just in time

When Qi Huo woke up, the severe pain from his forehead almost made him cry out. He subconsciously wanted to reach out, but found that his arms were firmly tied behind his back, and his ankles were also tied tightly. , can't move at all.

He was tied back to back with another person, he could feel the other person's slight breathing, and he called softly, "Chang Ziqi?"

Chang Ziqi remained silent.

"Wow." A soft sob came from beside him.

Qi Huo looked down and saw a disgraced little boy who was crying with tears all over his face, tightly hugging his thigh.

"Big brother..." The little boy's face was swollen a lot, and the corner of his mouth was broken. It was obvious that he was beaten, and he didn't even dare to cry, "Big brother who gave you more money... ..."

Qi Huo remembered, this is the little boy from the grocery store.

Although he himself was shocked and frightened, he still comforted the boy in a low voice, "It's okay, don't be afraid."

Seeing that he was awake, the little boy's eyes lit up, and he kept crawling into his arms, grabbing the corner of his clothes and refusing to let go.

Qi Huo was naturally fierce, tall and strong in his eyes, and he would give him more money. In this environment, the only person he had ever met was Qi Huo, like a chick who only recognized the Lord, and only dared He sobbed, "Big Brother, I miss Mom."

Qi Huoqian comforted him hoarsely, "Don't be afraid, what's your name?"

"My name is Xu Chao, and my nickname is Xiaobao. I am six years old this year. I study in the big class Xiaohua Class in Qingshui Community Kindergarten. My mother's name is Sun Ying, and my father's name is Xu Xiang. I live in Room 201, Unit 189, Building [-], Qingshui Community. My father's phone number is [-]..." Xu Xiaobao recited it like a text.

"Hey, I got it." Qi Huo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Your parents are quite precautionary."

Xiaobao doesn't understand what prevention is, but he is very happy that his elder brother woke up and talked to him, "Mom said that if you have any difficulties, you can go to the police uncle and recite these to the police uncle, and I will be sent home."

"Your mother is right, the police uncle will come to rescue us." Qi Huo said to him.

"But I didn't see the police uncle." Xiaobao wanted to cry in fear: "Where are they?"

"It's hiding outside." Qi Huo comforted him, "Actually, Big Brother has another identity. He is an undercover police officer sent to protect Xiaobao, so don't be afraid."

"Ah~" Xiaobao's eyes lit up, "So you are the big brother of the police who paid you so much!"

"Yes." Qi Huo raised his head and looked around while talking with him. "The police brother will protect you."

They were tied up in an abandoned warehouse. There was a dim incandescent light at the door. The warehouse was only about the size of two basketball courts. There were faded graffiti on the walls. There were only two windows, but they were very high from the ground. Such a tall person can't reach it even if he jumps with some leverage. There is a hole in the east wall, but it is blocked by bricks.

There are old bunk beds piled up in the warehouse, but the models are all small, and there are also some worn-out tables, chairs and benches, but without exception, they are all small, looking like children's use, most of them are too old, entangled in cobwebs, Insects and ants are very corrosive.

Qi Huo squinted his eyes and looked out the window. He could only see a crescent moon and a few messy branches, but no buildings.

"Xiaobao, help me see another big brother." Qi Huo tried to free the rope in his hand, but he couldn't do it at all.

Probably because Xiaobao didn't pose any threat, he was just tied hands and feet, so he wasn't so scared now, and he could stand up and jump by himself.

Xiao Bao jumped up and down to look at Chang Ziqi, with fear in his voice, "Big brother, the other big brother has a lot of blood on his head, more than your face."

Qi Huo's heart skipped a beat, "Chang Ziqi? Chang Ziqi! Wake up!"

The person tied behind his back moved, "Qi Huo?"

"Are you okay? Xiaobao said you have a lot of blood on your head?" Qi Huo heaved a sigh of relief when he saw him, "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

"I'm fine." Chang Ziqi coughed lightly, "Are you injured?"

Qi Huo paused, "No."

"Qi Huo, were you serious about what you said earlier?" Chang Ziqi's voice was particularly low in the empty warehouse.

