Chapter 709: A Million Times for You (71)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Xu Baizhi felt as if she was stabbed in the heart. For a split second, she wondered to herself if she had really made the wrong decision.
However, she soon reassured herself that An Xiaoning would soon be sent to the Organization and that everything would be perfect once the hypnotist manages to hypnotize her and extract her birth timing while she was asleep.
Even if the organization couldn’t do anything with An Xiaoning’s birth characters and timing, they would probably show mercy and let her off.
Xu Baizhi felt much more at ease after talking to herself in her head.
“I think differently from you. In my opinion, your mentor has helped me break free from my current predicament by changing my fate. Perhaps she didn’t expect that the person needed to get me out of my predicament would be you,” she said, beaming with joy.
An Xiaoning could not help but be a wet blanket and answered, “Xu Baizhi… do you know what happened to Xu Youran in the end?”
The smile on Xu Baizhi’s face stiffened the moment she heard her words. “Don’t tell me, she’s missing because of you?” she asked worriedly.
“No.”
“Who was it then?”
“Do you really think I’d tell you? Xu Youran landed herself in the sorry plight she’s in today simply because she had done too much evil. Do you think you’re any smarter than she was? The Xu family must be really unfortunate to have you two disrupt their peace. Madam Xu has really gone against her morals for the sake of making it up to you. Or maybe she doesn’t have any boundaries at all. Perhaps she’s just pretending to be kind. Birds of the same feather really do flock together. I shall wait for the day your family meets your doom.”
“Do you think you can wait until then? Perhaps our family will never be doomed,” Xu Baizhi said with a menacing glare in her eyes.
“With someone like you in the Xu family, it’s only a matter of time before the family falls apart.” An Xiaoning did not wish to continue speaking to her, for she found her extremely repulsive and nauseating.
Xu Baizhi’s spirits were immediately dampened.
She decided to stop talking as well.
The plane continued to fly in the air continuously and finally arrived at their destination.
An Xiaoning was dragged out of the airplane by Xu Baizhi, who then pushed her onto a boat.
It began cruising along the designated route on the ocean.
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An Xiaoning’s mobile phone, which had been left charging in her room, began ringing continuously.
Mei Yangyang constantly tried to call her, but there was no response.
Mei Yangyang decided to continue calling her in the afternoon but still could not get through to her. Thus, she decided to make a trip down to the Gu family home personally.
“Is Sis at home?” Mei Yangyang asked.
“Missy left early in the morning,” the guard answered.
“Do you know where she went?”
“I don’t know.”
After some thought, Mei Yangyang asked, “May I see Mrs. Gu? I’d like to ask her about where Sis went.”
The guard knew that Mei Yangyang and An Xiaoning were sworn sisters and thus allowed her to enter.
“It’s the seventh day since Xiaoning’s mentor died. She headed to Beijia Bay this morning to burn some offerings for her mentor. It’s already so late now, I doubt she’s still at Beijia Bay. Ms. Mei, are you looking for her for an urgent matter?”
“Yes, I need to ask her something about our studio. I tried to call her multiple times but I couldn’t get through. Did she leave her mobile phone at home?”
“I’ll go take a look in her bedroom.” Mrs. Gu headed to An Xiaoning’s bedroom and returned downstairs. “Yeah, she left it to charge in her bedroom. I removed the charger because the battery is full.”
“That explains it. Mrs. Gu, please ask Sis to give me a call when she comes home later.”
“Alright.”
However, Mei Yangyang did not receive a call even until night came.
She took a look at the time to see that it was already past ten o’clock.
An Xiaoning ought to have gone home to rest by this time.
Did Mrs. Gu forget to inform her? Mei Yangyang wondered.
Feeling worried, she decided to go to the Gu family mansion again, only to find out that An Xiaoning was still not home yet.
She continued to wait until eleven o’clock at night.
Mei Yangyang was getting worried and jittery.
“Did something happen to Sis?”
Upon hearing her words, Mrs. Gu could not help but feel a little worried. “I don’t think so. Xiaoning is no ordinary person, but she would usually be home by this time, and she would inform us whenever she’s not coming home for the night. But then again, she can’t contact us because she didn’t bring her mobile phone.”
Gu Beicheng and Lin Mingxi had gone to bed early and thus were not aware of the situation.
It was half-past eleven when Mrs. Gu woke them up.
Lin Mingxi tried to dial An Xiaoning’s landline in Sanqiao Estate, only to discover that An Xiaoning was not there either.
Gu Beicheng called the police station and requested for them to find out where An Xiaoning’s car was last seen.
Half an hour later, the police informed Gu Beicheng that there were no records of An Xiaoning’s car today in the surveillance camera footages.
Gu Beicheng immediately guessed that something must have happened to An Xiaoning.
There were surveillance cameras in every corner of the streets. Thus, it would be impossible for An Xiaoning’s car to not be captured by any.
Unless someone had erased all the footages.
The Gu family was sent into a state of panic. Mrs. Gu said, “Beicheng, since someone had intentionally erased the surveillance camera footages, go to Commander-in-chief Jin and Chief of Staff Lin’s homes to inform them of this matter. They’ll definitely be able to find out who had deleted it. Xiaoning is their goddaughter too, they won’t leave her in the lurch.”
“Let’s split up. Beicheng, go to Commander-in-chief Jin’s house while I go visit Chief of Staff Lin,” said Mei Yangyang.
“Hubby, hurry. I’ll go with you.” Lin Mingxi grabbed her car keys and pulled Gu Beicheng out of the door frantically.
Mr. and Mrs. Gu stayed at home and prayed fervently for everything to be fine.
The Jin and Lin families were both shocked and angry after hearing about the incident.
They immediately instructed their subordinates to find out who the culprit was.
It was easy for the police to investigate since there was an abundance of manpower at the police station.
Besides, there were only a small number of staff members in charge of controlling the surveillance camera monitors. Thus, someone must have erased the footages of An Xiaoning’s car passing by.
Commander-in-chief Jin and Chief of Staff Lin headed to the police station at night with their wives.
After taking attendance of the police officers in the surveillance camera control room, they discovered that one of them was missing.
They then found the missing police officer dead in his rented apartment.
He was fatally stabbed with a knife in his chest.
They decided to pin him as the prime suspect behind the act. The bunch of police officers would usually be on duty together in the day. However, he was the only one left remaining inside the monitor control room when his colleagues left for lunch in the afternoon.
In other words, he was the most suspicious one.
Clearly, that police officer was instigated and compelled to erase the footages. He was not the mastermind who had intentions to harm An Xiaoning.
There were too many possible suspects who could order him around.
Yet, they could not find any clues or recently-contacted persons in the deceased policeman’s mobile phone.
Thus, it would be difficult to find out who the real mastermind was in a short period of time.
The two political figures were exasperated beyond limits. Yet, they could not abuse their authority in broad daylight.
After having a discussion, they decided to call Lin Shishi in the morning.
They instructed Lin Shishi to tell Tuoba Gucheng to investigate the matter thoroughly.