Solving the case: Combining the police dog's olfactory genes at the beginning

Luo Fei's brows furrowed even more; this movement was indeed strange.

He subconsciously picked up the coffee, but only brought it to his lips without any intention of tasting it. He then put it back down and fell into thought.

Seeing this, Guo Qian quickly gave Chen Xuanran an apologetic look.

Chen Xuanran gently shook his head, indicating that it was alright.

"Then I immediately flew to Haizhu City."

Guo Qian's voice sounded tired.

"The police in Haizhu City were also very responsible. They helped me check the airport surveillance footage and saw that after my sister left the airport, she also took a taxi."

However... that location happened to be a blind spot for the surveillance cameras, so they could only vaguely see her getting into the car, and couldn't make out the license plate number at all.

From that moment on, my sister completely disappeared; there are no longer any records of her on public transportation, in hotels, or on CCTV.

Upon hearing this, Luo Fei raised his head and looked sharply at Guo Qian.

"Have you checked your sister's bank statements, Alipay, and WeChat Pay records? After she disappeared, were there any changes in her funds or any spending records?"

At this moment, Chen Xuanran also sat down and listened quietly.

Guo Qian shook her head vigorously, her face filled with despair.

"They investigated! The police investigated! From the moment she left Haizhu Airport, there were no more transactions on any of her bank cards or e-payment accounts!"
It's like...like they vanished into thin air! Even the fares for those two taxi rides were presumably paid in cash, which is why there's no electronic record.

Luo Fei tapped his fingers lightly on the table and said in a deep voice.

"The absence of electronic payment records indicates a deliberate severing of digital ties with modern society... In such cases, there are usually only two possibilities."

Alternatively, she may have a strong sense of counter-surveillance and deliberately hide her whereabouts.

Either..."

He paused, his tone becoming serious.

"She may have lost her freedom, or even... been murdered."

Guo Qian's body trembled violently, her face turned deathly pale, and tears welled up in her eyes, but she forced herself not to cry.

“I don’t know… I really don’t know why she went to Jiangcheng first and then immediately went to Haizhu City.”

Guo Qian choked up as she spoke.

“She didn’t have a boyfriend in Tanzhou, and her social circle was very small. When she left, she only said it was a private matter and didn’t tell me anything else.”

At this point, Guo Qian seemed to have remembered the most crucial thing.

She quickly and carefully took out a book that looked quite old from her canvas bag. The book was called "Ordinary Stories".

She opened the book and took out a folded strip of paper with slightly yellowed edges from the folded pages in the middle.

"Regarding Officer Luo's phone number..."

Guo Qian solemnly pushed the note in front of Luo Fei.

"I found it in this book while tidying up my sister's room."

Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran's eyes were simultaneously focused on the note.

Luo Fei reached out and unfolded the note. Two words were written on it in delicate but slightly hurried handwriting—

"Help!"

Below the words "Help!" was a familiar phone number! It was the very number Luo Fei was currently using! Following the number was a brief surname—"Luo"!
A chill instantly shot up from Luo Fei's tailbone and went straight to the top of his head!

He felt a chill run down his spine! No wonder Guo Qian reacted so surprised when he gave his name "Luo Fei" on the phone! It turned out she already knew from the note that the person contacting her was surnamed Luo!
"What...what's going on?"

Chen Xuanran also saw the contents of the note, her pretty face filled with shock, and she subconsciously grabbed Luo Fei's arm.

Seeing the shocked expressions on their faces, Guo Qian took a deep breath and recounted an even more chilling story.

"This matter dates back to three years ago, when my sister was a freshman in college."

"At that time, she had the same nightmare for a whole week!"

Guo Qian's voice carried a hint of fear from memories.

“She dreamt that she was in a dark, damp room, like a basement. There was another girl in the room, but she couldn’t see the girl’s face. However, she could hear her voice, and that voice… she said it sounded a lot like my voice.”

"The girl in my dream asked my sister for help, saying that she had been imprisoned by bad guys and begged my sister to find someone to rescue her."

She also gave my sister a phone number, telling her she absolutely had to find a policeman surnamed Luo, because only that policeman could save her!

