Before Chu Lan found An Ning, she saw An Ning's name on the trending search list first.

Another new trending topic.

The name is: #AnningGroupBrawl

Perhaps because of the previous example, Chu Lan was unusually calm this time, completely different from her panic and helplessness last time. It gave the impression that she had given up the struggle.

After clicking into the trending topics, she realized that netizens were finding people much faster than she was.

She frantically called Anning on her phone, but Anning wouldn't answer at all, while the netizen just went out to take out the trash and somehow bumped into Anning twice.

Two videos were trending on social media. One video showed An Ning standing in front of three girls, facing three burly men all by herself.

To be honest, when Chu Lan saw this video, her heart almost jumped out of her chest. Who gave An Ning the courage to face three muscular middle-aged men alone?

She was standing right across from him, barely reaching his armpit. He was at least two and a half times her size, the kind of guy who could kill her with a single punch.

Despite this, An Ning showed no fear whatsoever, appearing even more composed than the three opposite her.

Because the person filming was standing some distance away from Anning, their conversation could not be heard clearly. The only way to understand what they were saying was through the body language of Anning and the three people opposite her.

An Ning was telling the three girls to leave. Judging from the video, the three girls were not very old, at most high school students.

High school student... thug... traveling alone...

The moment these words appeared in Chu Lan's mind, her scalp tingled.

It's really not fair to blame her for overthinking; there have been so many similar incidents that her subconscious reaction to those words was that these middle-aged men were following those high school girls, and An Ning just happened to run into them, so she went up to them.

Chu Lan didn't mean to blame An Ning for meddling. In fact, after guessing that An Ning was probably trying to save those high school girls, Chu Lan couldn't bring herself to blame An Ning. She thought that if she had been in that situation, she probably would have stepped forward without hesitation.

The video only captured An Ning walking up to confront the three burly men; there was no footage of what happened afterward. In other words, the outcome of An Ning's confrontation with these men cannot be determined from this video.

Chu Lanxin's heart tightened immediately, and she quickly clicked on the second video that person had sent.

The second video clearly shows the confrontation between An Ning and the other party. An Ning, who was originally alone, suddenly had three people around her, but none of the three people seemed to be normal.

Judging from the video alone, the big guy standing next to Anning has a cast on his arm, while the other one walks with an unusual gait, looking like he has a sprained ankle or is lame.

Neither possibility is ideal.

And the last person... was the only one who seemed relatively normal.

But facing them were eight burly men, their bodies covered in terrifying muscles, each of them looking capable of killing Anning and her old, weak, and disabled teammates with a single hand.

To be honest, Chu Lan was already sweating bullets for An Ning after seeing the huge difference in their lineups. He really felt like An Ning was about to be doomed.

But what's most infuriating isn't that the other side outnumbered them, but that the video is only a short ten seconds long, making it impossible to know what happened to Anning afterwards.

Seeing this, Chu Lan suddenly realized just how stupid he had been.

Instead of using Anning's phone, he came online trying to search for news about her. It's laughable.

Chu Lan quickly logged out of Weibo and was about to call An Ning again from her phone, but before she could even do that, her phone popped up with a caller ID. Chu Lan instinctively looked at the contact's name and realized it was a completely unfamiliar number, the kind that had never called her before.

Who could it be?

After hesitating for a moment, Chu Lan decided to answer the call. There was no immediate sound from the other end of the line. Instead, it was quite a while before Chu Lan heard a voice coming from the receiver. The voice sounded very familiar.

"Sister Lan, it's me."

As soon as he heard the voice, Chu Lan knew who was calling.

It was Anning, whom she had been searching for for a long time but had not found.

The other party seemed to be in a very open space, because Chu Lan could hear the echo coming from the other side through the receiver.

In the open space... Chu Lan suddenly had a bad feeling, as if An Ning was in a dangerous place. She hesitated for a while before stammering, "Xiao Ning, have you been kidnapped?"

Upon hearing this question, An Ning couldn't help but chuckle. "If you put it that way, that's not wrong... don't you think so, Officer Lin?"

Hearing the first half of An Ning's sentence, Chu Lan's heart jumped into his throat. When An Ning finished speaking, Chu Lan's heart was completely hanging in suspense.

She was right; Anning was indeed not in a good place right now.

Is the interrogation room of the Jinghai City Public Security Bureau a good place? I've been inside several times in just a few days. How can it be a good place?

After hesitating for a while, Chu Lan couldn't help but ask, "What's the reason this time?"

An Ning was confused. "What...why is it?"

"The reason you were arrested this time... why are you in the police station this time?"

Chu Lan asked the question cautiously, not at all realizing how impolite it was.

Lin Hang, who was sitting opposite An Ning and had offered his phone to her, couldn't help but smile slightly when he heard Chu Lan's question, but he quickly suppressed it.

A silent atmosphere filled the small interrogation room. After what seemed like an eternity, Chu Lan finally received An Ning's reply: "Group fighting."

Four words, concise and clear.

Upon hearing this answer, Chu Lan knew exactly how An Ning had gotten in.

It was a real gang fight.

Her opponents in the fight were those eight burly men on the other side.

Are you hurt?

Chu Lan asked with concern.

She had expected a calm silence or a perfunctory response, but she was wrong. The response she received was not calm, but a clear and gentle male voice.

"Hello, are you Anning's agent? I might need to trouble you to come over. If she wants to leave within 24 hours, someone needs to come and sign a guarantee. Do you have time? If not, it's okay. Anning can just sleep in the interrogation room and 24 hours will pass."