Hearing the abnormality on Zhao Yuntao's side, Xu Boyan's brows suddenly wrinkled.
"What's going on?" Xu Bo'an asked in a deep voice.
A response came quickly from the other side.
"Hmph, you must be Zhao Yuntao's friend, I...poof!"
Before this arrogant voice finished speaking, he was suddenly interrupted by a strange and more violent voice.
Then, a very hoarse voice came from the other side.
"Hello, Mr. Xu, nice to meet you. I have a business deal that I need to discuss with you. I hope you won't be dishonest!"
The voice on the phone was not only hoarse, but also seemed far away, not at all like the voice of a normal person on the phone.
Before Xu Bo'an could speak, Zhao Yuntao's voice suddenly came from the other side.
"Mr. Xu, call the police and ignore them! Ah..."
Zhao Yuntao's voice was a little unclear, and at the end of his words, he let out a scream, which was obviously further hurt by the other party.
"Haha, I'm sorry, Mr. Xu, maybe I scared you. Your friend is really not very cooperative. I hope you won't be like him." The voice said with a dry smile.
Xu Boan said solemnly: "Sorry, I think you have found the wrong person. I never talk about door-to-door business."
The person on the other side unscrupulously revealed his trump card and said: "Hey, don't hang up the phone in a hurry. I believe you will agree with my proposal. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind inviting Xu Jiancheng! And his lover will be a guest. .”
When Xu Bo'an heard the other party mention his parents' names, his heart suddenly surged with rage.
"Very good, I'm starting to be interested in you." Xu Bo'an said every word in a cold tone.
The voice on the other side was very satisfied and said: "Hey, I knew you would be interested. Heixiazi Mountain in the southern suburbs! I want to see you within an hour, no problem."
Xu Boan has been to Heixiazi Mountain. It was developed and built into a tourist area in the early years.
That place is seventy kilometers away from the city, and there is no expressway.
Xu Bo'an said angrily with dissatisfaction: "Are you kidding? It's the evening rush hour after get off work. It'll be good if I can get out of the city in an hour."
The person opposite still said calmly: "Oh! That's such a pity. You don't really want your friend to have no children or grandchildren, do you?"
Xu Bo'an said calmly: "You don't have to threaten me. Since you have plans for me, please be patient. Destroying him will not do you any good."
The strange voice on the other end of the phone continued: "Hey, Mr. Xu's calmness is much beyond my imagination. In this case, I will give you face. Just leave the root for your friend. But you must not Disappoint me, I hate deception."
Xu Bo'an ignored the other party's threat, but went straight to the point and asked: "Heixiazi Mountain is so big, how can I find you when I arrive?"
"You don't have to worry about this. You will be able to find us easily after you arrive."
After that, the other party hung up the phone without giving Xu Boan a chance to ask questions again.
Xu Boan did not hesitate. After putting away the bonsai, he quickly drove straight to the southern suburbs.
On the other end of the phone, Zhao Yuntao's mobile phone was placed on a simple table with a wooden box temporarily covering a paper case.
The phone was not in anyone's hand but was connected to a laptop.
On the computer screen, complex wavy lines shuttled regularly, like the ups and downs on an electrocardiogram.
It wasn't until the call display on the phone was hung up that the wavy line stabilized and turned into a straight line.
Directly in front of the phone, a man wearing a clown mask and mountaineering clothing sat on a small camping canvas stool. Around him, there were several muscular men standing.
These people have stern faces and say nothing. Just using their eyes and muscles, you can read four words. They are well-trained.
Behind the man in the clown mask is a dilapidated incense table and a statue of a god covered in spider webs. Due to the long disrepair, the statue has no clear display. It can only be vaguely seen that this was once a statue. Seated human figure.
Not far away, Zhao Yuntao was tied to a thick pillar, the pillar of this dilapidated house.
The usually stylish hair on his head was now messy and looked like a bird's nest. The corners of his mouth were bleeding, and his face was covered in blue and purple. He had obviously suffered a lot.
In front of him, a man in a suit who was about his age looked at Zhao Yuntao viciously. When he heard the caller said that he wanted to let Zhao Yuntao go, his expression suddenly changed, showing a trace of unwillingness.
