Chapter 661: Chapter 661: You Can’t Break Your Promise Again
Lin Zhiyi followed the phone instructions downstairs, and just as she reached the entrance of the community, the security guard immediately greeted her.
"Miss Lin, heading out?"
Lin Zhiyi was about to say something when a voice came through the phone.
"Don’t play tricks, think about your mom and the Second Young Master. Now send him away, then wave on the roadside and get directly in the car."
Lin Zhiyi felt a pang in her heart, it seemed the other party had long planned how to calmly take her away.
Lin Zhiyi thought for three seconds and immediately nodded to the familiar security guard.
"Yes, I’m going out to buy something, the car broke down."
"Take care." The security guard was momentarily dazed, and as he came to his senses, he saw Lin Zhiyi get into a rental car and leave.
Something’s not right.
Third Young Master has so many cars, all broken?
Out of professional instinct, the security guard turned around and dialed the internal line of the building.
On the other end, Liao Yi quickly answered the call from the front desk.
"Is there something you need?"
"Miss, does Third Young Master’s family need a pass to let someone in to tow a broken car? I have to ask in advance, so it won’t be difficult for others to enter the community later."
"What broken car? The cars at home are fine." Liao Yi replied perplexedly.
"But Miss Lin said the car broke down, and she had to take a cab to go buy something."
"Buy something? Isn’t she supposed to pick up a package?" Liao Yi was astonished, and a few seconds later she exclaimed, "Oh no, I can’t talk now."
Liao Yi hung up the phone and immediately dialed Lin Zhiyi’s number.
It was already showing as unreachable.
She then called Gong Chen.
"Third Young Master! Zhiyi is missing!"
There was a crashing sound on the other end of the line.
"How is she missing?"
"She... she left on her own." Liao Yi replied helplessly.
"Keep an eye on Xingxing, let the bodyguards check inside the house, I’ll be back soon." Gong Chen’s voice was cold and severe.
"Okay."
...
Su He Bay.
Gong Chen returned home as fast as he could.
As soon as he walked in, the bodyguards had already checked the entire house.
"Third Young Master, there’s nothing unusual, but Miss Lin was on the phone when she left."
Gong Chen’s expression was terrifyingly grim, and he walked silently toward the room.
Behind him, Chen Jin followed closely.
"I’ve checked the call records, it was the number of that girl who jumped, not yet deactivated, but after the call it was deactivated."
Which means nothing can be traced now.
Gong Chen pushed open the door to the children’s room, a blackout curtain was tightly drawn, and Liao Yi was sitting on the bed protecting Xingxing.
Liao Yi was extremely remorseful, her eyes red.
"I’m sorry, I should’ve noticed something was wrong sooner, but just now clearly..."
With Xingxing present and Liao Yi always diligent in her actions, Gong Chen immediately interrupted her with a cold voice.
"Saying this now is meaningless, think carefully about what happened."
At this moment, Xingxing became exceptionally sensible, even though she was about to cry, she was still comforting Liao Yi.
"Aunt Liao, don’t be sad, we’ll definitely find mom."
Seeing this, Gong Chen took Xingxing into his arms.
"I promise you, I will definitely bring mom back."
"Okay. Pinky swear, you can’t break your promise again." Xingxing lifted her little finger.
Again?
Gong Chen was momentarily unresponsive, but he raised his finger to pinky swear with Xingxing.
After settling Xingxing, Gong Chen and Liao Yi went to the living room.
"Tell me everything about what happened today."
Liao Yi nodded and repeated the conversation she had with Lin Zhiyi at noon.
Suddenly, she stopped, quickly walked to the dining table and sat down.
She looked at the position where Lin Zhiyi originally stood opposite her.
"Zhiyi was answering the phone, I noticed something like a mirror on the side reflecting sunlight, and I complained about it. When I turned, Zhiyi anxiously stopped me, the direction should be..."
Liao Yi, an artist, had a good eye for angles.
She raised her hand pointing to a certain spot on the building outside the window.
The next second, Chen Jin led the bodyguards rushing out.
About ten minutes later, Chen Jin called back.
