Chapter 149 They left this world together.
At the foot of the lush cliff, Old Zheng and the young man ran back and forth. Even though it took time, they had almost searched the entire area, but there wasn't a single person in sight.
Old Zheng spat, "Am I seeing things? I can't find them anywhere! Not even a shadow of a person! I refuse to believe they're half-dead, how could they possibly escape? What a joke!"
Because of chasing after Shen Jin and Yan Yu, they ran around in the deep mountains, and their bodies were scratched by tree branches and thorns. Large and small wounds were everywhere, making them look rather disheveled.
"It couldn't have wings and just escaped!" Old Zheng angrily kicked a nearby rock again, cursing, "I don't believe in such a weird thing! It must still be nearby!"
"If you know that, then hurry up and look for them!" The young man became somewhat agitated after failing to find the person. "You can't just wander around here and expect to find them! Dream on!"
"Hey, hey, hey, I'll look for them, did I say I wasn't going to look? What kind of attitude is this?" Old Zheng was also dissatisfied. "It's not like I'm the only one who can't find them. Tsk, maybe those two are really dead, eaten by something, and we can't even find their bones."
"Stop talking nonsense! Instead of wasting time on this, use it to find them!" the young man said coldly. "It'll be troublesome if you can't find them! Don't you understand?"
After lecturing each other for what they were doing, the two, who were both in a foul mood, continued their search, but to no avail.
Apart from that pool of blood, the two people seemed to have never existed; there was no trace of them anywhere.
As the sun was about to set, the two were exhausted and sat down to rest on the cliff, panting, when they suddenly heard a commotion.
The young man was taken aback: "Did you hear any mechanical sounds?"
"A mechanical sound?" Old Zheng frowned, listened carefully, and muttered somewhat inexplicably, "In a place like this, there aren't even many people. What mechanical sound could there be?"
“No,” the young man shook his head, his expression somewhat grave, and pointed in another direction, “Listen carefully again, can you hear it? It’s coming from that direction!”
Old Zheng was skeptical, but he listened intently for a moment. His expression turned grim, and he looked uncertainly at the young man beside him: "I've never heard of any planes passing by here, have I?"
The two men's faces changed, and they jumped to their feet, gripping their guns tightly. They stammered, "Could it be... they called the police after they escaped? That was a bit too fast!"
“How could that be? Even if they didn’t die, they’re probably crippled by now. How could they have the strength to run that far to call the police? There’s no transportation around here,” the young man immediately denied. “We don’t know what’s going on. Let’s hide and observe first.”
The two agreed that while searching for two escaped people in a deep mountain forest might not be their forte, and they would find it difficult to do so, they were more than capable of hiding, given how familiar they were with the mountain.
You can easily find a safe place to crawl into, and it will be difficult for others to find you.
However, after their initial shock, they discovered that it was someone sent from above. At first, they didn't know what was going on until the person explained the situation to them briefly, at which point their expressions turned grim.
"Where is that person? The one you kidnapped on your own initiative?" Jiang Yang asked, his attitude cold and distant towards everyone except Duan Yi, who was always very respectful and gentle. "Why isn't he with you?"
After exchanging bewildered glances, Old Zheng and the young man recounted the entire incident in detail. Jiang Yang was so enraged by their behavior that he felt they were more trouble than they were worth.
However, nothing could be changed now, so Jiang Yang could only endure it and sent people down to collect some blood from the pool of blood to take back for testing.
The private jet disappeared into the clouds at top speed, quickly leaving the place as if it had never been there, leaving no trace.
When the police and Luo Zheng and Rong Lan arrived, they were still a step too late. They hadn't found the person; they had only found a rather old house.
They found handcuffs and leg irons in the dilapidated house, as well as a few strands of hair and some fingerprints on the ground. They immediately collected them, took photos, and planned to conduct a thorough examination and investigation when they returned.
The police told them, "This is probably where they were. There were four of them, but now they've all disappeared. It's possible that one of them escaped and then they went after them. If nothing unexpected happens, they should still be in these mountains."
After searching the house thoroughly, they found many tools, but no bloodstains. They were hopeful that the person was probably still alive.
“If we escape successfully, we’ll be safe,” the policeman said. “As long as the hostages aren’t in their hands or under their threat, we have nothing to worry about. They haven’t come back yet, which means they probably haven’t caught the hostages. This is an opportunity!”
