Zhou Hong hung up the phone.
He immediately used the Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique, seemingly wanting to see if he could track down Qiao Xiaoyu. As long as Qiao Xiaoyu had not left the city limits, Zhou Hong would be able to find her.
"Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique!" Zhou Hong immediately performed the technique.
However, it was empty.
Zhou Hong saw nothing.
Then there was only one conclusion: Qiao Xiaoyu was no longer in Jinzhou City.
Zhou Hong felt a pang of disappointment.
Just then, Zhou Hong suddenly remembered that on Earth, there was also a very powerful thing called surveillance.
He wondered if he could find her using surveillance.
So, Zhou Hong first thought of Changsun Qinghe. She was a captain in the police department, and if she helped, she could surely access the entire city's surveillance.
Zhou Hong immediately called Changsun Qinghe.
Changsun Qinghe was at work at the moment and was a little stunned when she saw Zhou Hong's call.
"Hello, Zhou Hong." The next second, Changsun Qinghe picked up.
"Qinghe, are you busy right now?"
"I'm alright."
"Can you do me a favor?"
"Of course," Changsun Qinghe felt a bit confused as to why Zhou Hong was suddenly asking her for help.
"I know about something called surveillance. Can you use your authority to help me check the city's surveillance? Qiao Xiaoyu has run away from home," Zhou Hong pleaded.
"Ah, why?"
"Because I don't want to be siblings with her, and she thinks she will harm me, so she left in the middle of the night. Oh, you might not know this yet, but my biological parents have found me. They are from the Qiao family in the capital. Qiao Xiaoyu and her family are also from a collateral branch of this family, so Qiao and I have become relatives," Zhou Hong explained.
Changsun Qinghe then suddenly understood. No wonder Zhou Hong said they were going to be siblings; it turned out they had become relatives.
For a moment, Changsun Qinghe also felt a surge of emotion.
"Alright, come over to my place, and we'll look at the surveillance together."
"Okay, I'll be right there."
Half an hour later, Zhou Hong arrived at the Criminal Investigation Bureau.
At the Criminal Investigation Bureau, they could directly access the entire city's surveillance, which was very convenient.
"Last night, Qiao Xiaoyu was still with me at Tianhe Residential Area. Can you check all the surveillance at the nearby intersections and see when she left?"
Changsun Qinghe immediately pulled up the surveillance footage from all the roads near Tianhe Residential Area.
As expected, around three in the morning, Qiao Xiaoyu walked out of the main entrance of Tianhe Residential Area. She walked alone on the street, looking dejected.
After walking a few hundred meters, she stood by the roadside, hailed a taxi, and then headed in the direction of the outskirts of the city.
"I can't see anymore. She's left the city. There's no surveillance there, but I did get the taxi's license plate. We can ask the driver."
"Mhm."
Changsun Qinghe quickly found the taxi driver's phone number and dialed it directly.
"Hello, who is it?" The call was answered after more than ten seconds.
"I'm from the Jinzhou City Police Department," Changsun Qinghe said directly. The Criminal Investigation Bureau was superior to the police department, so saying she was a police officer was fine.
"Hello, Officer. What can I do for you? I haven't done anything illegal," the driver replied.
"Around three-thirty this morning, near Tianhe Residential Area, you gave a ride to a young and beautiful girl. Do you remember?"
"Of course, I do. I was thinking at the time, a girl this beautiful, hailing a taxi in the middle of the night, how dangerous is that? And she asked me to drive towards the outskirts of the city."
"It's good that you remember. Where did you drop her off? Where did the girl go?"
"I dropped her off at Babao Bridge outside the city. As for where the girl went, I really don't know."
"Thank you for your cooperation."
After hanging up the phone, Changsun Qinghe quickly said, "Let's go to Babao Bridge outside the city together and see if we can find any clues."
Zhou Hong nodded.
Changsun Qinghe drove Zhou Hong towards the outskirts of the city. In about forty minutes, they arrived at a place called Babao Bridge outside the city. This place was connected to a national highway, so the terrain was quite complex.
Zhou Hong immediately began searching for traces.
"Xiaoyu should have gone this way." After a while, Zhou Hong noticed some traces.
Zhou Hong followed the traces and finally reached the national highway, where all traces disappeared.
"It ends here. If I'm not mistaken, Xiaoyu flagged down a car here and then... I don't know anymore," Zhou Hong sighed deeply. Cars on the national highway, coming and going, there were definitely many cars passing through from other provinces. It wouldn't be easy to find Qiao Xiaoyu.
"Zhou Hong, don't worry too much. I'll find some friends and see if we can find more clues. She's left Jinzhou City, and even if she's gone to another province, she'll have to stay in a hotel. As long as there's check-in information, other provinces can find it."
"Okay, I'll trouble you."
"Then let's head back."
Zhou Hong got back into Changsun Qinghe's car.
Zhou Hong was in low spirits and didn't speak after getting into the car.
About twenty minutes later, Zhou Hong suddenly asked, "When I went to the capital by plane before, I happened to run into you. You said you had a childhood engagement, right?"
"Ah!" Changsun Qinghe was taken aback.
"Yes." After regaining her senses, Changsun Qinghe nodded.
"Why do I feel like the person you mentioned matches me?"
"Heh." Changsun Qinghe couldn't help but give a wry smile. It wasn't just a match; it was clearly you.
"Looking at your expression, you must have known it was me long ago, right?" Zhou Hong asked with a hint of a guess.
"Forget it. Since we're at this point, I'll be honest with you. In fact, I found out a while ago that you are the person I was engaged to when I was three years old," Changsun Qinghe confessed.
"Then why didn't you say anything earlier?"
"I'm sorry. I wanted to find you because, through genetic screening, you had no talent for martial arts, and your intelligence was not as good as a normal person, which is why you were abandoned by the Qiao family. I originally just wanted to find you and give you a better life. But later, when I found you, I realized you didn't need my help at all, so there was no need. As for our engagement, that's all in the past. You already have a girlfriend, so how could I break you up?"
"Heh." Zhou Hong let out a wry laugh. He didn't know how he was going to face these issues. Xiaoyu's departure had disrupted Zhou Hong's original life trajectory. He definitely wouldn't be going to Jinzhou University.
Moreover, he felt that Jinzhou City held no interest for him anymore.
This place felt more like a place of sorrow.