Tongtong? Zhao Xintong? Zhang Yuanqing nearly failed to react. He sorted it out in his head before matching the name to the cute, pretty middle-school girl in his memory.
"Wait a moment!" Zhang Yuanqing rose and left the dining room, heading toward the small courtyard.
He sat down at the stone table in the yard and said in a low voice, "No one's around me now. Go ahead—what happened?"
Little Round immediately began speaking at a rapid pace:
"The day before yesterday, Tongtong got into a conflict with a classmate at school. She accidentally pushed them down the stairs and seriously injured them. She knew I wasn't at the hotel, so she fled on her own. Because of her unusual past, being taken to the Public Security Bureau would definitely attract the attention of official Walkers.
"But it's already abnormal enough for a middle-schooler to evade street surveillance and hide without a trace. That was why the official Walkers still caught onto her. She just called me and said she was surrounded. The ones arresting her were Star Officials from the Taiyi Sect's White Wax Branch.
"After the call ended, I had Kou Beiyue contact her from a public phone, but her phone was already off. No—it was probably destroyed by Tongtong herself. She's been captured."
Destroying her phone before being caught, so official Walkers could not follow the trail and uncover her companions—that was essential professionalism for an Evil Profession.
In other words, a destroyed phone also meant she had fallen into their hands.
Zhang Yuanqing's heart sank. He understood why Little Round was so frantic. Given the style of official Walkers, they would most likely kill an Evil Profession on sight.
The odds of an arrest were not high.
*Pushing someone down the stairs over a disagreement? This