When the sky was slightly getting bright, Wen Xian heard footsteps coming from outside the warehouse, the footsteps dull and heavy. At this time, the light inside the warehouse was still very dim, the ground also full of dust.
Wen Xian also just now discovered she was in the warehouse, she at this moment was very nervous.
Because the moment the footsteps sounded, there suddenly appeared a pen in her hand, Yu had found her.
Yu lightly vibrated in her palm, Wen Xian subconsciously gripped it tightly.
The iron door long in disrepair was pushed open from the outside, metal and ground rubbing made sharp piercing noise, large patches of dust were blown up.
Wen Xian subconsciously closed her eyes and held her breath, until the noise stopped she then slowly opened her eyes, the man standing at the door at this moment had his back to the light, Wen Xian could not see his face clearly.
He seemed to stand in place looking at her for quite a while before slowly approaching her.
The footsteps got closer and closer, Wen Xian could not help but shrink back a little.
But he stopped at a place one meter away from her.
After a moment, the man’s hoarse voice sounded: “Someone spent money to buy your life. Miss Wen, your life is very valuable.”
He seemed to laugh once, but right after he collected the laugh, he said sarcastically: “Unfortunately, in the eyes of you rich people, some people’s lives are worthless.”
Wen Xian’s mouth was taped with adhesive tape, her hands were also tied behind her back with rope, she tried hard to look at the man’s face, but the man was wearing a hat, she could not see clearly.
She could only see his chin full of stubble, as well as the scarred left arm, that scar extended from his elbow all the way to his wrist.
The man also did not expect her response, just spoke on his own: “Miss Wen, people like you probably don’t understand. People like us, just living every day is already very hard, but even people like us know how precious a human life is, those few idiots say you are innocent, indeed, you are innocent.”
Speaking, the man suddenly laughed once loudly, his face slightly twisted: “But your surname is Wen! That is your original sin, your whole family should atone!”
Wen Xian could not understand what he was saying, she lowered her eyes, motionlessly curled up in place.
After a long silence, the man again swept her a glance: “You still have a few hours to live, take a good look at this last sunlight.”
They were all waiting for Xu Chuwei’s phone call.
But at this moment, Xu Chuwei simply had no time to call them, because when Qin Zan learned Wen Xian was in trouble, he immediately sent people to watch over Xu Chuwei.
He even installed signal jammers around the Xu family villa, just as Xu Chuwei walked out of the Xu family villa with an unhappy expression she was taken away by people, until now she had not been able to contact anyone.
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Qin Zan’s private villa.
Xu Chuwei sat on the sofa with a cold face, she swept a glance at her wristwatch without any change in expression, at this moment it had already been eight hours since Wen Xian’s disappearance.
Her phone and bag had been taken away by people.
She crossed her arms, impatiently glanced at Qin Song: “What are you doing here? I don’t have time to play house games with you. Qin Song, I really was blind back then to have taken a liking to you.”
Qin Song yawned sleepily, he with a helpless face was swiping on his phone: “I also don’t want to see you, but my ge said, before Xian Xian is found you cannot take one step out of here.”
Xu Chuwei raised her eyes and coldly looked at Qin Song: “Wen Xian going missing has what relation with me exactly? She is an adult, should be responsible for her own actions, your Qin family too, wait for receiving the lawyer’s letter.”
Qin Song being dragged up from bed by Qin Zan in the middle of the night was already very unhappy, he glanced at Xu Chuwei, warning: “If you get caught by my ge with evidence, your Xu family won’t have a good time in the future, not to mention there is also Shen Lingge.”
Xu Chuwei simply was not afraid that Qin Zan and them would find evidence, they wanted to find “Miss Xu,” she could find ten “Miss Xu” for them.
All the money was through overseas accounts, every time she contacted them it was also through disposable phones.
Except for herself, no one knew who “Miss Xu” was.
That one van that got on the expressway had already been intercepted, inside the van they did not find Wen Xian’s figure. Qin Zan and Shen Lingge put most of their attention on that van that had lost track.
According to that child, the kidnappers had at least four people, plus Wen Xian, in total five people.
In this vast Licheng, finding five people in a short time, how could it be easy.
At six thirty in the morning, the police received a call, someone saw that van in the west part of the city, but that van was empty. There was no surveillance nearby, at the nearest intersection they could only see they drove the car into the west city at eleven thirty.
At seven in the morning, Licheng began to rain.
After that man left, Wen Xian let Yu secretly draw a small knife, she nervously gripped the knife handle. Because she could only rely on feeling to cut the rope, in no time her hand had been cut by herself leaving a scar.
Wen Xian slightly furrowed her brows, she changed angle again to try, Yu was so anxious it wobbled about beside her.
By the time she cut all the ropes on her hands, her hands were already full of blood marks.
But Wen Xian at this moment could not care about these, she immediately held the small knife and cut the rope tied on her feet. Then with a thought, this small knife still stained with her blood traces disappeared into thin air.
Wen Xian hurriedly got up from the ground and looked around, this abandoned warehouse seemed to have only that one big door as exit, but she could not go out through the big door, if she alarmed those people it would be troublesome.
