Chapter 377 Leaving

Jiang Ning followed the other person into the tenement building.

It was during work hours, and there were hardly any people in the hallway.

Jiang Ning thought to herself, "These people know how to find a place to live, hiding their apartment buildings among the crowds."

They really went to great lengths to get the prescription.

Upon entering the tenement building, Jiang Ning was led to the door of the last room on the first floor.

The man knocked on the door, and the door opened from the inside.

Jiang Ning entered the room, and the door was immediately closed.

The first thing she saw was Xu Jin, who was tied to a chair.

The moment Xu Jin saw Jiang Ning, her eyes widened in anger, and she suddenly began to struggle violently.

But her mouth was gagged, and she couldn't make a sound.

These people deliberately gagged Xu Jin to prevent her from making a sound and attracting attention.

David's face lit up with pleasure when he saw Jiang Ning. He then walked step by step toward her with the dagger in hand. The cold, silvery blade stopped at Jiang Ning's face. He looked at Xu Jin and chuckled, "If you keep yelling, it won't just be silencing you, it will be slashing her face."

Jiang Ning's expression was indifferent, showing no fear whatsoever.

Xu Jin also quieted down as a result.

She couldn't speak, her eyes fixed intently on David.

Seeing that Jiang Ning showed no fear, David raised an eyebrow and praised, "Dr. Jiang, you have great courage and are very loyal. It's fortunate that you are loyal, otherwise we really wouldn't have been able to get you to come to us willingly."

Jiang Ning didn't even look at David. "I'm here. Release my sister-in-law."

She said that as a gamble; if the other party wasn't after their lives, then exchanging this might offer a sliver of hope.

However, she ultimately made the wrong gamble.

David laughed and said, "Dr. Jiang, we only said that if you come here as agreed, we will ensure your sister-in-law's safety. We didn't say that we would let her leave."

After David finished speaking with Jiang Ning, he looked at his subordinates and said, "Alright, is the car arranged? We'll take everyone and leave immediately by water."

Jiang Ning thought that the moment they caught her, they would use Xu Jin to blackmail her and force her to reveal the prescription, but she did not expect these people to be so cunning.

The moment they grabbed her, they were about to take them away.

Jiang Ning's nerves tightened.

David approached Jiang Ning and carefully examined her from head to toe. He held a dagger to Jiang Ning's side and said, "If you behave yourself, I won't tie you up. But if you misbehave after we leave this room, this knife might accidentally stab Dr. Jiang."

After saying that, David signaled for his men to untie Xu Jin.

The moment the ropes were loosened, Xu Jin ripped the gag from her mouth and raised her fist to strike the other person.

The other party was caught off guard and received a punch from Xu Jin.

However, David calmly took the dagger and made a light cut on Jiang Ning's neck. Xu Jin saw this and glared angrily.

David ignored her gaze and said, "If you hurt my people a little, I'll hurt her a little too. Don't worry, I'll be careful and won't kill anyone. After all, Dr. Jiang is very important to us."

Xu Jin lowered her fist, stared intently at David, and bit her lip to utter two words, "Despicable."

At this moment, Jiang Ning also realized that David was not letting Xu Jin leave because he wanted to keep them in check.

She shouldn't have put herself in such a dangerous situation, but she had no choice and dared not gamble.

If either she or Xu Jin were to get into trouble, it would be a blow to the Shen family. Since the other party's target is her, they will not dare to make any rash moves for the time being because she is there.

Because what they want is in her mind.

At that moment, David's men came over and said, "We're ready."

David nodded, and he gestured for someone to hold a dagger against Xu Jin's back.

As he was about to leave, he looked at them and said, "Be sensible when you leave, otherwise I won't mind making you bleed on the spot. If we can't have it, we'll destroy it. That's our second plan. I hope you won't make me implement the second plan. After all, if Dr. Jiang dies, it will be a great loss for us."

Hearing what the other party said, Jiang Ning and Xu Jin dared not make any rash moves.

These people are extremely malicious.

Destroying what they can't have is their consistent style.

When those researchers returned to China, how many of them were subjected to both overt and covert persecution?

David then opened the door.

Each floor of the tenement building houses many people, and such a large group of people would be too conspicuous and easily attract attention.

But everyone was just curious, and no one dared to go up and ask.

David and his team were exploiting a time difference.

Given Jiang Ning's status, news of her accident would likely leak out quickly, which is why he was in a hurry to leave with his men.

When Jiang Ning's officer husband found the place, they had already left, leaving the place empty.

David wanted to get Jiang Ning and Xu Jin into the car separately, but Jiang Ning strongly resisted.

Jiang Ning told David, "I must stay with my sister-in-law. I won't let you have your way unless I can guarantee her safety."

Seeing her insistence, David thought for a moment and then let the two of them get into the same car.

They have a large force; those two women can't really cause any trouble.

Half an hour after they left the tenement building, a military jeep pulled up outside.

The apartment building was bustling with people, and everyone was very curious when they saw the military vehicles, so they all gathered around.

Shen Mo looked at the tenement building in front of him. This was the address on the letter, but it didn't specify which floor or which room.

He also had a hunch that the other party had written down the address so openly because they probably moved away with their wife the moment they caught her.

Every minute that drags on increases the danger for both his wife and Xu Jin.

Yang Zhengtu and the others who came with Shen Mo were already planning to knock on doors one by one to check.

However, Shen Mo stopped them. He looked at the people coming out of the tenement building and immediately asked, "Excuse me, have any suspicious people appeared in your building recently?"

The other person looked at Shen Mo, noticed his military uniform, and then at the car behind them.

The person who was stopped by Shen Mo thought for a moment and then said, "We recently had a few foreigners living in our building. They left today, taking two female comrades with them."

The person peeking out from the tenement building also spoke up, "Comrade soldier, they've been gone for quite a while."

Shen Mo asked, "Do you know which direction they went?"

"It looks like they came from Chunhua Road."

Shen Mo's eyes flickered. He believed what these people said, but he didn't believe them completely.

He immediately selected two people and asked them to stay and check the apartment building.

Then he took Yang Zhengtu and another person into the car and headed in the direction the others had mentioned.

Yang Zhengtu reassured him, "Brother Chen, don't worry too much. The ones who arrested your wife are foreigners; they'll easily attract attention."

Shen Mo kept his lips tightly pressed together and didn't speak.

But the other party left too quickly; they were always a step too late.

In the end, they could only pin their hopes on the two soldiers secretly sent by Brigade Commander Liang to protect his wife.