Transmigrated as a Scumbag Alpha, I'm a Salted Fish on a Dating Show (GL) - Chapter 22.1
Gu Chixue watched the figures of everyone dispersing, suppressing the vexation in her heart, constantly simulating all possibilities and countermeasures in her mind.
The assistant director ran over at this moment, her originally delicate face covered in sweat, anxiously saying: “It’s Ye Rou’s agent. She said she has a few questions for you.”
Gu Chixue took the phone, nodded reassuringly at the assistant director, her voice exceptionally calm: “Don’t worry, it will be fine.”
With that, she put the phone to her ear, her voice steady: “What do you want to ask?”
“I am Ye Fei, Ye Rou’s family member and also her agent. I want to ask if she had anything unusual in the period before and after her disappearance? Did she come into contact with anyone of unknown identity?”
Gu Chixue’s eyes were half-closed, she thought for a moment: “When we were filming on stage after the competition, her aura seemed to change momentarily. When I looked back at her, I didn’t see anything wrong with her face.”
“At the time, I thought I was too sensitive and didn’t think much of it, but now it seems this is the only abnormal thing that happened during that period.”
“As for whether she came into contact with people of unknown identity, certainly not before the competition started, but I can’t guarantee it after it ended. I’m currently checking the surveillance footage to see if anything turns up.”
Hearing Gu Chixue’s calm voice on the other end of the phone, logically clear and orderly, Ye Fei’s heart gradually filled with surprise.
The image this person was presenting now was far different from the investigation results in the data she held. She wasn’t as rotten as imagined. Why was the discrepancy so large?
And so calm in the face of trouble, was it because she didn’t care about Ye Rou, or was this just how she handled things?
Ye Fei, who had been collecting intelligence for many years, had countless questions arise in her mind within a few sentences. Her professional sensitivity made her instinctively believe that the person on the other end of the phone was not as simple as she had imagined.
After listening to Gu Chixue’s words, she was silent for a moment: “I understand. I’m on my way to your location now. We can discuss the specifics when we meet.”
“Okay, we’ve already reported it to the police, and they’ll be here soon.”
Ye Fei nodded: “Thank you for the trouble.”
At this moment, the group retrieving surveillance footage sent news that they had found the last place Ye Rou appeared.
Upon hearing this, Gu Chixue immediately lifted her leg and walked towards the monitoring room without a word.
The assistant director was also a tall, long-legged female Alpha, but no matter how she stretched her legs, she couldn’t catch up with Gu Chixue’s figure. In the end, she could only jog to barely keep pace with Gu Chixue.
When she reached the monitoring room, she couldn’t help but lean against the doorframe, panting heavily. The distance from the scene to here was truly not short.
As she caught her breath, she watched Gu Chixue, who was still as calm as before, her expression unwavering, even her chest rising and falling no differently than before, as if walking that short distance had no effect on her at all.
She watched Gu Chixue standing in front of the screen, staring intently at the surveillance video, her heart filled with confusion. This demon’s legs are about as long as mine, so how can she walk so fast? I just can’t catch up to her!
Gu Chixue paid no mind that her performance just now seemed to have startled the assistant director. She was intently watching the surveillance video, trying to find clues hidden in the details.
In the video, Ye Rou’s expression was cold, without the usual cuteness she had when with Gu Chixue, and even her customary smile was absent from her face.
She walked unhurriedly in the middle of the road, as if thinking about something as she walked.
After walking this path, there was a blind spot in the club’s surveillance. No matter how much they rewound or fast-forwarded, Ye Rou’s figure never reappeared.
The clue ended there. However, the perplexing part was that the place where Ye Rou disappeared, strictly speaking, couldn’t be called a blind spot; at most, it was a dead end.
Because this path was designed as an L-shaped corridor, the end of the path was a wall, and one would have to turn there.
And directly above the turn was a camera, but no matter how they pulled the timeline, they couldn’t find Ye Rou’s shadow, as if the corner of that path was a black hole that swallowed people.
A living person had vanished into thin air at the end of that path!
At this moment, the staff member who retrieved the surveillance footage looked terrified, his voice slightly trembling: “When I found this video alone here just now, I kept getting chills. How can a living person just suddenly disappear like that?”
As he spoke, he kept rubbing his arms to ease his inner fear.
Gu Chixue was silent.
She repeatedly reviewed the last frame where Ye Rou appeared, her free hand constantly rubbing her thumb and forefinger together, her expression unreadable, not knowing what she was thinking.
The pale light from the screen evenly spread across her delicate face, which should have made her appear even more enchanting.