Qi Huo pretended not to understand, "What?"

"You said, you and I were just playing around." Chang Ziqi pursed his lips. He couldn't see Qi Huo, and he didn't know what the other party's expression was now, whether it was mocking or indifferent.

Xiao Bao lay on Qi Huo's body, raised his head and looked at him quietly, and found that the big brother who gave more money looked a little sad.

It's like once Qiangqiang liked a toy very much, but when the teacher told him that the toy didn't belong to him and asked him to put it down, Qiangqiang had this sad expression on his face.

"Probably." Qi Huo laughed, staring at the broken plastic stool not far away, the smiling faces on it were all stained, "I only had girlfriends before, and I'm not gay, so I'm just playing with you for excitement. "

Chang Ziqi was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth and said, "I thought... at least you still like me."

But I don't want to just feel exciting.

"People who like you can line up from the east of Wucheng to the west of Wucheng, and I'm not the only one." Qi Huo sneered, "Don't think about it, let's think about how to escape, who the hell did I offend? A stick for someone?"

"They should be after me." Chang Ziqi followed him and changed the subject. He didn't show the slightest panic about his kidnapping. "Maybe they want money."

"Damn it." Qi Huo cursed in a low voice, "You're acting in a fucking TV series..."

Even though the occasion was inappropriate, Chang Ziqi still smiled, "I won't let anything happen to you."

"Maybe we can escape—" Qi Huo had just finished speaking when the warehouse door, which had been tightly closed, was suddenly pushed open.

-

Yun Fang and Yi Chenliang went to the alley leading to the grocery store.

"Little Treasure! Little Treasure!"

"Little Treasure! Where are you?"

"Little Treasure—"

Some mothers are calling their children, "Where have you been, Xiaobao?"

The alley was dark and there was no one there.

Coming out of the alley, a woman in her 30s hurried over, her eyes were red from crying, "Have you ever seen a five or six-year-old boy with a mole at the corner of his left eye, about this height?"

Sun Ying gestured and looked at them expectantly.

Yi Chenliang thought for a while, "A kid from the grocery store?"

"That's right!" There was a glimmer of hope in Sun Ying's eyes, and she looked at Yi Chenliang earnestly, "Do you know where he went?"

Yi Chenliang shook his head, "I went to the store to buy a bag of sugar more than an hour ago, and he was still sitting on the chair playing when he left."

Sun Ying covered her face and began to cry, "It's all my fault, I shouldn't have left him alone in the store..."

"Let's call the police and see if we can file a case." Yun Fang glanced at her and said.

The mother who was so anxious that she lost her mind finally remembered that she had a mobile phone, and took out her mobile phone to make a call.

It was almost midnight when Yi Chenliang and Yun Fang went home.

Yun Fang sent him downstairs, "Go back to sleep, we can talk about something tomorrow."

Yi Chenliang looked at him hesitantly.

Yun Fang stretched out his hand and hugged him, "It'll be fine, just listen."

Yi Chenliang nodded and went upstairs.

Yun Fang stood downstairs, watched the lights on the windows on the third floor, then turned and left, took out his mobile phone and dialed Tang Yi's number.

"Tangtang, are you back?" Tang Yi's voice came from the phone.

"I'm back." Yun Fang smiled, "Mom, I'm staying at Yi Chenliang's house tonight."

Tang Yi should have got up from the bed, and looked at the third floor opposite through the window, "Okay, have you two had dinner? Why did you come back so late?"

Yun Fang leaned against the wall, just in the blind spot of the window on the fourth floor, "Eat, the teacher in the cram school is late."

"You are a real teacher." Tang Yi complained, "If you want me to tell you and Xiao Yi, don't be so tired every day, as long as your grades are enough to be admitted to a university, and don't leave home too far..."

"En." Yun Fang replied, "My dad hasn't come back yet?"

"He has to go on the expressway this time, so he won't be able to come back tonight and sleep in the service area." Tang Yi said, "Bring Xiaoyi to the house to have breakfast before going to school. Mom will bake you shortbread."

"No need, there is competition class tomorrow, let's go to school." Yun Fang said, "Mom, go to bed early."

