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Chapter 1618 Preparations (Seeking monthly votes at the beginning of the month)

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The ceramic doll girl fell from the table to the ground and shattered into pieces.

Then, in the next instant, the fragments were instantly restored.

The doll-like girl jumped onto the chair again and climbed onto the conference table.

After He Ao entered the meeting room, Siwei, knowing that everyone was going to have a meeting, excitedly climbed onto the table and started playing.

"Is this Sivia?" Reed asked slowly, looking at Sivia who was amusing herself in the corner of the conference table.

“Yes,” He Ao nodded slightly, “After she entered the puppet, she became like this, and her mental state also became somewhat ‘excited’.”

“Let’s not talk about that now,” He Ao turned his gaze to Reed, Chase, and the mustachioed man in front of him, and asked slowly, “How’s the situation with your missing persons investigation?”

Charn and the mustachioed man also looked away at that moment. They glanced at Heo and shook their heads at the same time.

“We collected all the missing persons cases on Loringer Street that the city police department and the FBI could find, eliminating possible accidental homicides and cases highly linked to gangs,”

Charn raised his hand, pulled a tablet from the messy pile of documents on the conference table, and handed it to He Ao. "From six years ago to now, there have been about fifty missing persons cases that are suspected to be related to orphanages."

"So many?" He Ao took the tablet, slightly taken aback.

“These are just the cases that were reported and registered,” Chan shook his head. “There are also homeless people on the streets, and those who went missing from other areas but were registered in other areas. The probability of this ‘anomaly’ being triggered and entering is probably not low.”

“Living on the streets is not easy,” He Ao seemed to think of something, nodded slightly, and sighed, “especially for those without relatives.”

The man with the mustache standing to the side remained silent.

Meanwhile, He Ao was already rapidly flipping through these documents and materials.

Eve is rapidly scanning these case files, extracting information, and then archiving them using the scanning device in his glasses.

Soon, He Ao finished 'reading' all the documents and returned to the first page.

The 'banging' sounds in the conference room had quieted down at some point.

He Ao raised his eyes and looked at the three people who had surrounded him, his gaze settling on Reed. "What's your assessment?"

“We haven’t found any ‘living’ cases that returned from the anomaly, so we can only judge the factors of the anomaly rules through some external characteristics,” Charn said.

“We haven’t started a detailed search yet. So far, the common factor we’ve found is that most of the missing persons cases occur in the summer,” Reed said slowly, leaning against the edge of the conference table. “This suggests that the triggering of the anomalies may be related to the season, but we can’t rule out the possibility that missing persons cases from other seasons haven’t been reported.”

He glanced at Eve's summary and conclusion in his glasses and nodded slightly.

"What clues did you get?" Reed asked Heo in a slow voice.

“Water,” He Ao pondered for a moment, then said slowly, “lots and lots of water, water that seeps into the building.”

"What does this mean?" Charn asked, somewhat puzzled.

“Perhaps it means ‘rain’,” He Ao said slowly, looking at the tablet in his hand and recalling the ‘answer’ he had obtained in the ‘corridor’. “There is a lot of rain in the summer. I remember that the orphanage’s houses were not very good. When it rained, water often seeped out from the cracks in the corners of the walls.”

"So, to enter the rules, it needs to be a rainy day?" Reed pondered.

“I’m afraid it’s not just a simple rainy day,” He Ao shook his head. He raised his tablet and looked at the report phrase “heavy rain” written in one of the case files. “We can check the weather before and after these missing persons cases.”

“That’s easy, just go to the weather bureau’s website and you can search for it,” Chan pulled out a tablet and quickly accessed the weather bureau’s website.

He handed him the tablet so he could view the cases and search for specific times.

He quickly completed his search, integrated all the data, and looked up at everyone. "In most of these missing persons cases, there were heavy rainstorms in Xiluo City a few days before the incidents occurred."

"Those people disappeared during the rainstorm?" the man with the mustache pondered.

"So, a key entry condition is a rainstorm?" Reed pondered. "That's why these disappearances suddenly occur in the summer? Because only in the summer does Xiluo City experience clearly defined rainstorms?"

“But it’s almost December, where are we going to find a rainy day?” Charn rubbed his temples. “In the years I’ve been here, it doesn’t even rain at this time of year.”

"Are you hiring someone to spray hot water to fake a downpour?" the man with the mustache said slowly.

“If the entry rule is a lot of water being poured from the sky, then yes,” Reed continued, “but if it’s ‘rainy day,’ then no.”

"Are your unusual rules really that strict?" the man with the mustache asked hoarsely.

“Actually, it’s not strict,” Reed shook his head. “Within the rules, there are many areas where we can ‘make exceptions,’ but only within the rules. Sprinkling hot water is something we can consider; it’s temporarily listed as an alternative.”

"It's raining because it's too cold. Do you have any supernatural items or unusual gadgets that can 'heat' the weather?" Chan looked at Reed. "First of all, the FBI doesn't have any. We need something that can heat the area."

“Yes,” Reed said in a deep voice.

"There really is?" Charn was slightly taken aback.

“There’s an anomaly that could cause a short-term heating effect,” Reed pondered, “but I don’t know if it will work.”

"The temperature is rising, so how do we get rain?" asked a Hu man standing nearby in a slow voice.

“We can create artificial snow,” He Ao said quickly. “Snowflakes melt near the ground due to the high temperature, and then they form raindrops.”

“That works,” Reed nodded slightly, looking at the man with the mustache. “We can contact the weather bureau to arrange for localized artificial snowmaking.”

“I’ll give it a try,” the man with the mustache nodded, “I don’t know if I can succeed.”

“It should work. There are thick clouds over Xilo today,” Charn said. “It even snowed a little this morning.”

"Okay, when exactly?" The man with the mustache looked at Reed.

“At night, preferably at night,” He Ao chimed in from the side.

Reed looked up at Heo.

He Ao raised his wristband and showed it the news on it, which was about the fire at the orphanage. "The fire happened at night."

In the case files mentioned earlier, those concerning rainy days generally indicated that the missing persons went out at night or close to night and then disappeared.

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Just then, a soft sound rang out behind everyone.

Everyone turned their heads away.

He turned to the side and looked behind Reed.

Siwei, who had reassembled into a doll, got up from the ground, climbed onto the desk, looked in He Ao's direction, and put her hands on her hips.

While everyone was having a heated discussion, she didn't continue playing 'smashing games,' but instead tidied up most of the messy files and devices on the desktop.

They were stacked neatly.

He Ao looked at the 'I'm awesome,' expression on her face, smiled, and gave her a thumbs up.