But regrettably, her fox-like seductive eyes were now as unfathomable as a cold pool, making people dare not look directly at them.
Gu Chixue suddenly stood up and looked at the assistant director: “I’m going to Ye Rou’s disappearance spot. You don’t need to follow.”
She finished speaking and left the room directly, ignoring the reaction of the person behind her.
Everyone looked at the eerie video, feeling a little scared inside. They were all speculating about the reason. The room was silent. When Gu Chixue suddenly spoke, everyone shivered.
The assistant director saw Gu Chixue’s retreating figure. Having just caught her breath, she anxiously shouted: “Wait for me! Don’t go alone; who knows what the situation is there!”
She secretly groaned inwardly, but there was nothing she could do. She quickly chased after her again.
Under the dark night sky, heavy rain was pouring down, large raindrops hitting the windows with a earth-shattering force.
Occasional flashes of lightning tore through the clouds, illuminating this dim world, accompanied by rumbling thunder that continuously assaulted everyone’s eardrums.
The two arrived at the corner shown in the video. Gu Chixue’s gaze swept inch by inch, not daring to miss a single detail.
A flash of lightning streaked across, and her peripheral vision seemed to catch a glint of something. Her gaze suddenly fixed.
She crouched down and picked up a small cat-shaped earring from the ground. This was a prize Gu Chixue had won in a shooting game at the amusement park.
At the time, seeing how much Ye Rou liked it, Gu Chixue had given her the earring.
Gu Chixue held the earring up to her eyes, examining it carefully. The originally pure white kitten now had specks of red light on it.
Her beautiful fox eyes were half-closed. She looked up at the camera above her head, said nothing, and slowly walked back.
The assistant director watched Gu Chixue’s calm departing footsteps, keenly sensing that the air in this space had seemed to condense for a moment, making it suddenly difficult to breathe.
She snapped back to attention and quickly followed Gu Chixue’s pace, looking flustered as if some ancient beast was chasing her from behind.
Gu Chixue and the assistant director returned to the monitoring room, only to find the small room already filled with people.
She met the gazes focused on her and calmly asked: “Is there anyone among you who understands hacking? Help me determine if this surveillance video has been spliced.”
Everyone looked at each other, no one spoke, and they all lowered their heads, not daring to look at the tall figure standing at the doorway.
Gu Chixue waited for a moment and found no one spoke. The expression in her eyes remained as calm as a still well.
She said softly: “You can go back. I basically understand the situation. Thank you all for your help today. From now on, I will handle everything with the police alone.”
The assistant director looked at Gu Chixue, asking with concern: “Ye Rou, she’ll be okay, right?”
“Don’t worry, she will be fine.”
Gu Chixue revealed a beautiful smile, but no one understood the extreme destructive desire hidden beneath that smile.
Everyone still tried to stay and help, but Gu Chixue dismissed them all with the excuse that it was unnecessary and would be handled by the police.
She stood at the club entrance, watching the bus slowly drive away. A bolt of lightning happened to tear through the night sky, illuminating her eyes, which were gradually being consumed by a red glow. Turning around, a cold snort suddenly echoed through the venue.
Gu Chixue’s black hair swayed slightly around her. Her tall figure walked slowly in the darkness. Occasional flashes of lightning across the night sky stretched her shadow long behind her, like a monstrous beast with bared fangs and claws filling the entire corridor.
Bright headlights illuminated the long street. A convoy of black SUVs, like a steel fleet, tore through the rain curtain, speeding towards the club.
It was the Ye family’s convoy; Ye Fei had arrived.
Continuous braking sounds echoed. Car doors opened, and many burly men in black suits got out, surrounding the convoy. Each of them had a serious expression, with transparent earpieces in their ears, exuding an imposing aura.
One of them opened a large black umbrella, standing respectfully in front of the middle car door, waiting for the person inside to get out.
A woman in a black professional suit, with long hair cascading down to her waist like a waterfall, pushed open the car door and stood still. She looked up at the club, her eyes complex, not knowing what she was thinking.
The woman had sharp features and fair skin, glowing even in the dark. However, her entire demeanor was as cold and sharp as a winter wind. Her beautiful face showed no expression, making her a true cold beauty.
“Let’s go,” a clear, cold voice sounded.
Everyone followed behind her in a dense crowd, walking into the club.
As Ye Fei led everyone into the club, her phone received a text message.
It was from Gu Chixue.
[Once you arrive at the club, come directly to the video monitoring room. There’s a discovery, pending verification.]
