Chapter 9797 Dong Tianlong
The police officer asked, "The warehouse is in the middle of nowhere. She ran away, and you didn't chase her?"
Hu Haisheng said, "Jin Kun tried to chase me, but I stopped him. I said it would make too much noise, and running away would be a good thing. Then I went home. I didn't expect that I wouldn't get burned. However, Jin Kun definitely deserved his punishment, and his arrest wasn't unjust at all."
Police: "You asked the chairman of the Tu Group for a fortune worth a fortune. Did she agree?"
Hu Haisheng said calmly, "Of course we didn't agree. But it wasn't 'us' who agreed. It was Jin Kun himself."
Police: "Is the price so high from the beginning?"
Hu Haisheng played with the paper cup. "That should be the case. I don't know. I wasn't involved. Everyone says Jin Kun is crazy about money."
Police: "It's Dong Tianlong who's crazy about money, right? According to our investigation, Dong Tianlong is in his thirties and has no proper job. He's a full-time second-generation rich kid and doesn't work at his father's hospital or the group he's invested in. Six years ago, he lost a huge amount on an overseas investment. Wasn't Jin Kun extorting money to fill the hole at his behest?"
Hu Haisheng tilted his head and cracked his neck. "I don't know, Officer. Dong Tianlong is a very simple child. I don't think he would do that."
The police stared at him. "Jin Kun and his gang don't have the ability to formulate a thorough plan. Someone must be the one coming up with the idea. If it's not Dong Tianlong, then it can only be you."
Hu Haisheng was fearless. "God knows what I'm talking about. Jin Kun's men are just thugs, but he's a businessman himself. Underworld business is also business, and people who run business are ruthless."
Police: “What do you mean?”
Hu Haisheng smiled. "Take that Chairman Tu for example. Jin Kun threatened to kill her if she didn't pay him. Guess what she said?"
The police looked at Hu Haisheng seriously.
"They didn't bargain much or waste time. They just said they wanted to take a look at the video. After Jin Kun refused, they called the police directly. They were not afraid that Jin Kun would kill them." Hu Haisheng thought it was very funny and his face was full of smiles.
Then he continued, "She offered a price that Jin Kun would definitely not agree to. It was a high price, but compared to the asking price, it was nothing...Jin Kun threatened her, and she said..."
Even Hu Haisheng couldn't continue talking. He adjusted his facial expression and took two breaths.
The police asked: "What did you say?"
Hu Haisheng replied, "She said she has a row of eggs frozen at the Biotechnology Center. The price they've agreed to is a fixed price. They told Jin Kun to release her if he can, and if he can't, then let him do what he wants. Don't delay her work."
Playback ends here and is paused.
Tu Lanxun sat on the sofa, his expression unchanged, just watching gently.
Wen Chong looked at her for several seconds, then finally patted her shoulder, refilled her water glass, and said, "Have a drink."
Tu Lanxun took a big gulp.
"That's it." Tu Lanxun didn't care. "I knew it a long time ago."
Wen Chong asked, "So what do you think about this?"
Tu Lanxun said, "I can't see it. My position in my mother's heart is not as important as that of the Tu Group. I understand and accept it. I have absolutely no intention of using my daughter's status to hijack her life's career. It doesn't make sense for a parent to give up everything to save a dying child. Everyone has their own independent life."
Wen Chong calmly pointed out, "But your relationship with her is still not good."
Tu Lanxun smiled briefly, then disappeared in an instant. His eyes turned cold again, and he said to himself, "But emotionally, I still have the freedom to distance myself from her."
"Oh." Wen Chong sighed.
"I treat her the way she treats me. This is a good child who has inherited the true teachings, a one-to-one replica." Tu Lanxun snorted.
"That was just a rant." Wen Chong gently tapped Tu Lanxun's head and took the empty cup from her hand. "I'm asking you to watch this video not to hurt you, but to know what the kidnapping incident looks like from your perspective. Feel free to share every aspect of it."
