The night deepens! Outside a five-star hotel.
Ye Cangtian and Xu Weiwei emerged from the hotel. They had spent nearly an hour in the hotel's monitoring room, reviewing all surveillance footage of Qin Yiyu's stay.
However, there was no trace of any clue.
Xu Weiwei comforted him, "Don't worry. I've already notified the police and asked them to conduct a step-by-step investigation, paying attention to any suspicious individuals. Your friend will be alright!"
Ye Cangtian nodded and lit a cigarette.
At that moment, a Range Rover drove up from a distance. The door opened, and Liu Zhendong hurried over, "Mr. Ye!"
Ye Cangtian glanced at the bandage on the other's arm. "Injured again?"
"Couldn't help it, a bit careless!"
Liu Zhendong chuckled, offering no explanation, and directly said, "I've already assigned dozens of my men to investigate. But Mr. Ye, do you have any other leads? If there's a general direction, it would be much easier to find them."
Yangzhou city was so vast. Searching in such a manner was akin to finding a needle in a haystack!
Ye Cangtian pondered for a moment, then his brow furrowed. "Then focus the search on people connected to the He Corporation."
"Alright, I'll pass down the orders. I'll definitely notify Mr. Ye if I have any news!" Liu Zhendong nodded, quickly got back into his car, and drove away.
Ye Cangtian turned back, suddenly noticing Xu Weiwei staring at him with an unusual expression, which caught him off guard.
Xu Weiwei frowned. "You're dealing with these people?"
As a police officer in Yangzhou, Xu Weiwei naturally recognized Liu Zhendong and knew what he did.
Ye Cangtian smiled. "We just know each other. I asked them to help with the search."
"Are you doubting my capabilities? Don't you trust the police?" Xu Weiwei questioned.
Ye Cangtian gave a wry smile. "Of course, I don't doubt your capabilities. It's just that more people searching makes it relatively easier."
"You are doubting my capabilities!" Xu Weiwei said coldly, then turned and got back into her car, clearly upset.
To think she stayed up late to accompany him in searching for clues, only for him to seek help from the underworld instead of trusting her. This scoundrel!
Ye Cangtian was dumbfounded.
Women, truly incomprehensible!
He shook his head helplessly, took the last two puffs of his cigarette, and crushed it on the ground. In his mind, if this incident was indeed orchestrated by someone He Changsheng ordered, then was it possible that people around him might have left clues?
"What are you spacing out for? Get in the car!" Xu Weiwei's exasperated voice came from within the car.
"..."
Ye Cangtian sat in the passenger seat. Seeing Xu Weiwei start the car and slowly drive away, he asked, "Where are we going?"
"To the He Corporation, of course! Didn't you just say the He Corporation was the most suspicious? It's night now, we can sneak in to investigate their surveillance equipment, maybe we'll find some clues!" Xu Weiwei rolled her eyes.
"..." Ye Cangtian looked at her suspiciously. Is she serious?
"What are you looking at? Do you think we always conduct investigations openly? By the time we find a clue, the culprit will have escaped!" Xu Weiwei pouted, then stepped on the gas, and the car sped off.
...
Two in the morning!
As a landmark commercial building in Yangzhou, the He Corporation had sixty-eight floors. The monitoring rooms alone were divided into three areas:
Voice monitoring, multimedia monitoring, security department monitoring, and the central monitoring {main control room}.
The central monitoring room was generally located on the middle floors of the building. There were rarely any staff on duty at night, but it was necessary to bypass the duty security room.
Ye Cangtian and Xu Weiwei easily avoided the guards on duty in the security room. After all, at this hour, even the on-duty guards were dozing off.
The two arrived at the corridor. Xu Weiwei was about to press the elevator button when Ye Cangtian stopped her.
"What are you doing?"
"It's so late, and besides the security guards, there's almost no one else in the entire He Corporation building. What if you're discovered pressing the elevator button?" Ye Cangtian said helplessly.
"Then we don't take the elevator, are we going to take the stairs?" Xu Weiwei's eyes widened.
This was a sixty-plus-story office building. Even if the central control room was on a middle floor, they would still have to climb over thirty floors.
Ye Cangtian smiled faintly and walked towards the stairwell. "If you're feeling tired, you can wait for me here."
Xu Weiwei was immediately speechless and quickly followed.
Climbing stairs was a physically demanding task. Let alone over thirty floors, by the time she reached the tenth floor, she was already panting. The stairwell was eerily quiet, and that guy had long disappeared.
"Damn guy, didn't even wait for me!" Xu Weiwei grumbled angrily. She truly regretted suggesting the He Corporation to look for clues.
Meanwhile, Ye Cangtian had already climbed all the way to the thirty-fifth floor, which was where the central control room was located.
As soon as he pushed open the door to the central control room, a security guard resting on a folding bed by the door was startled awake. He sat up impatiently, muttering, "Who is it?"
Damn, there was someone here!
Ye Cangtian was startled, then quickly knocked the guard unconscious with a palm strike.
Entering the central control room, he glanced around at the dozens of screens and consoles controlling all the surveillance equipment in the building.
With so many monitors, it would take until dawn to view them all if he had to check each one individually.
However, fortunately, he didn't need to access the surveillance for every area. The most important thing was the entrance to the He Corporation. Ye Cangtian only needed to check if any suspicious vehicles had entered or exited the He Corporation in the past two days.
Soon, he found a black commercial vehicle without license plates on the surveillance footage.
This car had entered the underground garage that morning and left the He Corporation less than half an hour later.
When Ye Cangtian accessed the underground garage's surveillance, he finally saw someone get into the commercial vehicle. After about ten minutes of conversation with someone inside, that person got out.
He had seen this person before. It was Steward Zhong, who had accompanied He Chuan to the celebration of Old Master Tang's birthday.
"It seems this must be the car!" Ye Cangtian murmured, then took out his phone and called Liu Zhendong.
At this moment, Xu Weiwei finally arrived, albeit late.
Panting heavily, having taken over twenty minutes, she was completely exhausted.
However, as soon as she entered the central control room, she saw Ye Cangtian coming out and quickly asked, "Where are you going?"
Ye Cangtian replied without looking back, "Leaving!"
Xu Weiwei was stunned. "Aren't we going to check the surveillance?"
"I've checked. I've also copied a segment of the surveillance footage as evidence!"
"..."
Xu Weiwei almost fainted from anger. She had only just climbed up!
If she had known he would find a clue so easily, why would she have endured the hardship of climbing the stairs with him?