Chapter 42 She Must Be Fine
As the sun sets, the sunlight casts a golden hue over the forest, which is gradually becoming autumnal. The red maple leaves seem to burn all the way to the horizon.
In the hotel at the foot of the mountain, music sounded again and the crowd was noisy and boiling.
When Shen Yixiao came out of the room, he had regained his dignified and calm demeanor. He straightened his cuffs and stepped into the courtyard.
Ji Yuanchen was grilling meat in the yard. Seeing him coming, he waved and handed him a few skewers of meat as if offering treasures: "Brother Yi, I grilled them. Want to try?"
Shen Yixiao's expression was indifferent, and he opened his thin lips slightly: "No, I'll go back first."
"Are you leaving now?" Ji Yuanchen looked surprised. Didn't they just play for one night?
"Are you staying here or going back?"
Ji Yuanchen began to feel conflicted.
Shen Yixiao raised his eyelids and glanced at him. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Jiang Yuan walking towards him with a frown, still talking on the phone.
Shen Yixiao glanced around and saw no one was around.
That feeling of boredom came over him again, and he didn't stop, but walked out with big strides.
When they passed by each other, Jiang Yuan called him.
“Boss Shen…”
Shen Yixiao paused, then heard her continue, "Can you help me find Wanwan?"
He turned around suddenly: "Looking for her? What happened to her?"
Jiang Yuan clutched his phone tightly and explained quickly, "I woke up this morning and saw the message she left for me. She said she had gone into the mountains to look for minerals and would be back before sunset."
"But I sent her a message but she didn't reply, and no one answered my phone calls. The sun is almost setting, and I'm worried something might have happened to her..."
In the past, Cen Wan usually went into the mountains with her colleagues from the studio, and Jiang Yuan also knew that there might be no signal in the mountains sometimes.
But today her eyelids kept twitching, and she felt a little worried.
It would be even more dangerous if she didn't come back by dark.
Shen Yixiao's heart skipped a beat and he looked up at the sky. The orange sunset covered the entire sky. The brilliant colors were beautiful but deadly.
His expression suddenly changed.
The hotel manager and rescue workers quickly launched a search and rescue operation. When Chen Yu arrived here without stopping, Shen Yixiao and Jiang Yuan had already entered the mountain.
He couldn't just sit there and wait for death, so he would rather it ended up being a false alarm.
Standing at the fork in the road, Shen Yixiao started walking towards the small path. After taking a step, he asked Jiang Yuan again, "Which way?"
Jiang Yuan knew more about Cen Wan's work and had a general idea of it, so he made the same choice as him.
Ji Yuanchen and another security chief followed behind the two.
The road was rough, but Shen Yixiao walked with long strides, his feet moving with the wind. Jiang Yuan had a hard time keeping up, but he tried not to fall behind, and continued to call Cen Wan along the way.
The call went through, but no one answered.
The woods had grown dark and eerily quiet, with only the voices of a few people calling out for Cen Wan echoing.
"Miss Cen!"
"Wanwan..."
Suddenly, Shen Yixiao stopped abruptly and several people almost bumped into him.
On the flat ground ahead, a man lay straight, his forehead covered in blood, already unconscious.
Shen Yixiao's pupils shrank.
He recognized him; it was the man named Wu Anhao.
Jiang Yuan looked at the backpack beside him and exclaimed, "This is Wanwan's bag!"
Shen Yixiao's gaze swept across the ground inch by inch, taking in the blood-stained stones, the unconscious man, and the bags and belongings scattered on the ground.
What about her?
He didn't dare to think further. What had happened? How was she now?
He pursed his lips slightly, his body was like a taut string, and he clenched his big fists tightly to barely maintain his sanity.
He immediately called the search and rescue team to begin searching from this location. The rescue dog sniffed Cen Wan's bag and, at the trainer's command, darted into the woods.
Jiang Yuan looked at Wu Anhao and the bloodstains on the ground. He felt even more uneasy and his hands were shaking. "Is he still alive?"
Shen Yixiao kicked him, then looked down with a cruel expression: "Not dead."
Chen Yu asked cautiously: "Then he..."
Shen Yixiao didn't say anything, his eyes were fixed on the front, his expression blending into the thick night behind him.
It was Ji Yuanchen who spoke up again: "Send him to the hospital, just keep him alive."
I can't really die here like this. No matter what happened, I have to leave someone alive.
Shen Yixiao didn't object. Chen Yu waved his hand and had him carried away.
Shen Yixiao looked at the dark forest and went in without any hesitation.
Jiang Yuan was about to follow, but Shen Yixiao didn't even turn his head: "Keep an eye on her."
Ji Yuanchen immediately grabbed Jiang Yuan and said, "It's so dark, just wait here. Don't let anything happen to you. It will make Miss Cen even more sad..."
Jiang Yuan stood there, watching Shen Yixiao's tall and straight figure slowly disappear into the darkness, knowing that what he said was right.
She could only pray silently that Shen Yixiao and the search and rescue team would find Cen Wan as soon as possible and that she would be safe.
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