Shen Qingqing sat quietly on the sofa without saying a word. Xu Xiang and others thought that she was worried about the child and that the child was scared, so no one disturbed her and let her rest in peace.
Of course, she was not just resting now, but was always contacting the system in her mind.
She knew that there was no faster way to find the child than forcing the system, but it was not easy to pry open the system's mouth. This system was old-fashioned and would not easily reveal more information.
In this case, she can only use coercion and inducement.
"System, I know that with your ability, you must know where the child is. I don't believe you don't know. You said before that I have one last hardship, so this is what you meant."
The system wanted to play dead, but the current host was too terrifying. It knew that the host was essentially a lunatic, and now it had really touched her reverse scale.
The system sighed and said to Shen Qingqing, "Host, I have made many exceptions for you. You can't threaten me all the time. I didn't say anything when you didn't follow the rules before. If you met another system, you would have been forced to follow the plot and get slapped in the face."
Shen Qingqing was still a little grateful to the system. At least, apart from having to participate in the variety show, the system did not force her to do any tasks.
Although she felt that a big part of the reason was because she was smart enough to fool the system.
She also understood the difficulty of the system, but this time it involved Yanyan, the five-year-old child, the most innocent person in the whole incident. She didn't want anything to happen to the child.
"System, I know you have rules that prohibit you from revealing too much information. How about this, I guess if you answer, this shouldn't be considered as casually revealing information."
System: ...Is this possible?!
Seeing that the system was hesitating and trying to play dead, Shen Qingqing decided to use her ultimate move, "If you still don't agree to this, I will commit suicide and let the world collapse. I think that compared to violating the rules or jumping back and forth on the edge of the rules, the punishment for not completing the task should be the biggest."
The system had to admit that it was being controlled by Shen Qingqing. It didn't understand why other systems were ordering their hosts around, but it was being tricked by its host in various ways. This was really not fair!
It sighed helplessly, "Okay, ask. But I can only answer yes or no, nothing else."
Shen Qingqing felt relieved when she heard what the system said. It was enough that the system agreed to this.
"The people who took the two children away were hired by Shen Linyan, right?"
"Yes."
"But something unexpected happened, right? There is no point in kidnapping Yanyan now, and both children are missing this time. According to the current information, she and Liang Tianyi have become estranged because of Tan Qisi's sudden return, and she must want to win the child back. Daily interactions must be too slow for her, and she must want to get it done in one go, so I guess she is planning to play a family trick."
"I just don't know why that person lost control and took Yanyan away. I think that person either wanted to take a risk and make a fortune, or his actual target was Yanyan and me."
The system was stunned after listening to Shen Qingqing's analysis.
She has already guessed so much, why is she still asking it?
The silence of the system confirmed Shen Qingqing's guess, and then she said, "Of course, I don't really care about these previous events. What I want to know more is where Yanyan is now. The original book said that Yanyan was finally found in the basement of a villager's house. The village is not big, and this villa is just in the northeast corner. If you draw a circle with the current villa as the radius, you will be one kilometer away from the village. So system, in which range is Yanyan?
"100? 200? 300?..."
Shen Qingqing continued to expand her guesswork, and finally the system made a "hmm" sound when it guessed a radius of 500. Shen Qingqing understood that it was within the range of 400-500.
This range is neither big nor small.
At this moment, Shen Qingqing was very glad that they were in the village where the residential density was not high.
She took out her cell phone and opened the satellite map, then drew circles with her hands and finally locked onto four houses. Then she found a shovel in the villa's garden and prepared to go out.
Seeing Shen Qingqing's appearance, the system was shocked, "Host, what are you doing? You can't do this! The person who kidnapped Yanyan is a man. It will be dangerous for you to go directly to him like this."
At this time, Xu Xiang also saw Shen Qingqing's move to go out, and was also surprised. The two children's accidents were enough to make him angry, but he couldn't let the adults get into trouble again.
Thinking of this, he walked up to Shen Qingqing and said, "Qingqing, I know you are very anxious, but it's so late now, and you are a weak woman. It's not safe to go out. Don't worry, all the male employees of our program team have gone out to look for her. I just called the police, and the police will be here soon. Don't go out and take risks."
Xu Xiang meant well by what he said, and Shen Qingqing was not an ungrateful person.
If she was really just a weak woman who couldn't fight at all, she would naturally not run out to be cannon fodder.
