Back at the Jiang family mansion, the cocktail party had come to an end and the guests had all dispersed. The paid cleaners had come along and begun to clear away any trash left behind, while Liang Yang and the others gathered around the leftovers.

"Hey, Student Hua, where’s Xiao Shen?" Dong Wang raised a brow.

"Hmm." Xue ’Kevin’ Waoming nodded his head. "Come to think of it, I didn’t see him towards the end of the party. It’s like he suddenly vanished into thin air."

"He was talking to the Young Miss of the Jiang family earlier, and now she’s gone too..." Liang Yang’s lips curled into a knowing smile. "I think a sausage and taco dish is being cooked somewhere."

"...." Tian Hua.

She shook her head and said. "Shen said that he was going to attend to some emergency business..."

Ahhhhhh!

A terrified scream suddenly tore the night peace, startling all the other inhabitants.

"F*ck!" Liang Yang suddenly choked on his drink. Dong Wang, Tian Hua all yelped in fright, but Xue Waoming was the only one who did not drop his glass.

Dong Wang and Tian Hua looked at the broken glasses on the ground and twitched the corners of her lips.

Surely we won’t have to pay for that, right??

Though she had gotten a few hundred thousand from Xiao Shen’s sale of the high quality mana stone, but that did not mean that she would be comfortable with spending money unnecessarily...

Cough cough!

Liang Yang coughed violently and shook his head. "What the heck was that!"

Dong Wang adjusted the pair of glasses on his nose and said. "I think it was a woman’s scream. Most likely one of extreme terror..."

Tian Hua also adjusted the glasses in her nose. It was like a reflex, as one wearing glasses would be extremely uncomfortable if someone who also wore glasses were to adjust their glasses without them adjusting their own after.

She sighed and said. "Should we go check it out?"

Xue Waoming shook his head. "Why should we? We’re in the Jiang family mansion right now, let Mr Jiang take care of it!"

"Right." Liang Yang nodded his head. "Kevin is right."

He patted his chest and poured himself another drink to soothe the burning feeling in his chest, while Xue Waoming, Tian Hua and Dong Wang all took a piece of finger food to nibble on.

Aaaahhhhh!

There was another female scream oce again. This time around, all four of them choked on the food and drinks respectively and entered a fit of violent coughing.

Cough! cough!

Choking was a very painful experience!

"F*ck!" Xue ’Kevin’ Waoming had tears in his eyes as he patted his chest.

Liang Yang was also in a coughing fit, but he had a slight smile on his face.

Sharing_makes_one_feel good.jpg!

The grievance in his heart from the previous choking fit was completely gone!

Humans were strange creatures. If there were a vending machine dishing out millions of yuan die a single coin, then one would want to hide it. However, if there were a vending machine that would take one’s millions of yuan in exchange for a single coin, then they would gladly recommend it to their friends.

Hoard fortune and share misfortune, that was the average human mentality!

"I’ll go check out what has happened." Tian Hua said, clearing her throat. After much difficulty, she had forcefully swallowed the stuff blocking her throat.

"Aiyah. I’ll come too." Liang Yang said.

"If you two are going then I’ll come too." Dong Wang shrugged his shoulders.

Xue Waoming looked at the trays carrying leftover finger foods and drinks and a conflicted look appeared on his face. To exercise, one needed protein. To get protein, one needed money. To get money, one needed to call their parents, and to call their parents meant to give a complete inventory of all their spendings for the month. To do this...

Bah!

In essence, he was short on cash and did not dare call home. The finger foods were mostly meat sausages, tiny meat blocks, meat chunks coated in pepper sauce, loo fish and meat mini kebabs, japanese sushi, and other protein dishes.

If he missed out on so much free protein, would it not be best to just jump into the Yangtze kiang at once?!

To come along or not to come along...

Xue Waoming found himself stuck between the devil and a hard place!

Hmm... He thought for a bit and took both the trays. Then he nodded in satisfaction. "I guess I’ll come along too."

