Chapter 133: Something Has Happened
Yin Chengjue was utterly stunned. Unless he was misunderstanding, this implied that Rong Yu had known him for a long time and had even been secretly photographing him for years?
Could it be that this was also the case in his previous life?
Yin Chengjue was completely stunned by this massive amount of information.
He sat on the bed for a long time before standing up somewhat stiffly.
"It must be that I opened the door the wrong way..." Yin Chengjue muttered to himself.
He walked dazedly towards the door, but his foot accidentally kicked the bedside. His already stiff body fell forward to the ground with a loud thud.
The pain from bumping his head brought Yin Chengjue slightly back to his senses. He groped for the bedside, wanting to push himself up.
As he exerted force, he accidentally pulled on the bed sheet, causing a rustling sound as he tugged it!
The bed sheet was thus pulled to the floor. Yin Chengjue's feet slipped, and he fell to the ground again with a thud!
After being knocked twice, Yin Chengjue was still somewhat dazed.
He gathered the fallen bed sheet into a bundle, wanting to throw it back onto the bed. But after bundling the sheets and looking at the bed—
Yin Chengjue: O口O!!!
He saw that the bed, now uncovered by the sheet, revealed a... person?
And it was a completely motionless person!
No! More accurately, this was a life-sized body pillow!!!
Because this pillow was so lifelike, at first glance Yin Chengjue thought someone was hiding there!
Yin Chengjue slowly stood up, shuffled over step by step, reached out and turned the life-sized body pillow over, finally seeing the face on it.
It was... his face...
Yin Chengjue couldn't help but raise his hand to touch his own face, then looked back at the pillow's face.
Why does the face on this pillow look slightly younger than mine?
This thought popped into Yin Chengjue's mind.
Yin Chengjue's eyes scrutinized the entire pillow from top to bottom—it was a pillow that, apart from the face, required heavy pixelation everywhere else.
For a moment, Yin Chengjue didn't even know how to react.
Fortunately, he quickly remembered that now wasn't the time to dwell on these things. Rong Yu was still angry with him, he needed to find him first.
Yin Chengjue silently covered the life-sized body pillow with the sheet again, restored all the items in the room he had touched to their original state, then locked the door, returned to the living room, and put the key back in its place.
Just after finishing these tasks, Wei Shu's call came through. Yin Chengjue answered immediately, but before he could even ask, he heard Wei Shu exclaim in shock: "It's bad! Xiao Yu has been kidnapped!"
Wei Shu spoke extremely fast, clearly aware of the urgency: "I just hacked into the city surveillance network and saw from a camera in an alley that Xiao Yu was grabbed, a bag put over his head, and forced into a minivan! The license plate is Xxxx. The vehicle is heading towards the outskirts of A City. I'm tracking it by checking the surveillance cameras along the way now."
Yin Chengjue: "Keep a close watch. I'm going after them right away."
Yin Chengjue rushed out the door, took the stairs two or three at a time in a frantic dash downstairs, charged all the way to his car, and had just started the engine when he suddenly thought of something. He said to Wei Shu, "I'll call you on WeChat voice. I need to keep my mobile phone line clear for calls."
Before Wei Shu could finish his "Ah?", Yin Chengjue hung up, quickly found Wei Shu's WeChat, and called again.
Wei Shu was still a bit confused when he answered: "Why?"
Yin Chengjue: "In case Xiao Yu calls, the line can't be busy. Don't talk about irrelevant things, quickly report the location."
Wei Shu hurriedly checked the surveillance to confirm the minivan's direction of travel.
Wei Shu: "This happened two hours ago. That means, not long after Xiao Yu left Huansheng Entertainment, he was drugged, had a bag put over his head, and dragged into a car. No wonder when I got through on the phone earlier, there was no sound from the other side!"
Yin Chengjue's heart was in turmoil, his mind wildly conjuring up all sorts of terrifying scenarios. He also felt increasingly regretful—he shouldn't have agreed to let Rong Yu sleep alone last night!
And just at that moment, his phone suddenly vibrated, and Wei Shu's voice disappeared. Yin Chengjue lifted his phone to look and saw an incoming call. The caller ID showed "Xiao Yu"!
But Yin Chengjue didn't feel any sense of relief at all, he just swiftly answered the call.
After a pause in the call, a strange, rough male voice came through: "Yin Chengjue, Rong Yu is in our hands. If you want him back, come alone with fifty million in cash to redeem him."
Even though his heart was a mess, Yin Chengjue forced himself to stay calm at this moment, his tone icy: "Heh, fifty million in cash would weigh more than ten of me put together. Are you overestimating me, or are you overestimating your own intelligence?"
The man took a second to realize Yin Chengjue was insulting him, and said angrily: "Do you think he's lived too long?"
Yin Chengjue: "Do you think money isn't useful anymore?"
The man: ?
Yin Chengjue: "Start a video call immediately. If I see he's injured anywhere, you can forget about the money. Get ready to spend your days being hunted by the police and the entire internet."
The man: "If you dare call the police, I'll kill him immediately!"
