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November 15th, eleven o'clock in the morning.
In a residential building in S City, a seventeen-year-old boy was slowly waking up from a coma.
After a few seconds to get used to the lighting in the room, he saw clearly what was in front of him.
The first thing that catches the eye are three figures...
It was three men in dark jackets, jeans, and ski masks, smoking and playing cards around a table.
Seeing the boy wake up, the three of them just glanced at him casually, without much reaction.
But that young man... fell into a panic immediately.
Because he immediately realized that... he was being tied behind his back to a chair, not only his hands, but also his waist and feet were firmly tied to the chair, almost unable to move. In addition... his His mouth was also sealed with tape, and he was unable to speak.
"Where am I? How did I get here?" The boy wondered in surprise, "Who are these people? Kidnapped?"
Soon, with a burst of dizziness, fragments of sporadic memories flashed through his mind...
"That's right! In that toilet!"
The boy's name was Ma Junxiao. A year ago, he was an ordinary high school student with average studies, a love of playing games, an average appearance, and a short height. But now, he is already a star-level professional player, and one of the top players of the largest studio in the industry, his id is - [Swallowing Ghost Xiao].
Recently, due to the competition, Gui Xiao has been on the "night shift" every day. Of course, when I say "go to work", I actually spend most of my time sleeping in the game cabin.
During the day, he does not need to stay in the company, as long as he keeps online for more than three hours a day (real time, non-sleep mode), he can also work at home.
But at night... He still had to clock in at the headquarters of Order around ten o'clock to make some pre-match preparations. Then lie down in the company's equipment and go to the game.
At seven o'clock this morning, Gui Xiao, as usual... left the company building, bought some breakfast on the way, and took the subway home.
Although around 7 o'clock is still the morning rush hour, and it is well known that the subway in S City can squeeze people into juice, Gui Xiao does not "go to work" at this point, but "off work". On the contrary, there are about seven or eight people in an average car.
Therefore, today he also has an empty seat as soon as he gets on the bus.
However... only took two stops. Gui Xiao suddenly felt unwell. It may be that the breakfast I bought today was not clean... A violent abdominal pain struck without warning.
Fortunately, the transit time of the subway station is not long, and there is a toilet outside the station, so he rushed out of the car at the next station and went straight to the public toilet in the subway station.
This trip... is nearly two hours.
Two hours later, Gui Xiao, whose legs were weak and almost collapsed, came out of the toilet cubicle.
In fact, in the last twenty minutes... His diarrhea symptoms have basically subsided, otherwise he might have called an ambulance. It's just... It took him another 20 minutes to massage his legs before his numb legs regained the ability to stand.
After coming out, Gui Xiao came to the sink in the public toilet. He took a long breath, washed his hands, and then lowered his head to wash his face.
But when he lowered his head... he lost consciousness.
He couldn't recall the last memory, but he wasn't stupid... Judging from the situation in front of him. Either he was knocked out from behind, or his mouth and nose were covered with anesthetic.
"I don't feel any pain in my neck or neck, but my head is a little dizzy..." After he regained his composure, Gui Xiao began to think, "It's probably because of ether or something..." His eyes swept to the three people again body. "These three... It's obvious that they are adults, and it's easy to take me away."
Thinking of this, he looked around again.
Where he is at the moment. Appears to be a rough room. There is little furniture in the empty room, but thick curtains have been hung around the windows; the walls and ceiling are simply painted with white paint, and the floor is concrete underfoot.
As far as the eye can see, the only furniture that can be seen is a simple folding table, a few armchairs, and a fluorescent lamp in the corner of the ceiling. The light was on at this time, indicating that at least there was electricity in the house. According to Gui Xiao's reasoning...there should be water as well, otherwise these guys wouldn't be able to go outside to use the public toilet while taking hostages, right
"It's not good... After seeing me wake up, these people are as calm as before..." After looking around, Gui Xiao thought, "According to the movie... Those who would have such a reaction are either desperadoes or professional criminals , or both..." His cold sweat broke out after a brush, "Speaking of... why did they kidnap me? I'm not a young girl, so it's impossible to rob me..."
