The Guardian's Return by Old Pumpkin

Chapter 220

Stephen clenched his teeth and unwillingly stepped on the brake. The car was

less than a hundred meters away from the police station.

The man in the rear seat chuckled. "It seems like you've lost."

He pulled out a smoke grenade and detonated it in the car.

Bang!

Smoke billowed inside the car, forcing Stephen to leap out, coughing and gasping for air.

The pedestrians were shocked, thinking that the car had caught on fire.

Stephen made his way to the back of the car to open the door, but the kidnapper was long

gone.

"Fuck!" he cursed. He felt defeated and aggrieved. He was less than a hundred meters away from sending the kidnapper to jail, yet he was forced to let the man go.

On top of that, he was held up for a full five minutes at the truck, which was more than enough time for the kidnappers to transfer Richard somewhere else.

pulled his phone out to call for help. He ordered his men to seal all the possible routes out of the city and set up roadblocks to inspect the passing vehicles. He could not afford to lose

the mayor's assistant, Tommy, was driving up to the

roadblock ahead, Tommy pulled his identification out and got clearance

Richard was brought out of

still annoyed by the CEOS walking out on him. He inwardly scoffed, thinking that the CEOS

would regret their

out and called Stephen "Stephen, how did the deal go?" Stephen had yet to recover from the shock. He said timidly, "It didn't go through." "What? What happened?

had been in his car which was just a hundred meters away from

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he did not have the resolve to do it. He felt like a puppet whose strings

abducted?!"

negotiation falling through was a better-sounding alternative to one

you call the

I've already set up roadblocks at every exit of the city.

slight relief knowing that the necessary

would be trapped in the city. The surveillance footage would

got an update

one of the

a factory, but a while later, more than twenty of the same trucks emerged

but neglected the mayor's car driving out a minute after the trucks

trucks were stopped and checked, but there were no signs of Richard. Not even