Zheng Tianming stood downstairs at his apartment building, a cigarette dangling from his lips, a gas cylinder on his shoulder. His eyes darkened; these guys were probably already eyeing Xiao Lu...

At night, the neighborhood is shrouded in darkness, with almost no lights except for a few dim streetlights swaying in the breeze, emitting a faint glow.

Jiang Qiu's face was flushed from drinking. She was already in a bad mood, and her female colleague and boyfriend were deliberately urging her to drink. At this moment, she was even a little unsteady on her feet.

Xiaoying held Jiang Qiu's hand, her hands full of snack gift bags, and was overjoyed: "Mom, Uncle and that pretty aunt are so nice."

A bitter taste lingered at the corner of Jiang Qiu's mouth; her head was throbbing terribly...

Everyone else can be happy, so why can't she? Her husband ran off with someone else, and she has a daughter to raise. Even if she were to find someone, given her circumstances, she could only find a divorced man with a child and make do for the rest of her life.

The motion-activated lights in the hallway were broken again. Xiaoying held Jiang Qiu's hand, a little scared, and said, "Mom, please turn on the flashlight."

Jiang Qiu stood on the stairs, touching her phone, occasionally making gagging noises.

Just then, a commotion and the sound of a door closing came from upstairs. A couple came downstairs; the girl was carrying a suitcase in both hands: "Get out! I came out with you against my parents' wishes, and this is how you treat me?"

The boy followed behind, saying, "I'm sorry, I really am, but she's pregnant..."

As they passed by, they bumped into Jiang Qiu, and her phone slipped and fell through a gap in the railing.

Seeing this, Xiaoying ran to get her phone...

Just as she crouched down, a black figure suddenly darted out from the triangular space at the bottom of the stairs. He picked up Xiaoying and ran out, leaving the snack gift bag on the ground.

"ah!"

Jiang Qiu didn't expect this, and she turned around to chase after him, shouting, "Let go of my child!"

As a result, the young couple started arguing wildly ahead of her, even coming to blows. In a panic, she pushed them away and ran out.

"Xiaoying, they're snatching the child!" Jiang Qiu shouted at the top of her lungs.

The young couple stopped arguing and immediately went outside together.

Jiang Qiu hurriedly ran to find the patrolling police officers. Her phone was still in Xiao Ying's hand. She shouted to the couple behind her, "Please call the police for me. Someone is trying to kidnap my child."

She was mostly sober now, and countless times she thought that it would be better if she didn't have this child. But when the child was taken away from her right in front of her, she was going crazy!

An elderly woman living on the first floor came out wearing a coat: "What? What's wrong?" She was hard of hearing and couldn't hear what was being shouted.

The girl looked at the boy, and the two of them seemed a little flustered, especially the boy, whose forehead was covered in cold sweat.

"A child has been kidnapped!" the boy shouted.

An old woman standing nearby slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "You wicked thing, you deserve to be cut into pieces!"

Jiang Qiu ran while crying, and the patrolling police officers rushed over as soon as they heard the noise.

"I didn't see clearly, it was just a dark figure, probably a man." Jiang Qiu's legs went weak and she collapsed to the ground. She never imagined that someone would actually snatch her child!

The children were all lost while playing by themselves.

The police officers quickly took out their walkie-talkies and sealed off the gates of the residential area.

At the same time, the door opposite Zheng Tianming's room opened, and a woman with long hair, wearing a black dress, high heels, and heavy makeup came downstairs, wearing a light coat...

The man sat up after hearing the noise. He glanced at his daughter on the bed, got up and went to the kitchen to hide the cleaver in his pants. Before leaving, he kissed his daughter on the forehead.

Xu Mengyu was in pain from all the commotion, and her foot wasn't fully healed. She was lying in bed wearing a steam eye mask and earplugs, ready to sleep. Zheng Tianming was nowhere to be seen; he hadn't returned yet, even though it was late at night.

Upstairs, Xu Lu was sitting on the sofa reciting an ancient poem: "Paintings of Lingyan Pavilion and Ganquan Pavilion..."

A loud splash came from the bathroom, and the maid quickly came out, followed by the spilled yellow soup on the floor.

"Ugh--" Xu Lu was already a bit of a germaphobe, and he couldn't stand such a strong smell. When he saw the maid on the floor, he almost vomited.

The maid was also gagging. After she finished cleaning the toilet, she pressed the flush button, and for some reason, the water pipe suddenly burst, and the "dirty water" that had accumulated upstairs sprayed out.

This neighborhood is very old, and many things can't compare to those in newer neighborhoods.

The bodyguard led Xu Lu out, taking a bottle of mineral water with him.

Xu Lu covered his mouth, tears welling up in his eyes. The bodyguard handed him water, and he drank a couple of sips to calm himself down.

