Chapter 78
After hanging up the phone, Yuan Heng's face was gloomy and cold. He almost stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and rushed to the unfinished building that the man mentioned at lightning speed.
About an hour ago, Qi Huai called. The usually quiet man spoke quickly and urgently, saying that he could not contact Xiao Ziyu.
There were too many people at the airport, and he had a hard time finding a place to park his car. However, when he returned to the gate, he only saw Xiao Jinchuan, who was exhausted. Xiao Ziyu was no longer there.
The business car sped past on the highway, and even at a speed of over 130 km/h, there was still no fluctuation in his eyes. Equity transfer agreement, Yuan Heng clenched his back teeth tightly, his mouth corners were tight, and his eyes and eyebrows were fierce.
Qi Huai called again. He turned on the car voice, but the voice coming from the other end was Xiao Jinchuan's. There were only three short words: "Where are you?"
In both his past and present lives, Yuan Heng had not had a close relationship with Xiao Ziyu's elder brother, but he knew that this man was stubborn and would not give up until he saw Xiao Ziyu. He casually gave a place name: "An unfinished building near the outskirts of the city, a project that was abandoned more than ten years ago. It is not clear how many people are on the other side and whether they have weapons."
Xiao Jinchuan hummed briefly: "Have you called the police?"
"I have reported it," Yuan Heng said, "If you go from the airport, it's closer to take the national highway."
The two men exchanged a few words briefly and then hung up the phone. No one could complain to the other, and tension and anger were hidden in every straightforward conversation.
Twenty minutes later, Yuan Heng arrived at the scene, but Xiao Jinchuan was even faster. He parked his Range Rover on the nearby central road and did not get closer.
Xiao Jinchuan's face was solemn: "What's going on?"
"They used Ziyu to threaten me and asked me to sign a share transfer agreement." Yuan Heng looked at the huge building in front of him. Originally, they were going to build a shopping mall and office building, but later, they could not reach an agreement with local residents on land acquisition issues, and the unfinished building has been delayed.
The building is more than 20 stories high, and each floor covers an area of thousands of square meters. Looking for someone inside is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Xiao Jinchuan knew a little about Yuan Heng's family affairs, and asked suspiciously, "Is the beneficiary your brother?"
Yuan Heng also felt mocked, shook his head, and whispered: "My stepmother."
After saying that, he took out his cell phone and called Xiao Ziyu back. The dial tone kept coming, but no one answered until it automatically hung up.
Since the terms have been negotiated, there is no way the kidnappers would not answer the phone. The two looked at each other and saw the same panic in each other's eyes: something happened.
Without too much time to think, Yuan Heng and Xiao Jinchuan split up and searched from the bottom to the top of the stairs on the east and west sides. The floors were filled with discarded building materials, and even grass and trees grew in some places, making it look like there were no human traces.
They met at the corner of the fifteenth floor, and before they had time to catch their breath, they heard a clang coming from upstairs! What followed was a few gunshots!
Xiao Ziyu hid behind a pillar, his chest heaving violently and his breathing heavy.
His cell phone was still in the caregiver's hand. It rang at this moment, but no one cared to answer it. Xiao Ziyu gritted his teeth and held back a cough. It should be Yuan Heng who arrived, maybe he was downstairs.
The space of nearly a thousand square meters is not small, but there are eight people on the other side. The footsteps are approaching. Xiao Ziyu turned around suddenly, threw the stone in his hand, and hit the man in the face!
As screams rang out, bullets almost swept towards him following his footsteps. Xiao Ziyu turned around and threw himself behind a cover he had already set his eyes on. His slender body curled up, and his heart beat as violently as a drum.
They had guns, although there was only one in the nurse's hand, but it was enough to deter. Xiao Ziyu had only heard of this modern weapon on paper, and he also knew that carrying a gun was illegal. The sound of the gunshots stimulated his eardrums, and he closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.
The guards seemed to be a little afraid of him, and did not come closer when they heard the footsteps surrounding them. The nurse raised her voice and shouted, "Mr. Xiao, we won't hurt you. Yuan Heng is here. As long as he obeys, we will let you go immediately."
"If you keep fighting like this, bullets won't have eyes. If they hurt you, it'll be troublesome."
Xiao Ziyu ignored his words and suddenly asked, "Do you like Xue Jinling very much? Are you willing to work so hard for her?"
The nurse was stunned for a moment, and secretly made a gesture, asking his men to move closer to the source of the sound. He deliberately delayed the time: "When we were getting along, you didn't even know where to play in the mud."
Xiao Ziyu curled his lips and chuckled, but no one could hear it. He said, "I return this sentence to you as it is."
Several people suddenly attacked and rushed towards Xiao Ziyu's hiding place. Xiao Ziyu tapped his toes and jumped up from behind the cover, drawing an arc in the air: "When I was the king of Daliang, you were probably not even a piece of mud."
Before he could understand what it meant, Xiao Ziyu's figure naturally and smoothly passed over his head and actually swung out directly through the window on the wall.
This is the 23rd floor, everyone was shocked!
