Setting Sail!

That afternoon.

A coastal city.

After getting off the plane, Dong Xuebin boarded a Long-distance Bus headed for the coastal port.

On the way, Dong Xuebin turned on his phone for the first time since leaving home that morning. Beep, beep, beep—countless text messages flooded in, all from his family.

There were messages from Qu Yunxuan, Xie Huilan, and Luan Xiaoping, all asking where Dong Xuebin was and telling him to come home immediately. Dong Xuebin read every one of them but did not reply. He had said that if he could not find his daughter, he would never have the face to return home for the rest of his life. All he wanted now was to bring Qu Qian back safely, even if it cost him his life!

Then Dong Xuebin began making calls one by one.

"Hello, Old Qian? I'm in C City. Do you know anyone at the port here? No? It's fine, it's fine. Forget it, then."

"Hello, Boss Mu, do you know any captains at the port? Oh, never mind. I was just asking."

"Brother Zhou, are you familiar with the port in C City? I want to catch a ship. Do you know any way to arrange that? Oh, it's all right. I'll ask someone else."

"Hello, Director Liu, it's Little Dong..."

He made seven or eight calls but got nothing out of them.

However, one of Dong Xuebin's former subordinates from when he worked at the *** Station in Yantai County told him to ask Liu Dahai, the chief of Huitian Township's *** Station. Apparently, Lao Liu had relatives over there.

Dong Xuebin knew Liu Dahai extremely well. He had saved him before, and the two of them had a life-and-death bond. Dong Xuebin immediately called him and roughly explained that he needed