Pursuit 2
When Yang Zheng saw the message from Shen Anxia saying that she had taken a taxi home, he felt restless and couldn't stay at the banquet any longer. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him, he quietly left through the side door, got his car, and went back to Shen Anxia's apartment complex.
He calculated that, based on Anxia's current distance, even if he drove slowly, it would still take Anxia another ten minutes or so to get to her apartment building.
So he drove very slowly, thinking he should make a video call to Shen Anxia first.
Yang Zheng opened WeChat and saw that Shen Anxia had sent him a picture of a license plate number.
After glancing at the license plate number of Shen Anxia's taxi, Yang Zheng was about to make a video call to Shen Anxia.
Unexpectedly, Shen Anxia called him directly.
"Anxia, where are you?" Yang Zheng turned on speakerphone.
But the response I expected didn't come.
"Master, this road doesn't seem to lead to Yujing." Shen Anxia's voice came from the other end of the video call. The sound was a bit noisy, probably because she was wearing headphones.
It didn't talk to itself.
The driver, speaking broken Mandarin with a lisp, said, "This is the road."
Alarm bells rang in Yang Zheng's mind.
Shen Anxia had never called herself like this before; she must have sensed something was wrong.
Yang Zheng returned to the chat interface and looked again at the license plate number that Shen Anxia had sent him; it was not a local license plate number.
At the same time, another message from Shen Anxia popped up at the top of the screen; it was a location sharing message.
This was followed by a message: "[Yang Zheng, something's wrong with my taxi driver]".
Yang Zheng slammed on the brakes, checked the location shared by Shen Anxia, then turned the steering wheel and sped off in the direction Shen Anxia had provided.
He remained silent, unsure whether Shen Anxia was wearing headphones or not. He feared that alerting her would only make things worse.
Yang Zheng thought quickly. He had just asked An Xia, "Where are we?" but An Xia didn't answer, and the driver of the car she was in didn't seem to react either.
So, Anxia was wearing headphones.
He first called the police, and then called Secretary Liu, who was at the banquet that evening.
Seeing that the green sign indicating Shen Anxia's location was about twenty minutes away and moving very quickly, Yang Zheng floored the accelerator, the tires screeching on the road.
"Anxia?" Yang Zheng asked in a low voice.
“Hmm… Master,” Shen Anxia’s voice came, seemingly responding to her, or perhaps curious about the driver’s actions, “Zhongshan Road is getting more and more remote lately. Could you please take Zhongshan Road instead?”
"Hehehehe." The driver's voice, which was unclear but definitely malicious, came from the other end of the video. "This road also leads there. You just don't travel much and don't know the way."
“But Master, I’m sure this road is taking me further and further away from home,” Shen Anxia asked stiffly.
"Don't be afraid, little girl," the driver laughed arrogantly when he realized he couldn't hide it anymore. "You finally managed to find someone to talk to today, but you've kept me waiting for so long!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Anxia's heart sank even further; this person had been planning this all along!
Yang Zheng, on the other end of the phone, felt his heart sink to the bottom.
He frowned, trying to comfort Shen Anxia: "Anxia, don't be afraid, I'll catch up with you soon."
The taxi had been driving for over twenty minutes, speeding along. Shen Anxia tried to calm herself down, looking out the window as they got further and further away from the city, the roads became more and more remote, and even the streetlights disappeared. She asked in a low voice, "That's strange. Are you saying you know me?"
"Hmph! We brothers have been staking out for half a month but haven't found a chance to make a move, which means we didn't complete our mission and the client won't give us the final payment! You bitch, just thinking about it makes me angry!" The driver's face turned fierce, and he looked like he was about to explode with rage.
Shen Anxia had never been insulted like this before, but she couldn't care less about that now. She seized on the key point in his words and asked with narrowed eyes, "Master Gu? You kidnapped me?"
Yang Zheng's face turned ashen when he heard the driver's curses. The thought of An Xia's current predicament made him feel as if his heart was about to break. He felt a fear he had never experienced before: kidnapping An Xia.
The driver smoothed his hair and snorted, "I just wanted to make sure you couldn't participate in today's performance. Don't you know that? Don't you know whose spot you took? They just wanted me to scare you a little, but you've made it so I won't get paid!"
A performance? People from the troupe? Who are they?
She suddenly remembered hearing a similar accent a few days ago. When was that? ...It was the taxi driver who hit her that day!
She steadied herself and tentatively asked, "So, the car that almost hit me before was orchestrated by your accomplices? You wanted to injure me so I couldn't participate in the performance?"
Hearing Shen Anxia's words, Yang Zheng held his breath. That day, she only said that a car had gone out of control and caused her to fall. He never thought that it was a deliberate act to hit Anxia. It was his negligence!
It's because I've been living a comfortable life for too long that my ability to perceive danger has diminished.
The driver sneered, looking confident and unhurried, his lewdness and arrogance undisguised: "That day you were all alone, and my brother had planned to just give you a minor injury, but you managed to dodge it! Hmph, but if it weren't for that day, we brothers wouldn't have had the chance to sleep with such a beautiful woman, hahaha, I should thank you!"