Tu Lanxun thought for a long time and said, "That person was Jin Kun. He told me my mother's decision at the time. He was mainly mocking me and wanted me to cry and look miserable so that he could take a video and send it to my mother."
Wen Chong: "Oh?"
Tu Lanxun suddenly laughed. "Oh right, he was trying to convince me to side with him. He said my mom had already abandoned me, and if he couldn't get the money he would definitely kill me. He tried to persuade me to stop thinking about my mom, crying, blaming her, looking disheveled, using moral blackmail... He'd do whatever it took to drive the stock price down. He said he'd give the video to my mom, and if she didn't relent, he'd post it online. That way, pressured by public opinion, she might pay to save me."
Wen Chong looked at Tu Lanxun sympathetically and said, "You didn't agree."
"Of course not." Tu Lanxun pursed her lips and nodded, her expression a little dull. "He doesn't understand my mother. There's no way she would give in to something like this. There's no chance."
In fact, Tu Lanxun wanted to say that the possibility of Jin Kun really killing her was actually a little lower than the possibility of Ms. Tu Penglai refusing to pay a large sum of money to save her even after she was killed...
Wen Chong sighed and said, "Eat something."
She dug out two bags of bread and a box of juice, then rummaged around and found a sausage, which she twisted in half and handed to Tu Lanxun. "You didn't eat much during the day, did you?"
Tu Lanxun took it and said happily, "You are feeding stray animals."
Tu Lanxun started to bite into the ham sausage, then ate some bread. He choked and burped, which he washed down with juice. He said, "Actually, after the development zone was mysteriously invaded, I felt quite numb and didn't feel much reality. Because the Tu Group seemed to have nothing to do with me. I did enjoy the life of a big house and a big car, but in the end, it has nothing to do with me..."
Wen Chong listened quietly to her, and N in the corner also listened quietly. She asked, "Did that incident affect your relationship with your mother?"
"You mean kidnapping?" Tu Lanxun bit at the plastic, peeling off layer by layer. "I rarely spend time with her, either before or now. I paid off our family's debt and found a hospital for her. I've repaid everything I owe her in this life. From now on, there's no such thing as 'our family'. It's just me and her."
"You can say that my sixteenth birthday was a watershed in my short life. A bolt of lightning struck and I split in two," Tu Lanxun joked.
Wen Chong glanced at Tu Lanxun helplessly. "That was just a rant, but I fully understand how you feel."
Tu Lanxun had basically never told anyone about this matter, but now that she was pouring it out to a highly intelligent and reliable person of the same sex like Wen Chong, she felt safe and damn comfortable.
Wen Chong seemed eager to gossip. "What happened to you and your friend, Tao Si?"
"You know all this." Tu Lanxun put down the sausage wrapper and exclaimed, "It's nothing, she just loves asking questions. After I was kidnapped, she always came to ask me what happened, as if I didn't tell her all my secrets, I'd be betraying her... Hey, she's just childish."
"At that time, I had a bit of a trauma reaction. I was very emotionally closed and easily stressed. When she came to care about me too much, I scolded her in a very unpleasant way and threw her things. We were no longer friends after that." Tu Lanxun talked about this incident as if he was talking about memories from a previous life.
However, Princess Tao Si broke off her friendship with her and stopped being her fan, so she actually had to bear most of the responsibility.
Wen Chong smiled and said, "It will be fine in the future."
The two sat for a while longer, Wen Chong not asking about Tu Lanxun's personal affairs, but instead discussing her days as a student at a prestigious law enforcement training college, which had been twenty years ago.
"You are a senior this year, right? I remember it was Lucheng University, a good school. What's your major?" Wen Chong asked.
Tu Lanxun relaxed and said, "Social sciences."
"You've already written enough papers. Don't delay getting your diploma. It will be useful in the future." Wen Chong smiled. "I thought you were going to study finance or art."
"Thanks to the strange invasion, I haven't officially started my research yet, but I have so many research ideas." Tu Lanxun said slowly, "It can be considered a lucky coincidence. At the time, I had no intention of inheriting the family business, nor did I have the awareness of being supported long-term. I just picked a major that I liked."
