Chapter 142: Not Even Allowed to Take a Picture

Then tell me first, did anything unusual happen before your girlfriend went disappeared?

"Unusual?"

Yin Cheng pondered carefully, "Let me think about it."

I was not in a hurry, afraid that he might miss anything. Yin Cheng started recalling from the day the two of them went out.

It wasn't until they arrived at the Ma Family Village, when he mentioned going somewhere and having to fill in his ID card information, that I interrupted him.

"Wait, you said you went to a place where you even had to fill in your ID card information?"

"It's a haunted house, very thrilling. At that time, Xiaoxiao kept nagging to go play. I told her that those were all fake and deceptive, but she just wouldn't believe it."

Yin Cheng told me with utter helplessness that his girlfriend, Xiaoxiao, had loved watching ghost and zombie movies since she was a child.

Whenever she had free time, she would hold her phone and watch supernatural shows, so she loved haunted house games even more.

At that time, they needed to fill in their ID cards upon entering. Yin Cheng had expressed his objections, but there was no help for it; he couldn't win an argument with his girlfriend, so they just went.

As a result, she went missing in the hotel that very night.

"I don't know what happened that night either. I seemed exceptionally sleepy, and soon after we came back, I fell completely asleep," Yin Cheng said, holding his head. "I don't even know what happened to me, how I suddenly..."

I observed everything in the room.

The place where Yin Cheng stayed was a guesthouse called Happiness. The decoration was quite decent, and the overall vibe felt relatively comfortable.

So far, I hadn't found anything out of the ordinary.

"And then? Is there anything else besides this?"

Yin Cheng pondered for a moment and said, "There was also when I was having dinner with her, a local suddenly came over and took a picture of us with a camera. He said he was into photography and thought we looked like a perfect match, so he wanted to take a picture of us."

"And you let him?"

"I did."

I nodded. "Well then, how about this? Didn't you want to follow me and look for her together? It's still early. Instead of talking so much, why don't you take me through every single place you and your partner visited that day."

My eyes rolled, and I said, "Let's start from the haunted house."

Yin Cheng had no better way out now and could only do as I said, especially since, in his heart, I was a private detective.

More importantly, he hadn't tried to reconstruct what happened that day over the past few days, but just asked around blindly.

When they arrived at the entrance of the haunted house, the ticket seller's expression turned somewhat unnatural the moment she saw Yin Cheng.

"Sir, tickets are eighty yuan per person. You need to register your ID cards before entering."

Yin Cheng quickly wrote down his ID number and handed the pen to me. I twirled the pen in my hand, looked at the ticket seller with a smile, and asked, "What's this? Why are you collecting ID card information? You aren't going to use our ID numbers to take out loans, are you? I've heard there are a lot of such things happening nowadays. I've only just reached adulthood, what should I do if you apply for a student loan for me?"

With that, I took out my phone without hesitation and took a picture of the ticket seller.

The flash went off, and the ticket seller didn't have time to dodge: "Sir! How can you take pictures without my permission!"

Don't let her appearance as a young girl fool you; she had quite a lot of strength, and she reached out to grab my phone.

During the struggle with her, we were very close, and I actually caught a faint scent of a