Chapter 211: Conspiracy and Trickery, Not Yet Successful （1）
At noon, Ji Xiangyu was still discussing the information to be prepared for the afternoon with his assistants and secretaries, as time ticked by.
Before long, Andrei and Bruce rushed in. Ji Xiangyu looked at Andrei with doubt and asked, “General Manager, what happened?”
His intuition told him that something must have happened, otherwise Andrei wouldn’t be so anxious!
Andrei looked at the people in the room, and Athena was nowhere to be seen. He questioned Ji Xiangyu, “Chairman, where did Athena go after she separated from you?!”
Ji Xiangyu immediately stood up, walked to Andrei’s side, and asked anxiously, “What happened? Is Athena in trouble?”
Andrei nodded, then said, “The Chief Assistant, who was supposed to personally arrange meals for VIP clients at noon, inexplicably went on strike. I thought she was with the Chairman!”
Ji Xiangyu said nervously and worriedly, “After arriving at the office, Athena went to inspect the VIP guest rooms!” Thinking of something, he immediately picked up the telephone next to him and dialed the logistics department, saying, “Check if the Chief Assistant was seen in the VIP guest rooms today!”
Andrei agreed with Ji Xiangyu’s approach!
Ji Xiangyu instructed Assistant Che and the secretaries, “You guys organize first, I’m going out!”
The three of them then went to the logistics department and to the surveillance camera room. The staff had already begun to search through the surveillance footage one by one!
Andrei stood there uneasily, his eyes intently watching every frame, afraid of missing even the slightest clue!
Ji Xiangyu took out his mobile phone and dialed Ji Weiwei. He remembered that Ji Weiwei and Shangguan Yunyan were going to Hawaii today. Could they have met at the hotel?!
A robotic female voice came from the other end of the phone: “The user you have dialed is out of the signal area. Please try again later~~~~”
The phone not connecting meant she was on the airplane!
He breathed a sigh of relief for the moment, but the bad news began.
The logistics personnel shouted loudly, “Found it!”
Ji Xiangyu stepped forward to look. The video showed Athena walking into the VIP guest room corridor. Immediately after, the subsequent footage was cut, and all that remained was a photograph of Athena on the corridor.
This was clearly a deliberate act. Andrei’s cold voice rang out, “Someone has abducted Athena. Check the entry and exit status near the corridor!”
With a fast-forward, they saw footage of Ji Weiwei and Shangguan Yunyan leaving a guest room together, heading towards Athena’s corridor. As they approached, the footage was also deleted!
Andrei continued, “See if there are any suspicious individuals, in the underground parking lot or the back door!”
The staff complied and then discovered a man wearing an orange jumpsuit and a white baseball cap sneakily walking towards the parking lot. He then got into a car, the license plate of which was obscured!
Ji Xiangyu had already guessed some of it by this point, but looking at the person in the orange clothes, he was very surprised. If he wasn’t mistaken, that person was Qing Haifeng, Qing Tian’s father.
A great doubt filled his heart. For whom was Qing Haifeng working, and why wouldn’t he spare even his own daughter?
Andrei’s mobile phone suddenly vibrated. He took out his phone, and a strange number was displayed on the screen.
At this moment, Ji Xiangyu’s phone also vibrated, receiving a text message from an unknown number!
Upon opening it, the content almost scared Ji Xiangyu and Andrei to death!
Inside was a video. Athena was bound hand and foot and placed in a place without shadows. The villain was clever and had tampered with the video, making it impossible for them to rescue her and forcing them to wait for the bad person’s message!
Athena said nothing in the video, her mouth stuffed with a rag. She looked very haggard. Ji Xiangyu looked at Athena in the video with heartache and said in disbelief, “Who kidnapped Athena!”
Andrei appeared calmer. He immediately called Bruce and said, “Help me trace the source address and specific location of this video!”
Within seconds, Bruce replied, “General Manager, I can’t trace it. It’s been tampered with!”
Ji Xiangyu had already heard this, his brows furrowed. “General Manager, since the kidnappers sent us a video, they will definitely make their next move. And if it’s Situ Haonan, he will definitely contact us before three o’clock!”
Andrei hung up the phone and grabbed Ji Xiangyu by the collar, saying angrily, “Now that Qing Tian has been kidnapped, you can wait, but she can’t. If anything happens, who can save her? Situ Haonan is so ruthless, he’s capable of anything! I knew something would happen! We should have been prepared earlier~~~~”
Ji Xiangyu remained silent. His mood was also very bad at this moment. The greater the crisis, the more rationally they had to respond!
Ji Xiangyu calmly analyzed the problem: “First, let’s track Athena’s mobile phone and see if the GPS is located. If not, then try to locate Situ Haonan and Jing Yi. If they are the ones who did this, there will be a way to find Athena’s whereabouts as soon as possible!”
