“Are you and this girl really just ordinary friends? Do you really have no feelings for her at all?”
In the dim bar, Luo Shiyin held her chin with one hand and asked a question with great interest that caught Ji Chengxuan off guard.
“I……” Just as he was about to deny it, Yu Chengxuan felt the gazes around him suddenly become stronger.
He turned his head subconsciously and found that his junior schoolmate was looking at him with half expectation and half apprehension.
After accidentally making eye contact with him, the girl immediately blushed and lowered her head, and her fingers holding the wine glass subconsciously twisted together.
This made Chengxuan’s words that were about to come to his throat stopped, and he couldn’t say them at all.
“I, I…” Looking at the loli with long black hair in front of him with a slightly raised mouth and teasing purple eyes, the big boy’s face flushed red.
The other customers around him also subconsciously looked in his direction, and some of the men’s eyes were filled with encouragement.
But just when Yu Chengxuan was ready to speak his mind, Luo Shiyin suddenly waved her hand: “Forget it~ The answer to this question is not suitable to be said here, so keep it for later. When you feel it is appropriate, tell the girl.”
“Ah, ah?”
The determination that had been brewing for half a day was suddenly interrupted.
Even with Yu Chengxuan’s thinking, there was a momentary freeze, and it took a long time for him to recover.
However, seeing the unconcealed joy on the face of the girl with long black hair, he immediately realized that he was being teased again, and a look of depression appeared on his face.
But in contrast, the customers around him all smiled kindly, as if they already knew the answer he was about to say, which made the big boy feel hot on the face.
However, his concern for the incident made him suppress the depression and shame in his heart and continue to speak: “Now that I have answered the question, shouldn’t Miss Winder tell me something?”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, are you still focusing on these things at this moment? You might have a hard time in the future, little girl.”
Completely ignoring the depressed big boy, Luo Shiyin looked past him again and looked at the black straight-haired girl beside him who was lowering her head with a slightly red face.
Being called suddenly, Lin Qingxi subconsciously raised her head and glanced at her senior, then a faint smile appeared on her lips: “No, your concentration on the case is also what makes you excellent.”
“Qingxi…” It seemed that he had never expected the other party to say that, and a trace of panic flashed in Yu Chengxuan’s eyes.
Seeing this, Luo Shiyin didn’t plan to continue teasing, and put one hand on her chin and said casually: “Okay, what do you want to know?”
“There seem to be a lot of rumors on the Golden Coastline. Does Miss Winder know about this?”
Turning his head back, Yu Chengxuan took half a second to calm his mind and restore his expression to its original serious state.
Her white fingers were playing with the wine glass.
Luo Shiyin’s tone was full of disapproval, but she began to observe the surroundings out of the corner of her eyes: “As for rumors, they exist everywhere in the world. Places like the Golden Coast that sell tourism as a selling point naturally have more of them. Which one are you talking about?”
“Three months ago, before the Golden Coastline was promoted by the government, a young couple came here to play. On the third night, the young man suddenly disappeared. After the woman reported the case, the security guards searched the entire coast but found nothing.”
“It was not until the next morning that the patrolling sheriff found the man’s drowned body on the beach… Has Miss Winder heard of this?”
Instead of answering the other party’s question directly, Yu Chengxuan recounted the entire story of a case, while observing the customers around him out of the corner of his eyes.
However, the customers who had obviously just arrived during this period only showed curiosity about his story.
The only one whose eyes changed slightly was… the bartender.
“This case…” On the other side, Luo Shiyin also noticed the bartender’s abnormality, but she did not point it out directly.
Instead, she gently shook the wine glass in her hand, causing the ice cubes inside to collide with each other, making a crisp sound.
After everyone’s attention was drawn to her, the black-haired girl said confidently: “I haven’t heard of it.”
“So… huh?”
“Didn’t I say this before? I’m just an ordinary tourist here on vacation. How could I possibly know these things?”
Seeing the other party’s dazed look after his spellcasting was interrupted, Luo Shiyin couldn’t help but smile softly: “You might know more about this kind of thing if you ask a local than if you ask me.”
“What about you just now, Miss Winder?”
“I just said ‘I can tell you something’, but it has to be something I know, right?”
[Did this guy intend to play a trick on me from the beginning? ]
The corners of his eyes twitched slightly.
Thinking back to when he almost spoke out his inner thoughts in order to know the answer, Yu Chengxuan couldn’t help but take a big sip of the cocktail in frustration.
Fortunately, the bartender saw that the two men were young and mixed low-alcohol liquor, otherwise they would have choked.
However, what the big boy didn’t know was that Luo Shiyin was not only unaware of the inside story, she didn’t even know the true nature of the rumor.
Even the case just now was something she deliberately got out of her mouth.
“I seem to have heard of the thing you mentioned, but not many times.”
Perhaps because he felt sorry for the other person who was being teased, or perhaps because of the tip that Luo Shiyin had given him earlier, the bartender hesitated and spoke.
Hearing this, Luo Shiyin tilted her head to look at the other person, then took out another ten-yuan bill and tapped it lightly on the table.
Seeing this scene, the bartender immediately felt relieved.
After scanning the surrounding customers, he mixed a glass of wine for each of the three people and said softly in a low voice: “I heard that from a local. His brother was the security officer in charge of the case. I heard that when the police received the report, the chief of the police station immediately mobilized everyone. He didn’t even wait for the 24-hour missing person time limit. It was as if he knew something was going to happen.”
“Where is the man’s body? Was it taken away by his family?”
Hearing this, Yu Chengxuan immediately asked.
In response, the bartender first glanced at Luo Shiyin, and after finding that she also had some interest in his eyes, he continued: “It was taken away, but before that, the body was kept at the police station for more than a week. The customer heard from his brother that when he saw the medical examiner coming out of the autopsy room, he was holding a large bag of black stuff that looked like mud.”
“The mud… is it sea sand?”
“I don’t know the details about this, but after that, all the members who participated in the search and autopsy became extremely irritable, and it took them a week to slowly recover… That’s all I know.”
Hearing this, Yu Chengxuan’s brows furrowed deeply, as if he had noticed something suspicious.
Beside him, Luo Shiyin’s eyelids fell slightly – the black sludge could also affect emotions, this setting sounded strangely familiar.