MONSTER PARADISE

101-120

Chapter 101: The Rubbish Bin that Disappeared

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang thought the only clue he had now was the rubbish bin that disappeared.

“The third rubbish bin must have disappeared together with Lin Xin. If we find the rubbish bin, we should be able to find Lin Xin.”

Lin Huang got the security personnel to contact their leader, Chen Wei.

“Mr. Lin, we’ve received the room number of the girl in ponytails. She’s staying in Room 321 on the ninth floor. I have contacted the girl’s father and got them to wait in their room. We can go over now.” Chen Wei brought them this piece of news when he picked up the call.

“We can put that on hold first. I got another clue; a lady who managed a store around the area said there were three rubbish bins when it was around 5:40 p.m. but now, there are only two. The time the rubbish bin disappeared matched the time my sister went missing too. I’m suspecting the person who that rubbish bin also took my sister.” Lin Huang presented his theory to Chen Wei.

“I’ll come to you now to look at the video taken around 5:40 p.m..”

“Sure, I’ll get my two colleagues to stay in the area for further clues.” Chen Wei nodded.

After they hung up the call, Lin Huang rushed to the monitor room. Chen Wei had paused the video of the time which Lin Huang requested. He then played the video. The video began from the time Lin Xin threw the rubbish until the time when Lin Huang and the other two arrived at the location. There were all confused after watching the video, including Lin Huang.

“Nobody removed the rubbish bin?!” Lin Huang frowned, that was strange.

If Lin Xin disappeared with the rubbish bin, she would be taken away while she was still in the rubbish bin. Aside from the monster taming token, there’s no other storage item that could contain a living being and the monster taming token doesn’t even work on humans.” Lin Huang shook his head.

“Furthermore, who would want to purposely steal a rubbish bin full of rubbish?”

“What should we do now?” Chen Wei was as helpless as Lin Huang was.

“There are only two possibilities. One, the lady we met earlier could be lying to distract us. The other possibility would be there really was a third rubbish bin in the camera’s blind spot.”

“Please get your two colleagues to ask the other merchants if they noticed the third rubbish bin. There were a couple of people throwing rubbish at the location during the time your sister disappeared, please contact them.”

“What kind of business does the fat lady do?” Lin Huang queried.

“The fat lady has been with us for 26 years. She sells cigarette and alcohol, she was here before I joined the company, she has no reason to lie.” Chen Wei knew the fat lady very well. “She may, however, be wrong about the number of rubbish bins, that’s all.”

“Let’s ask the rest then.” Lin Huang understood the complication.

Soon the two security personnel had finished asking all the merchants around that area. Besides the fat lady, another shop owner said she saw the third rubbish bin too. Chen Wei contacted the six guests who appeared on the video. Three of them said they saw the third rubbish bin while the other two could not recall and one of them only saw two rubbish bins. The girl in ponytails was one of the six people, she could not remember how many rubbish bins there were.

“From the information gathered, there really was a third rubbish bin in the blind spot.” Lin Huang concluded. One of the guests said he saw two rubbish bins at 5:58 p.m. The guest seemed certain of his answer, he said, “Of course I remember there were only two rubbish bins. The rubbish was leaking out from both bins and it took me awhile to get my empty can in, how can I forget that?! ”