The lunch portion was substantial, but it paled in comparison to the appetites of the beastmen, barely enough to tickle their taste buds.
When Wu Ma came to clear the dishes, she was stunned by the clean plates on the table. Good heavens, those two foreigners could really eat!
While clearing the bones, she felt something was amiss! A whole basin of pork ribs had yielded only a few bones? Had the restaurant cut corners?
Wu Ma muttered to herself, thinking that she would have to check the portions carefully next time she ordered. Although Miss Shu Xin wasn't short of money, she shouldn't be taken advantage of like this!
After finishing their meal, the four of them went upstairs. In front of them were four of the latest mobile phones. Having been away for three years, the phones had been updated so much that they would have to learn how to use them online.
Time flew by until 7:30 PM. The sound of a car engine came from the villa entrance. Went asked, "Shu Xin Jie, I heard a car. Is it your master who has arrived?"
Shu Xin checked the time on her phone and stood up, saying, "It should be my master." The beastmen's hearing was much better than any surveillance equipment; it would be a waste not to have them work as spies or special agents.
A low-key black car pulled up, and an old man in a grey Zhongshan suit stepped out. The elder had a head full of silver hair and an upright demeanor. His back was straight, and from his silhouette, no one would believe he was over seventy years old. He leaned on a cane in his right hand. As soon as he stood still, he saw a young woman running towards him.
"Master, you're here."
Shu Xin, with a smile, tried to embrace the elder, but a cane landed on her. Leith, behind her, wanted to reprimand the old man upon seeing this, but Shu Yue held him back tightly and whispered, "Leith, don't go. That's Jie's master. You stay and watch!"
Leith exclaimed anxiously, "But he's hitting Xin'er!"
Shu Yue gauged the force of the blow and said, "It's fine. It's okay for elders to hit them a bit. Don't worry, he won't break her. We'll just wait here."
Leith: "..." He couldn't understand!
Shu Xin looked at her reddened arm, a mix of tears and laughter on her face. "Master, I was wrong. Can we go inside now?"
Hua Shi, seeing his beloved disciple, whom he thought he had lost, couldn't calm down. He swung his cane and roared, "I painstakingly trained you for ten years, expecting you to contribute to the medical field, and you left me a suicide note! Today, I must crack open your head to see what made a genius make such a foolish mistake!"
Shu Xin felt a pang of guilt. Fortunately, the real reason wasn't written in the suicide note, or her master might have been so angry he'd dig up Shu Yue's grave...
As he was getting on in years, he started to pant after swinging the cane a few times. Shu Xin saw this and tried to calm him down. "Why are you getting so angry? Let's go inside and talk slowly. I admit I was wrong. If you want to hit or scold me, do it while sitting. Come, let's go inside first."
Hua Shi let out a cold snort and was supported by Shu Xin as they walked.
As they reached the entrance, they saw the three people waiting outside. Shu Yue respectfully addressed him, "Mr. Hua, hello."
Hua Shi's probing gaze first swept over the two beastmen, then settled on Shu Yue's face. There was confusion and bewilderment in his eyes. He frowned and asked his beloved disciple, "Who is this?"
Shu Xin introduced her, "Master, you've met her before. This is my sister."
Hua Shi was stunned on the spot and roared with full vigor, "Are you fooling your master? If I remember correctly, your sister died three years ago, and you were the one who collected her body!"
Shu Yue: "..." Her heart was in turmoil. She hadn't expected her sister to collect her body...
Shu Xin's face stiffened, and she whispered, "Let's talk inside."
Her master was like a father to her, and the person she trusted the most. Therefore, she told her master about her transmigration. "Master, you know my character. I wouldn't lie to you about something like this..."
Hua Shi had lived for so long and seen so many storms. This matter was indeed bizarre, but not impossible. Hua Xia, from ancient times to the present, was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.
Given his status and position, certain things that were not allowed to be widely spread by some countries were not secrets within this circle.
The living room was silent, save for the crisp sound of the cane tapping on the floor. Hua Shi let out a sigh of relief. "We'll discuss those matters in detail later. The priority now is to find the child."
With that, he took out his phone from his pocket and dialed a number. Fifteen minutes later, the chief of the municipal police department appeared in the living room.
With Elder Hua present, no one would bother to inquire about the identities of these people. Everything proceeded smoothly. The surveillance footage from Xiangshan from noon that day was delivered to the group.
Elder Hua was not just an authority in Chinese medicine; his power stemmed from the family behind him. The strength behind his achievements was naturally extraordinary.
Furthermore, countless influential people owed him favors. For such a small matter, those below would naturally do their utmost to resolve it.
The surveillance cameras couldn't capture where they landed or the children's location, but fortunately, the children were relatively close to the crowd. It was possible that someone had seen them.
The surveillance footage only covered the surroundings. Shu Xin didn't know how long the four of them had been unconscious. They started checking the time from the morning. There were very few people passing by the children's location in the morning. It wasn't until 11 AM that a man wearing a baseball cap appeared. He was smoking and squatting on the ground, looking around as if he were simply observing passersby.
The surveillance footage was blurry, and the faces couldn't be clearly seen. The police didn't pay much attention at first because several men with a strong smoking habit had been squatting there smoking that morning.
But this man wasn't just smoking; he also took out his phone and made a video call, cursing loudly. Suddenly, the man leaned closer to the phone, as if he had discovered something.
He saw something behind him through the camera of his phone. He walked over with his phone, and his figure disappeared from the surveillance footage.
Shu Xin pointed at the surveillance footage and said, "He must have found the children!"
The police were still bewildered. This was too abrupt and completely incomprehensible. Why were they so sure the children were in this location?
Due to their status, they couldn't ask.
The group continued to watch. In less than two minutes, the man reappeared on the surveillance footage with his phone. At this moment, the man looked very excited, saying something animatedly. Since the footage hadn't been processed, the group couldn't hear what he was saying.
After the video call, the man put away his phone and squatted on the ground smoking as before. However, his excitement made him restless, so he stood up and paced back and forth, looking back from time to time. He threw away a cigarette before finishing it and stomped it out with his shoe.
At this moment, two more men appeared on the surveillance footage. The two new men were dressed the same as the smoking man, all in black and wearing black baseball caps, which made them look like unsavory characters.
The police perked up. They had a strong feeling that these three men were human traffickers!
As expected, the three men walked out of the surveillance range. When they reappeared, one of them was holding a child. One of them was even carrying two girls. The police quickly compiled all the surrounding surveillance footage and watched as the three men, carrying the children, got into a van. The surveillance footage then froze on the van's license plate.