He Zheng pointed to his belly, "The belly b.u.t.ton piercing." Li Yuan brows shot up in surprise, he had slept with her twice or thrice, in literal meaning at least! But... Yes, he remembered feeling something, he had brushed it off as stonework on her dress.
It was a relief that. Till now he was clinging to a hope birthed by a possibility that she was out there somewhere but hearing it being confirmed gave his erratic heart aid, but not to get his hopes too high, he asked, "And maybe it means that she had gone into hiding or maybe the piercing is somewhere warm."
He Zheng shook his head seriously, "The piercing can only be removed by a key. Lei Xinyi had one and I had a duplicate. I went to her condominium some days ago. Her key was still there in her safe so there was no way she or anybody could have removed it and if it was ripped or removed with force it would have exploded but it"s still active..."
"You F*cking have a ticking time bomb on her body?!" Li Yuan stood up alerting Venessa and halting He Zheng in his speech, his eyes were ablaze and the room suffocatingly got closed off on He Zheng.
He sunk deeper in the seat and turned pale, "I...I didn"t! She asked me to if I wouldn"t do it she would ask anybody else to!" He saw Li Yuan running his hand in his hair in frustration but he knew it was better if he explained the whole thing at once, "At least I was sure that n.o.body else will harm her! But that is not the main problem, she is abducted I am sure of it or she would have informed us and she has her ways."
Li Yuan had a strong urge to first strangle He Zheng then strangle her the moment her eyes landed on him. What was she even thinking or was she thinking at all?!
As if other problems weren"t enough now he also had to bang his head against this lastest problem that she may just explode somewhere!
Then a thing caught his attention and he stopped pacing, "Lei Xinyi has a condominium here?" If she really did, there was sure to be a clue or lead there.
He Zheng snorted and Venessa threateningly purred. He who was already sunk in the sofa dived in deeper, "Don"t even think of trespa.s.sing," Li Yuan narrowed his eyes but He Zheng hurriedly explained, "I am saying it for your own good! Lei Xinyi hates it when people touch her things, Besides, the place is an autopilot killing machine."
Li Yuan took a step forward in the boy direction who was trying to become one with the sofa, "If I was to dispose of you, even your bones wouldn"t be found. Aren"t you scared, boy?"
"Perhaps, I am." He drawled, "But if anything was to happen to me Ren wouldn"t ever let that go and something tells me it would matter to you." He Zheng winked with a cheeky unsure smirk.
He put his phone out of his pocket and showed it to him, "In precaution, I have taken a selfie outside of your Mansion and sent on Lei Xinyi"s personal number. She will check it the first thing when she gets out of where-ever she is."
Li Yuan nodded amused by the boy"s wits, and smirked, "You are cunning and smart beyond your years. Makes me wonder, who your parents are?"
He really was curious. The boy was trained in Martial Arts and that required a healthy suitable body from birth and even had an ingenious knowledge of computers. He obviously wasn"t Lei Xinyi"s biological brother. His aristocratic manly features at such a young age showed he was well-bred and from a good background. Then the "He" surname...
At once at the mention of his parents, He Zheng face became devoid of emotion, "I don"t remember having any." At once Li Yuan saw the cunning mask lace on his smile and a glint in his eyes shone, "Ren brought me up since I was a kid."
The Boy was closed off and clever. It was better to solve him later. Li Yuan had his doubts that the young man must be from the He Family.
"So what is your plan?"
He Zheng took out a USB from his pocket and placed it on the table, "We look into the suspects. I thought they said you had the best men power and tech out there, it is time to strain them, no?"
Li Yaun held the USB and looked at him with furrowed brows, ignoring his comment "Suspects?" There weren"t many people that you could say she was against, every fight for her was on petty whims, "Who is this we are talking about?"
"The one with a purpose" He Zheng offered, "The Lei"s Heirs. The Game Of Heirs have begun and she is the queen in the game of p.a.w.ns!"
The frown in his head deepened, what was this new card that was unfolding, "The Game Of Heirs?
