Chapter 48: Hubby is Here
“You… don’t know your husband’s phone number?” The young officer looked stunned. “Then there’s no way I can help you contact him.”
“Sigh. The main problem is that our superiors are away at a conference and haven’t returned yet. The old captain has retired too, so Team Leader Liu is temporarily filling the position.”
“Wait here for now,” the young officer lowered his voice. “Once our superiors return, I’ll help explain the situation to them.”
“What about my Maomao? Can I have Maomao with me?” Cen Miao asked.
“Uh… you mean the puppy you were holding earlier?” The young officer scratched his head. “Your dog is over by the office. Don’t worry, I’ll watch it for you, but… we have regulations here. I’m sorry.”
“I understand.”
Cen Miao’s eyes drooped as he helplessly tugged at his sleeve.
The light was on inside the room, so it wasn’t dark, but Cen Miao still felt terribly afraid.
When their base had been invaded, his caretaker daddy had hidden him in a room just like this and told him to wait obediently until he returned, no matter what happened.
Cen Miao had waited for many days.
Only after all his food was gone and he became unbearably hungry did he secretly venture outside. That was when he discovered the entire base had already been destroyed.
He was the only one left.
His caretaker daddy never came back for him.
He wanted to go home.
He didn’t want to stay here.
These humans might not eat people, but they were just as frightening as the red-haired zombie.
At the villa, Qin Zelin stood still and thought for a moment.
He first contacted Chengcheng and confirmed that the two had separated at the school gates. Then he called Shao Siheng.
“Did Cen Miao kiss you again?” Shao Siheng teased the moment the call connected, before Qin Zelin could say anything.
Qin Zelin: “…”
“Are you at the hospital?”
“I am. What’s wrong?”
“Go check Grandpa’s room for me. See whether Cen Miao ran over there to visit him. I can’t reach him, and his classmate said they separated at the school gates fairly early. At the time, he said he was going home.”
“Huh? All right. I’ll go check now.”
As he spoke, Shao Siheng rose from his chair, left the office, and headed directly toward the hospital room.
Qin Zelin pinched the space between his brows, his voice tense.
“All right. Don’t tell Grandpa yet.”
“Don’t worry. I know.”
Before long, Shao Siheng called back.
“He isn’t in Grandpa’s room. Could he have gone somewhere to have fun and his phone happened to die?”
“No. He’s very obedient. If he went anywhere, he would tell me first. I charged his phone before bed last night, and he barely has time to use it during classes. The battery couldn’t have died.”
Shao Siheng was speechless for a moment.
“…”
“I have to go. I’ll search along his usual route home first.”
“All right. Don’t panic too much. I’ll mention it in the group and ask the others who are free to help search.”
“Okay.”
“Tell Butler Lin and Aunt Wang not to serve dinner yet. I’m heading out.”
After hanging up, Qin Zelin instructed Little Li while notifying the driver to prepare the car. Then he hurried out of the villa.
Twenty minutes later, the car had traveled all the way from the villa district to the university, but Qin Zelin still hadn’t seen any trace of the little monster.
The phone he had been gripping the entire time rang.
Seeing Meng Yu’s name, his heart tightened, and he answered immediately.
“Hello, Zelin. We checked every hospital, but there’s no record of Little Brother receiving treatment,” Meng Yu said hurriedly from the other end. “Xu Xiao and the others also checked that night market. They couldn’t find him.”
Qin Zelin fell silent for a moment, then raised a hand and rubbed his brow.
“All right. I understand. Thanks.”
“Why don’t you contact our uncle?” Meng Yu suggested tentatively.
“Mm. I’ll call him now.”
“All right. Let us know once you find him.”
Qin Zelin ended the call. After searching through his contacts for a moment, he dialed another number.
Once the call connected, Xu Chongshan’s deep, powerful voice came through.
“Hello? Brat, what do you want from me?”
“Uncle, I…”
Qin Zelin paused, momentarily uncertain what to call Cen Miao.
“My… my wife suddenly became unreachable. I’d like you to help me find him.”
He said the word wife quickly and indistinctly, as though it burned his tongue.
Qin Zelin felt that the main reason he called the little monster his wife was to keep their contractual marriage from being exposed.
“Why are you stammering?” Xu Chongshan muttered. “My sister told me you got married. I was wondering when you planned to hold the wedding. When did my nephew’s wife become unreachable?”
“My mother contacted you? Then why hasn’t she replied to my messages?” Qin Zelin asked in surprise.
Xu Chongshan fell silent for several seconds before loudly laughing twice.
“It was a few days ago. We spoke briefly before the call disconnected. The signal was probably… poor.”
Qin Zelin didn’t think much of it and gave a brief acknowledgment. Then he concisely explained when Cen Miao disappeared and where he had last been seen.
“He normally gets home around two hours earlier than this, but tonight he never returned. His phone is also switched off, so I can’t contact him.”
“I asked his classmate. They separated at around five o’clock outside Capital University.”
“All right. I understand.”
Xu Chongshan didn’t ask why Qin Zelin was so anxious simply because an adult had been unreachable for two hours.
His nephew had always been mature, steady, and meticulous from a young age.
“I’ll call your Uncle Wang. Don’t worry. We’ll definitely find him.”
“All right. Thank you, Uncle.”
After ending the call, Qin Zelin kept his phone tightly in his hand, ready to receive news at any moment.
He looked at the pitch-black sky outside, his brows tightly furrowed.
He had no idea where the little monster was, whether he was cold, or whether he was hungry.
Qin Zelin glanced at the time.
Only a little over ten minutes had passed, yet it felt far longer.
A short while later, the phone in his hand suddenly rang. He hurriedly answered.
“Hello, Zelin.” Xu Chongshan’s voice remained loud and clear, though there was now a reassuring note in his tone. “We found him. He’s at the Jingxi Police Station. He was temporarily detained.”
“Detained? He’s so obedient. What could he possibly have done to get detained?” Qin Zelin frowned in shock.
Xu Chongshan: “…?”
Wasn’t this supposed to be a forced marriage?
With this level of protectiveness…
“He had a minor collision with someone. The other man said some filthy things, and your wife… couldn’t beat him, so he bit the man’s arm.”
“The man probably has a few minor family connections and found someone to lock your wife up first.”
Afraid Qin Zelin would worry, Xu Chongshan hurriedly added, “He didn’t suffer any real harm. Don’t worry. Your Uncle Wang has already called the station.”
“He’s in the office now. Go pick him up. Contact me anytime if anything else happens.”
“Mm. I understand. Thank you, Uncle.”
“You brat, why are you being polite with your uncle? Hurry and pick up your little wife,” Xu Chongshan urged with a laugh.
“Go to the Jingxi Police Station. Drive faster.”
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