Yuan Yuan opened her eyes, her dark eyes staring straight at him, which frightened him so much that his hair stood on end. He tried to back away, whimpering, but unfortunately, there was a wall behind him.

Yuan Yuan couldn't stop the tears from falling. He closed his eyes tightly and vowed never to do good deeds again.

After waiting for a while, Yuanyuan didn't hear any movement. She opened her eyes a crack, and her dark eyes were still staring at him. Yuanyuan quickly closed them again.

After a few times, Yuanyuan sensed something was wrong. She opened her eyes and looked closely. She found that the person staring with wide eyes was a paper figure lying on the ground. There were several other paper figures around it. The room was filled with a lot of paper money, folded gold ingots, white cloth, candles, and so on. There were also two coffins in the back. There was no one in the room. The whole room was gloomy and made Yuanyuan feel a chill to the bone.

Yuan Yuan's tears fell in and out. He wouldn't die here, would he? He still had so many delicious things to eat, and he didn't want to die so soon.

Even if he dies, can we burn all these things for him so he can be a rich ghost and live a life of luxury in the afterlife? I wonder if he can still eat after becoming a ghost.

As Yuanyuan's thoughts wandered, he quickly shook his head. "Pah! I should be thinking about how to escape right now. I don't want these things."

Yuan Yuan looked around and found his schoolbag lying at his feet. He moved slowly to the side of the schoolbag, pulled it behind him, and gently opened the front pocket.

He was tied up, and the zipper on his schoolbag was hard to open. Yuan Yuan struggled for a long time, sweating profusely, before he finally managed to open the zipper a little. His bound hands reached inside with all their might and touched the utility knife he wanted. The utility knife was round and small. Usually, when he and his classmates couldn't divide their food equally, they would use this little knife to solve the problem.

Just as she got the utility knife, she heard the door open. Startled, Yuanyuan quickly closed her eyes tightly.

"Is the car hidden?" It was the old lady's voice.

"We've hidden well. The police definitely won't find us anytime soon. I didn't expect the police to spot us so quickly. Luckily, we had a backup plan. It's not safe here. We need to get the money quickly and get out of here," the burly man said.

"I just went around and there were police cars everywhere on the road." During this time, the old lady went to check the situation, and the man went to deal with the car.

"Tell them to hurry up and get the money, then we'll get out of here as soon as we have it!"

The old lady pondered for a moment, "They said they'd hold off for two days, but if they get impatient, they'll give more."

"Stop holding back! We'd be fine if we weren't being watched, but now the police are right behind us. They might find us tomorrow. We've been shot at for two days already. The child is in our hands, why should we listen to him? Call now, make the deal first thing tomorrow morning, we can't wait any longer." The man was furious. They'd been shot eight hundred times in the last two days.

The old lady thought the man made sense.

She took out her phone to make a call, putting it on speakerphone so both she and the man could hear.

The call connected, and a strange voice came from the other end: "Got it?"

The old woman said, "We got it, but a passerby saw us and called the police. The police have been following us the whole way, and we are now very unsafe."

The other side: "How can you guys be so useless? Even if someone saw you, the police shouldn't have noticed you so quickly!"

"They've memorized our license plate number. There are surveillance cameras everywhere on the road now. Do you think we can fly?" the man said bluntly.

The other party was taken aback for a moment, then said, "The place I found for you is absolutely safe, and there are no security cameras nearby. Just hide there for a couple of days, and I'll contact you again..."

"Don't wait two more days. This place could be exposed at any time. You want the money now. As agreed, I'll give you one million each, the old lady and I." The man interrupted the other person.

“We agreed before the operation that they would be anxious for two days before agreeing to our conditions. Now they are definitely not willing to give us the money. The police will monitor the whole process. How can we get the money? We need to leave them for two days and let them make the transaction themselves. Only then can we succeed.” The other party’s voice was strange, but you could tell that he was in a hurry.

“This brat is in our hands, and now his family has to listen to us. Otherwise, I’ll dismantle this brat into parts and send them to his family,” the man said viciously.