“My sister is always woken up by this nightmare, and strangely enough, every time she wakes up, she can clearly remember the phone number in the dream, word for word!”
Afraid she'd forget, she tore off a piece of A4 paper and wrote down the number—that's the slip of paper you see here.

Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran exchanged a glance, both seeing disbelief and horror in each other's eyes! A nightmare from three years ago?
In my dream, a girl who was imprisoned was able to accurately recite a phone number that Luo Fei wouldn't use for another three years and that was destined to become his contact number? She even specifically pointed out that she needed to find a policeman surnamed Luo?!
This is completely beyond the scope of common sense!
"three years ago……"

Luo Fei muttered to himself. He clearly remembered that this number was definitely an unassigned number three years ago!

How do people in dreams know this?
Moreover, three years ago, he was just a street urchin who wandered the streets and occasionally helped people keep watch. He was hardly a policeman.
What made the girl in the dream so sure he could save people?
Chen Xuanran was relatively calm. She looked at Guo Qian and asked.

"Ms. Guo, after you found this note, did you try to call this number?"

"We fought! Of course we fought!"

Guo Qian nodded quickly.

“After my sister told me about this strange dream, we also felt it was eerie and worrying, so we immediately called the number on the note.”

However… the phone number was not in service! We also tried searching for the WeChat account using this number, but couldn't find a corresponding WeChat ID.

“My sister is very kind-hearted. She always felt that this might not just be a dream, and that there really is a girl whose voice sounds like mine who is suffering somewhere and asking her for help.”

She insisted on investigating, and even dragged me along to the telecom service center to try and find information about the number.

"After the staff at the business hall checked for us, they clearly told us that the number was not in service at the time and had no registration information."

A hint of guilt appeared on Guo Qian's face.

"At that time... to be honest, I didn't really believe that anyone was imprisoned. I thought it was probably just that my sister was under a lot of academic pressure and her nightmares were too realistic."

I also advised her not to overthink it and not to scare herself. Later... later my sister didn't seem to have that dream again, and as time went by, we gradually forgot about it... until this time when she went missing, and I found this note again while sorting through her things..."

Luo Fei leaned back in his chair, his fingers unconsciously stroking the yellowed note, his brow furrowed as he fell into deep thought.

coincidence?

This coincidence is just too unbelievable!

A nightmare from three years ago foretold a phone number that wouldn't be activated for another three years, specifically asking for him when he was just an ordinary person back then? And the sister who left the note has now mysteriously disappeared, her movements erratic, and she vanished without a trace.

If it's not a coincidence... then what does it mean?
This means that three years ago, the girl in that dream may have appeared in some incomprehensible way.

Did he "see" the future, see Luo Fei, and send him a distress signal that transcends time and space? And his sister Guo Mengyun, because of this dream and this note, embarked on a journey to find the truth three years later, which led to her tragic encounter?

But who is that girl?
How can she "predict" the future?
Why was she so convinced she could save her? And was she still alive? Was Guo Mengyun's disappearance directly related to this dream from three years ago?

Luo Fei suppressed the turmoil churning within him and forced himself to calm down. Now was not the time to dwell on supernatural phenomena; the most urgent task was to find clues to Guo Mengyun's disappearance.

He looked at Guo Qian, who was in low spirits, and continued to ask questions in as calm a tone as possible.

"Ms. Guo, please think back carefully. Before your sister left, besides that nightmare, did she exhibit any other unusual behavior? For example, did she say anything unusual, or come into contact with any strange people?"

Guo Qian tried to calm her breathing, pressing her throbbing temples with her fingers as she tried to recall the events. Suddenly, as if remembering something, she abruptly looked up.

"correct!
The night before she left!
That night, because my husband had drunk too much at a business dinner and was snoring too loudly, I went to the guest room to sleep with Mengyun.

The next morning, around six or seven o'clock, she shook me awake!

Her eyes held a belated look of terror.

"She looked very unwell at the time, with bloodshot eyes, and she grabbed my arm and said to me."

"Sis, I dreamed about that girl again!"

She told me about a place this time!

"

"A place?"

Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran spoke in unison, their nerves instantly tensing.

"right!

