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At that time, there were many children playing together.

Quan Mo turned around and walked behind a costumed character.

Jing Yuan immediately went forward, and someone pushed the crowd, causing a group of children to fall down.

Suddenly, there were cries everywhere.

He saw with his own eyes that Quan Mo ran behind that character, and instinctively feeling uneasy, he approached and grabbed the costumed figure.

But there was nothing behind the figure.

"Momo!" Jing Yuan shouted in fright.

He searched everywhere, but in the blink of an eye, Quan Mo had completely vanished.

The amusement park was too crowded, and amidst the bustling crowd and the noises everywhere, no matter how loudly he called out, there was no response.

Meanwhile, Jing Haoran, who was on his phone to one side, noticed Jing Yuan’s expression was off.

He rushed over without hesitation and asked, "What happened?"

"Momo has disappeared." Jing Yuan felt his heart pounding fiercely in that moment, as if he had just received the news of Quan Junsheng’s death, his mind was thrown into chaos.

"Brother, don’t panic. Momo must have run off to play somewhere. Let’s hurry up and search..."

When Gu Xiaoxi came back, she saw neither Jing Yuan nor Jing Haoran.

By this time, the costumed characters had disappeared, and order was gradually being restored at the scene.

Unable to find anyone and not knowing where they had gone, Gu Xiaoxi called Jing Yuan.

Jing Yuan picked up the phone, and his first words were in alarm, "Momo is missing. I’m at the surveillance room. Come here and take a look."

Gu Xiaoxi felt her heart thump, and sprinting through the crowd at her fastest speed, she ran towards Jing Yuan.

Gu Xiaoxi arrived at the surveillance room.

Jing Yuan had found the surveillance footage of Quan Mo’s disappearance.

In the footage, Quan Mo walked behind a green dinosaur character.

Then, the dinosaur character pushed the children. After a group of them fell, there was no more sign of Quan Mo.

The surveillance only captured Quan Mo walking behind the dinosaur man; after that, there was nothing.

"Someone can’t just disappear into thin air; this must have been a premeditated kidnapping," Gu Xiaoxi said with certainty.

Jing Yuan did not speak, but he also understood. At their level of societal standing, there were many who would use children to threaten them.

"Step aside, let me do this!" Gu Xiaoxi directly picked up the security guard operating the surveillance and tossed him out.

She sat in front of the monitors, quickly calling up all the surrounding surveillance footage, then slowed down the footage from the most relevant camera.

She was quick. In less than a minute, she had found the problem.

Gu Xiaoxi slowed down the surveillance footage and said to Jing Yuan, "Look at this green costume. There’s someone hidden behind it. The only way to make Quan Mo disappear instantly, I think, is... The child is small, she must have been stuffed into that huge costume."

Gu Xiaoxi immediately called up a series of park surveillance videos, and sure enough, she saw the green dinosaur character unflusteredly break away from the group and blend into the crowd, heading towards a secluded and hidden corner.

The surveillance ended there with no further trace of the suspect.

Gu Xiaoxi was not going to give up. Without hesitation, she started to investigate the surveillance at the main entrance.

She brought up a photo of Quan Mo and searched for her in the feeds from over thirty cameras.

Just then.

The surveillance feed suddenly switched to the East Gate entrance.

Gu Xiaoxi saw two strange men holding Quan Mo, forcefully stuffing her into a taxi, then quickly driving away.

With her eyes narrowing slightly, Gu Xiaoxi immediately took out her phone, called Quan Shaoqing with a serious expression, and said, "Within three minutes, deploy someone to blockade Jinhuan Road. Look for taxi J3B673, Quan Mo has been kidnapped."

And while she was speaking, her face remained exceptionally calm.

Jing Yuan thought that was the end of it.

To his surprise, Gu Xiaoxi directly used the computer in front of her to hack into the street surveillance and kept adjusting the computer screen to track the taxi.

On the other side, as soon as Quan Shaoqing received the call, without any hesitation, he called the police for emergency assistance, "No time to explain, blockade Jinhuan Road within two minutes. Stop all vehicles carrying children."

The police, though puzzled by Quan Shaoqing’s instructions, complied.

The two kidnappers, looking at the suddenly halted traffic, spoke with grave expressions, "What’s going on?"

