Hidden identities of the AI Heiress
Chapter 600 - Chapter 600 Chapter 600 Professor Qiao was hijacked

Chapter 600: Chapter 600 Professor Qiao was hijacked. Chapter 600: Chapter 600 Professor Qiao was hijacked. Meanwhile, on the other side, Pei Yao was still in a meeting with his subordinates, planning the route Shengqiao Group would take this year.

Halfway through the meeting, his phone started to ring frantically.

Pei Yao’s expression immediately turned grave.

He had two phone numbers, one for regular external contacts and the other for emergency communication.

This number usually never rang, and when it did, there was only one possibility: something major had happened to Professor Qiao!

Pei Yao stood up from his seat, left the meeting room, and abandoned a group of confounded underlings who had no clue of the situation.

“What happened?”

Zhou You’s voice was tense as he said, “Pei Yao, we can’t get in touch with Professor Qiao.”

“What did you say!” Pei Yao’s face was a picture of shock.

“There’s no news of a plane crash so far, so I presume Professor Qiao might have been hijacked.”

Because Professor Qiao was coming to Hai City, Zhou You thought that since Professor Qiao was on a private plane, there surely couldn’t be an accident on board, especially since Qiao Xun was also with him, guaranteeing a certain level of safety.

Therefore, he came to Hai City several hours in advance to set up security, and after calculating the timing, he went to the airport to pick up Professor Qiao.

But ten minutes passed with no sign of him, and Zhou You, sensing that something was amiss and ruling out a delay due to weather, directly contacted the airport’s senior management, only to learn that the private plane carrying Professor Qiao had not filed a flight plan for landing.

In other words, Hai City was never the intended destination for this plane from the start!

A jolt passed through Zhou You’s heart, and he realized that something was terribly wrong, so he immediately contacted Pei Yao to ask for more manpower and special privileges to investigate this matter.

Pei Yao’s heart skipped a beat, his hand clenched involuntarily, and he felt as if the sky had fallen and the earth had collapsed beneath him.

All of this was so sudden, and he was completely unprepared–had Professor Qiao gone missing again?

If a person goes missing on the ground, it’s not too troublesome, but if they vanish into the sky, that’s more difficult!

He didn’t have wings to fly up and check.

Feeling dizzy and disorientated, Pei Yao instructed Zhou You to wait at the airport and then contacted the staff at the research institute.

“Check immediately for Professor Qiao’s current position.”

“What happened?”

Pei Yao replied tensely, “Cut the crap and just check.”

Having known Qiao Yun for so long, this was the first time he had faced such a situation. Despite his usual carefree and unreliable demeanor, he was calmer than anyone else when it really mattered.

After the Zhou Family incident, where they blocked Qiao Yun’s communication signals, the signal from the tracking device on Qiao Yun had been enhanced, and they wouldn’t be able to lose track of him unless he went to Mars.

Pei Yao didn’t have to wait long before he received a shocking response from the research institute that almost seemed to explode off the screen.

“What’s going on? Why does it show on my end that Professor Qiao is in the middle of the sea? Are you guys on a trip?”

Han Zhou: “Ha, I went through all the trouble to sneak out the medicine, and you went on a trip behind my back.”

“No way, I’m coming too, wait for me, I’ll be right there.”

Pei Yao: “…”

He typed furiously, “Tour your own giant head, ghost! Professor Qiao is missing!”

“What! Missing again! Of what use are you, Pei Yao!”

Clearly Pei Yao’s words had scared everyone at the research institute, and those who weren’t taking things seriously suddenly straightened up and used all their expertise.

In the end, they concluded that all the tracking devices on Professor Qiao were pinpointed in the middle of the sea.

Pei Yao frowned and quickly realized that the tracking devices on Qiao Yun must have been discovered and thrown into the sea.

“Analyze the last known coordinates of the lost trackers and deduce the most likely direction the plane could have headed, then send out a search party.”

With Professor Qiao’s safety at stake, no one at the research institute dared to object and immediately called for assistance, launching a full-scale search by sea, land, and air.

As long as the person was still within the country’s borders, even if they went deep into the mountains, they would still be able to find them.

Pei Yao sat in the office chair, still anxious but no longer panicking.

At least now it could be proved that Professor Qiao had been kidnapped instead of a plane accident, and it was good that she was still alive.

He clicked his tongue with disgust, the only ones capable of doing this were that mysterious organization. Was this them acting directly after seeing the Zhou Family fail?

Pei Yao had not expected that a trip to Hai City would give the adversaries an opportunity.

What was strange was that whether it was the pilots or the flight attendants on the private plane, all had been investigated and found unproblematic. How had the enemy infiltrated?

Thinking of this, Pei Yao’s expression suddenly changed.

Had Qiao Yun asked him to prepare something right before going to Hai City because she had already guessed that something might happen during this trip?

But that also didn’t make sense. If she had guessed, then why didn’t she tell him instead of foolishly walking into a trap?

Pei Yao rubbed his hair in vexation.

What was Professor Qiao really up to?

Pei Yao had an intuition that there was something he didn’t know, that Professor Qiao seemed to be hiding something.

After considering it, he decided to contact Li Hanzhou to see if he could learn anything from him.

As soon as the call connected, Pei Yao said, “My boss has disappeared.”

“I know.”

“How do you know?” Pei Yao was puzzled.

“She has Grandfather’s people with her, of course Grandfather knows.”

Li Hanzhou’s voice was very calm, so calm that Pei Yao felt this was not the reaction Li Hanzhou should have. Shouldn’t a normal person be furious upon learning someone they cared for was missing?

“It was the organization’s doing,” Li Hanzhou’s voice was firm.

Previously guessing that Qiao Yun was keeping something from him, he had gone straight to Pei Yao for answers.

For reasons unknown to himself, Pei Yao simply spilled everything about the initial chip of the New Life plan in his head and how there was an organization coveting it.

That included the Zhou Family constantly hassling Qiao Yun under the organization’s influence.

At the time, Pei Yao had said to him, sourly, “Professor Qiao didn’t tell you because she wanted to protect you.”

This left Li Hanzhou feeling complicated for quite a while. As a child, he had protected Qiao Yun once, and although he had yet to remember it, he never expected that now the roles were reversed and Qiao Yun was protecting him.

Indeed, they were a match made in heaven.

“Only they would. I was careless and didn’t anticipate that they would choose this moment to abduct Professor Qiao. I was totally unprepared,” Pei Yao’s voice was incredibly irritated.

“Not knowing their background, nor where they have taken Professor Qiao, now that even the tracking device has been discovered, this is troublesome.”

“They will come looking for us themselves.”

Li Hanzhou remained calm, but what Pei Yao couldn’t see was the storm brewing in his eyes.

“I’m waiting.”

Pei Yao shivered involuntarily at the chill in his voice.

But he had to admit, Li Hanzhou was right. The core was with him, and to complete the research, they would have to somehow get to Li Hanzhou.

Wait a second…

A realization flashed across Pei Yao’s mind, and he looked astounded.

Could it be that their ultimate goal in taking Professor Qiao was to lure Li Hanzhou?

Had the enemies known all along that the core was with Li Hanzhou?

Pei Yao had never been so lucid; he finally understood that they had a mole among them, and this mole was someone very familiar to Professor Qiao!

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have chosen to take the risk alone.