"I really can't understand, what exactly are these people celebrating?"
"Just forget about them, let's hurry up and eat something, then head back. Ah, right, should we bring a steak back for her?"
"No need, she likes steak the least. Plus, bringing food back for her, she wouldn't know. I'll just buy her something else on the way back."
"Then let's eat quickly. Besides, there's nothing we can do at this time. I've already collected the data into the network. When we get back, I need to operate a machine to see what's going on with the surveillance footage from before and then capture some useful information."
"Apart from capturing that information, I think we might be able to pump the waiters for some news, I guess."
"Oh, snoop around? How do you plan to do that? Besides, those guys are right here now. If you go snooping so blatantly, I'm afraid you'll definitely alert them. Right now, I think you better think thrice before acting."
"Of course I won't do it now. We can eat slower and wait for them to leave, then find a waiter to chat with, right?"
"By the way, didn't you see? They've ordered two bottles of red wine. If they drink those, it'll be ages before they're done, and we just have two steaks to eat, which will probably be finished a lot faster than theirs."
Just as Ye Chen and Anying were in the midst of indecision and didn't know what reason to leave for, suddenly, a sharp ringtone broke the silence.
Yet, this ringtone seemed very rare among the general public, it was unclear what kind of ringtone it was, and it sounded extremely piercing.
Everyone in the restaurant looked towards the direction of the sound as if by agreement, and sure enough, it came from those three foreigners.
One of them took out the device, listened for a moment, and after that, his face suddenly darkened.
He put down the phone and then pointed towards the window.
The expressions of the few men turned rather grim, and then they hastily got up and left.
"Hey, gentlemen, are you not eating anymore?"
"No more, just throw the food away. We've got urgent business, we'll talk next time, thank you. Oh, and the bill, just charge it to my card."
"Alright, I got it."
The waiter just nodded lightly.
The two bottles of red wine had just been opened, not even half a bottle was consumed, and the steaks were completely untouched. They departed in such a hurry, there must be something urgent happening.
"Ah, to be wealthy."
While saying this, the waiter went over and cleared away the uneaten steaks.
They were taken back just as they came, and in the kitchen, they would be given to someone else to eat, without any waste at all.
After watching them leave, Ye Chen looked up at Anying.
"What's the matter? What's so urgent that they wouldn't even have their meal?"
"I'm not sure either, ah, I just thought of something."
Saying this, Anying suddenly seemed to realize something and took out his phone. However, he stood there for a long time as if he had just realized that he didn't have Lin Yaru's contact information.
"You, hurry up, give Miss Lin a call, I need to ask her something now."
"Huh, ask her? Oh, okay, got it."
Although Ye Chen didn't react at first, seeing how anxious Anying was, he knew it must be important, so without delay, he quickly dialed the number.
In fact, Lin Yaru was standing in a hotel room and hadn't completely adapted to the situation even up to this moment.
It's just that she felt that many things were different from what she imagined. Although she had mentally prepared herself after meeting Mr. Liu earlier, she still felt unable to accept these things.
When the phone suddenly rang out in the empty room, Lin Yaru shivered from head to toe.
Previously, Anying had told her that simply receiving or making a call might be monitored by someone unknown, so now she was filled with dread towards the phone.
The phone kept ringing incessantly on the bed.
But she just couldn't muster the courage to go pick it up.
After a while, the call was hung up.
The moment the ringing stopped, she suddenly felt a great relief and let out a long sigh, then sat back down on the sofa.
Actually, her thought was simple: to stay away from the phone, not letting it bring any more disturbances.
"What's the matter, no one answered the call?"
Anying saw that Ye Chen had held the phone up for a long time without speaking, and then put it down, his expression somewhat unnatural.
"Right, no one answered."
"That's unlikely, at this time she should answer the phone. Plus, she's by herself in the room, with the phone nearby, she couldn't have gone out alone."
"I had instructed her not to leave the room by herself at all earlier. I'll call again. If it doesn't go through, I need to go back first thing tomorrow. Speaking of which, those people from before?"
Saying this, he seemed to suddenly realize something.
Those people had left in such a rush earlier; could it be related to this incident?
If that was the case, then things might really be troublesome, which means our actions are now being monitored by the adversary.
"Quick, call again, if no one answers, we need to rush back immediately."
While speaking, Ye Chen put the phone to his ear once more and dialed the number.
The phone rang out once again, and Lin Yaru, feeling just as fearful as before, still shuddered at the sound of it.