Chris Shelby had never taken Crazy Steer seriously, and after briefly instructing Bull, he returned home. In the following days, Chris resumed his life as a doting father and husband. One day, when it was time to leave work, Esther had still not returned home. Chris Shelby frowned and took out his phone to call Esther, but he found her phone was turned off. A sense of unease grew in his heart, prompting him to hurriedly call Juliette.
“Juliette, are you with Esther?”
“No! Didn’t Esther go home early? Didn’t you see her? What happened?”
“Nothing!” he replied before hanging up, but a foreboding feeling lingered in his mind.
“Mr. Shelby, here’s your package!” Just then, a security guard approached with a delivery. Chris Shelby took the package, opened it, and found Esther’s belongings inside. Among them, he discovered a note.
“Your wife is in our hands. If you want to save her, come find us…”
After reading the note, Chris Shelby’s expression darkened significantly. He asked the guard, “Who gave you this package?”
Facing Chris Shelby’s menacing gaze, the guard looked nervous and said, “I don’t know! A courier dropped it off at the security office, and I just brought it here.”
Chris scrutinized the guard’s expression and was certain he wasn’t lying. With this in mind, Chris immediately left the villa, his mind racing with thoughts about who could have taken Esther and their motives. “If I find out who it is, they won’t be spared,” he thought.
Then, Chris called Bull. “Bull, my wife has been kidnapped!”
Upon receiving the call, Bull was momentarily stunned. It seemed Esther was extraordinarily unlucky, having been kidnapped several times before. “If this continues, Esther will inevitably become a professional kidnap victim. What karma did she accrue in a past life to attract so many kidnappers?” Bull wondered.
Bull hastily asked, “Mr. Shelby, who did this?”
“I don’t know!” Chris replied. Considering Chris Shelby had many enemies, pinpointing the kidnapper was indeed challenging. However, the fact that the kidnappers could abduct Esther on the East Coast and send him a package indicated they knew him well.
Chris instructed, “Notify the East Coast Security Company and the East Coast Guards immediately; the entire city must look for my wife!”
“Right away!” Without any hesitation, Bull informed the East Coast Security Company and the East Coast Guards, mobilizing nearly three hundred thousand people to search for Esther.
Meanwhile, in the East Coast suburbs, at an abandoned factory a key stronghold for Crazy Steer. At that moment, Ironheart Steer, the leader of Crazy Steer, gathered all his brothers.
Ironheart Steer glanced at everyone and said quietly, “Today, I have summoned you all for a very important matter. The King of the East Coast has set his sights on us. If we do not resist, we will all face certain death!”
“Therefore, we have no choice but to fight back with all our might. Once we succeed, Crazy Steer will become the undisputed underground rulers of the entire East Coast!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
The roar from all the Crazy Steer members filled the air. After a period of vigorous growth, Crazy Steer had now expanded to nearly one hundred thousand members.
Seeing all members of Crazy Steer united, Ironheart Steer showed a satisfied smile on his face. He sneered to himself, “King of the East Coast, you want me dead, but I won’t just sit and wait for it. I’m eager to see who will be the final victor.”
At that time, after diligent searching, Bull finally found the surveillance footage from before Esther’s disappearance. The footage showed that after work, Esther drove to go shopping. As she was leaving the store after her purchases, a van suddenly pulled up. Several burly men emerged from the van and forcefully took Esther inside. Soon, the van disappeared from the camera’s view.
Seeing this, Chris Shelby immediately said to Bull, “Bull, check the license plate of that van and investigate all the unfamiliar men seen in the surveillance footage immediately.”
“Yes, sir!” At the command, Bull began his intense investigation.
Ironically, Esther had always been covertly protected by Shadow. However, Shadow had taken a few days off for personal reasons, and during this brief period, Esther was kidnapped again.
Soon, Bull found the license plate number of the van, but it turned out to be a cloned plate. The identities of the men in the surveillance footage remained unclear.
Ding-a-ling! Just then, Chris Shelby’s phone rang. He picked it up and saw an unknown number calling. His intuition told him that it was likely the kidnapper of Esther.
“Hello!”
Quickly, a man’s voice came from the other end.
“King of the East Coast, your wife is in my hands!”
Chris Shelby, with a menacing look, demanded, “Who are you exactly? What do you want? I warn you, if anything happens to my wife, I won’t let you off.”
“King of the East Coast, I know you’re powerful, but now that I have your wife, what can you possibly do to me?” the man on the phone boasted with a smug laugh.
Chris Shelby sternly asked, “Quit the nonsense, what do you really want?”
“It’s simple, I want your life!” the caller sneered.
“Hah!” Chris Shelby scoffed disdainfully, “Many have wanted my life, but sadly for them, they’re now under three feet of grass.”
The fact that the caller referred to himself as ‘King of the East Coast’ suggested he was from that area.
“Enough wasting time, come to the East Coast Tower tomorrow, and we’ll talk face to face.” After saying this, the caller hung up.
Chris Shelby clenched the phone, his expression extremely grim. He knew the East Coast Tower well-it was a landmark building in the heart of East Coast City. He could now be certain that this wasn’t an ordinary kidnapping; it was undoubtedly the work of a significant force.
Despite having purged East Coast multiple times, Chris Shelby thought of Crazy Steer. If there was any remaining major force in East Coast, it definitely had to be Crazy Steer.
Through gritted teeth, Chris Shelby vowed, “Crazy Steer, if it’s really you who dared to kidnap my wife, I will destroy you!”