"Look, these sons of bitches are following us again!" Liu Qiangdong said to Liu Xiangjiang at the headquarters of Oriental Amazon, gnashing his teeth in anger.
"Isn't this a good thing for us?" Liu Xiangjiang smiled upon seeing the intelligence. "Originally, the enemy and we each had our strengths. If everyone stuck to their own domains, it would be hard to determine a winner. After all, attacking always comes at a greater cost!"
"But this time, the enemy has voluntarily ventured into our domain to attack us. Wouldn't this be a chance for us to ruthlessly sever this arm of our opponent? With this, the balance of power would be reversed, and we would then have the ability to advance into a larger e-commerce environment!"
"As expected, the older the ginger, the spicier it is. Your insight is still as sharp as ever!" Liu Qiangdong said with a chuckle. "Let's join forces again, my brother, and completely eliminate the Wanxian Pavilion this time. Then, we'll be unrivaled in the United States."
"Forget it, this is your job, not mine!" Liu Xiangjiang shook his head. "I've received word from headquarters that the chairman himself wants me back to preside over the overall situation at headquarters. I can no longer stay here to help you. You'll have to walk the path ahead by yourself!"
"Preside over the overall situation? The headquarters is personally managed by the chairman. What kind of overall situation requires you to preside over it!" Liu Qiangdong asked curiously.
"You guy, it's almost 2006, and I'm rushing back to celebrate the Spring Festival, alright?" Liu Xiangjiang's reason was irrefutable. Although reluctant, Liu Qiangdong still had to personally see Liu Xiangjiang and the domestic team he brought back depart from the United States.
So, what was our Boss Huang doing at this time?
He was naturally accompanying Hu Jing for her prenatal check-up. She was ten months pregnant, and in two more months, Hu Jing would give birth, and Boss Huang would welcome his own flesh and blood in this world. This year, Boss Huang was already 31 years old. Having a child at this age was definitely considered quite late among the wealthy, especially the top tycoons.
Midway through the prenatal check-up, Boss Huang's phone rang. A panicked voice on the other end said, "Brother-in-law, Zhi Ting is missing. Please think of a way quickly!"
"Zhi Ting is missing? How is that possible!" Boss Huang was also very surprised, as he considered it impossible.
As one of his sisters-in-law, although Boss Huang had never had any improper thoughts about Leng Zhi Ting, he knew that this didn't mean others wouldn't.
Once her true identity was known, there would definitely be countless ill-intentioned people who would want to exploit her. Therefore, Boss Huang had specifically arranged a full security detail team to be responsible for Leng Zhi Ting's safety.
Of course, Leng Zhi Yuan had a similarly equipped security team.
This was a highly professional security team, providing the same level of security as even a head of state. Therefore, Boss Huang did not believe that anyone could kidnap Leng Zhi Ting, nor was it possible for Leng Zhi Ting herself to run away from home. This security team would have closely monitored all of Leng Zhi Ting's actions, making it impossible for her to go missing.
Yet, Leng Zhi Ting had now gone missing, which was utterly incredible.
Huang He immediately contacted the security team responsible for Leng Zhi Ting's safety and obtained more detailed information. It turned out that Leng Zhi Ting had disappeared from school, which was the only blind spot in the security team's surveillance.
The school Leng Zhi Ting currently attended had a very ordinary-sounding name, but it was not an ordinary middle school, as residents living nearby were all from within the Second Ring Road.
In such a middle school, Leng Zhi Ting's identity could only rank in the middle. Too many people had higher identities and security levels than Leng Zhi Ting.
If the security personnel of all these people were to enter the school for protection, then the school might as well cease operations and solely exist for bodyguard training.
Therefore, the school strictly required all personal security personnel not to enter the campus. However, the school itself was equipped with very strong security forces. Theoretically, as long as Leng Zhi Ting stayed within the school, there would be no danger. But the result was that Leng Zhi Ting had gone missing, which baffled the entire security team. They had already scoured the entire vicinity of the school and the school itself, but still could not find any trace of Leng Zhi Ting.
If the story were to unfold according to a typical online novel, Boss Huang would have personally intervened, and through various coincidences or his own wisdom, successfully found Leng Zhi Ting, and then led into a plot of showing off his prowess online.
