Chapter 88 - Rescue

“What do we do now?” Scarface scratched his head. The hostages were missing, and so was the phone.

“We can Google the Yu family’s phone number.” A lightbulb went off in the tall man’s head. “I know how to find it, I remember the Yu family’s house number.”

They had all gone past those rich residences in LA before. The important thing was that they had checked out the location of the Yu residence before so that it would be easy to dump the bodyguards there after the kidnapping.

“You’re really smart!” Scarface patted the tall man on the back.

Now that they had no way of contacting Yu Tong, they couldn’t do this for nothing; they might as well go all the way, and demand money from the Yu family.

When the great general Lu Guozhong hurried over to the highway with the bodyguards, the police had already sealed off the crime scene. A youth dressed in a black hoodie was talking to the police. 

“Anyi!” The great general recognised that person; it was none other than Dugu An, who had gone off to train for over half a year.

Dugu An raised his head to look at him, then turned to the police again. “There’s a clue in the car.”

The police impatiently waved his hand. “Sir, this is an official investigation, please don’t disturb us.”

Dugu An frowned imperceptibly, and in a flash, he went around the officer and jumped into the wrecked car.

“Quickly, stop him!” When the police officer returned to his senses, Dugu An was already digging around in the backseat. A few officers hurriedly stepped forward to pull on his legs. 

Dugu An deftly shook them off as he climbed out on his own. In his hand was a phone; it was the one Song Xiao had lost under the car seat. Back when he had contacted Song Xiao, Dugu An had connected to the phone via GPS. He had followed the signal here, only to find this phone, while the other signal had already been cut off.

“Lend me a car.” Dugu An looked at the off-road vehicles that the great general had brought with him, then raised his chin as he selected one right away.

“Where are you going?” The great general hurriedly followed after him and jumped into Dugu An’s car. In his heart, there was no one more reliable than this secret guard.

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“I say, Anyi know what they are?” Yu Tang snorted and thrust his stick downward to unerringly spear a large, white fish.

Song Xiao gave a surprised exclamation. He wasn’t amazed at all by the fact that the emperor could hunt – the autumn hunts each year weren’t just for fun, after all – but he was a little astonished that the emperor knew how to catch fish.

Basking in his empress’s reverent gaze, His Majesty the emperor proudly pulled the fish off and tossed it to Song Xiao, then raised his hand and jabbed the spear into the water again. Because he was too cocky, this thrust was a rather poor one, and the emperor actually jabbed empty water before he hurriedly adjusted his aim.

Song Xiao silently turned away to gather twigs to make a fire.

In a fit of anger, His Majesty the emperor speared five fishes, then skewered and roasted them over the fire.

“Over there, there’s smoke!” The little kidnappers who were still bitterly searching the mountains suddenly saw cooking smoke in the distance. Shouldn’t fleeing hostages be hiding miserably in the forest and nibbling on fruits? This appearance of a cookout… In the end, they didn’t have the slightest self-awareness as hostages!

 

Little Theater

 

Kidnappers: You’ve been surrounded, quickly put down the roasted fish

Xiaoxiao: I haven’t eaten my fill T^T

Fish Tang: Continue eating, ignore them

Kidnappers: …