470 The Secret About the Past 88 (1/2)

Not to forget, she was a member of the Gu family too.

An Xiaoning racked her brains to come up with a possible suspect who instigated the abduction. After pondering it through thoroughly, the only names she could think of was Xu Youran and Gu Dongcheng.

Who would stand to gain the most if Gu Beicheng and Lin Mingxi went missing?

It was none other than Gu Dongcheng.

Without them around, he would have the Gu Corporation all to himself.

Who would benefit the most if An Xiaoning went missing?

Xu Youran, of course.

Perhaps Xu Youran has already found out about the possibility of me belonging to the Xu family, that's why…

A grave expression formed on An Xiaoning's face.

Indeed, if you don't eradicate the root cause completely, there was bound to be more trouble in the future.

While she knew that the two of them were the greatest suspects behind the act, she could not make any accusations without concrete evidence.

Neither could she interrogate them both immediately, lest she alerts the enemy unnecessarily.

It would be the most foolish decision to do so.

Upon knowing that such a serious incident had occurred, the hotel worked at top efficiency and quickly settled the matters An Xiaoning instructed them to.

An Xiaoning immediately understood what she had to do next after looking at the screenshots of the footage as well as the registered details of the guests belonging to that room.

She instructed her assistant and bodyguards to stay behind in the hotel while she headed to the address on the personal identification card used for registration.

To her disappointment, the personal identification card was robbed from the original owner, who explained the situation to An Xiaoning. The victim had been frightened by the robbery as well.

An Xiaoning had lost her lead.

An Xiaoning knew that the perpetrators would have definitely fled the country using a private boat or jet instead of boarding a commercial plane or ferry.

The greatest likelihood was that they had left on their private ferry. After all, they were bringing two other people with them.

She again thought of the possibility that the mastermind was probably not after Gu Beicheng and Lin Mingxi's lives, for they would have taken the chance to kill them right away when they were drugged unconscious instead of going through the hassle of taking them away.

Xu Youran would definitely be more ruthless than to spare their lives, which meant it was likely that Gu Dongcheng was the one behind it.

At this point, An Xiaoning had already pinned the two of them as the main suspects.

She then hailed a taxi to the nearest ferry terminal.

She managed to obtain the information she needed after bribing the workers at the terminal.

According to the staff in charge, there was a private ferry that left the terminal at midnight and headed in the Southwest direction. The staff also immediately verified that the ferry belonged to the people in the photos An Xiaoning had shown him.

It would be too late to take chase now since the ferry had departed at midnight, which was several hours ago.

Nonetheless, An Xiaoning decided to still chase after them.

Without hesitation, she ordered for the helicopter to pick her up. She then embarked on a journey towards the direction given by the staff in charge while looking out of the helicopter with a pair of binoculars.

The helicopter did not soar too high above the sea, though it was advancing at top speed.

Needless to say, it was traveling much faster than a ferry would.

On the helicopter, An Xiaoning instructed the bodyguards and assistant to keep mum and ensure that no news of Gu Beicheng and Lin Mingxi missing were leaked to the public. She warned that they would face severe punishment should they fail to keep the news secret.

An Xiaoning constantly pondered about where she would take the two of them if put in the shoes of the mastermind.