"What did you say? Missing? What happened?" Wei Ran quickly got into the armored pickup truck and asked while closing the heavy door.
“Just now”
Tassie said in a panic, "Monica went to pick up Tassie, and was kidnapped on the way. She was stunned. When she woke up, Matthew was gone, and the person who abducted Matthew left only
A letter saying that I want to talk to you."
"Talk to me?" Wei Ran frowned, "Didn't the letter say anything?"
"It's just that they are not doing it for money, so if we dare to call the police, they will kill Matthew immediately."
Tassie said in a panic, "Victor, now..."
"Don't panic"
Wei Ran comforted him calmly, "Did the other party invite me to meet in the letter or did he leave any contact information?"
"Nothing at all"
"Nothing?" Wei Ran asked in shock.
"right"
Tassie's tone was still panicked, "The other party just said that we should keep quiet and ask for leave for Matthew first. They also said that after communicating with you, they would decide whether to send Matthew back to school or to a hospital based on your attitude.
grave."
"I see"
Wei Ran took a deep breath and said, "Taxi, calm down first, comfort Monica, and contact Mr. Charlotte for help. He doesn't allow you to call the police, but he certainly didn't mention that you are not allowed to contact your friends."
"Okay! I am contacting Mr. Charlotte!" Tassie, who seemed to have lost his backbone, responded hurriedly.
"Does Kou Kou know about this?" Wei Ran continued to ask.
"I know, she is comforting Monica." Tassie said quickly, "Monica and I are both at Miss Coco's house now."
"Waiting for my news"
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he hung up the phone, but immediately before he could open the bulletproof door of the cab, a call came in that didn't even show his address or even the caller's number.
After glancing at the screen, Wei Ran snorted and then pressed the connect button.
"Mr. Victor"
On the other end of the phone, a voice that sounded like he was in his prime said straight and arrogantly in French, "I'm here to ask for the things stolen by the Italian couple. By the way, I also want to get the truth behind that thing from you."
"Who is your special code?" Wei Ran asked bluntly.
Obviously, his attitude was not expected by the other party. After a moment of silence, Matthew's voice came from the microphone, "Victor! He is a bald black man! Express..."
Well done!
Wei Ran secretly praised Matthew's cleverness, but at the same time he was worried about the little guy's safety.
"Since you are so uncooperative, I can only dig out one of this child's eyeballs and send it to you. I hope you..."
"Torture that little thing however you want."
Wei Ran said calmly, "I will treat Matthew as dead from now on. Out of humanitarian spirit, from now on, I will use all my contacts to hold a press conference and call the police in Italy and France at the same time.
We will also announce what Matthew's parents found and where they found it."
After a pause, Wei Ran continued, "In addition, you'd better hide well enough not to let me know who you are. As the price for threatening me, I will hire all the media friends I have made to tell you who was raped by several people when you were a child.
All the scandalous things that were stabbed in the buttocks by classmates were dug up and made public."
"Aren't you worried about the consequences if we kill this child?"
The person on the other end of the phone asked slightly dryly after another silence. Obviously, they once again did not expect Wei Ran's attitude.
"It was you who killed Matthew, not me. What do I have to worry about?"
Wei Ran asked in a more arrogant and straightforward tone, "Which idiot in your gang came up with an idiotic idea and actually thought that kidnapping a child can threaten me? Matthew is not my illegitimate son, even his aunt
Monica doesn't even want to sleep with me, why should I care about that little thing that no one wants?
Also, let me remind you idiots. If you want to kidnap me, it should be Kou Kou who should be kidnapped. I would rather do what a knight should do for that beautiful and rich girl."
After speaking, Wei Ran simply hung up the phone without waiting for the other party to speak further.
Is he gambling? He is indeed gambling, but it is not just gambling.
Relying on the little tricks he learned from Gorman back then, he had already judged from the first words the other party spoke that he was definitely not a habitual criminal who often kidnapped people.
Otherwise, they won't learn what they do in TV series and movies and put forward their true demands as soon as they open their mouths like idiots. Even if they are the kidnappers who take the initiative, they will lose the king first in the Landlord fight.
Frying doesn't make any difference at all.