The man in the suit hurriedly turned around and rushed to the man in the clown mask, and said anxiously: "Boss, you said that as long as I help you trick Zhao Yuntao out, you can let him be at my disposal, and I will make sure that he has no descendants! You promised me."
The clown man chuckled. This time, the laughter was not as hoarse as the one on the phone just now. It was obvious that the voice just now was not his real voice.
"Oh? I'm actually very curious, why are you so persistent in trying to kill him off? Trust me, you will satisfy my curiosity, right?"
The man in the suit gritted his teeth and said: "I hate him. As for why, you promised me that we all have our own privacy. I can only say! Isn't the biggest punishment for retaliating against a man is to make him lose his dignity as a man? "
The clown man shook his head, raised his right hand wearing a black glove, pinched it gently with his thumb and index finger, then slowly separated it by a few millimeters, and gestured: "Oh, it's such a pity, I'm so little If you refuse to satisfy your little curiosity, then what use do I have of you?"
When the man in the suit heard this, his expression suddenly changed.
"you……"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly saw the clown man's right hand suddenly strangled his neck. He didn't even have a chance to dodge before he was choked hard by the other party.
The next moment, the man in the suit couldn't utter a word, and even found it difficult to breathe.
He subconsciously reached out to grab the clown man's hand that was squeezing his neck, but it was as if he was trying to move a tree stump growing underground, and he couldn't move it.
The feeling of suffocation became stronger and stronger. The man in the suit almost thought that he was about to leave this world, and his eyes subconsciously showed a look of pleading.
Suddenly, the man in the suit felt his neck loosen suddenly, and new air poured in from his nose and mouth again.
Suddenly, the man in the suit lost his balance and fell to the ground.
He lay on the ground in a state of embarrassment, breathing heavily.
That posture looks very much like a dog!
But so what?
It feels so good to be alive.
The clown man looked at the man in the suit with disdain, then slowly knelt down and gently patted the man in the suit on the face with his gloved hand.
"Always remember your identity. Everything you have is given by me, including your life. Don't negotiate terms with me! Never. When I am happy, I will give you a sip of soup. But you dare to mess with me again If I’m not happy, I can turn you into soup!”
The man in the suit had a frightened expression in his eyes, nodded violently, and said: "Yes, boss, I know, I was wrong, I have been too inflated over the years. I will definitely remember your instructions and do your job well." A dog.”
The clown man stood up with a smile and said: "Not bad, very good. I said at the beginning that I liked your humble appearance, so I was willing to help you. You really didn't let me down."
The man in the suit forced out a flattering smile and said: "Thank you very much, boss, for the compliment. I will use this as motivation to continue to do my best. Boss, I want to go to the toilet. Look..."
The clown man shook his head slightly, and a strong man on the side walked up to the man in a suit with a dull face, snorted coldly, and walked out first.
The man in the suit turned back step by step, smiled flatteringly at the clown man, and followed him out.
The door is a very shabby wooden door. It seems that there was once red paint on it, but now only the fish-scale strands of paint are left.
There is a tattered plaque on the door, the real kind of tatters, tattered and shabby, without any humility.
Only a small half of the plaque is still hanging on it, and it can be vaguely seen that it is the word "Temple".
Outside the house, it was dark, but through the mottled sunset light, you could vaguely see that what was in your sight was not a mountain forest, but a long corridor.
Inside the room, the clown man walked to the computer, slowly squatted down, reached out and tapped quickly on the keyboard of the laptop.
Suddenly, the screen on the computer display changed, and more than ten different screen windows appeared.
The scene shown above is clearly an urban road in Dongjiang City.
In one of the display windows, a large dark red pickup truck was speeding.
It was really Xu Boan's Ford Raptor. Under the hazy night, the red color looked even darker, like red blood.
An hour later, Xu Boan's car appeared at the foot of Heixiazi Mountain.
Looking at the rugged mountain road in front of him, Xu Boan took out his mobile phone and just wanted to play the call record with Zhao Yuntao.
Xu Boan saw that his cell phone was already ringing.
On the caller ID, it was Zhao Yuntao.
Xu Bo'an quickly answered the call, thought for a while, and quickly clicked on the recording button.
