"I can't ask others, but since I can use Xiao Xin's phone to call you, you should know which girl I'm looking for. Also, that stone is hot to the touch and not so easy to get." After speaking, he hung up the phone. He knew the man would definitely send Xiao Yun back.
Following the information he sensed, he arrived at Fang Xiuming's home.
An old woman opened the door.
"Xiao Xin, why do you have time to visit today? You haven't visited this old woman for a long time, have you?" the old woman muttered, ushering the two into the room.
The house was large, nearly two hundred square meters. A family photo hung on the wall, with the old woman in the center, a middle-aged couple on either side of her, and four young men and women standing behind them, their relationship to the old woman unclear, perhaps grandchildren or other relatives.
This middle-aged man should be Fang Xiuming. His forehead was very large, his eye sockets deep-set, and his lips were thick. From his appearance, he wasn't a thoroughly evil person.
The old woman was alone in the house. Guo Xuyang hypnotized her, not wanting her to know he had been to her home. Then, he took a photo with Xiao Xin's phone and sent it out.
"Don't call the police for now, I've found his home. Wait for my call." He called Wu Youzhi and Cheng Xiuping respectively.
Upon receiving the calls, the two men reported to the police. Since it hadn't been twenty-four hours, the police did not yet file a case. Receiving Guo Xuyang's news, both men breathed a sigh of relief.
It was good that he found them; they trusted Guo Xuyang's methods. Cheng Xiuping, in particular, had absolute faith in Guo Xuyang's words.
Guo Xuyang's unpredictable methods in these past few encounters had deeply impressed him.
Guo Xuyang left Fang Xiuming's home with Xiao Xin and returned directly to World Jade City.
He brought Xiao Xin back to the stall, erased his memory, and lifted the hypnosis. Then, he began looking at stones at Xiao Xin's stall. In reality, he had maximized his senses, focusing all his attention on the main road outside the mall entrance.
Less than half an hour later, he sensed Xiao Yun being dropped off by a van, along with the un-cut raw stones.
He focused his gaze and saw that the driver was Fang Xiuming. Fang Xiuming helped Xiao Yun to sit on the steps, looked around, and then took out his phone.
Xiao Xin's phone rang at this moment: "Old Fang, what's up? Uh, huh? How could this happen? I had no idea. Alright, alright. I'm coming out now."
Guo Xuyang followed Xiao Xin out of the mall from a distance.
He saw Xiao Xin pick up the raw stones and walk back with Xiao Yun.
Xiao Yun was trembling all over, clearly frightened. He couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.
He never expected to encounter such a situation on an outing. He walked over and gently put his arm around Xiao Yun's shoulders.
"It's okay, it's all over now."
"I almost couldn't see you again. You don't know, so many women were in a container. It was so terrifying. Woohoo." Only now did Xiao Yun dare to sob openly.
"Don't cry, don't cry. Let's go back first." Guo Xuyang held Xiao Yun and hailed a taxi to go back.
He took Xiao Yun back to the hotel, then used hypnosis to help her relax slowly. He did not use his senses, wanting her to retain some privacy.
Then, he gently peeled away her unpleasant experiences, allowing her to enter a deep sleep state.
He believed that after waking up, she would surely return to her former beautiful and lively self.
After finishing this, he returned to World Jade City.
Guo Xuyang approached Xiao Xin and hypnotized him to have Old Fang transfer thirty million to Xiao Yun's account as compensation for the harm she suffered.
Concurrently, he used his storage ability to absorb the un-cut jade into his mind.
"Boss, how much for these?" he called out to Xiao Xin, waking him up. He placed over ten stones in front of Xiao Xin.
"Ah, let me take a look at these." Xiao Xin examined the stones, picked up a calculator, and totaled them. "Twelve stones in total, amounting to 1.83 million. You can give me 1.8 million."
Guo Xuyang transferred 1.8 million directly to Xiao Xin, took the receipt, and said, "Please pack these stones up for me later. I'll look around inside."
The receipt had the number for each stone, so he wasn't afraid of them getting lost.
Today, he was a powerhouse, acquiring all the high-quality rough stones he could, regardless of size.
By noon, he had spent over fifty million, purchasing more than two hundred stones. Some were over a hundred kilograms, while others were only five or six pounds.
When Wu Youzhi and Cheng Xiuping called, he was looking at the receipts.
"Manager Guo, where are you?" Cheng Xiuping asked on the phone.
"I'm at World Jade City. Contact Manager Wu and head back to the hotel directly. Xiao Yun is sleeping at the hotel, and she should be waking up soon. We'll have lunch together." He hung up the phone and returned as well.
When he arrived at Xiao Yun's room, Xiao Yun had just woken up.
"How did I fall asleep?" Xiao Yun asked.
"You said you weren't feeling well, so we didn't wake you and went on our own," Guo Xuyang said with a smile. "We wanted you to work, but you decided to sleep in."
"I wasn't feeling well! What time is it?"
"It's time for lunch. Hurry and get up, Manager Cheng and the others are waiting."
"Then you go out first, I'll wash up and be right there."
"Hurry up! We'll wait for you," Guo Xuyang said as he backed out.
He went to Cheng Xiuping and the other man and instructed them, "Xiao Yun is fine now. Don't mention what happened this morning to her. She should have forgotten everything."
Cheng Xiuping and the other man quickly agreed.
They were increasingly unable to comprehend Guo Xuyang's methods.
The call Guo Xuyang made to them this morning was definitely real, otherwise, they wouldn't have been so flustered. Yet, in less than half a day, he had brought the person back unharmed, and even instructed them not to mention the incident to Xiao Yun.
Hearing this, Cheng Xiuping remembered what had happened to his own father. Guo Xuyang had given him the same instructions then.
He was truly perplexed as to who had taken Xiao Yun and how she had returned.
However, since Guo Xuyang said so, he could only keep his curiosity to himself.
Sometimes, curiosity truly killed the cat.
After Xiao Yun arrived, the group found a distinctive restaurant and had a meal.
During the meal, Xiao Yun said she had a dream.
She dreamt she was kidnapped, and no matter how much she cried out, no one paid attention. She was terrified.
Later, she arrived at a factory building, which contained many goods and several large vehicles.
On one of the large vehicles was a container filled with many women tied up inside.
Just as those people were about to push her into the container, someone received a phone call, and then she was taken to the entrance of a plaza.
There, she seemed to have met Guo Xuyang, and then she didn't know anything else.