The suffocating feeling of being on the brink of life and death returned that day, and Shen Anxia felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave. On the other end of the phone, Yang Zheng was furious, and his car cut through the dark night like an arrow.
Shen Anxia no longer had the strength to think about anything else; all she knew was that she needed to save her life.
"How much money do you want? I can give it to you." Shen Anxia tried to save her life by offering money.
The man snorted and didn't speak to Shen Anxia again.
Shen Anxia couldn't let this person lead her further and further away from Yang Zheng. She tried her best to suppress the trembling in her voice and tried to persuade him: "Master, if you want money, I have it. Let's talk about it. After all, if you really kidnap me, you will not only not get the money, but you will also commit a crime."
"Ha!" the driver scoffed. "Am I scared? I just got out of prison and haven't been with a woman in seven years! It's rare to run into such a beauty!"
Shen Anxia was terrified. This man was a desperate criminal. If he dared to kidnap her today, he wouldn't be afraid of committing crimes again. She was so stupid as to say such a thing. She shrank to one side and took deep breaths to tell herself to calm down. She looked around. The doors and car windows were locked. There was no weapon at hand to break the window. Jumping out was impossible.
The car was traveling at high speed. If the driver stopped at that moment, she would be in danger; if he didn't stop, she would still be in danger.
what to do.
She had a bottle of pepper spray in her bag, which she had never used and didn't know if it was still usable.
If she doesn't land a hit, she'll become even more dangerous.
Yang Zheng's heart clenched on the other end of the phone, and a sharp pain spread rapidly throughout his body. He floored the accelerator, dodging vehicles on the road. Watching the green dot on the map getting closer and closer but impossible to catch up with, his face turned ashen, his lips pressed tightly together, and he was even unable to comfort Shen Anxia.
The driver leered at Shen Anxia with his eyes narrowed, licked his lips, and said, "C, if the boss wasn't waiting up ahead, I'd really like to take you down right now."
Shen Anxia felt her scalp tingle and her face freeze; she had never encountered anyone like this before.
Then, remembering that this person had said there was a "boss" waiting ahead, she suddenly realized that she couldn't let this person continue forward, otherwise even if Yang Zheng caught up, they might not be able to escape danger.
She quickly surveyed the car's interior, considered the contents of her bag, and then made a decision. She suddenly grabbed her phone and smashed the sharp corner of it against the man's head with all her might. Blood immediately flowed down the man's forehead. The man clearly hadn't expected Shen Anxia to be so skilled. He touched his wound with his right hand, momentarily stunned, and then howled as he lunged at Shen Anxia from the front seat.
Despite using all her strength, Shen An failed to stun the driver. Taking advantage of the driver's momentary daze, she lunged forward and pressed the door unlock button. Just as the driver screamed and lunged at her, she opened the door and jumped out.
The driver turned his head, slowing down the car but not stopping. Shen Anxia jumped out of the car and was thrown off by the inertia, rolling several times. Her knee hit a fist-sized pebble, and her phone was thrown into a ditch overgrown with thorns and weeds by the roadside. Her earphones were shaken off and slid down the gravel and grass.
Shen Anxia was thrown so hard she couldn't get up immediately. Her knee was scraped by a piece of gravel, leaving a small patch of skin the size of a palm. She couldn't care less about her phone because the driver had stopped the car but hadn't turned off the engine. He opened the door, walked around, and was about to grab her hair.
Shen Anxia quickly rolled to the side, using her excellent dance skills to dodge the attack, and then, despite the pain in her knees and arms, got up and ran.
When faced with danger, their instinct to escape is triggered.
The driver was quick on his feet. Except for the unexpected blow to his head, he was now like a leopard that had been attacked, his face covered in blood, his eyes gleaming with a bloodthirsty ferocity. He pulled out his phone from his pocket and made a call: "Brother, that bitch is trying to run away. You two come and meet me."
As Shen Anxia desperately fled, she clutched the pepper spray she had just pulled from her bag. She didn't know if the spray was expired or how effective it would be; she could only try it with hope.
Hearing the footsteps and curses getting closer and closer behind her, Shen Anxia suddenly turned around and sprayed the person, but she was too flustered and the spray did not hit the person's eyes completely.
But the man thought Shen Anxia was holding something that could cause him a fatal injury, so he quickly covered his head with his hand and paused in his steps.
Only a small amount of spray got into the man's eyes. He squinted and cursed again, squeezing his eyes as he chased after Chen Anxia.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Shen Anxia ran forward a few more steps, moving slightly further away from the person.
But it was too dark, there wasn't a single star. Shen Anxia could only vaguely see that the slightly white road surface was different from the dark color of the grass on both sides, but she didn't notice a huge rock on the road. Her left foot was tripped, and Shen Anxia lost her balance and fell forward.
Shen Anxia was practically sent flying. She stumbled more than two meters, her body first thrown off balance by inertia, then gliding along the ground. Her internal organs were jolted, and her arms and legs were scraped by the gravel, with some areas bleeding.
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