"Oh, so that's it." Wen Chong was speechless.
Tu Lanxun looked over and said, "I feel like you haven't finished asking all your questions."
"It feels right. Um... can you tell me the details of how you escaped six years ago?" Wen Chong asked cautiously.
Coming back to the topic, Tu Lanxun thought for a moment and said, "I performed a play."
#
Nearly seven years ago, in the warehouse in the eastern suburbs of Lucheng.
Tu Lanxun's arms were tucked behind his back, his hands and feet were tied with cable ties, his mouth was taped, and his light-colored jeans were covered in dust.
She had been trapped in this night for a whole day. It was now six o'clock in the evening. The sky was dark and blue with stars, but neither the bright lights nor the stars could reach her. There was only a glaring warehouse light hanging high in the sky.
Jin Kun had just walked out five minutes ago, with anger that had nowhere to vent, both towards the indifferent woman on the transferred phone and towards the girl who gritted her teeth and refused to cry, and eventually twisted her expression into an indifferent one.
"You, go in and beat her up, or do whatever you want, just make her cry and look miserable." He turned and said to his men.
The subordinate was stunned, "Brother, that's Tu Penglai's daughter, who would dare to do that?"
Jin Kun uttered a "Pah" sound and grabbed his subordinate by the collar, "Are you afraid of Tu Penglai or Dong Tianlong? Huh? Huh? Just do what I tell you to do. Stop talking nonsense, are you trying to save your life?"
The man hesitated for a moment, and before Jin Kun's shoe could land on his butt, he pointed at the guard at the warehouse door and said, "You go."
The guard's duty is not only to guard the Tu Lan Xun, but also to guard a square box machine connected to a computer. No one knows what it is used for, so the guard's attention is seriously lacking.
The guard had no room to say no, so he nodded and turned to go into the compartment. He looked around and pulled out a baseball glove from a cardboard box in the corner. This was the leftover from Dong Tianlong's previous visit, and it was still very new. Because he couldn't teach these thugs how to play baseball, he finally threw the stick and left.
Baseball gloves are large and thick, perfect for hitting people. They won't break, but they're enough to make hair messy and tears run. If you use a little more force, you might even get a black eye or a swollen face.
The girl tied up in the warehouse lowered her head, her hair covering her expression, and nothing could be seen clearly.
The guard put on his gloves and thought, he must be a kind-hearted person.
"Did he hit you? Probably not." Wen Chong said.
Tu Lanxun nodded, "Yes, it didn't work. As soon as he came over, I started begging him, using threats and bribes, but nothing worked."
Wen Chong raised an eyebrow, "What worked?"
Tu Lanxun smiled and said, "I lied to him that I had a necklace that could suppress the weirdness. It was priceless during a weird invasion. And since he's in this industry, he's constantly at risk, so having this thing is better than anything else."
Wen Chong sighed and shook his head. "That's a very clever idea. I think he agreed."
"He agreed. They didn't find the so-called necklace on me. I told him that the thing was at my home. As long as he was willing to take out his mobile phone and let me log in to my online photo album, he could see the photo of the necklace, which was exactly the same as the one on the Academy of Sciences website. He agreed." Tu Lanxun said.
Wen Chong was a little surprised, "There really was this necklace back then."
"Yes, I said the thing was not with me, but that was a lie. My mother asked a friend to order that necklace for me. It can protect against strange things. That friend works at the Academy of Sciences, so the Academy of Sciences website posted a sample picture." Tu Lanxun smiled.
Wen Chong: "Ms. Mu Xiaozhen?"
"Yes, Ms. Mu Zhenzhen," Tu Lanxun said. "The necklace was actually in my schoolbag, sandwiched between the materials for the cram school class. But I couldn't give it to him right then and there in case he got upset."
Wen Chong asked curiously, "If he really keeps his promise and helps you escape, will you give him the necklace?"
