Ghost World Office

Soon, Mai Xiaobo answered the phone, and the first thing he said was: "Hello? Brother Ye, where have you been lately? You didn't reply to my messages when I asked you to play games. Could it be that you are in a relationship?"

Rubbing his sore forehead, Tao Ye said to Mai Xiaobo on the phone: "Ah, yes, yes, I fell in love with a pair of twins."

As an honest child, Mai Xiaobo believed Tao Ye's yin and yang aura to be true, and immediately exclaimed: "My dear, is it real or not?"

Not wanting to talk nonsense with Mai Xiaobo, Tao Ye changed his tone and asked him seriously: "Do you know the brand MIZU?"

"I know, this brand has become very popular recently. What's the matter, do you want to dress yourself up when you're in a relationship?" Mai Xiaobo's mind is full of the relationship between Tao Ye and the twins, so he can't leave this topic in three sentences.

"Have you ever bought clothes of this brand?" Tao Ye continued to ask, ignoring Mai Xiaobo's gossip.

Mai Xiaobo replied without hesitation: "That's for sure, I quite like this brand."

This brand named MIZU has a very strong style and is very popular among young people. In addition, it is expensive, so it is naturally the first choice for Mai Xiaobo.

Hearing Mai Xiaobo's answer, Tao Ye said into the microphone: "You are free now, I will go to your house."

As soon as Mai Xiaobo replied "OK", Tao Ye quickly hung up the phone, put on his coat and went out.

When he arrived at Chengkong Plaza, Tao Ye turned into the lobby on the first floor of Building 8 of Chengkong Plaza.

Mai Xiaobo and Lu Yi lived in the same building, and Tao Ye lived here for a while.After reading Lu Yi's letter, Tao Ye has been living in the noodle shop at No. 44 Yanshi Lane and never came back.

The fragrance in the hall was like a knife, scratching Tao Ye's heart every now and then.

This smell is both familiar and strange, like Lu Yi, it seems to have been around Tao Ye for many years, but there are always a few moments when Tao Ye feels that he and Lu Yi are so far apart.

Tao Ye gritted his teeth, greeted the security guard, took the elevator up to the floor where Mai Xiaobo lived, and rang the doorbell of Mai Xiaobo's house.

Mai Xiaobo soon came to open the door.

As soon as he entered the door, Tao Ye found that Mai Xiaobo's mother, Chen Xiang, was also there, planting flowers and weeds on the balcony.

Seeing Tao Ye coming, Chen Xiang was taken aback for a moment, and then warmly greeted Tao Ye:

"Long time no see, Mr. Tao, I'll make you some tea."

Just as Chen Xiang wanted to take off her gardening apron and pour tea for Tao Ye, she was stopped by Tao Ye:

"Hello, auntie, you can just call me Tao Ye from now on. I'm here to play with Mai Xiaobo."

Not long ago, Tao Ye helped Chen Xiang dispose of the female corpse in the museum, so Chen Xiang was very grateful to Tao Ye and respected Tao Ye very much in his heart, so he always called Tao Ye Mr. Tao.

Before Mai Xiaobo's relationship became better, Tao Ye felt that this title was nothing, but now he felt that Chen Xiang calling him husband was very unsuitable.

Knowing that Tao Ye came to play with Mai Xiaobo, Chen Xiang was taken aback for a moment, then glanced at her rogue son in disbelief, and told Mai Xiaobo:

"Xiao Bo, greet Tao Xian...Tao Ye."

"Mom, don't worry." While dealing with Chen Xiang, Mai Xiaobo led Tao Ye to his room.

After the two of them entered the room and closed the door, Mai Xiaobo couldn't help laughing: "Fuck, Brother Ye, when did you change your name to my mom and aunt..."

After glaring at Mai Xiaobo, Tao Ye scolded angrily, "Are you sick? If I don't call you mom and aunt, should I call you aunt?"

"You can also call me auntie." Mai Xiaobo laughed, he had never seen Chen Xiang's expression of astonishment and shock.

Not understanding Mai Xiaobo's joke, Tao Ye said coldly with a dark face:

"It's not impossible, it's just that the change fee has to be settled now."

After laughing again and again for a while, Mai Xiaobo remembered that Tao Ye came to see him for something, so he asked, "Brother, why are you here?"

Tao Ye didn't bring up the disappearance incident with Mai Xiaobo, and Tao Ye just asked him to introduce the MIZU brand to himself.

As a loyal school bully, Mai Xiaobo showed his side of helping others.He walked into his cloakroom, took off all MIZU's clothes, carried them back to the room, threw them all on the bed, and pouted at Tao Ye:

"I often buy clothes of this brand, and they are all here."

Looking at the pile of clothes on the bed, Tao Ye couldn't help cursing a little in his heart: Prodigal stuff.

After cursing in his heart, Tao Ye stretched out his hand and pulled a black shirt over, put it on his lap and looked back and forth several times, but found nothing unusual.

When Tao Ye was flipping through these clothes, Mai Xiaobo on the side introduced the past and present of this brand to Tao Ye:

"In fact, this brand has existed for a long time. It is a niche designer brand in Japan, but it has not been very popular. Later, this brand was bought by a financial owner. After the acquisition, it began to enter the overseas market."

"When did it happen?" Tao Ye asked casually.

Most of MIZU's brand stories can be found online.On the way here by taxi, Tao Ye also read some on his mobile phone, so he didn't think what Mai Xiaobo said was important information.