Ignoring her own filth, the maid quickly led the other two bodyguards to clean the bathroom and floor...

Xu Lu originally wanted to go downstairs to find Xu Mengyu, but when she looked at the time, it was already past ten o'clock. Her mother should have already gone to bed, and there was no light on under the door.

He found a place to stand.

"Young Master, no, let's stay at a hotel tonight and discuss it with Madam tomorrow." We definitely can't stay in the rented room; the young master is a germaphobe.

Xu Lu nodded. There was no other way now. Just as they were about to leave, the door opposite opened.

An old man was bent over so low that he was almost overlapping with someone else. He coughed twice and asked, "What happened?"

The bodyguard watched the old man warily. The door opposite was still open, and inside, he could see that the old man was worshipping Guanyin and burning incense.

Xu Lu didn't intend to respond, since they weren't familiar with each other.

"Tianming said he's known you all; we've been neighbors for many years." The old man pointed to his house and said, "My daughter doesn't come home much. Would you like to come in and sit for a while?"

Upon hearing that the old man recognized Zheng Tianming, Xu Lu said, "Thank you, Grandpa, but we won't go in." After all, it was a stranger's house.

Bodyguards flanked Xu Lu. They had just come downstairs when they learned that a child had gone missing in the residential area and the gates were locked, preventing anyone from leaving.

Xu Lu stood downstairs and looked up. Sure enough, his mother had already turned off the lights and gone to sleep. "Let's go back. We'll talk about it tomorrow morning." He was wearing two masks; he figured it would be enough for the night.

The maid and two bodyguards had almost finished tidying up when Xu Lugang went in, and the upstairs flushed the toilet again, releasing a strong stench.

"Didn't you say it was fixed?!" The maid looked at the bodyguard beside her, thinking, "How can he be so unreliable!"

The bodyguard didn't look too good either; he wasn't a professional.

Xu Lu squatted at the top of the stairs and sighed deeply: "Alright, stop arguing. Let's clean up the bedroom first and make sure the dirty water doesn't get in."

The old man opened the door again, holding three plastic chairs stacked together: "Please sit down first, I'll go fix it. My house exploded before, and I still have some pipes and glue left."

"Thank you, Grandpa." Xu Lu saw that the old man was having difficulty walking, his back was bent so badly that he could hardly lift his head.

The security guard didn't sit down either; he stood beside Xu Lu to protect his safety. The old man's door was open, and a fragrant aroma wafted out.

The old man went inside and closed the door.

Xu Lu sat in a chair, his phone and other belongings still on the sofa. He didn't take them out; he didn't stay up late often, and his eyelids were almost too heavy to keep open.

In a daze, he thought he saw Zheng Tianming, which startled him so much that he quickly hid behind the bodyguard.

Two bodyguards lunged at each other and suddenly attacked. Xu Lu panicked and tried to dodge, afraid that Zheng Tianming would see his face, so he ran into the old man's house...

Zheng Tianming sat on the roof of the apartment building, holding a walkie-talkie. His teammate looked at the signal points marked on the computer screen: "Xiaoying is still in the apartment building. Xiaolu's signal moved a little, but it has returned to its original position now."

"The women have already started their operation," a teammate said, pointing to the signal on the computer screen.

Zheng Tianming glanced at her and guessed that the woman was just one of the insiders, not the leader, nor was the old man upstairs who believed in Guanyin.

The security guard wasn't either; he was just doing his job for money, and tens of thousands of yuan would appear in his account every month.

[Captain, something bad has happened! Signal interference! Xiaoying isn't around here.]

[Captain, no suspicious persons found in area three.]

[Captain, number four is unavailable.]

Several teammates were already lying in wait around the signal area, but they couldn't see a single shadow of it.

Upon hearing the voice coming from his earpiece, Zheng Tianming immediately frowned. The other party was organized and had a very clear division of labor. In the past few years, six children had gone missing in the area, and only Lily was successfully rescued. The other five seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Otherwise, the higher-ups wouldn't have sent Zheng Tianming over.

Zheng Tianming took out gloves from his pocket and put them on, cocked his pistol and tucked it into the outside of his thigh, and gripped the rappelling rope: "Keep an eye on Xiaolu." After saying that, he jumped vertically from the eleventh floor.

Xu Mengyu was still asleep when she suddenly heard a frantic stomping on the door. Her earplugs were no longer effective. She took off her eye mask and sat up. The bedroom was pitch black; Zheng Tianming had not yet returned.

"Madam, wake up! Young Master, Young Master is missing!"

"Madam! Madam, wake up!"

The maid banged on the door. She had just gone into the bedroom to tidy up when the bodyguard was in the bathroom fixing a water pipe with an old man. But when she came out, she saw the bodyguard lying on the floor. She ran outside and saw two bodyguards outside with blood all over their faces, who had also fallen down.

