Chapter 1079 The Heroine’s Vicious Adoptive Mother (18)
Li Hao followed Xiao Shichu's advice and really called the police. However, just after he did so, he received a call from the company assistant, who said that an urgent letter had been delivered to the company's front desk and asked him to open it and read it as soon as possible, otherwise if he delayed things, he would be responsible for it himself.
Li Hao didn't want to pay any attention to it at first. After all, he was worried about his niece who had disappeared for no reason and had no time to pay attention to any letter.
But Xiao Shichu heard his conversation with his assistant and before he hung up the phone, he advised him, "You should go back and read the letter. Maybe there's news about Yuanyuan in it."
"What? Yuanyuan never writes to me, she always calls me directly..." Li Hao's first reaction was to think it was impossible, but as soon as he finished speaking, his face turned pale. Obviously, he thought of the possibility that he was extremely unwilling to think about, which was the worst possibility.
"You mean, the letter might have been sent by the kidnappers?" Although Li Hao's tone remained steady, his hands were clenched into fists. It was obvious that he was extremely uneasy. He said with difficulty, "Someone kidnapped Yuanyuan?"
Although Xiao Shichu didn't want to nod, in order to avoid wasting time, he nodded ruthlessly and said, "You can ask your assistant to open the letter and see what the content is."
Li Hao quickly followed Xiao Shichu's instructions and asked his assistant to open the letter.
After a while, the assistant's panicked voice came from the phone: "Mr. Li, it's bad. This is a kidnapping letter. The letter says that your niece Li Yuanyuan is in their hands. They want you to prepare 10 million in cash to redeem her. When you have enough money, they will tell you where to trade tomorrow. Also, they warn you not to call the police, otherwise Miss Li's safety cannot be guaranteed..."
When Li Hao heard what his assistant said, his hand holding the phone turned pale from the effort he put in. He said in a low voice, "It's too late. I just called the police."
"So, what should we do now?" the assistant asked in panic.
"Raise money first." Li Hao said in a cold voice, "Withdraw all the money from my bank accounts. If it's not enough, use the money from the company."
He tried his best to stay calm and started thinking of ways to raise money.
Xiao Shichu waited until he finished the call before saying to him, "If you don't have enough money, I still have some."
"No need, the money will be enough. But I hope you can help keep my report to the police a secret." Li Hao said solemnly.
"Okay, I'll keep it a secret." Xiao Shichu agreed without hesitation, "Is there anything else you need my help with?"
"Now we have to find out when and where Yuanyuan was kidnapped, and whether there are any witnesses..." Li Hao took a deep breath, "Only by collecting more useful information can we find the kidnappers faster."
"Okay, I'll help investigate." Xiao Shichu patted his shoulder and said.
Now is not the time of twenty years later when there will be surveillance cameras everywhere, and it is basically impossible to find someone through surveillance. Xiao Shichu had to use the most basic method, visiting and investigating the road from Li Yuanyuan's home to her clothing store, asking people in the roadside shops if they have seen Li Yuanyuan.
Li Yuanyuan usually went to Xiao Shichu's store not by her own car but by bus. It was impossible for the robbers to kidnap Li Yuanyuan on the bus, so the focus of the investigation was the section from Li Yuanyuan's home to the bus stop, as well as the section from the pedestrian street where Xiao Shichu's clothing store was located to the bus stop and then to Xiao Shichu's store.
There were many people on the pedestrian street. Xiao Shichu and Li Hao asked people in almost all the shops, and they all said that they had not seen Li Yuanyuan today, so they could basically rule out the possibility that Li Yuanyuan disappeared along the way.
So Xiao Shichu and Li Hao focused on the distance from Li's house to the nearest bus stop.
Li Hao had people check that section of road inch by inch, and no visible objects or places should be missed. Xiao Shichu also followed the inspection. She had good eyesight and was fast, so she would not miss any suspicious places.
Finally, Xiao Shichu found a pink hair tie with a white pearl in the roadside green belt about 120 meters from the bus stop towards Li's house. Xiao Shichu had seen Li Yuanyuan use such a hair tie. She stood up and asked Li Hao, "Is this your niece's hair tie?"
"Yes! It's hers." Li Hao took the hair tie excitedly, his eyes reddened, staring at it closely, "Is this where the kidnappers took Yuanyuan away?"
"We need to see if there are any signs of struggle around..." Xiao Shichu said.
"Struggle?" When Li Hao heard this word, veins on his forehead stood up. Thinking of what his niece might suffer, his teeth clenched, but he quickly calmed down and ordered people to focus on searching this place.
Sure enough, it was soon discovered that the one-meter-high bushes in the green belt had signs of being pulled hard by hand, and the soil under the bushes had signs of being kicked over.
Although we found out that Li Yuanyuan was kidnapped here, we had no way of knowing where she was taken.
Li Hao had no choice but to prepare the 10 million cash the kidnappers demanded while hoping that the police could find the kidnappers as soon as possible.
Xiao Shichu wanted to find some small things in her own space to help find people, but this world was a very normal and ordinary world without spirits. She couldn't use metaphysical methods, nor could she use interstellar search robots.
Finally, she rummaged through the things at the bottom of the box in the space and took out a big dog that was raised fat and strong in the mountains and forests of the space. This big dog was a police dog in a certain world. Shi Chu was a policeman in that world, and she was a partner with this police dog, so after the police dog retired, she left it in her own space.
It has lived in this space for so long that its spirituality must have become stronger, and maybe even wiser, so it can continue to practice demon cultivation in the future.
"Heisha, can you help me find someone?" Xiao Shichu asked the big dog. The big dog wagged its tail at her, looked at her in a very human way, and then called to her a few times.
Knowing what it meant, Xiao Shichu immediately felt relieved and said, "Heisha, I'll give you the clothes of the person I need to find to smell, and you can help me find her current location. It may be far away. Once you help me with this, I will repay you well."
"Woof woof!" Heisha barked at her a few more times, and Xiao Shichu let Heisha smell Li Yuanyuan's clothes that he got from the Li family.
Heisha sniffed for a while and then started running in one direction. Xiao Shichu hurriedly drove the car to catch up.
Fortunately, Heisha had strengthened his physical fitness in the space, so even if he ran very fast and for a long time, he did not fall down due to exhaustion. Xiao Shichu followed closely behind him, fearing that he would lose him if he relaxed.
(End of this chapter)
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