She heard her phone vibrate, and pulled it out to check as she walked. She instantly stopped, her eyes narrowed. After thinking for a moment, she instructed the people behind her: “You all split up and search around this area for any clues related to the young lady.”
“Also, those of you who understand video editing and hacking, come with me.”
On the way here, Ye Fei had already memorized the entire structure of this building. After a brief recollection, she lifted her leg and walked towards the video monitoring room.
Upon hearing her words, everyone automatically dispersed into groups of three as usual, beginning a systematic search.
Two people in the team exchanged glances and silently followed Ye Fei’s footsteps.
In the dim corridor, only the emergency exit signs flickered with a faint green light. At this moment, only the footsteps of three people echoed softly in the space.
Outside the corridor window, lightning flashed occasionally, accompanied by rumbling thunder, tearing through the endless darkness.
Before, only Gu Chixue was in this large club; everyone else had left, so many lighting fixtures had been turned off.
Suddenly, all the lights in the club turned on. The abruptly opened incandescent lights made the eyes of those who had been immersed in darkness squint slightly, unable to adapt to the sudden brightness.
The suddenly brightly lit club was like a giant beast that had instantly opened its eyes. With an overwhelmingly powerful stance, it tore apart this dark world and loudly declared its presence.
This was also Gu Chixue’s way of announcing to the Ye family that she knew they had arrived.
Ye Fei walked to the video monitoring room, pushed open the door, and saw a woman with a high ponytail standing with her back to her by the window, lightly tapping the windowsill, seemingly deep in thought.
The moment she saw the woman’s back, she inexplicably thought of a TV show she had watched a few days ago. That neat ponytail gently fell on her straight back, like a female general about to rush into battle.
Gu Chixue heard the sound, turned to look at everyone, and said softly, “You’re here?”
With just that glance, Ye Fei was convinced that the woman in front of her was definitely not the useless person with only a pretty face that rumors claimed. Such firm eyes could only belong to someone who had been tempered by many difficulties in the world and possessed immense self-confidence.
Ye Fei nodded to Gu Chixue: “Yes. You said you found something just now. What is it?”
“Come and look at this video. Ye Rou disappeared after passing through this corridor. I went to the site earlier and found this.”
Gu Chixue walked to the control panel and sat down, taking out the earring Ye Rou had been wearing and showing it to Ye Fei.
“The red glow on this should be from Ye Rou getting injured during a struggle and accidentally dropping it. Also, the end of that corridor is a wall; there are no windows.”
She paused for a moment: “So I judge that this video must have been spliced by someone who then hacked into the backend and replaced the original video.”
Ye Fei listened to Gu Chixue calmly and logically narrating the current situation, nodding continuously in her heart, finding it very convincing with its clear reasoning.
She looked at the video, then at the earring in her hand, a hint of coldness appearing in her eyes.
A moment later, she turned her head and instructed the two people who had been following her: “You two go check it out.”
With that, Ye Fei looked at Gu Chixue again, slightly bowing with one hand on her waist, her demeanor incredibly elegant: “As Ye Rou’s elder, I extend my sincerest gratitude to you. Our Ye family owes you a favor.”
Gu Chixue also stood up, her expression solemn: “Ye Rou is my friend. These are things I should do. The most urgent task now is to find her whereabouts. As for other matters, we can discuss them later.”
A smile appeared on Ye Fei’s expressionless face. She carefully examined Gu Chixue from head to toe, a rare hint of playfulness appearing in her cold eyes.
“Miss Gu is very different from what the rumors say. As Ye Rou’s agent, I once strongly advised her against participating in this show, and also warned her to stay away from you.”
“But now, it seems I was mistaken.”
Gu Chixue’s expression remained unchanged. She had always been indifferent to what others thought of her.
She looked at Ye Fei, her eyes unwavering, and shook her head: “It’s alright. External rumors don’t bother me. It’s enough that the people around me know who I am.”
Ye Fei was about to reply when the person who had been checking the video suddenly spoke: “Sister Fei, the video was indeed tampered with. The original video has been restored.”
Gu Chixue and Ye Fei quickly gathered around upon hearing this.
In the video, Ye Rou was seen being forcibly taken away by two tall, burly men. The earring she dropped during the struggle was clearly visible.
Upon seeing this scene, Gu Chixue’s tightly wound shoulders relaxed slightly. The worst-case scenario she had feared had fortunately not happened.
When she first realized that Ye Rou might be in trouble, an inexplicable surge of rage and panic welled up deep inside her, as if her most precious possession had been snatched away.
Especially when she found the bl00d-stained earring, she even felt an urge to tear everything apart.