As expected, someone was sniping, probably someone from Black Rose. Shi Jin
was sweating profusely, and just as he breathed a sigh of relief after stabilizing himself, he discovered that his progress bar had actually risen to a dead speed. His pupils shrank, and without thinking, he rolled on the ground again and hid behind a trash can on the street.
The next second, a bullet flew past the trash can, and Shi Jin groaned and covered his shoulder.
Damn, the trash can was too narrow, and he was too big, and he became a sitting duck.
His shoulder was burning with pain. Shi Jin gasped and tried to shrink his body to hide behind the trash can. Seeing that his progress bar was still at a dead slow, he turned his head to look around and found that there was an alley not far behind him. There was a large trash can against the wall in the alley. He gritted his teeth, reached out to take off the oversized bear headgear on his head, and asked Xiao Si to add a buff of acceleration and hearing enhancement to himself. He threw the headgear out from a distance, and then kicked up a pile of garbage. He rolled on the ground again, and under the cover of the garbage and the headgear, he bent his waist and ran quickly towards the alley.
Puff puff puff.
There were several more sounds of bullets being fired into the air. Shi Jin seemed to be able to feel the air flow being disrupted as the bullets flew past his body. His nerves were extremely tense. Seeing that the alley entrance was already in front of him, he hurriedly fell to the ground and rolled to the side. Finally, he hid in the alley safely and hid behind the iron trash can.
Puff, puff, puff.
The bullets hit the wall and the iron sheet, and then gradually there was no movement. His enhanced hearing could no longer detect any strange sounds.
Shi Jin sat against the wall. On one side was an alley that led to nowhere, and on the other side was the rusty iron sheet of a garbage bin. He felt the wound on his shoulder getting more and more painful, and the blood loss became more and more obvious. After making sure that he was safe for the time being, he took a deep breath and covered the wound, sat up slightly, took off the doll costume on his body, stared at the entrance of the alley while tearing off the lining of the doll costume, tore off the coat and wrapped the wound on his shoulder, stopped the bleeding a little, then tidied his clothes, hid the doll costume in the corner, and ran to the other side of the alley along the wall.
"Jin Jin, are you okay?" It was the first time that Xiao Si saw Shi Jin injured, and he was so panicked that his voice was unstable.
"I'm fine." Shi Jin soothed, trying his best to adjust his breathing, and said while observing the situation in the alley, "The Black Rose's snipers are all lying in ambush in the old street. I was wearing a doll costume before, and now I've taken it off. As long as I don't appear in the old street in the image of a doll, those snipers won't be able to target me anymore."
"I'm not talking about those snipers, I'm talking about your wound." Xiao Si was so panicked that he was about to cry. He added buffs to him and said, "You're bleeding, a lot..." Shi Jin
immediately felt the pain in the wound relieved a lot, and his body temperature, which had slightly dropped due to blood loss, also rebounded. He realized that it was Xiao Si who was helping him, and he even had time to smile and said, "You won't die for the time being. I still have you, and I have a golden hand--"
Bang!
The alley was full of debris and there were no lights. Shi Jin was already stumbling along the way. As he was talking, he didn't notice that there was a thin fishing line across the debris in front of him. He avoided the debris but not the line, and was caught by mistake. He fell down. Fortunately, the injured side of his body fell to the ground first. He groaned in pain and felt that the remaining strength in his body was also lost by this fall.
"Jin Jin!" Xiao Si was so anxious that his voice broke.
"I didn't..." Shi Jin turned over and lay on his back on the ground. His vision began to go dark, and he knew that he must be in trouble after the fall. He resigned himself to his fate and changed the subject, saying, "I have something... Xiaosi, please keep an eye on the alley for me."
After that, he took out the cell phone that he had kept well from the inside pocket of his shirt, and while muttering to himself that he would probably be severely punished by Lian Jun this time, he made a phone call. He waited for a long time before the call was connected. He used the last bit of consciousness to shout for help, Master Jun, and then reported his location as detailed as possible, then fainted with his head tilted.
