love of life

At noon the next day, Lin Zexi was woken up by Jiang Yu's phone call, and asked him out for lunch, but with a splitting headache, he directly refused.He didn't even respond to Gu Ming knocking on the door to ask him to eat, and fell asleep until the evening.Headache, backache, wounds on hands and feet also hurt, and my whole body was limp and limp.He struggled to get up to find something to eat, and finished the paper for tomorrow's lecture.Gu Ming has been missing.

On Monday morning, Lin Zexi set the alarm clock and got up early to prepare breakfast.The two met for the first time after the quarrel that night, Gu Ming kept trying to strike up a conversation, but Lin Zexi was stubbornly unwilling to speak.After breakfast, Lin Zexi rejected Gu Ming's proposal to drive him to school, and walked to school as usual.This cram school is full of students who are repeating studies. Everyone concentrates on reviewing, and there is little overlap.Lin Zexi was much older than others, and he didn't even have anyone to talk to, so he immersed himself in his studies as soon as he stepped into the classroom.Different from others, he now enjoys this kind of dark time of rereading, at least he can immerse himself in the sea of ​​questions without thinking about anything.

Lin Zexi had finished eating in the student cafeteria at noon, and was about to go back to the classroom to review, when he received a courier call.Said that he had an international courier, but the courier car broke down by the back door of the school, so he was asked to go out and pick it up.Lin Zexi seldom shopped online, and the only time he left his address here was when Wang Yijie sent him an agreement.His first reaction was that Wang Yijie sent him something again.He followed the courier's instructions to the back door of the school.Although the school was built in a downtown area, the back door opened in a narrow alley. On both sides of the alley were the walls of the school, and on the other side were the walls of an old state-owned factory that was about to close down.Except for a few small vendors selling things here after school, few people pass by.As soon as Lin Zexi left the school gate, he saw a courier tricycle with a closed rear compartment parked 30 meters away. He trotted over but saw no one.He walked around the courier car, took out the phone and was about to call back, but felt his neck tightened, someone covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel from behind, a pungent smell rushed into his nasal cavity, he struggled wildly Lost consciousness in two strokes.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Zexi slowly woke up, and he soon realized that he had been kidnapped again.This time he was blindfolded and lying on the ground with his hands and feet bound.He didn't know where he was, or how long time had passed, but his intuition told him that this time was much more dangerous than last time.He pricked up his ears to collect some useful sounds, but apart from the sound of the wind blowing, there was no useful information around him.He stretched out his hand and touched the ground below him. It was an uneven concrete floor, covered with dust and sand.He tried to move slowly to the side, but just after he moved a short distance, the rope tied to his feet restricted his range of motion.He stretched out his foot and kicked the rope vigorously, and the cup at the other end was firmly fixed somewhere.So he moved along the direction of the rope, and found that he was tied by the rope to a huge concrete pillar, which should be the beam of this house.The sound he accidentally made became powerful after being reflected. It can be deduced that this is a large space, like a factory building, and nothing else is known.

Feeling thirsty, he licked his lips, the skin on them was dry and hard, and his stomach was beginning to feel hungry.This shows that he has been in a coma for at least ten hours, and it is at least midnight now, and Gu Ming must have discovered that he is missing.He rolled around on the ground, rubbing every pocket on the ground one by one, and to his disappointment, the phone wasn't on him this time.He finally did everything he could do, and then sat on the ground with his back against the pillar to recuperate.

That night, when Gu Ming went home, he didn't see Lin Zexi, and no one answered his phone calls, so he immediately became alert.He rushed directly to the cram school. There were still many people in the classroom studying for self-study. He went in and looked for Lin Zexi, but he didn't find Lin Zexi.He asked a classmate in the class, who pointed to his seat.He saw Lin Zexi's book unfolded, the pen was placed on the book without the cover, and the schoolbag was still in the desk box.He asked the girl sitting behind him again, and she said that she hadn't seen him back after lunch, and she didn't attend the afternoon class.Gu Ming went to the school's security office to check the monitoring. The last picture showed that Lin Zexi disappeared at the back door of the school at [-]:[-] noon and never appeared again.

Gu Ming walked along the path that Lin Zexi walked all the way to the back gate of the school. The street lights in the alley were dim and empty.He dialed his phone, and the familiar ringtone rang not far away.Finally, he found Lin Zexi's phone in the trash can at the back door of the school.Gu Ming realized that Lin Zexi was in danger, and wanted to call the police immediately, but on second thought, he called Jiang Yu first.