"He jumped out!"
"How is it possible..."
"He, he won't die!"
The nurse was in disbelief as he rushed to the window and looked down. There was no figure in the air or on the ground. A living person had disappeared out of thin air.
"Hu, huh..." Xiao Ziyu fell into the gap on the twentieth floor.
Even he couldn't use Qinggong to climb dozens of floors while injured.
His shoulder hit the protruding steel bar, causing a sharp pain. Xiao Ziyu limped to his feet and coughed up a thick smell of blood.
In the blurred vision, a figure appeared at the dilapidated staircase.
Yuan Heng's face changed drastically, and he strode forward, taking the person who could no longer hold on into his arms: "Nanzhu!"
"How do you feel? Where are you hurt?"
Angry shouts and well-trained footsteps came from upstairs. The caregiver obviously guessed that Xiao Ziyu had not escaped from the building yet, and became extremely furious after being fooled several times.
"They have guns..." Xiao Ziyu lay in Yuan Heng's arms, but he didn't dare to covet the warmth: "They are coming for you, hurry up..."
His eyes widened, but it was too late to speak.
The nurse appeared at the stairs first with a gun in hand, pointed the gun in their direction and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
In a flash, Xiao Ziyu's eyes went white, just like facing the assassin who suddenly attacked him at the Mid-Autumn Festival family dinner hundreds of years ago. He wanted to push the man away without hesitation, but Yuan Heng was one step faster and threw him tightly under him.
The expected gunshots did not occur.
With a scream, the nurse's gun flew out of his hand and fell to the ground with a thud. Not far away, Xiao Jinchuan came panting and strode from the west stairs, with a few stones in his hand that he had not thrown yet.
He picked up the gun from the ground, loaded the bullet into the gun, and pointed it condescendingly at the caregiver's head.
In just a dozen seconds, the men were half a step slow in coming down the stairs, and the situation had changed drastically.
"If I kill him, all the money you spent on this trip will be wasted." Xiao Jinchuan's voice was steady.
The men looked hesitant. They were holding sticks and axes, which were not enough under the threat of guns. There was a sound of brakes downstairs. Someone looked out and was instantly terrified: "Police, the police are here!"
Most people fled upstairs, and a few even tried to rush downstairs in panic, but were blocked by the plainclothes police who rushed up.
The nurse didn't know where he got the strength from seeing this, or maybe he thought Xiao Jinchuan was not to be feared because of his frail scholarly appearance, and he suddenly counterattacked. However, he was kicked in the chest by the furious Yuan Heng and fell to the ground.
He grabbed the caregiver's collar with one hand, lifted him up from the ground, and swung his left fist straight into the man's face!
Yuan Heng rarely loses his mind, but at this moment he was irritated by the bloodstains on Xiao Ziyu's body. Fear and anger rushed to his head, and he wished he could beat the man to death.
"Yuan Heng!" Xiao Ziyu raised his voice slightly. He didn't have much strength left, so he could only step forward and pinch the corner of Yuan Heng's clothes, "Calm down."
However, it was that insignificant bit of strength that made Yuan Heng's trembling arms suddenly loosen, and he pushed the man back to the ground and kicked him hard. He turned around and hugged Xiao Ziyu, but was afraid of touching his wounds, so he crossed his arms to create a safe area: "I'm sorry, baby, I'm sorry... I didn't think it through enough."
The nurse's eyes were bruised and her lips were cracked with blood foam. She seemed to know that the situation was hopeless. She said arrogantly, "I didn't expect Mr. Yuan to be so sincere to a man. He actually fell in love with a little toy used to humiliate you."
Yuan Heng looked down at him, returning to his usual ruthless and cold attitude: "How much benefit did Xue Jinling give you to threaten me?"
"Let Yuantai be given to you as her next target?"
The nurse smiled and changed her words: "I am blackmailing Mr. Yuan purely because I don't like you. I see that you and Yuan Qi'an are colluding to drive away the wife and youngest son. As for Madam Xue, I don't know her well."
"You bought her a plane ticket for this evening," Yuan Heng took out a passport from his coat pocket and opened it: "Is she planning to go on vacation to Fiji?"
The nurse finally changed color, but he didn't expect that Yuan Heng had made the first move. After realizing something was wrong, he sent someone to check Xue Jinling's whereabouts and stopped her directly in the departure hall.
He struggled: "Come at me if you dare! Hasn't she suffered enough injustice in your Yuan family?"
"She cheated on a married man and got pregnant before marriage. I don't think she was wronged," Yuan Heng raised his voice, "She is just the same kind of person as Yuan Qi'an."
The nurse roared angrily and struggled with his last bit of strength, but was pinned down by the police who arrived shortly afterwards.
The ambulance arrived shortly afterwards, and the doctor examined the injuries of several people on the spot. The nurse turned out to be the most seriously injured, with three broken ribs piercing his internal organs, a cracked shoulder blade, and the end of his eyebrow probably needed stitches. Out of humanitarian spirit, Xiao Ziyu gave up the position of the single frame.
