Chapter 3572 Arrival in Tahiti
After returning to Jinling and Zijin Manor, Lin Wan'er never left the house.
The school schedule was packed, but Lin Wan'er was already feeling exhausted by school.
The main reason she went to Jinling University was to find and get closer to Ye Chen. Later, after she found Ye Chen, she shared all her secrets with him, and the school became dispensable.
After returning from Japan, she fell into a period of depression, feeling that she was no longer able to maintain her identity as a university student. So she asked Qiu Yingshan to help her apply for a leave of absence from Jinling University on the grounds that she was sick and needed to recuperate.
With Qiu Yingshan's connections, the school leaders naturally approved it immediately, and Lin Wan'er was able to stay at Zijin Villa without ever leaving the house.
In the blink of an eye, several days have passed.
These days, Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er are almost the same; he has been staying in the villa on the hillside of Champs-Élysées Hot Springs and has not stepped out of the house even once.
He had been trying to go into seclusion during this time, but because he was too preoccupied with his thoughts, the seclusion was not very effective.
He hoped that Li Yalin and Lin Wan'er could bring him good news, but Li Yalin's progress reports were not very optimistic, and Lin Wan'er had not sent any news at all.
During the days that Ye Chen was in seclusion, Li Yalin had already flown from Australia to China.
While in Australia, he was unable to track down Tang Sihai. Although he knew that if he dug as far as he could, he would surely find clues, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Finding a needle in a haystack is like searching for a needle in a haystack. The needle is in the ocean, not because it's impossible to find, but because the cost is too high, and it's even beyond human capability.
In order not to waste time, he decided to abandon Australia and use China as a starting point.
Solving a case is essentially a screening process; the difficulty lies in the number of people being screened.
Every case is committed by people. To put it bluntly, if you investigated all eight billion people on Earth, you would definitely be able to find the person you wanted to investigate.
The problem is that no one has the capability to conduct such screening.
Let alone eight billion people, even if there are only eight hundred thousand, it would be difficult to conduct a thorough screening. We can only do several rounds of rough screening followed by fine screening. If the rough screening does not miss anyone, that's fine. But if the rough screening misses someone, then all the subsequent work is almost wasted.
Li Yalin has been a police officer for many years, but he can't solve every case. Some cases just can't be solved no matter how hard he investigates.
After several days of searching without finding any clues related to Tang Sihai, he realized that Tang Sihai's level of vigilance and the professionalism of his team were very high. If he continued to investigate like this, there might not be any progress for a year or two.
So he returned to China and met Su Ruoli.
With Su Ruoli's help, he led the He family and the Ito family's ninjas to investigate the clues of Xiao Churan and her family's departure.
If searching for Tang Sihai in Australia is like searching for a small boat in a vast ocean, then searching for Xiao Churan and her family of three in China is like finding a specific mung bean among a pile of mung beans.
Li Yalin felt immense pressure, but he had no choice but to check each vehicle one by one.
However, this process will be extremely long, so he also reminded Ye Chen to be prepared for a protracted battle.
However, there was still a chance. He also fed the AI model with video footage of Tang Sihai and Xiao Churan's family of three, and combined it with the ground network system to deploy surveillance around the world. As long as these four people appeared within the monitoring range of the ground network system, the news would be received immediately.
Although Ye Chen was extremely anxious, he knew that such things couldn't be rushed, so he could only accept reality.
As for Lin Wan'er, he didn't ask any further questions, because he didn't expect Lin Wan'er, who usually went between school and home, to help him find Xiao Churan, who had already left Jinling.
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Meanwhile, Xiao Churan's family was still adrift in the South Pacific.
Sailing on the ocean can be quite monotonous, but fortunately the ship's facilities are very comfortable, and the food and drinks are almost all top-quality ingredients from around the world, which allowed Xiao Changkun and Ma Lan to have their fill.
After several more days of drifting, Xiao Churan and her family finally arrived at a small island of less than 20 square kilometers in the Windward Islands of French Polynesia.
This island was sold to a Silicon Valley mogul seven or eight years ago. The mogul also spent a lot of money to rebuild the island, turning it into a private island with excellent facilities.
The island not only has its own marina that can accommodate medium-sized yachts and seaplanes, but also its own small airport with a runway of nearly two kilometers that can accommodate light jet business planes and fixed-wing aircraft.
Xiao Churan's family left the cargo ship on the high seas, then took a seaplane from the sea to reach this island.
Before landing, when the plane looked down over the entire island, Ma Lan and Xiao Changkun were both dumbfounded.
It's obvious to the naked eye that this island is quite extraordinary; it not only has a pier, but it also has its own airstrip.
A medium-sized yacht was moored at the dock, and at the end of the runway, a Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350 twin-engine turboprop business jet was parked.
After being modified, this aircraft has a maximum range of nearly 5,000 kilometers, allowing it to fly directly from here to Hawaii and reach Los Angeles with just one refueling.
On the north side of the island, there is a luxury residence costing tens of millions of dollars. The entire residence is built by the sea, and opening the door leads to the beach and the green glass sea. The scenery is no less than that of the Maldives.
This luxurious residence was prepared by An Chengxi for Xiao Churan's family.
To remain as isolated as possible, the island is equipped with solar, wind, and tidal power generation systems, along with massive energy storage devices, enabling it to be completely self-sufficient in electricity. Furthermore, the abundant electricity can power the island's desalination plant, solving the island's domestic water needs. Therefore, neither water nor electricity needs to be supplied from the outside world.
This location is hundreds of kilometers away from the cargo ship's shipping route, so resupplying is quite convenient. You only need to connect with the cargo ship midway to receive a large supply of supplies.
As the seaplane glided across the water and came to a stop at the dock, Xiao Changkun and Ma Lan couldn't wait to jump out of the cabin.
Several servants approached respectfully. The middle-aged Chinese man at the head of the group said solicitously, "Mr. Xiao and Ms. Ma, welcome to the island. I am your butler, Ning Xiaolong. I will be responsible for all your food and lodging on this island. You can call me Xiao Ning."
Looking at the luxury yacht on the other side of the dock, Xiao Changkun couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Ning, was that yacht also arranged by my good son-in-law?"
Ning Xiaolong had already received the instructions, so he smiled and said, "That's right, Mr. Xiao. Not only this yacht, but also the plane on the runway was arranged by Mr. Ye. The yacht is for your and Ms. Ma to go out to sea for leisure, and the plane is for dealing with emergencies."
Xiao Changkun rubbed his hands excitedly, but soon his conscience bothered him, and he muttered, "Just how much money did Ye Chen swindle? If he gets caught, will he be executed?"
