"I assume you have guns. If you trust me, take a gun and come with me into the bank to withdraw the money. If I'm lying to you, then shoot. Is that alright?"
After Yuqi said that, the boss believed her. He had just seen how scared Yuqi was, so he was sure she wouldn't lie. Besides, the method she suggested was actually the easiest and most reliable one to come up with.
The boss thought for a moment, then said, "No, it takes too much time. Going to the bank to withdraw money will definitely have to wait until tomorrow. There's no time to spare. How much money can you come up with right now?"
Yuqi quickly said, "Let me go! I have 20,000 yuan in my bag, and I also have two bank cards. One is a credit card with a limit of 100,000 yuan, which allows me to overdraft 50,000 yuan in cash. The other is a debit card with 490,000 yuan in it. The PIN is..."
The two men released Yuqi, one in front and one behind. They weren't worried about her running away. In this desolate place, there was no one to call for help. Yuqi didn't dare to run. She was wearing high heels and it was dark. If she tried to run, she definitely couldn't outrun these two men. If she was caught, needless to say, nothing would matter. She would be drowned at the bottom of the sea. Without absolute certainty, Yuqi didn't want to take the risk.
The eldest brother pressed a button on his phone and used the screen's light to illuminate Yuqi's handbag. Inside, he found tissues, a wallet, cosmetics, a small mirror, and 20,000 yuan in unopened bank envelopes.
The third brother took out the money and wallet, gave the eldest brother 20,000 yuan, and then opened the wallet to take a look. There was still about 1,000 yuan in cash and two bank cards in the wallet.
The third brother withdrew the bank cards and cash. The eldest brother took the two bank cards, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "What's the password?"
Yuqi quickly repeated the bank password again, and it was exactly the same as the one she had just given.
The leader was somewhat convinced, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "How about this, let's go to the nearest bank counter together and check. If the password you gave me is true, I'll believe you. If it's a fake password, I'll kill you right now."
Yuqi nodded quickly and said, "It's true, absolutely true. The PINs for both bank cards are the same, I promise."
The eldest and third brothers truly believed what Yuqi said. It was nighttime, and they were safe at the bank. A quick check at the counter would immediately reveal whether it was true or false; there was no way to fake it.
Yuqi was telling the truth. She didn't lie at all about this; she only told the truth and then took advantage of the situation. Because banks are usually located in urban areas, or at least in remote places. As long as there are people around, there's a chance to escape.
However, Yuqi underestimated the intelligence of these two people. Zhou Xuan realized this, of course, he was using his special ability to detect their auras. Since there hadn't been much fluctuation, if these two people were tempted by Yuqi's high price, they would definitely be excited. However, the leader's aura remained very calm, which meant he was obviously lying to Yuqi. He just wanted to get some easy income by intimidating Yuqi. He really didn't want to earn that five million.
It's too difficult. If things go wrong, we might end up getting them all imprisoned. It's better to get what we can now, and then deal with Yuqi. That way, we can have our cake and eat it too, and we won't break our promise to Yuxiang or the Jianghu.
Yuqi's 490,000 yuan in cash plus 50,000 yuan in credit card cash advance, plus the 200,000 yuan paid by Yuxiang, totaled 740,000 yuan. Of that 200,000 yuan, the three of them could each get more than 60,000 yuan. As for the 500,000 yuan, the eldest brother wanted to split it privately with the third brother, without giving any to Acheng. That way, the two of them could get an extra 270,000 yuan. Anyway, Acheng didn't know about this. He was going to sink Yuqi into the sea later, and this income would also be obtained by them privately.
The leader chuckled, stuffed the bank card and cash into his pocket, and then said with a smile, "Miss Yu, we'll have to make do with you for now. We'll put you in a sack first, and then we'll let you out when we get to the bank. Please don't make a sound, or we'll use a knife to shut you up."
Yuqi trembled again, half believing and half doubting her boss's words, but dared not disobey.
The third brother immediately understood what the eldest brother meant. He chuckled, tore open the sack, covered Yuqi's head with it, and then tied her legs with rope. The two of them, one in front and one behind, lifted Yuqi up and headed towards the sea.
Yuqi dared not shout, lest she provoke their anger and they immediately draw their knives. She only whispered, "Please, let me go. I'll agree to any conditions you set."
"Shut up, or I'll cut your tongue out!"
Hearing the third brother's fierce words, Yuqi quickly shut her mouth, not daring to say anything more, for fear of angering them.
Zhou Xuan quietly followed behind, recording for half an hour on his phone, which was basically enough to serve as evidence. He was also thinking about whether he should take action now to bring these two people down.
Zhou Xuan thought for a moment and realized that this was a family matter for the Yu family, so why should he get involved? He decided to let Yu Qi figure out what to do herself, and all he needed to do was save her.
However, rescuing Yuqi under the noses of the eldest and third brothers without her noticing would be extremely difficult. At this moment, they also detected that they were only thirty or forty meters away from the sea.
