"I'll go raise the money right away and transfer it as quickly as possible. Please don't hurt my daughter."
"Remember, do not call the police! Otherwise..."
"No, no, can I hear my daughter's voice again?"
The kidnapper tore off the tape and said, "Speak."
Lai Meiqi choked up and said, "Dad, I'm fine for now, you..." Before she could finish speaking, her mouth was covered.
"You heard the sound, stop wasting time dawdling here. Three hours will pass quickly." With that last word, he hung up the phone.
He looked at Yao Bin and gestured for his men to tear off the tape.
Tear
Yao Bin looked at the knife held to his neck and resignedly cooperated with them.
His parents' reaction was similar to Lai Meiqi's.
The kidnapper leader finally approached Luo Shimiao and rudely pulled off the duct tape: "I don't need to say anything, do I?"
She leaned back in the wooden chair, her posture languid: "Let me tell you first, my dad is a bit eccentric; he might not answer calls from unknown numbers."
"Enough with the nonsense, what's your number?"
“157…”
The cheerful ringtone rang for over ten seconds without anyone answering, until it automatically disconnected.
Luo Shimiao raised his eyebrows and said, "I knew it."
"You won't answer? We'll keep calling until you do!"
I called again and again, and finally got through on the fourth try.
"Who is it?! I finally get a day off, and they keep calling me!"
Luo Shimiao smiled as she listened to her father's loud voice, imagining the angry expression on her father's face.
The kidnapper, suppressing his anger, said, "Your daughter has been captured by us. If you want your daughter back..."
He was interrupted before he could finish speaking.
"What era are we living in? Scammers are still using such outdated tricks, it's rubbish! Block them!"
Beep beep beep...
The sound of the phone being hung up was like an invisible whip lashing at the kidnapper.
His face was as dark as could be: "What's your mother's phone number?"
Luo Shimiao recited a string of numbers with a blank expression.
"You can speak first once the connection is established."
"Oh." The reply was extremely casual.
The kidnapper, who held a dagger to Luo Shimiao's neck, said unhappily, "What kind of attitude is that? How dare you talk to our boss like that!"
"Please, you kidnapped me and are demanding money from my family, what kind of attitude do you want?"
"Shut up, you two! What's all this noise about?!"
"Yes, boss." He bowed his head respectfully.
The man frowned as he waited for the call to connect; it took quite a while before someone answered.
"You scammers may have some tricks up your sleeve, but you still have some skills. You not only have my number, but also my wife's number," Luo Jingyuan's voice slowly came through.
"I'll give you one minute to finish what you have to say, and then don't call me again. You can't fool me."
The man gestured for Luo Shimiao to speak.
Luo Shimiao said lazily, "Dad, it's me."
"Oh, my wife is Miaomiao. Did you just use a voice changer to tease your dad, you little leaky cotton-padded jacket?"
"Didn't you ever consider that I might actually have been kidnapped?"
"Hey! Miaomiao, stop joking. Who would dare to tie me up..."
“We dare!” The kidnapper leader interrupted him: “Old man, your daughter is in our hands. If you want your daughter to live, prepare a ransom of one hundred million to buy her out.”
The voice on the other end suddenly rose in volume: "How much do you want?"
"One hundred million, not a penny less. If you lose even a penny, I'll cut off a piece of your daughter's flesh!"
"One hundred million? Honey, did you hear that? He said one hundred million!"
The kidnapper said, "If you don't have that much, borrow it from your daughter's rumored boyfriend. I don't care what methods you use, you have to wire the money to me within three hours."
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