Daniel was practically beside himself with rage when he left the supermarket. He even suspected that the owners of both businesses had known he was coming and colluded beforehand.
Call the police again? Claim he had lost his wallet again? If he did that, the person the police took away this time would probably be him.
Amid his despair and anger, an idea suddenly struck him. Someone as important as Ji Ting could never have come to the Arctic with only his older brother. Huaguo would surely have provided them with the tightest possible security...
Daniel's eyes widened. He immediately pulled out his phone and called his colleagues at the station. "Listen, go to Huaguo's Yellow River Research Station right now. See if Ji Ting and Ji Yanzhi are still there, or whether there's anything unusual going on!"
More than half an hour later, his colleague called back. "Daniel, have you got this wrong? We just went to the Yellow River Station on the pretext of borrowing some tools. They happened to be having a group meal, all gathered around a table eating that Chinese hot pot. It was quite lively, and they even invited us to join them... There were a few Asian faces, but we didn't see the two men from the restaurant that day. Everything was normal."
Everything was normal? How could everything possibly be normal?!
The whole world's attention was focused on Ji Ting now. If he was found on another country's territory, he would never get home for the rest of his life. With the situation this critical, how could Huaguo possibly fail to act?
The more Daniel thought about it, the colder he felt. Taking everything into account, Ji Ting had very likely left long ago.
At this point, he had no choice but