The young master has disappeared!

Upon hearing this, Xu Mengyu disregarded her injured foot and ran straight to open the door, exclaiming, "What did you say?!" She couldn't help but shiver.

"Young master, he, he's gone!" The maid was jumping up and down in a panic. "I've already called the police!" She called the police immediately.

Xu Mengyu quickly ran back to her room and took out her phone. She installed a GPS tracker on Xu Lu, which her older brother had given her, but she hadn't been willing to use it herself.

The signal indicates that Xu Lu's location has left the residential area!

Xu Mengyu's fingers were trembling. At this moment, she couldn't panic. The more panicked she was, the less likely she would be to find her child. She dialed Zheng Tianming's number twice, but he didn't answer.

At this moment, Zheng Tianming stood inside the security booth, a black pistol pointed at the security guard's temple: "I don't have time to waste words with you, tell me the license plate number."

The child must have already left the community. The only person who knows the license plate number is the security guard in front of us, because he turned off the surveillance cameras beforehand!

"Tianming, don't scare me. I, I, I really don't know." The security guard held up his hands, his legs trembling with fear.

Zheng Tianming lowered his eyes, his voice icy: "If you want to spend fewer years in jail, cooperate with me. If I don't have evidence, I won't come to you directly."

His phone kept ringing, but he didn't have time to answer it.

Xu Mengyu walked out wearing slippers, and across the street, a little girl named Lily was crying loudly...

Xu Mengyu was more anxious than anyone else about her lost son, but when she saw the little girl standing at the door crying, she looked at the maid beside her and said, "You stay and watch the child." Then she ran upstairs.

Zheng Tianming didn't answer the phone. She called home now, but it would take at least several hours for them to get there. This is a border city, and once the child crosses the border, it will be difficult to find him again.

After running upstairs, Xu Mengyu saw two bodyguards lying on the ground. She picked up a half-empty bottle of mineral water next to a plastic chair and splashed it on them.

The bodyguard showed no sign of waking up. Xu Meng was anxious, but she couldn't care less about that now. She grabbed her phone and ran downstairs.

The police have already been dispatched and are looking for Xiaoying. Xu Mengyu will also be dispatched. There aren't many officers available, so they will have to be transferred from other jurisdictions.

But the signal was getting farther and farther away. Xu Mengyu drove her Bentley directly in the direction of the model. She was still wearing slippers. The performance of this car was no match for that of a sports car.

Fortunately, there were few cars and people at night. Xu Mengyu's heart was pounding. What if Xu Lu was lost and could not be found? What if he had already been harmed?

A lot of bad thoughts started running through her mind.

At this moment, Zheng Tianming also chased after them in his G-Wagon. He knew the license plate number and had already reached an agreement with the traffic police. His only concern was that they might keep taking back roads.

At that moment, a text message popped up on my phone.

Xu Mengyu: [Zheng Tianming, Xiaolu is lost]

Xu Mengyu: [Tianming, answer my call!]

Upon seeing the text message, Zheng Tianming gripped the steering wheel tightly. He had already driven off; if he turned back now, Xiaoying would be in danger...

Zheng Tianming tapped on his earpiece: "The child upstairs is missing. Seal off the border." With that, he stepped on the gas.

Given a choice between two options, he can only choose the one that can be saved immediately, and cannot concern himself with the unknown.

He opened his phone with one hand and installed a special locator on Xu Lu. It was a gift from his older brother, but he had never been willing to use it, since it cost more than five million yuan.

Xu Lu's signal was actually going in the opposite direction to his. He tapped his earpiece: "[Team One, heading towards YouTube, already on Anhe Road, license plate number xxx...]"

He said he was responsible for Xu Mengyu and Xiaolu's safety, so now he could only rescue Xiaoying as soon as possible before going to find Xiaolu.

They usually only take one child at a time, and they plan to do so for about six months. Little Deer just arrived, and I didn't expect them to make their move so quickly.

The signal interference was also unexpected; otherwise, they should have simply pinned the traffickers down in the residential area and waited for the mastermind behind them to become impatient before catching them all in one fell swoop.

Xu Mengyu was very fast. Her driving skills weren't actually that good, and she often broke out in a cold sweat. Otherwise, she would have just given chase from the start, but she couldn't care less about that now.

She wondered what Zheng Tianming had gone off to, and whether something had happened to him. She was now thinking the worst about everything.

Just then, she heard the sound of police cars behind her. Xu Mengyu thought they were coming to arrest her, so she stepped on the gas pedal in fright. She had to save the child first!

From the police car behind: "[Team Leader Zheng, there's a Bentley ahead of us, flooring the gas pedal. The license plate is the same one Xiao Lu rode in.]"

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