novelraw Chapter 945: Maybe Someone Is Right Here (4)
Chapter 945: Maybe Someone Is Right Here (4)
Chapter 945: Chapter 945: Maybe Someone Is Right Here (4)
Zhong Qiaohui slapped her forehead and remembered, "You can’t hear me. You can’t hear me, so why did you call me?"
With that, she hung up on Gu Nuan.
Gu Nuan thought she must have put on her slippers and rushed over to continue talking, because from the way she sounded over the phone, it seemed like she was in a hurry to put on her shoes.
But after a while, Zhong Qiaohui didn’t come.
The soundproofing here was good, the walls thick, and Gu Nuan couldn’t hear anything happening around her. This was a situation she had never encountered before. Entering this castle made everyone like isolated islands, connected only by signals that seemed like they could be cut off at any moment.
Gu Nuan waited a while longer, and when Zhong Qiaohui still hadn’t come, she got up to go next door and check. But then the phone on the table rang again.
She walked back and picked up the phone.
The voice on the other end was Tang Sili’s.
"Mrs. Xiao, you picked up my call so quickly. Did you know it was me calling?"
Tang Sili’s tone was unusually playful, like joking, yet there was an underlying tension. This cunning man, like her, seemed to realize that their current situation was unprecedented and beyond their control, which wasn’t a good thing.
Unlike Zhong Qiaohui, who felt she had entered a beautiful fairytale world, Tang Sili felt like he had entered the scene of a crime in a detective novel. Because if someone disappeared here, no one would probably know immediately.
"I guessed you would call. Of course, I don’t rule out that someone might call me to test the waters. But there’s no need. Smart people, like you, have already perceived what is going on. So if they call me voluntarily, it’s just revealing themselves, which is meaningless," Gu Nuan said.
Tang Sili had to admire her extraordinary calmness.
"I live on the fourth floor, and Driver Tang is on the basement level. If Mrs. Xiao needs something and wants us to come over, it’ll be quite inconvenient."
"Even if you lived next door, you couldn’t hear anything."
"The walls are thick?"
"Yes."
Tang Sili paused slightly and asked, "What do you plan to do, Mrs. Xiao?"
"After meeting the host tonight, we should leave here tomorrow. We can’t stay long."
Not staying long was about etiquette, about safety, about many concerns.
"I’ve heard some news from Driver Tang," Tang Sili said. "Driver Tang said he walked around the kitchen downstairs and heard that the owner here has her own bank and went to handle some matters there today."
There are many private banks in Luxembourg, and it’s not surprising for Mrs. Zhuang to have her own bank. Maybe that’s why Brother Zhuang said Zhuang Haoran was strange, because Zhuang Haoran is running his own coffee business, which seems unrelated to Mrs. Zhuang’s enterprises.
So why didn’t Luca accompany them to stay at the castle? What’s the reason?
"I’ll go find Miss Zhong," Gu Nuan said before hanging up the phone.
After slipping on her shoes, she walked to the next room and knocked on the door several times, but there was no response, which made her pause in confusion, her heart seized by a vague anxiety.
In the corridor, a cleaning woman came by.
Gu Nuan asked in English, "Do you know where the young lady in this room went?"
"I just saw someone go downstairs. Don’t know if it was her," the woman said.