She suddenly stood up and, before the guards could react, rushed to the box and grabbed the phone.

"Hey! What are you doing!" Ah Biao and the guards reacted and immediately pounced on him.

Zhong Hua didn't bother to put on shoes and ran barefoot into the depths of the warehouse. The warehouse was filled with all sorts of odds and ends, and relying on her adaptation to the darkness, she dodged left and right, trying to shake them off.

"Catch her! Don't let her get away!" Ah Biao roared, leading his men in pursuit.

As Zhong Hua ran, she quickly unlocked her phone. Luckily, A Biao's phone password was simple: four zeros. Her fingers trembled as she opened her contacts and found a recently called number, presumably the number A Biao had used to contact Gu Yanting.

Without time to think, she quickly typed a message: "Trap, don't come, save me..." Then, with all her might, she threw the phone into a dark corner of the warehouse.

"Found it! It's over there!" the guard shouted as he chased after it.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zhong Hua ran in another direction, but accidentally tripped over some debris and fell heavily to the ground.

Ah Biao rushed up, grabbed her hair, and lifted her up: "You bitch, trying to run away?!"

Zhong Hua's scalp ached from his grip, but she gritted her teeth and refused to beg for mercy. Looking at A Biao's angry face, a flicker of relief crossed her mind. Had the message been sent? Whether it was sent or not, she had done her best.

Looking into her stubborn eyes, Ah Biao's anger intensified. He raised his hand to strike, but was stopped by another guard: "Brother Ah Biao, don't hurt her. We still need to keep her to threaten Ah Yu."

Ah Biao, panting heavily, abruptly withdrew his hand and instead used the rope to tie Zhong Hua's hands and feet even tighter. He also stuffed a rag into her mouth to prevent her from making any more noise.

"Keep an eye on her! If she gets away again, I'll kill you both!" Ah Biao glared fiercely at the two guards, then began searching for his cell phone in the warehouse.

Zhong Hua was thrown to the ground, watching A Biao frantically search, silently praying in his heart. Ah Yu, you must receive the message, you must know this is a trap.

At that moment, Ah Yu was sitting in the police station's conference room, discussing tomorrow's rescue plan with Officer Zhang and others. His phone suddenly vibrated; he received a message from an unknown number with only a few words: "Trap, don't come, save me..."

Ah Yu's heart sank!

It's Zhong Hua! It must be Zhong Hua! She sent me a message somehow!

"Officer Zhang!" Ah Yu suddenly stood up and handed her phone to Officer Zhang. "Look! This is from Zhong Hua! She said it's a trap!"

Officer Zhang took the phone, and upon seeing the message, his expression turned serious: "A trap? It seems the other side has already discovered our plan."

Lin Wanqing also came over for a look, her heart tightening: "What are they trying to do?"

“It’s very simple,” Officer Zhang said in a deep voice. “They knew we would send someone to impersonate them, so they turned the tables on us, trying to detain our people as well, and then further threaten Ah Yu.”

Ah Yu clenched her fists tightly, her eyes filled with anger and worry: "What should we do? Zhong Hua is in danger!"

“The plan needs to be changed,” Officer Zhang decided immediately. “We can no longer send people to impersonate him as originally planned. We must redeploy, act ahead of schedule, and find Zhong Hua’s exact location before noon tomorrow to carry out a surprise rescue.”

“But the West City Chemical Plant is so big, how do we find it?” Lin Wanqing asked.

“Although this number is unfamiliar, we can use technical means to trace the last location where the message was sent,” Officer Zhang immediately instructed his subordinate, “Xiao Li, contact the technical department immediately and trace the last signal source of this number, the more precise the better!”

"yes!"

Seeing Officer Zhang's methodical arrangements, Ah Yu felt a little more at ease. "Zhong Hua, you must hold on! We're coming to rescue you soon!"

In the warehouse, Ah Biao finally found his phone in a corner. When he saw the sent message, his face instantly turned ashen.

"Damn it! That bitch!" He slammed his phone to the ground, and the screen shattered instantly.

"Brother A-Biao, what's wrong?" the guard asked cautiously.

"The message's been sent! She told Ah Yu!" Ah Biao roared, kicking over a nearby metal bucket. "This is it! If President Gu finds out, he'll skin me alive!"

He paced anxiously back and forth in the warehouse, his eyes growing increasingly frantic.

"No, we can't wait any longer!" Ah Biao suddenly stopped, a ruthless glint in his eyes. "Since the plan has been exposed, we might as well go all the way! Call Ah Yu right now and tell him to bring the ledger over immediately, or... I'll kill this woman right now!"

"Brother Biao, this..." The guard was terrified by his madness.

"It's nothing!" Ah Biao pulled out another phone from his pocket, his backup phone. "President Gu said that as long as we get the ledgers, we can make our way to the top! Otherwise, we'll all die!"

He dialed Ah Yu's number, his tone icy and frantic: "Ah Yu, you got the message, didn't you? Very well, it seems your woman is quite clever. However, this doesn't change anything! I'm telling you, right now, immediately, bring the ledgers and come to the West City Chemical Plant alone, or I'll send her on her way right now! I mean what I say!"

On the other end of the phone, Ah Yu heard Ah Biao's frantic voice and Zhong Hua's suppressed sobs in the background, and her heart sank to the bottom.

The trap has been exposed, and Zhong Hua's life is now hanging by a thread.

The rain continued to pour down, as if threatening to engulf the entire world. A final showdown, a matter of life and death, was about to unfold in this abandoned factory. Ah Yu knew he had no way out. For Zhong Hua's sake, he had to go himself, even if it meant facing mountains of knives and seas of fire.