Chapter 1959 - 1953: The Kidnapper

That drug is still in Ye Ning’s backpack.

She tightened her grip on the backpack. "So Yun Tian’s disappearance has something to do with you?"

"What’s your purpose in investigating me?"

"No real purpose. I’m curious."

"Then now you’ve seen the result. I don’t know who you are, but you mentioned the name Yun Tian, so that means you’re connected to him, right? Right now, he’s with me."

Ye Ning narrowed her eyes. "I’d advise you to put him back safely."

"That depends on how you perform."

"What do you want?"

"That drug—after you took it, did you try it out?"

"What do you think?"

"I’m guessing you’re still carrying it. Now go to the fitting room, stand in front of that camera, and I’ll watch you take it. Then I’ll let him go. Otherwise, you’ll see the school add another person who jumps into the courtyard and kills themselves."

Ye Ning started laughing.

Behind her, Gu Qingcheng suddenly leaned in. "What are you looking at?"

Ye Ning put away her phone and looked at him. "Nothing. Oh right, I forgot to ask—do you have PE this afternoon?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"No reason, just curious."

As she spoke, Ye Ning picked up her bag and headed toward the fitting room.

In her earphones, Gong Ye’s voice came through again. "Hey, you’re not seriously going to take it, are you?"

"Why?"

"Don’t. That really isn’t ordinary dope. Take it and there’ll be consequences. Even for you, you might not be able to handle it."

Back in the Organization, they’d gone through all kinds of resistance training—against drugs, against pressure, against torture.

So ordinary drugs didn’t really affect them.

"Relax. I’m not that stupid."

"By the way, you should’ve seen it earlier—near you, and in the fitting room, there’s someone who fits the criteria. You think..."

"Once I get to the fitting room, I’ll take my time dealing with it."

"Hey, what are you even trying to do? Don’t play tough right now. In this situation, the enemy’s in the dark and we’re in the light. This isn’t something you solve with a fight."

By now, Ye Ning had already reached the fitting room door. She glanced around.

There were three surveillance cameras around her. She faced each one and smiled. "So you see who I am now, right? Yeah, I’m investigating you. Not for anything else, just because I’m curious—what the hell is this thing? You want me to drink it?"

She took out the drug she’d gotten that afternoon from her backpack.

A cheap little bottle, with pink liquid inside.

She let out a soft laugh, opened the bottle, tilted her head back...

However...

She didn’t actually gulp it down. Instead, her gaze snapped sharply toward one of the cameras.

"Cut it out, Yun Tian. Is kidnapping yourself fun for you? I know you’re watching. You’re watching from the cameras. And where’s the source of that surveillance? In the Director of Education’s office, right?"

Gong Ye froze, and immediately asked in her ear, "What are you doing? What the hell?"

Ye Ning stared into that camera. "You want to pin this on Gu Qingcheng? Too bad. I found something else on you, so I nailed it down right away—it’s you. And you, you murderer, don’t even think about getting away. This thing, this bottle—I’ve already discovered it’s got your fingerprints on it!"

Gong Ye went on, "Whoa, seriously? You figured it out that early?"

Meanwhile...

Several people burst into the Director of Education’s office...

In the corner of the office, Yun Tian stared dumbly at Gu Qingcheng and the other students who had just come in.