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Chapter 526 I also used to do 10,000 words a day back then

“Indeed,” Coco said, having also seen the contents of the ledger. “What are your thoughts?”

“If all you want is for Zhao Shuang to regain her memory, I have a good idea,” Gu Mian said, looking at the car rental bill in the ledger. “Go to their car rental company and rent another identical one, then recruit about thirty more people. I’ll be the driver, and we’ll drive up the cemetery. When we get halfway up, to the spot where the police found Zhao Shuang, we’ll kick her off the road, recreating the whole scene…”

Coco was silent for a while: "Are you going to drive to the spot where the bus plunged down the mountain and do a somersault, taking us all down with you?"

“It’s not impossible,” Gu Mian said seriously. “By observing the direction the bus spun and the location where it crashed, we might be able to find the other missing people.”

"Whether we can find the missing person is another matter, but I bet we'll be on TV that day." Coco didn't want to talk to Gu Mian anymore.

She miscalculated. She thought she had gotten used to Gu Mian's erratic behavior, but she didn't expect that this person could be even more erratic at crucial moments...

Coco took a few deep breaths: "Fine, do whatever you want."

As long as we don't attract all the ghosts to this area...

“Then I’ll go look around somewhere else first,” Gu Mian pushed the two love letters toward Coco. “You can show these two letters to other people later.”

After saying that, he lifted his foot and walked towards the door.

The office has floor-to-ceiling glass windows on one side, allowing people outside to see clearly inside. Coco could also see which direction Gu Mian went after leaving the office.

He left the office and headed towards the other staircase, probably intending to go downstairs.

Coco didn't know if he had really gone to get the bus.

But after a while, Gu Mian came back again.

"What's wrong?" Coco looked at Gu Mian, who had reappeared at the door.

Gu Mian shrugged: "They said the door to the stairwell over there was locked because it was old and in disrepair, and they were afraid that if it wasn't sturdy, it might fall and kill someone when it was opened."

As he spoke, he walked back towards the stairs he had come from, seemingly going down from that direction.

By the time the players had finished searching, Gu Mian had long since disappeared.

The only useful clue that Cang Yue and Wang Chuan found was a group photo, while Zhao Shuang and Xia Jianren found nothing, and Coco found nothing except two love letters.

When the group gathered at the top of the stairs, everyone else noticed that Gu Mian had disappeared again.

"Where did he go?" Cangyue asked Keke, shining her flashlight on her.

Coco touched the two love letters in her pocket: "After wandering around the storage room, he suddenly had some novel ideas. I guess he's probably going to rent a car now."

The group exchanged bewildered glances, and Wang Chuan was the first to ask, "Rent a car... for what?"

"He said he wanted to bring us all along, and get another thirty or so people to ride in together. He would drive us to the cemetery to recreate the scene, which would help Zhao Shuang recover her memory." Coco's expression was far from calm as she said this.

The others also had strange expressions.

“Anyway, he’s been acting strangely for a while now,” Wang Chuan said calmly. “Let’s discuss what clues we’ve found first.”

He first looked at Xia Jianren and Zhao Shuang: "Have you found any clues over there?"

Xia Jianren shook his head: "I didn't find anything. The office is full of useless documents or tattered magazines. The cactus by the window is quite prickly though..."

At this moment, Cang Yue suddenly spoke up: "By the way, Zhao Shuang, do you still remember your desk? It's in the room that Wang Chuan and I searched."

Zhao Shuang nodded: "Yes, I still remember where my desk is."

Cang Yue continued, "Why don't I go with you to take a look? Maybe seeing your desk will remind you of something."

Zhao Shuang did not object: "Okay."

The two then walked together towards the office at the very end. Xia Jianren instinctively wanted to follow, but Wang Chuan grabbed him.

"What's wrong?" Xia Jianren asked curiously.

Wang Chuan watched the two figures leave and said softly, "The amnesiac Zhao Shuang isn't us. We're going to discuss some things about Zhao Shuang. Wouldn't it be troublesome if she found out we know nothing about her?"

“Oh,” Xia Jianren suddenly realized, “You’re afraid that Zhao Shuang will find out that we’re not her former colleagues.”

Wang Chuan nodded: "Because the clues that Cang Yue and I found were about Zhao Shuang."

As he spoke, he took out a photo. Coco and Xia Jianren looked at the photo and saw that it was a picture of Zhao Shuang and a man.

The memories implanted by the copy allowed the two to recognize the man.

“Sun Zihao?” Coco called out his name immediately.

Wang Chuan looked at the photo in his hand: "Yes, that's him. He's the one the police confirmed to be dead. I guess they might have been a couple."

"So Zhao Shuang's boyfriend turned into a ghost?" Xia Jianren's eyes widened.

“Yes,” Wang Chuan replied, “After seeing this photo, Cang Yue and I both doubted our previous assumptions. Perhaps killing Zhao Shuang is not the way out, but the way to death.”

As he spoke, he kept looking back, afraid that Zhao Shuang would hear him. Fortunately, Cang Yue was stalling her.

Wang Chuan continued, "The way out might lie with this Sun Zihao, or perhaps with those colleagues who have disappeared without a trace."

At this moment, Coco also took out two love letters from her pocket: "Gu Mian found these. I didn't take them out when Zhao Shuang was here. Take a look at these."

As she spoke, she pulled a piece of paper from a pink envelope and unfolded it: "The contents of this, well, how should I put it... you can see for yourselves."

Wang Chuan shone his flashlight on the two pieces of paper in Coco's hand.

"You are like the moon in the sky, moored in the middle of the water, forever in my heart... Wait a minute, haven't I seen this passage on some browser before?"

Wang Chuan nodded: "Indeed, I've seen it too. It's obviously copied on the spot."

Coco had no experience searching for love letters online, so she didn't realize the text came from her browser; she just found it cheesy.

She guessed that Gu Mian hadn't searched for this online either, so she didn't know that Sun Zihao had copied it.

There were two love letters, both of which were quite cheesy.

The key point is that Xia Jianren and Wang Chuan both felt that the two love letters looked familiar, so they were most likely scraped from a browser.

It seems that both of them have extensive experience copying love letters.

Xia Jianren looked at the love letter in Keke's hand: "This should confirm that Zhao Shuang and Sun Zihao are boyfriend and girlfriend, right?"

"That's probably it," Wang Chuan nodded. "So I think if we take action against Zhao Shuang, Sun Zihao might go berserk?"

Xia Jianren asked doubtfully, "He's a ghost now, how could he still have feelings for Zhao Shuang?"

“Anything is possible. If Zhao Shuang can regain her memory soon, that would be great. When she comes back, we’ll ask her if she remembers Sun…” Wang Chuan’s voice trailed off.

"What's wrong?" Xia Jianren looked at him curiously.

Wang Chuan's lips didn't move, remaining there neither up nor down. His side was the stairwell door, through which one could see the stairs leading to the twelfth and fourteenth floors.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a pale face peeking out from the corner of the staircase leading to the twelfth floor.

That was a year ago. Back then, I was a diligent author who could update five chapters in a row.

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