But she is not a weak woman. In her previous life, she was the queen of the entertainment industry. Once, because she was going to shoot a martial arts movie, she trained in a martial arts school for nearly a year.
She was one of those people who had a good talent for martial arts, and she even won the first place in the martial arts school when she left. In the words of her martial arts teacher at that time, an ordinary adult man could not beat her now.
Besides, she was going to look for her child, and she wasn't stupid enough to confront the criminals head-on. If anything happened, she would naturally call the police. However, just in case, she still found a handy tool.
The reason why she chose to go find Zhou Jiayan in person was not only because she couldn't wait, but also because she wanted to beat the criminals with her own hands.
She said to Xu Xiang, "Director Xu, don't worry. I know martial arts. No adult man can beat me."
Shen Qingqing thought Xu Xiang would agree to this, but she didn't expect Xu Xiang to pick up an iron rod and said to her, "This is my show after all, and I am also responsible for what happened today. Instead of waiting here, I might as well go with you to find the child."
Shen Qingqing was surprised to see Xu Xiang suddenly become so responsible. She thought it was not bad to have another Xu Xiang, at least there would be someone to look after him, and as the program director, he should be the last person to see anyone get into trouble on the show.
Thinking of this, Shen Qingqing followed the director out the door.
Although the tourism industry has been vigorously developed here in recent years, it is still in its infancy, so there are not many lights and the surroundings appear extremely dim.
Xu Xiang felt a little scared when looking at the surrounding environment. It was not that he was afraid of the dark, but in such an environment, and knowing that there were bad people in the village, he still felt a little scared.
He thought that a pampered rich girl like Shen Qingqing would also be afraid. He turned his head to look at Shen Qingqing, but found that Shen Qingqing's face looked normal and she was not afraid at all.
Moreover, her steps were steady, she walked fast and steadily, without any fear at all.
Xu Xiang despised himself for being so timid as a man, but at the same time he admired the greatness of maternal love.
In order to save the child, a pampered girl like Shen Qingqing is now fearless.
However, the reason why Shen Qingqing is not afraid of the darkness now is partly for the sake of the child, and the other part is naturally because of the existence of the system in her mind. The system has outlined a map of the entire village for Shen Qingqing in her mind, and also given Shen Qingqing the ability of night vision, so she is naturally fearless in the dark.
Because she brought Xu Xiang with her, Shen Qingqing naturally had to pretend to search for him along the way. Of course, they moved very quickly. Soon they reached the range given by the system. At this time, Shen Qingqing slowed down, began to check carefully, and knocked on every door.
The villagers all knew that a program crew was recording a show in the local area recently, and the person knocking on the door was a young girl, so two of the four households opened the door enthusiastically, and when they heard that they were looking for their child, they enthusiastically expressed their willingness to help look for the child.
After listening to their words, Shen Qingqing couldn't help but sigh at the simplicity of the villagers, and the fact that they had no grudges obviously ruled out suspicion.
Finally, she locked her target on the two families who were unwilling to open the door. One of them was a little girl's voice. According to her, her parents were not at home so it was inconvenient for her to open the door for them. This was a very legitimate and reasonable reason, so Shen Qingqing locked her target on the last family.
When they knocked on the door, no one answered, and the room was pitch black. Shen Qingqing's suspicion immediately reached its peak.
She told Xu Xiang her guess, and Xu Xiang called the village chief to inquire about the situation of the house. He then learned that the owner of the house had moved to the city a long time ago and no one had lived here for a long time.
At this time, not only Shen Qingqing was suspicious, but Xu Xiang also began to doubt that such a dilapidated and uninhabited house was most suitable for Tibetans.
Thinking of this, they notified the village chief and asked him to come over with the door key.
The village chief is a fifty-year-old man with half a hundred hair. He is very responsible. After knowing that the child was lost in their village, he has been leading people to search for the child all night.
Now that he had a clue, although it was a bit immoral to break into someone else's home, considering the children, he obtained the family's consent and rushed over with the key.
However, they were disappointed when the door opened. The room was empty, with no one there.
Did they find the wrong place or did the man run away early? Shen Qingqing couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
She believed in the system's capabilities, and at this time the system did not give any reminder that the kidnapper who kidnapped Yanyan had left. She firmly believed that the man must still be in these four houses.
