They searched all night, but the eighteen young women and twelve children who went missing at the Lantern Festival seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth, not a single one could be found, nor any clue to their whereabouts.
The parents and relatives who had lost children waited in agony at the restaurant all night, yet what they waited for was deep despair. As dawn broke, they went to the Government Office together, clinging to a last shred of hope that Jingzhao Yin would dispatch more people to continue the search.
Inside the Bureau of Military Office, Xiao Ruiyuan didn't sleep all night, his eyes were bloodshot. Listening to the reports from his subordinates, his gaze bore an indescribable anxiety.
"Increase the manpower at several city gates for inspections, we must not let a single one slip through; as for the others, conduct a city-wide search, and see if you can get any unusual information from yesterday night from the public..."