She raised her head and sized up that narrow window, then pinched the flesh on her own stomach.
Wen Xian: “……”
She decided after going out she would lose weight.
Wen Xian let Yu draw a ladder again, after climbing up the ladder she somewhat troubledly looked at that window that almost only children could get out of. In the end Wen Xian took a deep breath and started to climb out, Yu again drew a ladder for her outside the warehouse.
When Wen Xian finally touched the ground she let out a breath.
But she had not even finished letting out this breath, and someone already saw her, one second after the ladder disappeared.
Zhao Laosan [Old Third Zhao] had come out after sitting all night to take a leak, their group of people had waited a whole night and still did not wait for that Miss Xu’s call, they were all getting impatient.
But as soon as he zipped up he found that little girl who was supposed to be in the warehouse actually came out, but the warehouse’s big door was still properly shut, he was stunned for a moment then started shouting: “Hey! Everyone come out! That little girl ran away!”
The people inside all ran out, Zhang Zhengwei took a look at Zhao Laosan, fiercely said: “Now she has seen your face, if she doesn’t die you just wait to go in and eat prison food!”
Zhao Laosan spat once, didn’t say anything and just chased after.
Wen Xian already didn’t know how high her heartbeat had shot up to, she also didn’t know where she was, could only lower her head and charge forward, those few men were all chasing her.
A sky full of rain curtain, the rain falling heavier and heavier.
Wen Xian was soaked all over, Yu drew her a camouflage green jacket, she wore the jacket running through the forest, those people for a moment actually lost her trail. But Wen Xian did not look back, she only kept running forward.
Because of the rain the mountain path became very slippery, Wen Xian was also running fast, her foot slipped on a stone and Wen Xian fell down, she only had time to tightly protect her own head, the last scene she saw was only the swaying leaves in the forest, the sound in her ears only left the increasingly loud sound of rain.
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Just when the situation was gradually falling into stalemate, the police found out the identity of the man Gong Yan had described. That man’s name was Zhao San, nickname Laosan [Old Third], from Wu’an Village, Dingning County, Licheng.
The police immediately contacted Zhao Laosan’s wife, his wife was a timid woman, as soon as she heard it was the police she spilled everything Zhao Laosan had been doing recently, but what she knew was also not much.
Zhao Laosan’s wife only said that these past days Zhao Laosan was often not at home, the people coming and going were all people she had never seen before, but one time she unintentionally heard Zhao Laosan mentioning on the phone the gold panners from decades ago.
Half an hour later, the police locked the kidnappers’ whereabouts in Mingshan.
For those people, everything started from that mountain.
At the same time, Qin Zan also rushed towards Mingshan. And Xu Chuwei was still trapped in Qin Zan’s villa, there were six bodyguards watching her inside the villa, Qin Song that silly sweet type had already fallen asleep.
Xu Chuwei was practically about to die from anger, but no matter how she lost her temper or threatened these people, they remained unmoved.
She bit her lip, only hoping those people had already dealt with Wen Xian.
In Mingshan forest.
Zhang Zhengwei wiped the rainwater from his face, his gaze obscure and uncertain as he looked at the vast deep mountain. They had split up to search for that little girl, didn’t know if they could find her.
How exactly did that little girl get out?
The sound of the torrential rain almost drowned all sounds, but Zhang Zhengwei still heard another sound, he was stunned for a moment then looked around. Gradually, that sound got louder and louder.
In a daze, Zhang Zhengwei subconsciously lifted his head, looking toward the sky above the forest.
Above those dense branches and leaves, a helicopter flew over, followed by increasingly loud roaring sounds. When multiple helicopters hovered in the forest airspace where Zhang Zhengwei was, that sound already overpowered the rainstorm.
The pilot in the helicopter looked at the infrared imaging device on the aircraft, then reported: “Moving target found.”
After Qin Zan got off he immediately ran up the mountain, the assistant holding an umbrella chasing after him behind. In an instant Qin Zan’s whole body was soaked through, but he didn’t care at all, just kept running forward.
The police found Wen Xian at the bottom of a low slope, that officer at first didn’t notice Wen Xian, because she was wearing a camouflage jacket, but he unintentionally caught a glimpse of her face.
In a patch of dark colors, her skin was so white it dazzled the eyes.
The officer quickly ran over to confirm Wen Xian’s appearance, he immediately raised his voice and shouted: “Found her! Over here with me!”
When Shen Lingge arrived by car at Mingshan, Wen Xian had already been found, he got out and walked toward the man holding Wen Xian, his pitch-black and gloomy gaze falling on the person in his arms.
Her appearance was very disheveled, her forehead slightly swollen, both eyes tightly closed, her snow-white face covered in scrapes, lip color pale, her lowered hand still bleeding.
Shen Lingge’s Adam’s apple slightly rolled, he slowly stood firm in front of Qin Zan, his gaze unblinking as he looked at Wen Xian, his voice already so hoarse it lost its tone: “Give her back to me.”
Qin Zan glanced at Shen Lingge with mockery, tone icy cold: “Are you worthy?”