Tu Lanxun said frankly: "Of course not."
She has never concealed the fact that in some ways, she is very similar to Tu Penglai, especially in that she has no sense of guilt and takes advantage of everyone who stands against her.
As soon as the guard let down his guard, Tu Lanxun picked up a folding chair in the corner and knocked the man unconscious, then she started running.
The warehouse was so huge, divided into many rooms, that it could efficiently handle everything except storing bulk items. So Tu Lanxun, who was sent in with his eyes tied, was completely lost.
"I didn't expect that." Wen Chong smiled slightly. "How long have you been wandering around in the warehouse?"
Tu Lanxun replied, "It wasn't long. I was quickly discovered and ran away. So they were all looking for me. If I didn't leave quickly, I would definitely be found. So I hid in a vent on the side of the wall, waited for the searchers to pass, and then... I went in the wrong direction."
Wen Chong looked at her and asked, "Where have you been?"
Tu Lanxun knew the point was coming, and said frankly, "A room with a complete set of scientific computers. They were so careless that they left it unlocked. But it might also have something to do with it being at the very back of the warehouse. Ah, yes, I completely went in the wrong direction."
She paused and said, "I didn't know much at the time, but later I realized that these people had no experience with the placement and configuration of scientific computers. In other words, the computer had already been debugged, and they just moved it over to play with it as it was."
Wen Chong asked, "What are we playing with? Like Hu Haisheng said, ghosts? Special scientific computers can interact with ghosts, but that's a rather primitive method."
Tu Lanxun said, "Maybe. Now that I think about it, there must have been quite a few ghosts in that warehouse. Because of the necklace's possible effects, they didn't attack me. Instead, I miraculously opened that computer."
Wen Chong was obviously very interested in what happened next and asked, "Did you do anything?"
Tu Lanxun took a sip of water. "Nothing. I wanted to try sending a distress message through my computer. I know a lot of people are looking for me. It would be even more convenient if I could cause a power outage in that area. So I tore off a piece of my English test paper, stuck it to the front camera with my saliva, and then opened the store library to download social media apps."
"The weird thing is, the computer wouldn't let me do anything. Then I clicked around and a message box popped up asking me to enter a 16-digit serial number."
Wen Chong couldn't help but say, "A normal person would probably stop at this point, right? What's the point of entering the serial number? Might as well grab two minutes and run away."
Tu Lanxun didn't answer, completely lost in her own monologue. She pulled out the necklace from her neck and said, "I just remembered that there's a string of numbers on the side of my necklace, and it happens to be a combination of four four-digit numbers."
"Enter the serial number. If successful, I can do something with this obviously important computer. They don't look like ordinary kidnappers, so I'll have to take off their pants and expose them to everyone."
Wen Chong covered his forehead. "You entered it. Why? Haven't you considered that even if they are both sixteen digits, they might not be the same thing at all?"
Tu Lanxun shrugged. "I don't care about that. I just know that this place wants me dead and caused me to be abandoned by my mother. Since it wants to hurt me, I must take revenge. Even if there is only a slight possibility."
It was the first time Wen Chong had seen Tu Lanxun look at her like that, with a hint of surprise, a hint of helplessness beneath the scrutiny, and admiration revealed in the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. "That's not a very sensible idea."
Tu Lanxun also smiled, "Maybe. But no matter what, I succeeded."
The sixteen-digit input actually worked, which was a pleasant surprise. At that time, the sixteen-year-old Tu Lanxun felt a cold and joyful emotion in her heart. It was very unfamiliar, but it made her completely calm down.
That was the first sentence she said to herself in her heart after being provoked by Jin Kun.
"Tu Lanxun, you'll be on your own from now on."
This sentence has been followed to this day and has become the only truth in her life. It means not to rely on oneself, but to strive with all one's strength, even abandoning morality and ethics, to seize everything that can be used.
Then live for yourself.
"I logged into their system. I didn't know what it meant, but I had enough computer education to be able to navigate it a little bit," Tu Lanxun said. "So I started fiddling around, trying to get online, so I clicked on an orange circular icon that looked a lot like a browser."
