Chapter 581: Another Ten Million?

Five kidnappers, one dead now, that leaves four.

For these four people, carrying ten million in cash would already be quite a strain.

So in Yu Dazhang's view, unless absolutely necessary, they wouldn't lightly turn on each other, because there was more than enough money to split.

Besides, that amount was also demanded per head.

So it wasn't because of an uneven split of the loot—besides, the money hadn't even been collected yet, so it hadn't reached the point of dividing it.

Master and disciple stood quietly, but in reality both their minds were running at full speed.

Unfortunately, every hypothesis the two of them came up with didn't match the current situation, so naturally there was no need to voice it.

Wait—

Yu Dazhang suddenly realized a loophole.

The kidnappers hadn't only kidnapped Su Mi, so why had only Su Mi's family reported it to the police?

That Bai Jincheng's family was also very rich—why hadn't the kidnappers gone to their family to demand money?

Three possibilities:

1. The kidnappers had already contacted his family and extorted them.

Bai Jincheng's family, afraid he'd be killed, hadn't reported it to the police.

2. The kidnappers' target was only Su Mi.

Kidnapping Bai Jincheng was purely a coincidence, because the two of them happened to be together that night.

3. They wanted to extort them one by one.

After all, over ten million was very troublesome to transport; extorting them separately would eliminate that problem.

No, the third possibility didn't exist… Yu Dazhang immediately rejected it in his mind.

Given today's level of technology, completing a single ransom delivery was already hard as reaching the heavens; the kidnappers wouldn't be stupid enough to double that difficulty.

The second possibility was also quickly dismissed by Yu Dazhang.

Since they'd determined that one of these kidnappers was the brains, they would definitely have done surveillance and identity checks before acting.

And given their style of doing things, they probably wouldn't do anything unnecessary.

Kidnapping one more person meant one more share of risk; for them, the loss outweighed the gain.

Unless that person was useful.

"Master, let's go to Bai Jincheng's house."

Leaving two team members to watch the progress here, master and disciple drove away from the scene.

On the road.

Yu Dazhang called Seeing Qu Tuotuo.

The moment the call connected, he asked directly:

"Has Bai Jincheng's family received a call from the kidnappers yet?"

"No," Seeing Qu Tuotuo answered:

"If they received an extortion call, they would contact me."

The Bai family had indeed kept it hidden… Yu Dazhang asked again:

"Then how did you know earlier that Bai Jincheng had also been kidnapped?"

Earlier, since they were in the tracking phase, he hadn't pressed for the specific details.

Now that they'd confirmed the two had been moved, they had to get the full story clear.

"The Bai family also noticed Bai Jincheng had lost contact."

Seeing Qu Tuotuo's voice was very calm, clearly not caring about this Bai Jincheng at all:

"Not only that, they also knew Bai Jincheng was with Su Mi last night."

So that's how it was… Yu Dazhang quickly sorted out the whole sequence of events.

When the Bai family noticed Bai Jincheng had lost contact, they recalled he was with Su Mi last night, so they contacted the Su family.

The result was Su Mi had also lost contact, and only then did they conclude the two were very likely kidnapped.

"What's the relationship between those two?" Yu Dazhang hesitated, then asked:

"A couple?"

He remembered that not long ago that Bai Jincheng was still pestering Seeing Qu Tuotuo—how had he gotten together with Su Mi in the blink of an eye?