Yin Chengjue: "If you kill him, not only will you not get the fifty million, but you'll also sacrifice the rest of your life, living forever being hunted down."
Yin Chengjue: "Think it over carefully. What's more important, the money or killing someone? Once you've thought it through, give me your answer."
After saying that, Yin Chengjue proactively hung up the phone.
Wei Shu's WeChat voice call came in immediately. Yin Chengjue clicked to connect and asked: "Where is their location now?"
Wei Shu: "... Roughly estimated, it's at an abandoned factory in the suburbs. The last controllable surveillance footage is near there. Since the factory is abandoned, there are no surveillance cameras to hack into... You just took a call?"
Yin Chengjue: "Yes, from the kidnappers. They want fifty million in cash. Do you have a vehicle? Help me load the cash into a vehicle first. I'll pay you back the principal with interest later, and owe you another favor."
"Damn, fifty million? That's a real lion opens big mouth! It would take me years of allowance to scrape together that much!"
[狮子大开口 (shīzi dà kāi kǒu): lit. lion opens big mouth; fig. to make an exorbitant demand]
Yin Chengjue: "Can you contact Hua Yun then?"
Wei Shu: "Huazi is right here with me! I called him over just now when you suddenly lost contact. A person's life is at stake! Also, Leizi said that patch of abandoned factories was recently bought by his family, and they haven't had time to demolish and rebuild yet. If needed, he can get workers to drive excavators to provide cover for you. The police can disguise themselves and ride inside."
Yin Chengjue: "Don't beat the grass and startle the snake. They're not fools. The sound of vehicles entering the factory is so loud, do you think they're deaf?"
[打草惊蛇 (dǎ cǎo jīng shé): lit. beat the grass and startle the snake; fig. to act rashly and alert the enemy]
The phone call came in at that moment. Seeing the words "Xiao Yu" displayed on the screen, Yin Chengjue resisted the urge to answer quickly, silently counted to five, and then answered. His tone remained cold, as if he didn't care at all: "What? Have you thought it through?"
The other side was clearly very dissatisfied with Yin Chengjue's attitude: "Don't you care about this guy's life or death?"
Yin Chengjue sneered: "Why should I care about his life or death?"
He happened to hit a red light at the intersection ahead. Without a second thought, Yin Chengjue stepped on the accelerator and ran through it!
Time was urgent, he didn't have time to wait for this traffic light.
On the phone: "Aren't you two lovers?"
Yin Chengjue scoffed, his tone contemptuous: "Sorry to be blunt, but have you been tricked? He's just a small artist in my company. Because he's currently on the rise, he barely has some prospects and can make some money for our company. That's the only reason I'm reluctantly deciding to redeem him. If your asking price was even a bit higher, I might not be willing to make this deal."
Yin Chengjue overtook more than a dozen cars in a row, driving faster and faster, causing a chorus of unhappy car horns on the road.
The person on the phone picked up on the sounds immediately and asked suspiciously, "Are you driving right now?"
Yin Chengjue: "What? You control everything, even how my driver drives?"
The other side seemed to think it was an unnecessary concern too, and said: "Cut the nonsense. Load the money into a vehicle, drive to this abandoned toy factory in the eastern suburbs, the fifth workshop on the left. We exchange the money for the person."
The other side added: "Only you can come alone. If I see a second person, I'll kill him immediately!"
Yin Chengjue sharply turned the steering wheel, making a sharp turn. The tires screeched, leaving long marks on the ground.
Yin Chengjue said calmly: "It's only me alone, but you are a group. How can I guarantee that when I arrive, I'll see a living person and not a dead one? What if you've already killed him and deliberately lured me there to trap me for the money? Wouldn't I be losing both money and my life? Maybe you should ask his family for the money instead. My life is much more valuable than his."
The other side said hatefully: "Then what do you want!"
Yin Chengjue: "Start a video call. I need to confirm he's okay."
The other side hung up, cursing and grumbling.
Yin Chengjue quickly contacted Wei Shu, telling him to prepare immediately to hack in as soon as the kidnappers connected to the internet.
Wei Shu: "... President Yin, you really have a lot of confidence in my skills."
Yin Chengjue: "You're so capable, I know you can definitely do it."
Wei Shu: "Hmph! Of course! I consistently rank high on the qhk network leaderboards."
"Oh? You've never told me about these things." Hua Yun's voice was soft, yet carried a distinct, unspoken implication.
Hua Yun: "After this matter is settled, we'll have a good talk about it."
Wei Shu: !!!
With Hua Yun's material support, Wei Shu successfully got a faster computer. Using several computers simultaneously, he successfully located the kidnappers' specific internet IP address after they connected online to start a video call with Yin Chengjue, managed to infiltrate it, and gained control of that phone's camera.
This way, even if the other side turned off the video, as long as they didn't cut the internet connection, Wei Shu could still see everything on their end through the camera.
Seeing in the video Rong Yu, tied to a chair, head tilted to the side and unconscious, Yin Chengjue almost failed to maintain his expression, nearly letting the kidnappers see through his act.
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