Chapter 108 - We Want to Report a Case, Someone is Missing!

On the other side of the city.

On a bustling and noisy street, a woman dressed in black, with long, waist-length, ink-black hair, moved through the crowd holding a portrait, asking everyone she passed:

“Have you seen Lord Demon Sovereign?”

“No…”

The passerby shook his head, gave her a strange look, and then hurried away.

Other passersby also stopped to size her up curiously.

Yingnü paid no mind to the gazes of the crowd, focusing only on grabbing every passerby to ask if they had seen any trace of Lord Demon Sovereign.

However, even though she had already asked over a hundred people, not a single one had seen him.

But she believed that someone in this world must have seen Lord Demon Sovereign somewhere. As long as she asked every single person in this world one by one, she would surely succeed in finding him!

Just as Yingnü was preparing to grab the next passerby to question, a woman's voice suddenly came from behind her:

“Um… excuse me, are you looking for someone?”

Yingnü turned around. Her face was expressionless, making her seem a bit dazed, but her eyes were very seriously sizing up the woman before her.

The woman was sitting on a two-wheeled object of unknown make, wearing a yellow uniform. On her head was a helmet with a pair of ears similar to those of the Yao race, though they looked to be just decorations.

“Mmm-hmm!”

After confirming that the woman before her had not a shred of spiritual energy or cultivation and was just a mere mortal, Yingnü nodded to her solemnly and held up the portrait in her hand:

“Have you seen Lord Demon Sovereign?”

“Lord Demon Sovereign…?”

Xia Nuanyang was taken aback for a moment, thinking she had misheard.

Would anyone in this world really call someone else 'Lord Demon Sovereign'…? Besides actors in a movie, probably not, right…

“Mmm-hmm!”

Yingnü once again gave a solemn nod.

Xia Nuanyang didn't get hung up on the 'Lord Demon Sovereign' title and instead leaned closer to the portrait to examine it carefully.

“An ink wash portrait, huh? It looks like I've seen him somewhere, but maybe not…”

“Do you have a color photo of him? If I saw a color photo, I might be able to remember.”

“A color photo… You mean a color portrait of Lord Demon Sovereign? I was in a hurry when I came and didn't have time to find someone to paint a color picture.”

Yingnü shook her head lightly.

“Not a color portrait, a photo…”

Xia Nuanyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

These days, to think there's still someone who doesn't even know what a photo is... that's really quite rare…

“May I be so bold as to ask, is the person in the portrait missing? Is that why you're in such a hurry to find him?”

“Mmm-hmm!”

Yingnü nodded her head repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice, her gaze full of anticipation as she watched Xia Nuanyang.

“Ah, so he's really missing! Then this is serious!”

Learning that Yingnü was indeed searching for a missing person, Xia Nuanyang was startled, and her expression grew serious.

“It'll be very hard to find him by asking people one by one. When someone goes missing, you should call the police first, file a report, and let the police assist in the search.”

“Telephone… call the police… police…?”

Yingnü tilted her head, her dazed expression revealing a few extra degrees of confusion.

“Uh… you don't even know what a telephone or the police are…?”

Looking at Yingnü's confused and blank face, Xia Nuanyang couldn't help but look astonished.

This woman doesn't even know what a telephone or the police are…?

No wonder she didn't know what a photo was just now…

It seems I've run into someone quite extraordinary…

But the most pressing matter was finding the missing person. Xia Nuanyang didn't dwell on her confusion and shock over Yingnü, but instead enthusiastically waved her over.

“Come on, get on. I know there's a police station nearby. I'll take you there.”

At Xia Nuanyang's invitation, Yingnü, with a dazed and confused expression, sat behind her, her back right up against the delivery box.

“Hold on tight.”

Xia Nuanyang twisted the throttle, and the electric scooter quickly zipped through the streets.

With the safety of a missing person at stake, she twisted the throttle almost to the maximum.

Sitting on the electric scooter, Yingnü's dazed expression showed a deep curiosity as she looked down to examine the thing she was riding on.

This two-wheeled thing is actually a carriage…

But it has no canopy, and no horses or oxen pulling it…

After a speedy journey, Xia Nuanyang quickly drove to the police station entrance. After stopping, she hurriedly pulled her inside.

“Hello! We want to report a case! Someone is missing!”

Hearing it was a missing person case, the officer on duty immediately took it very seriously and quickly invited the two of them into an office for a detailed inquiry.

The officer took out a notebook and asked: “What is the missing person's name?”

“Lord Demon Sovereign.”

“…?”

With Yingnü's shocking words, everyone present was instantly stunned.

The police officer frowned slightly.

“Lord Demon Sovereign?”

“Mmm-hmm!”

Yingnü gave a solemn nod.

Xia Nuanyang at the side grew anxious and quickly leaned in close to her.

“His real name, his real name! You have to tell the police his real name!”

Yingnü looked troubled.

“I don't know Lord Demon Sovereign's true name. I have always addressed him as Lord Demon Sovereign.”

The Officer: “…”

Xia Nuanyang: “…”

Both the police officer and Xia Nuanyang were stunned.

You don't even know the missing person's name, and you came to file a report…?

“We can investigate the name later, then. When did he go missing?”

“About a hundred years ago.”

“…Huh?”

The officer and Xia Nuanyang were stunned again, and the hand that had been ready to write froze.

A person who went missing a hundred years ago?!

The officer turned to look at the desk calendar on his desk, then back at Yingnü.

The current year is 2025. A hundred years ago would be 1925…

You're coming to report a person who went missing in 1925, now, in the year 2025?

“Hmm…”

The police officer let out a long, speechless sigh, put down his pen, and scolded the two of them irritably:

“The police are very busy! Please do not obstruct our work! Get out!”

BANG!

Yingnü and Xia Nuanyang were thrown out of the police station, and the main doors were slammed shut.

Xia Nuanyang and Yingnü stood dazedly under the night sky, the silent atmosphere especially awkward.

She had many accusatory questions she wanted to ask, but seeing Yingnü's dazed face, the words caught in her throat.

She felt like her kindness had been taken for a ride, but looking at her, it didn't seem like she was being played.

From her strange clothes and her constant, strange way of addressing him as 'Lord Demon Sovereign,' it was possible this woman was mentally disturbed…

Maybe no one is actually missing, or if someone is, she can't clearly remember who it is or when they went missing?

“Um… I'll ask you one more time. He really is missing, right? You're not lying to me?”

Just in case, Xia Nuanyang asked again for confirmation.

“Mmm-hmm!”

Yingnü still gave a solemn nod.

Xia Nuanyang stared intently into her eyes. Seeing that she didn't seem to be lying, she sighed helplessly.

“Alright then. I guess this is what I get for being a busybody.”

“In a bit, I'll take a picture of the portrait in your hand and send it to my station's group chat. I'll ask my friends to help look.”

“It's getting late. Let me take you home first.”

“I don't have a home here,” Yingnü said faintly.

Hearing this, Xia Nuanyang froze, and something in her heart was suddenly touched.

When she first came to the big city with her dreams to work, she also had no fixed place to live and no one to rely on. Now, although she was cooped up in a tiny rented room, at least she had a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

This woman must have come from very far away just to find someone… She doesn't even have a place to stay. She's a pitiful person…

Thinking of this, Xia Nuanyang gave Yingnü a warm smile.

“If you don't mind, you can stay at my place for now.”

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