Rong Lan was jolted by Si Mo's words and immediately sat up straight. "Chen Hong had someone kidnap my biological father?"
"I think so. A proper kidnapping wouldn't allow the person coming to pay the ransom to bring someone along. I think that text message was almost explicit, telling you to bring me along so they could get us both in one go and keep us there forever." Si Mo analyzed for the little fox the information he'd gleaned from the text.
"Is she out of her mind?" Rong Lan was shocked. No matter how she calculated, she'd thought Chen Hong would target her and Si Mo first. At the very least, she'd go after Chu Hengyuan, who was closest to her. But Chen Hong had someone kidnap her biological father? She hadn't even had a proper meeting with her biological father yet. Wasn't Chen Hong afraid that she wouldn't care about him at all?
"Maybe she's too smart. We don't wander around alone, so she can't find a chance to kidnap us. And I don't have many relatives here. The people closest to you are either the young master of the Chu family or those from the Bai family. Chen Hong doesn't dare to touch any of them, so she can only pick on the weak." And the biological father of the little fox's body was powerless and easy to bully.
Rong Lan was so angry that her head hurt. "What if I didn't care about my biological father?"
"You wouldn't!" Si Mo was extremely certain. "Someone who spends their free time playing with Xie Xinxin, and tells stories and buys dresses to untangle her knots, even if they don't have much affection for their biological father, would still go and check after seeing that message."
Xie Xinxin didn't know the true nature of her mother. If Chen Hong asked about Xie Xinxin's schedule, Xie Xinxin would surely tell the truth. This would lead to the little fox having at least the characteristic of 'kind - hearted' in Chen Hong's mind.
It was too easy to take advantage of a kind person's kindness.
Rong Lan stuffed her phone into her pocket. "Let's set off now to rescue him."
"Okay." Si Mo placed his sunglasses on the table and picked up his folding fan.
The fortune - telling shop rarely closed at two or three in the afternoon.
They didn't use magic to get there directly but went to the roadside to hail a taxi.
After all, neither of them knew exactly where the abandoned factory on the East Suburb South Street Road was. They were afraid of getting the direction wrong and performing a magic show for the kidnappers, which might scare them to death.
After getting in the taxi and buckling up their seat - belts, the driver asked curiously, "Are you two siblings going there for an adventure?"
Adventure? Rong Lan was confused, but she nodded along with the driver's words. "Yes, the weather is nice today. I'm going out to play with my younger brother."
Si Mo, the so - called 'younger brother', remained expressionless. This driver was good at sizing people up. He thought they were siblings instead of a couple like most people did. Not bad. He'd rather be mistaken for the little fox's younger brother than her boyfriend.
"I knew you young people like places full of thrills. That abandoned factory has become popular recently. A lot of people are following the trend to go there for adventures. I had a passenger going there just yesterday. The atmosphere there is really something. I didn't go inside. I just stopped at the entrance for a while, and it felt eerie. It's perfect for an adventure." The driver said as he turned the steering wheel.
Rong Lan blinked. "I saw someone online saying it was fun there, so I wanted to go and check it out."
"It's only recently that people started saying it's fun. The day before yesterday, it even made the news because of the large number of tourists. But I heard from the old people in my family that there have been a lot of paranormal events there. People used to avoid the place. It's been abandoned for so many years, and no rich boss has taken it over for renovation. Recently, it suddenly became popular for some reason. The old people in my family said it's the work of little ghosts trying to harm people."
Rong Lan pretended to be a little scared. "I see. But it should be okay. My younger brother and I are carrying talismans with us."
"Anyway, you should be careful. It's not a good place."
The driver was a real chatterbox. Along the way, Rong Lan got a good understanding of the place they were going to through chatting with him.
But it wasn't until they got off the taxi and saw the 'adventurers' coming and going in the abandoned factory that she truly understood what it meant by a large crowd.
"Are the kidnappers as crazy as Chen Hong?" Rong Lan couldn't help but complain.
Si Mo, shaking his folding fan, said, "I'm not joking. I also think the kidnappers are out of their minds now. When I saw the address, I thought it would be a desolate place. But look? I used my spiritual power to detect, and there are at least a hundred people inside..."
It wouldn't be convenient for the kidnappers to kill the hostages in this place.
It was also inconvenient for him and the little fox to use magic here.
"By the way, did we forget about the one million?" Si Mo suddenly remembered the text message.
Rong Lan rolled her eyes. "One million? I don't have money. I only have my life! Let me beat up the kidnappers first and then talk about the money. After all, theoretically, I should pay for the medical expenses if I hurt someone."
She hadn't even earned the money to hire bodyguards for Chu Hengyuan yet. Where would she get the money for the kidnappers?
"Brave enough!" Si Mo took the lead and walked towards the gate of the abandoned factory. "Let's go find the kidnappers first. With so many people, we don't know where the kidnappers are hiding."
"Actually, there's another possibility. The kidnappers might not have kidnapped my biological father at all. They're betting that I don't have time to verify if my biological father has been kidnapped. I'll come here directly in a hurry, and then they'll just kill us here." Rong Lan had a sudden inspiration and thought of a new possibility.
Si Mo closed his folding fan and gently tapped the rusty gate of the abandoned factory with it. "Moreover, there have been paranormal events in this place. Even if we really die here, as long as they clean up the mess, they can get away safely and blame our deaths on the paranormal events."
"Speaking of paranormal events, there aren't really..." Rong Lan looked around. She always felt a cold wind blowing, which made her uncomfortable.
"I can only tell you that paranormal events don't come out of nowhere." As soon as Si Mo finished speaking, he saw the little fox's fur puff up again.
Rong Lan, who was originally two steps away from Si Mo, immediately closed the distance between them. "Protect me, protect me! I'm just a five - hundred - year - old little fox! I'm very vulnerable!"
Si Mo raised his eyebrows. "You're afraid of this kind of thing?"
"I'm not afraid of normal ones, but I'm very afraid of abnormal ones!" Rong Lan told the truth. She wasn't afraid of Bai Ronglan, who had followed her for a while when she first came to this world, because Bai Ronglan looked like an ordinary human and exuded a kind of peaceful aura that made people feel at ease. But she was afraid of ghosts that didn't have a normal appearance.