After seeing the performance of her companions, Mary knew that they had been moved by Xiao Yao's words, and their minds were full of blackmailing Xiao Yao's parents, since they didn't let themselves kill him now, they would definitely not let themselves take him away, so when she said in the Jade Palace, she didn't mention it again.

After wandering around the outside to make sure they weren't being followed, the black SUV drove back to their stronghold on the edge of the city, an old abandoned warehouse.

The car drove to the door of the warehouse and stopped, the old black man got out of the car and opened the door of the warehouse and the lights inside, and after the black SUV drove into the warehouse, the old black man immediately closed the door of the warehouse. The robbers got out of the car one after another, and Xiao Yao was also escorted down.

Mary is undoubtedly the woman with the lowest force value in this robbery gang, but she is the most intelligent in the entire team. It is precisely because of this high IQ that she is also the most feared by the rest of the gang. The three Mexicans had known Mary for only a year, and the other three Americans had worked with the other four for the first time, and they didn't trust each other as much as Mary's previous team of three.

"Garcia, you are guarding the back door of the Emerald Palace today, and no one has seen you. Tomorrow you go outside and buy some disposable mobile phones and let this kid call home. When Xiao Yao, who got out of the car, turned his head to observe the environment, Jose instructed a Mexican companion. When Mary, the most intelligent planner and organizer, had a disagreement with the rest of the team, José, the person with the highest force value, naturally acted as the boss and began to call the shots.

"No problem!" a non-assuming man nodded.

"Mary," José said again, looking at Mary, "it's up to you to plan how the ransom will be paid, but until then, you'd better not stay alone with him." We'll watch you and don't try to take him away alone!"

"Alright!" Mary nodded helplessly. In this situation, it is useless for her to oppose it.

"Antonio, lock this boy up," Jose instructed another man, "let's take stock of tonight's harvest and then have Mary contact the buyer." Let's get the money for tonight first. ”

The "blue droplets" are worth $8 million, and they don't just take the risk, and they wouldn't have taken the risk if they hadn't contacted the buyers on the black market in advance.

Antonio found a vacant warehouse in the warehouse and pushed Xiao Yao inside. Xiao Yao turned around and saw that the other party was about to close the door and leave, so he hurriedly shouted, "Wait!"

"What's wrong?" Antonio asked, frowning.

"I'm all locked up, can you untie the rope from my hand?" Xiao Yao turned sideways and signaled, "You won't tie me up like this all the time and let me sleep like this, right? And when it's time to eat, are you going to feed me?" Please, you all have guns in your hands, I don't even know where I am, and you're still afraid that I'll run away?"

"Turn around!" Antonio also seemed to feel the need to tie him up like this, so he pulled out the dagger on his body and ordered Xiao Yaodao.

"You're going to cut the rope with a knife? This is Jose's shoelaces, are you sure Jose doesn't need them?" Xiao Yao turned around and turned his head.

"Hmm~" Antonio thought for a moment, turned his head and shouted, "Garcia, come here!"

"What's the matter?" Garcia asked.

The three Mexicans had been a small group before they met Marie, and they had been working together for a few years, but they had some trust in each other. The other two were not afraid that the others would be bored while counting their belongings, so as soon as Antonio shouted, Garcia walked over.

"I'm going to help this kid untie the rope, and you help me watch him, and if he dares to move, shoot him in the hand or foot. Antonio handed the gun to Garcia.

The rope tied to Xiao Yao's hand is a dead knot, and he can't untie it with one hand, so he must put down the gun and untie it with both hands. Antonio remembered that Xiao Yao was good, Jose had been caught by him, and he was afraid that he would suddenly get into trouble and hold himself hostage when he was untying him, so he found someone to help watch.

"I'll untie your hand, don't be foolish and lose your hand. Antonio threatened Xiao Yao again.

"So careful?" Xiao Yao smiled helplessly, and quickly nodded, "Of course not." ”

Antonio untied the rope from Xiao Yao's hand, took it out of the warehouse, locked the door from the outside, and then left with Garcia.

After the iron door was closed, Xiao Yao rubbed his tied hands and wrists while observing the warehouse where he was.

This is a brick and stone warehouse, Xiao Yao's warehouse is surrounded by stone walls on three sides, one side is an iron door, there is not even a window, only an exhaust fan is installed on the wall facing the iron door, and the fan blades are slowly rotating. The location of the exhaust fan is relatively high from the ground, which is difficult for ordinary people to reach, not to mention, the hole where the exhaust fan is installed is also relatively small, and Xiao Yao's body is definitely unable to get into it. The floor of the storeroom was relatively clean, and there was nothing else except an old mattress, which had obviously been cleaned before, and it seemed to be a temporary place for them to sleep and rest, and it was perfect to lock him up at the moment.

