Chapter 167 Let him die a clean death, eliminating future troubles.
Old Zheng was still in shock and couldn't react. What kind of thing was this?! Shouldn't Shen Jin and Yan Yu have fallen off the cliff and died?!
Why does it keep happening?!
You have to understand that back then, both the Rong and Yan families were searching desperately but couldn't find a trace of them. Everyone outside thought they were dead!
"This...this is impossible!" Old Zheng couldn't help but exclaim, unwilling to accept this fact. "Are you...?"
"Enough nonsense! Is this the time to explain?!" the young man snapped, then dragged him backstage and chased after Shen Jin in the direction he had run!
Shen Jin knew they had discovered him, and a cold sweat broke out all over his body. He pushed through the crowd and ran for his life. If these two ruthless thugs were caught again, he would be in big trouble.
Although we are on a busy street, those two people are armed and could potentially endanger other civilians. The safest thing to do right now is to call the police!
"But...where is the police station!" Shen Jin thought anxiously to himself. He didn't have a cell phone on him, and there were no public phones nearby. Even if there were, those two people would probably rush up to him the moment he got there.
He glanced back and his sharp eyes immediately spotted Old Zheng and the young man chasing after him.
The expressions on their faces were terrifying, as if they wanted to kill Shen Jin as soon as possible.
Shen Jin knew he absolutely couldn't let them catch him; if they did, he was doomed.
He quickly ran out of the teahouse, stood at the crossroads, looked quickly to both sides, and made a decision in just 0.5 seconds.
To the left was the bustling market, teeming with people buying and selling. To the right, though the path led back into the mountains, was deserted; running that way would surely get you caught.
Shen Jin took off running, heading towards the most crowded areas. He needed to blend into the crowd so that Lao Zheng and his men couldn't catch him.
Ahead stood a group of people buying and selling calligraphy and paintings, and an elderly man with long hair and a beard was diligently wielding his brush at his stall. Under his brush, countless paintings on the paper came to life.
Shen Jin scurried into the middle of the crowd and hid under the table where the old man was painting. The old man stared at him in horror, his hand holding the brush pausing in shock.
"Shh!" Shen Jin gestured for the old man to be quiet, and whispered, "I'll hide for a while, just a little while!"
The old man understood immediately.
Chen Jin took a breath and asked, "Where is the police station? And could you... take my phone and call the police? Please!"
"Oh? Call the police?" Hearing Shen Jin's words, the previously composed old man was taken aback. For a moment, he didn't know what to do.
Shen Jin overheard someone watching the painting say, "Oh, the police station? Just go straight ahead and turn left at the first intersection."
The kind person pointed to the intersection and said to Shen Jin.
"The first one?" Because there were too many people and the noise was a bit loud, Shen Jin was afraid that he hadn't heard correctly, so he held up one finger and asked the kind person.
But before the kind man could nod, he glimpsed through the gap that Old Zheng and the young man had caught up.
The two of them, like two wild wolves, were furtively searching their surroundings.
"Damn it, they're here!" Shen Jin, who had been thinking of borrowing a phone from a passerby to call the police, had to give up the idea and ran away.
"He's over there!" The young man had better eyesight after all. He spotted Shen Jin, who was about to run away, and patted Old Zheng on the shoulder, signaling him to chase after him.
The two of them ran like hunting dogs, with Chen Jin running for his life. He pushed through the crowd, using his long legs to leap over the stalls blocking his way.
A man holding a candied hawthorn was shoved around several times by Shen Jin, who didn't even have time to apologize. He didn't care about anything else and ran forward frantically.
The crowd stopped when they saw the scene of the chase in the street. Some people even thought that a TV series was being filmed there.
Oh no, the fact that the crowd moved aside is actually more disadvantageous for Shen Jin, making him easier to spot.
"No, I need to find a place to hide." A cold glint flashed in Shen Jin's eyes as he quickly searched for a hiding place.
"Brother Zheng, hurry up! We can't let this kid get away this time!" the young man said, running without panting.
"Of course! If he gets away this time, we're finished." Old Zheng looked bitter and resentful, clearly annoyed that Shen Jin and Yan Yu had caused them so much trouble. "By the way, how come he's still alive?!"
The young man cautioned, "Be careful not to attract too much attention."
The young man glanced around alertly and noticed that people were staring at him, so he quickly pretended that he had lost his dog and called out loudly.
"This kid clearly fell off the cliff, how come he's still alive?" the young man continued.
"Yeah, he's still alive. We can't let him off this time. And that brat Yan Yu, where did he go? Is he dead or not?" Old Zheng said to the young man while searching both sides.
The young man clicked his tongue: "We'll find out as soon as we catch that brat Shen Jin and ask him."
"Once we catch him, we'll torture him severely! If he refuses to talk, we'll beat him to death!" Old Zheng was furious. The thought that those two people were still alive made his heart sink.
