Looking at the number displayed on the screen, Xu Ze couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow slightly. He thought to himself, “Lin Yumeng? Why is she calling me so late?”
At that moment, a strange feeling arose in his heart. He pressed the answer button and heard a deafening blast of music from the other end. Xu Ze frowned and said “hello” a couple of times before finally hearing Lin Yumeng’s voice, which seemed extremely faint: “A… A Ze… big brother…”
Hearing Lin Yumeng’s voice like that, Xu Ze furrowed his brows tightly. A sense of foreboding rose in his heart. He quickly asked loudly, “Yumeng… where are you?”
But no matter how many times Xu Ze said “hello,” he didn’t hear Lin Yumeng’s voice again. He only vaguely heard a few male voices laughing and joking in the background: “Haha… buddies, we hit the jackpot today…”
After those few men’s laughter, the call was quickly disconnected.
Xu Ze held his phone and immediately tried calling back, but no one answered. Now he started to feel anxious.
He knew that Lin Yumeng was probably in some kind of trouble; otherwise, she would never call him at a time like this. His eyes suddenly turned a little red, but he pulled a few hundred-yuan bills from his wallet, threw them to Luo Zi, and shouted, “Luo Zi, go pay the bill…”
Then he rushed toward the entrance.
Luo Zi looked at the seven or eight hundred yuan that Xu Ze had thrown at him, stunned for a moment. Then he stared at Xu Ze and shouted loudly, “A Ze… what’s going on? What happened to Lin Yumeng?”
“I don’t know either. I’ll go check it out first. You settle the bill for me…” Xu Ze left those words behind and rushed out the door.
The Maserati started up in just a few seconds. Amidst the stunned gazes of the people around, smoke billowing from its tires, the four wheels quickly screeched against the ground as the car roared off into the distance.
Seeing Luo Zi and the others standing at the entrance, staring at him dumbfounded in the rearview mirror, Xu Ze couldn’t help but sigh softly. Then he sped off toward Huangxing Road.
“Xiao Dao, help me locate Lin Yumeng’s position…” Xu Ze said in a deep voice as he drove swiftly forward.
Most of the KTVs and bars in Xingcheng City are located on Huangxing Road, so Xu Ze naturally sped in that direction. Xiao Dao quickly accessed the mobile network, combined with the GPS system, and began searching for Lin Yumeng’s location.
“Xu Ze… Lin Yumeng’s phone has been turned off. I can’t pick up a signal…” Xiao Dao replied quickly.
“Turned off?” Hearing that Lin Yumeng’s phone was off, Xu Ze became even more worried. He knew that things were probably really bad. But now that the phone was off, how was he supposed to find her?
Just then, Xiao Dao gave Xu Ze a pleasant surprise: “Based on the call records, I can roughly determine that her location is around Jinxiu Huatian on Huangxing Road…”
“Jinxiu Huatian…” Hearing Xiao Dao’s words, Xu Ze felt a surge of relief. Of course he knew that place. The Maserati raced down Wuyi Road at 120 kilometers per hour.
“Huangxing Road… so it really is here…” Xu Ze turned the steering wheel and headed toward Huangxing Road.
Although Xu Ze hadn’t been to Huangxing Road in a long time, Xiao Dao’s GPS function was extremely powerful. With the support of powerful satellite monitoring capabilities, a floor plan quickly appeared in Xu Ze’s field of vision, clearly marking the location of Jinxiu Huatian for him.
The Maserati took only six minutes to roar up to the entrance of Jinxiu Huatian. Xu Ze left the car and rushed inside.
Jinxiu Huatian KTV is on the third floor. Seeing that the elevator was still on the third floor, Xu Ze didn’t bother waiting for it to come down. Instead, he ran straight up the stairs.
Entering the lobby of Jinxiu Huatian, Xu Ze ignored the bowing welcomes from the cheongsam-clad beauties at the entrance. He anxiously looked around. Seeing the several corridors and the countless private rooms on both sides, and under the puzzled gazes of the hostesses, Xu Ze asked Xiao Dao anxiously, “Can you pinpoint the exact location?”
Half a second later, a floor plan of Jinxiu Huatian appeared in Xu Ze’s field of vision. A large area in the upper left corner was marked in red by Xiao Dao: “I can only roughly narrow it down to within this area, with about seventy-five percent probability…”
“Good… seventy-five percent is enough…” Xu Ze looked at the red area and nodded. Then he focused his attention on the floor plan displayed in his vision.
The red area marked by Xiao Dao appeared to cover about ten private rooms. But compared to the sixty or seventy rooms in the entire Jinxiu Huatian, it was already a significant reduction.
With a cold glint in his eyes, Xu Ze followed the direction indicated by Xiao Dao and quickly rushed toward those few rooms. With Xiao Dao’s guidance, Xu Ze soon followed the floor plan to the upper left corner of Jinxiu Huatian.
Seeing that the dot indicating his own position in his vision had entered this red area, Xu Ze couldn’t help but give a command in a deep voice: “Activate biological imaging…”
“Beep… biological imaging function activated…” As the automatic response system sounded, the scene in Xu Ze’s vision changed again, turning into a fluorescent green image.
Against this fluorescent green background, faint red figures appeared before Xu Ze’s eyes, penetrating through the walls.
As Xu Ze stared at these faint red figures, the scene in his vision gradually changed again. Those faint red figures slowly became clearer in his eyes, despite the walls blocking them.
Xu Ze furrowed his brows lightly as he walked and scanned the rooms on both sides. To keep up with Xu Ze’s scanning speed, Xiao Dao smiled bitterly and pushed the Galaxy Microchip to its full capacity, maintaining the smoothest possible biological imaging function.
Under normal conditions, the biological imaging function could only slowly simulate the detected living organisms. But given Xu Ze’s anxious speed, he was basically just glancing at each room as he passed by, leaving no time for slow imaging.
So Xiao Dao had to strain himself to support Xu Ze. He even felt like he could hear the Galaxy Microchip whirring as it ran at high speed.
With the Galaxy Microchip running at full power, the effect was quite good. The images seen through the walls were extremely clear, as if there were no walls at all. But Xiao Dao looked at the rapidly declining energy reserve indicator with a helpless expression.
Xu Ze, his face cold, turned his head and scanned the rooms on both sides. His brows furrowed tighter and tighter… because after looking at seven or eight rooms, he still hadn’t found Lin Yumeng’s figure.
“Have I come too late?” A rarely seen feeling of panic began to appear in Xu Ze’s eyes…