Ten minutes later, a black car stopped at the entrance of the alley. The rear door opened, and a slender man in a long black coat stepped out of the car, holding a mobile phone that showed he was on a call. He stepped lightly on the dirty snow water at the entrance of the alley and stopped in front of Shi Jin, who was lying on the ground.
Click.
He stepped on the mobile phone that had fallen to the ground beside Shi Jin, bent down, reached out and touched Shi Jin's pale face, and touched the small black mole on Shi Jin's nose with his slender fingers. After a long time, he leaned over and lifted him up from the ground.
Xiao Si was so scared that his phone almost crashed. He looked at the person's appearance in disbelief, and then looked at Shi Jin's progress bar which had dropped to 700 and now suddenly rose to 800. Finally, he glanced at Shi Jin's broken phone. He wanted to cry but had no tears. He was so sad that he wanted to rewind and restart himself. He cried out, "Jin Jin, Jin Jin, wake up... It seems you called the wrong person... Wake up, the progress bar that you lowered with great difficulty has risen again... Jin Jin, wu wu wu..."
On the other side, Lian Jun, who was still uneasy, couldn't help but call Shi Jin, but found that the other party was always shown as being on the phone. His brows were slightly frowned, and the uneasiness in his heart grew. He then called the club and asked someone to see what Shi Jin was doing.
A few minutes later, the club called and said that they had searched the entire sixth floor but did not see Shi Jin - Shi Jin was gone.
Lian Jun's face darkened, and the action of the teddy bear throwing things emerged in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more familiar it seemed. He hung up the phone and ordered: "Gua Yi, go back to Tuanjie Community. Shi Jin is not in the club. The teddy bear that suddenly broke in is probably him in disguise."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and Gua Er blurted out: "What?! That's Shi Jin?"
Gua Yi frowned, immediately turned around, and drove back to Tuanjie Community.
When they rushed back to the gate of the community, the authorities had completely controlled the situation. Most of the members of the Black Rose were arrested. The streets were littered with trampled fireworks, candies and balloon fragments, which gave off a sense of loneliness after the carnival.
The official in charge found that Lian Jun's car had returned, and hurried forward to ask in confusion: "Mr. Lian, why are you back again? Don't worry, all the members of the Black Rose have been arrested, and there were no casualties among the people you sent out."
Lian Jun asked directly: "Where is the teddy bear who helped?"
"Teddy bear? He's gone. Wasn't that the person you sent to interfere with the enemy's vision? When the melee just started, I followed your previous instructions and asked someone to let him go." The official in charge replied, not understanding why Lian Jun looked so ugly.
Gua San said with a serious expression, "We sent three groups of people to disrupt the enemy's line of sight. One group was the 'cleaners' who were approaching the gate of the community along the street buildings. One group was the 'takeout boy' and 'plumber' who had previously conducted in-depth investigations in the community and were preparing to sneak back to the gate to catch the Black Rose members lying in ambush inside. The last group was people who were infiltrating various possible sniper locations. The teddy bear was not among them."
The official in charge was stunned when he heard this and said, "But didn't you later order someone to protect him? I thought he was on your side, so I sent someone to cover his retreat. After all, all the Black Rose people are here, and he should be safe if he stays away from the battlefield."
Gua Yi's face darkened when he heard this - can protection and covering retreat be the same thing? It is safe to stay away from the battlefield. The attack range of a sniper can be large or small. It is simply stupid to define the scope of the battlefield at random!
"Drive and search along this street." Lian Jun didn't want to waste time with the official person in charge anymore, and ordered in a deep voice.
Gua Yi immediately started the car and began to look for traces along the street, and Gua San also began to mobilize people to look for the bear.
Five minutes later, the car stopped next to a tricycle that was tilted at the end of the old street. Gua Er opened the door and got out of the car. He rummaged around the tricycle and found a backpack filled with miscellaneous items. He turned to face the people in the car with an ugly expression: "This is Shi Jin's bag. I bought it with him."
