Mo Hongti suddenly called Li Qianfan, saying that Su Ziyu might be in trouble and asked him to hurry to the provincial capital.
But before Li Qianfan could react.
Before she could tell Li Qianfan where in the provincial capital to go, a loud bang came from the phone, followed by her scream.
Then there was silence.
But the call remained connected.
Li Qianfan's face changed drastically, he stood up with a whoosh, and shouted: "Mo Hongti! Mo Hongti! Are you still there? What happened to you? What happened to Ziyu again? Where are you now?"
No one spoke, but the sound of flowing water came from the phone.
It was obvious.
The phone was no longer in Mo Hongti's hand, but had fallen to the ground with the loud noise.
It had just rained, and the sound of running water came from the phone.
"Give me the phone!"
Just as Li Qianfan was about to shout again, Jing Ran snatched the phone away.
She held Li Qianfan's phone in her left hand and her own phone in her right.
Her right thumb moved at a speed invisible to the naked eye, creating streaks of afterimages on her phone screen, tapping rapidly.
This was the hand speed of the world's number one hacker!
Beep.
As a sound came from the phone, Jing Ran said in a low voice, "Location locked, 27.6 kilometers south of Tian Dong Provincial Capital, at the foot of Yanzishan. Let's go!"
As soon as she said "let's go," Li Qianfan rushed towards the stairs.
"Your car won't do, it's not fast enough."
Jing Ran followed closely, and after reaching outside the teahouse, she frowned, took out her phone, and dialed.
Li Qianfan slowly closed the door of the mini car.
Don't panic.
Even if Su Ziyu and Mo Hongti had an accident, they must not panic!
When people are flustered, the probability of making wrong decisions is very high.
Li Qianfan warned himself, took several deep breaths, took his own phone from Jing Ran's hand, and called Zeng Ting: "Zeng Ting, where is Director Su?"
Zeng Ting replied: "Around one o'clock, when the rain got heavy, Director Su said she was going out. I asked her where she was going, and she said to meet a friend. So I didn't ask further. Oh, right, I was just about to call you. Because there's something I need to ask the director about, I called her mobile, but it was switched off. Son-in-law, she's not with you?"
"Oh, I'll go find her right away."
Li Qianfan didn't tell Zeng Ting that Su Ziyu might be in trouble.
It would be useless to say it anyway, wouldn't it?
After ending the call, he called Ning Xiaolan again.
Old Su was at the company and didn't know anything. Li Qianfan wanted to ask Mother Lan if she knew what was going on.
Ning Xiaolan's phone was also switched off.
Boom!
With a low engine roar, a two-seater sports car whizzed in from the west.
Jing Ran immediately raised her hand.
The car stopped in front of her, the driver jumped out, nodded at Jing Ran, and walked away.
Li Qianfan was not surprised that Jing Ran could summon a sports car with just one phone call.
He jumped into the driver's seat.
Jing Ran got into the car, and before she could fasten her seatbelt, the car shot out.
"Aunt Ran, I want green lights, all the way green!"
Li Qianfan looked at the red light hundreds of meters away and said in a deep voice.
"Drive your car with peace of mind."
Jing Ran said without looking back, holding her phone.
Rumble—
The sports car accelerated again, instantly exceeding 120 kilometers per hour and still rapidly increasing, rushing towards the intersection where the red light had just turned on.
Generally speaking.
The duration of a red light is mostly thirty seconds.
Li Qianfan drove to this intersection, and when he was about fifty meters away, the red light countdown was 19 seconds.
But suddenly, the red light turned green.
The vehicles queuing at the green lights in the north-south directions saw the green light turn red, and the drivers instinctively braked.
"Strange, it's not even twenty seconds, why did it suddenly turn red?"
As someone subconsciously said this, they heard a boom!
He instinctively flinched and widened his eyes to look, but saw nothing.
It wasn't that he saw nothing.
Vaguely, he seemed to see a dark blue afterimage.
"Holy crap, is this a ghost?"
Many drivers at the intersection muttered this.
Then, the drivers on the east-west roads discovered a surprising phenomenon.
As far as the eye could see, all the traffic lights on this long street were green!
Whizz—
The dark blue sports car was no longer roaring but whizzing.