"Okay, don't stay up late." After Tang Yi finished speaking, she heard the other party hang up the phone.

She put the phone on the bedside table and sighed softly.

Yun Fang stood between the two buildings, watched the windows on the third and fourth floors turn off the lights, and then walked out of the community.

Back then Qi Huo told him about the kidnapping of himself and Chang Ziqi, but he didn't connect it with the sensational kidnapping case of Ge Sanqian, but after thinking about it carefully, Chang Ziqi's identity was indeed unusual, Three, if Chang Ziqi is almost killed, the Chang family is such a single seedling, and Ge San will never be let go.

But there is so little information.

Qi Huo said that they were tied up in an abandoned warehouse, and they couldn't see what was going on outside the warehouse. After being rescued, they only remembered that there was a large stretch of mountains and forests nearby.

The subordinate who told him about Ge San's past glorious deeds didn't go into too much detail. He only said that what Ge San was thinking of was a white wolf with empty gloves, and he would tear up the ticket as soon as he got the money. Back then, the police played tricks around them.

Yun Fang frowned, carefully recalling every word Qi Huo said to that subordinate at that time.

"I was tied up in the warehouse with Chang Ziqi and a five or six-year-old child. At that time, I was still fighting with Chang Ziqi..."

"The man who looked at us looked very gentle, but his eyes were very sinister. At that time, he kicked me on the head, and kicked my face with mud. It smells like pig shit, so it's outrageous..."

"He has a gun. When I saw a real gun for the first time, I was so frightened that my legs were shaking..."

"I was almost beaten to death by him, my daughter-in-law burst into tears and blocked a shot for me..."

"... When we were rescued, a large number of policemen surrounded us. My wife was so awesome, she grabbed my collar and kissed me. Oh, I was embarrassed by so many people... I remember the big acacia tree next to me , the flowers on it are blooming in big clusters, so beautiful.”

"The boss chose a warehouse near the train station, and the gang surrounded it like an iron barrel, but I jumped out on a motorcycle with the money, and a group of cops ran after my ass, ha!"

"...Of course not, the boss didn't want to spare the life of the young man, so he closed a diagonal line. Even if the cop had wings, he couldn't fly to save people. Tsk, there was a child's mother who reported it early. I called the police, and the reported child was missing, and a few policemen touched it, his mother's bad luck..."

Yun Fang took out his mobile phone and called up the map of Wucheng.

Wucheng is really not that big, there is only one train station.

Railway stations, warehouses, diagonal lines, endless forests, large acacia trees, pig farms, and police.

Yun Fang quickly searched on the map, and a broken picture flashed from the depths of his memory.

'Brother Liangliang, I really like that pink flower, can you pick it and give it to me? ' The little girl with the little ball head pointed to him.

He should have been very small at that time, and his angle of view was low. He stood on tiptoe and saw a large expanse of beautiful pink flowers and trees stretching endlessly through the gap in the fence gate.

'I can't reach it. ' he said, pinching his nose.

Why is he pinching his nose?

Yun Fang frowned, recalling carefully.

Because... because it stinks.

'Little Xingxing, let's go back, if the dean knows that we slipped out to play without taking a nap, he will be angry and curse. '

'Those pigs are so annoying, they are always screaming, so scary. '

'...it stinks in here. '

'I want flowers. '

Yun Fang squeezed the phone tightly.

He probably knew where Qi Huo and Chang Ziqi were imprisoned.

-

"All!" Chang Ziqi desperately struggled with the rope, staring at the man with the gun with red eyes, "Don't touch him!!"

Ge San kicked Qi Huo in the stomach again, lazily turning the gun in his hand, "Hey, you two are quite fun, young master, do you like him?"

Chang Ziqi gritted his teeth and said, "Don't you just want money? Don't touch him, the Chang family will give you double."

"Oh, tsk tsk." Ge San curled his lips, with a look of disgust and excitement, "Hey, you guys, you really know how to play."

"But I'm short of money." Ge San looked at Chang Ziqi with a smile, stepped on Qi Huo's face, and sighed, "But I like killing people more, hey, yes, that's the expression, Afraid? Hahahahaha, why don't you kneel down and beg me, maybe if I'm in a good mood, I won't kill your lover?"

