In the conference room, the audience, who had thought they had developed enough resilience, were all stunned.
A standard tortoise-shell tie, limbs and torso securely bound together, rendering the female protagonist in a completely helpless posture.
"Getting the hang of it, huh..."
"How does he have so many tricks?"
"This part is pretty good."
Everyone couldn’t help but discuss.
While chatting, Guan Yongyi, with flushed cheeks, suddenly remembered something, frowned slightly, and tugged at Lu Jincheng’s clothes.
"You said you had a way, right? Should we contact the authorities or something? This is a live-stream! Not a video, and he’s about to start!"
"I’ll go next door and tell them to start work."
Lu Jincheng clapped his hands, stood up, thought for a few seconds, and quickly found the angle.
He walked into another conference room next door and instructed,
"Have you noticed? His live-stream location isn’t in a residential area, it’s clearly a hotel room. Everyone try to pinpoint his exact hotel location based on the room’s interior."
"If we can find it, we’ll move immediately, grab him offline!"
Luo Shaoqin and Luo Lang said in unison.
This was much more interesting than human resources work. Luo Shaoqin didn’t even need Mr. Lu to handhold him through the process. He immediately opened Gaode Maps, and with Luo Lang’s assistance, found the high-end residential area they had tracked last time.
"They generally wouldn’t live-stream from home, the location should not be too far from home, nor too close."
Luo Shaoqin, using the residential area as the center and a radius of ten kilometers, established a range.
"I’ll pull up a list of hotels, you guys log into various apps to compare and verify, and I’ll cross off the ones that aren’t right. How about that?"
He Ying and Luo Lang both nodded.
So Luo Shaoqin opened his laptop, everyone grabbed a phone, and got busy.
Mr. Lu delegated tasks and then returned to the conference room to watch the live stream with the two girls.
In the next conference room, Luo Shaoqin’s questioning could be heard.
"Peaceful Boutique Apartment... Zhi Xin Youth Hostel... GreenTree Inn East Lake Store, can we rule out the last one right away?"
"Just by looking at the decor, we know it’s not a chain hotel, ones like 7 Days, Super 8, Ji Hotel, and Hanting can be ruled out."
"Alright! Next is, Lanting Guesthouse..."
The atmosphere in the room was tense yet relaxed, everyone was getting more and more into the task.
Although this brute-force method better demonstrated the team’s cohesion, live humans couldn’t withstand the hardship after all.
An hour later, everyone inevitably felt dizzy and Luo Shaoqin’s throat was sore from asking.
In the live-stream room, the female protagonist had already gone through a round of shrieking, panting heavily and then, silence.
"They might finish soon; can you guys speed it up?"
Lu Jincheng watched Brother Da Fei’s confident smile on the screen, estimated Brother Da Fei’s endurance, and while moving to the next room to supervise, he reminded them.
At this moment, the female protagonist was positioned prone, hands tied behind her back, and her calves forcibly raised.
Her delicate ankles were bound with rope, firmly connected to her lower back, and her round full buttocks, struck by hand, were a vivid red.
"We just can’t find it!"
Luo Shaoqin let out a sigh and felt somewhat hopeless about finding a needle in a haystack.
"Hey, what’s that sound?"
He Ying, sipping her coffee, suddenly asked.
Luo Lang instinctively looked outside the window.
"No, I mean in the live-stream. Did you guys hear anything?"
He Ying pointed at the projection on the big screen.
Everyone turned their ears, listened for a few seconds, but couldn’t really tell.
"Sounds like square dancing?"
Luo Shaoqin turned the computer’s volume to the max, and hesitated.
"It’s been there all along, just getting noisier and louder."
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Saying it was loud was only relative to what could be barely heard through the live-stream; square dance music is usually played by elderly men and women outdoors using cheap speakers, and it’s hard to tell specifically what music is being played.
"I can’t hear clearly."
"Let’s keep looking and forget it for now."
"Any progress on their side?"
Back in the sisters’ conference room, Guan Yongyi asked softly.
"They’re looking into the square dance sound from the live-stream."
Mr. Lu shrugged, noncommittal.
"Hey? Does the sound get louder from one to four?"
Zhou Sinin, holding her handcrafted coffee, suddenly interjected.
"That... might be..."
Zhou Sinin lowered her head, sipped her coffee, circled her moist lips with water, and slowly said,
"Do you remember on our way to East Lake, there was a Dutch style garden? That group of old men and women really have boundless energy; they dance from morning to evening, and it gets loudest from four to five until dusk!"
"...How did I notice? Because once on a lakeside Citywalk..."
The little princess pouted, and went on with her story, but Lu Jincheng wasn’t listening.
"Baby, you’re awesome!"
His eyes lit up as though he had thought of something.
Then he immediately stood up, gave Zhou Sinin a peck on the forehead in passing, and excitedly dashed out of the conference room to the next.
"I mean, can you two not openly show affection in public? It really makes the rest of us feel redundant."
Watching the man’s departing figure, Guan Yongyi pursed her lips, her watery eyes turning towards Zhou Sinin.
"You’re right, Guan Guan. I’ll educate him next time; he’s too clingy in public! So annoying."
Zhou Sinin struggled to control her smile, but her eyes brimmed with an undeniable amusement.