Chapter 177


    Chapter 177


    At Lavender Club.


    Adeline was fuming, ring at the two trembling men before her and cursing them out. “You guys are


    completely useless! I asked you to kidnap a woman and you couldn’t even manage that!”


    Elliot gave Adeline a nce, furrowing his brows. “Just what the hell happened?”


    This was certainly unexpected.


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    The two men had a pretty solid n. One of them pretended to be a janitor, knocked Julie out, and


    stuffed her into a cleaning cart before wheeling her out of Simpo Co. The other guy was supposed to


    meet him at the door.


    Next, they were supposed to deliver Julie to Adeline, but on their way, a sedan appeared out of


    nowhere and blocked their path. Two armed men got out of the car.


    Their job was just to bring Julie to Adeline. They never signed up to kill anyone, let alone face armed


    guys. So, to save their own skins, they ditched Julie. Elliot had suspected from the get-go that Adeline


    was behind this. That’s why he came to her first, instead of exining everything to Kieran Hernandez.


    Now they were in a real pickle. They had no idea who the two men that appeared out of nowhere were.


    But one thing’s for sure, it was quickly spiraling out of control.


    Adeline knew how serious this was.


    Frowning, she dialed Kieran’s number.


    Twenty minutester, Adeline and Elliot arrived at Simpo Co. They weren’t alone. Dn was with them.


    After listening to Elliot’s side of the story, Dn turned to Adeline, clearly unhappy. “I just finished


    dealing with a suicide case. Are you trying to keep me busy?”


    Although this wasn’t Adeline’s intention, she knew she was the one who started all this. So, she kept


    quiet, letting Dn chastise her for once.


    Elliot informed Payne Hernandez about the location where the kidnappers grabbed Julie. Payne was


    reviewing the traffic department’s surveince footage. Just like the two men had said, Julie was taken


    by two masked men, one tall and one short.


    Having seen the footage, Kieran was already on the phone with the police. “Yes, that’s correct. Two


    men, one tall, one short. The tall one’s about 174 cm, the short one’s around 168 cm. I’ll send you the


    footage right now…”


    Payne sent the suspects’ snapshots to the police station.


    Dn, still not entirely convinced, asked Kieran, “Could it be…”


    Dn suspected Lucian Hernandez, but didn’t voice his suspicion. Kieran knew what he meant.


    The room fell silent, save for the clicking of Payne’s keyboard.


    Finally, Payne broke the silence. He pointed at hisputer screen and said to Kieran, “The suspects


    were driving a car without a license te. I managed to track it down using the surveince footage.


    The car ended up in the northern suburbs. But there’s a stretch of road there without surveince. I


    skipped that part, checked all the possible routes, and confirmed that the car ended up in an


    abandoned parking lot in the northern part of the city…”


    Elliot immediately said, “I’ll send someone to check it out!”


    “No need.”


    “No need.”


    Two voices spoke simultaneously. One was Kieran’s, the other came from the doorway.


    Everyone turned to look at the door following Kieran’s gaze.


    Hayden Simson, dressed all in ck, stood by the doorway. He looked at Kieran and said, “I’ve already


    checked the car. No one’s inside.”


    Kieran continued, “The suspects must have switched cars on the stretch without surveince.”


    Everyone anticipated this. Payne continued to work swiftly on hisputer. “ording to my records


    and analysis, 48 cars passed through the stretch without surveince.”


    “So… she could be in any of these 48 cars?” Elliot asked, furrowing his brows deeply.


    Adeline stood up and looked at Payne. “Give me all the te numbers!”


    Payne wrote a program to automatically capture and print the te numbers. He then turned to Adeline


    and said, “The quickest way now is to take these te numbers to the police. Let them check all the


    car owners…”


    Adeline, clutching the printed te numbers, quickly dragged Elliot out of the room.


    Just as Payne was about to shut down hisputer, Dn stood up and told Payne, “First, track the


    final parking location of the 48 cars. Then find the missing car without surveince. After that, list all the


    suspicious cars for me. I want to check the videos myself.”


    Payne followed Dn’s instructions, but he was confused. “There are 13 suspicious cars in total. They


    all ended up in ces without surveince. So what?”


    “Pull up the surveince video of each car for me.” Dn had already taken a seat next to Payne.


