Robbers

Su Weiguo was taken aback as he listened to his daughter's tearful cries on the phone. He hadn't checked the caller ID because he was in the middle of an experiment.

However, he did hear his daughter's last sentence.

"Baby granddaughter, Su Nianxin has been kidnapped." Although Su Weiguo usually didn't pay much attention to his family, he deeply loved his daughter.

Especially his clever and mischievous granddaughter. Whenever Su Weiguo was tired from his experiments, he would look at her photos.

Now that his granddaughter had been kidnapped, he felt incredibly anxious. Many students around him watched as the normally unflappable old professor stood there in a daze after taking the call.

Some students nearby had already heard the word "kidnapped," as Su Mei's voice was quite loud on the phone, and many people close to him heard it.

Seeing the old professor swaying, one student quickly rushed over to support him.

Su Weiguo, who had dedicated his life to research, was stunned by this turn of events. What he wanted most at that moment was to be by his daughter's side.

He had already sensed his daughter's unstable emotions during the call.

He needed to be with his daughter. Whatever experiments or research, his daughter and granddaughter were the most important things now.

He put down his experiments, put down his beloved research, and now, he just wanted to be a father, a grandfather.

Several sharp-eyed students saw the panic and unease on the professor's face as he left, and a deep sense of self-blame.

The news of Su Weiguo's granddaughter being kidnapped quickly spread throughout the institute.

Although it was a small research institute, it was filled with many powerful individuals.

The institute where Su Weiguo worked was directly under the state. Its director was a renowned figure who enjoyed state subsidies.

Everyone began to use their connections to help Su Weiguo find his granddaughter. This was a testament to the network the old professor had built over the years; without him even asking, many people volunteered to help.

Nanlin Island.

Ye Yuan had come here tonight riding on Little Shark.

He had originally intended to take Little Shark to Zhang Gui's fishing grounds again, but Little Shark had brought him here instead.

Ye Yuan knew that Little Shark was active in this area during the day, but he wondered why it had brought him here today for no apparent reason. Little Shark dropped Ye Yuan off at the closest point to the shore.

Ye Yuan noticed a speedboat docked by the shore.

Ye Yuan had visited Nanlin Island many times and had never found any traces of people living there.

Little Shark's unusual behavior today, coupled with the speedboat by the island, made Ye Yuan decide to go and investigate.

He calmed Little Shark and then stealthily infiltrated Nanlin Island.

He reached the long-abandoned resort hotel and discovered a faint light in the depths of the second floor, resembling the glow of an old kerosene lamp.

He cautiously approached, stopping a few meters away from the light source. He found that the light was coming from a room without a door.

Occasionally, human voices could be heard from inside the room.

"I say, Gouzi, can't you be quiet? Stop rambling on and on."

This was a young man's voice.

"Aren't you scared? This is kidnapping. I'm not too sure about Brother Gui. What if he takes the money and runs off without us?"

"You don't think so?"

The first young man's voice spoke again.

"You haven't been with him long and don't know him. He's very selfish. If it wasn't for him saying that if I completed this job, my debt to him would be cleared, I wouldn't have done it. What about you? Why are you doing this?"

"Ah, it's all because of my family... Never mind, it's depressing."

Then, silence fell in the room.

Ye Yuan didn't dare to get too close. From their brief conversation, he knew there were at least two people here, but he didn't know if they were armed.

Just as Ye Yuan was contemplating whether he should get involved.

The young man's voice rang out again.

"Gouzi, you watch him. I need to go relieve myself."

Hearing this, Ye Yuan immediately concealed himself in a dark corner.

He saw someone walk out of the room. Due to the dim light, he couldn't make out the person's features.

The figure walked down to the first floor. Ye Yuan cautiously followed behind, wanting to see where he was going.

If he could get far enough away from here, Ye Yuan believed he could subdue this person with his current strength.

Soon, the person in front emerged from the unfinished building and walked to a dirt mound not far away. Humming a tune, he began to unbuckle his belt.

Ye Yuan took out his extendable baton from his spatial storage. Seizing the moment, he swung it hard at the man's back. This was Ye Yuan's first time ambushing someone from behind, and he put a lot of force into it.

With a "crack," followed by a thud and cries of pain, the man fell to the ground.

Ye Yuan quickly took out a piece of cloth and stuffed it into the man's mouth. The man's arms showed no resistance, indicating that the blow had been quite severe.

He found a rope and tied him up.

Just as he finished, a trembling voice sounded from behind him:

"Who are you?"

Ye Yuan turned around and saw a person standing behind him, holding a baseball bat and pointing it at him.

Perhaps it was nervousness, perhaps it was fear, but the hand holding the baseball bat was trembling slightly.

Ye Yuan didn't answer. Instead, he raised the extendable baton in his hand and charged at the man.

Seeing Ye Yuan charge, the man raised his bat and swung it down. Since practicing his cultivation technique, Ye Yuan's reaction speed had improved by leaps and bounds. To ordinary people, this speed was not slow, but in Ye Yuan's eyes, it was already very slow.

He easily dodged the opponent's attack and struck the man's wrist with his baton. Because Ye Yuan didn't know his current combat ability, he used his full strength.

"Crack"

The man's wrist deformed. Then, holding his wrist with his other hand, he ran towards the shore.

Ye Yuan chased after him and kicked him, sending him sprawling onto the ground.

He tied up the second person as well, grabbed his hair, and dragged him towards the first person. The man yelped in pain, "Easy there, brother, easy."

Ye Yuan tied both of them to two separate trees and asked them, "Who are you people? What are you doing here?"

"Brother, let's talk. We're just the night watchmen here. This place is abandoned, right? Our boss plans to develop it, so he sent us to watch over it first," the second person answered.

Ye Yuan knew he wasn't telling the truth. He directly used his baton and hit him, causing him to cry out in pain.

"Stop hitting! Stop hitting! We're with Brother Gui. We just kidnapped a little girl and are watching her here. We don't know anything else."

"Which Brother Gui?" Ye Yuan thought of someone with a faint premonition.

"Zhang Gui. Zhang Gui from Pinghai County."

"It really is him," Ye Yuan thought.

"Who did you kidnap?" Ye Yuan pressed.

"We don't know. Just a little girl. Brother Gui didn't say, he just told us to wait for his call here."

"Where is the child? Where is she now?"

"She's in a room on the second floor. We gave her sleeping pills because we were afraid she'd make noise."

The two men, enduring the pain in their bodies, confessed everything.

Ye Yuan ignored them and went directly to the room where the little girl was held. In the dim light, he saw a little girl wearing a pink dress, with tear stains still on her face. She looked about 3-4 years old, even younger than his own Niuniu.