Chapter 74

When Yue Qi realized that Qing Li had disappeared, it was already nine in the evening, six hours had passed since she left at three in the afternoon.

Six hours is enough time for a person to travel a long distance.

Still in the office, he found that Qing Li went out half a day did not come back, was about to call when the scheduled video conference was delayed.

A meeting was held to almost seven o’clock, he returned to the office, Qing Li is still not in, so he immediately made a phone call over, “how not come back, a milk tea to buy so long?”

“Well, I’m not too comfortable, cycling back to the manor first.”

Yue Zhi listened to her breathing a little heavy, immediately worried, “uncomfortable how to ride back, let the doctor went to see it?”

“No, I came back and rested for a while, it’s much better.” Qing Li calmed her breathing, “Sir, when will you be back?”

Yue Zhi handed his jacket to Liang Jin and walked out of the office, listening to her words as if she was pampered, he couldn’t help but smile, “I’m going to the top floor, the helicopter is already waiting, I’ll go back soon, what’s wrong?”

Qing Li was silent for a while, “Sir, when will the pear blossoms bloom?”

Yue Zhi froze for a moment, thought for a moment, “If you really want to see it, you can actually keep the buds of one next year, but that tree may not be able to grow well afterward.”

“Forget it then.”

The call ended, Yue Zhi was already on the helicopter, he exhaled and thought with a sullen face, he asked Liang Jin to call the security at the manor’s gates, he reached out and picked it up when the call was answered, “It’s me, has Ms. Qing Li gone back yet?”

“Yes, yes.” The other party was still talking to Yue Zhi for the first time and was taken aback, “She came back about three hours ago, after that she went to the base and hasn’t left since.”

Yue Zhi sighed in relief and hung up the phone.

By the time he returned to the manor it was almost nine o’clock, he went upstairs to change his clothes, his own bedroom was empty so he went downstairs to Qingli’s bedroom, there was still no one inside.

Yue Zhi’s brows were furrowed in a deadly frown, he sprinted downstairs and found the cook and maid, “Have you seen Qing Li?”

They were bringing the dinner prepared for him to the table and glanced at each other anxiously, “Yes, at almost six thirty she came downstairs and took bread and cookies from the fridge and a big bucket of pure water upstairs.”

Yue Zhi sat on the sofa in the living room and called Qing Li, but was prompted that the other party had turned off the phone, he called several times in a row, and finally raised his hand and threw the phone out, smashing it into pieces on the floor.

Everyone was silenced, not daring to utter a single breath, Liang Jin and Xiji glanced at each other and did not speak.

“You two go locate her soldier tag and see where the person is.” Yue Zhi propped up his forehead and said in a low tone, “Have someone go to Li Chaoke’s side to check out the situation and confirm if it was him.”

Liang Jin and Xiji went to the security room and quickly localized Qing Li’s location.

“I’ve looked at the signal route and the surveillance, she jumped out of the second floor bedroom window, went through the garden and fence behind it, into the forest, then meandered inside, and now she’s continuing to run, almost twenty kilometers per hour, and is already thirty-five kilometers away.” Liang Jin showed Yue Zhi the surveillance video on the tablet.

Wearing a special operations uniform, carrying a large bag, and equipped with her usual weapons, Qing Li sharply tumbled down from the second floor window, and then crossed the garden and lawn behind the villa at an extremely fast speed, crossed the fence, and disappeared into the mountains and forests.

“Is this Green Pear?” Yue Zhi looked at the flat panel and asked straight away, he looked at the slender and slender back on it, his eyes were empty, how could this be Ah Li, how could his Ah Li flee from his side with such a determined gesture of righteousness?

He even thought that if Li Chaoke kidnapped the person away, he would directly rush to the door to ask for the person, do not care about anything, simply beat each other to death.

As it turned out, Ah Li left on her own, she had organized her equipment and even brought food and water with her, it looked like she had planned it.

Liang Jin looked at Yue Zhi’s expression, “It should be her …… There are not many females here in total except for the cooks and maids.”

Yue Zhi slowly leaned on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes, “Xiji, you take the falcon and elephant and go, take her back to me, Liang Jin, you call Woodpecker and send a helicopter to bring him and Singhota here, I have something to ask.”

“Got it.” Ryazu and Saiji both went out.

The living room was dark, but no one dared to come over and turn on the lights, the cook and the servants were nowhere to be found, the large castle-like villa was strangely quiet.

Yue Zhi had never felt this place was so empty, obviously Qing Li was a quiet person, but when she was around, the whole space was filled with life, the cook would call her to help, prepare the food, taste the meal, the maid would ask her if the flowers in the vase were pretty.

Even though most of the time she just gave a faint “hmmm”, she didn’t make people feel perfunctory. Yue Zhi sometimes felt that it was amazing that someone who was so reticent and cold was a very nice and easy-going person in the eyes of others.

A pear did not come when, here …… is what it looks like?

Yue Zhi can not recall.

He sat alone for a long time, got up and went to the bedroom, and the gift that Ah Li gave him was still sitting on the table.

Was it because he received the gift yesterday with a bad attitude, so Ah Li was angry?

He took the sixty centimeter long and wide painting and silently looked at it for a while, when the pear flowers bloomed, it turned out to be like this.

Turning the frame over, he saw the painting sticker attached to the back, on which was written the information of the painting in Chinese: “Leaving”, artist Juran.

It turned out to be this Leaving.

More than half an hour later, he received a call from Xiji.

“Found Ah Li?!” Yue Zhi asked.

“No, the soldier’s license plate is hanging on an anthropomorphic robot, and Qing Li isn’t even there.” Xiji hesitated for a moment, “Falcon said that this robot was entrusted to him by Gano Zhen to send over to Qingli, it was an experimental product from their university’s lab, he thought it was some kind of toy for Qingli to relieve her boredom, so he brought it over.”

