Although she couldn't see the man's face, through the karmic thread on him, she could confirm that he was her biological father whom she had met once.
The two kidnappers realized they had just made fools of themselves. They pointed their kitchen knives forward and, looking menacing, shouted at Si Mo and Rong Lan, "Did you bring the one - million you were told to bring?"
Rong Lan fixed her gaze on the two kidnappers. "It seems you know us?" she asked. They asked if they had brought the one - million instead of first doubting whether they were here to rescue the hostage.
"Since we're going to get money from you, how could we not know you!" One of the two kidnappers took a few steps back and stomped on the chest of the motionless man on the ground. "Hurry up and take out the money! Otherwise, I'll kill the hostage!"
Rong Lan squinted her eyes and let go of Si Mo's clothes. "One each?"
Si Mo nodded slightly. "Okay, but we need to conserve our strength. Chen Hong wants us dead. She definitely won't just send two idiots. They're just high - level baits."
"Yeah, one thing is important to us. No matter how many people Chen Hong sends, they won't use firearms. Because if they use firearms, it'll be hard for them to attribute the incident to a supernatural event." And when facing people who only used cold weapons, she wouldn't lose even if she had to fight ten of them at once. Moreover, she had recently recovered half of her cultivation.
"What are you whispering about? Where's our money! Hurry up and give it to us!" The kidnapper lost his patience. He squatted down and pointed the kitchen knife at the neck of the man lying on the ground.
Rong Lan flexed her wrists. "You take the one farther away, and I'll take the closer one."
"Okay." As soon as Si Mo's voice fell, his eyes flashed. He teleported in front of the kidnapper who was about to harm the hostage.
"You, you, you! How did you get here!" The kidnapper, seeing Si Mo who seemed to float in front of him, was so scared that he stammered. "There's a ghost!"
Relying on his ability to tamper with memories, Si Mo didn't intend to hide the fact that he wasn't a normal human at all. He gathered spiritual energy in his hand, forming it into a hammer and swung it.
He didn't plan to kill the man. Knocking him out would be enough.
Unexpectedly, before the spiritual - energy hammer could hit the man, the man let out a scream and fainted.
"Tsk, are they that useless?" Si Mo withdrew his spiritual energy and shook his head in disgust. It was the first time he had encountered such useless kidnappers.
He kicked the fainted man twice and then turned to look at the little fox. He found that the little fox was also very fast. The man she was in charge of had already fallen to the ground. He didn't know if the man was fainted from fear or knocked out by the violent little fox.
Rong Lan bent down to pick up the kidnapper's kitchen knife, waved it a couple of times, and then turned to meet Si Mo's indescribable look.
She looked confused. "Why are you looking at me like that? Hurry up and help me check if the hostage is okay."
Si Mo, who was closest to the hostage, averted his gaze, squatted down, and with one hand, he supported the back of the little fox's biological father's neck. With the other hand, he casually waved, and the sack on the man's head was torn into pieces, revealing his face.
The man was still unconscious, but his breathing was steady. Based on his experience, Si Mo judged that the man had probably just inhaled a large amount of sleeping pills and was out of life - threatening danger. "Don't worry. Those two kidnappers who fainted at the slightest scare wouldn't have the heart to kill anyone."
"That's good." Rong Lan let out a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to go to Si Mo's side to feel her biological father's pulse, she heard footsteps approaching.
She stopped, squinted her eyes, and threw the kitchen knife aside. "Si Mo, can you help me protect my father?"
Si Mo dragged the man to the corner. "Sure."
As soon as his voice fell, several people wearing hats and masks and dressed in black appeared at the open door. They all held long wooden sticks in their hands and looked extremely fierce.
Rong Lan pretended to be scared and took a small step back. In fact, she was secretly analyzing the karmic threads on them.
Although they were dressed similarly, she had to admit that the people she had met when she went to beat up Xie Feng and who were trying to punish the evil and promote the good looked much better than these people in front of her now.
Sure enough, as Si Mo had said, those two kidnappers who fainted easily were just high - level baits. The really powerful ones should be these people. She could tell that some of them had blood on their hands.
"Little fox, do you need a weapon?" Si Mo, who took on the responsibility of protecting the man, didn't step forward. He just squatted in the corner guarding the man, looking weak, helpless, and pitiful. But his eyes were shining with excitement, which was a bit out of sync with his appearance.
Rong Lan slowly shook her head. "No. A weapon would actually hinder my performance." Otherwise, she wouldn't have thrown the kitchen knife aside just now.
"Okay, then go for it. It'd be best if you can deal with them within half an hour. Your father might wake up in half an hour."
"Okay. You time me."
"Sure." Si Mo took out his phone from his pocket. The time on the phone screen was exactly 6:30. In another half an hour, it would be completely dark, and the small yellow light hanging in the room always gave him the feeling that it would go out the next second.
The people standing at the door blocked the entrance and didn't immediately come in to attack Rong Lan. They seemed to be waiting for someone.
After two or three minutes, they made their move.
Rong Lan twitched the corner of her mouth when she saw the more than a dozen people walking in from the door. If this was really planned by Chen Hong, Chen Hong really thought highly of her and Si Mo. She had thought that the six or seven black - clothed men she saw at first were already a lot. After all, she and Si Mo were just a seemingly frail girl and a minor. Six or seven people should be more than enough to deal with them. But unexpectedly, those six or seven black - clothed men waited and then another six or seven people came.
The small dormitory was filled with so many people that it was even inconvenient to stretch one's limbs.
Most of these people surrounded Rong Lan and swung their wooden sticks at her.
A few others walked towards Si Mo, who was squatting there playing with his phone, forcing the peaceful Si Mo to take action.
From time to time, there were one or two screams from the people surrounding Rong Lan, but they weren't Rong Lan's screams. Si Mo knew that the little fox, who had recovered half of her cultivation, was not to be trifled with. After dealing with the reckless people who came in front of him, he stopped and had no intention of helping at all.
Moreover, there were a bunch of people lying on the ground in front of him. It would be too troublesome for him to step over them to find the little fox.
Fifteen minutes passed -
Thirty minutes passed -
Si Mo looked at the man who was slowly waking up here and then at the little fox who still had two or three people to deal with. He gently stroked the face of the man he was protecting, making him sleep a bit longer.
"It's already 7 o'clock..." he sighed. He glanced out of the window at the completely dark sky outside. His gaze shifted slightly downward, and he saw a little ghost with its face pressed against the window glass, seemingly watching the show.