"Master, do you need my help?" Huang Ying asked over the phone.
Qiao Rui thought briefly for a few seconds before speaking, "You can't spirit someone away without anyone noticing, Pei Liyan's people are everywhere outside."
Huang Ying hesitated, "I can try."
"Forget it, don't take the risk," Qiao Rui said. "We don't need her, at most she would just be a nuisance."
"What does the master suggest then?"
"Stand by, I'll go have a look and keep in touch." Qiao Rui hung up the phone and went upstairs.
Although the fifth floor was an art studio, the stairwell door was locked when she arrived.
She continued up, and at the turn from the fifth to the sixth floor, she heard someone breathing.
There was someone guarding the emergency exit above.
It seemed they left someone upstairs to watch the door. They were being cautious but weren't truly evil kidnappers. It was a spontaneous act; they couldn't be detailed.