the archives room.

Although it was not very obvious, Zhuang Xiao, who had been paying close attention, still noticed it.

When Dong Zeyu asked to look at the file, Li Ming's eyes changed slightly.

Although it was very faint, almost imperceptible, Zhuang Xiao still saw it.

But he said nothing.

After about half an hour, the two came back.

There was no expression on Dong Zeyu's face.

After chatting with Li Ming for a while, the two said goodbye and left.

When they got back to the car, before Zhuang Xiao could ask, Dong Zeyu immediately said, "Brother Zhuang, I've read the file, and I think there's something wrong."

"It may not just be the files, your uncle Li may also have some problems." Zhuang Xiao said: "When you said you wanted to see the files, his expression changed a little, and it felt like he might know something.

"Let's first tell you what the dossier says."

Dong Zeyu said anxiously: "No, let's talk about Uncle Li first, or I can go back to find him?"

"No need. His reaction just now means he doesn't want to tell you." Zhuang Xiao said, "Don't worry. If he wants to talk, he will contact you. Let's talk about the file first."

"Okay." Dong Zeyu sighed, and then said: "The file said that a mentally ill person kidnapped a woman and said he wanted to see someone above him. He had something very important to say.

"Uncle Li had just been assigned to the Municipal Bureau. He was my father's apprentice. He was on duty with my father. During the negotiation, my father persuaded the mentally ill man to exchange hostages. The mentally ill man released the woman, and my father took the initiative to become a hostage. The result was..."

Dong Zeyu pursed his lips and said, "After they came out, the mall collapsed. The files said that there were explosives buried there, and the mentally ill person had an attack and detonated the explosives. Fortunately, everyone there had been evacuated, so in the end, the mentally ill person and my father died under the rubble.

"Oh, by the way, the female hostage was also injured. The psychopath's knife cut a scar on her neck."

"It sounds like there's nothing wrong with it. Is it necessary to suppress it?" Zhuang Xiao analyzed while stroking his chin. "Could it be that the failed rescue operation also caused the explosives to explode? So in order to avoid causing social panic, the news was suppressed?"

The main reason is that he didn't see the file in person, so he could only guess the specific situation.

Dong Zeyu didn't say anything.

Zhuang Xiao felt strange. How could the Grand Master remain silent at this time? This was not in line with his character.

So he looked up and glanced at Dong Zeyu, and was stunned for a moment.

Dong Zeyu's expression changed and he obviously wanted to say something but held it back.

Zhuang Xiao said unhappily, "No, buddy, you are hiding it from me, right? Tell me, is there something wrong with the file or have you discovered something?"

Dong Zeyu hesitated, then said with a serious expression, "Brother Zhuang, it's not that I don't want to say it, but I don't think it's necessarily true."

Zhuang Xiao rolled his eyes, "You have to speak out first to know if there is a problem."

"Well," Dong Zeyu hesitated for a moment, and finally confessed honestly, "My mother has a scar on her neck. I asked her how she got it, and she said it was caused by catching a thief, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

"Now that I think about it, it's quite problematic. My mother is a civilian in the logistics department who manages data. She doesn't go to the front line, so the knife-wielding criminals have nothing to do with her."

Zhuang Xiao raised his eyebrows, "So you think the woman who was held hostage by the mentally ill person was your mother?"

"Yes." Dong Zeyu sighed, took out a cigarette and rolled down the window to light it. "The more I think about it, the more I think it's possible. Why doesn't my mother like to talk about my father? Uncle Li obviously knows something but won't say it. I think maybe my father's rescue was not so pure at the time. He actually wanted to save my mother, so his treatment... shouldn't be so high."

Zhuang Xiao stroked his chin, "I think it might not be that simple."

(End of this chapter)