Chapter 1574: The Seven Second Miracle
Last time, He Chengjian had shown her the video of Gu Nianzhi disappearing after he had turned off the lights and blown out the candles.
Today, this was the first time she had seen what happened before and after.
Immediately after, chaos erupted in the virtual projection in front of her.
In the projection, He Zhichu shouted, “n.o.body move!”
He pulled out his gun and raised it. He looked at the people in the living room with a sullen expression. “Seal the door! n.o.body move!”
There were at least 200 people in the living room, and more than half of them were 11 or 12-year-old children.
As soon as they saw He Zhichu pull out his gun, some of the children started crying uncontrollably.
The parents tried to comfort the children in low voices, but more and more children started crying. He Zhichu’s eyes scanned the living room, but he could not see where the little girl had gone!
Only seven seconds!
Seven seconds!
He waved his personal secretary over and asked them to show him the surveillance footage from the living room.
But his personal secretary quickly ran back and said with a sullen expression on his face, “Young Master He, the surveillance… the surveillance footage has been hacked! The footage is still from before the candle was blown out!”
In the virtual projection, He Zhichu looked down at the surveillance footage on his phone, but he didn’t do anything.
He Zhichu, who was sitting next to Gu Nianzhi, explained to her, “I was looking at the surveillance footage on my phone at the time because it did stop before I blew out the candles.”
Gu Nianzhi was a little confused. She pointed at the virtual projection in front of her. “… What about these? Didn’t you record them?”
He Zhichu smiled bitterly, and he said, “This video was left behind by the memory unit in my room. I used this memory unit as a backup. The surveillance footage in the mansion must be sent to this memory unit in my room at regular intervals.”
“The other party was unable to break my pa.s.sword, so this video was left behind. The surveillance cameras in other parts of the mansion were also destroyed. You have to know that the surveillance cameras in our house are very tight, and the security procedures are very difficult to crack. So we suspect…”
“You suspect that my father did it, don’t you?” Gu Nianzhi nodded in understanding.
There was probably no one else who could do this besides Gu Xiangwen.
Gu Nianzhi shrunk her neck in guilt.
Lu Jin, Gu Xiangwen, was hacking into the He family’s “surveillance and security” program at her request
When she got back, she had to ask Lu Jin if he could hack into He Zhichu’s room’s pa.s.sword.
“We only suspected it, but it didn’t take long for us to stop suspecting it,” He Zhichu said as he gestured for Gu Nianzhi to continue watching.
In the virtual projection video, the living room was still in a mess, and the adults and children were all anxious and uneasy.
After all, the little princess that the He family had protected had disappeared under everyone’s watchful eyes. They were all terrified and afraid that He Zhichu would vent his anger on them.
Just as He Zhichu walked down the steps and was about to interrogate the adults and children one by one, an orderly came in from outside the house and said in a daze, “Young Master He, someone gave you a note.”
He Zhichu: “…”
He looked at the orderly suspiciously. He did not take the note, but took a look at it while it was in his hand.
He saw that there was writing on it. “You don’t have to look anymore. I’ve taken my daughter away.”
He Zhichu’s heart skipped a beat. He suddenly realized that everything that he could not figure out had been solved.
So it was Gu Xiangwen!
Other than him, who else could make such a big move of “abducting” a twelve-year-old girl in front of everyone in seven seconds? !
He Zhichu looked at the orderly again, and felt that there was something wrong with the expression in his eyes. He glanced at him indifferently and suddenly gave him a push.
The orderly did not seem to have much strength and was pushed to sit on the ground.
Then, he looked around as if he had just woken up from a dream. He rubbed the back of his head and stood up while saying in confusion,”… Why am I here?”
He Zhichu understood and his face darkened. “You were hypnotized? !”
“… Hypnotized? I don’t remember…” The orderly could not remember what had just happened.
Just then, a young girl ran in and said anxiously, “I just came back from school and saw someone with a little girl driving a car at the corner of the entrance!”
Gu Nianzhi’s spirits were lifted.
This person was Wen Shouyi!
To be precise, this person was Wen Shouyi, who had just turned eighteen years old eight years ago.
Her face was rounder than it was now. She had long eyebrows, thin eyes, and fair skin. She was a little similar to the chubby Gu Nianzhi when she was a child, but more similar to the doll that Gu Nianzhi liked to play with when she was a child.
