Within ten minutes, the phone rang.
"Where did you get this information? Where are these people now?" Xiao Yu's anxious voice came through as soon as the call was connected.
"Slow down and ask. Is the information about these people true?"
"The information on two people is incorrect. The rest is true."
"Whose information is incorrect?" He already had a vague answer in his heart.
"Li Hong and Liu Wenxi. The situations of these two are quite special.
Li Hong's name is incorrect. If the ID number is correct, she is Lin Hong, a drug dealer who narrowly escaped during a crackdown. This needs to be confirmed when I see her.
As for Liu Wenxi, her information cannot be found." Xiao Yu spoke somewhat evasively. She hadn't expected Liu Wenxi to fall into Guo Xuyang's hands as well.
She knew Liu Wenxi, the name was correct, but it wasn't her real name. Her real name was Liu Wenli, and they came from the same team. They had interacted before.
"Well, they are all in a hotel right now. If the information is correct, I will let them go," Guo Xuyang said.
"Don't let them go. Where are you now? I'll come find you," Xiao Yu said. "I'm having a headache trying to find these people."
"Did you not tell anyone else?" Guo Xuyang asked, concentrating his gaze and extending his perception to the maximum.
Through the phone signal, he clearly saw Xiao Yu glance at someone sitting beside him.
"No. I just asked someone to check the information."
"Alright. May I ask where you are now?"
"I'm at the Provincial Bureau."
"When did you get back?"
"I've been back for two days. Some special circumstances have arisen here."
"I'm at the Zhongshan Hotel. Call me when you arrive. I'll hand these people over to you. You'd best drive a larger vehicle," Guo Xuyang said, hanging up the phone.
He chose to trust Xiao Yu. He wondered if this trust was worth it.
Xiao Yu hung up the phone and said, "I'll go pick them up? But I can only go alone. What do you think?"
The person sitting there was a middle-aged man with a square face and a stern expression.
He thought for a moment and said, "You can. You need to continue interacting with him. Based on the situations you've described since your return, he should possess some kind of special ability, but it cannot be confirmed yet.
I didn't expect them to ask us to assist in investigating issues in the eastern sea area. If two people acting together can run into trouble, it makes one suspect that these people have regressed too much. If I were to hand them over to you, you are capable enough to handle it alone."
"Thank you for your compliment. However, with my current serious illness, I am truly unable to help."
"Alas, Heaven envies talent. Forget it, you go. You've worked hard during this period," he said.
"It's all part of my duty," Xiao Yu replied, withdrawing from the room.
When Xiao Yu arrived, Guo Xuyang had already released the people, but they had all been hypnotized.
When she saw all the women wearing identical tracksuits, she was surprised. She didn't know what had happened.
"You're here. Perfect, I've handed these people over to you. They are all asleep and should wake up in a while. My mission is complete," Guo Xuyang said, clapping his hands.
"I'll be leaving now. Also, thank you very much for what you did regarding my mother last time. However, it's best not to tell anyone about the situation on the road. There are some things I don't want to be too involved in; I just want to work hard, find a wife, and live a good life."
Xiao Yu opened his mouth as if to say something, but didn't.
She didn't know if Guo Xuyang had discovered anything, and it was better to let things take their course than to explain.
Less than ten minutes after Guo Xuyang left, the women also woke up one by one. They looked at Xiao Yu in front of them with surprise. Liu Wenli, in particular, was astonished.
"Are you all awake? Come with me now, I'll send you back," Xiao Yu said.
Lin Hong didn't know what was going on. She didn't want to go back and said, "I don't know you, and I won't go with you."
"You have no choice," Xiao Yu said. "You don't have your IDs right now, and you can't go anywhere. Come with me, and I can guarantee I'll take you to where you need to go."
The other women didn't say anything. They lowered their heads and followed him out.
Liu Wenli followed at the back. When she saw Xiao Yu, she knew she was saved.
She had truly thought Guo Xuyang was part of Fang Xiuming's group, so she hadn't dared to mention going home and instead wanted to continue earning money.
The group boarded a minibus. A man was driving it. After everyone got on the bus, he drove onto the ring road and took all of them to the Provincial Bureau.
"Interrogate everyone separately. I want information on everyone on the bus and the events that transpired tonight," Xiao Yu said to the waiting group in the courtyard.
"Liu Wenli, come with me," she called out to the bus.
Xiao Yu took Liu Wenli back to his office and poured her a glass of water.
"Sit down. Tell me what happened."
"Li Minyu and I went to Xiyang to carry out a mission and were locked in a container," Liu Wenli said.
"Later, we were sent to the seaside. I don't know what happened, but the tracker on Li Minyu's body fell off, and the team's action group caught up but couldn't catch us.
The people transporting us wanted to find out who exposed our whereabouts, so they made us all undress.
Then, the coast guard caught up. To stop the coast guard's pursuit, he arranged for people to throw all of us into the sea.
Later, it was as you saw. We were all in the hotel, a man gave us clothes, asked for our names, ID numbers, and home addresses, and then you arrived."
"Wait a moment, you said you were thrown into the sea? Then who rescued you?" Xiao Yu seized on the key point.
"I lost consciousness after being thrown in and don't know who rescued us."
"Were all the people who appeared at the hotel today the ones who were thrown into the sea? Does no one know how they were rescued?"
"They should be. I'm not sure specifically. We were all dazed at the time. I was the third one thrown in. I don't know about the rest."
"What about Li Minyu? Is something wrong with her?"
"I don't know about that either."
Xiao Yu couldn't get any more information, so he left.
The interrogation of the other individuals went smoothly, with them confessing everything readily.
Only Lin Hong remained evasive and uncooperative. She knew that if she confessed everything, it wouldn't just be jail time; she might even face execution.
Under strong policy persuasion, she still confessed a portion, albeit reluctantly.
The police station already had a considerable amount of information regarding Lin Hong's situation, and they were merely trying to extract more valuable details from her.
Finally, seeing that nothing more could be dug out, they let it go.