So the bear was actually Shi Jin.
"All the snipers deployed by Black Rose have been caught, and one of them just happened to have an attack range that includes this place." Gua San hung up the phone call from his subordinates and told Lian Jun the news he had just learned.
Lian Jun's expression was tense, and he said, "Everyone get out of the car and look for someone."
Bullet marks, garbage scattered all over the ground, and a stuffed bear head cover that rolled to the corner of the street... The more things they found, the heavier their hearts became, until Gua Jiu found a bloody doll costume next to a trash can in the alley, and everyone's expressions changed completely.
"There's blood on the clothes, Shi Jin was injured, judging from the location, he should have been shot in the shoulder." Gua Yi handed the clothes to Lian Jun.
Lian Jun took it, and his face turned terribly pale, perhaps because he was frozen by the temperature outside. He touched the bloodstain on the doll's clothes, moved his wheelchair forward along the alley for a distance, and stopped beside Gua Er, who had entered the alley earlier to look for clues.
Gua Er stepped on the fishing line that was across the road, walked forward a few steps, picked up a mobile phone with a broken screen on the ground, turned around and looked at Lian Jun, and said, "It's Shi Jin's phone. There is a man's footprint from the alley to here. Shi Jin must have been taken away."
Lian Jun stared at a pool of blood on the ground not far away that was almost mixed with the dirty ground. His voice was so tight that it seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. His eyes were dark and he said, "Find it. Copy Shi Jin's call records and see who he called last!"
...
Shi Jin woke up in the smell of disinfectant in the room. He was so groggy that he could not feel his body. His eyelids struggled to open a crack and vaguely saw a man sitting beside the bed. He closed his eyes again in pain. No, he didn't want to see the same scene for the third time. He always felt that there was nothing good behind this scene.
Facts have proved that his intuition is super accurate.
Xiao Si found that he was awake, and quickly said, "Jin Jin, the person sitting next to you is Li Jiuzheng, the fifth son of the Shi family. He saved you, but he seemed to want to kill you too. Your progress bar originally dropped to 700, but it rose to 800 after he took you away. You are now in a private clinic near the university town of City B. The owner of the clinic is Li Jiuzheng's senior brother. He and Li Jiuzheng helped you remove the bullet and treat your wound. Now there are only you and Li Jiuzheng in the clinic. Li Jiuzheng also searched all your personal belongings and I don't know where they are thrown away."
Li Jiuzheng? Why is it Li Jiuzheng? Didn't he call Lian Jun for help?
Shi Jin was stunned, his eyes opened, and then he looked directly at the scalpel that Li Jiuzheng was hanging in front of him, with the tip of the knife pointing directly at his eyeball.
He gasped, almost fainting from shock. He instinctively wanted to lean back, but there was the bed behind him, so where could he lean back?
"Sure enough, he's awake."
A soft, pleasant, but emotionless voice came from the bedside, and then the scalpel hanging in front of Shi Jin was moved away. Shi
Jin heaved a sigh of relief, his heart pounding, and he stiffly tilted his head to look at the person beside the bed.
As the son of Shi Xingrui, Li Jiuzheng's appearance was naturally very good.
Unlike the eldest brother's upright appearance, the third brother's charming appearance, and the fourth brother's sharp appearance, the fifth brother Li Jiuzheng has a cold appearance, with soft cheek contours, relaxed eyebrows, slightly drooping eyes, a straight nose, and light lips. When he lowers his eyes and doesn't look at people or talk, people will have the illusion that he is a melancholy beauty. But the illusion is just an illusion. Once Li Jiuzheng raises his eyes to look at people, the person being looked at will quickly realize that this person is not easy to mess with. The alienated and indifferent feeling in his eyes that never dissipates for years is definitely not something that a fragile and melancholy person would have.
