Chapter 183 Xia Mingyue was kidnapped
"I asked Zhou Xiao to throw away your medicine. All medicines are poisonous. Don't take them if you can avoid it."
Shen Zhichu looked at his face and knew that he was angry, but she didn't know where his anger came from, nor did she know how she had offended him.
She just wanted her medicine and wanted to stay alive in this desperate situation, but Li Jingshen crushed her last hope.
What else did he want from her? She felt that she was already miserable enough, being trampled into the filthy mud pit by him again and again, half of her life was in hell.
"Do you have anything else to say?" Li Jingshen asked her.
Shen Zhichu shook his head helplessly: "No, there is no medicine, so what? After all, it won't kill you if you don't take it, right?"
It seemed like she was saying this to herself, but Li Jingshen didn't feel something was right, as if she really had a terminal illness and was about to die, and the medicine she mentioned was her life-saving medicine.
Li Jingshen threw all these thoughts out of his mind. He would no longer believe what Shen Zhichu said. He knew whether she was sick or not.
Li Jingshen finally did not order anyone to go to Bancheng.
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Zhao Qian didn't know how he got Bai Qiu's hair, and he was currently verifying the DNA. Li Jingshen was much calmer at the moment than before. He was busy working while waiting for the verification results, but instead of waiting for the results, he received a piece of news.
Xia Mingyue was kidnapped.
While Li Jingshen was working, he received a text message from an unknown number. He clicked it and saw that it was a photo.
Xia Mingyue was tied up tightly, her body was covered with wounds, her face was covered with tear marks and her eyes were filled with panic.
Li Jingshen stood up suddenly. The chill rising from the soles of his feet instantly spread to every corner of his body. Even his fingers were trembling from the cold. He took a deep breath and his face turned a little blue.
He did not call the strange number immediately, but called Xia Mingyue. A cold prompt tone came from the number, indicating that the phone was turned off.
Li Jingshen quickly found Aunt Wang's phone number and called her. After a while, the call was connected. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Aunt Wang's voice came from the other end.
"Boss Li, what's going on?"
Li Jingshen asked coldly, "Where's Mingyue?"
Aunt Wang, who was taking a nap, was suddenly startled awake and stammered, "Miss Xia is at home."
There was a stern, cold light in Li Jingshen's eyes, and his voice was low: "Give her the phone."
Aunt Wang was completely afraid to speak, with cold sweat running down her back. Everything she had just said was a lie to Li Jingshen. Xia Mingyue had been going out frequently recently, and once she went out she would not come back all day or night, and she had also warned her not to tell Li Jingshen.
Now that Li Jingshen suddenly called to ask, she was immediately at a loss as to how to explain her lie to Xia Mingyue.
"Mr. Li...Mr. Li, Miss Xia is not at home. I just took a nap and fell asleep. She went out shopping this morning." Aunt Wang swallowed nervously as she spoke. In fact, Xia Mingyue went out yesterday morning, and she hasn't come back for 30 hours. Although the time is a bit long, it is not uncommon for her to go out like this before.
Li Jingshen seemed to sense Aunt Wang's thoughts through the phone: "Did she really go out this morning?" Judging from the photo, Xia Mingyue's appearance was definitely not as simple as disappearing for just a few hours.
Aunt Wang didn't expect that Li Jingshen, who usually didn't care about Xia Mingyue, would call and ask so urgently this time.
"Aunt Wang, let me ask you again, when did she disappear?" Li Jingshen no longer had the temper to endure it.
Aunt Wang's heart skipped a beat, realizing that Li Jingshen might have known something. She knew Li Jingshen's methods.
"Miss Xia was called out yesterday morning. She asked me not to tell you."
At the earliest, it would take at least 30 hours for him to get out. Li Jingshen really wanted to curse. It was a foregone conclusion that Xia Mingyue was kidnapped. Looking at the injuries on her body, it was obvious that she had been tortured all night. Now she was dying. If he didn't save her, the consequences would be disastrous.
He hung up the phone and turned around to call the unfamiliar number, but the other party hung up immediately. Perhaps worried that the signal might be detected, he kept using different mobile phone numbers to send text messages.
“If you want to save Xia Mingyue, ask Shen Zhichu to bring money.”
"Who are you?"
"I'm just doing it for money. Mr. Li, don't worry about who I am. You can choose between Xia Mingyue and Shen Zhichu. If you want Xia Mingyue alive, send Shen Zhichu here. If not, then I can only send Xia Mingyue's body to you."
Li Jingshen stared at the words above, his expression suddenly became solemn, his pupils slightly narrowed, like the calmness of a wild beast waiting for its prey, but also filled with gloom.
"You dare!" Li Jingshen did not act impulsively. As a leader for a long time, he quickly calmed down.
"Mr. Li, I am a desperado. I am not afraid of death. As long as the money is right, I will do anything. I don't dare to do it now, but who knows what will happen later." The man sent an anonymous text message and then a video was transmitted to Li Jingshen's mobile phone.
The video was played directly. It showed Xia Mingyue being tied to a chair and blindfolded. A man in front of her was slowly approaching her face with a pair of burning tongs. As if sensing danger, Xia Mingyue sobbed helplessly.
"Depth of field, I'm so scared..."
“Save me…”
Li Jingshen saw veins popping out on the hand holding the phone tightly, and the video ended here.
“Boss Li, have Shen Zhichu deliver 100 million tomorrow at noon, otherwise this branding iron will fall on Xia Mingyue’s face.”
The video automatically replayed, and the woman's voice, which became more and more broken, came into his ears from the phone, and his eardrum felt as if it was being pricked by a fine needle.
Li Jingshen's throat choked, and the blue vein on his forehead throbbed, causing his entire head to ache.
The other party gave him one day to consider whether he wanted Xia Mingyue or Shen Zhichu.
Li Jingshen saved several unfamiliar numbers and sent them to a group, asking people to investigate who the other party was.
It was discovered that night that these numbers belonged to Chen Jiaxing's subordinates. So the man behind the scenes was Chen Jiaxing?
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