When he opened his eyes, he felt a sharp pain from Tianlinggai, down his neck, shoulders, and chest, all the way down to the base of his spine. He Chong couldn't help but sigh twice.

Before observing his surroundings, he subconsciously moved his body, but found that he was tied tightly and tightly, and the more he struggled, the more the heavy object behind him followed. But he still used his strength to feed, and sat up with the heavy object. Then he turned his head to look behind him and shouted.

"Yang Qianye! Yang Chiba! Wake up, wake up! ”

He squirmed as he shouted, and he didn't care about the pain when the back of his head collided with Yang Qianye.

Chiba opened her eyes with an uncomfortable expression. She found that her perception was concentrated above the shoulders and that the rest of her body was not responding at all.

But she soon remembered what had happened before — the masked man kidnapping He Chong and driving towards her, and another masked man assaulting her with an electric baton — and the pain began to spread from her head down.

"Where are we?" She asked, her throat dry and her voice hoarse.

He Chong was still struggling, hoping to untie the rope wrapped around his body, but the rope was like a net, and the tighter and tighter it became, and he was a little crazy.

"Let Lao Tzu out on a dog day, and see how the master kills you!"

He roared on his back, and the claustrophobic space echoed. When they looked closely, they found that they and Yang Qianye were trapped in a vertical well, and the light above their heads came from the cracks in the dilapidated wooden plank, and the wooden plank had become a barrier to isolate them from the outside world. He could break it with one punch and stomp it into slag with one kick, but he couldn't reach it because the well was more than five meters deep.

After the uncomfortable feeling after waking up for the first time, Chiba slowly regained consciousness, and the part of her head that was hit with an electric baton was swollen, and she couldn't help it.

However, she didn't panic in particular, but focused on her place.

"Is this a manhole?" She asked, looking back at He Chong with her peripheral eyes.

"How do I know!" He Chong's legs kicked wildly, sweating nonstop, and his physical strength was also exponentially consumed. He craned his neck and shouted at the well. "Come out for Lao Tzu, come out and go head-on! Don't think I don't know who you are, either kill Lao Tzu or let Lao Tzu out, or Lao Tzu will let you die! ”

Chiba was all too familiar with his slightly bluffing style of speech when he was angry, and similar words had been used to threaten her. But the strange thing is that she felt that he was fierce and domineering before, but now she heard his empty and helpless cry, and she had some sympathy.

"Don't come to Lao Tzu, if you know who did it, tell them well."

Her suggestion was not heeded, and instead, He Chong was angry at her.

"You're sick, how do I know who did it."

"You don't know? I thought you knew. Chiba said angrily, and also looked upward, "It turns out that he is bluffing again." ”

"You!"

"If you don't know, don't shout, there's no one up there." She took a closer look and analyzed, "Someone has already shown up. ”

"You know a fart, even if the person who tied us up is not on it, if you have to pass by to hear it, you will be saved."

"You think this is the center of the city, and there are still people passing by. It's very remote here, how can there be anyone. ”

"How do you know?" He Chong's body squirmed like a python, and Chiba was also swayed from side to side, "You won't be the one who tied me up." ”

"Where does there be so much hay where there are people, it is certainly not in the city. Don't move, be careful of lack of oxygen, and think about how to save yourself. ”

Her words seemed to work, and she clearly felt that He Chong's struggle changed from rapid to slow, from slow to stopped. After stopping, He Chong's back was no longer close to her, and the whole person was as soft as deflated.

"Damn, I didn't expect to die with you, why am I carrying it like this!" He muttered, realizing that he had consumed a lot of his physical strength in vain.

Perhaps because the environment in which he was located was too special, Chiba no longer cared about the relationship with him, and he didn't have the helplessness of being bent and hard in the company, and said, "You back? Did I carry it well, and I came to the funeral in vain. You should have worked hard in the office, but you did it. ”

These words reminded He Chong of what had happened a few hours ago. Indeed, after using all kinds of torture methods, he asked Chiba to help him wash his car during working hours on a whim, and then he was robbed in the parking lot, and Chiba was also unlucky.