It's really unlikely... because, if the other party really wanted to rob, he probably wouldn't wake up "naturally", but woke up in another way.
"It's not right to rob money..." Gui Xiao continued to think, "My parents are ordinary working-class people. Although my current annual salary is not bad, it's not so much that I want someone to kidnap me." …”
Yes, the "for ransom" reasoning... also doesn't make sense.
In terms of difficulty, kidnapping a child is obviously much easier than kidnapping him, a high school student; and in terms of income, if you really want to kidnap an adult... At least you should choose someone with a richer family, such as Jin Fugui...
No matter how you think about it, kidnapping Gui Xiao is a difficult and low-paying job; obviously, the three people who attacked Gui Xiao... have another purpose.
"Wait... Could it be..." A few seconds later, a more reliable thought flashed through Gui Xiao's mind, "Could it be related to my game in the early morning?"
He finally thought of an idea.
But... Even if he knew this, he still didn't have the ability to escape.
At this time, there are still... 12 hours, 53 minutes before the game at midnight on the 16th.
...
At the same moment, Order Studio, the headquarters office building.
"Well... still can't get through..." Meng Jingchan listened to the sentence "The user you dialed cannot be connected" from the mobile phone, with a suspicious look on his face.
Brother Chan is a person who doesn't like to bring work home, so he didn't leave the company in the morning like the rest of the first team, but switched to non-sleep mode and completed today's online requirements before getting ready to leave work.
"This is troublesome..." This was the fifth time Meng Jingchan called Gui Xiao within 40 minutes, but he couldn't get through.
Coincidentally, when Gui Xiao came to the company last night. I forgot to bring the key to my locker, so I borrowed Brother Chan’s locker, but this kid forgot to leave the key at the front desk when he came home this morning, and took it away in a daze...
What about Brother Zen... Car keys, house keys, wallets and other trivial items are all put in the coat, and the coat is put in the locker...
Of course, there must be backup keys for the lockers in the company, but the administrative process of applying for this thing is cumbersome due to personal security and other issues (there was a very casual period, but there have been several thefts and After the incident of violating personal privacy, it will be stricter), it may take half a day.
At this moment... Brother Chan has nothing but a mobile phone around him. Naturally, he wanted to call Gui Xiao... He asked this kid.
But... just can't get through.
"Well... How about asking the team leader, what is the phone number of this kid's house..." Brother Chan didn't think about the bad side at this time. The first thing he thought of was whether the other party would throw his phone into something with a bad signal. place, or is lost.
...
Afternoon, four forty-nine.
There are still... seven hours and eleven minutes before the game at midnight on the 16th.
Woo-woo-
After hearing the vibrating sound, Feng Bujue, who was browsing the web, glanced at the phone screen on the table, and saw an unfamiliar number.
"Is it some kind of sales promotion or scam again..." Brother Jue muttered, picking up his phone and answering it.
Although he felt that this was probably a harassing call. But he'll still take it. Basically... Feng Bujue answered this kind of call, and after listening to the other party for five seconds, he knew the general nature, and then he would hang up without saying a word. And add the number to the block list.
"Hello, who is it?" Brother Jue asked after picking up the phone.
"Uh... hello, is this Feng Bujue?" A familiar voice came from the other side of the phone.
Brother Jue quickly searched for the source of the voice in his mind: "Smoking hot?"
"Hey, hey... Even if you don't know my name, you can still call me by my game nickname..." Brother Chan was not angry. It just hurts a bit, "What the hell is smoking and drinking hot?"
"How did you find out my number?" Feng Bujue didn't answer the other party's complaints, but directly asked a question that he was more interested in.
"I'm in the Public Security Bureau now. The police told me." Meng Jingchan's answer was quite surprising.
"Oh..." Feng Bujue responded casually, and continued, "You were caught whoring and want me to protect you?"