Suddenly she remembered the little girl who had just refused to let them into the house. The girl's voice sounded like she was in her early teens, but the reasons she gave for refusing them entry and sending them away were so reasonable that there was nothing wrong with them. It didn't seem like something she would say at her age.
So Shen Qingqing turned around and told Xu Xiang and the village chief her guess, and both of them looked solemn.
Unlike this empty house, that house was occupied by a little girl.
And as far as the village chief knows, things are indeed as the little girl said. The little girl's name is Xie Yingying. The girl's father went to the city to work, and her mother went to the city to visit her father these two days, so she is indeed the only one at home.
However, Miss Shen's suspicion was reasonable, and as a mother, they could understand her anxiety.
Thinking of this, the village chief sighed and said, "How about this, I'll go knock on the door and see, that girl is someone I know, you guys keep quiet and see if she will open the door."
In fact, Shen Qingqing wanted to say that familiar men like him were the most dangerous. If she was a girl alone at home, she would not open the door for him. So she said, "How about this, Village Chief, why don't you call your wife over and try? I think under normal circumstances, it would be more normal to let a familiar woman open the door."
The village chief thought for a moment and said, "You are right. I will call the old woman over. Yingying still calls her grandma."
So they waited for about ten minutes and finally saw a woman with half white hair and a very gentle appearance. She stood at the door of the small building and shouted, "Yingying, are you free now? Grandma wants to ask you something, would you mind opening the door?"
At this time, the girl named Yingying spoke, but her voice was more trembling than before, "Grandma, why don't you come over tomorrow? I have already washed up and gone to bed."
Hearing the girl's ruthless rejection, everyone became even more suspicious.
Especially the village head and his wife, they knew the little girl, she was a cute girl with a round face and loved to be close to people, so it was not reasonable for her to do this. Even if she really didn't want to open the door, she would still come to the window and talk to them in front of them.
For a moment they looked at each other, not knowing what to do, because according to speculation, the criminals not only had two children as hostages, but the little girl was also a hostage.
They have to be very careful about how to deal with it.
Fortunately, the police should be arriving by now. In order to avoid alerting the criminals in the house, they planned to go to an empty house next door and wait for the police to arrive before taking action together.
At the same time, the room was silent.
A young man with slightly curly hair was looking at the kid who was tied up and gagged on the ground without saying a word.
Because he had drugged the two children, they closed their eyes and lay on the ground without saying a word.
This man was Xia Yang. After returning from abroad, he had no academic qualifications and had a criminal record abroad, so he naturally couldn't find a good job. He could only look for a "big brother" he was familiar with before and joined the so-called security company to work his way up.
But he didn't expect that everything happened so coincidentally that he just happened to run into the people hired by Shen Linyan.
He felt that Shen Linyan was a woman with a mental disorder. After all, if she could really kidnap the Liang family's child, why would she not take the opportunity to make a fortune? Would she still put on a show with her and take the pitiful hiring fee of a few hundred thousand?
But if it weren't for this stupid woman, it wouldn't have been so easy for him to sneak in.
He looked at the tied up child who was looking at him calmly with eyes wide open, and smiled silently.
He felt that his genes were very superior, and the Zhou family also raised the child very well. It was obvious that he was a child who had received an elite education.
But he soon felt unbalanced again. Why did those people with good family backgrounds easily get everything he wanted? It was obvious that those so-called second and third generations were all a bunch of idiots. He was just redistributing wealth through reasonable means.
He never felt that he had done anything wrong. The only regret he had was that he was unlucky enough to run into the Zhou family.
First, Zhou Ruoyan did not tell him her true identity, making him think that Zhou Ruoyan was just an ordinary rich girl. If he knew that Zhou Ruoyan was the little princess of the Zhou family, he would not have sought another way later.
Of course, the person he hated the most was Zhou Yexuan. Zhou Ruoyan had clearly committed suicide, so what did it have to do with him? How could he easily trap him and send him to prison?
Fortunately, the laws in foreign countries are more relaxed, and he was finally released early due to his positive behavior in prison.
He looked at the two little kids in front of him. When he met them, the two children were playing in the corner of the garden.
Perhaps because they were in a familiar yard and surrounded by staff from the program crew, they were not very wary.
But who would have thought that he would blend in with them wearing the uniform of the program staff?
Taking advantage of the cover of night and the concealment of entertainment facilities, he successfully knocked out the two children and put them into a box, and then used the excuse of transporting equipment to carry the two children out.