Yue Zhi’s breathing steeply ragged, almost crushing the picture frame with one hand, “Go bring Gano Zhen here.”

“It’s almost twelve now.” Xiji said, “I think it’s better not to make too much of it, if Qingli comes back ……”

“Right away.” Yue Zhi hung up the phone, he didn’t want to think about having later things right now, he just wanted to bring Qing Li back right away.

After one in the morning, Singhota and Ganojin were brought together in front of Yue Zhi, one wearing a hospital gown and sitting in a wheelchair, and the other still wearing pajamas.

“Mr. Yue, is there something wrong in the middle of the night?” Kanojin acted surprised, although he worked part-time at Yue’s, he actually didn’t have much direct interaction with Yue Zhi, and the two were considered rather rusty.

Yue Zhi lifted his leg and kicked a robot with tracks at his feet, only the size of two shoeboxes, with its main body shattered by a single shot, in front of Kanojin, and flung out the soldier’s card of Green Pear in his hand, “Your A-sister hung the necklace with the transmitter on this robot you gave her, and used it to distract the pursuit and escape.”

Kanojin half-kneeled on the ground and looked at his robot, “Holy shit, whoever this is broke the mainframe for me, know how much work we put into researching this!”

“What, you seem to care more about your research results than the disappearance of your Ah Sister?” Yue Zhi looked at Gano Zhen with grim eyes.

“I don’t know, I was just sharing my study results to A-Sister, she said she wanted to take a look and play around with it, so I had someone bring it to her, how did I know she was going to use it for this.” Kanojin explained, not looking innocent, but also with a kind of hopeless honesty.

“No?” Yue Zhi asked softly in return, then instantly stormed up, a stride forward, a stranglehold on Gano Zhen’s neck, carrying him to himself, he had a height of one meter ninety-five, Gano Zhen was about the same as West Pole, barely one meter eight, subconsciously even padded up on his toes, his face rose to a purple-red color.

“Yue Zhi!”

“Sir!”

Xiji and Liang Jin hurriedly rushed up and grabbed Yue Zhi’s arm, and even Singhota braced himself on his wheelchair and stood up.

But Yue Zhi’s hand did not let go but retracted instead, his eyes glaring at Gano Zhen with a death glare, “You had the hospital nurses bring Qingli a cell phone, who gave you the cell phone? What did they say!”

Ganojin did not expect to be exposed to this extent, also, if Yue Zhi wanted to find out anything, there was nothing he could not find out.

He also stopped pretending to be stupid, and stiffly squeezed out three words from his throat, “No, I don’t know.”

Yue Zhi almost strangled Gano Zhen’s throat, Xi Ji dead broke his fingers, leaving a line of breath for Gano Zhen, “Yue Zhi! Calm down, if you really strangle him to death, Qing Li will never come back!”

Hearing Qing Li’s name, Yue Zhi’s sanity returned for a moment, he took two sharp breaths and casually threw Ganojin out.

Kanojin fell to the ground, covering his neck while coughing and gasping for air, almost passing his back.

“Lock him up, he won’t be able to leave until Ah Li returns.” Yue Zhi finished looking at Singota, “What about you, Ah Li was in your hospital room for the two hours after she got her cell phone, who did she talk to on the phone and what did she say?”

Singota looked at his face, “I would like to hear it, the hardware doesn’t allow it, in fact if I hadn’t watched you read your lips, I would barely be able to hear what you were saying.”

Yue Zhi was aware of Singota’s situation, precisely because he knew this to be true, so he instantly developed a feeling of powerless panic, as if he had come to a dead end, and there was no way to bring Ah Li back any further.

He sat quietly for a long time, and the others didn’t dare to say anything, they all stayed by the side without saying a word.

“Liang Jin, contact Ilkovic and ask him to check his precious son’s recent movements, if he can find out Lance and Ah Pear’s plan, that two hundred million dollar order, I can give it to him without earning a single cent.”

Calming down, he turned into the strategizing Yue Zhi again.

After saying that, he looked at Gano Zhen, “Xiji, tie him up for me.”

Xiji froze, but looking at Yue Zhi’s glowing eyes, he ended up not saying anything and brought over nylon ties, tying up Ganojin’s hands and feet.

Gano Zhen did not struggle, his force value was almost zero, struggling was useless, he just guessed Yue Zhi’s plan and was a little uneasy in his heart.

Yue Zhi picked up the fruit knife on the coffee table and walked over, squatted in front of him and looked left and right, suddenly smiled evilly, raised his hand and cut a slit on Ganojin’s cheek.

It wasn’t deep, it was very long, almost extending from the position under the corner of the eye to the jaw, and a lot of blood flowed out.

“Liang Jin, take a picture and have the media send it out.” Yue Zhi threw down the blood-stained blade and went back to his room.

At the dawn of the day, the matter of Yue Zhi’s fiancée’s brother being kidnapped became hot news and caused a furor.

The media even ran a photo of the youth with his hands and feet tied, the blood on his cheeks running down his neck, soaking through the collar of his gray pajamas, and even though that face was mosaicked, those who knew him could still see it at a glance.

Not to mention Aonashi, who had grown up watching Kanojin.

It was then that she had left the rainforest after a four-hour long run, bought her ticket in cash on a stuffy and dilapidated Chinese bus in a small Malaysian town, and was about to go to the next place as planned when she saw the news on the cell phone of the man in the next seat.

She sat dumbfounded, and the car had started when she suddenly got up and jumped out of the door that she hadn’t had time to close.

“Lance, I may not be able to make it over there.”