Yun Xiaoxu opened his eyes.
He couldn't see clearly around him; it was too dark.
There is always a greasy, sticky smell floating in my nose, and the sound of a blower comes from outside the window.
His head still hurt, the aftereffect of the anesthesia, the pain kept throbbing from the corner of his forehead. After waking up for a while, Yun Xiaoxu was able to think gradually.
what happened
He was just attending the Picku offline meeting when suddenly a car rushed into the scene. A man covered his mouth and nose with a towel and he lost consciousness immediately.
So, there is no other possibility—
He was kidnapped!!
Who is it? Why did they kidnap him
As his eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, Yun Xiaoxu was able to barely see the furnishings in the room.
This was an extremely dark room, covered on all sides with thick curtains, so tightly that not a single light could get in.
The ground was extremely messy, without much furniture, not even a bed, clothes, takeout boxes, and garbage were all over the ground.
Being in such a dark environment, Yun Xiaoxu's heartbeat accelerated unconsciously. He swallowed and his breathing began to tremble.
—He is afraid.
His memory of his childhood was of being locked in such a dark room, with men stripping him and taking pictures of him over and over.
He was kept in a room like a dog, never seeing anyone, and only had one or two meals a day which were not enough to fill him up.
But he actually felt that the man was nice to him.
He called the man dad and he obeyed everything the man said.
Yun Xiaoxu didn't want to think about the past.
He didn't want to recall the days when he didn't know right from wrong.
He was deeply afraid of every memory that remained in his mind before the age of eight!
Yun Xiaoxu looked around again and began to breathe deeply.
It's so scary.
Same, this place is the same as it was back then!!!
In the cramped and small room, the floor was littered with garbage and broken bottles. There was a blower outside the window, and the sound of the wind often kept him awake. The greasy and smelly smell always rushed towards his window, and the glass that should have been transparent was contaminated by years of oil and turned pitch black.
He finally remembered the man he saw before he fainted.
It was an extremely ugly face with a hideous scar on it!
It’s Dai Hongtian!
Why is it him
He was released?!
What is he going to do? What does he want to do?!
Several questions flashed through my mind, and then, I only had one thought -
Must run, must run!!!
There was no one in the room, and Yun Xiaoxu began to struggle frantically, but he was tied too tightly, and the ropes even dug deeply into his flesh, causing pain from the friction every time he moved.
"woke up?"
His movements stopped abruptly as if the pause button had been pressed, and a hoarse voice exploded in front of him.
The tightly closed door was opened.
The light from outside came in through the crack in the door. A man was holding a bag of beer, holding the handrail, and giving him a very terrifying smile.
The man looked much older than he was ten years ago. Life in prison did not seem to be easy. He had lost weight and his face was full of wrinkles.
Yun Xiaoxu's breathing became faster and heavier, and then at a certain moment he began to retreat frantically, trying to escape from him and stay away from him.
But Yun Xiaoxu had no choice. He was tied to a chair and couldn't move back at all. He just fell to the ground with the chair.
Dai Hongtian closed the door, and the light disappeared again. He put down his beer, slowly walked towards Yun Xiaoxu, helped him up, and held his trembling hand: "Don't be afraid of me, Dai Xiaoxu."
Yun Xiaoxu's heart tightened, his heart was beating wildly, and he was so scared that he wanted to faint on the spot. He forced himself to stay conscious: "Don't be afraid of a ghost! You tied me up and put me in a small dark room! How can I not be afraid!!"
"Hahahahahahaha." Dai Hongtian burst into laughter. His "son" is still so cute.
Since he couldn't run away anyway, Yun Xiaoxu asked again: "What on earth are you going to do?"
Dai Hongtian kicked the garbage away with his feet, cleared a piece of open space, sat on the ground, took out bottles of beer from the plastic bag one by one, placed them beside him, and the last thing he took out was a dagger.
He used a dagger to open the beer cap, took a big gulp, and put it down heavily. Foam gradually appeared in the beer bottle.
"What else can I do? Retaliation." Dai Hongtian said as a matter of course, "I had a hard time in there, and I thought it was because of you, so I didn't want to make it easy for you after I got out."