    As Payne was scratching his head in confusion, he heard Dn, his face expressionless, watching the


    video of a suspicious car and saying, “Julie’s not in this car. Next one.”


    “How do you know Julie’s not in this car? It passed through the stretch without surveince and also


    ended up in a ce without surveinde. We can’t be sure if Julie was in this car!”


    Dn couldn’t exin how he knew.


    Julien hung up her call with the police and turned her attention to Dn. This was the forensic scientist,


    Dn, that Hayden had mentioned. He had incredible observation skills. He was better at psychology


    and deduction than autopsies. He was quick, able to spot every detail in an instant, and his wealth of


    knowledge made him a master at reasoning.


    As long as the owner’s face is caught on the surveince footage, Dn would have Payne zoom in,


    and then make urate judgments based on the micro-expressions on the driver’s face.


    Julien has some skill in this area too, just not as precise and quick as Dn.”


    Hayden looked at Kieran. He was just sitting on the sofa, unusually calm.


    Kieran didn’t say a word, didn’t show any expression, but Hayden knew, the more calm this man


    seemed, the deeper his thinking was.


    He kept staring at the phone on the table, for a long time.


    Hayden didn’t pay attention to Kieran, but turned to Julien and said, “You don’t need to participate in


    today’s mission.”


    Julien felt like she had heard wrong. She gave Hayden a cold look, “What?”


    Hayden obviously wouldn’t repeat what he had said.


    Payne on the side hurriedly repeated for Hayden, “I think this gentleman is making a lot of sense. This


    mission to rescue Julie is very dangerous. Even though you look so cool when you fight that I want to


    lie in your arms right away, I think you really shouldn’t participate in this mission.”


    “No one has ever dared to lie in my arms.” Julien said this, her eyes fixed on Hayden.


    Hayden’s cold gaze fell on Julien. He said, “This is an order.”


    About rescuing Julie, Julien would neverpromise, so she calmly contradicted Hayden.


    She said, “The only one who can give me orders is me!”


    This was the first time Julien had disobeyed Hayden’s orders since she had been following him, and it


    was for his friend’s woman.


    Hayden had a reason not to let Julien participate in this mission. He wasn’t worried about Julien’s


    safety like Payne was. But rather, he was more worried about the safety of the kidnappers.


    Just as Hayden and Julien were at a stalemate, Dn suddenly spoke up and broke the silence


    between the two, “Except for the five cars where the driver’s face can’t be seen in the surveince


    footage, the other forty-three cars are all clear.”


    Payne immediately understood what he meant, “I’ll call Adeline and Elliot.”


    -He was about to take out his phone, but suddenly realized, “If you can determine which cars are


    suspicious, then why would you let Adeline and Elliot run


    around for nothing? ording to this search speed, Adeline and Elliot should have already searched


    two cars by now, right?”


    Dn calmly replied, “Shouldn’t those who do wrong be punished?”


    Payne was speechless.


    He’d better just call Elliot honestly…


    Payne sent the license te numbers of the only five suspect cars to Elliot.


    Dn stood up and looked at Hayden and said, “I’m going to check on Elliot’s situation. You


    asionally need to interrupt Kerry’s thoughts.”


    Dn was about to leave, when he suddenly heard the always silent Kieran ask him, “Stop!”


    This shout scared Dn enough to stop him in his tracks.


    “Do you have any idea who the suspect might be?” Hayden asked Kieran.


    Kieran didn’t exin why he asked Dn to stop, but turned his head to ask Karl, “What’s the name of


    the woman who had lunch with Julie yesterday and spoke to Julie first in the canteen today?”


    “Mr. Hernandez, are you referring to Davina Field, the head of the legal department?” Karl looked


    confused, not understanding why Mr. Hernandez suddenly brought her up


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    “Where is she now? Kieran asked.


    Karl frowned, and then replied, “After Mrs. Hernandez disappeared at noon, Ms. Davina has been


    looking for her. I guess she’s still looking…” Kieran suddenly walked over to Payne, took Payne’s


    laptop, opened a surveince video, then looked at Dn and said, “Come and see!”


    Even though Dn didn’t understand Kieran’s intention, he still walked towards Kieran.


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    Kieran pointed to the surveince video of Julie and Davina having lunch yesterday, then asked Dn,


    “Take a close look at this woman. Can you notice


    anything?”