Early the next morning.
Chen Fang had just stepped into his office.
He hadn't even had the chance to hang up his bag.
When there came a series of urgent knocks at the door.
So early?
Chen Fang looked at his watch, there was still half an hour until the start of work.
"Come in!"
After Chen Fang called out, the door was pushed open.
The Deputy Director, Guo Wensheng, entered with an urgent look on his face, and said, "Director Chen, it's not good, there's been an incident, Comrade Ling Li has disappeared."
Chen Fang felt a jolt of shock.
He asked, "What happened? Wasn't she on sick leave?"
Swallowing his saliva, Guo Wensheng replied, "Yesterday evening, because a document needed Ling Li's signature, I sent someone to deliver it to her doorstep, but she wasn't home. We couldn't get through to her on the phone either. This morning, I went to Ling Li's dormitory myself, and she still wasn't there, and her phone was unreachable."
"Has something like this happened before?"