Persuaded by the skinny monkey, Jiang Xianlin temporarily abandoned his idea of taking action against Shen Shi again.
While Shen Shi was tied to the stool, he also realized that the two were planning to use him to gain an opportunity for negotiation.
"You're planning to use me as a bargaining chip?" Shen Shi asked directly.
"Nonsense, otherwise why would I go through all this trouble to kidnap you!" Shen Shi, who was bound hand and foot, had completely lost the ability to move on his own. Jiang Xianlin didn't take him seriously at all and bluntly admitted it.
"Then your wishful thinking is going to fall through. I don't think I have anything that's worth using."
At the very least, it hasn't reached the point where they can escape unscathed.
You think I don't know!
Jiang Xianlin's answer was unexpected: "You think I didn't want to arrest Jiang Xianzong? It's just that the defenses were too tight and I couldn't catch him, so I settled for you as a second choice!"
Chen Shi: "..." Never mind, I didn't say anything.
As time passed, the initially irritable Jiang Xianlin gradually calmed down, and the room fell into a deathly silence.
Due to excessive blood loss, Shen Shi's fingers gradually became numb, and his body felt cold, as if he were in an icebox.
The aroma of food wafted over, and Shen Shi struggled to open his eyes.
Jiang Xianlin's previous abuse, besides bringing endless pain, was not without its benefits.
The chair was scattered in pieces, and although it was still bound by hemp rope, it could still move slightly.
The skinny monkey pulled out a variety of foods from a black backpack next to him, and Jiang Xianlin was wolfing them down.
He struggled to move his body and found a corner to lean against.
Jiang Xianlin knew that kidnapping himself was pointless, but he still did it, which shows that he was at his wit's end and couldn't think of any other way.
Shen Shi wasn't quite sure what time it was, but judging from the sunlight streaming through the broken door, he estimated it was already noon.
Three or four hours had passed since he was kidnapped.
One second he was looking forward to meeting Jiang Qing, and the next he was brought to this godforsaken, desolate place.
Today is supposed to be a wonderful day, a day he's been looking forward to for many days—the day he'll go home with his girlfriend.
In just a few hours, Shen Shi experienced immense pain; the wound on his head is still oozing blood.
But at this moment, as Shen Shi leaned against the wall, he had only one thought in his mind: Qingqing must be very sad. She must be extremely worried right now, and she is probably crying again.
Chen Shi, who had lost too much blood, fainted in a daze. In the last second before losing consciousness, he was thinking: If only I could be by her side and make her laugh.
After two weeks of sunny skies, City A was suddenly shrouded in dark clouds, the sky as gloomy as Jiang Qing's heart.
Since she sent that message that morning, she had not received a reply from Shen Shi. Whether she sent a message or made a phone call, it all went unanswered.
I went to the breakfast shop across from the school, but the owner said that Shen had left after buying his things.
Jiang Qing tried various methods, calling Shen Shi's friends and searching around the school, but she could only find Shen Shi's shadow.
Jiang Qing was so anxious that she almost cried. She couldn't reach him at all and didn't know where he had gone.
Feeling inexplicably panicked, and realizing that she couldn't find Chen by her own efforts, Jiang Qing decisively called the police.
At first, the police didn't take her seriously; she had only been missing for an hour, far from meeting the criteria for filing a case.
Unable to resist Jiang Qing's repeated requests, she insisted that something must have happened to Shen Shi. Seeing how pitifully she was crying, the police helped her check the surveillance footage.
The result was shocking; Shen Shi had indeed been kidnapped.
The surveillance footage was crystal clear; the kidnapper made no attempt to conceal himself, his entire face exposed to the camera.
Anyone who dares to do this is either a novice who is inexperienced or someone who is so arrogant that they are deliberately provoking others.
In short, it was a foregone conclusion that Shen had been kidnapped, and the public security authorities immediately dispatched officers to rescue him.
The kidnappers made no attempt to conceal themselves along the way, and the police easily found their hideout—the Qiang Mountains—by following the surveillance footage.
This was originally a mountain rich in jade, but as the jade mining was completed, the area gradually became desolate. Apart from the traces of construction left by the jade mining, there was no one on the mountain.
Fortunately, Qiang Mountain is a small mountain, only a few hundred meters above sea level and not very large in area, so searching it is not too difficult.
Stubborn Jiang Qing insisted on following the patrol, refusing to leave no matter what the police said, so the others had no choice but to take her with them.
A large group of dozens of people, along with more than a dozen hunting dogs, conducted a thorough search of the Qiang Mountains.
After a long search lasting more than three hours, the police finally located a dilapidated house on the edge of a cliff.
Seeing hope, Jiang Qing burst into tears of excitement, thinking she would finally be able to see Chen Shi again.
Before the police could act, a frail-looking man emerged from the house.
He raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, and shouted, "I'm telling you, if you want to save people, quickly prepare ten million in cash and a helicopter to take us abroad, otherwise the people in the house will die!"
The seasoned police officers had seen it all, but this person's outrageous demands still left them speechless.
Buying a helicopter with ten million in cash? Why don't you just fly the plane yourself?
But in order to ensure the safety of the hostages, they could only negotiate with them: "Your demands are too high. It's impossible for us few police officers to meet them. Why don't you release the hostages first, and we can talk about the rest later?"
"Pah! Stop trying to fool me, you bastard. If you let him go, I'll live!" Skinny Monkey, feeling insulted, cursed angrily.
In an effort to buy as much time as possible, the police dispatched negotiation experts to engage in talks.
Gradually, they realized that the person they were negotiating with seemed to have no say in the matter.
It can only be said that the expert is indeed an expert. As soon as he opened his mouth, the skinny monkey was powerless to resist and fled back into the house in a sorry state.
After a while, a burly man came out.
Before the police could react, Jiang Qing, who was standing nearby, exclaimed in surprise, "Second Uncle?"
Because she didn't have access to the surveillance footage, Jiang Qing was unaware that the person who kidnapped Shen Shi was Jiang Xianlin, her blood-related uncle.
Jiang Xianlin acted as if he hadn't heard Jiang Qing's words, as if he didn't even see her.
Seeing the familiar faces, Jiang Qing's anger was like a volcano about to erupt, impossible to suppress.
Jiang Xianlin was the instigator of everything. If he hadn't messed things up, the marriage proposal would never have happened. Jiang Qing already hated him to the core, but she never expected him to be so audacious as to kidnap Shen Shi.
"My father trusted you so much, appointing you as manager at Lu's Group, but you betrayed him, not only stabbing him in the back but also causing huge losses to the company. You deserve to be punished by law. Why did you kidnap Shen Shi!"
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