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Chapter 300 - 296: Ransom Transaction

Chapter 300: Chapter 296: Ransom Transaction

The night was like water, the autumn breeze slightly cool.

Ling Chen stood at the top of the rooftop, his eyes sweeping around, but besides himself, there was no one else; the kidnapper had not shown up. Holding his phone, he patiently began to wait nearby.

Soon after, his phone finally rang.

"Put the money on the rooftop, and you can leave."

Without hesitation, Ling Chen tossed the trash bag to the rooftop’s top and promptly returned to his car. Those wads of cash were implanted with micro-tracking devices; as soon as the kidnapper touched the money, they could track the kidnapper’s whereabouts.

Several minutes passed.

"Officer Xia, any movement yet?"

"Nothing."

Odd! Ling Chen furrowed his brow as he watched the stairwell entrance of the residential building. It had been so long, yet the kidnapper hadn’t come for the money.

Just as he was pondering, Xia Mutong’s anxious voice suddenly came through the earpiece: "Ling Chen, the signal is gone."

"What?"

Ling Chen’s heart skipped a beat. Without another word, he dashed out of the car and hurried toward the rooftop. As soon as he reached the rooftop, he immediately heard a buzzing sound above his head. Looking up, he saw two drones hovering in the midair, with hooks on top of the aircraft, precisely snagging the trash bags.

Under the drones, a small device was fitted, its red light flashing.

A signal jammer!

What a tactic, to think up such a method to take the money.

As the drones began to distance themselves, Ling Chen immediately contacted Xia Mutong to report the situation here. He then rushed back to his car and visually tracked the drones in the sky. Because the cash in the trash bags was rather heavy, the drones could not fly too high and were barely maintaining an altitude of fifty meters.

After crossing several intersections, Ling Chen suddenly hit the brakes, his expression changing as he watched the drones flying around in midair. To his surprise, there were suddenly four or five more drones in the air, each with a black trash bag hanging from its bottom.

These identically appearing drones blending together, and given it was night, made them absolutely indistinguishable.

After circling for a while, the drones began flying off in different directions.

With a twist of his brow and an inner sense of urgency, Ling Chen didn’t know which drone to follow. Suddenly, his eyes lit up as if he’d thought of something, and he immediately took out his phone to pull up the map of East Sea City.

"Here, yes, it must be this one."

The tech team had previously filtered through the call recordings and analyzed the kidnapper’s approximate range. As long as they knew the kidnapper’s direction, and then matched it with the directions of those drones, they could determine which two drones were their targets.

Having locked onto the drones, Ling Chen drove the Mercedes-Benz, following closely behind. Five minutes later, the two targeted drones slowly descended and flew into a basketball court. By the time Ling Chen arrived, under the dim light of the street lamps, he only saw two middle-aged men wearing duckbill caps load two drones into a Jinbei van, hitting the road.

At last, he caught up with them!

The corners of Ling Chen’s mouth lifted slightly as he followed the Jinbei van from a distance. The three kidnappers were all former soldiers, with Guan Long among them being a scout, well aware of tracking and anti-tracking techniques. Ling Chen dared not take it lightly, always maintaining a safe distance.

At this moment, having received Ling Chen’s notification, Xia Mutong had already left the Silver Star Entertainment Company, leading more than ten officers into the car, ready to rendezvous with Ling Chen.

About half an hour later, the golden van that Ling Chen had been following drove into an abandoned warehouse. Without waiting for Ling Chen to get out of his car, the van drove out again after just two minutes, followed by a Wuling Hongguang minivan leaving the warehouse as well.

The two vehicles did not travel together but headed in different directions. Ling Chen hesitated for a moment, then started his car and followed the Wuling Hongguang.

It wasn’t long before the Wuling Hongguang suddenly turned into a mountain road. Passing by the intersection, Ling Chen’s eyes were immediately drawn to a sign erected on the side of the road.

Hongshan Cemetery!

A cemetery? What is he doing at a cemetery? Could it be... A thought struck Ling Chen, and he quickly accelerated, driving along the mountain road.

Upon reaching the entrance to Hongshan Cemetery, the Wuling Hongguang was parked outside, already empty. Ling Chen turned off his car lights, parked the car, and quickly walked into the cemetery.

At this moment, Zhou Lin used a rope to bind Tang Shiyun’s hands and rapidly moved through the cemetery. It wasn’t long before the two arrived in front of a grave site. Under the faint moonlight, the picture on the tombstone was visible—it was a very young man.

Zhou Lin gently patted the tombstone and muttered to himself: "Son, you liked her, didn’t you? Dad will fulfill your wish and soon have her join you down there." As he said this, he coldly glanced at Tang Shiyun, then reached out and lifted a tombstone in front of the grave. Immediately, an unsealed coffin came into view before Tang Shiyun.

"What... what do you want to do?" Tang Shiyun’s face turned deathly pale, especially after seeing the coffin, a hint of fear flashing through her eyes.

"My son liked you very much, but you heartlessly refused him, leaving him cold and despairing, leading to his suicide. He was my only son, and as his father, I don’t want him to depart with regrets, so I want to fufill his last wish. From today onward, you’ll stay here and accompany him."

"No, I don’t want to." Tang Shiyun shook her head vigorously, tears flowing down her cheeks like pearls off a broken string, "I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt him, I..."

"Shut up!" Zhou Lin shouted coldly, "You don’t need to play the victim in front of me, it’s too late for anything you say now. I’ve been preparing for this day for a long time."

Tang Shiyun bit her lip, trying hard to control her emotions, not allowing herself to cry out loud.

Brother Ling...Unconsciously, she thought of Ling Chen. If Ling Chen were here, he would never let her get hurt.

But now, she would never have the chance to see her Ling again. Thinking that her short life would end here, she couldn’t suppress the fear and sadness in her heart and started sobbing softly.

"It’s your turn now."

Zhou Lin stood up from in front of the coffin, his face ferocious as he stared at Tang Shiyun, his hand gripping a dagger, veins popping on the back of his hand, looking much like a butcher staring at a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"Go down and accompany my son."

He laughed coldly, his arm abruptly lunging forward, the sharp tip of the blade stabbing straight towards Tang Shiyun’s heart.

Clang!

Just then, a crisp sound rang out, and the dagger in Zhou Lin’s hand dropped to the ground.

The abrupt change stunned Zhou Lin, who shouted loudly: "Who’s there? Come out!"

"You looking for me?"

Familiar voice sounded, Tang Shiyun hurriedly turned her head, looking at Ling Chen walking briskly towards her, her mouth slightly agape, filled with an incredible mix of excitement and surprise.