After sending the message, Du Yong felt extremely irritated and poked the fire in front of him with a wooden stick.
Scattered sparks flew everywhere in the fire. Du Qiang covered his neck, which was burned by the sparks.
"Brother, haven't you heard from them yet?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Du Yong's phone finally vibrated, and the other three quickly stepped forward to take a look.
[After midnight, take her and leave Jingnan. I'll have someone with money meet you at the city exit checkpoint. After that, this woman is yours; do whatever you want with her.]
"What do you mean?" Du Yong replied.
[I'll say it one last time: take the money and leave with her. I'll give you an extra three million, and prepare fake identification documents so you can start over with new identities. As for this woman, you can do whatever you want with her—kill her, torture her, keep her as a sex slave, it's all up to you.]
After reading the text message, the three brothers looked at each other in bewilderment, except for Du Qiang, who was excitedly rubbing his hands together.
"Really? Big brother, is there really such a good thing in the world? Our luck has turned around, hasn't it? Our fortunes have turned around, haven't they? We're finally going to live the life of the rich, aren't we?"
Influenced by Du Qiang's excited voice, Du Gang, who was usually calm and taciturn, also became excited.
"Brother, are they telling the truth? They're not playing us? Now we can wait until after midnight? Then we can take this woman and leave Jingnan?"
"Bullshit!" Du Meng, whose mind was sharper than the other three, spat angrily. "If it were that good, I would have won the lottery long ago. Why would I be stuck here eating this cold air?"
After waiting for a long time without receiving a response from Du Yong, Du Meng pushed his stiff body.
"Brother, say something! You don't actually believe this bastard, do you?"
The four were at a loss when faced with the new information.
On the other side of Jingnan.
The brightly lit interior of the garden.
After returning home with Uncle Wu, Zhang Youye instructed the housekeeper to give the puppy a bath. He then quickly went to the study, handed the voice recorder to Zhang Huaiyi, and was about to ask if there was a compatible charger at home.
Then, the two heard the voices of technicians.
"Young Master You, it seems that this brand of voice recorder is only sold in the Qin family's shopping mall."
"What? Are you sure?" Zhang Huaiyi pressed.
“I used to buy this brand online, but it broke after a short time. Later, I didn’t like the quality of products online, so I bought one offline.”
“There are already very few offline stores that sell voice recorders. I finally found one, and it was located in the Qin family’s shopping mall.”
After listening to the technician, Zhang Youye was about to turn around and head to Qin Family Shopping Mall when he suddenly remembered that he had just caused a scene at Qin Family, and those bastards would definitely not show him the surveillance footage.
Time was of the essence, so Zhang Youye had no choice but to have someone stand up and give him their seat.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Zhang Huaiyi asked, puzzled, as he saw his fingers flying across the keyboard.
"Check the surveillance footage of the Qin Family Shopping Mall." Zhang Youye operated the machine skillfully, without turning his head. "Xiao Le, have you check the tunnel surveillance footage again. Did you find anything?"
"Young Master You, we've checked the surveillance footage several times, but we still can't find anything unusual."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Youye had no choice but to resort to his best skills.
In front of several curved monitors, he took out a mysterious USB drive and inserted it into the computer case, attempting to hack into the Qin family's network monitoring system while carefully examining the tunnel's surveillance footage.
While waiting for the program to launch its own attack, Zhang Youye's fingers, which were typing on the keyboard, suddenly paused.
He seemed to have discovered something fishy in the surveillance footage.
"A bunch of useless trash."
With a deep, angry shout, Zhang Youye paused at the suspicious part of the image, skillfully exploiting the loophole to precisely search for suspicious items in the frame.
A minute later, in the utterly shocked view of those behind them, a tampered original video appeared.
Finally, it came into view in everyone's dilated pupils.
“Someone overwrote the original surveillance footage. The footage you see was deliberately added later.” Zhang Youye explained, staring intently at the van speeding into the tunnel in the video. “The footage before it came out of the tunnel was processed in advance.”
Stunned by Zhang Youye's actions, Zhang Huaiyi gasped, "When did you learn this skill? You're actually a hacker?"
"I learned it from Ah Chen, the genius in the juvenile detention center."
With a blank expression, he said something and waited for the unlicensed van to finally appear at the tunnel entrance. The group quickly moved closer and, after confirming that the van had entered the urban village, Zhang Huaiyi immediately called everyone.
"Have everyone gather together and head to Xing'an Road."
"Centered on Xing'an Road, including the nearby Pingxiang Road area and the largest urban village, we must search them all thoroughly and quickly. We must find them before noon."
Zhang Huaiyi had just finished speaking.
On another monitor, an English notification finally appeared indicating that the mall's surveillance camera had been accessed.
With a few quick taps of his fingertips, Zhang Youye finally saw the internal network monitored by the Qin family.
Following the instructions of the technician beside him, Zhang Youye quickly saw the surveillance footage of the store selling voice recorders.
After mentally reviewing the timeline, Zhang Youye instructed the other party to start looking for suspicious individuals from half a month ago in order to avoid any omissions or errors.
"How are we supposed to find them?" Zhang Huaiyi frowned upon hearing this. "A lot of people come and go in these kinds of shops every day. How can you be sure that the person who kidnapped your sister-in-law is the one? What if we're wrong?"
Zhang Huaiyi was right; criminals don't have the word "criminal" written on their faces.
However, in order to find Shuyi before midnight, we can only try our best now.
"Let's try anything, even if it's a last resort." Zhang Youye pointed to the items for sale in the picture. "This store sells things that young people like, such as headphones, keyboards, and speakers. It's all high-end brands."
"Anyone who can afford to shop here must have some money at home. Tell me, what kidnapper would buy things here?"
Even after reviewing all the surveillance footage from the first ten days, no customers were found to have behaved inappropriately.
Rubbing his sore neck, Zhang Youye signaled the pause to end and continued to stare intently at the monitor.
The rapidly moving images of the bustling crowd flashed past Zhang Youye's deep pupils. He dared not blink for a moment, afraid of missing anything unusual, until—
"stop!"
Startled by Zhang Youye's rebuke, the technicians frantically pressed pause. Zhang Huaiyi straightened the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose and leaned closer to take a look.
"Qin Tong? Is that kid patrolling the store?"
"Patrolling my ass, he doesn't have time for that." Zhang Youye scoffed dismissively.
When the technicians zoomed in on the paused surveillance footage, Zhang Huaiyi finally saw it clearly.
Standing next to the cashier, Qin Tong took the item from the staff.
It was the exact same recording pen he had in his hand.
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