please don't believe me

The best way to understand is to go deep into the front line.

But this time I really didn't provoke it... Dai Bowen sighed inwardly.He woke up, but remained in the state he was in the moment before he woke up.He remembers being on the phone under a streetlight on a street corner and getting a blow to the back of the head.The moment he woke up, the intense pain in the back of his head immediately came, reminding him of everything he had suffered.

There is a sense of light on the eyelids, there is not much feeling of restraint on the body, and the place on Yingying's back seems to be quite comfortable.This shows that his treatment as a "captive" is quite good.

TOTM system, time telling.

[The time reporting system responds, please confirm the content of the time reporting. 】

"Solution of Myriad Woes" ​​quest, the remaining days of the main quest.

[Time reporting system: There are still 35 days until the deadline for the main task. 】

Tsk... I have discussed this time reporting system with Shen Xiuyuan before, and it is not necessary except in extreme environments. Now I am really slapping myself.Although the current situation is not particularly extreme, it is probably not much better.

In just a few seconds, Dai Bowen prepared himself mentally, and then slowly opened his eyes.

white ceiling.The lighting is good, and the air circulation is no problem. It seems that it is not a game of confinement in a secret room.

A young voice immediately sounded near him: "Are you awake?"

Dai Bowen turned his head, and the face of a mixed-race boy came into view: "... Matthew?"

Unexpectedly, but somewhat reasonable, the person he had been looking for for six days appeared in front of him in such a grandiose manner.Unfortunately, however, his mission was not over.

"...I'm Matthew, who are you?" The boy sat on the single bed next to him.Wearing the "familiar" gray hoodie, he looked a bit tired, but seemed to be in good spirits.He looked at Dai Bowen with searching eyes, but he didn't have the ostentatious and self-consciousness when he wrote the "self-kidnapping post".

Dai Bowen's mind was racing, but his face was calm: "I'm Dai Bowen...the polygraph personnel hired by your uncle to help find you."

"Really?" Matthew said, "They say you are Shen Xiuyuan's lover."

"'They'?" Dai Bowen paused, "Who?"

Matthew shrugged: "The person who brought you is also the one who guards us."

"Well, they were right." He sat up slowly, and the heavy drag made him look at his feet, "Wow...the accommodation comes with leg decorations?"

He was shackled around his ankles, and the heavy iron chains kept his feet from striding too far, but they didn't stop him from moving at all.Matthew shrugged: "I have it too. Except for taking it off during the move, this thing has been on my feet... I don't think you will want to get close to me. I haven't showered for many days, uh, but It’s still a little over the top.”

He shook his feet on the side of the bed, and the shackles rattled.

"It's okay." Dai Bowen moved to the side of the bed, "Can I ask who is the host who 'entertained' us?"

"A man I haven't seen a few times, um, I mean..." Matthew replied, "Katrin, and a man she calls Daddy, but I've never met before."

"A man of LT descent?" Dai Bowen replied, "His name is Carlos Arias, and he is indeed Catherine's father."

Matthew seemed to know the man's name for the first time: "Wow...but Katrin's last name is Dominguez."

He spoke very quietly, as if talking to himself.Dai Bowen didn't answer the conversation, but imitated his posture, sitting face to face with his legs hanging by the bed: "Where is this, do you know?"

"I don't know...I was brought here blindfolded." The young man's face showed obvious depression, "I looked out the window, but I saw nothing but the second floor."

"That's good, dear." Dai Bowen smiled, and then glanced at the room, "Did they just put us in the same room?"

This room has two single beds, a chair by the wall, and a bathroom inside.There was one window, which seemed to be locked, and that was where the light came from.

"The windows can't be opened, and there are people walking around outside the door all the time, and each of them has a gun." Matthew said, "Katlin will bring in meals at noon, and I rarely see anyone except her."

"Katrin...should be your little girlfriend?" Dai Bowen looked into Matthew's eyes, "Would you mind telling me what happened?"

The boy's pupils are very light in color, and his eyes are a bit like Shen Xiuyuan's. It seems that this part of the inheritance probably came from his mother.

"I..." Matthew was stunned by Dai Bowen's stare.Even though he hadn't been abused much in the past few days, it was because he was in the "enemy camp", and every minute and every second of trembling made him exhausted physically and mentally.However, a person from the rescue party just appeared, and he didn't know whether he should really trust this person.

"It's okay, we're just chatting." Dai Bowen saw the boy's hesitation and smiled.With his elbows on his knees and his upper body leaning toward the boy, he looks like an old friend who can talk easily: "Whether you... believe me or not, there's no harm in telling stories, is there?"

Matthew met Katrin in mid-November.

They are in the same school and have many opportunities to meet each other. Even if they just meet and say hello at first, they get to know each other quickly.

Matthew said he failed to recommend the suicide site to the boys and discussed it with Katrin instead.Katrin was initially put off, but later came to like him and also thought it "looked cool", so Matthew thought they would hit it off.

