A Missing Laptop,
A Journey Through the City

  • The Panic After a Night Out

    A client contacted Master Liang during her lunch break after discovering that her company laptop was missing. The previous evening, she had taken the laptop with her during a night out, visiting two bars before travelling home by bus and then taxi. Because she had consumed several drinks, she could not clearly remember where she had last seen it.

  • Clues from the Time-Based Divination Reading

    The Time-based Divination reading suggested that the laptop had most likely been left in a red vehicle rather than at either of the two bars. It also indicated that there might still be an opportunity to recover it that evening, possibly through communication with the driver and a small payment or return arrangement, before 7:00 p.m.

  • Retracing Steps and Reviewing CCTV Footage

    The client decided to first return to both bars and reviewed their CCTV footage. The recordings confirmed that she had left each venue with the laptop. She then recalled carrying it into the taxi, narrowing the likely location to the final part of her journey.

    Comic strip illustrating a woman trying to find her missing company laptop. She checks CCTV footage showing her leaving her laptop at two different bars. The comic includes clocks showing times, a missed call notification on her phone, and her reflection in a car window. The narration explains her retracing steps and using divination to recover the laptop.
  • The Mystery of the Missing Calls

    Around 9 pm, the client called to provide some more details. She recalled that she received several missed calls from an unknown number—an unusual occurrence for her. As her name card was inside the laptop case, it was possible that the taxi driver had found the laptop and was attempting to contact her. However, the calls never came again after 6:30 pm, the time identified in the reading as a possible limit for recovering the item.

  • Clarity and Closure Amidst Loss

    Although the laptop was not ultimately recovered, the reading helped the client organise her search, retrace the journey more systematically, and identify transportation as the most relevant part of the route. It also gave her a specific timeframe in which communication or recovery might still be possible.

    An infographic showing a time-based divination case study with three sections: 1) She was likely not at the bars, evidenced by CCTV footage of her leaving with a laptop, 2) She was connected with transportation, recalled taking a taxi, 3) She possibly recovered before 7:00 p.m., with missed calls from an unknown number. The image includes clocks, a security camera, and phone screenshots, along with Chinese characters and icons.