Everyone present in the living room, including Dongfang Jenqyih, raised their heads. They gazed at Yinqyueh's face. The girl seemed absolutely sure of what she had just said.
"Is she the woman you saw in the car yesterday?" With super serious faces, their dahge stared at the girl. Evidently, he was trying to emphasize it was really what the girl meant.
"Right. This is the woman I saw here in the car!" The girl's tone of voice was full of confidence.
Jenqyih clasped his hands together. For a moment, he closed his eyes.
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Jenqyih opened his eyes. He shook his head. "But, there's something odd."
"Yes, Yihge is right! They shouldn't even be too similar," said Iren.
Yinqyueh looked at Iren and Jenqyih. Apparently, she did not understand the direction of the conversation between the two Shannchyuan friends.
Shannchyuan smiled. "Let me explain." He looked straight at the girl. "This photo is an old photo. So the people in this photo should be old by now. While the woman you saw yesterday is the same age as the woman in this photo. So it seems unlikely that they are the same person."
Yinqyueh was stunned to hear Shannchyuan's words. "That's right. Usually, I'm always aware of things like that. Somehow this time, I didn't even think about such a simple thing."
"It does not matter." Shannchyuan's voice was very soft. "You think so much about it, so there were some details you forgot. That kind of reaction is spontaneous. So it's only natural."
The girl nodded slowly. It was clear that she still had doubts.
"Of course, there is always the possibility that this photo is actually a new photo, which, because of certain techniques, can look like an old photo," said Shannchyuan.
"Or maybe the woman you saw yesterday is actually old. He looks young because he underwent health therapy that can rejuvenate the skin. Or maybe he has had plastic surgery," said Yihshyong.
"But..." Yinqyueh muttered. "I know they may not be the same person. But the woman in this photo really does look like the woman from yesterday."
From the tone of her voice and the look on her face, Jenqyih judged that the girl still believed that the woman she saw yesterday was identical to the person in the photo. Maybe, at this time, the girl was confused, so it was only natural that her thoughts and feelings were going in the opposite direction.
"It is possible that the two of them are very similar. It's not impossible that there are two people who are exactly the same in this world." Shannchyuan patted Yinqyueh's shoulder. He might have been just comforting the girl.
"Has Dahge ever seen two people who were exactly the same even though they weren't related by blood?" Iren asked.
"Yeah, roughly so. I recently met someone who physically looked exactly the same as someone I knew more than twenty years ago. Not only her face but also her skin color, body shape, even the way she walked." Shannchyuan said with a face as if he was remembering something. "In any case, we can't rule out the notion that the kidnapping incident has something to do with what Songfei is currently dealing with. We can use this incident as a clue."
Jenqyih noticed Shannchyuan was frowning in such a way that he looked older than usual. Their dahge was racking his brains.
Jenqyih raised his right hand. "Perhaps we should go to the Dahfeisy Tower to find any other clues Songfei might have in store. It could be that he didn't realize he was keeping something important. These notebooks, photographs and maps are not enough for us to start our investigation."
"After all, the location shown on this map is most likely not far from the Dahfeisy Tower," Yihshyong said.
"When Songfei called me yesterday, he seemed to be hiding. I mean, he really doesn't have the freedom to go anywhere. So if he stays in hiding, I don't think anything bad will happen to him in the near future," said Shannchyuan.
"What if those thugs find his hiding place?" Yihshyong asked.
"About that matter." Shannchyuan stopped talking for a while. "We can only hope that the thugs won't find Songfei so quickly." After looking around him, he continued his speech. "Tomorrow morning, we go to the Dahfeisy Tower to see if there are any other clues scattered in the unit that Songfei rented. Things I might not have noticed yesterday."
Everyone present there agreed with Shannchyuan's decision.
About ten minutes later, Shinnshiow returned with a water hose. The hose, which was about thirty meters long, was dark blue. About nine months ago, Shannchyuan bought it at a shop not far from their house. It was a replacement for the old water hose. As far as Jenqyih remembered, the old hose was not lost or damaged. Someone borrowed it and forgot to return it. The person who borrowed the hose was their neighbor who lived across the street. The borrower said he would immediately return the hose. However, after one week, he had not returned it. Jenqyih visited him to ask for their hose. However, it turned out that the person who lived across the street was not the same person who had borrowed it a week earlier. The house's occupant said that he had just moved into the house two days before. He had rented it from the house owner, who lived a few kilometers away. When Jenqyih contacted the landlord to inquire about the previous tenants, the landlord explained that the former tenants had been in arrears for several months, so he had no other choice but to kick them out. The house owner was also angry because it turned out that the arrears had just left the house and brought some of the owner's belongings. Responding to this, as usual, Shannchyuan only said that luckily the only thing he took away from them was a water hose, not other more important or expensive items.
They were still gathered in the living room when Shinnshiow accompanied Yinqyueh to the backyard to water the plants. Jenqyih didn't know why everyone was silent. They said nothing. Jenqyih looked at his friends one by one. They all seemed to contemplate.
"Because we have nothing else to do today. Shouldn't we move some of our belongings into the lockers at the station?" Jenqyih broke the silence.
Iren turned to him. He nods. "Yihge is right. Tomorrow we all have to go to Dahfeisy Tower. So today we better move some things."
"We can do two things tomorrow. In the morning, we will take our things to the locker. After that, take the train to Dahfeisy Tower," said Yihshyong.
"That's not what I meant," said Jenqyih. "Now we take things there. Tomorrow we also do the same thing. So, in these two days, we moved more stuff there!"
Shannchyuan then joined in the conversation. "That's right. We have to move things whenever we get the chance. We have little time left. I don't want it if it turns out there's still a lot of stuff that we haven't had time to get there on our last day in this house."
"Okay then. Now Jenqyih and I will go to the station," said Iren.
"No," said Shannchyuan. "Jenqyih and Shinnshiow better go there."
Iren looked at Shannchyuan. He raised his palms as a sign of asking for an explanation.
"Jenqyih is the biggest one among us. Shinnshiow is the youngest. They are both more powerful than me, you or Yihshyong. I want more stuff that we can move to the station this time. We have two big backpacks. put our things in there. For the time being, we'll just put them in Jenqyih's locker."
"Okay," said Iren.
Jenqyih wasn't sure that Shannchyuan's explanation satisfied Iren. But because Iren chose to obey Shannchyuan, Jenqyih was relieved.
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Just then, Shinnshiow, who had just returned from the backyard, put his ass on the sofa in the living room. He had to get up again as soon as Shannchyuan told him of the decision they had just made. Jenqyih asked her to prepare the things they would move to a locker at the mall in the subway station.