It's simply unreasonable! Yun Xiaoxu: "You went in by yourself, and you blame us???"
"What are you talking about? It's Yunzhou, a good son raised by your parents. You are not as useful as him." Dai Hongtian hasn't talked to anyone for a long time. He really wants to share the details of that year. "I originally wanted to steal him and make some money. Who knew that the little bastard deliberately stayed with me and even hid the evidence."
Dai Hongtian said this, as if he was angry, and smashed the bottle hard, splashing the glass and the unfinished wine on the ground.
Dai Hongtian said viciously: "Your parents are the same. They have been prepared for a long time, right? They have established all the connections, right? So they didn't hesitate at all? It was too smooth for them."
"Bullshit!" Yun Xiaoxu yelled, "If it really goes that smoothly, you should be locked up for life! You ruined our family! You also ruined Yun Zhou! No one knows where he is! How can you live like this! How dare you mention him now? How dare you say you want to retaliate?!"
Dai Hongtian did not argue with Yun Xiaoxu, but opened another bottle of wine. He did not answer Yun Xiaoxu's question, and continued to talk to himself: "It's different now than it was a dozen years ago. Although I just played a trick, I should be found soon."
"Hmm... About half an hour, right? In other words, you, Dai Xiaoxu, have this half an hour in my hands."
"Can you guess what I will do to you?"
Dai Hongtian picked up the dagger, tossed it in his hand, caught it steadily, and pointed the tip of the knife at Yun Xiaoxu.
Yun Xiaoxu's pupils shrank slightly.
Dai Hongtian is a psychopath. He dared to kidnap him during a live broadcast. He is capable of doing anything outrageous! !
Dai Hongtian laughed and took out his phone: "It's really different now than before. At that time, I could still use a public phone to contact the court. Now, if I send a message, I can be located immediately. If it's ten years later, I really can't get your parents' one million."
While he was talking, he made a video call. The other end picked up the call immediately and Yun Xiaoxu heard the voices of his parents.
"Xiao Xu!!!"
"Dai Hongtian! Release Xiaoxu and let us have a good chat!!!"
Yun Xiaoxu was about to speak when Dai Hongtian walked around behind him and showed his dagger: "No need to talk."
"In half an hour, I can stab him at least a hundred times." Dai Hongtian put the dagger against the side of Yun Xiaoxu's face, facing the camera, and threatened, "Transfer the money. I just sent it to your account. 50,000 less one stab."
Yun Xiaoxu: "Are you crazy? It's useless even if you ask for it! The police will definitely find you! Your account has been locked! You can't use it even if I give it to you!"
"It doesn't matter." Dai Hongtian said, "I just feel very happy about this."
The dagger was sharp. As he spoke, it had already cut his skin, and blood was flowing down the blade.
The next second, Dai Hongtian raised his hand and held the dagger high.
"I'll turn! I'll turn!!!" Yunmu screamed, her voice trembling with tears, almost begging, "Don't touch Xiaoxu!! Dai Hongtian!!"
Dai Hongtian sneered and hung up the video directly without stopping his hand. Yun Xiaoxu was tied up and unable to move, so he couldn't escape at all.
He could only see the sharp dagger flashing coldly and getting closer to him! !
When he was about to stab Yun Xiaoxu, the shaky window was kicked open and the curtains were lifted high, allowing the light from outside the window to leak into the room unobstructed. The blower had no glass to block it, and the sound was roaring and echoing in his ears.
Someone jumped in from the window, rushed towards Dai Hongtian, grabbed his wrist with one hand, and pressed down hard with the tiger's mouth. Dai Hongtian's body sank and the dagger fell. The man quickly raised his right hand and used the stun gun to hit him hard on the back.
Dai Hongtian's back was paralyzed and he was unable to move for five or six seconds. The man took this opportunity to kick the dagger away and then stood in front of Yun Xiaoxu.
Yun Xiaoxu stared blankly at the person in front of him.
—Isn’t this the top student I met in the library? !