All the clues pointed to Gu Xiangwen. Gu Xiangwen was a master at hypnosis, and He Zhichu knew a thing or two about the Gu family’s ancestral hypnosis technique.
Therefore, he no longer had any doubts and immediately waved his hand. “Follow me! Go out and chase after the car!”
The virtual projection ended here.
He Zhichu told her the rest of the story.
“… Our He family was heavily guarded. Only someone who was very good at hypnosis can possibly take a person away from our family.”
“All the evidence points to that person.”
“I took my people and hurried over. In the end, I only saw a shadow of that car.”
“So I began a large-scale search throughout the city. I immediately blocked all the land transportation routes and grounded all the flights and ferries. I had to make sure that that person could not escape.”
“But I did not expect that a month later, our large-scale search did not make that person yield. Instead, it made him even crazier.”
“That day, in a certain downtown area of C City, that person set his car on fire in front of our pursuers, and in the car, I clearly saw you sitting inside.”
“The fire was overwhelming. I only saw that madman laughing wildly in the fire. You and the car just disappeared in the fire.”
He Zhichu turned his head to prevent Gu Nianzhi from seeing his expression.
When he saw the scene, he screamed “Nianzhi!” and fainted.
“After I woke up, I was depressed for three years…”
“Our people quickly found the magnetic resonance machine left behind by that person and learned about the existence of the parallel s.p.a.ce.”
“Some people speculated that before that person died, he probably sent you to the other side of the parallel s.p.a.ce.”
“And that person set himself on fire to cover up the evidence of the magnetic resonance so that we wouldn’t find out where you went.”
“During those three years, our people went to the other side…”
He Zhichu lowered his eyes. “That’s when I pulled myself together and decided to look for you.”
Even though he knew that if there was a counterpart, he would die together with him, he did not care and insisted on going.
He Chengjian was also afraid for him.
The three years of depression left He Chengjian with a lingering fear.
In the end, he could not persuade him, so he finally let go and let him try it out himself.
Fortunately, little He Zhichu had pa.s.sed away a long time ago, so he came to the other side safely.
During the three years when Gu Nianzhi was not around, Wen Shouyi, who had been by He Zhichu’s side, also volunteered to go with him, so He Chengjian’s impression of Wen Shouyi was even better.
Gu Nianzhi heard He Zhichu talk about these things. Although he didn’t sound very emotional, she was still very uncomfortable.
She sneered and leaned back on the sofa. She supported her head with one hand and said, “Wen Shouyi also has deep feelings for you… Now that you don’t have a fiancée, why don’t you consider her?”
He Zhichu pursed his lips. He stood up and went to the fridge to get a bottle of water. He placed it in front of Gu Nianzhi and said, “I’ve never had any feelings for her.”
Previously, He Zhichu had trusted her a lot because she had volunteered to go to the opposite world with him, even if it meant risking her life.
She was also very smart, very attentive, and very good at taking care of people.
He Zhichu respected all those who worked hard to climb up the ladder.
As long as they did not do evil things, this spirit was worthy of respect.
Unfortunately, later on, he realized that she was not what she appeared to be, and had an inexplicable hostility towards Gu Nianzhi. She repeatedly crossed his bottom line, and only then did he kick her back.
Gu Nianzhi pursed her lips and thought to herself, I was just saying it as a joke. If you really dared to make Wen Shouyi your fiancée, I’ll sever ties with you completely!
She took the laptop from He Zhichu and replayed the video on the laptop.
This time, it was no longer a virtual human projection video, but a video played on the computer.
This was because she was different from He Zhichu.
He Zhichu had a.s.sumed that her disappearance had been Gu Xiangwen’s doing from the beginning to the end.
However, Lu Jin had personally told Gu Nianzhi that there was someone else. In fact, it was Qin Yaoguang who had wanted to abduct her on her birthday.
He had only used the force to “intercept” Qin Yaoguang’s plan. Before those people had handed her over to Qin Yaoguang, Gu Xiangwen had taken her away.
In other words, the person who had taken Gu Nianzhi out of the He family’s residence was not Gu Xiangwen at all!
However, the video just now did not show how she had been taken out of the He residence.
Could seven seconds really make a person disappear completely?
Then, within the next ten minutes, she had pa.s.sed through the He residence’s heavily guarded courtyard and appeared directly in the car at the corner of the street?
Gu Nianzhi had a hunch that there was something wrong with the video.