Lin Chen seemed on the stairs.

Slight footsteps had been approaching as two figures slowly appeared on the steps within the pitch-black darkness.

The opposite celebration didn’t appear to anticipate that they had been right here. Their our bodies shook and instantly rushed ahead. Instantly, chilly steel was pressed towards their chests, and a stronger sense of risk stimulated each hair on their physique like lightning.

Lin Chen slowly turned his gaze, glanced on the gun pressed to his coronary heart, and slowly raised his hand.

Now that it was an period of peace, weapons had been banned within the nation. Aside from cops and army personnel, the one ones who would use weapons so brazenly had been gangsters. Within the dim gentle, each of the figures had their faces coated and wore bizarre on a regular basis garments and a cap. The one factor revealed had been two pairs of merciless and bloodthirsty eyes.

The actions of the 2 had been concise and efficient, with a way of oppression. It was apparent they had been skilled.

The barking of the canines downstairs had modified from a loud howl to a low, suppressed whine that appeared it might explode at any time.

Lin Chen’s heartbeat was quick, however his expression was nonetheless calm. He glanced at Duan Yang reassuringly, raised his head, and requested the guests, “Are you right here to kill us?”

The opposite celebration didn’t perceive what he meant. They rapidly checked out one another and pressed their weapons nearer.

Because the security was nonetheless on, it indicated that the opposite celebration wasn’t able to do something in the home; the barrel of the gun was chilly, which meant the opposite celebration hadn’t shot the gun for a time period. Lin Chen seemed straight forward and calmly defined. “This can be a query, not an crucial assertion. I need to know if you need our lives or one thing else.”

“Is there a distinction?” A chilly and hoarse voice got here by means of the masks.

“Properly, if you wish to kill us, then I’ll attempt my greatest to grab our most worth and make you surrender on this concept.”

The barrel of the gun towards his chest moved alongside his neck to his cheek and at last stopped at his temple.

Lin Chen raised his head and seemed instantly into these gloomy eyes. “What worth do you suppose you’ve gotten?’

“The aim of coming right here is our biggest worth.”

“If you understand our goal, why don’t I simply kill you.”

“Since you don’t appear like you do. Once you walked up the steps and noticed us simply now, you didn’t select to shoot first. Your companion gave you a glance that advised you to train restraint. You will need to have a process to finish. Till that process is completed, we shouldn’t be at risk.”

After he completed talking, the chilly muzzle of the gun started to poke his temple repeatedly. “Have you learnt that sensible folks die sooner?”

Lin Chen thought for some time and replied, “Though sensible folks might die sooner, so do idiots.”

The opposite celebration laughed and requested, “Who the hell are you?”

Lin Chen rapidly turned vigilant.

It was apparent these intruders had been follow-ups from final time. When the opposite celebration requested who he was, it meant they knew Duan Yang’s id. Duan Yang was their goal, and he was simply an adjunct they by chance encountered throughout their operation. For vicious gangsters, as soon as they discovered that he wasn’t their goal, they had been prone to kill him.

Lin Chen as soon as once more felt his destiny was actually dangerous. To get his wound sewn, he needed to encounter this sort of disaster the place a slight mistake might result in a deadly final result. Amongst all the risks he had encountered in his life, such an irrational scenario was fairly uncommon.

Now was the time to take a raffle. He should present his value. “I’m his shixiong.” He lowered his eyes towards Duan Yang as he stated this.

Listening to what he stated, the younger man’s arms trembled, however he nonetheless resisted his worry and didn’t lookup. At this second, Duan Yang didn’t neglect to tie the knot on the sutured wound and even rigorously wiped his palm with iodophor as he tore off the adhesive tape and glued the gauze overlaying the wound. He lastly raised his head and checked out him. “Shixiong, it’s finished. How do you are feeling?”

Lin Chen felt that Duan Yang’s psychological high quality had potential to be a discipline physician.

“Good,” he stated indifferently.

However then, Dr. Duan regained his nature. He raised his head cautiously and seemed on the two gangsters and stammered, “You… You… Who’re you?!” As he spoke, he nonetheless held his medical scissors tremblingly, doing a futile protection.

Lin Chen motioned for Duan Yang to place down his “weapon” and raised his arms. “We need to stay, so do as you please. You may even blindfold us if mandatory.”

Earlier than he completed talking, a thunderbolt struck outdoors the window. He seemed up on the instantly lit sky and stopped speaking.

The 2 gangsters checked out one another as in the event that they had been judging his worth. Then, considered one of them took out a rope and tied him up forcefully, whereas the opposite held his gun and aimed toward them silently.

Though he wasn’t proficient in knotting, Lin Chen might inform the opposite celebration’s talent was clearly past that of an bizarre gangster. His wrist was being strangled painfully, and he couldn’t transfer. He seemed on the particular person holding them at gunpoint. The opposite celebration was calm and secure, aiming the gun at them with an unwavering gaze. Aside from figuring out he had killed earlier than, Lin Chen couldn’t see any clues in that gaze. These two had been extra like well-trained mercenaries than widespread gangsters on the streets, however since when did mercenaries begin taking up the enterprise of kidnapping folks in pet hospitals?

Duan Yang was additionally conscious that one thing was amiss. The younger man needed to speak to him, however Lin Chen shook his head and motioned for him to be quiet.

