"Mr. Lin, we've taken care of everything. The Gu Group is finished for good. Gu Cheng, the heir in line to take over, has been locked up too. He won't get away with what he did before," Assistant Wang said.
"Good, understood. What have the people you sent to keep an eye on Bai Chen said? He hasn't had any problems lately, has he?" Lin Jingchen asked calmly, reading documents on the sofa.
The Gu Group and those subsidiaries of Shi Long's had more or less been dealt with now. They were unlikely to pose any further threat to Bai Chen.
But he still really wanted to know how Bai Chen was doing.
He couldn't think of a good excuse to call him without it seeming abrupt, and Bai Chen never called him either.
"He hasn't had any problems, but the person I sent said he took leave. Apparently, he went to Y City," Assistant Wang replied.
He took leave?
"What did he go to Y City for? Another field study?" Lin Jingchen asked.
He had only just gone on a field study recently. Normally, he wouldn't be going somewhere else for another one so soon. Besides, Bai Chen's home was in S City. Of all the places he might go, Y City wasn't one of them.
Lin Jingchen's immediate instinct was to worry that Bai Chen had run into trouble again.
"It's not a field study. I asked students in the same major, and they said there wasn't one. All we know right now is that he headed toward Miaojiang. We haven't found out why he went there," Assistant Wang answered honestly.
"All right, understood. I'll ask him myself. You can go," Lin Jingchen said quietly.
After Assistant Wang left, Lin Jingchen set down the documents, took out his