Xiao Yao stood with his back against the iron door, and found that it was difficult to see the position of the lower edge of the exhaust fan when standing on the ground, so he squatted down and took out the dagger hidden in his socks. Xiao Yao rushed to the opposite wall, ran a few steps and then jumped up and stretched his feet on the wall, after two consecutive steps on the wall, Xiao Yao was already able to install the exhaust fan hole. Xiao Yao stretched out his left hand and grabbed the lower edge of the hole, and hid the dagger he was holding in his right hand into the hole where the exhaust fan was installed.

After letting go of his hand and landing on the ground, Xiao Yao reached out and wiped the footprints on the wall, lay down on the mattress on the ground, and turned his brain to think of a way to get out.

Not long after Xiao Yao lay down, the iron door of the warehouse was opened, and Jose walked in with Antonio with a pistol.

"Where's the dagger on me?" asked Jose with a gun pointed at Xiao Yao.

As a result, when Antonio returned the shoelaces, José also remembered that he was missing a dagger. It doesn't matter if this dagger is lost in the Emerald Palace, but if it is on the Huaxia boy, it is a hidden danger, so after putting on the shoelaces, Jose immediately took Antonio to interrogate Xiao Yao.

Seeing Jose pointing a gun at him, Xiao Yao immediately stood up, raised his hands extremely obediently and said, "I don't know, maybe it fell on the second floor of the Emerald Palace?" I had your gun in my hand at the time, where would I pay attention to your knife?"

"Anton, help me search his body. José said to Antonio beside him.

When they were in the car just now, they just rummaged through Xiao Yao's jacket pocket, took out his mobile phone and threw it away, so as not to be tracked down by the police through Xiao Yao's phone, and did not carefully search Xiao Yao's whole body. Although Jose didn't look like Xiao Yao was lying, for the sake of safety, he still asked his companion to search Xiao Yao's body.

"Okay. Antonio nodded, walked up to Xiao Yao and searched him all over his body, even his ankles. After searching his body, Antonio also deliberately turned up the mattress where Xiao Yao was lying and checked it to make sure that he did not hide the dagger under the mattress or inside the mattress, but he still found nothing.

"Nope. Antonio shook his head.

"It looks like it was lost in the Emerald Palace. Jose looked around the warehouse and found that there was no place to hide things, the expression on his face was a little lighter, he took out a bottle of water from his ass pocket and threw it to Xiao Yao and said, "Cooperate well, after getting the money, we will release you." ”

"Thank you!" Xiao Yao said as he caught the water bottle that Jose threw over with both hands.

José didn't say anything more, took Antonio and left, locking the iron door from the outside again.

"After you get the money, you still don't throw me to Mary for disposal?" Seeing the iron door closed, Xiao Yao pursed his lips and said in his heart.

Of course, Xiao Yao wouldn't believe Jose's words, but he didn't have any worries about the water given by Jose. After a busy night's work, Xiao Yao was indeed thirsty, opened the bottle cap and filled half a bottle, then jumped up again and climbed the lower edge of the exhaust fan hole, and took out the dagger and hid it on his body. Now that you've searched your body, there's no problem hiding the dagger on your body again. This self-defense weapon, of course, is more convenient to play on the body.

After hiding the dagger, Xiao Yao laid down the mattress erected by Antonio and lay down again.

Just when Xiao Yao was lying quietly in an unknown warehouse on the edge of New York City, the outside world had already exploded.

The New York Fashion Week show was robbed, and the bandits hijacked and ransacked everyone in the performance hall of the show, and the robbers stole a set of sky-high jewelry worth $8 million, the overall amount involved was close to 10 million US dollars, and a Chinese star was also arrested. Either one is enough to make headlines, let alone happen together?

The robbery in the Emerald Palace was not the one that happened at the airport more than a year ago, and the police knew about it when the plane was still in the sky, so they could have prepared in advance, and it was easy to block and control the airport and the tarmac. Although there was no mobile phone signal at the time of the incident, there was no way to report the news, but the bandits took the signal jammer with them when they left, and someone had already spread the news before the police broke down the door, and the police could not do anything if they wanted to block the news.

Just ten minutes after the police arrived at the Emerald Palace, a large number of media reporters rushed to the scene.

Although there were some foreigners at this press conference, they were basically Americans, and there were many celebrities among them. Whether it is a celebrity or an ordinary person, who does not want to show his face in the news media? Explain what happened to the camera camera, severely condemn the perpetrator, express his concern for the Chinese boy who was abducted and left, and call on the police to solve the case as soon as possible, so that tomorrow they can see on the news a not negative image of themselves, who will not do it? They are victims, not perpetrators, and of course they are not afraid to be interviewed by media reporters.

At the press conference, Yin Xi was not the only one who knew that Xiao Yao was taken away by Mary. Even if they didn't notice it at first, Daniel Ault called out Young's name, Mary's name appeared several times on the walkie-talkie, coupled with Yin Xi's performance, and some people heard Yin Xi's later phone call, which was enough to make them think of the recent hot news that Xiao Yao subdued the robber in last year's plane robbery, and guessed that Xiao Yao was taken away by the female robber who escaped in last year's plane robbery.

