radicalducati Chapter 97
Chapter 97
Security Office.
The surveillance footage from the villa was quickly retrieved, but after reviewing all the videos, there was no sign of Eleanor being taken away by anyone.
There were also no suspicious individuals captured on the surveillance.
"How is it possible that there's no trace left?" The duty manager was on the verge of tears. "Mr. Carter, I really didn't mean for this to happen. There was an urgent matter at the front desk that needed my attention. If I had known Miss Eleanor would disappear, I wouldn't have let her go alone."
It was too coincidental that there was no footage and that the duty manager was occupied with something. Unless Elle's disappearance was planned by someone!
Alessia and Dominic suddenly exchanged a glance, almost simultaneously thinking of this possibility.
"Manager, what exactly happened at the front desk that required your personal attention?" Alessia asked.
The duty manager replied, "It wasn't anything major, just two guests causing trouble after drinking."
"Where are these two guests now, and what are their contact details?" Alessia inquired further.
"I'll have someone check right away." The attitude of Alessia made the duty manager realize something and she promptly arranged for someone to investigate.
"I need a laptop."
"I need a laptop!"
The next moment, both Dominic and Alessia spoke up simultaneously.
At this point, it was inevitable for people to suspect the level of their coordination, but at such a time, no one had the mood for gossip.
The duty manager was momentarily stunned but quickly had two laptops brought over.
Upon receiving the laptops, neither of them spoke. They sat down on the sofa, their fingers swiftly moving across the keyboards.
Onlookers could only see the rapidly changing codes on the screens of the two laptops, almost simultaneously displaying surveillance footage from the entire villa.
From this, it was evident that both individuals were highly skilled hackers.
Dominic stopped typing and looked at Alessia, who also stopped and looked back at him.
In that moment, admiration flickered in their eyes for each other.
Alessia's almond-shaped eyes fluttered slightly. She hadn't expected Dominic, a domineering CEO, to be so adept at computers.
Her computer skills ranked among the top internationally, and Dominic was surprisingly not inferior to her.
If it weren't for Elle's disappearance, if there weren't so many conflicts between her and Dominic, perhaps they could truly be friends and learn from each other in the future.
After a few more clicks, Alessia locked onto several screens and vacated her spot.
She said to Jessie, "Jessie, could you please inspect the surveillance footage along these routes leading away from the villa?"
Jessie nodded solemnly and began to review the footage diligently.
Similarly, Dominic also yielded his position to the security personnel of the villa.
Simultaneously, at the duty manager's end, the two troublemaking guests had already been found.
They looked like they had just been dragged out of bed, with angry and weary expressions in their eyes.
However, when they saw Dominic's stern face and the room full of people, their anger turned into unease.
One of them even tried to turn and run, but Alessia grabbed him and pulled him back.
Alessia pinned the man to the ground with one leg and coldly interrogated, "Why are you running?"
The man shamelessly replied, "You grabbed me, of course I'm running!"
Shameless, he even tried to shift the blame. If he wasn't guilty, why would he run?
A fierce light flashed in Alessia's eyes. She exerted force on the man's leg, and he immediately lost all resistance and collapsed to the ground.
Everyone present was amazed by Alessia's formidable strength.
Without wasting words with the man, Alessia spoke coldly, "Stop playing dumb. Who ordered you to cause trouble here?"
The man struggled several times to stand up, but he couldn't match Alessia's strength at all.
Defeated, he stubbornly denied, "I don't know what you're talking about! I didn't cause any trouble; I just had too much to drink and was fooling around with my friend."
"Just fooling around? Then let's fool around too."
With that, Alessia released the man, bent down, and without any warning, dislocated his jaw.
The man instantly writhed in pain on the ground, but couldn't utter a single word.
The man's miserable state and Alessia's decisive actions successfully intimidated the other man.
His eyes widened, and he felt his intact jaw, still rubbing it. He could almost hear the crisp 'snap' when Alessia dislocated the other man's jaw, and he felt a sharp pain in his own jaw.
So, when Alessia's gaze turned towards him, he immediately collapsed to the ground, thoroughly intimidated.
"Please, please, don't... don't dislocate my jaw. I'll talk, I'll talk. We were actually staying in a nearby guesthouse. A woman gave us some money to come and stay at the villa. We checked in at 8 o'clock, and at 12 o'clock, we received a call from that woman, telling us to cause a scene at the front desk. Other than that, we didn't do anything else. If that woman did something wrong, it has nothing to do with us!"
Seeing the man trembling in fear, Alessia furrowed her brow.
It was around 8 o'clock when they arrived at X Villa. It seemed that as soon as they arrived, that woman had her eyes on them, or even earlier, following them.
Causing a scene at 12 o'clock was a diversionary tactic to facilitate Elle's abduction.
"What was the woman wearing, and what did she look like?" Dominic asked coldly.
Seeing his expression, Alessia understood that he was thinking the same thing she was.
The man confessed honestly, "The woman was wearing black clothes and pants, with a black mask. The money she gave us was in cash."
She showed no flaws, it seemed that this woman was very cautious!
Alessia's brow furrowed even tighter.
The man pleaded for mercy as soon as he finished speaking, "I've told you everything I know, please spare us. We just came up the mountain to relax, we really aren't bad people."
He even started crying as he spoke.
Dominic met eyes with Alessia, and Alessia raised her hand, making a crisp sound as she repositioned the man's dislocated jaw.
Alessia's extraordinary skillful actions made everyone look at her with curiosity.
It was said that skilled doctors could dislocate and reset jaws and limbs with their bare hands, and it seemed that these were not just rumors.
And this woman in front of them was probably a highly skilled doctor as well.
Ignoring the curious and probing gazes from the others, Alessia walked over to Jessie's side.
Just as she was about to speak, Jessie's hand holding the mouse moved, her eyes lit up with surprise as she lifted her head.
"Sia, I found her, the woman in black clothes and pants with a black mask!"
Upon hearing this, Alessia immediately looked over and saw on the computer screen, in one of the windows, a woman wearing black clothes and pants with a black mask, parking at the southern gate, entering a convenience store, and buying several bottles of water.
The time shown on the video was 12:22, and now it was 1 o'clock, meaning 38 minutes had passed.
Alessia's eyes darkened slightly, seeing how effective Dominic was.
He pushed the two terrified men forward and asked in a voice colder than the night wind, "Is this woman the one who gave you the money?"
After the scare from Alessia and the sight of Dominic's terrifying expression, they immediately obediently looked at the computer, and as soon as they saw the woman clearly, they nodded vigorously and stammered, "Yes, it's her, she's the one who gave us the money."
With their identification, it was basically confirmed that the woman in the video was the one who abducted Eleanor.
Alessia picked up the computer, and Dominic almost understood her next move.
He spoke up, "I'll drive."
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