Chapter 424 - Chapter 424: Chapter 269: Almost Driven Crazy! _2 (2/2)

The plot had shifted too quickly for her.

Just two minutes before, she had been lamenting that Lin Chuan could not become their ally, that Lin Chuan was doomed to be her enemy, that Lin Chuan had lost the court case and was headed for irrecoverable ruin.

But then!

A phone call, a video.

Simple text and sound had yanked her from her cushy clouds, straight onto the ground, smashing her into the scorching interior of a volcano, burning her body.

And even then, a meteor had struck from the sky, hitting her right in the chest, making it impossible to catch a breath.

For a moment.

Yu Qin felt her heart had stopped.

She numbly held the tablet, moving past the tea table like a zombie, just as Steve had been taken away, and returned to the sofa.

Lucas too was in a complicated mental state, his thoughts a tangled mess of yarn, completely clogging his mind, leaving no room for clear thinking.

Suddenly!

It seemed he had stepped on something; his foot slipped and he lunged forward heavily.

Thud!

He dropped to his knees.

Fortunately, his hands caught the tea table, preventing his head from smashing down.

If it had, he might have turned into an idiot.

Or at the very least, suffered a concussion.

His head was saved, but his knee was in a terrible state!

“Ah!”

Lucas’s scream echoed in the office, half-opened champagne, due to the sudden mishap caused by Yu Qin’s hurried actions, now had him slipping, kneeling on the ground, a shard of glass the size of a thumb tip half-buried in his knee.

He held his knee, gritting his teeth.

The pain was nearly enough to make him pass out.

The secretary quickly called someone to help treat Lucas’s wound.

The office was in complete disarray.

The clamorous noise was driving Yu Qin insane.

She plunged her hands into her hair, ferociously scratching a few times, and due to continuous overnight work, some hairs wound around her fingers and came loose.

“How could Karl not contact me about such a big matter?” Yu Qin muttered in a daze.

In their trio.

Lucas had injured his knee, and only Karl, who was under cover at Han River in Anling as ‘720’, remained. Logically, he should have contacted her.

Yu Qin’s frown deepened, a line forming between her brows.

After thinking for a moment.

She picked up her phone again and dialed Karl’s number.

The phone delivered a chilling message to her ears; “The number you have dialed is out of service area…”

Yu Qin and Karl always secured their communication heavily, rarely letting anyone track them through their encrypted communications.

But if one party disabled it, the call wouldn’t go through.

Under what circumstances would Karl disable it?

When he was in danger!

At that moment, Yu Qin’s heart sank.

An ominous premonition violently rose from the depths, a chill shooting up from the soles of her feet, flooding her mind and spreading throughout her body, making her shiver suddenly despite the warm weather.

“Can’t reach Karl?” Lucas asked through clenched teeth.

“He might be in trouble too,” Yu Qin said with a grave face.

“Take it easy!” Lucas cursed at the doctor treating his wound, then said, “Find out about Karl’s situation immediately. We can’t afford any more incidents with him!”

Yu Qin didn’t respond.

Wasn’t that obvious?

Her movements and speech quick, she moved to a corner of the office and made four or five phone calls in quick succession, like issuing a Martial World Hit Order, all aimed at finding out Karl’s current status.

After a while.

A message came back.

— Karl had been taken away by the police, accused of engaging in spy activities.

Yu Qin collapsed onto the sofa with a thud, drained, her lips parched, feeling as if her soul had been ripped from her body.

One piece of bad news after another, she was nearly driven mad!