Chapter 14 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

As expected, it was there.

Without changing his expression, Li Ang asked for the address of the other daughter, whom the old man had visited in the past.

Desheng Road, Patriarch Building.

It was only four streets away from Qianhua Road… What kind of supernatural event could it be?

Compared to the previous quest, the quest reward this time was much less significant. There was no extra EXP or Game Credits. Based on the literal description, he was only required to find out the truth. He did not need to kill or eliminate the spirit.

Was it more focused on deducing and deciphering?

Li Ang watched the middle-aged woman push her father away and turned to ask Wang Congshan, “Have you eaten lunch?”

“Ah…” Wang Congshan froze. “Not yet.”

“I’ll treat you to sour and spicy noodles with pig intestines,” said Li Ang. “That store has already been there for ten years. Their pig intestines are strong, oily, and unrivaled in Yin City.”

Wang Congshan was puzzled. She and Li Ang had known each other for many years. The last time Li Ang had treated her to food had been in primary school, when she had eaten a dark red plum.

After she had wiped it clean and swallowed it, she had asked Li Ang where he had picked this fruit and why it had been so sweet. Li Ang had smiled proudly. The fruit tree had grown on the side of the road on his way home from school. Every day, he had irrigated it with his urine, so the plum had been naturally sweet and delicious.

Unhappy memories made Wang Congshan cautious. “Where is that pig intestine noodle store?”

“Just at the corner of the south street of Yin City Dongda Coloproctology Hospital.”

Li Ang said, “You know, the essence of pig intestine noodle lies in the knot, which is the end of the pig’s large intestine. The casing in that part is thicker, contains more lard, and is chewier. It tastes like a lesion in patients with blood-borne intestinal obstruction.

“The last time I went to eat it, I tasted the bodily smell of perennial hemorrhoid patient Old Zhang, who was in Bed 4 of Ward 7 on the third floor of Building 2 of the inpatient department of Dongda Coloproctology Hospital.”

Wang Congshan’s face was a little pale. “I don’t feel hungry all of a sudden. Eat it yourself.”

“Sigh…” Li Ang said regretfully. “Then I will go first.”

After bidding her farewell, Li Ang got into a cab and made a beeline for Desheng Road and the Patriarch Building.

This was a dilapidated old apartment building with rustic red square tiles on the outside of the wall, and the gaps between the tiles were covered with black blotches caused by rain erosion.

The old green glass windows did not allow light in and the rotating air-conditioning frames were covered in dust, which was a stark contrast to the modern high-rise buildings a few streets away.

The Patriarch Building had twelve floors that were divided into the left and right sides. Building 1 on the left was dedicated to residents, while Building 2 on the right was rented to a sanatorium and a beauty salon.

Buildings 1 and 2 were connected with a wall. Only the emergency exit passed between the two buildings.

Li Ang looked up to examine it for a while and tore off a missing person notice from the roadside telephone pole.

“Bao Fangtian, female, 51 years old, 1.61 meters tall, long hair, 70 kilos. She went missing in the Desheng Road area at 1.30 p.m. on June 17.”

“She was wearing a black short-sleeved knitted sweater, yellow shorts, and brown sandals. She is from the southern suburbs of Yin City, has a local accent, and suffers from mild mental illness. We hope that anyone who knows her whereabouts will contact her family quickly. You will be rewarded.”

Next to this was a photo of the missing old woman and her family’s contact number.

Li Ang glanced at it and folded the missing person notice in his hand before he walked straight into the duty room at the entrance of the Patriarch Building.

Two people were sitting in the duty room, one of them old and one young. The old one was listening to the radio, while the young one was scrolling through TikTok.

“Hello, excuse me.” Li Ang knocked on the duty room door and said with the missing person notice in his hands, “I am Bao Fangtian’s relative. I want to check the surveillance footage of the past few days…”