Beauty and the Bodyguard

The moment Er Goudan heard that it was part of Lin Yi’s intention, he didn’t hesitate to pocket the money. Aside from his parents, he only followed Lin Yi’s instructions.

“When you are traveling, you have to watch out for your safety. You are an honest person, I’m afraid of you getting scammed! You have the fighting basics down, so I’m not too worried about that. Remember whenever you are traveling, don’t believe in others so easily!” Old Lin warned.

“Haha…” Er Goudan scratched his scalp, he managed to force a smile.

“This is Xiao Yi’s current address and his contact number. Keep it safe. When you arrive at the city, contact him,” Old Lin handed over a piece of paper.

Er Goudan safely pocketed the stash of cash and paper, “Grandpa Lin, when am I leaving?”

“You are leaving tomorrow, I’ll help you book a ticket in a bit.”

***

The next morning, Er Goudan started on his journey. The whole time he was in the rain, he did exactly as he was told to do. He was vigilant of his surroundings the whole ride, and he didn’t talk with strangers unnecessarily. According to what he was told, there were a lot of scams going on in train rides. Er Goudan wanted his first journey to be as smooth as possible.

***

Song Lingshan had increased her power significantly, but it didn’t remain that way. It was unsustainable! Songshan City looks peaceful, but in reality, there were a lot of unsolved cases! Currently there were at least six cases of delinquents missing, five cases of construction workers missing after conflict, more than three cases of taxi hit and run, and two cases of fitness coach and students… There were also a dozen cases of a wide variety of missing temporary workers.

In total, it was close to thirty people missing!

That was just the amount of people that had been reported missing, there must be even more people missing than that amount. At the moment, there was no way of calculating it!

There was no common link amongst the missing people. It spread across different industries, but with so many people missing, it raised a concern with the higher ups. Even Yang Huaijun, who was away from the city, received news of this issue. He personally called Song Lingshan on the updates regarding the missing people’s cases.

Based on years of work experience and Song Lingshan’s instinct, something told her that this case wasn’t simple. These missing people had nothing in common with each other, and they had all never met. The similar feature was that all of these missing people were male, there were no females!

This could be coincidence, but Song Lingshan didn’t think it was a coincidence!

From first glance, these cases were just a simple missing person cases. They hadn’t escalated to the severity of malicious intent. The moment they found corpses was when the severity level increased.

Song Lingshan didn’t know where to start with the case investigation, but there must have been witnesses or informants that knew more about this issue! She just needed to find those people.

“Ding Ding Ding…” The office doorbell rang.

“Please come in!” Song Lingshan recomposed herself to her usual calm state.

“Captain Song, the traffic police sent another case over. It was a public bus driver, hit and run. It has been confirmed that the driver’s identity and vehicle registration number were all forged…” Liu Wangli placed a file bundle onto Song Lingshan’s desk after he pushed open the door.

“Oh? Liu Wangli, what is your view on the issue. This case and the previous missing people cases, is there a correlation?” Song Lingshan frowned as she glanced at the new folder.

“My gut feeling is that they all are related, but we don’t have any evidence of that connection,” Liu Wangli replied, “Captain Song, I feel that there is a big conspiracy brewing in the mix. We can’t take this lightly!”

“Yeah, my gut instincts tell me the same thing. Presently, aside from the missing people cases, everything is relatively peaceful!” Song Lingshan sighed, “If they didn’t go into hiding, then where are their bodies?”

“There is this key point, if they were murdered or trafficked, then there would be clues. However, that doesn’t seem likely at all. From the evidence so far, these individuals all willingly ran away, there was no coercion,” Liu Wangli spoke his thoughts.

“Secretly monitor the situation,” Song Lingshan nodded, it was as Liu Wangli had mentioned.

“Yes! Captain Song… there is something that I want to ask, but I don’t know if I should ask it…” Liu Wangli paused as he was about to exit.

“If you have something to say, then speak up,” Song Lingshan nodded for Liu Wangli to speak his thoughts.

“Captain Song, should we ask… your boyfriend if he has any information…” Liu Wangli hesitated with his suggestion.

“I will…” Song Lingshan frowned. She didn’t think that Liu Wangli would suggest to ask Lin Yi. This bothered Song Lingshan, but it came as a surprise because Liu Wangli had accepted Lin Yi as her boyfriend!

As of right now, Liu Wangli is Song Lingshan’s confidant. So she didn’t blame him, and his suggestion came from a good intention.

Liu Wangli didn’t speak further on the issue, he exited from Song Lingshan’s office. As for Song Lingshan, she was hesitating if she should dial Lin Yi’s number.

Meanwhile for Lin Yi, he was in the company of Fatty Lai, Guan Xuemin, and Kang Xiaobao, they were discussing the products for the conference and all other details. That was when Song Lingshan’s call came in.

Lin Yi signaled his company with a pause hand symbol, then he walked over to the window to pick up the phone call.

“Hello? Did something happen again?” Lin Yi saw Song Lingshan’s number and his attitude was blunt.

“Lin Yi, there is something that I might need your help with…” Song Lingshan hesitated.

“No free time, I’m busy right now!” Lin Yi hinted. Everytime he picked up her call, nothing good ever came out of it.

“Lin Yi, help me out, this silly girl would be very grateful for you…” Song Lingshan started sounding cutesy on the phone, “How about this? The next time you come over, I will make you something tasty to eat…”

Lin Yi was speechless, this Song Lingshan was very attached to him!

“I am starting to regret slightly. That last time at your house, I should’ve just let you go. Why does trouble follow you around?” Lin Yi was infuriated, but also laughed at this situation.

“Oh… Our next meeting won’t be too long from now…” Song Lingshan’s face blushed. She didn’t get rejected so that was a good sign. It was just that Lin Yi was busy with his own work.

That meant something to Song Lingshan. There was a chance that Lin Yi likes her, so she thought to herself that she was still quite charming. Song Lingshan was encouraging herself, if she continued with her cutesy strategy, one day she would succeed in winning over Lin Yi’s love.

“I’ll give you one minute to tell me what you need to say!” Lin Yi didn’t bother playing along.