Chapter 224 Arrest
"Isn't the door inside locked? Where does Brother Liu stay during the day?"
If I can't go inside, where can I stay? I don't want you to freeze because you're feeding me a pig.
Aunt Liu said, "Your older brother said there's a stove in your pigsty. He brings firewood over every day and keeps the stove very warm."
I laughed and said, "Brother Liu is quite resourceful!"
Aunt Liu continued with a look of disgust, "Don't even mention it. He even brought hay for your rabbit. After feeding the pigs and getting the stove warm, he would lie down on the hay and sleep all day. He just went to your house to relax."
"Haha, Brother Liu really knows how to enjoy life."
To be honest, I cleaned the area outside the pigpen very well. If I lit a stove and put some straw next to it, a person could actually sleep there, although it did smell a bit.
"When your brother Liu comes back tonight, he'll definitely have fed the pigs for you. Stay one more night and leave tomorrow."
I thought about it for a moment and nodded: "Okay!"
The main issue is that the investigation hasn't yielded any results yet; we need to have some results before we leave.
Aunt Liu was busy preparing the meal, and I was helping out. Tie Dan kept meowing and rubbing against my leg, following me everywhere I went.
You can't tell anything usually, but after a couple of days apart, I can actually feel its longing for me.
Brother Liu returned just as dinner was about to be prepared.
Liu's family had almost run out of refined rice and flour, and for dinner they ate buckwheat noodles and stewed potatoes, eggplants and cured meat.
Perhaps it was because there were so many people, or perhaps it was because Aunt Liu was such a good cook, but even coarse grains tasted delicious to us.
These past two days have been exhausting, and I'm completely worn out.
Last night I was on tenterhooks and didn't sleep well. Lying on the kang (heated brick bed) at Aunt Liu's house, I felt much more at ease and fell asleep almost immediately after closing my eyes.
I was sleeping soundly at night when a strange fragrance suddenly entered my dream, followed by a strong feeling of suffocation.
The lack of oxygen forced me to wake up from my dream. I had barely opened my eyes and before I could see what was in front of me, I lost consciousness.
When I slowly woke up again, my head was throbbing and my vision was blurring.
I shook my head, trying to see the scene in front of me clearly, and realized that I was in a small room.
There was a narrow window directly above the room, probably less than a square meter in size.
I couldn't quite make out what was happening in front of me, but instinct compelled me to look out the window.
I tried to stand up, but felt a numb pain in my wrist. Looking down, I realized that my hands and feet were tied with rope.
That's it, forget about it, we've been kidnapped.
I leaned my waist against the wall and could feel something hard pressing against my waist. It seemed that Little Silver was still attached to my waist.
As long as I still have the gun, I feel a little more at ease.
Once I'm locked up, there will definitely be people guarding outside. The worst thing I can do is call for help, because that might immediately attract the people who arrested me, and then I'll start to suffer.
I forced myself to calm down and analyze the situation.
Last night, I was drugged and taken away while I was sleeping. When I woke up, I was locked in a small room and my hands and feet were tied up.
I haven't provoked anyone, so the people who kidnapped me must be connected to the group of people distributing food in the refugee camp.
Ultimately, it boils down to the conflict between the Baizhen base and other groups.
As long as this conflict isn't directed at me personally, there's still room for maneuver, and I won't die so quickly.
I shuffled along the wall, slowly getting to my feet. Perhaps because I'd been in that position for too long, my body was now numb and aching.
After standing and moving around a bit, the blood flowed a little better, and the soreness and pain lessened somewhat.
I tiptoed slightly, and I could just see the view outside the window.
Outside is a long corridor. My room is not a separate outdoor space, but rather like a large house divided into many small rooms.
This situation... I guess I'm basically locked up in their own prison.
Apart from this long corridor, there was no way to see the outside world, so I slowly sat down on the ground along the wall.
He bit the rope with his teeth and pulled it out little by little. The rope was tied so tightly that his teeth ached from biting it, but it didn't budge.
It took half an hour of effort to finally loosen the knot and slowly bite the rope open.
With the ropes binding his hands untied, he was finally free. Ignoring the red marks on his hands, he quickly untied the ropes binding his feet.
Moving my wrists and ankles around makes them both sore and numb—it's a really unpleasant experience.
Since I was dragged out of bed, I'm not even wearing a cotton-padded coat or outer pants; I'm just wearing a sweater and cotton-padded trousers.
Fortunately, my kidnappers probably feared I would freeze to death, so they left a tattered quilt nearby.
I spread half of the quilt on the ground and sat on it, then covered myself with the other half, completely encasing myself in the quilt.
When Brother Liu and his wife wake up and find I'm not there, they should immediately tell the base leader, who will then send someone to rescue me.
I need to do everything I can to avoid getting hurt before the base commander comes to rescue me.
Still worried about whether Mancang and Taozi would be anxious, she drifted off to sleep again.
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The loud sound of the door opening startled me awake. I groggily opened my eyes, my vision blurred by the bright sunlight outside.
Once my eyes adjusted to the bright light, I could see the person in front of me clearly. I didn't recognize him, but we all looked pretty much the same; he was a burly man.
It's just that these weren't the burly men from the White Town base, but rather burly men from another gang.
He glanced at me, slammed the door shut, and left.
Then a rough voice came from outside the door: "Big brother, she's awake."
I was a little nervous, wondering what kind of person this guy was.
About three to five minutes later, the iron gate creaked open again.
The man who led the way in was wearing a military overcoat, looked to be in his forties, was thin, and wore gold-rimmed glasses.
He didn't say anything, just stood there looking me up and down, making me feel very uncomfortable.
After waiting for a long time without any sign of him, it seems impossible to get him to take the initiative.
I looked up, trying to remain calm, and asked, "Why did you capture me?"
The man, with his hands in the pockets of his military overcoat, slowly turned around at the doorway and then faced me again.
I don't know what this gesture means. Is it just for showing off?
The man finally spoke: "Are you interested in doing something for me?"
Forehead……
I'm definitely not interested.
But what if I say it directly? Will I get killed?
That's how it's always portrayed in TV dramas, isn't it? Captured prisoners are killed if they don't work for him.
If they refused, they feared being killed; if they readily agreed, it would seem insincere.
I chose a roundabout tactic.
Instead of answering his question, she asked, "I don't even know who you are, how can I work for you?"
The man smirked, which made me feel incredibly uncomfortable.
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