Outside the window, it was naturally a dark night, but the neon-lit streets held a little-known, decadent charm.
Xing Zhengfei gestured for her to whisper behind him. The woman obeyed, nodded quickly, and then covered her mouth.
"dad?"
Upon hearing this address, the woman's gaze darted around, and she pricked up her ears, eager to hear the contents of the phone call.
Xie Yin's words on the other end of the phone were like a bucket of ice water, chilling Xing Zhengfei to the bone: "Just keep what she said in mind, and don't bother her."
Xing Zhengfei's face immediately fell, but he respected his father and, after taking a deep breath, slowly asked, "Is your mother with you?"
Jiang Shuyin waited for him in the car. When she saw Xie Yin looking this way, she gave him a questioning look.
Xie Yin's brows relaxed: "Yes."
"Remember what I said, tell me first if you need anything."
He would pretend he didn't see it, but she wouldn't.
Xie Yinping hated everyone who occupied her attention. Her attention was as limited as her energy, and she didn't want to share it. Kelton was a selfish race after all.
Xing Zhengfei's heart leaped from the depths of winter to the height of summer. He said softly and respectfully, "Thank you, Dad."
He glanced at the darkening sky outside and thoughtfully added, "Drive carefully at night, and be safe on the road."
"Hmm." After Xie Yin hung up the phone and got into the car, Jiang Shu asked him, "Who did you call?"
"Xiao Xing."
"I feel like you like him more."
Xie Yin suddenly looked at her: "You misunderstood. I like you the most, and Fei Tao is the second most."
His earnest explanation startled Jiang Shuyin, who, remembering the three children she hadn't seen in a long time, asked, "How much longer until they wake up?"
Xie Yin said, "It will be soon."
According to the elders' deductions, they will be able to complete the evolution in about six months.
After the vaccines were loaded onto the truck, Xie Yin drove the truck, while Jiang Shu led the way in their private car. She placed her phone on a holder for navigation and drove back the way they came.
On Xing Zhengfei's side, after the matter was interrupted, he suddenly didn't want to kill anymore.
After being frightened, the group of bound lambs on the ground realized their predicament and stopped struggling and shouting. However, their nerves were extremely tense, and they looked at Xing Zhengfei as if they saw death approaching.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, Death became the god of salvation. He said, "I've changed my mind. Give me... 20,000 each, and I'll let you go."
The group breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this; if they were willing to negotiate, there was still a chance for them to survive.
But they still dared not relax. There were plenty of cases where people killed their hostages after paying money. Everyone could afford 20,000 mission points. One of the men was the first to give out his home phone number.
Xing Zhengfei took his phone and dialed repeatedly. The contact name was simply "Wife": "Li Jianghe! If you don't come back tonight, don't ever come back again. Go hang out with your cronies and go whoring..."
"..." Xing Zhengfei picked at his ear, glanced at the man on the ground, and then said calmly to the person on the other end of the phone, "Prepare 20,000 yuan for me, or I'll chop up the person you called."
After a brief silence, the woman's voice was slightly hoarse: "Let Li Jianghe say something to me."
Xing Zhengfei held the phone closer, and Li Jianghe craned his neck and said, a tear sliding down his cheek: "Wife, I swear, I will never go out to play again. I want to go home, I want to go home."
After confirming it was indeed a kidnapping, Li Jianghe's wife quickly calmed down. Xing Zhengfei listened as she asked, "How will I give you the money?"
This is indeed a problem; Xing Zhengfei isn't exactly a genius.
After hanging up the other person's phone, I tapped my head and took a few steps before hearing another woman's voice.
"How about transferring it to my account?"
The naked woman had her legs curled up, looking up at him from between her knees.
She thought that the account that received the money would definitely be investigated afterward. She was a rotten person anyway, an orphan with no manners. As long as this person was willing to give her a place to stay, even if it was only a tiny place, she was willing to be his dog.
Xing Zhengfei found her phone and learned that her name was Wang Feifei. He then sent her QR code to Li Jianghe's wife via text message.
The other party replied: Cash on delivery.
Xing Zhengfei didn't think there was any room for negotiation with the other party, and he didn't want to do anything more. After Li Jianghe started, the others relented and gave him their family members' phone numbers. Some called their wives, some called their daughters, and some even asked their ex-wives to call their divorced spouses.
They've risen to this position because they're exceptionally intelligent; when faced with a life-or-death situation, they calmly understand who to turn to.
There are more than one son, and they probably wish I were dead to inherit the position. The assistant is also unreliable; he might have been bribed by someone. After thinking it over, the only one left is my spouse, whom I usually dislike and wish would die.
After finishing all the calls, Xing Zhengfei finally checked Li Jianghe's wife's messages. She had sent several messages to reassure him.
Editor Xing Zhengfei: Send the money first.
He said the same thing to other people's families.
Within an hour, Wang Feifei received the money in installments. After checking the total amount, it was 140,000 yuan, for seven people. That's right.
She then looked at the cold corpse on the ground: "Aren't we going to leave that one?"
Xing Zhengfei didn't even look at it: "I'm going back to sleep."
He was still wearing a mask, so Wang Feifei couldn't see his face. After thinking for a moment, she stood up, picked up some clothes from the ground, and wiped the corpse's neck.
"The surveillance cameras captured it, as did the food delivery app."
Wang Feifei paused. Given her lowly status, she knew some shady things: "I know a place that's relatively safe."
"Okay." Xing Zhengfei glanced at the current address on the food delivery app, copied and pasted it to each person he called, then grabbed Wang Feifei by the back of her collar and jumped out of the window with her.
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