16. Kidnapping

I don't know if this desire is within the scope of "human reach". According to the information I have so far, in order to help people realize their wishes, the wishing box first needs to have some channels for obtaining information, and this channel is obviously related to puppets.

Qiao Wei and I were caught in the hotel because Chen Jiawen had the blood-stained puppet with him, and he knew where Chen Jiawen lived, and then when we left the puppet workshop, the puppet there also heard our conversation, so we were attacked later.

By the time we fled to the express hotel where we were staying now, the puppet had completely lost information about my location, so the follow-up attack didn't happen.

Later, the ideal appeared, and we made wishes directly to the box, and these wishes were also errands, and we didn't need to grasp any necessary information, so these wishes were successfully realized.

Now we want the box to take us to Mao Xiankang, because I think Mao Xiankang's disappearance is due to Li Xiang's wishes, and Mao Xiankang is likely to be killed by the box, or kidnapped by the box. But there is another possibility, that is, Mao Xiankang hid by himself and hid in a place where the wishing box could not be found.

Either way, the results don't seem to be good news for us, but all we can do now is wait for the results in the hotel.

The morning passed quickly, and we didn't wait for any news about Mao Xiankang. In the evening, there were still no puppets or anything like that, and Mao Xiankang still had no news. At 7 p.m., my phone rang suddenly, and it turned out that a text message had been sent to my phone.

When I saw the text message, my head buzzed.

The message was sent from Mao Xiankang's mobile phone, and the content was very simple: "If you know where Mao Xiankang is, please tell him, his wife and children are in my hands, if you don't want them to die, you can return home before midnight today." ”

"!" I also cursed loudly after reading the text message. The worst-case scenario I had thought of before was that Mao Xiankang had already been killed, and the current situation is obviously worse than I thought!

Li Xiang's mobile phone rang immediately, and he also received an identical text message, so the situation was even more obvious - the wishing box was looking for Mao Xiankang according to my request, but they couldn't find it, so I thought of kidnapping Mao Xiankang's family to force Mao Xiankang to show up.

The wishing box didn't consider what happened to Mao Xiankang, but thought that Mao Xiankang was hiding by his own will!

The number of wishes for the box today has been used up, and if you want to revoke your wishes, you can only wait until tomorrow, but the text message makes it very clear that if Mao Xiankang does not appear at home, his wife and children will die. This situation was caused by my negligence, and I had to be responsible for the safety of his family, so I immediately decided to go to Mao Xiankang's house to see if I could find some clues from the scene.

We almost read the text message and rushed directly to Mao Xiankang's house, but we only arrived at the door of his house but did not go inside, because the door was blocked by three police cars, and it was obvious that the person who also received this "kidnapping text message" called the police.

I didn't want to be seen in front of the police, and I certainly didn't want to be taken as a kidnapper or something suspicious, so we turned around and left as soon as we saw the police, and then sat down in a teahouse in a block to discuss the next steps.

Qiao Wei analyzed that the text message must have been sent by puppets, and the police are likely to track the mobile phone signal, but this method may not work, because those puppets should be very careful, which can be seen from the fact that they killed the entire person on the first floor in order not to implicate Li Xiang, so the mobile phone has been lost after the text message is sent.

So, we don't have to think about tracking cell phone signals as an option.

In addition, the puppets asked Mao Xiankang to return to the house, so they should also be watching around here. The police certainly won't know that everything is done by puppets, which is an absolute advantage for puppets, who will appear in the vicinity of the house with impunity.

However, this advantage is also their weakness, because they are too unscrupulous, so they should be very easy to find, and we can just find them and take them away, after all, catching a puppet will definitely not cause any disturbance.

And the only difficulty is probably how to force Mao Xiankang's wife and children to find out the whereabouts of Mao Xiankang's wife and children through the captured puppets.

After adjusting the state a little, the three of us also took action immediately, more precisely, Qiao Wei and Li Xiang started to act, and I continued to be on standby in the teahouse, after all, there were police outside, so it was better for me to keep a low profile.

But my standby lasted less than fifteen minutes, and soon Qiao Wei's phone called, he saw a suspicious puppet at the door of a gift shop, and he needed me to go over and help immediately, and I immediately went out of the teahouse to the gift shop that Qiao Wei found.

There is a store facing the street outside the community of Mao Xiankang's house, and the gift shop Qiao Wei found is the first one near the gate of the community, and there is a half-height puppet at the door, but the strange thing is that the puppet's face is not facing the street, but its head is facing the community.

In the past, I deliberately chose an angle to face the puppet's back, and from this angle I could just see Mao Xiankang's home from a distance.

In this way, this puppet does have something strange about it!

Qiao Wei and Li Xiang were already waiting for me outside the gift shop, and they were standing on the left and right sides of the puppet, forming a situation of a bag, plus me rushing from behind, so that the three of us formed a triangular encirclement net against the puppet.

After confirming that I was ready to attack, I made an "OK" gesture to Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei also nodded at me, and then asked loudly into the gift shop, "Is this puppet yours?" ”

"I don't know who put it there, it was there this morning." I could hear the response from the gift shop clearly, and at the moment the response came out, I could clearly see the head of the wood turning, and its face was obviously turning towards Qiao Wei!

"It found !!" I yelled from behind, and then, regardless of whether the stitches on my legs would be torn apart, I sped straight towards the puppet.

The puppet jerked back to look at me, and then chose a direction away from me and Qiao Wei. However, Li Xiang happened to be blocked in that direction, and the puppet was hugged in his arms by Li Xiang, who rushed over as soon as he ran two steps.

Qiao Wei and I then rushed over and easily controlled the puppet's arms and legs, and then carried it out of the gift shop quickly.

I saw a man running out of the gift shop with a puzzled face, but the puppet wasn't his, so he just looked at us, but didn't stop us or stop us. So we still completed the first step very smoothly - the stalking puppet hijacking was successful!