The group set off again, first searching the vicinity, then taking a helicopter into the deep mountains to begin their search.
Although the police had just said that, Luo Zheng couldn't put her mind at ease. Her eyelids kept twitching, and her palms were constantly sweating. She had a bad feeling about it.
He felt that things had calmed down a bit after Shen Jin was kidnapped... The other party didn't pose any other threat except for preventing them from calling the police. Now that they had found their hideout, there was no trace of blood, and Shen Jin had even escaped.
The situation seems to be much better than they imagined...
"Where are you? Are you alright? Are you hurt?" Luo Zheng wondered to herself, her gaze sweeping over every place as she looked down, but she couldn't see a single person.
Some time later, a policeman reported: "There are bullet holes and signs of a struggle on the cliff ahead, as well as shoe prints, the same as the shoe prints inside the house!"
Luo Zheng's face suddenly turned pale, and he staggered. Rong Lan, who was beside him, quickly supported him, his expression also somewhat grave: "The situation is still unknown, so let's not think about the worst-case scenario."
Their helicopter landed at the top of the cliff, and several people got out together. They did see the bullets embedded in the rocks, as well as the messy shoe prints.
Luo Zheng stared at the bullets, then at the shoe prints. Her eyes, which were already somewhat bloodshot due to her poor mental state, became even more bloodshot.
He took a deep breath: "It's Chen Jin's shoe print... and Yan Yu's too."
Rong Lan frowned, his face also looking very unpleasant. He had been trying to think of things in a positive light, but at this moment, even if he didn't want to believe it, he had to believe that the worst was likely to happen.
At this moment, the police officer next to him spoke to his partner over the radio, his expression grave. He hesitated before speaking, "Our men found a pool of blood down there, the tracks left by two people who fell. We suspect it's them..."
"What did you say?" Rong Lan's voice trembled slightly. He looked up at the cliff below, a wave of fear washing over him, and his head spun for a few seconds. He asked incredulously, "You're saying they might... have fallen off here?"
The police officer knew this result was somewhat cruel; after all, falling from here could mean the difference between life and death. Therefore, he hesitated for two seconds before saying, "I'm not sure, but two people definitely fell..."
Two people fell down. They couldn't possibly be the kidnappers with guns, so it must be Yan Yu and Shen Jin trying to dodge the bullets...
Perhaps because their faces looked so pale, the police officer quickly said, "Calm down! The situation is still uncertain!"
But at this moment, anything he said would be superfluous. Luo Zheng and Rong Lan didn't hear a word he said; their heads were spinning. Luo Zheng's voice trembled a few times: "So... are they still alive?"
"This..." The policeman suddenly didn't know how to start the conversation. "There's blood on the trail, but we haven't found any of them. There should have been four of them, but we haven't found any of them. Anyway, let's go down and take a look."
When Luo Zheng saw the bloodstains with his own eyes, he almost fainted. Especially when he thought that it might have been from Shen Jin after he fell off the cliff, he was on the verge of collapse.
After a thorough search, aside from various footprints proving that they had indeed escaped into this place and two pools of blood left by someone who had fallen off the cliff, there were no other clues, and they could not find the people there no matter what they did.
Several days passed, and apart from being able to prove that the two pools of blood were indeed Yan Yu and Shen Jin's, there was no other progress.
Whether it was Shen Jin, Yan Yu, or the kidnappers who abducted them, they all seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no trace.
Even if it was truly an unfortunate tragedy... and they have left this world, there should still be a body left behind, how could there be no remains at all...
Xie Li had been keeping a close eye on the Rong family's and Yan family's movements, and he began to feel uneasy, wondering, "Could it be that they're both dead... gone from this world?"
But is that even possible?
Xie Li was terrified. He was worried that the investigation would find out that he was involved in the kidnapping. That would mean two lives were at stake. What would he do if he was found out?
"I...I'm going to jail?" Xie Li thought in disbelief, her face pale, her heart pounding in her throat. She muttered to herself, "No, no, I don't want to!"
He locked the door and sat alone on the bed, sweating profusely.
If Yan Yu and Shen Jin left this world together, then there would be no way to prove it... But what if they are living a miserable life somewhere in the world that they don't know about?
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