In the stairwell of the high-end apartment, the voice-controlled lights seemed to be out of order. Zhang Taotao's pretty face was filled with shock in the darkness. She kept dodging backwards like a frightened rabbit, but she was unable to break free from the wrist of the man who was pulling her.
The two men wrestled, and Zhang Taotao suddenly raised her knee, trying to hit the opponent's lower body, but the opponent dodged sideways and covered his mouth and nose with a wet cloth.
Not long after, Zhang Taotao felt a strong sense of dizziness, her eyes turned black, and she gradually lost consciousness. She didn't know what happened next.
An unknown amount of time had passed before Zhang Taotao, who was suffering from a splitting headache, slowly woke up. She instinctively wanted to get up and check, but her head hit a hard object above her with a bang.
It was pitch black all around. Zhang Taotao struggled for a bit and found that her hands and feet were tied and her mouth was sealed with tape.
After a while of silence, Zhang Taotao's panic subsided. She tried to shake her head in the dark and gently touch the hard wall panels around her. Finally, she found that the space she was in was extremely small, and this space was always shaking and bumping.
I am in the trunk of a car!
Kidnapped!
…
About forty minutes later, Zhang Taotao felt that the shaking of the trunk disappeared, and heard the sound of a car door opening and footsteps outside.
“Pah.”
With a muffled sound, the trunk slowly rose up. Zhang Taotao, who had a slender figure, curled up in a messy manner, looking a little embarrassed. She raised her head to the side and looked outside. She saw a man wearing a mask and a baseball cap, who was looking at her quietly.
Zhang Taotao did not struggle violently, nor did she make any unnecessary sounds in an attempt to communicate. Instead, she remained completely quiet.
“Bang!”
The man grabbed Zhang Taotao by her hair and collar, roughly lifted her out of the trunk, and dragged her on the ground towards the small river nearby.
The wet grass smelled of mud. Zhang Taotao fell sideways by the water, her delicate body in a mess.
The man slowly bent down and took out a cigarette case leisurely: "We are now at a reservoir, and there is no one around for more than ten kilometers. Do you understand what I mean?"
Zhang Taotao stared at the other person without reacting or making any sound.
"I want to talk to you about something. Huihong Pharmaceutical, Island No. 7." The man lit a cigarette and said in a hoarse voice.
…
On an unknown high seas, a dilapidated fishing boat was traveling at a steady speed.
Fei Pingsheng sat in the damp and cold cabin, unable to fall asleep for a long time. He felt that he was extremely unlucky. There were so many people going to the Red Mansion, but in the end he was trapped in the building.
What kind of luck is this
Fei Pingsheng glanced around in the dim cabin and saw that all the abducted people were fast asleep. They had been deceived for quite some time and seemed to have gradually adapted to this kind of life.
At the cabin entrance, the Chinese man who had been in charge of managing the abducted people was lying on two chairs put together, still swiping his mobile phone non-stop, as if he was doing some earth-shattering business. In short, he never put his phone down, and even if there was no signal, he was still looking at the saved files in the phone.
“Puff, puff, puff…Puff, puff, puff!”
Near the cabin exit, there was a burly black man who was sleeping soundly and snoring.
“Mad!”
The guard lying on the chair turned his head, glanced at the black man, and kicked his leg impatiently.
Sure enough, the snoring stopped, and the black man turned over and continued to sleep.
In less than ten seconds, the snoring sound started again, more rhythmic and louder than before.
"Fuck." The young man who was browsing on his phone sat up irritably, picked up a wooden stick from the side, and was about to hit the black man on the head.
At this moment, Fei Pingsheng suddenly stood up, rushed to the black man in two steps, and kicked him in the head: "Fuck you! You're like a little train, you're not going to stop, are you?!"
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Fei Pingsheng kicked the other person's head three times, waking him up.
The black man sat up with a flutter, looked at Fei Pingsheng in surprise, and then reached out to touch his temple.
"Look at the chicken feathers! No more sleeping and no more sniffing!" Fei Pingsheng glared and cursed viciously.
The young man who was browsing his phone next to him looked shocked: “Who the hell told you to get up!”
“Brother, I saw that he disturbed your rest...!” Fei Pingsheng replied in a very servile manner, squatting on the ground with his head in his hands in a very standard posture.
"Go back!" the young man cursed.
"Okay, okay, I'll roll back." Fei Pingsheng responded with bared teeth, and actually turned over and "rolled" back on the ground.
The young man was stunned for a moment, then grinned: "Fuck, you still have some flexibility!"
Fei Pingsheng returned to his seat, nodded humbly at the young man, and said nothing more.
"Haha." The young man laughed, pointed at the black man and cursed, "You are not allowed to sleep! Sit up."
The black man didn't understand Chinese, but he could roughly understand what the other party meant, so he nodded obediently, leaned his back against the wall, hugged his legs with his arms, and began to fight against sleepiness.
…
In the Yu family's villa.
Yu Mingyuan walked into Su Tianyu's room and asked softly, "Are you still asleep?"
"No." Su Tianyu shook his head: "I will leave tomorrow morning. I will go to work early in the morning."
"Has it been approved by the higher-ups?" Yu Mingyuan asked.
"Approved." Su Tianyu nodded: "Let's go to the delivery location Xiaokai confessed and see if we can find any useful clues. If the case can't be advanced, I plan to track down Huihong Pharmaceutical."
"Huihong Pharmaceutical?!" Yu Mingyuan bent down and sat down: "We don't know anything about this group."
Su Tianyu reached into his drawer and pulled out a stack of documents, pulled out a few printed sheets from the middle, and handed them to Yu Mingyuan.
Yu Mingyuan took it and glanced at it, then whispered, "Spending 300 million to buy four islands, Huihong Pharmaceutical Group intends to build a fully enclosed R&D base."
Yu Mingyuan took a quick look at the information, then said to Su Tianyu in surprise: "You have done a lot of homework."
"That's not all." Su Tianyu picked up the cigarette box and asked softly, "There is an acquaintance among the honorary chairmen of the board of directors of Huihong Pharmaceutical Group. Guess who it is?"
"Who is it?" Yu Mingyuan asked.
"Zhang Taotao!" Su Tianyu held a cigarette in his mouth. "If Xiaokai still can't find any information that will help the case progress, then I'm going to change the route, even if it means harming Zhang Taotao..."
While the two were chatting, the door was suddenly pushed open and Su Tianbei walked in: "Tianyu, there is something wrong...!"