white night syndrome

Chapter 2
Throwing the burning cigarette butt into the ashtray at hand, hastily cleaned up the arrangement on the desk, and patted his face, Li Ming then stood up and went to the door to open it.

As soon as the door was opened, a figure rushed into the office quickly, while still posing in a strange pose.

Li Ming seemed to be used to it, he glanced outside the door, and tried to keep himself away from the sun as much as possible, and closed the door immediately after finding that there were no other guests.

The house fell into darkness again.

"Here?" Li Ming pursed his lips, and said softly, "The fee for this entrustment has been placed on the table, go get it yourself." When he said this, Li Ming's voice was very soft and slow, as if Thinking about something in my heart, "Then, tell me about the valuable things you have investigated."

"Eh? Li Ming, you are still the same, I traveled thousands of miles to come to you, and you didn't even give me a drink of water, and you wanted me to tell you this!"

The visitor seemed to be about the same age as Li Ming, but when he spoke, he always made people feel a little childish?
Seeing Li Ming spread his hands towards him, the young man curled his lips, and then, as if he regarded this place as his own home, he turned on the light unceremoniously, and then found coffee beans and coffee in the coffee cabinet by the door which Li Ming regarded as a decoration machine.

"What, you don't use this coffee machine! It's useless for me to go to the market for so long to buy it for you as a birthday present. I didn't expect you to disappoint my kindness so much!"

Seeing what Li Ming wanted to say, the young man immediately stretched out his hand, facing Li Ming with the palm of his hand, preventing Li Ming from his next actions.

"Forget it, you have already said so much, I don't want you to trigger that "NG" just because I came to you, you should talk to me in the way you often talk to your client. "

"Then I wrote it and you didn't read it carefully."

Li Ming shook his head helplessly, returned to the seat where he was sitting just now, took out a piece of white paper from the drawer, wrote a few words on the paper with a pencil, and then showed it to the young man.

The young man seemed to be deliberately angry, squinting his eyes while drinking coffee, looking contented.

"What kind of characters are you writing here? It's a mess. I wonder if you've been in Japan for a long time and can't even recognize your mother tongue—"

The last sound was a scream, because Li Ming had already crumpled up the white paper and threw it towards the young man.

After finally eating and drinking enough, the young man tidied up his attire, leaned against the table and picked up the envelope that Li Ming had already prepared, glanced inside casually, and put it in his bag.

"Okay, let's stop making trouble, now let me talk about the news I got from running outside in the past week."

When the young man said this, he paused for a while, as if he was waiting for Li Ming.

Seeing this, Li Ming reacted immediately, and took out a slightly thick notebook with a lot of sticky notes from the last drawer on the side of the desk.

Turning to the page marked "January [-]th", after holding the pencil in the pen holder on the side of the desk in his hand, he calmly waited for the young man's next words.

"First of all, I found some clues about this disappearance case. Unfortunately, the police discovered it early, so the case can be closed."

The young man spread his hands, with a helpless expression.

"However, Li Ming, don't be discouraged. There are quite a few people in Japan who entrust multiple parties to conduct investigations. Very few people only put their hopes on one person."

"However, this is only on the surface." The young man paused, took out a blank sheet of paper from his pocket, and handed it to Li Ming.

"This is.?"

Li Ming didn't make a sound, after he saw the words on the white paper, he took a deep breath.

"I'm familiar with it, the medical record notice of a patient with White Night Syndrome." The young man snorted, "I spent a lot of time going to the missing person's house to find it. Look through your notebook and count how many there are. The protagonist of the disappearance case is a patient with White Night Syndrome?"

"Then that means, as long as people suffering from White Night Syndrome end up dying or disappearing?"

Li Ming wrote down his thoughts on a white paper and showed it to the young man. Although he had said unintelligible nonsense before, the young man still read it carefully.

"That's not the case, I think, don't you see that patients like us are still alive and well?" The young man rested his hand on his chin in a state of contemplation.

"That's because we haven't done anything to make the hospital notice."

"I just haven't noticed! Just haven't noticed? Just haven't noticed!?" The young man repeated these words in an exaggerated tone.

"I've already gone to other patients' homes to look for clues related to the hospital, so I didn't notice it? Then, how big is the incident before they notice it? It won't be killing their hospital staff. Come on!"

While fantasizing and guessing, the young man sighed, he glanced at Li Ming who was still writing something, leaned his head towards the white paper in front of him.

"What are you writing?"

"That's right, I found a very interesting fact. Do you remember the progress ranking list announced by the hospital before, which is basically updated every day, I mean, No.1."

"Then the question is, where did the patients who originally occupied the No.1 position go?"

"However, according to the hospital's instructions, those patients who have fulfilled their wishes are basically cured and are no longer eligible to stay on the ranking list." The young man retorted.

Li Ming snorted to express his disdain, and continued to write, "Jiang Wenkan, I see you, your mind has been deceived by the hospital again, do you remember what we said in the notice?"

"'Although there is currently no treatment plan for this disease in China', is that true?" The young man named Jiang Wenkan came back to his senses, "Then it means that White Night Syndrome is an incurable disease."

"Eh? That's really strange, where did they go?" Jiang Wenkan said to himself, looking puzzled.

Li Ming snorted softly, took out another blank sheet of paper from the drawer and handed it to Jiang Wenkan.

"This is the name of the protagonists of all the disappearance cases that I have recorded in the three years since I took the case to the present. Go and help me investigate their final ending, whether they are dead or have really disappeared from the world."

"Hey, you old boy is fine. I have been friends with you for so long, but I didn't expect you to have sorted out these materials." Jiang Wenkan took the paper, "But it will take a week to investigate These things are obviously not enough, at least a month."

When the communication between the two was reaching a critical point, there was another knock on the door——

It's an unexpected visitor.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Li Ming in? We are from the Chiba County Police Station. I would like to ask you some questions about Mr. Mashiba Taketa."

"Please be sure to open the door, otherwise we will take extraordinary measures, thank you for your cooperation."

　Character communication is my shortcoming (fu forehead)
　　I hope you can point out some problems in this chapter, and I will describe it better and better in future updates.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)