Qi Huo regained his composure, lying on the ground staring at the gun in his hand, with a hint of cruelty flashing in his eyes.

"But it's useless if you beg me—" The smile on Ge San's face disappeared suddenly, "None of you will get out alive."

Before Ge San could finish his sentence, Qi Huo, who had been stepped under his feet, suddenly jumped up, and knocked the gun in his hand away. Ge San was unprepared, and he grabbed his belt and slammed into the pile of abandoned tables and chairs In the pile, countless dust exploded, fascinating the sight.

Qi Huo didn't know when he broke free from the rope that tied his wrists, his hands were bloody and bloody, he grabbed Ge San's neck tightly, but in the next second he was kicked out by Ge San and fell heavily to the ground .

"Qi Huo!" Chang Ziqi's eyes were about to burst, but his hands and feet were tied tightly with ropes, and he couldn't break free at all. Blood dripped down his wrists onto the dusty ground.

Xiao Bao was too frightened to cry, and stared blankly at Qi Huo on the ground.

"I underestimated you." Ge San laughed sullenly, and he didn't go to pick up the gun, but walked towards Qihuo step by step, "You're a brat, but he's quite courageous."

Qi Huo stared at him fiercely, "Xiao Zhong, if you have the ability, kill me!"

Ge San was ruthless and committed many crimes, and it was the first time he met someone who was not afraid of death, so he became interested, and squatted in front of Qi Huo to discuss with him, "Boy, why don't you kill them both for me, how about hanging out with me? "

Qi Huo spat bloody spit on his face, "Fucking bastard, if your father kills you, he will kill you!"

Ge San's face darkened, "I don't know how to live or die."

Qi Huo was beaten to the point where he was almost powerless to fight back. Chang Ziqi's eyes were bloodshot, "Qi Huo!"

In the confusion, he heard a crisp sound, looked at the dagger kicked aside with red eyes, and gritted his teeth, "Xiaobao!"

Xiaobao didn't lose the chain at the critical moment. Although he was almost frightened, he still stretched out his arms and grabbed the dagger, and stuffed it into Chang Ziqi's hand, "Help... Brother policeman..."

Ge San didn't know when he took back the gun, aimed at Qi Huo who was lying on the ground beaten like a dead dog, and shook his head, "What a pity."

Chang Ziqi, who raised his head, suddenly shrank his pupils and rushed forward, "All!"

"boom!"

The gunshot rang out, and Xiaobao screamed and cried.

Qi Huo held onto Chang Ziqi's shoulders with trembling hands, warm blood splashed on his cheeks, he opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

He saw his frightened face in Chang Ziqi's eyes.

Chang Ziqi reached out to wipe the blood off the side of his face, his voice trembling, "Don't be afraid."

But the two of them were only seventeen or eighteen years old, so how could they not be afraid, before Qi Huo dared to fight Ge San with his fever and recklessness, but just now when the gun was pointed at his head, his mind went blank.

His legs are still weak.

Chang Ziqi was not much better than him. He was shot and felt that he was going to die. He tremblingly grabbed Qihuo's hand, "Qihuo, can't you just like me?"

Qi Huo didn't know whether it was blood or tears on his face, and it made him sting. He frantically covered Chang Ziqi's wound, but the blood couldn't stop at all, and he broke down and shouted, "Chang Ziqi, don't die!"

"Fuck!" Ge San angrily kicked away the table and chair next to him, and fired a shot at the table and chair angrily.

Chang Ziqi couldn't die now, so Ge ​​San dragged him up, only to find that he had just been hit on the shoulder, and cursed, "Damn, this little injury will kill you two!"

Xiao Bao cried hoarsely, thinking that the two elder brothers were shot to death by the bad guys. He looked around in a daze to find his mother, but his eyes stayed on the high window, his eyes widened in shock.

On the window sill so high and so high, a big brother wearing glasses half-kneeled there, behind him was the dark sky and a half moon.

The big brother also saw him, put his index finger on his lips, and gave him a gentle smile.