"Third Young Master, the residents of that house were tied up, they said someone came in the morning to deliver something and took the opportunity to break in. If a sniper scope was used, it could see your position clearly, but Xingxing’s room was covered with a blackout curtain, making it impossible to see anything."
"I think Miss Lin left the house out of concern for Xingxing and Miss Liao."
"I’m going to check the entry records now."
Hanging up the phone, Gong Chen looked up at the window.
Then turned to look at the position where Liao Yi was sitting, pondering what Lin Zhiyi was thinking while standing there.
Despite being faced with danger to her friends’ lives, she would never do nothing.
"Liao Yi, what did Zhiyi say before she left?"
"She said she was going to pick up a package, but she also told the security guard the car was broken, that’s why the security called to ask if they should issue a pass for people from the repair shop to come in." Liao Yi recalled.
Gong Chen immediately understood, it was a deliberate statement by Lin Zhiyi.
He directed the bodyguard at the door, "Check the surveillance at the community entrance, see which car Lin Zhiyi got into."
"Yes."
The bodyguard hurried out, the sound of the door closing echoed.
Liao Yi froze, a sudden thought flashed in her mind.
She jumped up: "The study, right, there’s the study, Zhiyi inexplicably mentioned tidying the study before she left, but I’ve never been in your study."
Gong Chen quickly walked into the study, and Liao Yi followed closely behind.
But the two searched the study and found nothing suspicious.
Liao Yi was anxious, rubbing her temples, knowing she must have forgotten something.
Fragments in her mind flashed like a movie, finally stopping on the notebook Lin Zhiyi had when she got up.
"Notebook! Notebook!"
Gong Chen remembered that Lin Zhiyi had a notebook she carried around, even placing it by her bedside at night.
In her words, she could immediately jot down sudden inspirations.
Gong Chen found the notebook on the shelf she habitually used, appearing as ordinary as any notebook, easily overlooked.
The front had simple sketches, but on the last page, densely written words.
Some even impossible to connect together.
Thirty years ago, a wealthy merchant kidnapping case, Old Master Bai as the mastermind.
Bai Ruoshu Art Museum’s dirty business was shut down, Chu Yin’s DNA matched among the bones found, but none matched Fang Sisi.
Five years later, Second Master Bai’s appearance changed, and the woman beside him was different, who was she?
Second Master Bai was arrested, Bai Zhengxian was arrested, why didn’t the Bai family collapse? Why??
Behind this statement, Lin Zhiyi left a string of question marks.
Even Gong Chen was baffled looking at it.
Especially Lin Zhiyi’s last line.
What’s on the yacht?
After reading, Gong Chen frowned deeply.
Liao Yi asked confusedly, "What do these mean? Thirty years ago? Wasn’t the wealthy kidnapping case over twenty years ago? And Chu Yin, she’s alive and well, how could she become bones?"
Gong Chen didn’t answer Liao Yi’s question.
At that moment, his phone rang.
On the call, Chen Jin said, "Third Young Master, the entry pass was forged, surveillance at the community entrance shows Miss Lin getting into a taxi while on the phone. The car was found in the suburbs, the driver tied up in the trunk."
Gong Chen lowered his gaze to the words on the notebook.
"Verify the whereabouts of the Second Young Master and Second Madam."
"Yes."
Ending the call, Gong Chen dialed Li Huan.
Li Huan said, "Great timing, I was just about to find you..."
"Has Mrs. Bai’s plastic surgeon still not been found?" interrupted Gong Chen.
"How did you know?"
"Check Second Master Bai’s surgeon."
"This... all right." Li Huan continued, "But now there’s a pressing issue, Mr. Sang is here with me, Chu Yin was taken."
"Zhiyi was taken too."
"What?" Li Huan said, surprised.
"I know they’re both gone."
"What?"
"I know her friends are in danger."
"I just got the surveillance data. Miss Lin left in a dark-colored car and they left the community regarding it as a rental car." Chen Jin reported.
One night, the entire Jing City, Sang Li and Gong Chen were searching for people on a large scale.
More so, they announced they’d "dig three feet into the ground" to find them.