Ji Xincheng was really awake in the afternoon.

Sunlight shines through the cracks in the walls and windows, illuminating the room very brightly.

Like what she had seen last night, it was indeed an old warehouse, much larger than she had thought. In the center of the warehouse rests a simple workbench propped up by two stout tree stumps, and on the workbench are some worn-out tools, including tape cutters, broken knives, and old cardboard boxes, which appear to have been a former packing table.

In addition, the warehouse was moved cleanly, and judging from the traces on the ground, it turned out that it was almost full of goods.

The warehouse is square, there is a window on each of the three walls, all of which are low, but two of them have been sealed, only the one behind Ji Xincheng has been pried open and the wooden board nailed to the top can be seen outside the window.

On the other wall, there was the only door in the warehouse, and Lin Lin was still sitting there, but she was not leaning against the door panel at this time, but sitting leisurely on the stone steps in front of the door.

Through the space above her, you can see the distant mountains, the weather is fine, and you can faintly hear the murmuring of water.

Ji Xincheng couldn't help but think funny, if she hadn't been kidnapped, she would really be interested in going outside to enjoy the scenery. Last night, she lasted until the second half of the night, perhaps because of prostration, she fell asleep unconsciously, and then woke up in a daze, but she couldn't wake up thoroughly, and she came to her eyes as soon as she slept.

Intermittently, she could feel that there was no one here, probably on an extremely empty flat land.

“…… Lin Lin? ”

Ji Xincheng opened his mouth, his voice was dry at first, and he tried a few times before calling out the girl's name.

Lin Lin turned his head when he heard the sound and saw that she was awake, so he hesitated for a moment before getting up and walking over.

"Hungry?"

Ji Xincheng looked up at her, Lin Lin's clothes were the same as yesterday, she had light makeup on her face, and there was some oil every other day, "What time is it?" ”

"Half past two."

It was so late, she thought it was just past noon.

"You haven't been home?"

Lin Lin walked to the windowsill to take the food, turned his head sideways, glanced at Ji Xincheng strangely, and said with a smile, "Have you forgotten that you are still tied?" ”

"I remember." She paused and said, "It seems that we are far from the city. ”

Ji Xincheng said casually, but Lin Lin's face sank, obviously she didn't want Ji Xincheng to talk.

Ji Xincheng didn't want to take her words, so he explained: "I thought that at your age, you should care a lot about wearing makeup overnight and hurting your skin." ”

A sneer appeared on the corner of Lin Lin's mouth, staring at Ji Xincheng with sarcasm, "Good looks are not more important than good lives!" ”

Meaningfully, she poked open a carton of milk again and handed it to Ji Xincheng.

"Thank you!"

Still the same as last night, Ji Xincheng quickly drank a carton of milk in a few sips with Lin Lin's raised hand. She actually had a hard stomach and didn't feel hungry, but she had to use it to hydrate to keep her energy up.

"Can you tell me about your family?"

"What, want to play the emotional card?"

Lin Lin sat on an old box beside Ji Xincheng, without any intention of leaving immediately, pinched the empty milk carton that Ji Xincheng had drunk in his hand, and threw it out of the window.

"I'm not that good, but I think it's boring to sit like this all the time, so why don't you talk?"

"You're not panicking at all?"

"There's nothing to panic about, what you want is money, as long as I live, Gu Shaoze will definitely give it to you."

Lin Lin stared at Ji Xincheng for a long time, and suddenly said, "You are not as stupid as I imagined!" ”

Ji Xincheng pursed the corners of his lips weakly, "Is this a compliment to me?" ”

Lin Lin was disdainful, "Do you love your husband very much, so confident in him!" ”

"It's just that I love him, maybe I won't be so confident, I'm confident that he loves me too." Ji Xincheng's gaze turned empty when he looked at a certain place. She seemed to have had a long dream last night, dreaming of Gu Shaoze's coldness in the past, probably at that time he didn't know that he loved her, so he watched her leave and targeted her everywhere, she was also stupid at the time, how could she not understand him earlier, so that the two of them took a detour for a long time.

Thinking of the mutual torture at that time, as in front of him, Ji Xincheng suddenly sighed and asked Lin Lin: "Have you ever been in love?" ”

Lin Lin didn't make a sound, apparently there was.

"Falling in love is the same as many things, and it is easy to get lost in the authorities. If you really love him, don't easily give each other the opportunity to misunderstand, communicate more, so that you can avoid detours. Life is just a few decades, it is not easy to meet a person you love, and it is even more regrettable to miss something that is not worth it. ”

She seemed to be talking to herself, speaking to herself, but she looked at Lin Lin's eyes clearly.