They carried out nicely from begin to end, in order that they didn’t undergo any bodily ache. They had been tied up tightly, blindfolded, and had their mouths coated with duct tape. The opposite celebration even placed on noise-canceling headphones on their ears. Instantly, Lin Chen felt utterly separated from the world. The air was humid and sizzling, extraordinarily sticky, after which a cool breeze got here, indicating that it was most probably raining closely.

Along with his 5 senses sealed, Lin Chen’s sense of contact turned extra acute. He laid his legs flat and felt the ground vibrating. The opposite celebration was clearly looking for one thing within the room. It needs to be the medical supplies associated to Duan Yang. They had been gentle of their actions, with no preoccupation as they carried out their process concisely.

The opposite celebration’s search ended rapidly.

About ten minutes later, Lin Chen felt he was lifted up, and the chilly barrel of a gun was pressed towards his again. He and Duan Yang stumbled and had been guided downstairs.

It was late at night time. The second he walked out of the door of the pet hospital, the oncoming heavy rain made him instantly tremble. When he stepped into the rain, the chilly water immediately penetrated his garments. The coolness appeared to have drilled into his coronary heart alongside his blood vessels. He couldn’t see something. The headphones had blocked a lot of the thunder, and he might solely really feel the tremor of the encompassing air after which guess the second the sky was instantly lit up by lightning.

He hoped that some residents would stand up at night time and see this scene within the alley that was illuminated by the streetlamps or lightning.

After strolling for some time, they had been pushed right into a van. At first, he didn’t elevate his leg excessive sufficient, and his knee slammed into the van, making a loud noise.

The opposite celebration appeared to pay attention to his intentions and grabbed his hair. He pressed the barrel of his gun towards Lin Chen’s brow and whispered, “Watch it.”

Lin Chen lowered his head and was obediently pushed into the van. The door closed, and the car began, carrying them an unknown distance.

Lin Chen was nonetheless guessing their vacation spot at first, however step by step the lack of senses made his mind numb. Psychologists have finished comparable experiments. After isolating the topics from exterior stimuli, most of them would report pathological psychological states, together with emotional stress, psychological dullness, hallucinations, and the like. The cruelest punishment on the planet was sensory deprivation.

Lin Chen felt that he couldn’t calculate the time, and his ideas started to float. In a really brief time period, many scenes that he had suppressed instantly erupted.

Blood and fireplace interweaved, and the faces of the lifeless and killers appeared in a loop.

He saved making an attempt to reveal the pores and skin on his hand to extra issues. The tingling sensation of his wound sobered him, and at last he lay down within the automotive.

Probably as a result of he moved an excessive amount of, Duan Yang squeezed to his facet and snuggled as much as him, as if relieved.

He didn’t know whether or not the younger man understood Morse code, however he touched the again of the opposite’s chilly hand and tapped it casually in order to not decelerate his mind.

He slowly typed out the phrases “Zhorui Pharmaceutical”. It took some time for Duan Yang to react.

The younger man whimpered and wrote again on his hand: [What did you say?]

Solely then did Lin Chen notice that there was an actual downside together with his considering. Why did he select one thing like Morse code when he might simply write?

He wrote the important thing phrases once more and put a query mark on the finish.

[I don’t know.]

Duan Yang’s phrases had been written rapidly. Presumably, the younger man was additionally at a loss to his personal kidnapping.

Nevertheless, this meaningless communication was like a lifeline for Lin Chen. He wrote no matter got here to thoughts to the younger man, and ultimately it had little to do with their kidnapping. He was soaked, nevertheless it was like discovering a lifeboat in a sea coated with icebergs.

He didn’t understand how lengthy it took, however the van lastly stopped.

The door of the automotive opened, and he smelled seawater within the air. Then there was the sound of waves slapping the shore, as if somebody had been utilizing a bamboo broom to brush damaged glass on the ground.

The rain had stopped.

He and Duan Yang had been taken to the seaside. A damaged fishing boat was parked on the pier, bouncing up and down with the darkish waves.

The opposite celebration held their gun and compelled them to board the boat.

Lin Chen instantly had a nasty feeling in his coronary heart. They nonetheless had a glimmer of hope in the event that they had been in China, but when the opposite celebration smuggled them in a foreign country, then they honestly had been lifeless.

Quickly, an open hole within the cabin of the fishing boat confirmed his conjecture.

Trying inward alongside the moist picket board, the underside of the cabin was crowded with greater than a dozen folks. Lin Chen glanced on the armed gangsters after which on the physician, who was so shocked he couldn’t communicate, and stated nothing. He simply obediently climbed down.

The folks on the backside of the fishing boat didn’t present any worry of being imprisoned. They had been all in excessive spirits, as in the event that they had been speaking about one thing. This reminded Lin Chen of the legendary stowaways.

But when these folks had been stowaways who needed to go away the nation, why would the abductors detain them with these folks?

After they walked into the cabin, the sound of affect drills and nails adopted. Somebody had nailed a board and sealed them on the backside of the small fishing boat.

They had been now in an actual determined scenario. Duan Yang helped him and located an empty spot within the cabin to sit down down.

Within the darkness, Lin Chen felt somebody pushing him and requested, “Are you going to work in Dana too?”

The writer has one thing to say:

Lin Chen: Sorry, I’m going to search for somebody.