The taxi driver glanced at the long queue ahead and also shook his head in confusion, "Police routine check."

Without giving it much thought, one of the men held Quan Mo, who by then had fainted.

He looked at the little girl who had been kidnapped with great difficulty and felt extremely anxious, especially due to the inexplicable traffic jam, which made him even more panicked.

Gu Xiaoxi, seeing the taxi being stopped on the monitor, stopped talking, patted Jing Yuan’s shoulder, and instructed, "Keep an eye on the monitor, and keep the phone line open. Jing Haoran, come with me."

With that, she grabbed Jing Haoran’s shoulder and quickly ran outside.

Jing Haoran barely caught up with Gu Xiaoxi’s pace.

*

"How long is this jam going to last?" the two men who kidnapped Quan Mo frowned deeply as they stared at the crowd that showed no signs of dispersing.

The other man also felt a sense of unease. Looking at the unconscious young girl in his arms, and then at the traffic that had moved only a hundred meters in twenty minutes.

Guilt-ridden, the two men exchanged glances, regardless of what the police were checking.

They didn’t dare to linger any longer.

So, one of them threw a banknote to the driver and hurriedly said, "Driver, we are in a rush. We’re getting off here."

With that, the two men opened the car door and hurried away.

They had just gotten out of the car, intending to carry Quan Mo through the traffic to reach the opposite square. Because it was crowded there, it would be easier to escape.

But unexpectedly, just as they crept to the junction, they were blocked by two people.

Before they could see the faces of the people coming towards them, the girl they were holding was snatched away. The next second, both were kicked and sent flying.

"Ah!" One of the kidnappers felt such a suffocating pain in his chest that he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Looking up, he saw Gu Xiaoxi holding Quan Mo in front of him, her voice lethal, "Who sent you to kidnap her?"

Did these two little Rolos really think they could snatch someone from her hands as if she were just for show?

"As long as you don’t kill us, I can tell you who sent us," one of the less injured men actually tried to negotiate terms.

Gu Xiaoxi let out a cold laugh, "I’ll count to three!

If you don’t talk, I’ll immediately lock you up in jail for eight years for the crime of kidnapping and causing injury.

Of course, for messing with my little niece, you should know I have a thousand ways to ensure you don’t survive five years in prison. "

Her tone was exceptionally cold, as if her words were not to be questioned.

Both men looked at her as if they had seen a demon.

Suddenly, they shook uncontrollably from fear.

"Three, two, ..."

"I’ll talk! It’s Gu Feng," one said with palpable fear, not hesitating to confess.

On hearing this, Gu Xiaoxi, looking at the unconscious Quan Mo in her arms, her eyes filled with murderous intent, "So he went to such lengths just to catch me. Seems he’s not all that."

The two men lying on the ground saw Gu Xiaoxi deep in thought and immediately got up to run.

Gu Xiaoxi turned to Jing Haoran, who had been following her, "Catch them and take them to the police station."

"Hey, you, you said you’d let us go! Your word means nothing?" The two criminals immediately burst into tears. They were also forced by Gu Feng to do his bidding. But having been duped like this was a hard pill to swallow.

"I’m a soldier, and you’re a criminal. Have you ever seen the police let a murderer go? Stop wasting words and arrest them." Gu Xiaoxi immediately made a call to Quan Shaoqing to assure him of their safety, while the police also arrived on the scene.

Jing Haoran obediently, like a small attendant, caught the two men and handed them over to the police.

Gu Xiaoxi checked Quan Mo’s body, which had been affected only by a bit of sleeping drug, and knew she would be alright after some sleep.

*

The Quan Family.

Everyone breathed easier knowing that Quan Mo was safe and sound.

"That was close. It’s all my fault for being negligent at the time and letting those two clowns deceive me," Jing Yuan was filled with regret at the moment. If he had analyzed the situation as calmly as Gu Xiaoxi had, none of this would have happened.

"You were just too concerned about Quan Mo and overlooked it for a moment. Thankfully, Momo is fine," Gu Xiaoxi thought for a moment but still blamed herself. She shouldn’t have let Quan Mo play with other children alone.

It was a dangerous time where anything could happen at any moment.

Gu Feng was incredibly cunning. To take her on, did he really need to go through all this trouble of a series of kidnappings?

Anyway, her showdown with him was inevitable!