An hour later, Gu Qichen's car stopped downstairs at the Lu Group.
The receptionist on the first floor quickly called the president's office on the top floor, and Lu Mingxi's assistant personally came down to greet them.
"President Gu, our President Lu is not in the company recently. He is out of town on official business."
Gu Qichen's expression was cold, his aura powerful and imposing: "Which city did he go to?"
Lu Mingxi's assistant was silent for two seconds. President Lu had only instructed him before leaving to say that he was at a branch company out of town if anyone looked for him, but he didn't specify which one.
"To, to Fei City!" The assistant quickly chose a city farthest from Qingcheng.
Gu Qichen's gaze was full of scrutiny. Seeing the assistant's two-second silence, he already had a general idea.
"You're lying."
"No, no, President Gu!" The assistant quickly looked up.
Gu Qichen had already walked past him towards the elevator.
The assistant hurriedly followed: "President Gu, where are you going? You can't go up. Without President Lu's orders, no one can go to the top floor!"
Beside Gu Qichen, Yu Jing knocked out the assistant twice, rendering him unconscious, and placed him beside the elevator.
The elevator went directly to the top floor.
After exiting the elevator, Gu Qichen strode towards Lu Mingxi's office.
The door to the General Secretary's Office of the Lu Group opened, and several secretaries looked on in horror. Someone tried to stop them, but Yu Jing blocked them one by one.
Gu Qichen walked to Lu Mingxi's office, grabbed the doorknob, and found the door locked.
He took two steps back and lifted his foot. With a loud bang, the office door was kicked open.
Gu Qichen walked directly in. Unfinished documents were still on Lu Mingxi's desk.
A few seconds later, his eyes sharpened!
Lu Mingxi had left in a hurry, likely having received some news, and didn't even have time to finish his documents before leaving.
He walked to Lu Mingxi's desk and flipped through several documents. Not finding the clue he wanted, he frowned and his gaze fell on the surveillance camera in the corner of the office.
Gu Qichen sat directly in the office chair and pulled over the laptop beside him to open it.
Lu Mingxi's laptop was password protected.
In just a few minutes, Gu Qichen cracked the password and successfully accessed the computer. As he expected, Lu Mingxi's computer was indeed connected to the company's surveillance.
The loud noises and shouts from the corridor outside continued incessantly.
Gu Qichen ignored them and quickly brought up the surveillance footage on the computer, watching until the day Lu Mingxi left.
However, the surveillance footage from that day had been deleted from the computer.
An eerie feeling washed over Gu Qichen. He was almost certain that Lu Mingxi must have received news about Qin He.
He leaned back in his office chair and massaged his temples.
After a few minutes, Gu Qichen got up and left the office.
Outside in the corridor, the security guards on duty and several secretaries stood trembling not far away, confronting Yu Jing.
Some of the security guards had bloodied faces. Pointing at Yu Jing, they mustered up their courage and said, "Don't leave. The police will be here soon. Trespassing into our president's office like this is illegal!"
Gu Qichen's cold eyes swept over them, "Then let the police come find me. Now, get out of the way."
His condescending gaze hid a ferocious anger, and a single look made the legs of several security guards freeze.
Yu Jing immediately stepped forward, "President Gu! Where do we go now?"
Gu Qichen strode towards the elevator.
Since Lu Mingxi had received the news, there must have been someone who conveyed it to him!
"Find that assistant from earlier!"
Since he was the first to come down to stop him and had helped Lu Mingxi lie, he must be someone close to Lu Mingxi.
Gu Qichen's expression was grim, "Perhaps he knows something."
When the two of them got off the elevator on the first floor, the elevator doors opened, and the outside was empty.
Yu Jing frowned, "He ran away!"
Gu Qichen gritted his teeth, "Find him!"
Receiving news from Qin He without informing them, Lu Mingxi's intentions were perfectly clear.
Gu Qichen's face was grim as he walked out of the Lu Group.
...
Qingcheng, a villa in the suburbs.
Because no one had lived there for a long time, the yard was already covered with autumn fallen leaves.
Several passersby stopped and chatted, pointing at the villa.
After standing for a while, no one appeared, so the few people exchanged glances and quietly sneaked into the villa.
On the first floor of the villa, the group quickly found the medical equipment designated by the strategist.
"Looking at the photo, it should be this!"
"It's so heavy, can we carry it?"
"The strategist has already prepared people for the handover. We just need to move it to the car outside and transport it to the dock!"
Soon, several people carried the medical equipment outside—
Yangshu Street.
Qi Zhen was hidden in the crowd, wearing a black jacket.
He had a more decadent aura about him than before, attracting the frequent glances of many young girls.
Qi Zhen stood by the roadside, took out a cigarette, and took a puff. Ever since his younger brother left, he had been trying to find that person to avenge his brother, but that person was too well hidden.
Even with Boss Mo and the Qin and Gu families helping now, they still couldn't find that group.
Qi Zhen's gaze turned towards the street. This was close to the villa where he and his brother used to live.
He hesitated for several minutes, then walked in that direction.
More than ten minutes later, Qi Zhen arrived at the villa gate and looked up at the second floor.
Previously, Boss Qin He had gathered several medical experts to live here. While researching the medicine, his and his brother's task was to protect the four medical experts on the second floor.
During that time, Qi Yang was often bored and would scare those scholarly-looking individuals.
Qi Zhen had not dared to dwell on his brother's affairs recently. Now, looking at that window, he seemed to see his brother sitting by the window with a gun.
At that time, their hair had been shaved by Boss Di Shi and hadn't grown back yet. The sun shone on his brother's head, making it reflective.
Qi Zhen let out a soft laugh and turned to leave. His gaze stopped at a certain spot in the yard.
His brows furrowed little by little, and he stared sharply at the yard. The small path leading to the villa was now full of withered yellow leaves.
However, the leaves in a few places were clearly crushed.
After Boss Qin He developed the medicine, the three medical experts left here, and he and Qi Yang moved to an apartment. No one should have come here anymore!
Qi Zhen didn't hesitate and directly climbed over the wall into the yard.
The smart lock at the door still had his fingerprint and iris scan. After entering the house, Qi Zhen looked around.
There was no one in the house. He went to the front door and carefully examined the ground. There was a thin layer of dust in the house, as no one had used it for so long. Qi Zhen crouched down and looked sideways at the ground, and several messy footprints came into view.
Someone had been here!
He followed the footprints all the way to Qin He's equipment room.
Finally, he saw the medical equipment placement area, which was clearly empty, with a dust cover thrown aside.
Qi Zhen's expression turned stern. He immediately took out his phone and called Qian Zimo.
"Boss Mo! Something was stolen from Miss Qin's villa!"