Chapter 660: I'm Targeting You
After an unknown amount of time, Lin Yilan peeked inside through the small glass on the door. She heard the crying gradually subside. Vivian must have been tired from crying, and without replenishing her energy in time, so after venting the emotions that had been suppressed for these days, she seemed to have fallen asleep as if she was completely relaxed.
Gao Long sat beside her and looked at her sleeping face, his eyes full of love.
I really can’t bear to ruin such a warm scene... Lin Yilan thought, then knocked on the door and pushed it open.
Unexpectedly, Gao Long was so focused on the sleeping Vivian that he didn't even notice Lin Yilan knocking on the door and pushing it open.
Lin Yilan could only cough twice awkwardly and said, "Ahem, um, Gao Long, have you asked for leave from the company?"
Gao Long suddenly came to his senses and looked at Lin Yilan blankly: "Ah, I..." I left in such a hurry that I didn't seem to have time to ask for leave. Before I could finish my words, I was interrupted by Lin Yilan.
"If you haven't applied yet, I'll approve it for you later. How long do you want it to last? Two weeks or a month?"
Gao Long didn't react to what she meant at first.
"Ah! What's taking so long...?"
"Little guy, of course you have to take good care of Vivian. She's been emotionally unstable lately, so you two should cultivate your relationship. Think of it as a month's vacation for you, with pay."
Gao Long smiled in surprise. Just as Lin Yilan finished speaking, her cell phone suddenly rang.
A text message came from an obviously encrypted number, saying: Why did you abandon me?
Was it a harassing message or a deliberate trap? Lin Yilan didn't think much about it and glanced at Huo Juncheng. They both agreed that it must be Chen Jie from before.
"Why is he so weird?" Lin Yilan muttered, then tilted her head as if realizing something and said, "Forget it, he's pretty weird anyway."
Huo Juncheng also found the message a bit baffling. But how could a child of a few years old get an encrypted number? Such advanced technology.
Lin Yilan didn't think much about it and deleted it directly.
"It must be some silly prankster. Maybe we're just overthinking it."
As soon as I deleted it, another text message came from the same number.
"Because you abandoned me, my life is so miserable now!"
What followed was a barrage of text messages, all of which told of Chen Jie's misery.
"Mom, I've been sold by human traffickers. Can you come and save me?"
"They beat me every day and didn't give me food. I had to dig through the trash for food."
"I'm so scared that one day I'll be made into food and become someone else's breakfast..."
Lin Yilan felt horrified when she read these text messages one by one.
"Hmm... This is enough to write a horror story, right? Damn, can I report him for harassment?"
Although she said this, Lin Yilan was actually a little worried. Her natural maternal instinct made her still feel guilty towards Chen Jie.
Huo Juncheng took a quick glance and said, "There's no way to report this kind of number, and the police won't be able to catch him."
Lin Yilan touched her arm and got goose bumps all over her body.
"Who's targeting me? Why are you harassing me when you have nothing better to do?"
She looked at Huo Juncheng with a hint of tears in her eyes: "How is this more terrifying than being haunted by a ghost?"
Huo Juncheng was both angry and amused. "Who would dare to mess with you? But if you're really scared, Vivian's situation is almost resolved now, so we have time to go to the breakfast shop he mentioned."
"How about going on a haunted house adventure?" Huo Juncheng winked at her. Lin Yilan was so angry that she raised her fist to hit him.
The two quickly rushed to the breakfast shop that Chen Jie mentioned, called the police on the way, and showed the threatening text message.
The police said they could only try their best to track down this person, but in fact it was almost impossible to find him. They also sent people to the breakfast shop to investigate.
Huo Juncheng and Lin Yilan arrived first, showed the text message, and asked the boss if there was such a boy.
The boss flatly denied it, and Lin Yilan certainly didn't believe it. In fact, influenced by subjective factors, she felt that the boss looked panicked and there must be something fishy going on.
So Lin Yilan suggested going in to take a look.
"Are you kidding? The kitchen is a place you can just go into whenever you want?"
Of course the boss wouldn't agree. Who knows if this person was sent by a competitor to spy on his breakfast shop?
"Child kidnapping is such a dangerous thing, aren't you afraid of getting into trouble? Just take a look, and if there's nothing, we'll get out."
"No means no!"
Just when both sides were deadlocked and frustrated, the police arrived.
When the boss saw the police intervene in the matter, his expression changed in an instant. He smiled and let them search, while not forgetting to glare at Lin Yilan fiercely.
What a nosy woman! Why did she call the police?
"If you can't find any results, I'll sue you for defamation!" the boss threatened angrily.
Huo Juncheng protected her and contacted Director Zhang, hoping that he could help him check Chen Jie's whereabouts. When the boss heard that this man was related to Director Zhang, he became like a turtle and didn't dare to say a word.
Huo Juncheng felt that the boss was not lying. Sure enough, the police searched the kitchen and warehouse for a long time but found nothing. There was no so-called boy.
Lin Yilan was speechless. She apologized to the boss and walked out of the store.
"Chen Jie isn't here? Where on earth did he go?" she asked helplessly. As if to answer her complaints, the text messages on her phone began bombarding her again.
"Why didn't you come to save me? I hate you!"
"You abandoned me back then, and now you won't come to save me. You don't deserve to be my mother!"
"I must be blind to call you mom! You and Huo Juncheng should both die, you irresponsible person!"
"Your gentleness is all fake! Is it Huo Juncheng? It's all his fault, it's all his fault. Did he make you abandon me? Did he tell you not to come and save me?"
Lin Yilan breathed a sigh of relief, and her good impression of Chen Jie finally disappeared: "Huo Juncheng, now Chen Jie's spearhead is pointing at you again."
She showed her phone to Huo Juncheng, and just then another text message came in: "Huo Juncheng! I'm going to kill you! It's all you who made me what I am today!"
Huo Juncheng felt a little uncomfortable looking at this threat. He had never really liked this strange Chen Jie. He frowned slightly and looked away.
At this moment, Director Zhang also retrieved all the files of the man named Chen Jie.
"Brother Huo, I've already sent you three copies of this person's information. Take a look." Then, Director Zhang added, somewhat worriedly, "Brother Huo, be careful. If you need any help from me in the future, just let me know."
"Yes, thank you."
Huo Juncheng hung up the phone and opened the information. What immediately came into his sight was Chen Jie's childish face that he would never forget.
It was clearly written on the ID card, based on the date of birth. The man was right as he had guessed: "Thirty-two years old! It seems my judgment was correct."
Lin Yilan snatched his phone and took a look at it. The fear in her heart instantly spread to every part of her body... Oh my God, she actually coaxed a man in his thirties for so many days?
Why did Chen Jie choose them?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