He Zheng nodded and at once seriousness took over his features, "Yes, it is a game played by all Lei Empire heirs. You kill or you get killed, the murders take place till there is only one left and then he descends as the next Head of the Family."
A creep was swept in Li Yuan"s heart, did they... "Why wouldn"t they have killed her already? Isn"t that what the game is about?"
He Zheng shook his head, "Lei Xinyi knows of other heirs. No one in the Game except her knows that. If an Heir has her, they would want to extract the names of the other heirs so the remaining game is easy for them because once Lei Xinyi is...gone all the other heirs will go in hiding but Lei Xinyi is not one to relent."
Li Yuan eyes turned cold and his jaw hardened, "So you are saying that they are torturing her till she tells them the names of the other heirs?" He Zheng shrugged giving him his answer. They most probably were! "Why does she know the name of all the other heirs?"
He Zheng face turned expressionless and disdain took over his features, "The game began after she killed the rightful heir, in fact, the game began basically because the rightful heir was dead and they needed another heir. The Patriarch Lei then started looking for the descendants of his other children as his children were already dead as the result of the last Game Of Heir. When he found them... he ripped them from their safe heavens and dropped them in a life where they are supposed to be sacrificial lambs for the next heir."
The heirs were brought in the Lei"s headquarter and trained in different courtyards so they never met and thus they will never develop family feelings for each other making the game brutal and when they don"t know who the other there is, it prolongs the game, making it an amus.e.m.e.nt for the Patriarch.
That was the main reason they all hated Lei Xinyi, she had dragged them to this. She destroyed their perfect lives and dropped them on chopping boards by killing the rightful heir and starting The Heirs Game.
He took a pause and a small wistful smile rose in his features, "But the 16-year-old Lei Xinyi was desperate for the family she always craved and now she had them close..." Li Yuan brows shot up in shock and surprise, Lei Xinyi killed the winner of the last game of heirs when she was just sixteen!
"...Lei Xinyi mother had traded Lei Xinyi life for hers when Lei Xinyi was 8-years-old so she went to look for her new family. Lei Xinyi had lived in the Headquarter all her life and knew all the hideouts so she kept observing them for months without being noticed so she pretty much knows everyone."
Li Yaun felt rage like never before, what kind of mother traded her children?! "Does that mean her mother is alive?"
He Zheng bit his lip in thought then shrugged, "No one knows."
Li Yuan eyes narrowed, the boy knew too much to be a pa.s.serby. The Lei Family was like dead-ends cave n.o.body knew a lot about them then, "You know a lot about the Lei"s Heirs... you are an heir, aren"t you?" Li Yuan demanded with hardened jaw.
He Zheng nodded solemnly. "I am."
Li Yuan asked with clenched fists, "And you don"t hate her?"
"No, I Wouldn"t be here, if I did!" He Zheng scoffed in irritation, "I am the youngest of heirs, when the game began I was 11, only she knew of me then. She not only saved me but brought me up when she could have killed me so no! I can"t help it. If things escalate to it I would lay my life for her."
Li Yuan thought for a while then nodded, "Good start, so how do you plan to know the name of the heirs."
"That is easy and simple!" At once He Zheng turned his laptop to him and started typing. He opened the file he has stolen with bios of people from the Army Base"s Mainframe and turned it to Li Yuan, "They are living illegally in the country as Lei"s are in exile, courtesy to your grandfathers so I "borrowed" an encoded file from the Army Base of the people who are living illegally in the country there are about 562 that suits the profile for a Lei heir." Li Yuan looked at the genius boy in surprise, even his intelligence team didn"t think of it!
The boy was sneaky and clever. He Zheng took out the hard copy of the bios from her bag and handed it to Li Yuan, "Your men have to observe them to see who are they and who has her!"
Li Yuan"s eyes drifted to the file and he missed the smirk that formed on He Zheng"s face. "Okay! Then I will leave. I have put my number in the file, contact me as you have a lead!" He said that and stood up to leave being mind full of the feline that was glaring at him from Li Yuan"s feet.
Li Yuan was going to have a shock of his life once going through the file and He Zheng didn"t want to be there when the revelation dawns upon him.