“No! I don’t want to go out!” Huo Yawu shook her head vigorously, not knowing what bad things awaited them.
“Don’t make me drag you out!” The man had no patience.
“Yawu, be good. Don’t you want to see your brother again?” Shao Pinxi coaxed softly.
Huo Yawu bit her lip and nodded.
Leaving the room, they entered a room with several windows. The swaying tree shadows and faint bird calls told Shao Pinxi they were likely in the suburbs.
“Hasn’t the food been bought yet?” The man who ordered them out asked the large man sitting in the corner.
As soon as the words fell, knocking was heard at the main door leading outside.
“I’m back.” The burly man got up and ran to open the door.
“I’m starving! Where did you guys go to buy food?” The man complained to his companion who went to buy food.
“We’ve got food, so stop whining!” The large man responsible for buying food casually pulled out a food box from a plastic bag and roughly tossed it to him.
The man was extremely hungry and opened the food box to eat ravenously. After just a couple of bites, he complained, “Damn! What kind of food is this? It’s so disgusting!”
“There’s only one place selling food around here! If you don’t want to eat, then don’t!”
“Tsk!” The man spat and had to continue eating with his head down.
Shao Pinxi quietly scanned all the kidnappers present, determined to memorize their appearances so she could bring them to justice later.
Huh? That was…
Something on the plastic bag holding the food box caught Shao Pinxi’s attention.
“Don’t eat yet! Let’s do business first!” One of the large men pulled out a phone and approached Shao Pinxi and Huo Yawu.
Shao Pinxi stared directly at the kidnapper, on guard against any potential ill intentions.
The kidnapper dialed a number and connected the call, then spoke: “Is the five hundred million ready?”
On the other end of the phone, Huo Juren’s voice was as calm as ever: “I want to speak to my sister.”
Hearing this, the kidnapper couldn’t help but admire Huo Juren, who had maintained this calm tone from the first ransom call to now.