"Hey, I'm here. I'm at the foot of Heixiazi Mountain now."
There was still a familiar hoarse voice on the other end of the phone: "Very good, Mr. Xu is more cooperative than I thought. Should I say that you are a talented person and bold? Or should I say that you are an ignorant person and fearless?"
Xu Bo'an said coldly, "Huh, if you are threatened with your parents and family, believe me, you will be more fearless."
"Hey, maybe what you said makes sense, but it's a pity that no one will have such a chance."
Xu Bo'an said impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense, aren't you anxious to see me? Tell me, where are you?"
The person on the other side was rather disapproving of Xu Boan's attitude and said: "Keep driving forward and don't hang up the phone."
Xu Boan casually placed his cell phone on the passenger seat, turned on the hands-free, and continued to start the car.
The car drove on a winding and rugged mountain road.
Heixiazi Mountain has been developed. In the early years when lavender was popular, thousands of acres of lavender gardens were planted here.
At that time, many couples came here to take wedding photos, and tourists from inside and outside Dongjiang City came to visit in an endless stream.
Along with the development of the lavender garden, various tourist and entertainment projects such as picking gardens, fishing grounds and even film and television shooting bases have been developed here.
However, with the sudden death of the investor, just six months later, the mountain was no longer crowded with tourists.
But at any rate, the mountain roads excavated to build these facilities still exist.
Even today, although the road up the mountain is not easy to walk, it is still spacious enough to accommodate two cars traveling side by side.
Xu Bo'an's Ford Raptor is naturally relatively light.
Soon, Xu Bo'an's car was halfway through, and two forked roads appeared in front of Xu Bo'an.
Xu Bo'an vaguely remembered that these two roads went straight uphill and continued up the mountain. Going to the right was the location of the film and television base in his memory.
It's just that the film and television base was built many years ago, and Xu Bo'an visited here not long ago when he was making short videos.
This place has long been abandoned and has become the material for many people to shoot short adventure videos.
Just as he was about to ask whether he should go left or right, a firm instruction came from his hands-free phone.
"Take the path on the right."
Xu Bo'an was startled and suddenly had a suspicion in his mind.
Did the other party use their mobile phone to locate themselves?
Soon, Xu Boan's Ford Raptor stopped in a large square.
Further ahead is the dilapidated gate of the film and television base.
It was a very large door, with a height of more than ten meters. Xu Boan remembered that there used to be a large and exquisite iron door here, but now there is only an empty doorway. In the dead of night, a gust of wind blew by. Even Xu Boan felt a little scared.
On both sides of the door were antique city walls with simple beacon-style buildings. Suddenly, an extremely conspicuous light appeared from a beacon and shone in front of Xu Boan's car.
The place where the light comes out is a white aperture about one meter in diameter.
"Now, Mr. Xu, please get out of the car, stand in that smooth circle of light, and follow the guidance of the circle of light and walk."
Another instruction came over the phone.
Xu Bo'an had no choice. He obeyed the other party's instructions, got out of the car, walked forward, and stepped into the circle of light with one foot first.
Then, just when Xu Bo'an was about to lift his second foot, the previous foot suddenly became loose.
Is there a trap?
The moment Xu Bo'an came to his senses, he subconsciously used his strength to fall to the side and rolled out like a donkey.
But he gave up the idea in an instant.
The other party who asked him to come here must not have wanted to kill him directly.
Otherwise, there is absolutely no need to go to such trouble.
Thinking of this, Xu Bo'an looked surprised, shouted, and fell down.
My peripheral vision glanced at my feet, and I saw something that looked like a torn sack.
Soon, Xu Boan fell to the ground.
After rolling twice naturally, Xu Bo'an saw clearly that there were several sandbags laying on the place where he fell.
The phone fell not far away. As soon as Xu Bo'an picked up the phone, he saw a door opening in front of him. A man wearing a clown mask walked towards Xu Bo'an and spoke slowly.
"Hello, Mr. Xu, let's open the skylight and talk about lighting. I want to know the origin of the gold brick you provided."
"Don't try to lie to me. According to our scientific testing, that gold brick is at least five hundred years old!"
"Tell me, where did you dig it out?"
(End of chapter)