In an adjacent lounge, Mr. Jiang stood rooted to the floor with a stifled look on his face, while Mrs. Jiang had turned white as though she was on the verge of collapse. Two young women were hurredly frantically explaining the situation.

"The Young Miss is missing!"

"There are corpses in the bathroom!"

"Brother Song found three more corpses in the bushes!"

"I think the young miss has been kidnapped!"

"Auntie Cai is also among those we found in the bathroom!"

Mr. Jiang rubbed his forehead with furrowed brows.

His daughter was missing?

Guests were dead in the bathroom and bushes?

Just how was any of that possible?!

As expected of a business magnate, he did not panic or react excessively. He simply took a deep breath and entered into ultra clarity mode.

Well, actually, since the extreme of something usually achieved the opposite result, one could say that he was simply so shocked and rattled that he entered into the salted fish sage mode. He asked calmly. "Where is Mr. Chen?"

Mr. Chen was the name of the butler uncle that worked in the house.

"Mr. Chen is currently overseeing the preservation of the crime scene."

Fuu...

Mr. Jiang sighed and brought out his phone.

Due to a few troublemakers who had been making trouble at a few of his companies a few days ago, he had the police commissioner’s number on speed dial. The call rang out for a few seconds before getting connected.

Mr. Jiang calmly raised it to his ear. "Hello. Yes, it’s Jiang Feibai. Hmm, indeed there’s an issue. It’s my daughter. Yes, she’s missing. No, her caretaker is present. I think she was knocked out. Oh? Yes, I hosted a cocktail party.

Mm. We hired a few university students to help out. Right... I did not think of that..."

His eyes suddenly narrowed into slits. "Yes. I’ll check now."

The police commissioner had agreed to send an investigation team to the Jiang family’s mansion, but told him to first shut off the mansion and check who and who were not present.

Excluding vengeful business rivals who disguised themselves as guests in order to wreak havoc, the most likely culprit would most certainly be one of the university students he had hired!

At the same time, Liang Yang, Tian Hua, Xue Waoming and Dong Wang all entered into the lounge.uang Yang was the only person who could be said to gave some familiarity Mr. Jiang and thus the task of inquiry was left to him. "Mr. Jiang, did something happen?"

Mr. Jiang’s face turned grave. "Unfortunately, Little Yang."

He raised his hand to rub his forehead and sighed as he looked at all of them. "My daughter is missing and I’m afraid that she has been kidnapped."

"Kidnapped!" Liang Yang’s eyes widened in surprise. Someone dared to kidnap the young miss of the Jiang family, how daring!

"Mr. Jiang, do you know who the culprit is?" Tian Hua asked.

"I’m afraid not." Mr. Jiang shook his head. "However, this means that none of you can be allowed to leave until the police gets here... Right, are you all complete? All of you are present? Sorry to suspect you little friends, but the person who is not here is our most likely suspect."

Tian Hua, Dong Wang, Liang Yang and Xue Waoming all widened their eyes at the same time.

Xiao Shen!

The only one of them who was bit present was Xiao Shen!

Mr. Jiang’s eyes narrowed. "From your expressions, it seems like there really is one of you who is not present."

"Well, yeah..." Liang Yang said. Then he immediately added. "But Xiao Shen would never do such a thing!"

"Right!" Dong Wang, Tian Hua and Xue Waoming all nodded their heads simultaneously.

"Knowing Xiao Shen, he might have even seen the kidnapper and gone over to stop them." Tian Hua said confidently.

***

At the same time, Xiao Shen sighed and shook his head. "It would be troublesome to just go over and pop up with the young miss of the Jiang family..."

He looked up at the sky. "Hey, Fairy Silver Star Sage, would you wake up if you refined the ginseng and got back your previous strength?"

The forest was far closer to the University Town than it was to the Jiang family mansion.

If he got the young miss of the Jiang family to explain the whole thing by herself,then there certainly would not be any misunderstandings!