“Alas, your woman is glaring at me. She seems to hear what I said to you. She seems to figure out about her current situation… She is actually glaring at me… Interesting! Mr. Control, your woman is really bold. She has been awake for a minute and been staring at me coldly, without yelling or screaming. Tut, she is really brave and also beautiful. I wonder how she tastes…”
“I will kill all of your family if you dare touch her. Then you will die even more miserably than your brother Aqib.” Mo Jingshen looked calm but his eyes grew even colder. “Don’t waste our time. Just tell me what you want.”
“Ha, I think you know. Tell me the secret channels and the contact information of the underground arms dealers and all the other information I want to know. And give me what you and XI Base have controlled. What do you think? Shine Group, as such a large company, doesn’t have to trade with those gangsters and arms dealers, does it? Give me all your secret profit-making channels. Since you don’t want any blood on your hands, just give those channels to me as soon as possible!”
Mo Jingshen didn’t speak. Although he hadn’t found the location of Ji Nuan, another device on K’s hand had been secretly activated. Soon a vague red dot appeared on the screen of the device and K immediately noticed it and turned to search for its location with the other men.
The two sides were engaged in a silent contest. Atuta knew Mo Jingshen wouldn’t agree easily. After all, those channels concerned the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people, including the interests and even life of another boss of XI Base, Nanheng. If Mo Jingshen was willing to hand out those channels, what happened in Cambodia three years ago wouldn’t have happened.
And in the current situation, if Mo Jingshen agreed easily, there must be a catch.
Atuta couldn’t tell whether Mo Jingshen would agree or had other plans, so he laughed darkly on the phone. “I’ll only keep your woman alive for twelve hours. If you can’t give me what I want by noon tomorrow, I’ll cut off one of your woman’s hands, put it in a package and send it to you…”
“I am warning you for the last time, don’t touch her!” Mo Jingshen said harshly. “Atuta, this fight between us is not about women. There’s no need to involve women. If you can only threaten me with a woman, you’re simply admitting that you’re capable of nothing but kidnapping and threatening. Then what’s the difference between you and your brother who died so young? How ridiculous. Your men call you ‘King of Hell’! You’re just a junk who can only kidnap women.”
“Control, I know normal means won’t work on you, so I have to play dirty. You don’t have any weakness except this woman. Since you’ve answered my call in person, I’ve confirmed that this woman means a lot to you. I wonder how it will feel to cut off her flesh piece by piece or put her under me to taste her… Tut, it’s exciting to think about…”
Mo Jingshen almost crushed the cell phone with his hand although he remained deadpan. On the other side of the phone, Atuta smiled viciously and looked at Ji Nuan who crouched in the dark corner of the warehouse and stared at him alertly.
He slowly got up, putting his cell phone against his ears as he approached her step by step.
Ji Nuan had just woken up and was at a loss of what had happened. She only remembered that after she boarded the plane, she entered the lavatory to wash her hands, only to find a small, skinny yet nimble man hiding inside who quickly shut the door of the lavatory and held her on the ground. When she was about to shout for help, a wet cloth was put over her mouth and nose; she struggled and soon passed out.
When she woke up, she found she was here. She was at loss and surprised and then saw a man looking just like Aqib talking on the phone, speaking broken Chinese and English. From his words, she figured out about her current situation.
She couldn’t believe she was kidnapped on the plane.
The man called Atuta, Aqib’s brother, was using her to threaten Mo Jingshen.
When Ji Nuan saw Atuta walking towards her step by step, the coldness and alertness in her eyes were soon replaced by nervousness. She curled up in the corner and looked carefully around. It was dark all around, and there were no lights in the warehouse except for a glaring flashlight placed on a metal shelf that was shining straight at her.
“Mr. Control, it seems that your woman is not as calm as I thought. She is actually scared… She is looking at me nervously and alertly… But when I look closer at her, I find that your woman is really beautiful and looks even more attractive than being seen from a distance.”
Atuta was smiling but his tone sounded ferocious and threatening. He walked towards her step by step…
Ji Nuan leaned back tightly against the corner and Atuta suddenly grabbed her hair with a hand. Ji Nuan almost cried out loud in pain, but knowing that he was speaking on the phone with Mo Jingshen, she refrained from shouting, clenched her teeth, and silently closed her eyes.
Atuta didn’t expect the woman who had looked scared just now to be so brave. He coldly narrowed his eyes and dragged her hair even harder, warning, “Tell Control, what I’m doing to you and that if he doesn’t agree to my conditions, I will make you beg for death!”
As he spoke, he put the cell phone to her ear and pressed it against it harshly.
On Mo Jingshen’s side, he could only hear nothing but the sound of rapid breathing. It was quiet on the other side of the phone and no one spoke. He couldn’t help but frown and tried calling gently, “Ji Nuan?”
The repressed fear and bewilderment within Ji Nuan almost burst out instantly as soon as she heard Mo Jingshen’s voice. Her eyes immediately turned red but she still clenched her teeth, making no sound.