Katrin didn't sign up for the site, but Matthew shared his account with her.

On December 12th, Matthew and Katrin did go to the location set by the "suicide mission".Although they didn't plan to kill themselves at the beginning, as Dai Bowen and Erwin expected, Matthew had a plan to "show off step by step".As for the reason why they didn't really post to show off in the end, it was because Katrin said that they didn't plan to really kill themselves anyway, so don't waste money.

So they decided that pure "enjoyment" is enough, and they don't want to worry about "suicide missions".

Yes, they were going to have fun at the "suicide site" and there's nothing more exciting than that.Moreover, the girl said that when they reach the wilderness, they can take a photo to say "go here".

"You mean..." Dai Bowen asked, "It was Katrin who proposed to go directly to 'Enjoyment' and take photos?"

"Uh, yes." Matthew said, "What's wrong?"

"Hmm... I'm a little curious." Dai Bowen shrugged, "After all, you said at the beginning that she is a sensitive and gentle girl."

"She just knows too little." Matthew replied, "I brought her into contact with the new world, didn't I?"

There was a hint of complacency in the boy's words, he was the rebellious boy that Dai Bowen knew.However, Dai Bowen suspects that the girl's personality changed from sensitive and soft to enthusiastic and confident, which may not be due to him.

"I saw you changing your coat midway through the surveillance." Dai Bowen asked, "Did Katrin give it to you?"

"Yes, she originally said it was a 'gift', I didn't doubt it." Matthew was a little annoyed when he said this, "Who knows..."

Later, when they got out of the car and walked to their destination, they were cut off halfway.

A van drove up to them, a few people jumped out, easily restrained them, and threw them into the car with black hoods on.Matthew tried to struggle, but as long as he moved hard, there would be some kind of hard object against his head.Several times, he swears, the action was accompanied by a "click" sound.

Matthew didn't hear Katrin's voice very much at the time, and thought something happened to her. After he got to the place and was taken off his headgear, he realized that it was not the case.

They were in a room with a bed and Matthew was strapped to a chair.Katrin was not tied up, nor restrained by anyone, and she even looked relaxed with ease.She stood in front of Matthew, next to a man of LT descent with brown skin and slightly curly hair.The man was wearing a floral shirt and a casual jacket with two buttons open at the neckline, revealing a mysterious tattoo on the side of his neck.He tilted his head and squinted at Matthew with the corners of his eyes, his expression was only sullen and contemptuous.

He opened his mouth to ask Katrin, but he spoke ESP Mandarin with a strong accent, and Matthew couldn't understand a word.

Katrin also responded to him in ESP, and Matthew couldn't understand either, but he was sure he heard a word like "Dad", which he still understood in ESP.

At that time, Matthew fully realized that he had fallen into a trap.It's just that he couldn't believe that the girl who was smiling at him just now became an accomplice of the kidnapper in the blink of an eye.

The father and daughter exchanged a few words, and the man led them out of the room, while Katrin smiled at Matthew.

She switched back to English: "Great, they won't touch you for a while."

Matthew struggled, but the rope on his body did not move at all: "What do you want to do!"

"It's not what I want to do to you, it's what Carlos wants to do to you." The girl smiled wryly, "I just bought some time to see if I can help you and make you feel better."

Matthew stared at her: "You tricked me out, is this called helping me?"

"I'm sorry, but I can't resist Carlos." Katrin reached out and hugged him, "But don't be discouraged, and neither should I. Let's get through this difficulty together, shall we?"

Matthew was hugged gently by the girl. He might have been happy and thoughtful before, but now he doesn't understand this woman at all: "What do you want to say?"

"I want to escape from this devil's lair, Matthew, only you can help me." Catherine whispered next to Matthew's ear, then stepped back a little, looking into the boy's eyes, "You... want to Don't want to be the heir of Zhiyuan Group?"

"Zhiyuan Group? Heir?"

Even Dai Bowen was shocked by this miraculous proposal.He knew that there might be some unexpected stories, but he didn't expect such a development.He looked at Matthew's look of "I knew it was this reaction", suppressed the speculation that was running fast in his heart, and asked with doubts on his face, "What the hell... what does this have to do with her?"

"How do I know." Matthew looked at Dai Bowen helplessly, "Don't you think she is unreasonable? She actually said that her purpose was to help me, and her father was the one who wanted the ransom!"

"Help you? Then, what good does she do?"

"She asked me to take her away and escape from Carlos." Matthew replied, "She didn't even think about it, how could I..."

However, some sympathy for her has been revealed in your words, which shows that the brainwashing of the past few days is not in vain.Dai Bowen thought for a while: "Is it because you mentioned Zhiyuan Group to her...?"

"How is it possible!" Matthew said angrily, "I haven't told her about my relationship with Zhiyuan Group, and I don't know how these guys are targeting me."

"About this question, I can give you some guesses." Dai Bowen said, "Your aunt, Mela, probably knows Carlos—that's Katrin's father."

Matthew's eyes widened: "What?!"