06
“You think it’s unreasonable?”
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Lucas calmly asked back, while Little Lucas looked nervous: ‘Oh no, is my wife against this marriage?‘
Uh…
“What I mean is, don’t you think a marriage without an emotional foundation isn’t very stable?”
I chose my words carefully, trying to speak as tactfully as possible.
“You’re overthinking it.”
Lucas responded coldly, his head lowered so his emotions couldn’t be seen.
Little Lucas also lowered his head, reproaching himself: ‘It’s all my fault. I didn’t give my wife enough sense of security. Honey, wait, I’ll make you feel secure right away!‘
Lucas took out his phone and quickly fiddled with it.
Soon after, I received a series of message bombardments.
[Dear customer, your savings card ending in 1241 has received a transfer of $1,000,000. The current balance is $1,005,000.]
[Dear customer, your savings card ending in 1241 has received a transfer of $1,000,000. The current balance is $2,005,000.]
[Dear customer, your savings card ending in 1241 has received a transfer…]
Seven or eight messages in a row, and they kept coming non–stop.
I looked up at Lucas.
He pursed his lips: “It’ll be a bit noisy, but it’ll be over soon.”
He lowered his head, and Little Lucas anxiously added: ‘It’s the bank’s fault. They wouldn’t let me transfer it all at once, so I can only transfer $1 million at a time. I’ve annoyed my wife!
Ah, no! Is that the point?
Seeing Lucas about to continue operating, I hurriedly stopped him.
“Stop, don’t transfer anymore. You don’t need to give me money for a sense of security!”
Pressed by my hand, Lucas indeed stopped. He looked straight at me, and suddenly, his whole face blushed like a blooming peach blossom.
What was he… thinking about?
“I need to leave for a moment.”
Pulling his hand away, Lucas fled as if escaping.
And as Lucas left, my phone went crazy with bombardments non–stop.
The message notifications kept coming. Needless to say, they were all Lucas’s transfers.
Well, husband and wife are one after all. If he’s willing to give me the money, I’ll just keep it for him for a while.
I called the waiter to pay the bill.
After waiting for quite a while, there was still no sign of Lucas.
It’s just going to the restroom, why is it taking so long?
I thought for a moment and decided to call Lucas. Unexpectedly, it said he was out of service area.
We’re in the same restaurant, my phone signal is full. How could he be out of service area?
A sense of unease vaguely rose in my heart.
I immediately called the waiter and asked him to check the restroom for Lucas.
The answer I got was that the restroom was empty.
I rushed out immediately and found that the car was still in the underground parking lot. Lucas hadn’t driven away, but he had disappeared!
The unease in my heart grew heavier. I didn’t dare to hesitate and immediately called the police.
The police checked the surveillance footage and indeed saw Lucas entering the restroom, but after that, he never came out again.
How could a perfectly fine person just vanish into thin air?
I wasn’t willing to give up and stared at the surveillance footage over and over again. There were several people going in and out of the restroom, but they all entered and exited empty–handed, with no large bags. It was impossible for them to have taken Lucas away.
Wait a minute!
Large bags?
I thought of something and rewound the surveillance footage to shortly after Lucas entered the restroom, and asked the restaurant manager:
“Is this cleaner your employee?”
The cleaner’s cart was huge. Although it looked like it was full of miscellaneous items, if the inside was cleared out, it could definitely hide a person.
The manager leaned over the screen and looked carefully, suddenly freezing:
“This person… Hey? Who is this person?”
This reaction further confirmed my guess.
“Officer, please investigate this person. With so many people coming and going, only he was pushing a cart. It’s very likely that he took Lucas away.”
Having obtained a lead, the police didn’t slack off and immediately began the investigation.
From the route the cleaning cart took to the surveillance in the parking lot, they quickly identified the suspect’s license plate number.
I wanted to continue following up, but suddenly received a call from Grandpa Zhou.
“Olivia, do you know where Lucas is? Something happened at the company, but I can’t reach him.”
“He was…”
I opened my mouth, but quickly stopped myself.
Grandpa Zhou’s health wasn’t good to begin with. If he knew Lucas was missing, he probably couldn’t bear the shock.
“Grandpa, Lucas is a bit busy and can’t answer the phone right now. What happened at the company? I’ll notify him right away.”
Grandpa Zhou didn’t suspect anything, “There’s a problem with a product, and the victims are livestreaming in front of the company. Tell him to go quickly. If it gets bigger, it’ll be hard to handle!”
