Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Chapter 682 World 217

Our carefree, fleeting years have vanished like smoke...

"Yinyin, your phone is ringing."

Hearing her mother's voice, Yinyin, who was brushing her teeth, came out of the bathroom and found that it was Zhao Manrou's mother calling. After thinking for a moment, she answered the call.

"Hello, Auntie?"

"Yinyin," came Zhao's mother's anxious voice, "Are you with Xiaoman?"

"Xiaoman? No, I'm at home," Shen Ruyin replied. "Hasn't Xiaoman gone home yet?"

“She came back with us,” Zhao’s mother said, “but after dinner, she said she was going out for barbecue with friends, and she went out again and hasn’t come back yet.”

"I couldn't get through to the child on the phone. I thought she went out with you."

"Yinyin, if you can get in touch with Xiaoman, could you please ask her to call us back as soon as possible?"

“Okay, Auntie, don’t worry, I’ll try to contact her first,” Shen Ruyin hung up the phone and started calling Zhao Manrou, but she couldn’t get through either.

Having overheard something, Shen's mother came over and asked, "Can't we get in touch with Xiaoman?"

She checked the time: "It's almost midnight, no wonder her mother is in such a hurry."

Shen Ruyin nodded, then tried contacting Zhao Manrou using her usual messaging app, but still couldn't reach her. She sent a message in the class group, but no one mentioned having made plans to go out with Zhao Manrou, so she began to suspect something. She then called Zhao's mother.

"Auntie, I haven't been able to contact Xiaoman either."

"Where did this child go?" The voices around Zhao's mother were a bit noisy, clearly indicating that she wasn't home. "Thank you, Yinyin, for bothering you so late."

"It's nothing," Shen Ruyin said, scrolling through messages in the classmates' group chat. "Auntie, Xiaoman only said she wanted to eat barbecue when she went out, but didn't she tell you which restaurant she wanted to go to?"

"That's right," Zhao's mother said anxiously, almost crying. "It's also my fault for not asking more questions."

Shen Ruyin vaguely heard Zhao's father's voice, probably asking the surrounding shopkeepers if they had seen Zhao Manrou.

Shen Ruyin paused as she scrolled through the messages: "Auntie, a classmate said that when she went home, she saw Xiaoman at a barbecue restaurant near her house, eating a lot of food by herself. Why don't you go there and take a look?"

After Zhao's mother found out the location, she thanked Shen Ruyin repeatedly before hanging up the phone.

At this moment, Shen's father also came out of the room: "Xiaoman is not usually impulsive. Could something have happened to her?"

Although the area is relatively safe, Zhao Manrou is still a girl, and anyone would worry if she didn't go home this late.

"Otherwise, let's wait and ask about the situation. If we still haven't found it, we'll go out and help look for it too," said Mother Shen, washing off her face mask. The family changed into their outdoor clothes and estimated the time before calling the Zhao family.

"Auntie, have you found Xiaoman?"

"Not yet," Zhao's mother said, her voice already trembling with tears. "The owner said Xiaoman came by earlier, ordered some skewers and ate them all by herself. She probably left around ten o'clock."

Mr. Shen frowned: "Let's go out and help look for it."

Hearing the voices from the other side, Zhao's mother thanked them repeatedly and also recounted the places they had already searched.

When Shen Ruyin went downstairs, she kept calling Zhao Manrou, but without exception, she couldn't get through.

If the phone is out of power and switched off, the voice prompt will directly indicate that the number being dialed is switched off, rather than saying that the call cannot be connected. Unless something happened to Zhao Manrou, then she must have encountered some kind of unexpected accident.

After all, she had just met Qi Chengyun, number 2, earlier that day.

Although they were helping to find their child, Shen Ruyin's safety was also very important to her parents, so they did not allow her to act alone and she had to stay with them.

While this efficiency is slightly slower, it offers peace of mind.

They searched together for about an hour and met Zhao Manrou's parents near the barbecue stall they had mentioned earlier.

With tears streaming down her face, Zhao's mother repeatedly thanked the Shen family for coming out to help so late at night. Zhao's father said, "This search isn't going to work. I'm thinking of reporting it to the police."

"If it turns out to be a false alarm, I'll take Xiaoman to apologize to them properly."

He didn't say the remaining half of the sentence, and he was afraid to say it.

What if it wasn't a false alarm, and Zhao Manrou really was in trouble...?

The Shen family didn't respond to these words. They were helping out because the children of the two families had a good relationship, not because they were cursing the other family's children.

Shen Ruyin and her mother helped Zhao's mother, who was somewhat exhausted, to sit down, while Shen's father went with Zhao's father to report the case.

While listening to her mother's words of advice to Zhao's mother, Shen Ruyin continued to contact her classmates on her phone.

The classmates in the group who hadn't rested yet were also helping to spread the word, asking if anyone had seen Zhao Manrou's whereabouts.

A little while later, Zhao Manrou's deskmate sent a message to Shen Ruyin.

[My aunt said she thought she saw Zhao Manrou enter her residential compound earlier, but she didn't know where she went. She asked in the compound's group chat.]

Shen Ruyin quickly asked for the address and details of the neighborhood.

[It's not far from your home.]

Zhao Manrou's deskmate replied.

[You know Zhao Tianbao and Qian Yaomei, right? Their family used to live in this neighborhood.]

[By the way, my aunt just replied to me, saying that Zhao Manrou went to the same building as Qian Yaomei's family. A resident said they saw Zhao Manrou taking the elevator to the rooftop.]

My aunt said she's already asked the property management to go check it out with her.

Shen Ruyin replied to the message immediately.

[Thank you, and thank you too, Auntie. I'll tell Zhao Manrou's parents right away.]

[It's nothing,] Zhao Manrou's deskmate couldn't help but add, [Is she just bored and has nothing better to do, or is she bewitched by something? Why would she go to someone's apartment building rooftop for no reason?]

Shen Ruyin was unaware of this matter either.

[Then I'll ask her when I see her?]

"[Ask, definitely ask!]" Zhao Manrou's deskmate said. "[My aunt was terrified when she heard someone went to the rooftop in the middle of the night. She's planning to sell her house recently, you know.]"

[Although I don't think Zhao Manrou would do something like freefall given her personality and family background, going up to the rooftop for no reason is really scary, okay?]

Shen Ruyin chuckled, turned around and called her father, asking him to answer the call for Zhao's father, and also told Zhao's mother at the same time, so as not to have to say it twice.

Zhao's father and his family had already arrived at the location, where Officer Li and Officer Sun were on duty.

Although they already knew where Zhao Manrou was, Officer Li still instructed Officer Sun to stay behind while she went with Zhao's father.

It's best if nothing happens, but if something does, she can react promptly.

On her way to that neighborhood, Shen Ruyin and her friends received several more mentions in their classmate group chat.

The incessant vibrations of her phone prompted Shen Ruyin to check the messages.

[@Shen Ruyin, you've followed Science Daoist, right? Go watch his live stream! Zhao Manrou is there!]