That might be the sound of a fighter jet streaking across the sky.
The car was too fast.
The speed had exceeded 180 kilometers per hour.
This was in the city, and it was about to enter the evening rush hour.
If someone else were sitting in the passenger seat, they would probably either close their eyes in fear or feel dizzy and want to vomit.
But Jing Ran remained calm, not even her eyebrows twitching. She just moved her thumbs rapidly on her phone.
Beep.
Another beep.
Jing Ran placed the phone by Li Qianfan's ear.
Then Li Qianfan heard the following conversation—
Su Ziyu's voice: "Mom, why are you calling me? Is something wrong?"
A cold female voice: "Su Ziyu, if you don't go to the racecourse before four o'clock. More than three men will help your father take care of Ning Suo."
Su Ziyu asked hoarsely: "Who, who are you?"
The woman replied coldly: "Do not call the police. Unless you don't want to see Ning Suo, and you don't want to see your husband and father get into trouble together today."
The conversation ended.
"Someone has targeted my mother-in-law and is forcing Ziyu to go to that place."
Li Qianfan understood and stepped on the accelerator again: "Aunt Ran, can you check the woman's call records and find the coordinates of the phone she used?"
"Of course."
Jing Ran nodded, then asked, "Should I notify the people in the provincial capital to rush to the racecourse immediately? It seems that the racecourse is at the foot of Yanzishan. Also, should I notify Li Wujiang?"
"Don't notify my mother yet. And don't let the people in the provincial capital make too much noise."
Li Qianfan said these words very calmly.
Jing Ran understood: "You're afraid that the person threatening Su Ziyu will realize they've provoked a disaster that could wipe out their entire family, and they'll kill Su Ziyu to silence her, leaving no witnesses."
This was Li Qianfan's greatest fear!
He nodded slightly and said, "Aunt Ran, help me call Li Zhaoyu. Ask him to contact everyone from Li Family Village in the provincial capital. Don't make any noise, and rush to the Yanzishan area as quickly as possible to search for Ziyu's whereabouts."
"Okay."
Jing Ran nodded and began to call Li Zhaoyu using Li Qianfan's phone.
She felt gratified that Li Qianfan could remain terrifyingly calm under such circumstances.
While making the call, she analyzed and tracked at the fastest speed, finally pinpointing the most precise location of the woman who had called Su Ziyu.
After she finished calling Li Zhaoyu, she also locked onto the woman's location.
"1200 meters ahead, turn left for Kehang Road, and we might be able to track down your mother-in-law's whereabouts."
Jing Ran looked down at her phone screen and said, "You decide whether to go to the provincial capital first or rescue your mother-in-law first."
Li Qianfan gritted his teeth: "Let's go to Kehang Road first, to rescue my mother-in-law."
He wished he could turn into a beam of light and instantly fly to the foot of Yanzishan to see what had happened to Su Ziyu.
To see what had happened to Mo Hongti, who had suddenly stopped answering her phone.
But his final rationality reminded Li Qianfan that it was best to rescue Ning Xiaolan first.
Because Ning Xiaolan was currently in Qingyun.
And Su Ziyu and the others were still at least two hours away by car at the foot of Yanzishan.
Moreover.
Ning Xiaolan treated him like her own son!
If she and Su Ziyu were in trouble together, Li Qianfan would only save her first.
He believed that if Su Ziyu knew his choice, she would support him doing so.
"Okay, turn left after two kilometers, I'll signal for you."
Jing Ran, playing with two phones, suddenly said, "Qianfan, ten minutes ago, Su Ziyu sent you a timed email."
Li Qianfan only used WeChat, Douyin, or Toutiao on his phone now.
He never paid attention to his email and didn't set up any notification reminders.
But Jing Ran had found it for him.
Li Qianfan glanced at her: "Aunt Ran, please read it for me."
"Mmm."
Jing Ran began to read the email Su Ziyu sent to Li Qianfan at the fastest speed: "Qianfan, when you read this email, I might no longer be alive."
A suicide note!
This was Su Ziyu's suicide note to Li Qianfan!!
As soon as Li Qianfan heard Jing Ran read the first sentence, his heart ached fiercely.