Wen Chong: "And then?"
Tu Lanxun suddenly fell into confusion and said, "It's not a browser. After entering, it's a solid-color front-end page. I thought it was an update reminder, so I clicked it casually. At this time, an information box began to load in the background." She emphasized the last sentence, and Wen Chong nodded slightly.
She continued, "I still didn't give up. I first looked for the settings panel, but the computer wasn't connected to the warehouse's power switch and monitoring system. So I tried to access the internet for a third time, and finally succeeded using old-fashioned broadband dial-up. The dial-up password was written in a log file."
Wen Chong's eyelids twitched and he smiled bitterly, "You really do hate them."
"I have to find a way to keep going. Hatred is the source of human motivation." Tu Lanxun didn't care. "I thought I could find the kidnapper's personal information or some disgraceful evidence in the computer, such as other kidnapping targets. What if there's someone they can't afford to offend? I'll lure the tigers and lions behind them."
"But in the end, I just managed to upload everything that could be uploaded from my computer to a public network drive."
Wen Chong couldn't help but ask, "Is this your public network disk?"
"It was something made by a bored computer science student I came across online. He shared it in a fan group. He's quite extreme." Tu Lanxun laughed. "It's automatically connected to a program that backs up and disseminates gossip and explosive material. Everything saved to the network drive will be virally copied and randomly sent to private and public email addresses around the world, and even uploaded to other public web spaces."
Wen Chong was slightly shocked for a moment, and the look in her eyes when she looked at Tu Lanxun changed again, "You are really..." She couldn't help laughing for being able to think of it at that time.
When Tu Lanxun thought about that incident, he felt like he had accomplished something great, but then he suddenly felt lost. "But I didn't look through the documents carefully at the time. I ran out of time. And since it didn't cause much of a stir, and the mastermind behind it wasn't exposed, and they just caught a bunch of criminals... I guess I might have uploaded some boring electronic manuals."
Wen Chong shook his head. "No, this matter has only been isolated from the official level and has not yet been declassified."
Tu Lanxun's eyes lit up.
"After finishing all this, I planned to leave, but before I left, the login status of the 16-digit serial number was still hanging in the background. I clicked to log out, and then, for some reason, the biological dynamic chassis next to the scientific computer exploded."
Tu Lanxun put on a puzzled expression and gestured. "It wasn't a lethal explosion. It was just a 'poof' sound inside the computer case, followed by smoke. But because it was so close to me, it was still pretty scary."
Wen Chong stayed on this topic and asked carefully, "How did you feel at that time?"
Tu Lanxun raised his eyes to the upper left and thought for a moment, "I didn't feel anything. Maybe I can't remember clearly. Maybe I wasn't feeling well. I was tied up for too long. My head was buzzing at that moment, but I was still quite conscious."
Then Tu Lanxun, with a clear mind, did the first overly rebellious thing in his life.
She dipped the curling paper in the small flame coming out of the chassis, ignited the fire and burned the warehouse directly. Curtains, cardboard boxes, stored wooden barrels... all good things.
"You are committing arson..." Wen Chong couldn't help but look at the uniform hanging on the side while speaking.
Tu Lanxun argued, "This is called emergency hedging."
The fire helped Tu Lanxun escape to a certain extent. She wore a white jacket from the science computer room just to cover up her original clothes, but the white jacket seemed to make the warehouse thugs mistake her for one of their own.
So she walked smoothly through all kinds of people holding fire extinguishers or sharp knives, hid in a blind corner for five minutes, and then rushed out the door. Only her legs were left with feeling.
She completely forgot what the night wind smelled like that day or how many stars there were in the sky.
I only remember that I was running and fell to the ground. The sky had turned dark orange, and the red glow was blood-red, like the bottom of a pot of boiling tomatoes with foam, splashing onto Tu Lanxun's head.
The red and blue police lights in the distance were Tu Lanxun’s last memory before he fainted.
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