482: Chapter 482 I Want to Turn Myself In!

"You are simply a jinx."

"Wherever you go, someone offends you!"

Yan Qingwu was silent for three seconds before speaking helplessly, "But... they are also unlucky enough to have provoked you!"

She paused and began to tell Ye Chen about the Ma Family in Guang City.

"The Ma Family of Guang City isn't strictly a local family; they returned from overseas."

"In the early years, the family mainly developed in the Nanyang region, doing considerable business. Later, they responded to the call to invest back home and set up their headquarters in Guang City."

"Their business empire is vast, covering real estate, finance, hotels, international trade..."

"They have a hand in basically every profitable industry."

"The Ma Family ranks second in the Guang City business circle, the kind where no one dares to rank first."

Ye Chen asked indifferently, "Then would they engage in the business of kidnapping and human trafficking?"

Yan Qingwu thought carefully and then said seriously.

"Impossible."

"A family of the Ma Family's scale wouldn't care for that kind of business at all."

"Their businesses are all above board and clean."

"Let alone kidnapping, they wouldn't even deign to commit tax evasion."

"This kind of family values reputation above all else; they wouldn't touch such dirty work."

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow slightly. "So you mean those two kidnappers are lying?"

"Kidnappers?" Yan Qingwu was startled. "You caught kidnappers?"

"Yeah, they kidnapped a three-year-old girl."

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes. "They said the Ma Family was providing information behind the scenes."

Yan Qingwu pondered for a moment before explaining solemnly.

"Ye Chen, there's something wrong here."

"It's impossible for the Ma Family to do this directly, but it can't be ruled out that someone under them or from a side branch is causing trouble."

"The Ma Family is large and wealthy, with different branches managing their own affairs; not everyone necessarily follows the rules."

"Don't alert the enemy just yet..."

Hearing this, Ye Chen interrupted her, "I don't like to wait. Send me the address of their headquarters. I'll go talk to them personally."

"Don't make a big deal out of this!"

"Do I look like that kind of person?"

"You are exactly that kind of person!"

Ye Chen shrugged calmly. "Then I'm truly heartbroken."

"Get lost!"

"..."

Yan Qingwu hung up the phone.

Ye Chen looked at the two men and smiled slightly. "It seems you were lying."

Upon hearing this, the two men's faces instantly turned pale.

"We really didn't lie!"

"It really was someone from the Ma Family!"

"It was Brother Six who met with them! We were just following orders and doing the work; we don't know anything!"

Ye Chen looked down at them, his face expressionless.

"What is your boss's name?"

The short, stout man hurried to speak, "Hemp Six! Everyone on the streets calls him Brother Six! His real name is Liu Qiang! He's from a side branch of the Ma Family, but I don't know his specific identity. We were just following him to make a little money..."

Old Mu hurriedly added.

"I know a bit about that!"

"He's from the lineage of the Ma Family's Second Master!"

"I heard Hemp Six mention it once while he was drunk. He said his Older Female Cousin married some manager for the Ma Family's second branch, and that's how he got connected!"

Ye Chen nodded. "Call and surrender."

The two were stunned and looked at each other.

"B-big brother, we..."

The short, stout man was about to say something when Ye Chen swept a glance over him, causing him to instantly swallow his words.

Ye Chen continued, "Call yourselves, or I'll call for you. If I call, the charges might be more than just kidnapping."

The two of them trembled.

Old Mu was the first to break. Trembling, he took out his phone and dialed those three numbers.

The phone rang twice before it was picked up.

"Hello? This is the Guang City Public Security Bureau..."

Old Mu swallowed hard.

"I... I want to surrender!"

"I was involved in a kidnapping. On the Guang-Shen Expressway, heading south, there's a three-year-old girl in our vehicle..."

Seeing his state, the short, stout man knew the game was up. After Old Mu finished, he took the phone and confessed as well.

After the two finished, Ye Chen snatched the phone and added indifferently, "I'm from the Dragon Group. The suspects are under control. Just send someone over to wrap things up."

The dispatcher on the other end was clearly stunned for several seconds before hurriedly responding.

"Yes... yes! We'll send someone right away!"

"Damn!"

By accident, they had stumbled upon a major case!

"Kidnapping!"

"And it involved a child!"

