Hong Seok-tae felt that he had been lying here for a long time.

He was curled up on a bed with ropes bound hand and foot, his mouth taped and his eyes covered with black belts; He didn't want to resist, he knew that useless resistance would only bring more serious damage to himself, and at this time, "outwitting" was more effective than "winning".

He lay there, quietly thinking about his own business. Today, when he walked out of the passage connecting the aircraft cabin and the airport building, he was slightly surprised when he saw the hostess lady with a diagonal shoulder strap next to him, holding flowers in his arms, and holding a piece of paper with the words "Welcome Mr. Hong Xitai", he was slightly surprised, and felt that the reception etiquette here was too heavy, although it was not clear which friend's arrangement was here, but he still received flowers, and walked out of the airport VIP channel with the pick-up man wearing sunglasses, a khaki windbreaker, and a red baseball cap.

At the moment when the pick-up person helped him open the car door, he smelled the smell of the pick-up person, and couldn't help but "chuckle" in his heart: despite the interference of the fragrance of flowers, he still found that the pick-up person dressed in men's clothes was a woman; Then, when she sat in the driver's seat and was about to drive, he faintly smelled a smell of ecstasy on her, and he immediately understood that this woman would use this kind of medicine.

All this did not bode well, and he became vigilant. During his career as an incense maker, he had to be on guard against various forces from the rivers and lakes in order to prevent his research results from being stolen.

Originally, I thought that coming here was different, because the city's industry has nothing to do with the perfume industry, and there should be no competition and fraud in the industry, so I came here to prepare for a relaxing trip, a small adventure, and a chat with friends; But now everything has changed, he wants to call the assistant to ask him if he will notify who to pick up this trip, but then he thinks again, don't call in front of the pick-up person, and ask her clearly on the way first.

When the car is ready to leave the airport and exit the parking lot, the car stops and prepares to pay; Looking back now, I regret that I didn't seize that moment, which should have been the best time to change the course of events.

At that time, while paying, the pick-up person handed Hong Xitai, who was sitting in the back seat, a letter to be seen, saying that he had forgotten to show him when he picked up the airport just now, and this was a welcome letter from his acquaintance; After the pick-up person paid the money, he turned around and handed him a red card envelope when he was about to read the letter, and said apologetically: "I forgot, there is also a cover." He thought to himself with some chagrin, I don't know which friend would choose such an unruly person to pick up the plane; Just as he reached out to pick up the card seal, the person who picked up the airport slapped the card seal, and a stream of dust flew out; It was too late for him to turn his head, but the dust came to his face, and his last realization was: "Hit!" ”

When he woke up, he was already lying here tied up like this.

A sound approached, and a man sat down beside him, and untied the cloth from his eyes, and he saw a man in a hat standing before him; After untying the cloth, the man got up and walked to the table.

He glanced at it, and the room was lit in daytime; There was a pile of things in the middle of the floor, and when the round copper box with the image of Guanyin carved on the surface of the box came into view, he knew that his things had been searched, and at a cursory glance, the things did not seem to have diminished, so that the kidnappers could not see that they were interested in what he was; He pondered in his heart for a while, and he couldn't judge the length of the kidnapping for the time being, and it was not clear which force kidnapped him because of which thing.

The man approached him with a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the cap of the bottle, inserted a straw into the bottle, and put the straw to his mouth.

The man tore the tape from his mouth and said, "Don't scream, tell me something." Only then did he realize that this person was the woman who picked up the airport in the morning, just now because she had removed her sunglasses and windbreaker, and she was carrying the light when she walked to her, so she didn't recognize it at once; These two sentences of hers show that she does not want him to be tied up here for outsiders to find out, and if he is in a hurry or wants to eat or drink, he can tell her; From this, he judged that the mastermind of the kidnapping did not want to take his life, but had other plans.

He did not say a word, closed his eyes and lay motionless; The woman patted him on the cheek, and he lifted his eyes to look at the woman, and closed them again; The woman snorted and walked out of the room.

A plane flew at low altitude, and it wasn't long before another flew by, and he judged that the place where he was roughly near the airport; The cry of a child came from nearby, and he knew that this was a residential area, not a deserted area.

He looked up and looked around, it was an ensuite with a kitchen and bathroom, and his place was in the inner room; From the voice, it felt like the woman was near, but not in sight; He was sure that as soon as he moved, the woman would appear in front of him in two or three steps.

From the time he was unwrapped and the tape was torn off his mouth, he had been waiting for someone to come and negotiate terms with him, but seeing that time had passed, no one had paid attention to him; From this, he understood that this hijacking would not be for the purpose of simply robbing money, but would definitely have a greater purpose, so the hijacker who picked up the plane was only the executor.

For his own safety, he secretly thought about not only cooperating with the hijacker's request to avoid the kidnapper's accidental death, but also finding an opportunity to save himself.

He turned over with great effort to keep the body alive on the side that had been under pressure for a long time, and he warned himself that he must keep his body alive at all times; There was a slight movement outside the room, and he guessed that the woman had heard the noise and looked at the door.

He began to sort out the questions in his brain: Who is the enemy? Judging from the fact that the person receiving the airport knows his name and the flight he arrived, the enemy should be from the circle of acquaintances, is it from here or from the capital? Who is the person who picks up the airport assigned?

Now no one talks to him about the conditions, the room is quiet, only the sound of the pick-up person pressing the mobile phone keyboard, he knows that this is the pick-up person texting with someone, it is estimated that the pick-up person is waiting for the mastermind of the kidnapping to appear; He felt that he should think carefully not only about the people he had come into contact with in China, but also about all the people he knew in Singapore.