"Big brother... I really want to call you big brother..." Meng Jingchan said, "How did you come to that conclusion?"
"It's very simple. From the way you smoke and drink hot, it gives me the feeling of frequenting low-end romantic places." Feng Bujue replied in a lazy tone, "Then you said that you are in The Public Security Bureau called me, so it’s almost impossible to catch up with the anti-pornography? What about your situation... Inform the family members, basically there is no way out; ask the unit leader to pick up the person, or let a friend come to protect it... and not Said that you will not be able to hold your head up in front of people in the future, and the news will leak out sooner or later; so, you thought of me."
Hearing this, Meng Jingchan on the other end of the phone was silent for thirty seconds.
"Brother Feng... your reasoning is okay, but your prejudice against me is too serious..." Brother Chan held back for a long time before choking out this sentence.
"Okay, then tell me, what's the matter?" Feng Bujue said.
"Well... it's like this..." Meng Jingchan said, "Gui Xiao... seems to have been kidnapped."
"Huh?" Feng Bujue was stunned for a second when he heard the words, "Did you call the police?"
"It was reported at noon." Meng Jingchan said, "At first I thought it was a disappearance, and he was a young man, so the police didn't take it very seriously... But you also know that we have an important game tonight... So, the leaders of our company made some connections and 'push' the progress of the investigation... An hour ago, the police had already retrieved the monitoring..."
"Stop~ Thank you!" Feng Bujue interrupted the other party, "Just answer me 'Call the police', and that's it... don't tell me so much."
"Brother Feng..." Brother Chan continued, "I called you... just to ask for your help."
"Ask me for help?" Feng Bujue sneered, "Heh...how can I help?" He immediately said a very shameless sentence, "Although I, a great writer, also have the ability of a famous detective... But Obviously, it would be more appropriate for the police to come forward for this kind of case." He paused, "Don't worry~ Our country's public security officers are very powerful when they get serious, with both investigative and execution capabilities..."
"Brother Feng." At this moment, Meng Jingchan suddenly lowered his voice, and said to Brother Jue in a very serious tone, "It's not that I'm worried about their abilities...but there's something wrong here."
"Oh?" Feng Bujue keenly caught something from the other party's tone, "How do you say that?"
"It's inconvenient to say on the phone... can you come to the Public Security Bureau?" Meng Jingchan replied.
"Hmm..." Feng Bujue thought for a few seconds, "Yes..." Before the other party responded, he asked, "Give me the address."
...
Thirty minutes later, a silver Porsche stopped at the gate of a police station in S City.
Two men got out of the car, one was Feng Bujue and the other was Wang Tanzhi.
Because they had contacted by phone beforehand, Meng Jingchan was waiting for them outside the door of the reception hall.
"I said... two, come to the police station, drive a Porsche or something..." As soon as the three of them greeted each other, Brother Chan complained about this matter.
"You don't need to say it, I understand, we have always been so low-key." Feng Bujue replied calmly.
In a sense, he was right... Compared with other cars in Xiaotan's family, this car is very low-key in terms of color and price...
"Haha... ok... ok..." Brother Chan really didn't know how to respond to this, so he simply changed the subject, "By the way, time is limited, let's get down to business first..."
After saying this, he mysteriously pulled Brother Jue and Xiaotan aside, and stood in a corner outside where no one was around.
"This... I only tell you..." Meng Jingchan is obviously a smart man, he knows that what he is going to say at this moment must never reach the ears of Gui Xiao's family or any policeman. "Actually, I really believed in the police at first, but... just before I called you, I overheard the deputy director here talking on the phone with someone else in the toilet..." When he said this, he looked around cautiously After looking around for a while, he lowered his voice, "The sound in the toilet is relatively muffled, and I can hear the voices on the phone..." He paused for half a second, staring into the eyes of the two, "I don't know what's on the other end of the phone." Who was it, but ... I heard very clearly that he instructed the deputy director to try to delay the investigation ... at least until after two o'clock in the morning." (… )