The Old Road (Sixteen)

It was clear Jones felt the same way.

After hearing the message over the radio, he froze for several seconds, clearly not expecting things to happen so quickly.

"Where?"

"On the bridge leading up the mountain."

The officer on the other end answered quickly.

"Listen... wait for me. I'm coming right over!"

Jones muttered to himself, then shouted into the radio.

"You three, come with me too."

The next moment, he glanced at Fu Qian and the others and gave a direct order.

As the person assigned to the mission, Fu Qian naturally had no objections.

Lei and Fran clearly didn't want to defy Jones either, and the three of them climbed into the car one after another.

Without another word, Jones sped toward the location the officer had reported.

"What happened to Harold?"

In the silence, Fran, sitting beside Fu Qian, kept her voice very low as she silently mouthed her question.

As far as she knew, Harold was a victim whose wife had been attacked. But it sounded as if the police were pursuing him, which was hard to understand.

"He..."

Although Fran had spoken quietly, Fu Qian still noticed Jones and Lei immediately perk up their ears.

"You're not married yet. You wouldn't understand."

He smiled faintly and gave a cryptic answer.

"As everyone knows, no matter how strangely a wife disappears, the husband always has to be kept under surveillance."

Fran was speechless at his answer. Jones merely snorted and stopped scrutinizing him in the rearview mirror.

Lei, meanwhile, wore a complicated expression and looked a little disappointed.

Amid that awkward atmosphere, the greenery outside grew thicker.

"Damn it!"

With a curse and a sharp squeal of brakes, Jones steered the car into an open space beside the road.

There was already more than one