"Fuck, it's you!" Yun Xiaoxu exclaimed, "Are you actually a policeman?!"
"Don't talk." Jiang Zhihuo didn't have time to answer Yun Xiaoxu's question. He broke into the room through the window, and the broken glass cut his hand. It was only a superficial wound and didn't hurt, but there were drops of blood, which looked particularly creepy.
Dai Hongtian looked at Jiang Zhihuo and laughed loudly: "Yunzhou? Is that you?"
He was so familiar with this look!
Hatred, disgust, indifference.
Yun Xiaoxu was slightly stunned.
Cloud boat
Dai Hongtian smiled happily: "My son! It's a pity that I couldn't find you. How did you do it? Why did you disappear? Why can't I find you? How did you make yourself disappear from my household registration book?"
Jiang Zhihuo showed an extremely disgusted expression: "Who the hell is your son?"
Dai Hongtian shook his head and said regretfully: "Actually, I was very sad at the time. I raised you for so long, and you actually called the police to arrest me. I didn't know that you could keep so much evidence. You are really amazing, Xiaozhou."
He no longer had a dagger in his hand, so he could only squat down and smash the bottle.
The light yellow beer flowed all over the floor. He smashed another bottle, then raised his hand with an extremely crazy look and pointed the sharp end of the beer bottle at Jiang Zhihuo.
Jiang Zhihuo turned on the stun gun: "The fact that I can come here means the police are here."
"Hmm." Dai Hongtian felt quite regretful, "So soon? I haven't done anything yet."
Jiang Zhihuo sneered: "What do you want to do? Explosives?"
Dai Hongtian widened his eyes slightly, but did not deny: "How do you know?"
"I investigated your activities. Fourteen days after you were released from prison, you collected enough materials to make it. I remember that you were able to make it. Earth/□□ is not difficult, and the materials can be obtained with legitimate reasons."
"You also chose this building on purpose. There are many residents here, the crowd is mixed, and the security is not in place. You can move around as you please."
"You don't want to take revenge on Yun Xiaoxu or Professor Yun. You just want to take revenge on society. You have already hidden the explosives in every corner of the building, right?"
Everything he said was correct. Dai Hongtian was slightly surprised, but his surprise did not last long.
He smashed another bottle of wine - he enjoyed the action of smashing bottles.
Jiang Zhihuo calmly moved to the side of the dagger and continued, "You don't care about the live broadcast, which means you don't care about the final result. Even if the conclusion is extreme, I think it's the decision you will make - you will choose suicide."
"You can't accept it. Ten years have deprived you of the ability to survive in today's society. You can't keep up. You can't even do evil because there are cameras everywhere. You can be detected immediately if you go to any website. You can't stand it. This feeling is too uncomfortable."
"So, you will put one of the homemade explosives in the room. You will hide it in the corner on the right hand side of the door, which is about 45 degrees west of your left hand. You will also hide a lighter in your pocket. You plan to set the room on fire directly."
Jiang Zhihuo looked at Dai Hongtian coldly, his expression changed from calm to gradually distorted.
All right.
His thoughts and actions were all spoken out!
It was an uncomfortable feeling, as if I was being watched and nothing I knew could be seen.
So, whatever.
Dai Hongtian lit up the lighter and threw it to the ground.
The floor was wet from the beginning as he had sprinkled alcohol on it before going out. As soon as the flames touched the ground, a raging fire immediately broke out. The garbage bag was full of flammable materials and the fire continued to spread outward.
"Hahahaha." Dai Hongtian burst into laughter.
Outside the tube building, the police drew a yellow line and all passers-by were kept outside the yellow line.
A police car came speeding over and as soon as it stopped, a middle-aged couple ran out of the car. They wanted to rush in desperately, but the police officers outside the door stopped them.
"I want to go in!! My son is in there!!"
"Don't make trouble." The speaker was a young boy with cold eyebrows and a look of displeasure. "Very soon."
Many people were watching the excitement outside the yellow line. A team wearing explosion-proof suits were searching between the floors, guiding the residents of the tube-shaped buildings to leave in an orderly manner.
