Chapter 170: At The Lacroix's Mansion

Mia was quite surprised to see Ryan, she didn't expect her friend to appear in front of her.

"Weren't you in Batavia?" She still remembered a few days ago when Ryan asked her for help. She didn't expect that she would meet the guy here. Since his problem was concerned with the most important person in town—Irina Hagrim, Mia had thought that it would take Ryan some weeks to finish it.

"Yes I just came back," Ryan said with a smile. "Don't worry about my problem, everything is settled. Why are you here, by the way? Catching another thief?"

Hearing that Ryan's problem had been resolved, Mia felt relieved too. However, when she heard Ryan's sarcasm regarding catching the thief, Mia frowned. "You mean?"

Ryan shook his head. "If you are not catching criminals right now, do you want to catch my heart instead?"

"I am working on a task," Mia snorted coldly. "My job isn't just to catch criminals, you know. Today, I'm working on missing persons cases. I'm here to gather information,"

Missing person?

Ryan blinked his eyes. "Is the missing person named Megan?"

"How do you know?" Mia frowned as she looked at Ryan. Then she asked with a serious face, "Are you the kidnapper?"

"How could I do something embarrassing like that?" Ryan said with a sigh. "The missing person is a friend of mine, her mother also asked me for help. So you can say I'm helping you,"

"Do you already know something?" Mia asked.

"Not at all," Ryan started getting dizzy again. "I can only confirm that Megan started disappearing after she left her student's house. As for where she had disappeared or who kidnapped her, I really don't know,"

Mia frowned again, it seemed that the case would take a long time.

"Anyway, if your office has access to cameras in this area, we should be able to get some clues," Ryan said.

Mia shook her head. "Unfortunately, the cameras in this area are currently damaged. Not to mention that there are only traffic cameras here and they're all busted. Also, these cameras are still in the testing phase so we can't expect much."

Hearing that, Ryan let out a heavy sigh. They had lost their only hope. Wasn't there a trace of Megan at all?

"Then, I'll go back to the office and investigate this with the team," Mia said.

Ryan nodded, that was the only logical way.

When the two of them were about to leave, suddenly there was a noise from across the street.

Mia turned her head and saw some people arguing violently. Judging from the situation, things would only get worse. They were seen taking out the glass bottles in their hands, and it looked like a fight would break out soon. The pedestrians were already scared and avoided them all.

"Fighting in broad daylight?" Mia frowned and walked over to them.

Ryan then followed her. He originally didn't care what these people were doing, he only had Megan and how to find her in his mind. However, his only hope was a help from Mia, so he couldn't help but follow her and make sure she would be okay.

"What are you all doing!" Mia immediately stood up amidst the commotion. She snapped, "If you guys dare to commit violence, I'll take you all to the police station,"

"Wow, look at that appetizing body!"

The goon on the left looks at Mia with his evil eyes. "You want to take me? Please, I'm not afraid at all,"

The thugs on his side immediately laughed all over. Their boss then said to the opposing group, "You are really lucky to have the police helping you. Next time I'll make sure you'll have your ugly fate!"

The boss of the thugs on the right was angered with the insult. He then looked at the officer and said in a cold tone, "You better get out of here, don't interfere with our business."

Mia was really angry, she then shouted out loud, "No one is going to fight today! One hit and all of you will stay in prison,"

The thugs on the left started swinging sticks and the glass bottles in their hands. They then looked at Mia's sexy body. "You are a very exciting person, madam cop. I'm sure you are also quite excited in bed!"

"Hector, you need to settle the problem with us first! Then, whoever wins can take the girl as the trophy!" The thug boss on the right, Duncan, said to Hector in a cold tone.

"Just keep quiet, you have no right to tell me what to do!" Hector stared at Mia with his lustful eyes. He couldn't wait to taste the female officer's body.

At this time, Mia was still in the middle of this crowd and was surrounded by more than 20 people.

However, everyone's gaze then fell on Ryan as the man walked over to them.

"Oh? One more person come? " Hector laughed.

The thugs felt their blood boiling and were getting impatient. "We already advised you two to step aside. Don't blame us if you got into our troubles!"

The pedestrians were a little surprised at Mia who tried to intervene with the thugs.