“…… Doesn't that mean you're not afraid? How to listen to your meaning, like repentance before dying. ”

Ji Xincheng smiled, "Life inevitably has accidents. ”

"You can see through it."

Ji Xincheng was silent, looked at Lin Lin, and said slowly: "You really don't look like a girl of this age, you've been through a lot, right?" will be more mature than their peers. Now when I talk to you like this, sometimes I even think that you are about the same age as me, but you are not. ”

“……”

Lin Lin didn't react to Ji Xincheng's words, at least a hint of haste flashed in her eyes, and she didn't escape Ji Xincheng's eyes.

"Lin Lin, for the sake of the fate of you and I who have played the same role, I am really willing to help you. The longer you kidnap me, the more money you extort, and the greater the criminal responsibility you will have to pay in the end, you are still young, and you should not be a victim so early. ”

"Victims? You know what! ”

Lin Lin rolled her eyes, obviously feeling that the conversation with Ji Xincheng didn't mean anything to her, and got up to leave.

"Haven't you contacted Gu Shaoze yet? Otherwise, he wouldn't have stopped paying until now. Ji Xincheng said busily.

"I got in touch and negotiated it! You think we'll be so stupid, we'll have to get out of the way, or we won't spend the money if we take it. ”

Seeing Lin Lin's thin back leave her again, Ji Xincheng took a deep breath and had to be quiet.

If Lin Lin really has difficulties, Ji Xincheng said that he could help her three times and twice, and there was no reason for her not to waver at all. Is it just that she doesn't want to abandon her father?

Ji Xincheng disagreed, and Lin Lin's calm eyes told her that this was not a little girl who was afraid of things.

So, she was an accomplice to his father? Is there anyone else behind them?

Thinking of this, Ji Xincheng's back stiffened, and a fine cold sweat broke out.

Lin Lin's father didn't seem to have come back overnight, and I don't know where he went......

Ji Xincheng waited for the passage of time to the occasional birdsong passing by the window, and when the sun set in the west, her figure stretched on the ground, and Lin Lin's father finally returned.

As if waiting for the verdict, Ji Xincheng, who was originally weak, still struggled to sit up straight.

There was even anticipation in his eyes.

"Bastard! So rich, I don't even give it as long as I have such a little! I'm going to give them a taste of what I'm awesome! Think I really don't dare to tear up the ticket? ……”

Looking at Lin Lin's father, who came over with a knife in anger, Ji Xincheng's heart sank.

"Mr. Lin, what are you going to do?"

"What to do? I'm tearing up the ticket! The man viciously flashed the knife in his hand to Ji Xincheng, and the angry scolding of his teeth brought out a lot of spittle, spraying on Ji Xincheng's face and neck.

She closed her eyes in disgust and endured patiently, "Mr. Lin, calm down!" What did they say? ”

"I'm going to let them know what's at stake!"

The man had obviously entered a state of extreme anger and madness, and he didn't care about Ji Xincheng at all, he knelt behind her, took out one of her hands from the iron pillar, and then shouted to Lin Lin: "Dead girl, roll over!" You come and shoot it, shoot it for them! ”

Ji Xincheng shook his hand and shook his head in a panic, "What are you going to do?" ”

"What? Bloodletting! There was no blood, and they all thought I was joking! ”

Saying that, without hesitation, the sharp blade slashed Ji Xincheng's slender wrist, and Ji Xincheng couldn't break free left and right, so he had to move up and down, so that the position of the knife was staggered by the artery.

When the tingling pain came, she breathed a sigh of relief and closed her eyes.

As long as it wasn't an artery, she wouldn't be able to die for a while......

Blood quickly came out of the knife and gurgled towards Ji Xincheng's palm, which was warm, a little warmer than her palm.

This strange touch made Ji Xincheng have to open her eyes even if she didn't dare to look at it anymore, she spared her life.

Lin Lin put the phone close to Ji Xincheng's wrist, clicked on the screen and started shooting, taking pictures of the blood flowing vividly, and then moved the camera to Ji Xincheng's face that was biting his lip tightly, and after a little shake, he took it over.

Ji Xincheng originally wanted to do something through the lens, but he didn't have a chance at all.

"If I die like this, you won't get the ransom!" Ji Xincheng said with a shudder.

