It's dark at night, and most of Sanya's urban areas are slowly falling into silence. However, the Portuguese Embassy located at the foot of Phoenix Ridge is still brightly lit.

None of the embassy staff, including Simon and Thomas, had any rest at this time. Although they were very tired, they had no intention of sleeping at this time.

Today is a very difficult day for the Portuguese, because until now, they still have not been able to find their missing persons.

The Portuguese Embassy in Sanya has a total of more than 50 people on staff, but most of them are civilian staff, and their daily work is to handle diplomatic, commercial and cultural affairs.

In fact, there are only a dozen people who are actually responsible for special affairs such as intelligence, field operations, and security.

Among the people who participated in this surveillance operation, only two people who stayed outside the Singdao office returned to the embassy. The other people who followed the target in batches have all gone and never returned.

In broad daylight, a dozen adult men with sound hands and feet disappeared silently in Sanya city. This is a situation that has never happened since the opening of the Sanya embassy.

Instead of speculating that they had been kidnapped and taken away by someone, Simon and Thomas hoped that this was a supernatural incident caused by ghosts and ghosts.

However, although both of them are devout believers, they also know in their hearts that this matter has nothing to do with ghosts and gods.

The person behind the scenes not only has considerable professional capabilities, but also the personnel and resources mobilized should be superior to those of the embassy, ​​so that it can be done so cleanly and without leaving any traces.

Thomas said with some frustration: "The scope of our search is only limited to the places we can go, but there are too many areas in Sanya that prohibit foreigners from entering, so it is impossible to search."

The most important thing is that this is the capital of Haihan. The other party dares to kidnap so many people in the city. It is simply confident. Their identity and background may be extraordinary.

Thomas said: "You mean Tan Tianming and the Sing Tao office?"

Simon said: "Actually, if you want to know the truth, there is another way. Although we don't know who did it, we at least know who was involved in it."

As for the witnesses, it was even harder to find. Because of the lottery, at least half of the local people gathered in the area near Victory Square. There were large sparsely populated areas in the city where you could take action.

However, this statement shows that Simang does not care about this at all, at least he is somewhat responsible.

Almost all the staff of the embassy were sent out, and some people were even temporarily seconded to several local Portuguese shops.

In his early years, Ximang had fought with the Haihan Army in many places overseas. He had personally witnessed personnel from the Haihan Military Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Security torture prisoners. The cruelty of their methods left a deep impression on him.

Whether they are Spaniards, Jurchens, or Japanese, the person being tortured has only two outcomes: either he confesses, or he dies during the execution.

Thomas said: "Perhaps they have no intention of coming to press charges or releasing people! They just want our people to disappear forever to warn us not to act rashly again!"

Abducting people in such a brutal way was more than just a matter of halting their operations. It was very likely that they were trying to obtain information from them, thereby gaining access to the embassy.

Ximang said coldly: "But at least the Haihan people haven't come to ask questions yet. Maybe things will turn around."

Thomas was about to speak when there was a sudden noise outside the house, and then someone ran in and reported: "Sir, the missing person is back!"

However, in order to avoid further missing persons, we had to strictly prohibit individual actions outside and increase the number of people in each team to five or six people. In this way, although there were quite a lot of people dispatched, there were actually only a few teams searching outside.

The whereabouts of missing persons.

Whether these people can withstand high-pressure interrogation or even torture to extract confessions, they actually don't have much hope.

Simang nodded and said: "The person disappeared while following them. They must be insiders. Maybe we should visit the Xingdao office and see what they will say."

Thomas said: "But we are very passive now. We can't find the person and can't figure out the other party's intentions. We don't even know who did it!"

Simang believed in the loyalty of the missing persons, but did not believe that their will could survive the various tortures.

Thomas said: "What else can you say? Of course you won't admit it if you kill them, and we don't have any basis to ask the other party to hand over their people. Are you going to ask them to show their favor?"

This operation was also carried out with Xi Mang's insistence. The disappearance of these people in the embassy was inseparable from him. If he hadn't been busy looking for missing people today, Thomas would have had a big quarrel with him.

Already.

Although neither of them said anything, they had already tacitly agreed that this matter should be the official work of Haihan.

It is very likely that the Haihan people have figured out the whole story and have all the information about the embassy sending people to track and monitor Haihan official institutions and personnel.

Ximang said: "If it can exchange for the safe return of our people, I don't mind apologizing to the Haihan people in person."

"To be honest, if the Haihan people captured them, it is unlikely that we would be able to find them this way."

In view of the advantage of the other side's home court, they had every reason to suspect that the coachman who took away the embassy personnel was also disguised as someone from the other side.

After dark, various groups returned to the embassy one after another, but the information they brought back was extremely limited, and the missing persons were still not found.

The rickshaw clues that had high hopes did not yield any substantial results. The rickshaw driver who was pulling labor near the Xingdao office this morning was not found at all.

Reporting to the authorities at this time would probably only bring humiliation to themselves, so they decided to look for clues on their own. Even if they were looking for a needle in a haystack, they had to try their best.

These words made Thomas look at him with admiration. He had always thought that Simon was an absolutely ruthless person. As long as he could achieve his goal, he wouldn't care what price he had to pay for it.

Ximang said: "Based on my understanding of the Haihan people, I don't think they will do something so cruel. Speaking of Potian, our actions are only at the level of surveillance, and we have no intention of doing anything to anyone. If Haihan

Han was just trying to warn us, so there was no need to risk so many lives."

Thomas jumped up from his chair: "How many people are back?"

The subordinate responded: "There are quite a few, it seems... they are all back!"

Thomas and Simon looked at each other and hurried out of the house together to check the situation outside.

People did come back, but they didn't come back by themselves.

Someone banged the door of the embassy with stones in the distance. When the people inside heard the noise and opened the door to check, they did not see the person who threw the stones. They only found a dozen people tied up with hemp ropes under the wall outside the embassy.
Chapter completed!