Gu Yi, satisfied with a small victory, accepted Ling Qingyu's attempt to change the topic again.
"If the kidnappers were just ordinary criminals, we'd have a good chance of getting them back through diplomatic channels," Gu Yi said. "But our intelligence suggests foreign intervention. It's impossible for regular units in the Middle Kingdom to execute something like this flawlessly, without setting off even the slightest alarm."
"Either that, or your subordinates got themselves into trouble. Maybe they tangled with terrorists or big gangs," Ling Qingyu replied, considering the alternatives.
After all, she had asked Athena to monitor the development of ISIS in the Middle Kingdom. According to her predictions and the original trajectories, the Middle Kingdom should be engulfed in devastation once that extremist organization went rampant.