"If they could crack it, it wouldn't just be a first-class merit, but at least a second-class merit!"

"This was definitely a stroke of immense good fortune..."

Ye Chen hung up the phone and turned to walk toward the crookedly crashed ambulance.

He pulled open the rear door; the lighting inside the cabin was dim and yellow.

The little girl was lying on a makeshift operating table, her hands still tied with cloth strips. Dried tear stains were on her small face, and she was sleeping soundly.

Ye Chen reached out and untied the cloth strips from her wrists.

Two red marks had been rubbed into the little girl's wrists. Her skin was delicate, and it was a heart-wrenching sight.

He sighed, took off his jacket, and gently covered her with it.

Then.

He turned around, leaned against the car door, and waited for the police to arrive.

As for the driver?

He was already scared witless inside the vehicle.

He didn't recover from the shock until the police arrived...

As soon as the leading officer got out of the car and understood the situation, he walked quickly to Ye Chen and gave a salute. "Comrade! Guang City Municipal Bureau Criminal Investigation Detachment, reporting for duty!"

Ye Chen nodded and pointed behind him.

"All four kidnappers are here. I'll take the child back to her family later. Any problem with that?"

The officer nodded seriously. "No problem, though we might need your cooperation for the follow-up investigation..."

"Call the Dragon Group; they'll handle it." After saying that, Ye Chen picked up the little girl and suddenly dashed out.

In an instant.

He had already disappeared from everyone's line of sight.

The officer stood there, stunned for several seconds before coming to his senses.

"Holy crap..."

"What incredible speed!"

"The Director wasn't wrong; the Dragon Group unit is the trump card of the Dragon Country!"

"Any one of them could take on a hundred enemies alone!"

"It really wasn't an exaggeration!"

"..."

In the small courtyard, the atmosphere was very oppressive.

Bing Lan, the old man, and the old woman were all there.

But there were a few more people in the courtyard now.

A man in his early thirties stood at the door, his face ashen, making phone calls incessantly.

He was the little girl's father, Cao Jianjun.

He hadn't even had time to change out of his work clothes.

When he received the call, he was laying bricks at a construction site.

Standing beside him was a woman of the same age, her hair in disarray and her eyes swollen like walnuts.

She was the little girl's mother, Zhao Chunmei.

The couple had spent the whole afternoon searching, scouring every alley and corner within three kilometers of the residential area, even asking everyone who might have seen the child.

They had found nothing.

Zhao Chunmei leaned against the doorframe and sobbed, "Jianjun, how about... how about we go out and look again? It's not completely dark yet..."

Cao Jianjun had just hung up a call.

He didn't dare look into his wife's eyes.

Because he couldn't find her either.

All he could do was keep calling, keep asking, and keep running.

But with every call he made, his heart sank a little further.

With every person he asked, hope became a little slimmer.

The old man suddenly looked up, glancing at Bing Lan standing in the middle of the courtyard, with a bit of pleading in his eyes, "Young lady, that young man... can he really bring Childs Nickname back?"

Bing Lan nodded gently without any hesitation.

"If he says he can, he definitely will."

This was already the thirty-second time the old man had asked.

But with every answer, Bing Lan remained very patient.

Hearing this, the old woman's tears welled up again.

"If he really can bring Childs Nickname back, he'll be our whole family's great benefactor..."

"I'd even kowtow to him!"

Hearing this, Zhao Chunmei's tears also fell.

She covered her mouth, her shoulders trembling violently, her weeping sounding very suppressed.

Cao Jianjun stood at the door and finally managed to squeeze out a sentence, "Miss Bing, that friend of yours... just who is he?"

He heard from his father that the young man had shown some kind of ID and then disappeared by leaping over walls.

Leaping over walls and walking on roofs.

Before today, he would have only treated these words as a plot point from a martial arts novel.

But now, he preferred to believe it was true.

Bing Lan glanced at him and said indifferently, "He is someone who can help you find your daughter. If even he can't find her, then no one can."

Cao Jianjun opened his mouth but didn't ask further.

The courtyard fell silent.

Just then.

A figure appeared silently at the entrance of the courtyard.

He was wearing a white shirt with sleeves rolled up to his elbows, holding a bundle wrapped in a jacket in his arms.

"I'm back."