Ning Hao turned to Liu Zhanyu and asked, "Uncle Liu, you go first. If you were that special envoy, what would you do?"
Liu Zhanyu studied the map and thought for a moment, "If I were that special envoy, I would have someone take Dou Yanhua eastward along the old forest. That's the boundary. If all else fails, we can follow this route down and leave by boat."
However, there is one thing to be aware of: in this weather, walking in the old forest is fraught with danger at any time. Temperature, food, and wild animals are all challenges they will face in the future.
However, it seems that this woman also came from that direction, so I don't think the route was a problem for them.
As for food, I think they can prepare it in advance. However, there is a problem: bringing water and food, plus Dou Yanhua, makes things uncertain.
There's another problem, don't forget, Dou Yanhua is temporarily immobile. They need to give her medication or find a doctor to empty her stomach so she can travel with these people.
Chen Fang nodded. "I interrogated those people yesterday. There was about a 20-minute gap between when we received the call and when those people picked up Dou Yanhua. Adding the departure time, it must have been about an hour. We then started searching the mountains. If she's in the mountains, she shouldn't have gone far."
My concern is that there's a time lag between when different departments receive orders and when they get to their positions, and that time is enough for them to escape.
Although various locations subsequently received our requests for assistance, it wouldn't be easy to track down those individuals if they managed to hide somewhere.
Ning Hao turned to Chen Fang and asked, "If you were in charge of this, Uncle Chen, what would you think?"
Chen Fang sighed, "That special envoy and Cobra can't be understood with ordinary thinking. I also have children. To be honest, if it were me, although I would also want my children to have a good life, Dou Yanhua's current situation doesn't involve her life."
There was absolutely no need for Cobra and that woman to try and get rid of each other; I don't know what the other's motives were.
Even if we take them, now is definitely not the best time. If it were me, I would definitely make them hide first and wait until things calm down before running away.
Ning Hao gave a wry smile. "You two have completely opposite ideas. What do you think we should do? We can't possibly investigate every single place, can we? We can't afford to waste that much time. Besides, by then, the enemy would probably have already run away."
Liu Zhanyu sighed, "This is also the reason for my argument with Lao Chen."
There's something you might not know: the other side wanted more than just Dou Yanhua. They also wanted to include our group and Jiang Qiao in their scheme. In fact, this was a setup that had been planned long ago.
"It's fortunate that Jiang Qiao discovered it early, otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to predict how this would have ended..."
Liu Zhanyu told the two of them about the mental hospital, and Ning Hao almost wanted to curse.
If this operation were actually carried out today, those patients would probably be either dead or injured. Given this number of casualties and the outcome, Song Shutian probably wouldn't be able to bear the blame.
After Ning Hao finished asking his question, Liu Zhanyu and Chen Fang asked in unison, "And what about you? What are your thoughts?"
Ning Hao blinked. "Me?"
"Yes, it's you. We'd like to hear your thoughts. If the three of us put them together, maybe we can come up with a solution?"
Ning Hao gave a bitter laugh. "I've never been a parent, so I don't know what parents are thinking. If this happened to me, I would definitely find a place to get the person's health back on track first, and then choose an opportune moment to escape."
As for this place, it's definitely somewhere you'd never even imagine. But where exactly is it?
Liu Zhanyu looked at Chen Fang and asked, "Old Chen, what's your opinion?"
Chen Fang nodded thoughtfully. "I think Ning Hao makes sense. Lao Liu, what's your opinion?"
Liu Zhanyu tapped his fingers on the table. "I want to hear Jiang Qiao's opinion. Let's go find Jiang Qiao."
Ning Hao opened his mouth, wanting to say that his wife hadn't rested well yet, but this matter was too serious, so he didn't say it. Helplessly, he got up and went back with the two people.
By this time, Jiang Qiao had already gotten up. Qiao Jie had already heated up the food. He knew that his granddaughter hadn't slept well last night, but she still needed to eat. If she kept sleeping like this, she probably wouldn't be able to sleep at all tonight.
Just then, Jiang Qiao finished eating and was sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) with the old man, drinking water and chatting, when Liu Zhanyu and the others came over.
"Huh? It's you guys?"
Liu Zhanyu said with a smile, "Why can't it be us? You've had an accident, how worried am I as your father? Girl, do you have any fruit? Hurry up and get some. Perfect timing, let's talk about work."
Ning Hao wouldn't let Jiang Qiao get up. "I'll go wash up. You two chat."
Liu Zhanyu and Chen Fang explained these two approaches to Jiang Qiao.
"There's no need to waste manpower and resources. Even if you catch Dou Yanhua, what good will it do? You can't just beat her every day and make that other woman feel sorry for her, can you? You can't do that."
Why bother searching everywhere? Wouldn't that be falling into the enemy's trap? If that happens, how will you have the energy to deal with them? Just searching for people will exhaust everyone; it's unnecessary."
Jiang Qiao's words left the two men speechless. "Is that really necessary?"
Jiang Qiao nodded innocently, "Yeah, if we can't find it, we won't look for it."
Chen Fang said anxiously, "No, we know this person has escaped, yet we're just going to do nothing?"
Jiang Qiao shook her head. "Who said we're indifferent? Our ultimate goal is to find Cobra, that woman, and the strategist. Dou Yanhua didn't commit any capital crimes. Even if we find her, it won't be of much use."
Jiang Qiao's answer surprised everyone, but Qiao Jie said something from the side.
“These should be arrested, but it would be counterproductive to put all our people and energy into this.”
Chen Fang then asked, "So what should we do next?"
Jiang Qiao then said, "Keep arresting people."
"Didn't you say we shouldn't waste our time on this person?"
Jiang Qiao nodded. "What I said is true, but we don't need so many people. We even have to bring people from the city. If something happens in the city, we won't have enough police officers."
What I mean is to make arrests, but we need to focus on key targets. This news should be released. We may not know about other people, but we must have photos of Dou Yanhua, right?
Besides, in the countryside, who wouldn't know if a stranger came? Especially when there are several? There's really no need to go to such lengths. Wouldn't it be better to let the people at the grassroots level supervise and report it?
If you really take this seriously, then you've fallen into the enemy's trap.
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