"???"
Lin Beichen’s brows instantly furrowed. How could his grown-up parents suddenly be kidnapped?
Moreover...
They were kidnapped together?
Isn’t that ridiculous?
He felt it was very illogical.
"Could it be that my mom lost her phone, someone picked it up, cracked the password, and then called to scam money?"
Lin Beichen thought it was similar to the scams he often saw on TV news, but thinking deeper, he found it off.
He clearly remembered that in his mom’s phone, his name was saved as "Precious Son". How did the other party know his name was Lin Beichen?
"Could it be..."
A sinking feeling hit Lin Beichen’s heart. Was the other party targeting him all along? Were his parents really kidnapped because of him?
The other party...
Was it a foreign organization?
He wasn’t sure if his thoughts were correct, but he knew for certain that he needed to confirm whether his parents were really in their hands first.
"Just because you say they’re in your hands, they are?"
Lin Beichen’s tone was filled with disbelief. He then said, "Let my mom take the call, then I’ll believe you."
On the other end of the line.
On the highway leading from the Imperial Capital to Yanjiao in Beihai Province.
A taxi sped along.
Inside the taxi.
Three people sat in the back seat.
The person in the middle wore a baseball cap pulled down low, clutching a man and a woman on either side. By the intermittent lights coming in, in the flickering shadows, he could see that the man and woman were none other than Zheng Xia and Lin Xiangdong.
The two looked like they’d drunk to the point of blackout, eyes closed, bodies limp and swaying with the car’s movement.
They were drugged unconscious!
It turns out, just after calling Lin Beichen yesterday.
The two, discussing attending the school celebration, couldn’t stop worrying about their son, fearing something might happen to him, so they immediately took leave from their workplaces, buying today’s flight tickets to fly over.
After getting off the plane, just outside the terminal.
They half-heartedly got into this taxi to head to Imperial Capital University to find their son.
Before they could react, they were knocked out with chloroform by the three people in the taxi.
And these three people in the taxi were members of the foreign organization.
The reason they were able to accurately track Lin Beichen’s parents and successfully kidnap them was all because of the boss’s instructions.
This traces back to yesterday...
After seeing the online trending topic about "Lin Beichen", the boss learned about his research and thoughts, immediately thinking of capturing him and the child together to the base for experiments, possibly leading to unexpected results.
However, Lin Beichen stayed inside the school all the time, leaving no opportunity to take him.
The boss knew the police were actively searching for him and was aware that keeping Tang Ru at the exchange point without moving her back to the base always carried the risk of getting discovered.
Time was running out!
They couldn’t drag it on any longer!
After some thought and searching...
Finally, they decided to use Lin Beichen’s parents as a breakthrough point, making Lin Beichen obediently leave the school.
Just as he found the three people in the taxi near the Imperial Capital, he contacted them to assist Alek, kidnap Lin Beichen’s parents, capture Lin Beichen, and finally return to the base with Lin Beichen and Tang Ru together.
At this moment, in the front passenger seat.
The masked man, with sinister eyes, took the call.
Hearing what Lin Beichen said on the phone.
He turned to the back seat, looking at the unconscious Zheng Xia and Lin Xiangdong, and sneered: "Your parents are sleeping very soundly right now. There’s no way they can take a call."
Saying that, he took a photo of each of them and sent it to Lin Beichen, "But you can see how they sleep."
"!!!!"
Lin Beichen’s pupils contracted the moment he saw the photos.
Before he could think further.
The raspy voice came again from the other end: "How about now, do you believe I have your parents?"
"Why did you kidnap my parents? Do you want money? How much do you want?"
"It seems you believe me now, so things will be easier."
The raspy voice carried disdain and mockery, then in a cold tone said, "I don’t want money. I want you to be at the No. 1 entrance of Yida Square in Dongdan at 12 noon tomorrow. Keep your phone on at all times."
After saying that, as if thinking of something, he added: "Of course, you can choose to call the police, but you can try and see if I wouldn’t know, then your parents..."
The man didn’t continue, just let out a chilling laugh like a night raven.
"You...!!!"
"Beep beep beep—"
Lin Beichen was about to say something when the other side had already hung up the phone.
The annoying busy signal echoed in his ear.
His heart was in turmoil.
"I can’t panic!"
"I must not lose my head!"
"..."
Lin Beichen continuously calmed himself down, and after a moment, he forced himself to stay composed and started pondering the whole situation.
"The kidnappers didn’t even want money, only asking me to go to Yida Square tomorrow. It seems their target is me."
"And the kidnappers must be the foreign organization!"
"They seek revenge on me!"
Lin Beichen now realized everything was just as he had thought. For a moment, his heart was full of self-blame.
"The kidnappers are not afraid of me calling the police..."
Thinking of this, Lin Beichen remembered that on the day he went out to buy a phone, someone had been following him. It was no coincidence; that person was from the foreign organization!