In the room.
Su Tianyu raised his head and asked, "What's wrong, second brother?"
"The boss disappeared," Su Tianbei frowned and sat down, "I haven't seen him for two days."
"Ah?" Su Tianyu has been busy investigating the case these two days. He is usually either at work or in other departments. He comes back home late at night every night, so he really didn't notice that there was someone missing at home.
"How could it disappear?" Yu Mingyuan was also very curious.
"I don't know. I called him yesterday but couldn't get through. I didn't see him when I came back in the evening." Su Tianbei said worriedly, "I went home today, and Miaomiao said he hadn't been home for two days."
"Did you send him a text message?" Su Tianyu asked.
"I sent it, but there was no reply." Su Tianbei shook his head.
"Don't worry, I'll call him." Su Tianyu reached out and picked up the phone.
"Will something go wrong?" Yu Mingyuan frowned and asked, "Wang Zhen must be trying every possible way to find our loopholes."
Su Tianyu waved his hand and said, "Don't panic, I'll contact him."
…
On the edge of the reservoir.
Zhang Taotao sat on the wet grass, looking at the masked man without any expression on her pretty face.
"Tear it up!"
The man slowly tore off the tape on Zhang Taotao's mouth and said in a hoarse voice, "Can you cooperate?"
"… I don't know about the Island No. 7 you mentioned, and I can't give you any useful information." Zhang Taotao didn't shout or scream, but replied calmly: "I really don't know why you chose to kidnap me. Did you get the wrong information?"
The man reached out and grabbed Zhang Taotao's hair: "You are the honorary chairman of the board of directors of Huihong Pharmaceutical Group. You said you didn't know about Island No. 7. Do you think I would believe you?"
"You said it all, that's just an honorary chief XI. I'm not involved in the management and operation of the pharmaceutical group, so how would I know what's going on over there?" Zhang Taotao asked back, "You may have kidnapped the wrong person."
"Don't challenge my patience!" The man grabbed Zhang Taotao's hair and began to gradually increase his strength.
"I don't know. It's useless even if you kill me." Zhang Taotao tilted her head and endured the pain: "... You should find the management of Huihong Pharmaceutical."
The man was a little surprised when he saw Zhang Taotao's reaction, because the woman in front of him was too calm, and her rationality far outweighed her fear when facing him.
"Okay, I won't ask you any more questions." The man paused, pulled Zhang Taotao's hair and continued, "Change your request. Ask the company for a few days off, find an excuse, and find a way to take me to Island No. 7."
"First of all, the No. 7 Island you mentioned is the research and development base of Huihong Pharmaceuticals. There is a military investment behind it. They focus on the research and development of military medicines. The management is very strict. Not everyone can visit. In fact, I really just have a nice title in Huihong Pharmaceutical Group because Baolong Group has cooperation with them in certain fields..."
"Your cooperation is just human trafficking, right?" The man suddenly shouted in a cold voice, "I respect you enough, don't waste my patience anymore...!"
"You've got the wrong person!"
"Fuck you, you think I don't dare to kill you, right?!" The man suddenly stood up, grabbed Zhang Taotao's hair roughly, and pressed her cheek directly into the cold river water.
Zhang Taotao's cheeks were completely buried in the water. After a while, she felt a strong sense of suffocation and began to kick her legs and shake her body constantly in an attempt to struggle.
At the water's edge, the man grabbed Zhang Taotao's hair tightly with one hand, ignoring her struggles. Instead, he increased his strength and pressed her entire head into the water.
In the man's heart, he had no sympathy or pity for people like Zhang Taotao. Even though she was just a woman, the man firmly believed that as one of the top five executives of Baolong Group, it was impossible for her to be completely unaware of human trafficking.
In other words, even if Zhang Taotao was not a direct participant in human trafficking, she was at least an accomplice.
These strong women who roam around in the business world and hold high positions may be more ruthless than men in some things.
Thinking of this, the man's anger rose again and reached his head. He turned around and stood up, straddling Zhang Taotao's body with his legs, riding on her back, and began to shake her head with his hands in an abusive manner: "I have plenty of time. If you don't tell me, let's play slowly. I will definitely make you live a life worse than death!"
It was nearly two minutes later that the man loosened his grip and pulled Zhang Taotao out of the water.
Under the moonlight.
Zhang Taotao's hair was disheveled and her pretty face was covered with water stains. She was lying on her back on the lawn, motionless, as if she had fainted.
The man was not in a hurry. He just sat beside her and looked at her quietly.
After a few seconds.
“Cough, cough, ugh… cough…!”
A violent coughing sound echoed along the shore. Zhang Taotao slowly opened her eyes, rolled to the side, curled up her body, and began to vomit violently.
"I'll give you another half a minute to think about it." The man stood up and walked towards the car, ready to smoke a cigarette in the car.
Reaching out to open the car door, the man was about to grab the cigarette box, but he found that his phone was set to no-answer mode, the screen was lit, and there were more than a dozen incoming call alerts.
The man first picked up his phone and saw that all the calls were from Su Tianyu, and the other party also sent two text messages.
"Brother, where are you? When you see the incoming call, answer it immediately!"
"Brother, everyone is worried about you!"
That’s right, the man standing next to the car was Su Tiannan who left Longcheng two days ago.
Next to the vehicle, Su Tiannan frowned and looked at his phone. After pondering for a long time, he immediately replied to Tianyu: "I found some clues about the human traffickers. I'm meeting a friend outside the district. It's safe. I'll be back in the next few days. I'll call you when I'm free."
After replying, Su Tiannan put down his phone, stood next to the car, and lit a cigarette.
Time passed minute by minute, a cigarette burned to the end, Su Tiannan put on the mask again and walked back to the shore.
Zhang Taotao was listless, lying on the lawn with a pale face, motionless.
"How about it? Do you want to try my other job or just tell me directly?" Su Tiannan asked with his head down.
Zhang Taotao's beautiful eyes swept across Su Tiannan, her pretty face expressionless and her eyes determined.
"Speak!" Su Tiannan pinched Zhang Taotao's face: "It's no use pretending to be dead!"
Zhang Taotao still ignored him and let him do whatever he wanted.
Su Tiannan felt like he had punched cotton. He grabbed Zhang Taotao's head again with some resentment and pushed her into the water...
The cold river water, the fear of suffocation, and the burning pain of the water entering her body made Zhang Taotao almost faint again. If she were an ordinary woman, she would have surrendered long ago.
But Su Tiannan did this to Zhang Taotao four or five times, but the other party still did not compromise and did not even say a word of begging for mercy.
On the shore, Zhang Taotao fell to the ground and murmured weakly, "I know who you are... You don't dare to kill me...!"