Looking at his father and daughter up close, his father had a hideous smile in his eyes, he looked at the video and asked Lin Lin to send it to the other party, with a relieved look in his eyes, while Lin Lin looked indifferent, completely indifferent to his age and calm, which made Ji Xincheng a little puzzled.

"How much do you ask him for, and he won't give it?" Ji Xincheng asked again.

There was no way to press the wound with her other hand, so she had to press the bleeding wrist on her stomach, trying to make the blood go slower, but it seemed to backfire, the harder she worked, the faster it flowed, but just let it go, Ji Xincheng felt that she couldn't last long.

Probably because he had already sent the video over, the man had time to pay attention to Ji Xincheng, he spewed a foul smell in his mouth, and stared at Ji Xincheng viciously, "I want to see if they dare to fight me!" ”

After shouting this, he left the warehouse, not listening to Ji Xincheng's words at all.

Is this man crazy?

Ji Xincheng's eyes turned to Lin Lin for help. She didn't want to die yet.

Lin Lin sensed it, looked away from his phone, and his gaze slowly fell on Ji Xincheng's face, "Aren't you very confident in your man?" ”

“……”

Ji Xincheng blinked, trying to cheer herself up, but she felt that her head was getting more and more dizzy, and she didn't even have the strength to see Lin Lin clearly, and she struggled for a while, and in the end, she fell into darkness as soon as it was dark.

Ji Xincheng, who woke up again, had no strength at all.

It turned out that she was still sitting and leaning against the iron pillar, and now she was lying on her stomach in a pile of old and new sawdust, her face pressed against the ground, and her left hand, which had been bandaged, seemed to be not dead.

Lin Lin didn't wait for Ji Xincheng to speak this time, so he took the initiative to help her up and feed her water.

It was warm sugar water, Ji Xincheng took a few sips, and looked up at her gratefully.

At this time, I saw that it was dark outside the window.

I couldn't help but ask, "What time is it?" ”

"I don't know, it's eight or nine." Lin Lin was wearing a watch in his hand, obviously not wanting to tell her.

"Gu Shaoze refuses to give money?"

"Don't worry, we'll keep in touch."

After Ji Xincheng drank the sugar water in the disposable cup, Lin Lin got up and left the warehouse.

Ji Xincheng didn't distrust Gu Shaoze, even if they really asked for a sky-high ransom, with Gu Shaoze's temperament, they would never directly say no to each other, so what was the reason for Lin Lin and her father to threaten Ji Xincheng's death?

She regained some strength and began to rack her brains to think about it......

But her head was heavy, no matter how strong Ji Xincheng's willpower was, she couldn't last long, and she fell asleep again in the chaos.

It seems that a century has passed, and Ji Xincheng has regained consciousness again, and he was pushed awake.

It was very difficult to open her eyes, it turned out that it was not a push, it was a man who kicked her arm with his toes, and she fell asleep on the ground again at some point. The man's face was forced, urging Ji Xincheng to open his eyes.

The injury on his hands is no longer so painful, compared to the previous two hands tied at the same time, Ji Xincheng at this moment can be called free to move his limbs, and endured the feeling of collapse like his whole body falling apart, Ji Xincheng crawled and sat up.

"It's the third day! If your man still doesn't give money, I'm afraid he will abolish you! I'll give you one last chance! ”

The man glared at Ji Xincheng fiercely and warned him, "You tell him yourself!" If you don't get the money today, let your family prepare for the future! ”

Xu was weak, Ji Xincheng didn't care about the man's intimidation at all, and stretched out his hand to him.

"What for?"

"It's not for me...... Do you want to contact your family? Cell phone. ”

Ji Xincheng's face was pale, but she still insisted on not letting herself fall, she had been looking forward to this moment for a long time, and she had to hold on.

The other party was holding the old man's machine in his hand, and was about to hand it to Ji Xincheng, but was intercepted by Lin Lin, who hurried in outside the door, "Can't let them talk directly, she will leak the address here!" ”

The man's face panicked, realizing the seriousness, and hurriedly took the phone back.

"Makes sense!" He paced two steps on the spot, then turned around and had an idea, and said to Ji Xincheng: "You say, I'll convey it!" How to make your man pay obediently, you think! ”

Ji Xincheng nodded hurriedly, and said to the two: "Wait for me, I'll think about it." ”

Lin Lin and her father glanced at each other, and sat down on the old wooden boxes scattered around Ji Xincheng one after another.

"Think as soon as possible! I don't have a lot of patience! The man spat on the ground.

Ji Xincheng closed his eyes, Ning Yi calmed down, and quickly opened his eyes and said, "You fight, I think about it." ”