Return of the Antagonistic Lady Boss

"one, I’m willing to cooperate with your actions, but it’ll take a little while longer for me to reach your location. Please transfer the call to the suspect and have him wait for us."

"You guys?!"

What made his wife change her mind in just a few minutes?

"Me, and Dai Yi. This is what the suspect specifically asked for."

Chen Xiaoqian’s voice carried a hint of seriousness.

Yu Minglang was even more serious than Chen Xiaoqian; it seemed he had guessed something.

"Could it be—"

"Yes, Panpan is missing, and it’s very likely he took her."

"Rubbish! Panpan is at our parents’ house, how can she be missing?!"

Yu Minglang was about to explode upon hearing this.

When Chen Xiaoqian first heard this man had escaped, her immediate reaction was to move Panpan. With Panpan at the Yu Family’s place, she was absolutely safe, and he didn’t believe the other party could abduct Panpan under such tight surveillance, it was impossible!

"According to my deductions, he must have learned that Panpan’s mother had a child in the past, and then followed the clues to find Panpan. He had already prepared before you caught him. He’s been watching Panpan for quite some time. I don’t know how he took Panpan away, but Dai Yi just called me, saying the suspect called Dai Yi alone and asked to bring me over alone."

"×!" Yu Minglang swore directly.

This suspect’s mind is unbelievably clever; he’s the most cunning criminal he’s ever encountered.

If he had only captured Wang Xiaohong, Chen Xiaoqian could have insisted on her principles and not gone over.

But if he has taken Panpan as well, Chen Xiaoqian cannot ignore it. Besides Panpan, it also involves the pregnant Dai Yi.

Yu Minglang and Chen Xiaoqian both had the same perplexing thought, how did the suspect know Dai Yi had adopted Panpan, and how did he abduct Panpan in such a crowded place?

These puzzled thoughts had to be set aside for now; the urgent task was to rescue Panpan. Chen Xiaoqian had to take action.

"I’ll arrange for a car to ensure you’re over here in the shortest time possible. It’s about a forty-minute drive from our place to here."

"A lot can happen in forty minutes. To prevent him from harming Panpan, could you use a loudspeaker to speak to him, and keep the phone call going, transmit my voice to him through the speaker."

Someone must act as the intermediary, so that such a cunning and high-intelligence criminal will believe Chen Xiaoqian’s identity. He has not interacted with Chen Xiaoqian before, and he rejected calls made through Dai Yi’s phone by Xiaoqian, showing the extent of his cunning. Trying to deceive him with an imposter Xiaoqian is absolutely impossible.

Yu Minglang immediately sent someone to fetch a loudspeaker. They were located on the second floor of the CBD Building in Q City’s commercial district, where the cunning suspect was holding Wang Xiaohong hostage in a cubicle, uncertain whether Panpan was also inside.

This hideout was incredibly well-chosen; in the vast office building he insisted on finding a room without windows. Yu Minglang and the others completely surrounded the second floor, yet this guy was indeed a high-intelligence criminal, having installed surveillance cameras around the door beforehand, allowing a full view of the outside. A forcible entry would immediately be seen, but the only entrance Yu Minglang and others had was the door.

The damn developer seemed to have had their head in the clouds during construction, creating a small cubicle without windows or any ventilation openings, with the one door being extremely solid. Forcing entry would inevitably alert those inside, and the hostages’ lives would undoubtedly be endangered.

This posed great difficulties for the rescue.

Everyone under Yu Minglang’s command stood guard ten meters away, holding the loudspeaker. Yu Minglang firstly made an opening speech.

"Listen up, you have nowhere to run. Put down your weapon and guarantee the hostages’ safety, strive for leniency in your treatment!"

"Hahaha!" Laughter came from inside, clearly transmitted through the speaker hung on the door. It was not a loud voice, more the scholarly type, yet carrying a bloodthirsty madness.

"For the things I’ve done, shooting me twenty times over wouldn’t be enough. How do you plan to be lenient with me? Thanks to the abolishment of lingchi, no matter what, you’ll leave me with a whole corpse. But whether this hostage lives or dies is up to me. If I kill her, all you government workers will face penalties, haha!"

One of Yu Minglang’s men couldn’t help but angrily say, "I really want to give him lingchi, this bastard is truly scum. He talks about life as if it’s less than weeds."

Judging a flawed personality’s moral compass by standard measures is simply incomprehensible.

All rescue personnel present wished they could rush in and turn him into a sieve.

He carried the burden of so many lives, many of whom were helpless victims who couldn’t even get a complete corpse. Dealing with such vicious fiends, feeding him a bullet seems more like liberating him.

Yu Minglang also hated him so much his teeth itched, but just then, Wang Xiaohong’s scream came through the speaker.

"Save me! He’s not human! Ah!" This scream left it hard to imagine what was happening inside, followed quickly by chilling laughter.

"Haha, this woman is prone to hitting kids; I’ll let her taste what it’s like being tortured to death. Is there anyone outside skilled in medicine? You guess, with these holes I’ve poked in her, how long it will take for her to bleed out and die? You useless people, it’s your incompetence causing her death. Haha, you’ll bear the guilt forever!"

Someone couldn’t bear it and prepared to rush inside, only for Wang Xiaohong’s even more tragic screams to ring out.

"If you don’t want this woman to die miserably, don’t move!"

Yu Minglang raised his hand to stop the others’ actions.

"Didn’t you want to speak with Chen Xiaoqian? Listen, she’s here."

Yu Minglang pressed the hands-free button on his phone and placed it in front of the loudspeaker, broadcasting Chen Xiaoqian’s clear voice through the speaker.

"I am psychologist Chen Xiaoqian, I hear you want to see me."

"Are you the woman Chen Xiaoqian I met last time? How will you prove it?"

"I’m talking to you, isn’t that proof enough? As you said, these people wouldn’t risk rescue failure by bringing in an imposter. Tell me, where is Panpan, are you with Panpan?"

"Haha, I cannot disclose that. The legendary woman, I greatly wish to see your prowess. So... say one sentence, if your words can express my current inner feelings, I’ll believe you are Chen Xiaoqian. If you truly are Chen Xiaoqian, it shouldn’t be difficult, considering you are someone he devoted his heart and soul to raise..."

The last sentence was spoken quite softly, Chen Xiaoqian didn’t hear clearly, nor did anyone else.

Only the first half was heard, and this challenging demand made everyone gasp.

Chen Xiaoqian wasn’t some worm inside his stomach, how could she encapsulate his inner feelings with just one sentence?