After thinking for a while about what happened to him, he thought of his defensive design. In order to prevent emergencies, he had already designed two sets of escape methods for himself, the first set was named "Viper Fury", and the second set was named "Possum Escape".

"Viper Fury" is aggressive, that is, with a special braces, a kind of anesthetic pouch inside, when the enemy approaches, suck through the sac, and spray saliva on the enemy's face, the strong smell will make the enemy faint instantly, this method is very effective against a single enemy. But Hong Seok-tae considered that the woman who kidnapped him would use ecstasy, and she should be exposed to the antidote for a long time, so he was worried that the anesthetic would not work on her.

"Possum escape" is like a possum, when attacked, first pretend to be dead to paralyze the enemy, and then wake up in a short time to seek a chance to escape. His design is also used in a special braces, hidden in a special medicine capsule, at the moment when the enemy starts to inflict harm, suck through the medicine sac to make himself unconscious, and die in a short time; This potion, when mixed with some Ecstasy Scatter, can also form an antidote to Ecstasy, which can be used to deal with enemy raids.

He believes that since he is in danger, he should be prepared; He felt that he should put on his device immediately, and act before the next danger arrived. He whispered "hey", and the woman appeared at the door.

He asked the woman to go to the toilet, and she seemed to know that he wanted this, and without hesitation, she untied him; At this time, he found that although his hands and feet were able to move, one hand and one foot were still tied with a rope, and the woman controlled the other end of the rope.

When the woman led him to the toilet, she whispered: "Be honest, don't scream, if you dare to scream, you will die!" ”

Hong Seok-tae glanced up at her, and at this moment he felt as if two cold blades were pressing towards him, and he twisted his head to the side.

When he wanted to close the door, he found that there was a long rope on his hands and feet leading straight to the door, and the door could not be closed, and then the woman's cold voice came from outside the door: "Don't close it tightly." ”

He understood that this was to let him go to the toilet without untying the rope, and to cover the door in order to "take care" of him at any time; He thought to himself, fortunately, the kidnappers didn't embarrass him too much, so be it, just block her view.

He crouched down and found what he was looking for in the third belt loop; He ripped open the stitches, pulled out the second set of "equipment" he designed, and held it in the palm of his hand.

After flushing the toilet, he walked to the basin behind the door, unscrewed the water and pretended to wash his hands, and when he saw that there was no movement at the door, he looked in the mirror and installed "equipment" on his teeth. By the way, I washed my face with cold water, and I felt that people were much more energetic.

He opened the toilet door, and the woman flashed to the side, holding her phone in her hand, and it seemed that she had been guarding the door.

He noticed the woman's retreat to the side, her quick reaction and light demeanor, and he immediately understood the purpose of sending this woman to hijack him: she knew martial arts, and if she started with a man like him, it would be easy to subdue him. He was glad that he chose not to fight hard, and from this point of view, if he wanted to save himself, he still had to slowly find a way to find the right time.

Hong Seok-tae sat back on the edge of the bed, and the woman followed the room and motioned for him to lie down; After he lay down obediently, the woman was in a hurry and tied him up again; This time, he was tied hand and foot to the four-cornered bedpost, allowing him to lie on his back.

He tried to talk to the woman when she tied the ropes at the corners of the bed, but the woman was deaf and didn't respond to him.

Hong Seok-tae's mouth was taped again, but his eyes were not tied with strips of black cloth.

He was wondering if it was because the woman thought he was talking too much, but when the woman was done, he began to busy herself; She first took a pair of pants and went into the toilet, and when she came out of the toilet, she had already changed into the pants she had just put in; She walked back and forth between the restroom and the antechamber, whispering phone calls and putting on a leotard at the same time.

Just as she pulled down the corners of her clothes, he saw that her body seemed to be wrapped in cotton gauze like a bandage, apparently a long piece of cotton gauze wrapped around her body like this, he thought, could it be that she was injured?

She finished the call, put on a khaki trench coat, and said to him, "Be honest, don't move." Then he walked out the door like a man.

Hong Seok-tae suddenly understood that she was wrapping cotton gauze around her body in order not to show her feminine features, and she was doing this to dress as a man!

As soon as she went out and closed the door, Hong Xitai smelled a faint smell of gasoline and kerosene coming from outside, which seemed to be used to clean workpieces, because in this smell of gasoline and kerosene, there was also a smell of old engine oil sludge, and there was probably an old machinery repair place nearby.

Hong Seok-tae felt that he could finally calm down and analyze the reason for his abduction; He began to remember the original reason for coming to the city.

The reason for this trip to this city was Professor Li's phone call.

He thought of the night after the third video conference the day before yesterday, and suddenly received a call from Professor Li, saying that he had finally made time to accompany him to Yongzuo Temple and other places recently, so he specially invited him to come to the city.

He didn't pay much attention to the sudden change in Professor Li's attitude at the time, but he just felt that Professor Li was busy on weekdays, and now that he had time to spare for him, he should seize this opportunity to visit the city. Now that I think about it, is there a fraud in it? However, if it is really Professor Li's deception, what is the purpose of kidnapping him?

Hong Xitai then rejected this idea, he knew that the research was not over, and Professor Li and S University still needed their own funds, so as not to engage in such a thing as a salary draw; And he has seen that Professor Li values the study very much, and although the reasons for this are not clear, he feels that he will not destroy the research himself when he is halfway through the research.

So, what other enemies are there? After thinking about it for a while, he didn't come up with a clue, and a wave of sleepiness hit, and he knew that this was the power of ecstasy and the medicine had not disappeared; He thought that it would be better to sleep first, so that he could restore the space of his brain power, and then analyze it after resting.

He fell asleep unconsciously.