—The process of making homemade bombs is simple and not difficult to disassemble. You just need to cut the fuse, but special tools are required and there cannot be any sparks during the process.
Yan Mu held the phone tightly. The screen was not dark and was counting down.
After confirming Dai Hongtian's location, Jiang Zhihuo sent a message to Yan Mu.
—I found Dai Hongtian, No. 33 West Street. Please convey the following words to He Miaomiao.
—Dai Hongtian made a homemade bomb and placed it in the tube building. It must be dismantled and the residents must be evacuated, but he must not be alarmed, as he will definitely connect the fuse to a place where he can ignite. But it doesn't matter, there is a blower at his door, and I hope I can turn it up to the maximum speed. At the same time, don't arrange other police officers in the room, and leave Yun Xiaoxu to me. Only I can go in, he will recognize me and will not ignite the fuse immediately. I can hold him back for 4 minutes and 18 seconds. But I can't guarantee Dai Hongtian's life.
There's an 89% chance that he's also planted explosives on himself that I can't defuse.
Also, please give me one more minute. I feel I may need to jump off the building. Please prepare a fire mat. Thank you!
—The following are places where I speculated that bombs might be hidden based on Dai Hongtian’s habits and personality and the structure of the tube building. Please check them one by one and remove them in time.
In the room, Dai Hongtian gradually fell into annoyance again.
He had a fight with Jiang Zhihuo.
He was old and could not beat Jiang Zhihuo, who had learned professional fighting skills. He was severely crushed and his right hand was paralyzed by the electric shock gun.
Yun Xiaoxu stared blankly at the two men fighting in the fire. He heard footsteps outside, but Dai Hongtian couldn't hear them. He was angry, extremely angry.
"You can't be angry." Jiang Zhihuo continued, "When you're angry it's easier for me to guess your thoughts and actions."
"For example, you want to light explosives, or you are thinking about stabbing me to death with a dagger, but you are too far away from the dagger, or you want to take the opportunity to stab Yun Xiaoxu, and you don't want all your actions today to be in vain."
Jiang Zhihuo expressed Dai Hongtian's thoughts word by word.
"You're right." Dai Hongtian gave up the fight, took out a lighter from his pocket, lit a flame, and then, before anyone had time to react, he rushed to the door and lit the fuse left behind the door that Jiang Zhihuo had mentioned!
The fuse was connected to other explosives he had hidden. As long as one was blown up, the others would inevitably explode one after another due to the sparks caused by the explosion!
Dai Hongtian laughed wildly, waiting for the explosion and vibration that would occur in his ears.
But, nothing, no explosion.
There is only one possibility, that all the explosives hidden in the tube building have been found.
Jiang Zhihuo breathed a sigh of relief. Four minutes and eighteen seconds, it seemed he had caught up. Facing Dai Hongtian's furious expression, he shrugged and said, "I didn't tear it down. I've been stalling for time with you, okay?"
The explosives were removed and Dai Hongtian no longer had any means to threaten the police.
He sneered, walked around the room, kicked the bottles, and wherever the beer flowed, the fire was extinguished little by little.
He laughed wildly in the fire-lit room, then took off his coat.
Yun Xiaoxu panicked when he saw the thing on Dai Hongtian's waist. If it exploded in the sea of fire, the two of them would definitely die: "Ah, he really tied one on himself!!!"
Jiang Zhihuo: "I know, didn't I just say that!!"
Dai Hongtian lit the lighter again: "Well, you did say that, so I admire you very much. You know I'm also tied up, but you still dare to come up and delay time. My sons, let's go together."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Zhihuo's cell phone suddenly rang.
5 minutes and 18 seconds, the countdown is over!
At the same time, Dai Hongtian lit the fuse on his body.
The fuse is burning and sparks continue to fly downwards.
Jiang Zhihuo quickly picked up the dagger, cut the rope that bound Yun Xiaoxu, and pushed him out: "Don't move, don't scream, or I'll go deaf!"
Yun Xiaoxu was a beat slower to react: "What? Why should I scream?!"
