Volume 3 Chapter 52 (1/2)
Announcement 1: Please note that Su Hua Private Middle School -> will be renamed to Su Hua Private Secondary School from this chapter onwards.
For more, see footnotes.
Announcement 2: I NEARLY DIED TRANSLATING THIS HORRIBLE CHAPTER!!!
Volume 3, Chapter 52: Zhang Jian is missing
TL: flarewk
In a three storied small mansion, there's a room within that's decorated especially extravagant compared to the rest, and a group of people were gathered in here discussing certain matters; the doorplate of the room wrote: Su Hua Secondary - High School Department [Student Council].
”Zhang Jian had been missing for almost 10 days already, anyone of you have any leads on it?”
The Student Council President Sun Li Hua's eyebrow frowned, as her gaze swept upon the other people sitting on the sofa.
”Nothing, our only lead was the group message that Zhang Jian sent to all of us before he disappeared.”
w.a.n.g Yi waved his phone about as he replied Sun Li Hua.
”The contents of that group message, is definitely not written by Zhang Jian, and I can see very clearly, that something bad had happened to Zhang Jian!”
Ma Qing Xue thumped her chest, and said it with an expression of extreme conviction.
Sun Li Hua took out her phone, and tapped the screen, opening that short group message up, and looked at it once again.
The contents of the short message was: [Everyone, I'm Zhang Jian, I have some urgent business needing to return back to my old home to settle, and it may take a period of time, you guys don't need to worry about me.]
”Forget just about that short message, he didn't even pick up his phone, and we can't find any other way to contact him, I've went to his house a few times already, and there's no one in at all.”
Amelia added on another bit of information, which made the crowd even more worried on Zhang Jian's current situation.
”Just basing only on a short message to determine that Zhang Jian was missing or not is indeed a little rushed, although I said these a week ago, but right now, I received a particular bit of extremely unfortunate information.”
Sun Li Hua's eyebrows frowned even deeper than before.
”Prez, please say it!”
Ma Qing Xue looked desperately at Sun Li Hua, as her fingers were placed on her large thighs and trembled nonstop; it's quite clear that she's in a state of extreme nerve-wreck right now.
”All of you, please take a look at this recording, it was taken down by the roadside surveillance camera... although it wasn't really that clear.”
Sun Li Hua turned the desk's laptop around to everyone, and on it displayed a certain recording.
In the recording, Zhang Jian met a girl in a road-bend, and after conversing with her shortly he turned around and attempted to run away, but the girl caught up with him, pounced him down and did some unknownst thing to him afterwards. The recording quality was quite bad, which made them unable to see what happened clearly, and after a while Zhang Jian stopped struggling, and the girl flagged down a pa.s.sing black vehicle before disappearing from the recording's sight.
Just before that girl boarded that black vehicle, she faced towards the direction of the surveillance camera and gave it a smile.
Although the face couldn't be seen clearly, but everyone can evidently feel that smugness arising from that face.
”What do you guys think.......”
After the playing of the recording ended, Sun Li Hua asked everyone.
”This should be the person that Zhang Jian was trying to hide from, it should be that crazy girlfriend that he was speaking about......”
Amelia gave out a reply.
”Does anyone have the address of Zhang Jian?”
Sun Li Hua pondered for a while, and decided to show this recording to Zhang Jian's parents, this way it might be possible to recognize who that girl was in the first place.
”Wasn't it in Li Dou small district?”
w.a.n.g Yi consciously asked in return.
”It's not, that's only his current place of residence, his transferring over was due to the school dean's signature, and.......there wasn't any other detailed information, his residential address column was also indicated as Li Dou small district.”
”Wasn't there any way of contacting Zhang Jian's parents at all?”
Ma Qing Xue asked.
”No....if you guys have any sort of information just say it out, this way it'll be easier for my investigation, and as for the school dean's side I've checked with him beforehand, he was helpless too, the information about Zhang Jian transferring over was too less to the point of being pitiable.
”Then how did the school dean agreed to the transfer?”
”It's said that Zhang Jian was the son of a familiar a.s.sociate of the school dean, and he brought the introductionary letter along too, so......”
”Is it, then let's discuss on other ways then, I remember that Zhang Jian's dialect seemed to be of a southerner.
”Be more specific, which part of the south's dialect?”
”His dialect......if I think carefully.....it should be.....”
Ma Qing Xue lowered her head as she seriously pondered, but still didn't have any further conclusion at all.
”It's Yun, Gui, and Chuan, probably these area's dialects........”
(TL: probably a reference to Yunnan, Guinan and Chuannan provinces in china)
Liu Xiong suddenly cut in.
”How did you know?”
”My old hometown was at S province, so I'm able to distinguish it out a little.”
(TL: S province is probably in reference to Sichuan)
”Are you able to ascertain which province's dialect it is?”
”I can't....me and Zhang Jian usually converse around in a normal dialect.....”
Liu Xiong apologetically looked at Ma Qing Xue, this was the only bit of information he would be able to provide already.
”Then it'll be like this then, right now you guys head towards where Zhang Jian is currently staying at right now, I'll go investigate on that black vehicle, we must not let go any bit of information at all! Misc. Task Manager, Secretary, you guys stay in the Student Council room to temporarily handle the Student Council tasks!”
”Understood, President!”
The Misc. Task Manager and Secretary replied unhesitatingly.
”Ma Qing Xue, Amelia, w.a.n.g Yi, Liu Xiong, Jiang Tian, I won't accompany you guys over, so I'll apply medicinal leave for all of you first then.”
Sun Li Hua's exceptional leaders.h.i.+p talent can be said to be undoubtedly unveiled at this very moment.
”Alright, I have Zhang Jian's house keys, so we can go there right now.”
Ma Qing Xue seemed to be slightly impatient.
”You guys stayed together?”
The others asked curiously.
”Don't ask, I picked it up!”
Ma Qing Xue dismissed w.a.n.g Yi and the rest, but all of them thought differently instead, after all, how would a key be that easily picked up in the first place.
Opening the huge door of Zhang Jian's house, the company of people walked in and started to investigate, and one plus hour later, they didn't have any discovery at all; Zhang Jian house decor was too simple already, the term 's.p.a.cious' could even be used to describe it......
”Come here quickly, there's a hidden entrance here!”
Jiang Tian had a little discovery, and he beckoned everyone over.
The place of discovery was at Zhang Jian's bedroom, and the wall of the bedroom hung a poster, while the wall behind the poster was being opened by Jiang Tian.
”What.....what's all these....it's so dazzling!!”
w.a.n.g Yi exclaimed, behind the hidden entrance, it actually contained entirely of Zhang Jian's collection.......
”As expected of the Librarian Keeper, since he's not around here anyway, let's help him take care of these children then......”
Liu Xiong started to store Zhang Jian's collection inside of his clothes already.
”These collection of Zhang Jian's are really not bad.....Mm....this book is extremely great as well....”
Amelia too also was engrossed deeply within Zhang Jian's book collection.
”What are you guys exactly here for!”
Ma Qing Xue loudly roared, and brought all of them back to reality.