When they heard that Xiao Yao, who the media reporters had been looking for recently, was not only at the scene, but was also taken away by the bandits, and the robber who took Xiao Yao away was actually the "old enemy" in the plane robbery last year, the media reporters were excited about this explosive news while mourning for Xiao Yao in their hearts.

The network is the most responsive at any given time. Less than half an hour after the police rescued the people in the performance hall of the press conference, someone posted relevant news on their personal online social accounts, and in less than two hours, this news had already appeared on the online media.

During this time, there were also many foreign journalists covering Fashion Week in New York. The place where the incident happened was at the branch venue of the New York Fashion Week press conference, and the reporters who rushed to hear the news also included many foreign reporters, among which the Chinese reporters who paid attention to Xiao Yao were the most. As a result, this news also quickly appeared in China's domestic online media, and the result naturally caused an uproar.

Within half a day, dozens of Chinese celebrities who learned the news forwarded the news on their Weibo and other social accounts, publicly expressing their concern for Xiao Yao's life, praying that Xiao Yao would be safe and sound, and calling on the US police to rescue Xiao Yao as soon as possible. Among these stars are well-known first-line actors such as Huang Shi, Chen Feng, and Su Chengying, as well as big names in the music world such as Shazhou, Hong Wei, Liang Xueying, and Qin Xiaodong, as well as sports stars such as Chen Yang, Li Ai, Guo Qi, and Chen Nuo, among which Chen Yang, Li Ai, Liang Xueying and other stars who are more familiar with the United States even said that they would go to New York to care about the progress of the case.

Many of these stars are top leaders in their respective industries, and their influence is huge. Under their actions, the incident of Xiao Yao being kidnapped by bandits in the United States quickly became a well-known thing in China, and many people's hearts were affected by Xiao Yao's safety.

After the celebrities made a public statement on the Internet, countless ordinary netizens also commented on the Internet, netizens mainly expressed their worries about Xiao Yao and their indignation at the incompetence of the American police, of course, there are also some gloating voices, but in general, the first two account for the vast majority.

Xiao Yao is a native of China, and this is an incident in which a Chinese citizen encountered an accident abroad. Even if it is just an ordinary person, the Chinese government will not say nothing, let alone such a person who has aroused the extreme attention of celebrities from all walks of life and ordinary people in China, the ambassador of the Chinese embassy in the United States also quickly issued a statement, saying that he would communicate with the US government, asking to send people to participate in the investigation of the whole case and the action to rescue the Chinese citizens, and to inform the people in China of the progress of the case at any time.

The pressure from the Chinese government and public opinion was quickly felt by the US police, but it was not all they had to face.

Xiao Yao's popularity in the United States is not as high as in Huaxia, but the movement caused by this incident in the United States is also not small. After the news broke, stars such as Daydream, Betty Blacklet, Immortals, Zhou Jingyi and former members of Torrent also expressed their concern about the incident on their online social accounts. "Daydream" and Betty Bellette are also top stars in their respective fields, "Immortals" is the most rising young band in recent years, and Zhou Jingyi and "Torrent" are not as famous as others, but they are also stars, they are all Americans, and their influence should not be underestimated.

Although Xiao Yao has not made much public appearances in the United States in the past two years, his three rock songs for the band "immortals", his two electronic music songs and MVs, the folk songs and the sweet MV have all been released in the United States, and they have all achieved good results on the Billboard, which is very popular with music fans, not to mention that he also wrote a champion single for "Daydream", and won the "People's Choice Award" and "MTV Music Television Award" for the one The MV for the documentary of the wedding scene provided the creativity, and he already had a group of fans in the United States. Now that he has an accident, the reaction of ordinary American netizens who have learned what happened is not small.

The people of the United States hacked their own government departments, which is much more unscrupulous than Chinese netizens. For more than a year, you have not caught a single fugitive, and you have asked your family to come back and kidnap the foreign hero who helped you catch the two robbers in the first place.

Then, some countries in Europe began to report and discuss this matter.

Most of Xiao Yao's visits to European countries are as photographers, except for a few English songs and MVs that are also released in European countries, ordinary people in Europe do not have much impression of Xiao Yao, but as soon as the media reports it, it will also bring out some of Xiao Yao's life deeds by the way. The self-written, directed, and acted short film "The Tuner" is the winner of the most popular short film award at "Short Film Cannes".

Europe and the United States have a stronger commonality in terms of music, but in terms of film, there are obvious differences in style, and they often work against each other. Chinese filmmakers are still relatively popular in Europe, the original version of the short film "The Tuner" was a French film in the previous life, and the version made by Xiao Yao in this life is not Hollywood style, but a European literary style. Xiao Yao's music is more popular in the United States, and the short films have more fans in Europe. As a result, Europeans have joined the camp of denouncing the incompetence of the American police.

For a while, it seemed that the eyes of the whole world were on the American police, concerned about Xiao Yao's safety. Under this pressure, ensuring Xiao Yao's life safety has also become a task that is far more prioritized than catching those jewelry robbers who robbed the press conference. In this case, it seems normal for the American police to do something that does not match their usual style.