Li Jiuzheng is not depressed at all. On the contrary, he only makes others depressed, such as Shi Jin now.
This was a small ward separated by a curtain. Shi Jin was lying on the bed while Li Jiuzheng was sitting beside the bed in a white coat. There was only one light on in the room. The light was dim and white, lengthening Li Jiuzheng's shadow and blurring his expression.
Shi Jin swallowed hard, suppressed his panic, and met Li Jiuzheng's eyes that seemed to have no emotions. He carefully glanced at the scalpel in his hand, forced a smile stiffly, and said: "Fifth, Fifth Brother, did you save me? Thank you."
"The voice hasn't changed." Li Jiuzheng spoke, his voice drifting in the air with a hint of coolness, his eyes deepened, and the strange eyes that had made the original owner misunderstand countless times appeared again, and his tone was faint, "Shi Jin, why do you want to lose weight..." Shi Jin
was silent - why did this sound so familiar.
Xiao Si was so scared that the computer was about to freeze: "It has increased again, the progress bar has increased to 850, Jin Jin!"
Damn! This Li Jiuzheng really wants to kill the original owner! The murderous intent is quite strong!
Shi Jin's heart immediately rose up, and his peripheral vision swept over the word "Fu" pasted on the window of the room. An idea suddenly flashed through his mind, and he quickly said, "I, I just can't adapt to the climate here! I lost weight because of the climate here after returning to China. Now it's Chinese New Year, I'll gain weight if I eat more. And, fifth brother, why are you alone in City B on this Chinese New Year? When did you come here? Didn't you go to be with your family? Your family will be worried if you're here alone."
"900 Jinjin! His aura seems to be even more terrifying." Xiaosi shivered.
Shi Jin choked, not understanding what he had said that had touched Li Jiuzheng's murderous heart. He dared not say anything more. Just as he was thinking about how to save the situation, Li Jiuzheng suddenly stood up, walked to the bedside table, put down the scalpel, picked up a syringe, mixed some medicine into it, turned back, held Shi Jin's unconscious arm, and injected the medicine into it. Shi
Jin's eyes were almost popping out, and he wanted to struggle, but his body could not move.
"I, I'm not going to die..." Shi Jin guessed in his heart.
Xiao Si was about to cry, and said, "I can only try my best to help you suppress the properties of the medicine. Jinjin, hold on. The progress bar stopped at 900 and did not move. This potion should not be dangerous."
"But Li Jiuzheng is very dangerous." Shi Jin felt very uncomfortable.
The potion was a little cool when it entered his body. Shi Jin was shocked to find that as the potion was injected, he gradually began to feel sleepy and couldn't help wanting to close his eyes.
"You're too noisy." In his hazy vision, he saw Li Jiuzheng's face slowly approaching, and then his cheek seemed to be touched, and then his fragile neck, "I wanted to avoid you, why did you take the initiative to come closer..."
Shi Jin couldn't see anything clearly, but he still managed to keep his eyes open, his lips moving, his voice so low that it was almost inaudible: "Brother... I did something wrong..."
The hand touching his neck paused, then slowly retracted and covered his eyes instead.
"Don't look at me." Li Jiuzheng's voice became slightly lower, his back slightly bent, as if he was overwhelmed by something invisible, "You're right... You just shouldn't have been born."
...
In the club, Lian Jun got Shi Jin's call records, frowned when he saw the last record, and called Shi Weichong directly.
Shi Weichong rushed over as fast as he could and said anxiously as soon as he entered the door: "What do you mean when you say Xiaojin is missing? He sent me a New Year greeting message before, how could he suddenly disappear?" "
It was my negligence." Lian Jun said expressionlessly and handed over the call record. "I will give you an explanation later. Now, I need you to make a phone call."
...
When he woke up again, Shi Jin found himself in the car, with Li Jiuzheng sitting next to him, and his voice was coming intermittently.
