Kyoto Sakura Hotel.
A Japanese-style boutique hotel, it offered the most authentic Japanese cuisine, and even the waitresses were Japanese women who spoke Japanese in their daily interactions.
At this moment, in a luxurious private room on the top floor of the hotel, several men were gathered around a table.
If Zhou Quan were present, he would certainly have recognized one of them as Amagi Kojiro.
"Matsumoto-kun, I don't quite understand. Since we lured Ye Cangtian to the haunted house, why didn't we kill him directly? This was, after all, one of the purposes of our visit..."
Amagi Kojiro put down his wine glass and voiced his confusion to Matsumoto Daichi, who sat at the head of the table.
He felt that Ye Cangtian's solo visit to Happy Valley today was a golden opportunity.
After killing Ye Cangtian, they could release the news, and Zhou Quan would surely be grateful to them.
Thus, the mission would be accomplished!
But in the end, the other party didn't take action, which he couldn't understand.
However, since the other party was from the Japanese Ninja clan, he had no right to command them, so he took advantage of this occasion to understand their intentions.
Matsumoto Daichi, seated at the head, cast a glance over and said indifferently,
"It's not that simple. If it were as you said, our mission might not be completed..."
He briefly explained that killing Ye Cangtian was not the issue, but Zhou Quan might not be grateful.
These influential families were arrogant and might consider their actions as meddling, making future cooperation more difficult.
Only when these influential families were helpless and sought them out themselves, and then they acted, would it be considered helping them in their hour of need, moving them and fostering long-term cooperation.
Upon hearing this, Amagi Kojiro finally understood and gave Matsumoto Daichi a thumbs-up.
"Matsumoto-kun is truly resourceful, I'm impressed..."
"Come! I'll toast you."
The events proved that everything was under Matsumoto's control, as people from the Zhou family soon contacted them.
And an agreement was quickly reached between the two parties.
The remaining issue now was how to get rid of Ye Cangtian to satisfy Zhou family's conditions.
...
Two days of calm passed.
Tang Xinwan had also resolved the issue of shares for the Song and Xia families.
Not only did this incident allow the Tang Group to overcome its crisis, but it also turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as they gained a large amount of capital previously invested by the two families for free.
The two acquired pharmaceutical companies also resumed operations.
With all employees returning, the factories were back in operation.
Everything was developing in a positive direction!
Tang Xinwan thought she had handled most of the matters and intended to return to Yangzhou. However, seeing Ye Cangtian's elusive movements these past two days, she reluctantly stayed.
She wasn't stupid; Ye Cangtian's behavior suggested he had taken on another mission.
...
In the family compound.
Ye Cangtian took a sip of tea and smacked his lips, saying, "There are still no leads on Zhou Bang's case. Old Master, what's the situation with the Zhou family now?"
He had been investigating Zhou Bang's case for the past two days, but there were indeed no clues.
Although he knew someone was framing him, the fact that no clues were left behind was also quite peculiar!
Old Master Xu shook his head and said, "There's no unusual activity from the Zhou family. Zhou Quan has barely left his house these past two days, but he believes Zhou Bang's death is related to you, so he definitely won't give up!"
"It's just too quiet!"
Indeed, it was too quiet!
Ye Cangtian couldn't help but frown. As the saying goes, a barking dog doesn't bite.
The Zhou family's lack of unusual activity was the biggest abnormality!
After all, not everyone could endure the grief of losing a son!
At this moment, Secretary Liu, who was serving tea to the two of them, suddenly said, "By the way, the person I sent to monitor Zhou Quan discovered that a certain expert in the Zhou family has been evading our people and going out these past two days.
We have no way of knowing what he's doing or who he's meeting!"
"Zhou family expert?"
Ye Cangtian mumbled, thinking that the only capable person the Zhou family could produce might be the leader who assassinated Cui Yan that night.
Earlier, in Yanhuajian, among the group sent by Zhou Quan to assassinate Cui Yan, there was a leader.
Although this person's strength wasn't particularly great, it shouldn't be difficult for him to shake off the people sent by Secretary Liu.
But what was this person doing secretly leaving the Zhou family? Or who had he contacted?
Could it be the Bai family?
It seemed the Zhou family was secretly making arrangements!
As Ye Cangtian was analyzing, his phone suddenly rang.
He glanced at the phone and saw it was Murong Yu calling, so he answered.
"Mr. Ye, is the Chairman with you?"
The voice came through, and Ye Cangtian was slightly stunned before retorting,
"Isn't Xin Wan with you at the company? What, have you left the company?"
"No, I'm at the company."
"The Chairman received a call earlier and rushed out of the company."
"Later, when I tried to contact her, her phone was switched off..."
Upon hearing Ye Cangtian's words, Murong Yu's voice suddenly became anxious, and she quickly explained the situation.
...
After hanging up the phone, Ye Cangtian's expression turned extremely grim.
The matter of Zhou Bang's tragic death clearly indicated that a hidden force was targeting him, even framing him, and escalating the conflict between him and the Zhou family.
Therefore, he had specifically instructed Tang Xinwan not to leave the company during the day, no matter what happened.
If there was an urgent matter requiring her to leave, she was to contact him, and he would escort her personally.
But now, Tang Xinwan had left the company despite his warnings and had subsequently lost contact, likely falling into the hands of villains.
"Hmph!"
"It seems there's no need to continue investigating Zhou Bang's case. The opponent couldn't wait any longer and has made another move!"
Ye Cangtian snorted coldly.
Since the target was him, then kidnapping Tang Xinwan was a means to deal with him.
He didn't believe there was no connection between the two.
Seeing Old Master Xu's questioning gaze, Ye Cangtian hesitated for a moment before explaining Tang Xinwan's disappearance.
"Don't worry yet!"
"I'll immediately send people to investigate."
Old Master Xu also realized the seriousness of the matter and immediately instructed Secretary Liu to dispatch people.
Finally, their efforts paid off. After half an hour of investigation, Secretary Liu finally obtained a clue.
According to China's Sky Eye surveillance system.
At ten in the morning, Tang Xinwan's car was seen entering the underground parking lot of a mall near the company.
However, she completely vanished there.
There was no trace of Tang Xinwan in the entire mall, only her car parked in the garage.
However, the mall had a large flow of people, and many cars entered and exited the underground parking lot.
If Tang Xinwan was indeed kidnapped, it would undoubtedly greatly increase the difficulty of the investigation!
"From ten in the morning until now, a total of fifty-three vehicles have left."
Secretary Liu opened his laptop, which displayed the surveillance footage from the mall's underground parking lot.
Fortunately, it was during the day!
If it were at night, or during peak hours of the mall, the number of vehicles entering and exiting could have been hundreds.
"So, these fifty-three vehicles are all suspects?"
Ye Cangtian's face grew grim.
Investigating these fifty-three vehicles would likely take a considerable amount of time.