The call was from Qi Shifeng. He had already returned to the Xu family's old mansion, but he neither saw Youyou nor Xu Tingyu.
He asked the bodyguard downstairs, and the reply was that they hadn't seen Youyou. They thought he had been sleeping in his room.
He faintly sensed something was wrong. He immediately called Xu Tingyu and at the same time told his men to start searching the whole house.
When Xu Tingyu received the call, she was dazed. "No, I haven't gone back yet. Isn't Youyou taking a nap?"
"He's not in the room. I've told people to look for him." Qi Shifeng's tone turned serious.
There was still no result regarding Cai Lan's death. At this critical moment, Youyou's disappearance was like a thunderbolt to Xu Tingyu.
She suddenly lost her balance and fell straight down the steps.
Fortunately, Chen Yan behind her was quick - witted and grabbed her in time. "What's wrong?"
Xu Tingyu held onto his arm, her eyes looking blank. "Youyou is missing."
She knew that Qi Shifeng was a cautious man. Without a definite conclusion, he wouldn't have called her.
The fact that he called meant that Youyou was really missing.
Hearing this, Chen Yan's face also changed. He held her hand to help her stand firm.
"Don't be anxious. There are so many bodyguards at home. He must be okay. Let's go back right away."
Xu Tingyu was almost half - carried and stuffed into the car.
She was trembling all over, and the image of Cai Lan's blood - smeared body flashed through her mind again and again.
All of this was aimed at her, wasn't it?
Cai Lan was about to tell her the truth, so she lost her life.
And what about Youyou? What would the person behind this do to Youyou?
She didn't dare to think, and she couldn't think.
Chen Yan almost drove at top speed all the way. It only took half the usual time to reach the Xu family's villa.
Before the car came to a complete stop, Xu Tingyu had already opened the door. She even stumbled when getting out of the car.
She didn't feel the pain at all. She got up and rushed into the house.
By the time she got back, the bodyguards had searched the whole house inside and out, including all the cabinets and the attic that hadn't been visited for a long time.
There was no sign of anyone.
The bodyguards compared their memories with each other, and all of them said they hadn't seen Youyou.
Qi Shifeng's face looked very grim. He immediately arranged for people to go to the high - speed railway station, highway exits, and the airport to look for Youyou, and also sent people to the Qi family's place.
Then he pulled a few bodyguards aside to go over the situation in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, Xu Tingyu and Qi Shifeng had left the Xu family's old mansion one after another.
At that time, Youyou was still taking a nap.
There were two bodyguards guarding the front gate, one in the living room, and two others patrolling randomly.
During these few hours, nothing strange had happened.
They were all big men and didn't know much about taking care of children. So they didn't think there was anything wrong with Youyou sleeping for three or four hours.
It was not until Qi Shifeng finished his work and came back, didn't see Youyou's figure, and went upstairs to look for him but couldn't find him that he realized the child was missing.
"Why wasn't anyone guarding Youyou?" Xu Tingyu was on the verge of collapse. Her hand that grabbed Qi Shifeng's sleeve was trembling.
Qi Shifeng supported her waist. "The aunts aren't here. Before I left, I told them that if he woke up and came downstairs, they should let him watch TV for a while."
He knew how well - behaved his son was.
After waking up, he would surely come downstairs quietly without making any noise to look for people.
At that time, all the bodyguards had to do was turn on the TV for him.
The bodyguards carried out the order like this - since Youyou didn't come downstairs, they thought he hadn't woken up.
"The child surely didn't disappear out of thin air. Let's go and check the surveillance around the house now." Chen Yan stepped forward with a frown when he saw this situation.
The Xu mansion had been empty for a long time and there was no surveillance installed inside.
But there must be surveillance in the community.
Before Xu Tingyu and the others came back, Qi Shifeng had already sent someone to retrieve it.
Not long after, the surveillance footage was retrieved smoothly.
The surveillance showed that at around four o'clock in the afternoon, Youyou went out through the back door and got into a black business car.
The driver was fully armed, only showing a pair of eyes.
As soon as Youyou got in the car, it drove away quickly.
Xu Tingyu stared blankly at the video footage, hardly believing it.
"How could Youyou avoid everyone by himself, go out through the back door, and leave with a stranger?"
It wasn't that she was blinded by motherly love. Youyou was really a smart child. How could he do something so worrying?
Qi Shifeng couldn't understand it either.
But now wasn't the time to discuss this. Youyou had indeed opened the back door by himself and walked out alone.
The most important thing now was to find this car.
Qi Shifeng almost mobilized all his connections and means to start tracing the whereabouts of this car.
About three hours later, someone brought the organized track.
After driving out of the community, this car quickly drove into another old residential area.
There was no property management and no surveillance here, but there were quite a few residents.
After the car drove in, it disappeared.
The people who went to look for it quickly found the business car parked in a corner of the community. It was empty, and the license plate was fake.
There were three exits in the whole community. One of them was more remote, and there was no surveillance at all on the outside road.
It wasn't an easy task to find out how many cars had entered and exited the community during this period.
Qi Shifeng's men were looking for Youyou in the community while also watching various surveillance videos day and night, trying to sort out the cars that had entered and exited the community.
This workload was huge, and there was no result for the time being.
Xu Tingyu and the others didn't sleep all night. With red eyes, she sat on the sofa. From panic, she sank into self - blame. "It's all my fault. I brought bad luck back."
She was a jinx and shouldn't have appeared beside Youyou at all.
Qi Shifeng was also extremely anxious, but at this moment, he still comforted her first. "It's not your fault. Youyou will be okay."
Such a meticulous plan that even made Youyou open the door and walk out by himself must not have been planned in just one or two days.
"Could it be from the old master? He doesn't like me getting in touch with Youyou, so he took Youyou away?"
At this point, Xu Tingyu really hoped that Youyou had been taken away by the old master's men.
After all, no matter how much Old Master Qi disliked her, he wouldn't do anything to Youyou.
But Qi Shifeng shook his head. "I've checked. It's not him, nor my mother."
Now, there were already his people around the old master.
After Youyou disappeared, he immediately sent people to check around the old master. The old master was unaware.
Liu Ning had been busy growing her hair recently and hadn't caused any trouble.
Moreover, if it was really the old master who didn't like Xu Tingyu getting in touch with Youyou and wanted to take the child away, he wouldn't have done it so secretly.
After all, Youyou was the blood of the Qi family. If he really wanted to take him away, he would have come directly and openly to snatch the child.
This situation now seemed more like a kidnapping.