"If you could study under me, you'd surely achieve more than following that old man He Jianyu."
Hearing his words, Xia Sanghuan let out a cold laugh.
"Who do you think you are?"
"If I remember correctly, Professor He was already rated as a world - class scientist at your age."
"As for you, you can only help tutor students at school... Ugh!"
Before she could utter the second half of her taunt, Wei Linjun punched her hard in the stomach.
He was like a cat with its tail stepped on, instantly flying into a rage.
"What do you know?" he roared at the girl.
Then he let go of her, allowing her to slide down.
Xia Sanghuan bent over. The punch he'd thrown at her had been with all his might, and now she was in so much pain that she could barely catch her breath.
"Has anyone ever told you that your mouth is really annoying?"
The girl looked up, with blood still staining the corner of her mouth.
She curled her lips into a faint smile at him.
"Likewise."
Wei Linjun was completely enraged by her.
"I originally wanted to keep you around a bit longer. But it seems now that you're just itching to die."
After saying that, he walked towards the other side of the container.
He took out his phone and dialed a number.
"Why aren't you here yet?"
After he'd kidnapped Xia Sanghuan, he'd sent the location of the warehouse to Xie Qiaoyang.
But there was still no sign of him, and he couldn't help but feel anxious.
...
When Xie Qiaoyang saw Leng Chuanjin, he knew he'd been played by him and Shen Siyuan working together.
That bitch, he gritted his teeth.
He knew it was impossible for this plan to remain completely secret, so he'd deliberately set a fake location.
The real location was only known to those who participated in the plan.
Apart from him and his trusted aides, only Shen Siyuan knew.
Needless to say, this woman must be waiting at the other location.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
He'd thought he was the oriole, but instead, he'd become the cicada.
"Do you have anything else to say, Second Young Master Xie?"
Leng Chuanjin walked towards him slowly, deliberately emphasizing the words "Second Young Master".
Xie Qiaoyang's teeth were almost ground to pieces.
Just as the two of them were confronting each other, he suddenly received a message on his private account.
It was a location sent by Wei Linjun.
While keeping an eye on Leng Chuanjin in case he rushed over, he opened the device to take a look.
After seeing what the other person had sent, he let out a sneer.
Looking at the man in front of him, he suddenly found it quite absurd.
His laughter grew louder and louder until it turned into a booming laugh.
Leng Chuanjin frowned, a sense of foreboding welling up in his heart.
"Leng Chuanjin, Leng Chuanjin. You don't really think you're the oriole, do you?"
He took a few steps back.
"What do you mean..."
The next second, a small smoke bomb was thrown over.
Leng Chuanjin was forced to close his eyes due to the smoke and couldn't stop coughing.
Yun Ye quickly walked over and stood in front of him, on guard against Xie Qiaoyang's next move.
However, when the smoke cleared, there was no one in sight.
Xie Qiaoyang had run away.
The man gritted his teeth and shouted back.
"Chase!"
"Master Leng, which direction should we chase in?"
After he got into the car, his subordinate looked at him helplessly.
He quickly pulled up the map and entered his authorized account.
Just as the system was tracking Xie Qiaoyang's location, Li Ran called.
"Go to this location quickly!"
His voice sounded panicked. "Xia Sanghuan is in danger now!"
After saying these two sentences, he hung up the phone without giving Leng Chuanjin a chance to react.
"Master Leng, what should we do?"
a subordinate beside him asked.
The man opened the location Li Ran had sent him, and the map also started to show Xie Qiaoyang's whereabouts.
The two routes almost matched.
When he realized this, his mind suddenly "buzzed".
But it was only for a moment, and he quickly regained his composure.
He projected the location onto the display in front of the car.
"Go here. As fast as you can."
"Find the nearest route!"
After saying that, he fell silent.
The heavy rain was still pouring down, but the subordinate didn't dare to delay at all. He stepped on the accelerator as if his life depended on it.
The man looked out of the blurred window, and Li Ran's words he'd once said echoed in his ears.
"Can you ensure her safety?"
He remembered that he'd said to him very firmly.
"I can."
He closed his eyes regretfully.
...
When Li Ran hung up the phone, he was already sitting in the car.
And beside him sat Jiang Zimo, who was silent.
If you looked closely, his hands were trembling slightly.
While Leng Chuanjin was taking action, Li Ran had been in his office, constantly monitoring Xia Sanghuan's movement on the map.
He'd given the driver two requests.
One was to bring the girl back safely.
The other was that the round - trip route must be the one he'd arranged.
Jiang Zimo had been entrusted by his tutor to deliver a report to the principal. When he pushed open the door, he saw the panicked principal.
In his memory, he'd never seen such an expression on his face.
"Principal, what's wrong?"
He threw the report on the table and then followed him out.
Li Ran looked back at him and recognized Jiang Zimo as one of Leng Chuanjin's men.
"The place I'm going is very dangerous. Are you sure you want to follow me?"
He'd thought the young man would stop, but he still followed.
On the way to the parking lot, Li Ran briefly told him what had happened.
Of course, for safety's sake, he'd omitted a lot of content, such as the Black Bone Spiritual Treasure and the struggle between the Leng and Xie families.
When he mentioned Xia Sanghuan's name, the young man in front of him clearly hesitated for a moment.
After getting in the car, he seemed absent - minded.
But Li Ran had no time to pay attention to his state. He was worried about Xia Sanghuan who was still far away.
...
Xia Sanghuan was kneeling on the ground, feeling her vision start to go black.
She'd lost too much blood.
Some of the blood had already dried and stuck to her forehead and clothes.
Wei Linjun hadn't come back since he'd left. As time passed, the inside of the warehouse gradually became pitch - black.
Was she really going to die here?
Such a thought suddenly popped into her head.
No, she shook her head and drove the thought away.
She absolutely couldn't die here.
At least not in this place where no one knew.
She slowly got to her knees.
Because the rope was still tied to the railing, she couldn't stand up.
She could only slowly crawl forward on her knees.
A sharp pain shot through her, and she'd found what she was looking for.
A sharp piece of broken glass.
She sat back and hooked the broken glass over with her foot.
By the time she'd successfully hidden the broken glass behind her, she was already sweating profusely.
She took a breath and then started the next move.