A whirlwind marriage leads to doting affection; the husband pampers her every night.

Chapter 73 Tracking

After returning to his apartment, Moze contacted K, asking him to search all the surveillance footage in Jiangcheng and all available surveillance footage to find suspicious individuals. He also contacted another subordinate codenamed Q, a retired soldier in Rome, who was highly skilled in tracking. Moze immediately arranged for a helicopter to come to Jiangcheng.

After making the arrangements, Mo Ze sat alone on the sofa in the living room of the apartment, lost in thought. His mind was empty, and he had a strong premonition that Shen Nian's kidnapping was not a random occurrence, but rather a planned kidnapping specifically targeting her.

The probability of a taxi appearing in the Mo family villa area by chance is extremely small. Every family there is accompanied by a driver and several cars. How could it be such a coincidence that a taxi would appear there?

If it was a kidnapping targeting Shen Nian, who would be behind it?

Moze analyzed it seriously.

Then he called K again and asked her to thoroughly investigate everyone around Shen Nian to see if there was any information.

As Mo Ze sat in the living room until almost dawn, K sent him a message saying that they had indeed found some clues and that the car had already left Jiangcheng. K then told Mo Ze the last location the car had stopped at.

The police station also found the real owner of the car; it turned out to be an ordinary sedan that had been converted into a taxi.

After receiving the location from K, Moze immediately went out again.

This time, he found the abandoned, modified taxi.

The vehicle was located in an abandoned parking lot, about ten kilometers away from where Shen Nian was being held.

Moze had K retrieve all the surrounding surveillance videos and finally spotted the person driving up. The person in the video was wearing a black jacket, a baseball cap, and a mask, so his face was obscured.

However, K used computer technology to quickly identify all the personal information of the people in the surveillance footage.

Moze was looking through the documents K had sent him in an abandoned parking lot.

Name: Chen Tao. Unemployed. He has been in and out of prison multiple times for fighting, brawling, and theft, making him a frequent visitor to prison.

As Mo Ze flipped through the documents, his brows slowly furrowed. Had his guess been wrong? Was it not targeting Shen Nian, but merely a coincidence that he'd run into her...?

Suddenly, he caught sight of a familiar name.

—Lu Jiao!

Isn't this Shen Nian's stepmother's name? How did it end up here?

Mo Ze continued reading and discovered that Lu Jiao and Chen Tao used to be from the same village and came to Jiangcheng together from their hometown, but they seemed to have lost contact with each other.

Could it be... that the kidnapping is related to Lu Jiao?

Mo Ze was still hesitant to draw a conclusion. After discovering this information, he asked K to investigate the relationship between Lu Jiao and Chen Tao again.

K was very efficient and quickly found information about the van Chen Tao had stolen and its last parking location. After he sent the location to Mo Ze, Mo Ze immediately drove there.

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Inside the dilapidated house, Chen Tao bought fever-reducing medicine for Shen Nian in the middle of the night. Shen Nian's high fever gradually subsided, but she was still very weak. Just as dawn broke, Chen Tao somehow got hold of a tricycle, threw Shen Nian on the back of it, and hurriedly left the dilapidated house. No sooner had he left with Shen Nian than Mo Ze arrived.

Moze spotted the van immediately and, without hesitation, rushed into the house, only to find it empty.

Moze pounded on the wall, realizing he was too late.

He was standing in the house when he received a call from Q, who said that he had arrived in Jiangcheng and had brought two other people with him. Mo Ze sent the address and location to Q so that he could meet up with him.

He stood in the house and saw that the medicine box on the ground was very new, probably just opened. He picked it up and saw that it was antipyretics. His heart sank. If he didn't find Shen Nian soon, she would definitely be in danger. He clenched his fists tightly.

About half an hour later, Q and the other two arrived. "Second Master, we've already heard about the situation from K over the phone. Don't worry, we'll definitely find the person today."

"Yes, I arrived here half an hour ago. The person has already moved. I estimate they can't have gone far. We'll start searching from the four directions—east, west, south, and north—with this house as the center. Whoever finds something first will contact us in the group chat." After Mo Ze finished giving the instructions, everyone went their separate ways.

Moze drove from the east, taking the main road. He didn't really expect to find any trace of them; there were very few cars and almost no people on the road. Moze hoped that Q and the others would have good news. Suddenly, he saw a person riding a tricycle not far ahead, with a lot of cardboard boxes on the back. The rider was wearing a large straw hat, his clothes were tattered, and he was hunched over, looking like a very old man.

Moze glanced at it and drove past the tricycle. He circled around without finding anything, then turned back to find Q and the other two. Still in the dilapidated house, none of the four of them had found any trace. Q said, "The three of us walked along the path for nearly ten miles without finding anything, not even a footprint. There's definitely no one in those three directions." He then looked at Moze, "Second Master, what about your side?"

Mo Ze shook his head thoughtfully and said with a serious expression, "No, there were almost no cars or people on the main road, only one tricycle that collects waste paper."

"A tricycle?" Q repeated thoughtfully.

Then Moze and Q realized at the same time, looked at each other, and shouted in unison, "That tricycle!"

The four of them jumped into Moze's car and headed east again to catch up.

There was no sign of the tricycle on the main road. After chasing for a long time, he finally spotted the tricycle by the roadside. Mo Ze stopped the tricycle and jumped off. The person who had been riding it was gone. Mo Ze opened the pile of cardboard boxes in the back and did not find Shen Nian, but he did see her schoolbag!

"Check quickly, see where she went, she can't have gone far." Mo Ze ordered loudly, his emotions, which he had been suppressing, finally broke down the moment he saw Shen Nian's schoolbag.

Q immediately contacted K and learned that the people on the tricycle had been transferred to another van, which was heading out of the city.

"Second Master, we have information. They haven't gone far. Let's chase after them now."

This time, Q drove. He got into the driver's seat, floored the accelerator, and chased after the car based on the location information provided by K.

In the van.

There were three people in total, including the driver, and they were discussing it.

"This guy is quite good-looking; he could fetch a good price," someone said with a grin, staring at Shen Nian's face.

"This person who's been unconscious the whole time, could he be mentally challenged?" another person said with some concern.

"No, he's a college student."

"This time we really made a killing."

......

The words of the group reached Shen Nian's ears intermittently. She tried to open her eyes, but she couldn't.

So, she's not dead after all?