He had just finished asking when the fuse burned out. There was a "boom" in the room, and heat waves surged, spreading outward at an extremely fast speed in the sea of fire. At the same time, Jiang Zhihuo hugged Yun Xiaoxu directly and jumped down from the corridor on the fourth floor.
Yun Xiaoxu: "Ahhh!!!"
They landed steadily on the fire mat. The firefighters around them put out the fire immediately after seeing the hostages being rescued. Thick black smoke floated upwards.
"Fuck." Jiang Zhihuo let go of his hand and lay on the fire mat in a spread-eagle position. "I was scared to death."
I had investigated before and had fought many fights, but I had never jumped off a building.
Yun Xiaoxu was so frightened by the impact of the free fall that he kept his eyes open for a long time without any reaction.
On the other side, the police chief who drove Jiang Zhihuo here was also stunned.
When the police chief saw the plan Jiang Zhihuo gave to He Miaomiao, he sneered.
Although Jiang Zhihuo had demonstrated the great potential of psychological profiling in the car just now, he couldn't have predicted the location and exact time of the bomb, right? !
What's more, he is just an ordinary student.
However, he was wrong. Jiang Zhihuo's estimate of the time was accurate to the second. Within 4 minutes and 18 seconds, all bombs were dismantled and the people were evacuated quietly. Dai Hongtian might self-destruct in one minute, so they had prepared a fire mat under the building in advance.
5 minutes and 18 seconds, explosion, fire extinguished.
The entire incident was over within thirty minutes, with no injuries and one death. The deceased was the mastermind of the vicious kidnapping, Dai Hongtian.
Yun Xiaoxu was still confused until he was pulled up by the arriving medical staff. He stared blankly as the medical staff examined him. After confirming that he was not seriously injured, he was taken to the ambulance and prepared to go to the hospital for a further examination to confirm whether he had any internal injuries.
Jiang Zhihuo was still lying on the fire mat, his breathing still not calming down.
The paramedics pressed on his ribs and any fractures that might have been caused by the impact.
At this moment, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of him, and a man was walking towards him not far away. When Jiang Zhihuo saw the man's expression, he trembled all over.
Yan Muzheng looked at him indifferently, anger burning in his seemingly calm eyes.
Finished, finished…
Brother Yan was furious...
Jiang Zhihuo licked the corner of his mouth and subconsciously wanted to shrink back: "Brother Yan, I was wrong!!!"
"Don't move yet." The medical staff gently pulled him back. "There's glass shards in the wound. I'll take them out for you first."
"..." Jiang Zhihuo was trapped in the hands of the medical staff, unable to move. Looking at Yan Mu's gradually darkening eyes, he could only weakly discuss with Yan Mu, "There are too many people here, Brother Yan, please give us some face, let's go back and talk?"
Yun Xiaoxu sat in the ambulance and it took him a while to recover.
His parents stayed by his side. They were not allowed to enter the scene and could only nervously ask the medical staff about the condition of Yun Xiaoxu and the police officer who saved him.
"Everything is fine." The medical staff said, "Just go to the hospital for another checkup."
Professor Yun finally felt relieved. They had no time to care about other things for the time being. He said to Yun Xiaoxu, "After the inspection, we have to express our gratitude to the police officer first."
“Oh.” Yun Xiaoxu responded, and suddenly came to his senses, “Mom and Dad! Yun Zhou! He is Yun Zhou!”
The two professors were stunned: "What?"
"That's him! The top student who jumped down with me in his arms!!!" Yun Xiaoxu pointed at Jiang Zhihuo who was being helped towards the ambulance by Yan Mu, "He is Yun Zhou!!!"
The author has something to say: The reason why Brother Huo wanted to tell He Miaomiao was because, one, he saw that the sheriff still didn't trust him that much, and there was no time to explain, and two, he didn't want Li Hao to steal the credit again (Oh, I can't think of the adjective, this is probably it, hahahaha, Brother Huo is still a little scheming)
This will be explained in tomorrow's chapter, but it would feel weird if I don't explain it today, hahahaha
And, he yelled again: Please! Nutrition! Fluid!