Chapter 326 Casualties Irrelevant
Sidney Stewart waved his hand at his subordinates behind him and ordered, "Go get the phone. The rest of you follow them by car."
Several well-trained men divided up the tasks clearly. After receiving the order, they didn't dare delay and immediately followed.
Sidney opened Cillian's phone and found a recording on it.
His brow twitched slightly, and he immediately clicked to listen.
It was a conversation between the men who had kidnapped Cillian.
Clearly, they had received instructions from someone else to kidnap Cillian.
The kidnappers even seemed certain in their words that the White family would definitely be in trouble soon and unable to look after themselves.
Halfway through listening, Sidney's eyes sharpened. He pressed pause and rewound the recording to listen again.
He turned up the volume, raised the phone's speaker to his ear, and listened carefully once more.
In the background noise, someone else was talking.
Words like "Celestria" and "Wilford" reached Sidney's ears. He turned off the phone and ordered his subordinates, "Send some people to guard the hospital. Make sure to protect Celestria's CEO."
Wilford, the CEO of Celestria, was currently recuperating in Novaria. If anything happened to him, it would definitely cause a dispute between Novaria and Celestria.
This matter absolutely couldn't be taken lightly.
Just then, his phone suddenly rang. It was Preston calling.
Sidney hesitated for a moment but still pressed the answer button.
"Hello? Cillian?"
"Preston, this is someone from the NSA. Your grandson has been kidnapped. My people are already following them. Please prepare yourself mentally."
Preston suddenly stood up from his chair, a look of shock crossing his face. "Kidnapped? What happened?"
Ever since he received the message from Cillian, he had sensed something was wrong.
When he was young, he was always busy with work and ruined his eyes, so he rarely looked at electronic devices.
When Cillian sent him messages, he would always send voice messages.
But this time it was text.
Preston had sensed something was off when he saw the message, so he made this call.
"Don't worry yet. I've already sent people to chase them. They won't be able to escape Silverlight City," Sidney reassured him.
On the other side, Cillian was being forced into a car.
Those people were very rough. As soon as he got in the car, they blindfolded him and tied his hands behind his back.
At this moment, he deeply regretted that when Benjamin had forced him to do physical training, he had found all kinds of excuses to refuse.
However much he had indulged himself before, that's how much he regretted it now.
Unable to see, his other senses became infinitely magnified. Cillian's heart began to feel uneasy, and he nervously swallowed.
After the car had driven for a while, the person in the driver's seat suddenly hit the brakes.
Cillian wasn't prepared. His body lurched forward violently, and his forehead slammed hard into the back of the seat in front.
"Can you even drive?"
The man sitting beside Cillian cursed angrily.
A flash of panic crossed the driver's face as he pointed out the car window to explain, "Ezra, look, our car is surrounded."
Ezra looked out the window and saw several cars stopped around them, surrounding them completely.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know. We've been keeping a low profile since returning to the country. How could someone come to stop us... could it be people from the White family?"
The kidnappers in the car suddenly looked at Cillian.
Although Cillian couldn't see, he vaguely sensed the atmosphere was wrong and hastily explained, "Don't look at me. You took my phone, and you searched me too."
Before they could figure out what had gone wrong, people got out of those cars outside.
They were holding guns, aimed at the car.
"Get out."
Seeing the guns in the hands of those people outside, the people in the car immediately panicked.
No one noticed that Cillian's hands, tied behind his back, were gently working to free themselves from the rope.
"Ezra, what do we do now?"
They had come in a hurry this time, and besides, a rich young master like Cillian posed almost no threat to them.
Because of this, they had let their guard down, never expecting such an accident.
Ezra pondered for a moment, then coldly ordered, "Ignore them. Keep driving. Dead or alive, doesn't matter."
Hearing this, Cillian's heart immediately surged with waves of shock.
With one forceful movement, the rope on his hands came loose. Taking advantage of everyone's distraction, he quietly placed his hand on the door handle.
He seized the opportunity to press hard, opening the car door.
Just as the car was about to start moving, he used all his strength to jump out.
Sidney's car had been specially modified. When Ezra's car hit it, it was virtually unharmed.
But Ezra's car had a dent in the front.
"What... what's going on?"
The driver looked confused, still not having recovered from what just happened.
The kidnapper who had been sitting in the passenger seat couldn't care less about Cillian, who had already jumped out of the car. His face turned pale.
"Oh no! They're not people sent by the White family at all. Those guns all seem to have serial numbers."
One of the kidnappers immediately panicked. "You mean these people are from the NSA?"
Doesn't that mean they had already been targeted by Novaria's NSA?
This is bad!
Sidney approached with his gun raised and tapped on the car window with it. "Are you coming out yourselves, or am I going to have to pull you out?"
The kidnappers inside the car all froze, not daring to move.
Sidney waited patiently. Soon, the car door opened and the people inside came out.
If Cillian hadn't jumped out of the car in time, they could at least have used him as a hostage.
But now, they were already surrounded, and they had lost even Cillian as a bargaining chip.
The kidnappers had no choice but to surrender obediently.
Sidney glanced at them coldly and ordered, "Take them away!"
An hour later.
NSA.
Thaddeus looked helplessly at the several people inside who weren't saying a word, feeling quite a headache.
Sidney came out and shook his head at him. "Still won't say anything. Very stubborn."
"Sidney, what do you think about this?" Thaddeus suddenly asked.
Sidney was stunned and asked in confusion, "You mean?"
Thaddeus didn't intend to beat around the bush with him. He explained the request Sophia had made to him earlier, and finally sighed helplessly, "Do you think she had it all planned out, knew someone was coming to cause trouble for him, so she wanted to use my hand to get rid of these people?"
After receiving the order, Sidney had immediately sent people to protect the White family, but he didn't know there was this layer to it.
He didn't answer directly but changed the subject, "We're already investigating the background information on these people. They're probably part of the same group as the ones you arrested at the hospital."