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Chapter 1518 - 1511: Epilogue (2)

Chapter 1518: Chapter 1511: Epilogue (2)

This time, the kidnapper didn’t make any promises and simply hung up the phone. Qin Zhiyou was completely at a loss. It was night, and he was in the dense forest, where a single careless step might send him tumbling down the mountainside. There were indeed no plainclothes officers following him, just a tracking system attached to his body. It was his own request. Even if there were plainclothes officers, they had to stay at least a hundred meters away from him. He had come here this time with utmost determination. Money was not the objective, not even arresting the criminals. His only goal was Lu Weixi’s life!

He was aware that Lu Weixi had been missing for 72 hours. Just now on the phone, he had heard her shouting for water, crying "Water, I want to drink water." If the kidnapper didn’t provide her with any food or drink, even without any abuse, 72 hours was already the human body’s limit, and he couldn’t afford to delay another minute.

Qin Zhiyou had entered the mountains wearing climbing boots with a dagger tucked inside. He also carried some protective equipment. Because rangers might be armed, he had prepared a thin bulletproof vest for himself as well.

But at this moment, he found all this gear too burdensome, fearing it would slow down his pace.

He also knew that even if he reached the designated location, it was not guaranteed he would find Lu Weixi. Perhaps after he paid the ransom, the kidnapper might release her, but he might also be told to go to another location to find her. After all, he was already aware of the incident involving Qin Zhizha and Liu Yiyi. If Lu Weixi had indeed been kidnapped on their instigation, or to put it more broadly, if the second and third branches had orchestrated the kidnapping in conjunction with the current Hanhai incident, merely to distract him, then it was very likely that Lu Weixi would not be harmed. At least, the third branch bore grudges against him, not Lu Weixi. They were using her merely as leverage. If they really killed her, even if it was exposed afterward, he would not let it go.

Especially Liu Yiyi and Qin Zhizha, he knew, one was without money and the other without brains. Those two together, it was predictable that they could resort to foul play, but to suggest that they had planned and designed such a complex kidnapping scheme?

It wasn’t that he looked down on them, but he truly believed that, with Liu Yiyi and Qin Zhizha’s capabilities, if they were the only masterminds, they simply couldn’t carry out such an act.

There must be another reason.

At first, he thought that the enemy aimed to ruin his business and that Lu Weixi got involved by accident. But after Liu Yiyi’s involvement was revealed, even if she wasn’t the mastermind but just an accomplice, it was not a good thing for Lu Weixi. Liu Yiyi’s life was miserable, and although she couldn’t take revenge on him, she might avenge herself on his woman.

He was full of regret now. Those who use others will always be used by them. If he hadn’t considered using Liu Yiyi, who had fallen from grace, as a double agent to nurture her ambition, he wouldn’t have ended up in such a situation. But now it was pointless to say anything. He was the only one who could search the mountains, the only one equipped with a headlamp.

The kidnapper had just called him, asking him to throw the suitcase into the mountain. Was that a sign that he was getting closer to Lu Weixi step by step? The police had already conducted large-scale searches in the mountains the day before, and now, only a small area of the northwestern mountain range remained unsearched. The kidnapper and Lu Weixi must be in that direction.

He simply started shouting himself: "Xixi, I’m coming Xixi, are you here?"