Mai Xiaobo scratched his temples, thought for a while and said:

"It's just last year. I only found out about this brand last year."

Tao Ye raised his head when he heard the word "last year". This time period is really too sensitive for him.

"last year?"

"That's right, this brand moved its headquarters to City S last year, and held several exhibitions." Xiaobo Mai recalled.

Tao Ye threw the black shirt back into the pile of clothes on the bed.From Tao Ye's point of view, these clothes were nothing out of the ordinary. Apart from the special design and tailoring, they did not leave a special impression on him.

But this brand entered the country last year, which made Tao Ye smell a clue.

Too many things happened last year. Tao Ye entered the Office of the Human World in S City, Dan became powerful under the support of the Dark Gate, and Tao Yi was accepted by the welfare home in S City...

The occurrence of these things is not a coincidence, so is it not a coincidence that the MIZU brand entered China last year?

Thinking of this, Tao Ye immediately sent a message to Cheng Qiangjun, asking him to summarize all the live broadcasts that the victims were watching when they disappeared, and send them in a form.

The form was sent out quickly, Tao Ye glanced at the list of anchors on the form, showed the form to Mai Xiaobo, and asked:

"Do you know who these anchors are?"

The anchors on the form are relatively well-known, and Mai Xiaobo began to introduce Tao Ye one by one: "The first two are anchors with goods, the latter is a game anchor, and this one is a good-looking anchor. Usually, the broadcast is to chat with the audience... ..."

"Then do they usually come into contact with the MIZU brand?" Tao Ye asked.

Mai Xiaobo usually watches live broadcasts, and he has watched some of these live broadcasts. After thinking about it, he said:

"It should be... There are a few anchors here who usually wear clothes of this brand during live broadcasts. If I remember correctly, the first two anchors who brought goods, they also sold MIZU clothes in the live broadcast room before."

This subtle connection made Tao Ye immediately vigilant, "Lend me your computer," he said to Mai Xiaobo.

Having already regarded Tao Ye as his good brother, Mai Xiaobo naturally wouldn't mind Tao Ye using his home computer, so he led Tao Ye to his e-sports room.

After turning on the computer, Tao Ye searched the live broadcast records of those anchors one by one, and finally found:

When the victim disappeared, these anchors were all wearing MIZU's clothes without exception.

This is definitely not a coincidence, Tao Ye stared at the computer screen, something suddenly sounded, turned around and went back to Mai Xiaobo's bedroom, pulled out a piece of clothes from the pile of clothes on the bed, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

After reading this one, Tao Ye casually pulled out a few more to look at. These clothes have one thing in common——

These clothes all have a silver nameplate in the shape of azalea, and the words [MIZU] are engraved on the nameplate.

Mai Xiaobo stood by the door, watched Tao Ye check the clothes one by one, and asked rather puzzled:

"What's the matter, brother, you won't really fall in love, will you?"

Without responding to Mai Xiaobo, Tao Ye inspected the silver rhododendrons on the clothes with his fingers, and asked, "Is there this rhododendron on every piece of clothing of this brand?"

"Of course, this is their specialty." Mai Xiaobo replied.

Using a little force with his fingers, Tao Ye tore off the silver rhododendrons from his clothes, stuffed them into his jacket pocket, and got up from the bed:

"Okay, I'll buy ten identical ones for you in the future, and lend me this rhododendron first."

Mai Xiaobo was in great pain, gritted his teeth and said these words:

"It's okay, we are brothers, you are welcome."

The shirt with the rhododendron ripped off was his favorite shirt, and he was not willing to wear it usually.

After getting the information he wanted, Tao Ye planned to leave Mai Xiaobo's house and go back to the world to hold a meeting with Shen Zhu and the others to discuss this clue.

As soon as he got to the door, Chen Xiang came out from the kitchen and sincerely invited Tao Ye to stay for lunch.

At first he wanted to refuse, but Tao Ye suddenly smelled the aroma of miso elbow wafting from the kitchen, and his stomach growled in disappointment.

When Chen Xiang heard Tao Ye's stomach growl, she became more enthusiastic. She directly took Tao Ye's hand, dragged Tao Ye to the dining room, and pressed him on the chair at the head of the table:

"You're welcome, stay for dinner! Auntie made elbows and stewed dishes, eat something before going back."

Chen Xiang has been in the ups and downs of shopping malls for more than ten years, and he has a very precise control over the world.

Now that the relationship between Tao Ye and Mai Xiaobo has improved, it seems very strange for her to call Tao Ye "Mr. Tao", so she might as well play the role of a mother to make Tao Ye feel more comfortable.

There seemed to be super glue on the chair. Once Tao Ye sat down, he was bound by the aroma from the kitchen, his legs were weak, and he had no willpower to stand up again.He glanced at Chen Xiang, swallowed, and wanted to struggle a little:

"That's not good?"

"What's wrong, what's wrong with having a meal at Auntie's house?" Chen Xiang said, turned and went into the kitchen, took out a bowl of soup, and put it in front of Tao Ye, "Try Auntie's cooking, corn ribs soup , learned online."

The salivary glands secreted the liquid crazily, Tao Ye couldn't hold it back, his willpower was completely weakened, he picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

The author says:

"About my good brother asking me to change my mouth"

ps: The brand MIZU is my fiction, there is no prototype wwww

But this name is also a foreshadowing hahaha, everyone can guess it without a prize!