After being reprimanded by staff, Jiang Nan Fang and the old man left the Ke family with nothing.
Outside the door, Jiang Nan Fang asked the old man.
“Do you believe what he just said?”
The old man didn’t answer, but asked her, “Do you?”
Emotionally, Jiang Nan Fang believed him.
Although she hadn’t known Ke Jing Yu for very long, she was willing to believe in his character.
But rationally, only if his motives were clear was the possibility relatively high.
Besides him, she couldn’t think of anyone else.
Jiang Nan Fang was somewhat desperate.
Nearly 40 hours had passed.
If someone really wanted Zhan Bei Jue dead, how could they have kept him for so long?
Everything they were doing now seemed to have lost its original meaning.
The slow progress was not like rescuing Zhan Bei Jue, but like finding the mastermind and avenging him.
The more she thought about it, the more terrifying it seemed. Jiang Nan Fang gritted her teeth and suddenly said to the old man.
“I’ve lost my patience and don’t want to investigate bit by bit anymore. I just want to…”
She knew that what she was doing was not decent, even worse than a beast.
But Zhan Bei Jue probably couldn’t wait any longer!
The old man seemed to guess what she was going to do and waved his hand.
“No need. If I’m not mistaken, you want to find his son and use his son’s life to get Ah Jue back, right?”
“There’s no need, Nan Fang. Based on my many years of experience judging people, it’s not Ke Jing Yu.”
“??”
“How important the word ‘character’ was to us back then is something you cannot understand.”
“Ke Jing Yu lived an upright life his whole life, and he wouldn’t ruin his lifelong reputation for such a trivial matter concerning his children.”
However, Jiang Nan Fang felt this was not just a trivial matter between children.
This concerned the lives of the heirs of two families. Was the old man perhaps overestimating him?
Just as she was about to voice her doubts, the old man’s phone rang.
When he took it out, he saw it was his eldest son calling.
Could there be news?
Jiang Nan Fang was very excited.
As expected, when the call was connected, his eldest son said.
“The police in Switzerland have found some clues. Based on videos taken by netizens at the time and eyewitness accounts, Ah Jue was taken away by a certain brand of van.”
“After a day and night of investigation, they found traces of the van in a small town called LaWu, and people have already rushed there.”
The old man immediately wanted to take Jiang Nan Fang to Switzerland again, but his eldest son stopped him.
“You’ve traveled back and forth domestically and internationally for two days without a wink of sleep. How can your body withstand this if you continue like this?”
“Ah Jue’s safety is important, and so are you. You are the backbone of Zhan Shi now. In this critical moment, you cannot fall, Grandpa.”
“I will follow up closely and report any developments to you immediately. Besides, having so many of us gathered here is redundant and doesn’t serve any cumulative purpose.”
The old man hadn’t rested for two days, and his heart was already feeling uncomfortable.
He had to admit his age and agreed to his eldest son’s proposal.
After hanging up the phone, seeing the dark circles under the old man’s eyes, Jiang Nan Fang was also afraid he would suddenly collapse.
“Grandpa, I’ll take you back to rest first.”
“You need to rest too,” the old man said to her. “Don’t let us all collapse when Ah Jue is found.”
“He’ll feel guilty seeing everyone worrying about him so much.”
Jiang Nan Fang verbally agreed, but her mind was elsewhere.
How could she possibly sleep?
She was more anxious than an ant on a hot pan. Unless she took medication, she wouldn’t be able to sleep even if beaten to death.
The two took a taxi back to the Zhan family.
She personally served the old man food and helped him lie down to rest.
As soon as she left the room, her eldest son’s call came again.
This time, it was a direct call to Jiang Nan Fang.
“The suspect vehicle and driver have been found. After interrogation, they confessed to their crimes…”
Jiang Nan Fang, thinking they had found Zhan Bei Jue, interrupted him excitedly, “So where is Ah Jue now?”
However, her eldest son fell silent on the other end.
“Why aren’t you speaking? What’s wrong? How is Ah Jue? Is he seriously injured?”
“Why did those two people want to harm him? What did the police say? Speak up!”
Her eldest son seemed to be in a somber mood. After a long pause, he said.
“These two people were unemployed and lived very difficult lives. At the time of the incident, they overheard someone say.”
“The watch Ah Jue was wearing was worth over a million yuan, and his clothes and shoes combined were worth hundreds of thousands. They assumed he was rich and their greed got the better of them, so they took him away.”
“So this was a simple, opportunistic crime driven by greed?”
“You could say that.”
This was better. Jiang Nan Fang would rather the situation be like this.
No conspiracy, no scheme, Zhan Bei Jue would definitely be fine.
“Ah Jue is such a smart person, he must know what’s more important. If they wanted money, he would have given it to them. Where is he now?”
Her eldest son paused again.
“The key point is that Ah Jue was unconscious when they took him away.”
“So??”
“After they took his valuables, they thought he was dead and pushed him into the lake.”
Pushed into the lake?
Zhan Bei Jue was seriously injured and unconscious, and he was thrown into a lake?!
Jiang Nan Fang felt like she had been struck by lightning.
Her legs went weak, and she sank to the ground.
Her phone clattered onto the floor.
The old man, who had just gone to lie down, quickly came out again.
Seeing this scene, he immediately understood.
He walked over, picked up the phone, and asked his eldest son.
“What? Are you sure Ah Jue is in trouble?”
“The police are currently searching the lake and interviewing nearby residents. The final result is not yet confirmed.”
Jiang Nan Fang didn’t want to hear her eldest son jump to conclusions. She suddenly lunged forward and snatched the phone back.
“It’s impossible for him to be in trouble, Ah Jue will definitely not be in trouble. Even if he was thrown into a lake, he won’t be!”
“So many people in China are waiting for him, especially the children! We are all waiting for him to come back, he definitely won’t be in trouble!”
“Grandpa, I want to go to Switzerland, I want to go to Switzerland to find him!”
“I’ll go with you.”
The two embarked on the journey to Switzerland once more.
Because Jiang Nan Fang and the old man refused to believe the outcome and insisted on not confirming it, the police sent people to search an area of 100 kilometers around the scene of the incident for four full days.
Nearby residents were also interviewed house by house, but Zhan Bei Jue was never found.
No hospital had received him, no homeless person had seen him.
Airports, subways, trains, buses… even the most recently received unidentified bodies did not include him.
It was as if he had vanished into thin air. Zhan Bei Jue was completely gone, neither alive nor dead, and no trace was found.
After four days, the police announced they were abandoning the search, assuming he was dead.
They intended to bring the suspects to court and close the case.
Jiang Nan Fang refused to accept the outcome.
Zhan Bei Jue’s body was never found, so he must be fine.
If you won’t search, I’ll search myself!