"Alright, since that's settled, let's get going." With the collaboration talks concluded successfully, Yuan Zhuo stood up excitedly and bid farewell to Xian Yu.
"By the way, do you plan on writing any more books?" Yuan Zhuo asked as he was about to leave.
"It's gone." He shook his head slightly in idle dismay.
Yuan Zhuo wasn't surprised at all by this answer, but still couldn't help feeling disappointed, and the excitement of having reached a cooperative agreement was also dampened somewhat.
He is not just an editor, but also a reader. His favorite author has stopped writing books, and he can't help but feel a little lost.
After the matter was settled, the lawyer refused Idle's suggestion to call a car and send him off, and left on his own. Idle didn't feel like sitting there alone either, and since she still had some time before meeting Season's driver, she went out of the coffee shop and strolled around the nearby area, which was near her school and familiar to her.
But unexpectedly, in this area she was extremely familiar with, she still capsized in a hidden ditch.
It happened too suddenly, when she was passing a small alley, several people rushed out of the alley and ran towards her. Before she could react, a handkerchief with anesthetic was pressed against her nose, and dizziness came in an instant. She didn't even see the face of the person who made her dizzy.
When Mo received the driver's call, he was completely panicked.
The driver said he went to pick up Xianyu on time, but waited for half a day and didn't see anyone. The phone was also turned off, and when asked the people in the coffee shop, they said she had left long ago.
Knowing too well the idle nature, Ji Mo thought that even if he deceived himself into thinking that Idle was just out of battery and forgot to inform them, they wouldn't be able to do anything about it. He couldn't help but regret not insisting on going with Idle to discuss cooperation matters in the morning.
After a moment of panic, Ji Mo forced himself to calm down. "Don't come back yet, don't let Grandpa and the others find out." He instructed the driver before hanging up the phone, adjusting his expression, and telling Mo that he had gone out to eat with Xian Yu today, then walked out in big strides.
The young couple wanted a world of their own, and Mother Mo didn't suspect anything, smiling as she told them to come back early.
As soon as he left the mansion, Ji Mo called Zhou Bai's phone. "Xian Yu has gone missing, I want you to find out where she is right now and also pay attention to whether the public security organs have received the latest alarm location of the wristband system."
Although Zhou Bo knew it was unlikely to be good news the moment he answered the phone, because if there were any good news his team leader would have thought of him. But he didn't expect things to turn out this bad.
Xian Yu has gone missing. Now, in the entire B City's upper-class circle, who doesn't know that the Young Master of the Ji family has someone he cherishes called Xian Yu? And yet, there are still people who dare to kidnap her.
"Yes, captain." Zhou Bo stood up straight subconsciously.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Mei asked curiously from the side.
She didn't need to ask to know that the call must have been from Ji Mo. Her brother only became so arrogant when facing Ji Mo.
As Zhou Mei's brother, Zhou Bo knew that Xian Yu was Zhou Mei's good friend and also knew the importance of Xian Yu to his sister, and even more so, he knew all along how much Xian Yu had helped her.
Now that such a big thing has gone missing, he doesn't know whether or not to tell Zhou Mei and make her worry unnecessarily.
Zhou Bo's face was as serious as if an enemy had invaded the border, Zhou Mei sensed the severity of the situation and hastily asked "Are you going to carry out another mission? Is it very dangerous? Does Dad know about this? You just completed a mission and came back, how can there be another one so soon?"
Zhou Bo pressed her down onto the sofa and struggled to speak "Just now it was the captain's phone call, the captain said that your sister-in-law has gone missing"
Zhou Mei reacted after a while and realized that the "sister-in-law" in his mouth was actually Xian Yu. She immediately swayed her body slightly, "Then what are you waiting for? Why don't you go find her?"
Zhou Bai "The Great Wall"
I was worried about you and that's why I delayed for a while
"Wait for me, I'll go with you."
"What are you doing here? Can you help with anything?"
Zhou Mei is now in a bad mood, gave him a cold shoulder, "How did you know I couldn't help?"
He finished speaking and immediately ran upstairs, saying "Wait for me to go back to my room to get my computer."
Zhou Mei's heart was racing, and she took the stairs two steps at a time, especially when going downstairs, without any pause, which made Zhou Bo's heart skip a beat.
After hanging up the phone, Ji Mo called Lin Zhi and asked him to lead a team to the coffee shop where Xian Yu disappeared, to check the surveillance cameras and contact the lawyer.
He then contacted Yuan Zhuo again and asked him when he parted ways with Xianyu and whether he had been in contact with Xianyu after parting ways.
After learning that Xianyu had long since parted ways with them, Ji Mo's heart became increasingly flustered over the years as he carried out his missions with a calm and collected demeanor.
When Daiji Mo drove to the vicinity of the disappearance, Zhou Bo and Lin Zhi had already converged. One went to the public security organ to clear the card, and one added manpower to check the camera nearby.
"Captain."
"Mo Ye."
The two of them saw Ji Mo's figure and called out at the same time.
"What did you find out?" Ji Mo asked with a dark face.
The two of them simultaneously felt a chill in their hearts; it had been years since they'd seen Ji Mo so angry. This was not good, something big was going to happen.
"Mo Ye, we've reviewed all the surveillance footage around the coffee shop after Madame left. It appears that she went missing around 3:30 pm. Before disappearing, Madame was strolling around the neighborhood and walked towards this alleyway where she left the camera's view and never reappeared." Lin Zhi handed Mo Ye the video recording and pointed to a small alley in the footage.
Ji Mo looked at Zhou Bai after finishing reading, and Zhou Bai immediately added "I took the criminal police investigation team to check, there are two streets that communicate with each other in front of and behind that small alley. The front is a commercial street, and the back is a messy residential alley. There are no surveillance cameras on that street."
"No surveillance? Can't you investigate yourself? What, did the troops' reconnaissance methods all get returned to the instructor?" Ji Mo's cold eyes swept over Zhou Bai, making him shrink back.
Zhou Bai felt wronged in his heart, he hadn't even had a chance to speak yet.
I've checked, there are tire tracks at the back of the alley, it's likely that a car was waiting at the entrance of the alley to pick someone up. I asked people nearby and they confirmed that a van had been parked there for quite some time, but no one remembered the license plate number.
"Go check the surveillance cameras near the street divider without a license plate number!" Ji Mo shouted, and if he couldn't find any leads, he didn't know what he would do.
"Still checking." Lin wiped the big sweat on his forehead and replied with a quiver.
Although it was a scorching summer, he was also drenched in sweat, but he inexplicably felt extremely cold, shivering uncontrollably.
"We've got a location! We've got a location!" Zhou Mei suddenly opened the car door and excitedly ran towards Ji Mo and the others.
She had been fiddling with her computer in the car and hadn't come out yet, unaware that Ji Mo had already arrived.
Synchronize with bookshelf and computer version.