If they were dead, there would be no way to verify the story. But now, they're alive! With those two people pointing the finger at them, plus the influence of those two families, they're guaranteed to spend the rest of their lives in prison!
"We absolutely cannot let those two live!" The young man gritted his teeth. "If they're going to die, let them die a clean death, eliminating any future trouble!"
The two made up their minds and searched all the way. But they found that it seemed they had been shaken off by that brat, Shen Jin.
"Damn it, that guy seems to have disappeared." The young man stopped and looked around before saying to Old Zheng.
Old Zheng looked around desperately, and Shen Jin, who had just been in their sight, vanished without a trace while they were talking.
"That brat!" Old Zheng cursed in exasperation.
On the other side, Shen Jin saw that the road ahead seemed endless, and realized that running straight ahead would only make him more likely to be spotted. Running like this wasn't a solution either.
In an instant, he noticed a house by the roadside. An old woman was opening the door and about to leave. Shen Jin immediately went to meet her.
"Please! Let me hide!" Shen Jin gestured wildly, afraid that the old lady wouldn't understand.
That's right, the old lady really couldn't understand. But luckily, the old lady's son came out right away, heard Shen Jin's cry for help, and pulled him into the house.
Only after seeing the older man forcefully bolt the door did Shen Jin's tense nerves relax slightly.
Chen Jin leaned against the door, panting heavily, and said to the mother and son who had saved him, "Thank you, thank you!"
"Young man, what happened to you? Did you run into bad guys?" The man, who looked like an honest and simple guy, asked Chen Jin with his arms crossed.
"Loan sharks. Those are loan sharks chasing after debts, they're not good people." Shen Jin gasped for breath and made up a story. After all, if he said he had encountered the people who had kidnapped him before, no one would believe him anyway.
"Huh? Why did you borrow that thing! Those things are all scams!" The older brother obviously knew about it too, and knew that it was not a safe place to go.
Shen Jin nodded quickly.
"Young man, why don't you hide in our house for a while? Once those people can't find you, they'll leave," the older brother said to Shen Jin with a kind expression.
Shen Jin knew he had met a kind person and quickly thanked his elder brother repeatedly.
He quickly borrowed a phone to call the police, but for some reason, there was only a busy female voice on the other end, and no one answered!
Shen Jin gritted his teeth and asked, "Is the police station nearby?"
"Police station?" Although he felt that reporting the incident would be pointless, the honest older brother still told Shen Jin the address of the police station and instructed him to wait until it was safe before reporting it.
Shen Jin nodded, hid at the old lady's house for a while, and then asked his older brother to go out and scout the area. Once he figured the two people were already far away, Shen Jin left the old lady's house.
"Big brother, grandma, thank you!" After saying goodbye to them, Shen Jin quickly headed towards the police station alone. As he walked, he kept glancing left and right warily, afraid of being discovered by Lao Zheng and the others.
Following his elder brother's directions, Shen Jin finally arrived at the police station. Upon seeing the police station sign, which exuded a strong sense of justice, Shen Jin's anxious heart finally calmed down a bit.
In his excitement, Shen Jin rushed inside, shouting, "I want to report this to the police!"
The police officers who were sitting there working all looked up and stared at Shen Jin when they heard what he said.
"Are you from out of town? Are you here for tourism? What happened?" The police officers recognized at a glance that Shen Jin was not a local.
Seeing so many police officers, Shen Jin felt inexplicably nervous, as he had never encountered such a scene before. He pursed his lips and said, "Report a crime, a manhunt, a kidnapping, is it..."
He suddenly fell silent.
"A manhunt? A kidnapping?" The police initially thought Shen Jin had just lost his wallet or gotten separated from a friend. They never expected it to be such a big case.
"Tell me exactly what happened." A burly-looking policeman put down his pen and asked directly, "Specific details? Time? When did this happen?"
Shen Jin said in one breath, "There were two people who chased us all the way here. They caused us to fall off a cliff together. One of them... isn't here, but the two kidnappers... they're in this town!"
"What evidence do you have? Where's your ID card? Let me see it." Another policeman didn't seem to believe what Shen Jin was saying, seeing that he was young and had a delicate appearance.
Shen Jin was taken aback. An ID card? After so many messy things happened around him, his so-called ID card had naturally disappeared.
Shen Jin had never reported a crime before, nor had he ever faced so many police officers like this. He stammered, "I lost my ID card, and I fell off a cliff before, I don't know anything..."
"What? No identification?" The policeman looked at Shen Jin with suspicion. "Coming to report a crime all of a sudden? Are you being chased?"
Because what he said was not only something he had never heard of in all his years in the industry, but it was also too far-fetched, like he was telling a story: "Young man, this case is a bit difficult to file."
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