Most novels were arranged this way. Unfortunately, Boss Huang knew that life was not a novel, and his personal search would be of no use.
So, Boss Huang directly called a friend and asked for help in hiring some professionals to search. Meanwhile, Huang He himself issued an order to Leng Zhi Meng, requiring her to lead her team to search all network records in the relevant areas, focusing on keywords such as kidnapping, Leng Zhi Ting, and Jiangnan Group, to see if there were any clues online.
In particular, they needed to check the social media data of everyone Leng Zhi Ting knew.
As expected, Boss Huang's idea yielded immediate results. After keyword searches on a massive amount of information, the staff successfully discovered a recent chat record in QQ: "The Big Sister has announced the operation has begun, codenamed 'Dawn Operation'. Anyone who doesn't come tomorrow is a puppy!"
"Big Sister? That's Zhi Ting's nickname at school!" Upon seeing this crucial piece of intelligence, Boss Huang expressed great surprise. He didn't know his sister-in-law had such a formidable nickname.
"Sir, Miss Leng Zhi Ting is a prominent figure in the entire school, but not academically. She leads a team of 30 people for study and activities."
"These activities include, but are not limited to, fighting, skipping classes, playing games, and helping old ladies cross the road!" the security chief said with a wry smile, having rushed to the scene.
"Are you saying that this 'Big Sister' is Zhi Ting, and this disappearance wasn't a kidnapping, but rather that Zhi Ting herself, with organization and planning, escaped?" Huang He asked, surprised.
"Yes, we further investigated Miss's team and found that the families of these team members were also in chaos. Many children, like Miss Zhi Ting, were also missing and had not yet been found."
"So we suspect that this was an organized jailbreak activity personally initiated by Miss Zhi Ting, with the aim of escaping our security surveillance to do things they considered very interesting!" the chief explained.
"Then the trouble is even greater!" Huang He's forehead was covered in black lines. The situation had just escalated. It must be known that Zhi Ting's school at this time was special, and her classmates were also special.
Take the more than twenty people who went missing collectively this time, one of them was even the granddaughter of a certain influential figure. If anything were to happen, Boss Huang wouldn't know how to explain it, especially since Leng Zhi Ting was the ringleader and Big Sister, wasn't she!
"How did these children manage to evade our surveillance?" Huang He asked, his head aching.
"With the help of some people, we obtained all the surveillance footage from near the school. We found that the only possible way to conceal the collective disappearance of over 20 people was the school's meal delivery trucks. These trucks have large cargo containers and, for preservation, half of them are refrigerators, possessing a dual security mechanism."
"Therefore, normal security checks would involve opening all the doors of the entire vehicle for inspection. However, as the delivery personnel were long-term partners, the surveillance naturally became somewhat perfunctory. During the inspection, they only casually opened the rear cargo door but did not actually check the situation inside the cold storage."
"At the same time, we found that the school was holding a workday event today, and Miss Zhi Ting's class was responsible for the cafeteria work. Therefore, they indeed had the opportunity to sneak into the cargo trucks transporting materials and escape our control!"
"Boss, I'm very sorry. This is a mistake in our work. We never anticipated such a situation would occur!" the chief said cautiously.
"Alright, it's not your fault. The inspection of the guard posts was the responsibility of the school, not yours. So, this is not your responsibility, but rather the good work of Leng Zhi Ting herself... What exactly does this girl want to do?" Huang He was completely perplexed.
While Boss Huang was racking his brain on how to find Leng Zhi Ting, who had caused such a mess, he also had to appease the women at home. These women were all crying their eyes out. In their imaginations, Leng Zhi Ting had either been kidnapped by more than a dozen criminal gangs, with thousands of people working together, and her body had already been dismembered into tens of thousands of pieces.
Just as everyone was in a state of panic, Leng Zhi Ting, who had caused all this chaos, was now sitting openly in a primary school bus with more than twenty people, heading towards a suburb in the western suburbs of the imperial capital.
"Listen up, if they want to be the first passengers on that train in the world today, everyone must obey my command, understand?" In the bus, Leng Zhi Ting, who was in the second year of junior high, shouted loudly at all her subordinates.
"Yes! Big Sister!" All the little rascals responded in unison, their morale quite high!