The sweet and glutinous Lolita Voice took on a few shades of chilling coldness, which sounded somewhat unsettling.
Gu Zhiqi tilted his head and glanced at her, his eyes slightly deep, and he softly acknowledged with a "Mmm."
"When did it happen?" The darkness that hadn’t completely faded from Gu Yuluo’s eyes became distinctly more pronounced, tinging her clear and clean eyes with an obvious shadow.
She appeared to shed her previously harmless and gentle demeanor.
"August 12, I guess." Although the tone of the answer sounded somewhat perfunctory, the date was indeed correct.
On the day he went to Yueqi Village, Gu Zhiqi had checked the date in this world: August 13.
The original person was kidnapped the day before, so it was certainly August 12 when the kidnapping occurred.
"Do you know who kidnapped you?" Gu Yuluo turned her gaze towards Gu Zhiqi.
Tang Yichen personally came to take Gu Zhiqi’s statement, which meant that the Ever Winning Army had been deployed.
A kidnapper that could mobilize the Ever Winning Army must be no ordinary individual.
"A gang called Scorpio."
She didn’t know the identities of those people; it was Lu Haichuan who informed her of this the day after the statement was recorded.
"Scorpio?" The color drained from Gu Yuluo’s face, and the darkness that had not yet completely faded surged back up, even more intense than before.
Scorpio was a gang that made money by taking all sorts of jobs, whether they had a bottom line or not. Most people wouldn’t go to them, and those who did were usually looking to hire them for ruthless acts like murder, arson, rape, and abduction.
Thinking of Gu Zhiqi being kidnapped by Scorpio, Gu Yuluo’s delicate and pretty doll-like face turned exceedingly unsightly.
"Has the person who placed the order been found?" Her tone became even colder.
With the Ever Winning Army involved, she wasn’t worried about Scorpio’s members not being caught.
But as for the person who placed the order, it wasn’t certain that the Ever Winning Army would deal with them.
Hearing Gu Yuluo’s icy tone, Gu Zhiqi paused mid-step, "The police said they would help look."
As to whether they had found the person, she was unsure.
Lu Haichuan had told her the identity of the kidnappers and had also mentioned they would continue to search for the person who had placed the order.
"I don’t know." Gu Zhiqi shook her head.
The icy look in Gu Yuluo’s eyes was replaced by speechlessness. Seeing Gu Zhiqi’s dismissive attitude, she spoke without good humor, "Don’t know? Haven’t the police contacted you again?"
"I changed contact information."
After going to Yueqi Village, she had changed all her contact information, so even if the police wanted to, they probably couldn’t reach her.
Gu Yuluo’s remark reminded her, and she decided to check the original phone when she got back.
Seeing Gu Zhiqi’s demeanor, Gu Yuluo could tell she was running out of patience. Having nearly finished asking what she wanted to know, Gu Yuluo didn’t pursue further and instead started to carry out the money transfer in front of Gu Zhiqi.
"That, I’ve changed cards." Seeing that Gu Yuluo wasn’t even asking for the card number and was just busy with her phone, Gu Zhiqi immediately reminded her.
Gu Yuluo’s finger, which was entering the password, paused, and she glanced at her phone screen, which was just one digit short of completion.
Closing the payment page, she turned to Gu Zhiqi, "New card number?"
Gu Zhiqi immediately reported a string of numbers.
Gu Yuluo memorized them after hearing them once, but why did that string of numbers sound somewhat familiar?
Because of the ten million in spending money, Gu Yuluo successfully hitched a ride to send Gu Zhiqi to the station.
After Gu Zhiqi and Gu Yuluo left, only three people remained in the hospital room.
Seeing that Su Yunling hadn’t left with them, Tang Yichen was somewhat surprised.
After all, he had realized that Third Brother’s primary purpose was to come to him for surgery fees with Gu Xiaoxi, and visiting him was just incidental.
Guessing what was up, he looked up at Su Yunling and asked, "Third Brother, did you need something from me?"