Although there was a hint of apology in his heart, he could not show it, and began to struggle again.

"Don't move." Chiba said, then closed his eyes, "I'll come." ”

I saw her close her eyes and condense her breath, first tighten her skeletal muscles, and then burst forward in an instant, and the rope between her waist and back was broken.

The body was completely freed from the rope, and the two stood up one after the other.

The bottom of the cave is about two or three flats, and there are half-human-high dark passages extending on the left and right, but it is pitch black, and nothing can be seen.

She touched her back, and it was wet. Looking at He Chong again, his back was also wrung out of water, and he couldn't tell who was sweating and whom.

"Someone, help!" He Chong stretched his neck and shouted, and every time he shouted, he felt that his throat was hot.

Chiba didn't make a sound, and carefully observed the environment at the bottom of the cave.

This is a manhole that has been set aside for the interconnection of the pipe network, but unfortunately, although the hole has been formed, the pipe has not been laid.

"There's nothing in this well, which proves that it's still a construction site." She told He Chong little by little the details of what she had observed, hoping to calm him down, "Since those people threw us down, they proved that they didn't want to kill us. In order not to be discovered, I definitely won't choose a place with a lot of people, so shouting at the top of my voice is a waste of physical strength. ”

Listening to her analysis, He Chong came up with another method - he bowed his waist and looked left and right, and finally decided to move forward from the right passage to find a way out.

"Come with me." As he spoke, he slipped in, and as soon as he took a step, his figure was swallowed up by darkness. subconsciously looked for a lighter on his body, only to find that his belongings, including mobile phones, wallets, cigarettes, etc., had all been confiscated.

"Where?"

"Run for your life, see if there is a way out ahead."

"If there is a way out, it is better to go up, at least four or five meters here, and the same is true for other wellheads." Chiba didn't blindly follow, he was very sensible, "It's better to save some strength and wait for someone to save it, if you get into it and get lost, you will die." ”

"Are you sitting here waiting to be killed, what if those people are going to come and kill people?"

"If you want to kill, just kill." She said, a look of optimism and willpower leaping across her face, "Don't be afraid. ”

"Where am I afraid...... Hearing this, He Chong put away his violence and swallowed saliva to moisten his throat, "I'm just worried that they will regret it and run back to ask for our lives." ”

"If we don't need to lay these things for our lives, just push them down and it's over." Chiba pointed to the hay at the bottom of the well, "Even if we change our minds and turn back, we will fight with them." ”

"But I don't want to die here."

Her words made sense, and he listened to them, but he still couldn't suppress the panic in his heart. He burrowed into the tunnel on the right again, ready to take a look. But after taking two steps, he did not dare to go any further, as if he heard some terrible sound.

The voice Chiba also heard.

"It's a mouse, there must be a litter in it."

"Mouse!" He Chong shot out of the hole like an arrow from the string, almost hugging her, "Don't scare me! ”

"Heh, tease you." She couldn't help laughing, which was undoubtedly an insult to He Chong.

Although he was full of muscles, tall and mighty, not afraid of height or black, not afraid of fighting and not afraid of bloodshed, He Chong avoided the mouse with four feet and a long tail.

"How do you know I'm afraid of rats?" Feeling a little out of shape, he asked.

"People in the company told me."

"Who said that?"

"If I don't tell you, I will retaliate."

"Listen, don't talk nonsense everywhere when you go out." He Chong threatened, and once again looked into the cave uneasily, and his frightened appearance was the same as usual.

For some reason, seeing him reveal his true character weaknesses, Chiba was a little soft-hearted. The resentment saved by being bullied in the past seems to have dissipated, and I suddenly feel that I should join hands with him to solve the siege together.

She patted the wall of the well, trying to think of a way to escape.

He Chong was much calmer than before, but his throat and eyes were dry and smoking, and his physical strength was no longer vigorous. Chiba has a point, he should conserve his strength, avoid excessive consumption, and wait patiently for rescue.

"Who did you provoke, and people retaliated against you like this?"

"That damn class every day, how can I have time to provoke anyone, except ......for you," He Chong complained, looking like an innocent child, "If you weren't here, I'd have thought you did it." ”

"Retribution."