"Sorry, I turned off my phone before going to bed last night... huh? Oh, he did call me, but he didn't say anything after the call was connected, so I put the phone aside and continued to do other things. I don't know when he hung up the phone... Yes, I'm still in Chengdu... He also sent me a New Year's greeting message, I guess he dialed the wrong number... um, let's get together when we have time... Did something happen to him?"
"It's just a little trouble, don't worry."
It was Shi Weichong's voice! Shi Jin
woke up in an instant and instinctively wanted to shout for help, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Li Jiuzheng quickly covered his mouth.
"So... Tell me if you have any news. I haven't seen him since Dad passed away. That's it, hanging up." Li Jiuzheng hung up the phone and took away his hand that was covering Shi Jin's mouth.
Shi Jin asked, "Fifth brother, what do you want to do? Why don't you tell eldest brother that I'm with you?"
"I'll take you somewhere first." Li Jiuzheng leaned back in his chair, a little tired on his face, and said something inexplicable, "Maybe this is God's will." Shi Jin
continued to ask, "What God's will?"
"Don't talk." Li Jiuzheng didn't look at him and closed his eyes, "It's very noisy, I don't want to give you another shot." Shi
Jin didn't want to lose consciousness again, so he shut up decisively after hearing that, turned his head and looked around, and found that it was already dawn, and the car he was riding in was speeding on a road of unknown section.
"Where is this?" He asked Xiaosi in his heart.
Xiaosi quickly replied, "We have left City B and are now heading to City L. Li Jiuzheng seems to be preparing to take you back to Rongcheng."
Back to Rongcheng?
Shi Jin frowned, retracted his gaze from the window, and moved towards the driver in the driver's seat.
The driver was a middle-aged man of medium build and kind-looking. He happened to be observing Shi Jin through the rearview mirror at this moment. After meeting his gaze, he was stunned for a moment, then immediately retracted his gaze and concentrated on driving.
"Um, you are..." Shi Jin tried to start a conversation.
The driver directly raised the barrier between the seats, and his refusal to talk was very obvious.
Shi Jin: "..." This driver looks kind, why is his personality so tough.
He shut up angrily and turned his head to look at Li Jiuzheng beside him.
Li Jiuzheng leaned back in the chair without moving, as if he had fallen asleep. The light coming in from the window stained his profile, creating the illusion of fragility and melancholy.
Obviously, this guy didn't want to talk either. Shi
Jin retracted his gaze and tried to move his legs. He regained consciousness and moved his body again. He felt a wave of pain and the wound on his shoulder became more noticeable. He could feel the pain, which proved that he had regained control of his body.
The situation was not too bad after all. He breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back in his chair, feeling a little worried. Although he had regained control of his body, in his current half-injured state, he probably couldn't beat Li Jiuzheng and a driver and find a chance to escape.
It seemed that he had to use his wits.
And from the call Li Jiuzheng just received, Shi Weichong must have known about his disappearance, most likely from Lian Jun.
"It's over..." He sighed in his heart, leaning back in his chair with no hope in life, "Lian Jun must be so angry that he wants to kill me now. Not only did I disobey his order to stay in the club, I also called the wrong number for help..."
Xiao Si was anxious and worried, and said, "Jin Jin, Li Jiuzheng's murderous intention towards you is real. Rongcheng is his base camp, and his private hospital is located there. Once you go in, it will be very difficult to get out."
"I know." Shi Jin sighed, turned to look at Li Jiuzheng, and said, "I will find a chance to pass on the news... Let's deal with it. In the original plot, Li Jiuzheng stared at the original owner for so long but didn't really take action. We are not without a chance now. And Li Jiuzheng is not a professional kidnapper after all. When he took me away, he must have left a lot of clues. Lian Jun has probably got hold of him by now. Let's try to buy time. As long as we can hold on until Lian Jun arrives, we will be safe."
Xiao Si responded in a low voice, watching the progress bar stuck at 900, silently praying in his heart that Lian Jun would suspect Li Jiuzheng as soon as possible and get to him as soon as possible.
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