Shi Shuning suddenly stood up upon hearing those words, a sense of foreboding overwhelming him. He turned and rushed towards the backstage area.
Ye Jinchen noticed sothing was amiss and held back Ye Wanwan, who was about to follow. "Wanwan, what's going on?"
Ye Wanwan hurriedly inford Ye Jinchen that Xiao Jinng had disappeared. Ye Jinchen's heart sank as he said, "Don't panic yet. Jinng might have wandered off to play. Let check the surveillance footage with Shuning first. You stay here with our parents. I'll ssage you if anything cos up, so keep an eye on your phone."
Ye Wanwan nodded, anxious beyond belief. If Jinng had indeed wandered off on her own, she would definitely give her a good spanking once found. But Jinng didn't seem like the type to do that. Recalling the ti when Zhen Kechuan had kidnapped Jinng, Ye Wanwan grew even more uneasy. If sothing had happened to Jinng, who could be targeting her?
"Jinng, Jinng, Xiao Jinng! Where are you?"
Shi Shuning ran to the restroom door in the backstage area, shouting in the corridor, but no one responded. A few staff mbers ca out of their respective dressing rooms upon hearing the commotion and looked around at the door.
"Have you seen this girl?" Shi Shuning showed them Xiao Jinng's photo on his phone's lock screen, but everyone shook their heads.
"No, we haven't seen her."
Ye Jinchen arrived just then and said to Shi Shuning, "Let's check the surveillance footage. I've just contacted the person in charge here, and they've agreed to let us access the security caras."
Shi Shuning nodded and hurried after Ye Jinchen towards the security room.
Soon, they found footage of Xiao Jinng and Ye Wanwan heading towards the restrooms, but they disappeared from the fra as that area was a blind spot for the caras.
Rewinding the footage, about five minutes later, Ye Wanwan reappeared on the screen, looking around, evidently searching for Xiao Jinng.
However, there was no sign of Xiao Jinng during that five-minute gap, indicating that she had remained near the restrooms without leaving.
Two minutes after Ye Wanwan left, two janitors, one tall and one short, appeared on the screen pushing a large trash bin. A few minutes later, Shi Shuning ca running.
Shi Shuning frowned, staring intently at the surveillance footage. Since Xiao Jinng had entered the cara's blind spot, she had not reappeared. But she was definitely not there, so...
"Rewind the footage of the two janitors with the trash bin and play it in slow motion."
The security guard did as Shi Shuning instructed, rewinding and slowing down the footage.
In slow motion, every movent of the janitors was clearly visible.
At that mont, Shi Shuning seed to have noticed sothing and exclaid, "Stop, rewind two seconds!"
This ti, Ye Jinchen saw it too.
In the footage, the black trash bag inside the bin moved, not from the swaying of the cart, but as if sothing alive inside had pushed the bag upwards. Imdiately after, the shorter janitor slapped the bag, and it stopped moving.
"See where those two janitors went with the cart," Ye Jinchen said in a low voice.
The guard played through the footage, eventually showing the two janitors pushing the cart out of the sports arena through a side door until they were out of the cara's range, never to be seen again.
"Damn it!"
Shi Shuning slamd his fist on the table. The guard, realizing the gravity of the situation, quickly tried to reassure them, "Don't worry, sirs. I'll report this to the police imdiately."
Ye Jinchen nodded, then asked, "Is the janitors' rest area across from the restrooms?"
The guard nodded, "Yes, would you like to take a look?"
"Yeah, we might find sothing useful there."
In the janitors' rest area, it was extrely ssy, with a few scattered nylon zip ties on the floor.
Shi Shuning squatted down and, with his sharp eyes, noticed a piece of nail art decorated with cute cats.
He imdiately recognized it as Xiao Jinng's new nail sticker that she had flaunted in front of him earlier that day after applying it to her nails.
"It's Jinng. They must have tied her up. But who would do such a thing? Damn it!" Shi Shuning gripped the nail piece in his palm, enraged.
Ye Jinchen sent a ssage to Ye Wanwan. Upon receiving it, she felt dizzy and overwheld with self-bla. If only she hadn't gone to the restroom, perhaps Jinng wouldn't have gotten into trouble.
Ye Wanwan closed her eyes and composed herself, then calmly inford Xiao Yongze, Ye Junli, and the others about the incident. As expected, Xiao Yongze and Ye Junli imdiately stood up, looking flustered, and rushed towards the backstage area, followed by Gu Qi and Song Jiaxi, who had turned pale.
Ye Wanwan felt unsteady on her feet and was supported by He Junting as they followed the others to the backstage area.
Xiao Yuanning, who had just finished performing a song on stage, noticed his family mbers rushing to the backstage one after another. His eyes narrowed as he used the costu change break to catch up with them.
Since there was a police station near the sports arena, the police arrived quickly.
"Dad, Mom, what's going on?" Xiao Yuanning asked, puzzled to see a few police officers questioning Shi Shuning about the situation.
Looking around and not seeing Xiao Jinng, he asked, "Where's my sister?"
He Junting explained, "Jinng is missing. We can't find her right now."
"What!" Xiao Yuanning's eyes widened in disbelief that his sister had been kidnapped at his own concert venue.
A staff mber urged him to return to the stage, but Xiao Yuanning flatly refused, "With everything that's happened, how can I be in the mood to continue the concert? Have my manager explain the situation to the fans and refund their tickets!"
The staff mber looked helplessly at Xiao Yuanning's manager, who sighed and was about to say sothing when a police officer suddenly exclaid.
"What is this thing?"
The officer was holding a small, black, rectangular remote control. The lead investigator's face paled as he exclaid, "Not good, this looks like a bomb remote control!"
"What?" Everyone gasped in shock.
"I've encountered a similar one during a bombing case before. The suspect was carrying an identical remote control for a tid explosive!" the investigator explained.
The officer holding the remote control trembled involuntarily, never expecting to encounter such a situation on his first field assignnt with his ntor.
"Xiao Wang, get your n to evacuate the crowd and contact the bomb squad to co inspect the area. Whether it's a bomb or not, the safety of the people is paramount!" ordered the police captain.
"Yes, sir!"
With this, there was no way the concert could continue. The manager hurriedly led the staff and security personnel to evacuate the fans along with the police officers. There were tens of thousands of people here – if there really was a bomb that exploded, the consequences would be unimaginable.
To avoid causing panic, the audience was not told about the bomb threat. They were only inford that there was an incident and the concert had to be interrupted.
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