Xiao Ziyu knew how to buffer and release force, so even in critical moments, nothing serious happened. The preliminary diagnosis is that there may be a slight fracture in the arm, not counting the minor and major soft tissue contusions, and a bruised area on the back, which requires further X-ray confirmation.
After Yuan Heng explained the situation at the scene to the police, Xiao Ziyu was supported by his eldest brother and limped down the stairs. Every step he took affected his wound and he frowned in pain.
This won't work, Xiao Jinchuan half squatted down and said, "I'll carry you down."
Without waiting for Xiao Ziyu to make any move, Yuan Heng stretched out a hand diagonally in the air and said, "Let me do it."
Then, under the suspicious gaze of his brother-in-law, he picked up the person and carried him sideways, and walked down the stairs swiftly.
Xiao Ziyu didn't care about the embarrassment. He stretched out his uninjured arm to hold Yuan Heng's neck, swallowed his fear and fear deep in his heart, and let himself bury himself in his neck.
Yuan Heng did not stop or change hands even when he was 20 floors away. Every step he took was filled with endless fear. What if the bullet hit him? What if there was no suitable floor for him to land? What if something happened to Xiao Ziyu? How would he be able to find this person in Huangquan Biluo?
Back on the ground, Qi Huai was waiting downstairs with the police. He looked so miserable, as if he had been slapped in the face. He spoke with difficulty: "Mr. Yuan..."
"No one is fine, you can drive back first." Yuan Heng ordered. He didn't have the habit of settling scores after the event, and it was at the gate where there was a huge crowd of people, no one expected an accident to happen.
The ambulance was given to the paramedic, and they got into the police force's spacious transport vehicle. Yuan Heng held her tightly in his arms the whole time, like a statue as still as a mountain.
The policemen traveling with them were still a little confused. The report they received was about an armed kidnapping. The kidnappers had guns and were extremely dangerous. Three negotiation experts had arrived. As a result, when they arrived here, the main culprit had lost his ability to move, the injured one was not seriously injured, and the other two men, one solemn and the other cold, looked like they were not easy to mess with.
"Give him some glucose water," the trainee police officer handed over an energy supplement, "his lips have turned pale."
Yuan Heng was in an extremely nervous state, and his sharp gaze immediately followed over, making the other person tremble. After a while, he realized his mistake and sighed, "Give it to me."
His fingers froze, and he inserted the straw several times before passing the supplement to Xiao Ziyu's lips. He waited patiently for the person to finish drinking it, and wiped the water stains from the corner of his mouth with his thumb: "Do you want more?"
Xiao Ziyu shook his head. He was half dead from the shock and trepidation. He buried himself in Yuan Heng's coat, resting his forehead against his chest, not moving.
The young policeman took the empty bottle and disposed of it. He hadn't been promoted yet and hadn't seen much of the world, so he had a vague feeling that these two might be a couple.
Although the injured one looks delicate and tender, he is definitely not a good person since he could escape from the kidnappers. Not to mention the tall and strong one, whose fierce aura is even stronger than their captain. When these two men get together, who will favor the girl?
The trainee police officer kept looking at the two of them with pure and curious eyes. Xiao Jinchuan couldn't stand this weird atmosphere, so he took the initiative to break the deadlock and said to Yuan Heng, "If you are tired, I will hold him."
"No need." Yuan Heng looked at the person in his arms reflexively. For the first time, he felt inferior to this brother-in-law. He said with difficulty, "I'm sorry."
"No one can predict this kind of thing," Xiao Jinchuan said suddenly. He has always been skeptical about Xiao Ziyu's eye for mate selection, but it was true that Yuan Heng protected the person under him at that critical moment. If the kidnapper had succeeded in shooting, the person in the ambulance would probably be Yuan Heng.
He looked up at the tall and resolute man and found that he had no intention of speaking. It was obvious that he would not let himself be exonerated by just one sentence. Xiao Jinchuan changed the subject: "What are you going to do next?"
"Cooperate with the investigation," Yuan Heng said in a low voice, "The nurse was hired by Xue Jinling and has been watching over Yuan Qi'an day and night. I suspect that the accelerated deterioration of Yuan Qi'an's condition over the past six months is also related to him."
Xiao Jinchuan frowned: "The inheritance that Yuan Qi'an left to Xue Jinling is enough for her to live comfortably for the rest of her life. There is no need to take risks for this."
Yuan Heng shook his head: "That woman is used to clinging to others. Her sense of security comes from the men around her. After Yuan Qi'an died, she wanted to rely on Yuan Ye. When she found that her son could not let her do what she wanted, she took extreme actions."
Xiao Jinchuan didn't know how Yuan Heng felt about his brother, but he put himself in his own shoes and asked worriedly, "Your brother..."
Yuan Heng stroked the back of Xiao Ziyu's head, feeling his light breathing in his arms, his eyes becoming more fierce: "No matter what Yuan Ye does, I will make Xue Jinling pay the price."
I'll take a break tomorrow. There are still four chapters left to finish the main text~
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