She said that in her dream, the girl cried and begged her to tell her a place name so she could go there to save her!

Guo Qian nodded vigorously, trying hard to recall what her sister had said at the time.

"That place is called... it's called 'Black Spring Manor'!"

"Black Spring Manor?!"

Luo Fei frowned; he had never heard of this name before.

He immediately took out his phone, opened the search engine, and entered the four characters "Black Spring Villa".

The search results came up quickly, but there was very little related information. There was no place called "Black Spring Manor" at all. The only similar place was a "Black Spring Reservoir" in a county under the jurisdiction of Tanzhou.

"There is no such villa."

Luo Fei showed his phone screen to Guo Qian and Chen Xuanran, his tone grave.

Just to be on the safe side, Luo Fei dialed Zhou Xiaobei's number directly.

"Xiao Bei, help me check if there's a place called 'Black Spring Manor' anywhere in the country. Whether it's a tourist attraction, resort, or private estate, check whatever form it takes!"

After explaining things to Zhou Xiaobei, Luo Fei put down his phone and saw Guo Qian on the other end of the line. She realized that her sister might have met with misfortune because she had believed in a vague dream and gone to search for a place that did not exist. Her emotions collapsed again, and she began to sob softly.

Chen Xuanran quickly pulled out a tissue and handed it over, gently comforting him.

"Ms. Guo, don't be too sad. Now is not the time to be upset. Now that we've gotten involved, we will do our best to help you find your sister."

She glanced at Luo Fei, whose expression was solemn, and spoke with a convincing power in her tone.

"You may not know this, but Officer Luo Fei in front of you is recognized as the number one detective in our Great Xia, having solved countless bizarre and major cases."

Since he promised to help you, he must have a way!

"The...number one detective?"

Guo Qian raised her tearful eyes and looked at Luo Fei with a somewhat blank expression.

She only knew that Luo Fei was a policeman, but she didn't expect him to have such a powerful background.

Luo Fei met her gaze and nodded steadily.

"I am a police officer from the National Security Special Case Unit. Your case does indeed have many suspicious points, which meet the conditions for our intervention in the investigation."

I'll take this case.

He paused, then gave instructions.

"Go home now, keep your phone accessible, live a normal life, don't be overly anxious, and don't take any further action or contact the media without authorization."

Let me know immediately if there are any new discoveries or anything unusual.

Upon hearing that Luo Fei was a police officer from the National Security Bureau's special case team and had officially taken over the case, a glimmer of hope finally rekindled in Guo Qian's despairing eyes, and she nodded vigorously.

"Thank you! Thank you, Officer Luo! Thank you, Officer Chen! I will definitely cooperate!"

Luo Fei downed the coffee in his cup, which had long since gone cold, and the bitter liquid gave him a slight jolt of energy.

Afterwards, he and Chen Xuanran got up, said goodbye to Guo Qian, and dragged their suitcases to the nearby hotel they had booked to check in.

Back in their hotel room, the two quickly unpacked their luggage. At 7:30 p.m., Chen Xuanran rubbed his rumbling stomach and made a suggestion.

"Let's go downstairs and get something to eat first, and think about it while we eat."

The two went downstairs and found a decent-looking local restaurant near the square.

After ordering, while waiting, Luo Fei recounted in full the details Guo Qian had told him about the "nightmare three years ago" when Chen Xuanran went to order coffee.

"...So, three years ago, Guo Mengyun dreamed that a girl whose voice sounded like her sister was imprisoned, and that girl gave her my current phone number in the dream, and specifically asked to find a policeman surnamed Luo?"

After hearing this, Chen Xuanran's pretty face was filled with shock and disbelief.

"This...this is too bizarre! It's almost like...like a prophecy!"

"Yes."

Luo Fei tapped his fingers lightly on the table, his eyes deep and thoughtful.

"I've been thinking about a question."

If this dream is real, or rather, if the message it conveys is "real" in some sense, then the "time" in which the imprisoned girl in the dream exists may not be the same as the "time" in which Guo Mengyun dreamt of her.

Chen Xuanran was also an extremely intelligent person, and she immediately understood Luo Fei's meaning. She gasped. (End of this chapter)