Zhou Xuan quickly activated his special ability, condensed it into a beam, and then probed the edge of the cliff by the sea. Actually, this place was not really a cliff, only about ten meters high, with seven or eight meters of seawater below. There were reefs all around, and the waves were crashing against the rocks. Tourists and boats would definitely not go to this area.
Zhou Xuan immediately realized that the two of them were definitely going to throw Yu Qi into the sea. Throwing her in here would only result in her falling into the sea, not her dying. As soon as Zhou Xuan realized this, he immediately had a plan.
The eldest and third brothers carried Yuqi to the edge of the cliff, then put down the bag. They loosened the bag's opening, and the third brother brought over a rock weighing several tens of kilograms. The two brothers then worked together to stuff the rock into the sack and tied the opening shut.
Yuqi immediately realized something was wrong and quickly cried out, "Help...help..."
However, the eldest and third brothers had already sealed the sack, so even if Yuqi shouted loudly inside the sealed sack, her voice couldn't carry out and sounded muffled.
The eldest and third brothers didn't linger. They lifted the sack and shook it outside, counting "one, two, three." When they counted to three, the two of them swung it out together, sending the sack flying outwards. It swung two or three meters away, followed by a loud crash—the sound of a heavy object hitting the water—and then silence.
The eldest and third brothers glanced down the cliff, smiled, and then turned back. The eldest brother said, "Hurry up and get over there. Third brother, when A-Cheng comes back, be careful not to give anything away. If we split the money, we'll each get 270,000 more. If we include him, we'll each get 90,000 less."
"I understand, brother, don't worry," the third brother simply nodded, and the two walked back one after the other.
After the two men left, Zhou Xuan crouched down and scurried to the edge of the cliff. It was only about ten meters below, which didn't affect him. Moreover, when the eldest and third brothers threw the sack, Zhou Xuan had already used his special ability to transform and devour the stones in the sack to prevent the large rocks from injuring Yu Qi.
Zhou Xuan sealed his phone in a plastic bag, then used the high temperature of the sun's flames to melt the plastic bag at the edges to make it airtight. After surveying the terrain below, he jumped off the cliff.
At the moment of falling into the water, Zhou Xuan used his supernatural ability to transform and absorb the seawater he came into contact with, absorbing about two meters of it. When he touched the seawater again, he was already sinking into the two-meter-deep seawater, and the sound of him entering the water was almost gone.
Zhou Xuan did this so that the eldest and third brothers wouldn't hear the noise.
Zhou Xuan quickly dived down again. His supernatural ability had already detected the location where Yu Qi had sunk. He dived directly to that spot, then dragged the sack upstream. When he reached the surface, he transformed and devoured the rope, tore open the sack, and pulled Yu Qi out. Yu Qi was still holding her breath. She had only been submerged for less than three minutes. Although she was in pain, she had not completely lost consciousness.
Zhou Xuan had used his supernatural abilities to improve her physical condition when she was thrown into the water, allowing her to withstand the submersion for a few more minutes. Yu Qi herself was unaware of this, so when she held her breath and struggled, she didn't realize that more than two minutes had passed. If she had known, she would have been wondering how she could hold her breath for so long.
Zhou Xuan pulled Yuqi out of the sack and held her head above the water. Yuqi gasped for air, and after a while, she turned her head to look at Zhou Xuan. The starlight was dim, and she couldn't immediately see who had saved her.
Seeing that Yuqi was about to shout again, Zhou Xuan immediately reached out and covered her mouth, whispering, "Don't shout, I'm Hu Yun, I'm here to save you."
"Hu Yun?" Yu Qi asked in surprise, then asked, "How did you know?"
As she spoke, she looked closely at Zhou Xuan under the starlight, and it took her a while to confirm that the person who saved her was indeed Hu Yun.
"Those people are still up there. Don't shout, or we'll all be in danger," Zhou Xuan whispered as he swam toward the edge of the shallow water.
Yuqi really didn't dare to speak loudly anymore. He had tasted the ferocity of those people just now, and if he fell into their hands again, he was afraid he would never be so lucky again.
Yuqi's nervousness made her forget many things, such as why the large stones in the sack that had bound her had suddenly disappeared, and how Zhou Xuan had managed to break the nylon ropes without any knives or daggers. However, these were not the key points, not important, and could be easily explained away, so Yuqi didn't care. What she cared about was that she had indeed escaped the clutches of those people alive, even if only temporarily.
After Zhou Xuan carried Yuqi to the shore, he pulled her up the sloping rocky slope. Yuqi followed Zhou Xuan up the slope with trepidation.
After the two climbed up, Zhou Xuan detected that about 200 meters ahead, the eldest and third brothers encountered Acheng lying on the ground when they returned. They were startled and helped Acheng up. The eldest brother asked, "Acheng, Acheng, what happened?"
The eldest brother looked around and then whispered to the third brother, "Third brother, be careful. Ah Cheng might have been attacked. It looks like there might be an ambush."
However, it doesn't make sense to say there was an ambush. The three of them came here without telling anyone else, and they only came to this location on short notice. They were initially going in another direction, but they changed directions because they ran out of gas in the car. How could there be an ambush?