Xiao Mei nodded repeatedly and said, "There's also a door for medical staff to enter and exit."
"Where are those two idiots?" Qin Tianyi asked, furious.
"They went out that way to search. I had to wait here, in case Miss Gu came back..."
"She won't be back!" Qin Tianyi said darkly, "She must have gone to find the child herself, that reckless woman."
...
Gu Susu finally managed to shake off the two bodyguards and headed straight for Zhongji Park.
As soon as she reached the entrance of Zhongji Park, she immediately sent a text message to Ai Yiwei.
Ai Yiwei's call came again, "You said you couldn't get out. It seems you still have a way."
"Stop the nonsense. I didn't call the police, and I'm here. Where is the child?"
"Go to the end of the lakeside path in the park. Someone will take you to see the child," Ai Yiwei said before hanging up.
Gu Susu followed her instructions and found a small path by the lake. She walked along it, but saw no one.
The path was a bit overgrown, clearly not one that many people frequented.
As she walked, she thought, they even knew about this kind of path. Ai Yiwei and her group had planned this: first kidnapping Xiao Xingxing, then luring her here. What exactly did they want?
Even knowing it was a trap and a conspiracy, she had to come for her child.
Unconsciously, she reached the end of the path and stood by the lake, seeing no one.
Where was the person who was supposed to take her to see Xiao Xingxing?
Had Ai Yiwei tricked her again? Ai Yiwei never spoke the truth!
Just as she was angrily about to call Ai Yiwei, a person suddenly sprang out from the grass beside her.
Before she could react, the person struck her on the back of the neck. She instantly fainted, and her phone fell into the muddy ground.
...
Qin Tianyi, along with two bodyguards, searched until dark but found no trace of Gu Susu.
Qin Tianyi had to find someone to review the hospital's surveillance footage to see where Gu Susu had gone.
Just then, his external phone rang. Thinking it was someone with official business, he answered impatiently, "If it's official, come to the company tomorrow."
"Hello, Mr. Qin. I'm Su Kangxi, a friend of Susu Jie."
"It's you. What is it?" Qin Tianyi's tone was not friendly at all. "Is Susu with you now?"
Su Kangxi said, "I couldn't reach Susu Jie, so I found your phone number. I called her mobile earlier, but she didn't answer. Now it's completely unreachable. I wanted to know if something happened to her?"
"I also want to know what happened to her! Just like you, I can't reach her."
Su Kangxi was very surprised that even Qin Tianyi didn't know what had happened to Susu Jie.
"What's going on?"
Qin Tianyi repeated impatiently, "I want to know too."
Su Kangxi thought he would have to track Susu Jie's phone himself and was about to hang up.
Qin Tianyi suddenly said, "I remember you're a police officer. Come to the hospital and help me get the surveillance records. I'm looking for her too."
"The hospital?"
"She disappeared from the hospital's emergency room."
"Okay, I'll be right there." Su Kangxi immediately headed to the hospital Qin Tianyi mentioned.
In the hospital's surveillance room, Su Kangxi helped Qin Tianyi retrieve the footage.
They both stared intently at the screen. Gu Susu had left the emergency room on her own and then hailed a taxi at the hospital entrance, leaving the hospital.
From the surveillance footage, she looked fine, not at all like someone who had food poisoning.
Su Kangxi zoomed in on the taxi's license plate and asked his colleagues at the police station to help trace the taxi.
If they found the taxi driver, they would know where Gu Susu had gone.
While they waited for the results, Qin Tianyi asked, "Why were you trying to contact Susu all day? Did you have plans together today?"
"Your child was kidnapped, right?"
Qin Tianyi didn't deny it. Su Kangxi continued, "Susu Jie called me this morning and asked me to help her find the child. I promised her I'd check and get back to her."
"Did you find anything when you contacted her later?" Qin Tianyi was already overwhelmed with worry about the child, and Gu Susu wasn't staying put in the apartment but running around everywhere. Wasn't that enough chaos?
Su Kangxi replied, "I went to the police station where you reported the case yesterday and asked if any stolen vans of the same model had been reported in Lan City recently. It turned out one had been found, so it's very likely the kidnappers used this stolen van."
Qin Tianyi immediately asked, "So they've found the kidnappers' whereabouts?"
"They're still investigating, but this is good news, so I wanted to tell Susu Jie quickly."
Qin Tianyi glanced at him and said indifferently, "Thank you. I appreciate it."
Su Kangxi always felt that Susu Jie wasn't happy with Qin Tianyi, as if she was forced into it. He had always wondered if they had gotten together out of love.
"How did you and Susu Jie meet?"
"We met when we got married," Qin Tianyi said. "Sort of, but not really."
He used to think they only saw each other on their wedding day, but now it seemed they had met before that, just without seeing each other's faces.
Su Kangxi looked surprised, "This is going back to ancient times, an arranged marriage?"
"No matter the era, there's a need for alliances," Qin Tianyi said calmly.
Su Kangxi now understood a little and felt pity for Susu Jie.
At this moment, his colleague replied.
"Xiao Su, we've traced the taxi. The driver said your friend got out at the entrance of Zhongji Park."
"Thank you." Su Kangxi hung up and then said to Qin Tianyi, "We found it. Susu Jie took a taxi to Zhongji Park."
"Why did she go there?" Qin Tianyi had a vague premonition of something bad.
"We police can't find that out, but now we know where she is, so let's hurry to the park to find her."
"Let's go." Qin Tianyi immediately stood up, not wanting to waste another moment.
...
When Gu Susu woke up, her neck felt extremely sore. She still managed to open her eyes and saw a sliver of light coming from a high, small window.
Where was this place?
She looked around again, but couldn't find Xiao Xingxing. There were only stacks of neatly arranged cardboard boxes. Was this a warehouse?
She herself was leaning against a pile of boxes. She quickly stood up and ran to a door, pounding on it and shouting, "Ai Yiwei, where are you? Come out!"
But no one answered her. She continued shouting, "You're lying to me again, aren't you? Hurry up and let the child see me! Otherwise, Qin Tianyi won't let you go!"
A woman wearing a short black leather jacket with metal accents and dreadlocks was picking up goods in this dark warehouse.
She heard a woman's shouts and felt they sounded a bit familiar. She asked the man in charge of the warehouse, "What, you're keeping people in this warehouse?"