As soon as the call was connected, Gu Ming asked, "Jiang Yu, where did you get Lin Zexi again? Is it interesting to play the same trick twice?"

The person on the other end of the phone was stunned, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, "What do you mean? You mean Zexi disappeared again? When did it happen?"

Gu Ming started to panic: "You don't know?"

Jiang Yu said: "What do I know? I returned to Shanghai early this morning, and I am still working overtime at the company. What happened?"

Gu Ming continued to ask: "What about Xu Chengwei?"

Jiang Yu said: "My people sent him back to the hospital the day before yesterday, and they will send him to the United States in a few days. It really has nothing to do with me this time. Tell me what happened?"

Gu Ming patiently recounted the story of Lin Zexi's disappearance.After listening, Jiang Yu said, "Hurry up and call the police, and contact everyone who can help to find it. I'll come over right away."

"Wait, why should I trust you this time?" With the experience and lessons from the previous few times, Gu Ming is now very cautious towards him.

Jiang Yu sighed helplessly and said, "Using the same trick twice, am I sick? If I really kidnapped the person, I will not take the initiative to negotiate with you, and I will not hide from you and live with him. What else am I doing in city A? I’m full? Why don’t you hurry up and find someone.” After speaking, she hung up the phone with a snap.

Just when he was about to call the police, he received a text message: If you want him to live, prepare 500 million US dollars before ten o'clock tomorrow morning, and transfer it to an overseas account according to my instructions later, otherwise he will not survive tomorrow.Remember, don't call the police, or I'll kill him right away.Then I received another photo, which was taken in the dark with the flash turned on. Lin Zexi's face turned pale, and he was lying on the ground blindfolded by a black cloth, seemingly unconscious.Almost at the same time, Jiang Yu called again.

As soon as he connected, the other party immediately said, "Don't call the police, I have received a message from the kidnapper."

Gu Ming thumped in his heart and said, "I received it too. That person blackmailed both of us at the same time, so he must know Lin Zexi's relationship very well. Lin Zexi doesn't know many people, and the scope is already very small. Where is Wang Yijie now? ?”

Jiang Yu said: "I was just about to tell you this. At that time, I asked him to buy a boat ticket to create the illusion of returning to China, and arranged for him to disembark in Hong Kong halfway and then go back. But I just checked the records, and he only had boarding information, but There is no information about disembarkation. He is missing and sneaked off the ship somewhere along the way."

Gu Ming was furious and shouted at him: "You recruited him, if something happens to Lin Zexi, I will definitely not let you go."

Jiang Yu said calmly: "What's the use of you talking harshly to me? It's important to find someone first. As long as his goal is money, he won't hurt him for the time being. How much does he want from you? First prepare the money according to his request." Okay, if it’s not enough, I’ll pass it on to you first.”

Gu Ming said: "Don't worry about it, I can still afford this little money."

Just as Gu Ming hung up the phone, an unfamiliar number called.Gu Ming answered the phone nervously, it turned out to be Luka.

Luka said: "I just went to the cram school to look for Zexi. I had an appointment to have dinner with him tonight, but I heard the schoolmates say that he is missing. The whole school spread the rumors. Is it true?"

Gu Ming was worrying so much here that he didn't want to talk to him, so he just replied: "He is indeed missing, and I'm trying to find someone."

Luka then asked, "Are you sure you were kidnapped?"

Gu Ming wanted to hang up the phone directly, but remembered that this person was Luka's only friend, so he patiently said a few more words: "Well, sure, the kidnapper sent a message just now, asking us to prepare money."

Luka asked: "The kidnapping is mostly done by acquaintances. Is there any suspicious target?"

Gu Ming said: "It should be Wang Yijie, did he mention it to you?"

Luka said: "I think it's also him. He has done extortion before, and this time he directly kidnapped him. He is quite courageous to make money on the territory of City A. When will Jiang Yu come?"

Gu Ming was very surprised: "How do you know that Jiang Yu is coming?"

Luka said: "That person is very greedy. Since he has done such a big job, it is impossible to blackmail you alone. Jiang Yu probably also received the blackmail message."

Gu Ming asked: "How much do you really know?"

Luka said: "I know everything I need to know. You can continue to search in your own way. Let's get together when Jiang Yu arrives." Before Gu Ming could answer, Luka hung up the phone.

At this moment, Gu Ming felt a sudden sense of frustration.Lin Zexi was kidnapped, he was more worried than anyone else, but apart from worrying, he found that he could do very little.Once an emergency occurs, no amount of money can find a solution.At this moment, he had an unprecedented yearning for power.