"Why not let them slaughter each other? They're just thugs anyways. The trash to our society," one of the people said to his friend.

"Did those two seriously think becoming cops would make everyone bow down to them?" His friend said with a laugh.

Mia and Ryan were really bad in the eyes of these people. They were completely outnumbered by the thugs.

"Those two cops are going to die."

One of the pedestrians was ready to call an ambulance. However, the situation went beyond everyone's expectations!

Ryan was really confused by the Megan case, so he was in a bad mood. At the same time, these thugs felt so full of themselves and wanted to fight.

"Still don't want to go? I'll beat you!" The thugs couldn't wait anymore, Hector and Duncan's guys immediately surrounded Ryan and Mia.

Mia was on standby. When she wanted to warn Ryan to be careful, she had already seen the man charge forward like a lion chasing his prey.

Ryan had turned into a complete savage, this group of thugs was like a sandbag specially made for him.

When he landed his first hit, the other fist was already flying and hit the other person's chin. In an instant, 4 teeth were already floating in the air! At the same time, Duncan's group was already roaring loudly and charging forward.

These thugs didn't care anymore, they saw everyone outside their group as enemies.

When one of them got close, he quickly got a fist to his face. Ryan's fists were always precise and hit his target right where he intended. The thugs then immediately flew away and hit his friend.

Not long after, Ryan was able to beat up almost all thugs from Duncan's group. Duncan himself was amazed. How could a cop be this ferocious? But at this time, Ryan had already arrived in front of him and kicked him right in the chest. In an instant, a loud, painful moan came from Duncan's mouth.

Ryan then looked at Hector's stronghold with a sharp gaze that made everyone shudder.

And now, Ryan was already lunging forward.

"You all, stop that person!" Hector was already scared, his subordinates began to collapse one by one.

However, it didn't take long for Ryan to clear his path and stood in front of Hector.

"No! Not my face, please not my face!" Hector almost wetted himself. Ryan then hit him in the nose and made him fall on the ground.

At this time, Ryan did not stop and was already running to clean sweep the remaining thugs who were still standing. Wherever he went, someone would lie dying.

It took less than 2 minutes to finally take down both groups. If looked closely more than 20 thugs were lying on the ground grunting in pain.

The passers-by were staring at Ryan with a confused face, was that person a martial artist?

Seeing the thugs moaning in pain, Ryan waved his hand. If only these people weren't there, Mia might have been back to her office.

Ryan then returned to thinking about Megan while Mia took out her handcuffs. "I will take you all to the police station,"

Mia frowned, how could she single-handedly carry all these criminals?

"We're sorry, we knew we were wrong. We won't do it again, so please let us go," Hector quickly begged for mercy while he was still covered in blood. His face looked really pathetic. He even shed tears as he kept asking for a pardon.

The other thugs were no less pathetic either, they all knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Nonsense, all of you hurry and line up now!" Mia would not melt just from hearing these thugs begging her to let them go. She knew that this was just an act.

Ryan was still thinking while he looked at the thugs. He then saw one of them wear a necklace that looked familiar.

Why did he think he had seen it before?

Ryan then approached Hector with a frown on his face. Seeing the man walk up to him, Hector's face became even more scared. "Please don't hit me again, I'll obey you and go to the police station,"

However, Ryan forced him to stand up and took the necklace around his neck. Seeing Ryan's violent action, Hector didn't dare to fight back.

After carefully examining the necklace, Ryan's face grew grim. It was clearly Megan's necklace, he saw her often wearing this gold necklace.

"All of you quickly get out of here," Ryan said in a firm voice. The thugs did not hesitate to accept this pardon and ran away. Meanwhile, Mia was a little surprised to hear that and could only shake her head. 

She then approached Ryan who was stepping on Hector with his feet. "Where did you get this necklace?"

Hector was shocked, he didn't think that he was the only one who wasn't allowed to go. His eyes were flashed with fear when Ryan stepped on him. The pain immediately attacked his nerves.

"If you don't speak the truth, people will find your corpse floating in the river today," Ryan said with a serious face.

"Alright, alright. I will tell you everything!" Hector was on the verge of crying. He didn't want to die yet. He wanted to live and give grandchildren to his parents.