Doctor Zhang shook his head.
He'd been overthinking it.
They hadn't even found the girl yet.
And already he was thinking about what came next.
What if...
Bah, bah.
Doctor Zhang regretted his own ill-omened words.
He shouldn't jinx the girl.
It would be all right.
Everything would be all right.
They'd find the girl safe and sound...
The group slowly gathered together again.
Every face looked confused and weighed down with worry.
"Did you find her?"
"No. Did you?"
"No."
"If I had, I would've called out right away."
"Right. If anyone had found her, they would've called out by now."
"...Sigh..."
"Sigh..."
"What's going on?"
"What do we do?"
What were they supposed to do now?
Everyone glanced at the girl's parents, then quickly looked away.
The couple looked distraught.
The woman seemed ready to collapse.
It was a heartrending sight.
Everyone looked toward the police.
The child was missing.
The police were the only ones they could rely on.
"Officer."
The old man spoke up.
"We've checked every car."
"But we haven't found the child..."
He couldn't help looking at the boy again.
Many others followed his gaze.
After all, of everyone there, the boy had been the last to see the girl.
Now the search had reached a dead end.
The only way they could think of to make a breakthrough was for the boy to tell them more about her.
"Officer..."
Though the woman tried hard to stay calm, her voice still trembled.
"Linlin... my daughter... where is she?"
The police officer's brow furrowed into several knots.
Something was wrong...
They, too, looked at the boy standing not far away.
The boy had said he'd locked his little sister in a car in this parking lot...
Had he been lying?
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