The host walked up to the podium with a smile, loudly announcing.
"This time, we had a total of 1,700 party delegates from across the country casting their votes, with 1,685 valid ballots. Miss Annie received... 0 votes, Miss Gan Yuan received 1,685 votes!"
The room erupted in cheers and whistles.
Gan Yuan just laughed and bowed deeply, thanking everyone, then turned around and embraced Huangfu Jue.
On the stage, people like Dolly stood up, smiling as they walked up to congratulate Gan Yuan.
Moses, however, stood below the stage without moving, watching the embracing figures for a moment, before he stood up and strode towards the exit, with Paul and Jessica rushing to follow him.
Paul mentioned the name of a hospital, and the three of them got into the car in succession, heading for the hospital.
Soon the car entered the hospital gates, and from afar they saw a gathering of reporters outside the emergency room, evidently there to check on Smith and Annie’s conditions and possibly get some interviews.
Moses jerked his chin slightly, and Jessica jumped out of the car.
A moment later, she returned, seated herself in the back of the car, and began to speak in irritation.
"That old fox, he was just pretending to faint. He’s long gone!"
It turned out that Smith hadn’t actually fainted. That sly old man, knowing he couldn’t cope with such a scene, used the pretense of fainting to escape everyone’s eyes. Before the ambulance even reached the hospital, he had "recovered" and taken Annie to leave in a car.
Moses signaled for the driver to start the car, "How did they leave?"
"I heard from the doctors they left the ambulance midway," Jessica said.
Paul pulled up the flight schedules, "The earliest flight is in two hours. If we head to the airport now, we should be able to catch them."
Moses furrowed his brows, pausing before speaking again.
"Jessica, to the airport, let’s take the highway!"
If Jessica could find out the situation, so could the reporters, and that old fox certainly wouldn’t be waiting at the airport for the reporters to catch up and interrogate him.
B City wasn’t too far from the Capital, just a five-hour drive, and they might choose to take the highway to leave.
The car stopped at the side of the road, Jessica’s hand on the handle as she turned to Moses, "What do we do if we catch them?"
Moses simply spoke one word.
The ten-day agreement he had previously made was quickly running out.
No one could guarantee that in a desperate situation, Smith and Annie wouldn’t do something to Gan Yuan, as his style was always to leave no loose ends.
Those two, they had to die!
Jessica nodded, swung open the car door and jumped out, taking another car to the airport, while Paul and Moses’s car headed for the highway.
As the two were getting on the highway, Jessica had already reached the airport.
Having checked several terminals without any sign of Smith and Annie, she immediately called Moses to report the situation.
"No luck at the airport, looks like you were right!"
"You go back and protect Gaia!" Moses handed his phone back to Paul, and looked up towards the highway ahead, "Go faster!"
The driver pressed down on the accelerator, and the car immediately picked up speed, hurtling down the fastest lane at breakneck speed.
As Moses had predicted, at that moment, Smith and Annie were on the highway a few dozen kilometers ahead.