"I'm not in the mood to fight with you now, think about how to get out, you're stronger than me, counting on you."

"No matter how strong I get, I can throw you out." Chiba raised his head and turned around at the bottom of the well, stretching out his arms to measure the diameter of the manhole, "If it is narrower, you can still use your legs to push it up slowly, but it's a pity that it's too wide." ”

"Just with your short legs, hiss......" He Chong said as his expression suddenly distorted, opening his mouth and rubbing his temples vigorously, "These bastards have used it for us, I'm afraid of being seen what they look like." ”

"It's good if we don't see it, maybe it will kill us if we do. Well, it's time to breathe a sigh of relief. ”

"Relieved?" He Chong looked at her puzzled.

"I didn't kill you to prove that it's not revenge, there is only one possibility, kidnapping. Your family is so rich, of course they will save you, and when your parents pay the money, we will be saved. ”

He Chong sat down, leaning his back against the wall of the well, remembering what he had said to Lei Xiaobao a long time ago.

"Seriously, are you afraid of death?" Looking at the sky from the cracked wooden board, Lan Yingying was like a trace of watercolor painting, but he couldn't tell what time and moment it was.

Chiba also sat down.

He Chong's questions were less hostile than they once were, but they were more sincere in talking between old friends.

"I'm afraid." She said calmly, finding a hole in the front end of the shoe, "I have something very important to do and can't die." ”

"Me too. I haven't had a career yet, I haven't married and had children, I haven't gone to Iguazu to see the waterfall with my beloved woman, I haven't drunk spirits with the Eskimos at the North Pole......" He Chong sighed, his eyes melted with anxiety and merged into a pool of regret, "I haven't even met a woman I really love, damn it." ”

"I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to go home."

"How easy it was to go home. I heard that you are from Lancheng, if we can get out alive, I will give you a vacation, take care of your transportation expenses, and go home to have fun for a while. He Chong said generously, but he didn't notice Chiba's lost expression.

"Thank you, don't torture me anymore Amitabha."

She lowered her head, her heart filled with infinite melancholy. Strictly speaking, the form of home is long gone for her, but the meaning of home is still there. It was a bed in a sanatorium, and on it lay my mother, who was thinking about it day and night.

"To put it mildly, you are better than me, at least you have no money, and you don't have so many regrets when you die." He Chong continued, his straightforward style of ignoring the feelings of others has not changed, "I'm not cost-effective, I don't have time to spend so much money at home." ”

"What are you talking about, are rich people more expensive?" Chiba couldn't help but glare at him.

"But you can't deny that most people want to be rich." Speaking of family affairs, He Chong is completely like a brainless child, and he does not shy away from it, "It's easy to be reincarnated into such a rich family, and if you miss it, you don't know how many lives you will have to wait." ”

"You're so fatalistic?"

"It's not fatalism, it's self-knowledge, in fact, I don't look like the people of the He family at all. My dad turned his hands into clouds and rain in the business world, and my mother and sister are also first-class figures, and they are the focus wherever they go. Only I don't have any skills, my school grades are not good, and I always lose money in academic investment, and my dad just let me come to Huanyu because I was playing too well. Actually, you know, there is nothing to take care of in Huanyu, my sister has already laid a solid foundation, and I just eat ready-made. If I really start from scratch, I may not even be as good as you. ”

"Well, I'm honored to be your benchmark." Chiba shrugged in tears.

"Why did you save me?" He asked abruptly, a soft expression on his face that he had never shown before.

"Human nature, whoever will stand up at that time, not to mention that you are still my boss."

"You're not afraid at all?"

"At that time, I didn't have time to think about anything, and I didn't have time to be afraid, so I caught up with my head bored. Besides, people should be brave, and the reason why there are so many people who do evil in this world is because everyone is afraid. The more afraid they are, the more unscrupulous they become, and if they really have the courage to do it, they probably won't dare to do anything. ”

“…… I'm sorry for you. ”

After saying this, He Chong turned his face to the side, which was the most humble thing he could say.