However, he did not intend to take the child away. Although he was very satisfied with the child born from his genes, he did not intend to bring a little burden with him. He just wanted to blackmail Zhou Yexuan.
He has been in prison for more than two years, and he can't just let it go so easily.
Of course, since the child is from the Liang family, and his "mother" has asked him to kidnap the child, he will naturally do so. It is also good to get an extra ransom.
He has already contacted a ship, and he will be able to sail to the high seas early tomorrow morning, and then he can call the Zhou family to ask for money.
And with the cooperation of that stupid woman Shen Linyan, she should be able to stop us from calling the police for the time being.
As for the girl in front of him, he met her when he was scouting around here recently. She has a sunny and handsome appearance, and she looks inexplicably friendly when she smiles, which makes people let down their guard at first sight.
In addition, he was claiming to be a staff member of the program team, so he naturally quickly gained the girl's trust.
So when he came with his children today, the girl easily opened the door for him, and then he took the girl hostage and allowed him to live in with his two children.
But what he didn't expect was that the woman named Shen Qingqing was so perceptive and actually came to him.
Fortunately, he had already thought of a reason for the girl to refuse others from coming in and blocked them outside the door.
It just seems that Shen Qingqing will not give up...
Thinking of this, he took out his cell phone and started to contact the ship. The longer the night, the more trouble he would have. He had to leave quickly before he became completely suspected.
If he stayed any longer, and the woman called the police, they might really send people to surround him.
The police arrived quickly, and about ten minutes later Shen Qingqing and the others saw uniformed police officers arrive at the scene.
Probably because they knew in advance that there were likely three hostages in the room, a large number of police officers came, more than a dozen or so, to surround the entire house.
The police advised Shen Qingqing to just wait outside and they would go in to rescue people, but Shen Qingqing naturally refused.
The leading policeman was named Zhang Jia. He said with embarrassment, "Miss, I know you are very anxious as a mother, but if you follow us, we will have to be careful of you. Although it's not nice to say this, if you go over there, you may cause trouble."
What Zhang Jia said did make sense, and Shen Qingqing had already expected the police to say that, so she didn't waste any words and directly knocked the man to the ground.
"Comrade police officer, I can take care of myself."
Zhang Jia got up from the ground, brushed off the dust on himself, and looked at Shen Qingqing with admiration in his eyes.
Although it was because he underestimated his opponent, the fact that this little girl was able to knock him to the ground with one move showed that her skills were quite good.
Considering that she was the child's mother, he finally nodded and said, "Okay, if you want to follow, go ahead, but I suggest you just wait and see outside. Although you are very skilled, you still lack experience in dealing with criminals."
Seeing the police agree, Shen Qingqing was relieved. In this state, she naturally would not tell the police that she was going to show off. She nodded and said, "Comrade police, don't worry, I will definitely not show off and delay your work."
Then Shen Qingqing followed the policemen to the outside of the door. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, everyone moved very quietly.
After the whole house was surrounded, the village chief's wife was still the representative to knock on the door.
"Yingying, this matter is urgent. Why don't you open the door for grandma? It will be over in a few minutes."
However, this time no one answered. After looking at each other, they realized that the criminal had probably noticed. The only option now was to break in.
The locks of the villagers' houses were naturally no more difficult than the police's. Once the professionals arrived, they opened the door in just one minute.
However, the scene that appeared before their eyes shocked everyone. The man tied up the two little boys and the little girl named Yingying, and made them stand in a row in front of him to act as human shields. At the same time, he held a sharp long knife in one hand and a wooden basket in the other.
The man looked very crazy, and said to everyone, "If you dare to come over again, I will kill them directly."
Xia Yang has been a liar for so long and has deceived so many people, so he can't be a fool, and he has always been very smart.
After knocking on the door for the second time, he realized something was wrong, and then the area around the house fell into silence again, which made him feel very wrong.
After all, if Shen Qingqing was casting a wide net to look for the child, the surroundings should be bustling with noise now.
So he immediately woke up the two boys, tied up the little girl with a rope, and then strung the three of them together, standing in front of himself to act as human shields.
The three people had tape on their mouths, unable to make any sound, and their eyes showed helplessness.
He had seen too many vicious people in prison, so he was very calm when facing so many policemen. He even had a crazy smile on his face.
"How about if you come one step closer I'll stab them randomly?"
In an instant, everyone stopped moving.