While waiting for the second call from the other party, Wei Ran opened the car door and waved to Suisui who was at the campfire not far away and the Katenka sisters who had just finished singing.
"What's wrong?" Suisui, who was already drunk and staring, came over and asked sleepily.
"Matthew was kidnapped"
"What did you say?!"
Suisui immediately sobered up, and at the same time, the Katenka sisters reacted very quickly and ran into another armored commercial vehicle next to them. They each opened their laptops and started busy.
"Matthew was kidnapped"
While Wei Ran was talking, he had already pulled Suisui into the armored commercial vehicle where the Katenka sisters were. He handed his mobile phone to Anfiya, closed the soundproof car door, and took the call from the kidnapper just now.
The request made on the phone was repeated.
"What are you going to do?"
Suisui forced herself to calm down and asked. She knew clearly that Wei Ran would not really care about Matthew's life or death.
"Calm down first"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Suisui had already opened the car refrigerator, took out two cans of iced Coke and placed it on her neck.
The cold temperature immediately caused goosebumps to appear on her neck, and her whole body temporarily got rid of the drunkenness caused by alcohol after a thrill.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Sui Sui, please contact Kou Kou first."
Wei Ran took away the can from the other party's neck and said, "Comfort Kou Kou, ask her to calm down and tighten security. Don't leave home no matter what phone call you make, no matter what excuse you make. Also, ask her to comfort Moni."
Card, don’t make any response for now.”
"Okay!" Suisui took a deep breath and asked, "Are you sure?"
"certainly"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Anfiya turned around and said, "Matthew's location has been found. He is now in a community in the 17th District of Paris."
"How did you do it?" Suisui asked in surprise.
Anfiya was not in a hurry to answer Suisui, and then said, "The caller number has been encrypted and disguised by the Internet phone. There is no way to track the specific location for the time being. I need to go back to the library and use the server there. Finally,
So we can do it before the second call comes from the other party, and also, send someone to the location immediately, Matthew must still be there."
"Let's go back now!" Suisui immediately made a decision, and took out her mobile phone and started to contact Kou Kou.
At the same time, Wei Ran opened the door and moved into the driver's cab. He started the car and left the campsite as quickly as possible under the puzzled looks of the girls who were still singing.
It was only then that Anfiya explained, "Before last Christmas, when you and I went to China, I bought Matthew a panda pendant with a positioning function.
I modified the pendant so that every time the switch is pressed, it can continuously send three positionings at a frequency of once every 5 minutes. The last location sent was 7 minutes ago, so the pendant must still be in his hand."
"Well done, card girl!" As Suisui spoke, she had already contacted Kou Kou.
"Boss, do you need to use Charon's power?"
Anfisa looked at her sister and asked Wei Ran in German, "Tick the high beam to signify agreement."
Hearing this, Wei Ran shook his head incomprehensibly, but at the same time he also accelerated the speed of the car.
Before he could drive the car out of the forest, the second call came again without any address or number.
After stopping the car, Wei Ran turned around and nodded towards Anfiya, who pressed the connect button on the mobile phone that was connected to the computer and then pressed the hands-free button.
"What's the matter?" Wei Ran's calm tone contained a trace of impatience.
"How about we talk again?" This time, a different person spoke, and his tone was much calmer.
But at this time, the calm tone is of no use.
These kidnappers did not realize that when they took the initiative to call again, the initiative had actually been given to Wei Ran.
"What do you want to talk about?"
There was even a hint of excitement in Wei Ran's impatient tone, "I'm already preparing for a press conference, Mr. Robber, I hope you will cooperate and make it as bloody as possible.
In addition, you are welcome to come to Kazan to participate in my exclusive interview on this matter, if you are not caught by the police."
"How did we get into trouble with such a bastard! We really should have blackmailed Matthew's father..."
On the other end of the phone, the person who had just had the first round of phone calls with Wei Ran suddenly stopped mumbling. The person who was talking to Wei Ran gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Victor, the person who stole Matthew's parents."
How about returning this item to us, and then we send Matthew back intact?"
"Aren't you going to send Matthew's eyeballs?"
When Wei Ran said this, there was no sarcasm in his tone, but only disappointment that he tried his best to hide.
At the same time, Anfisa also murmured in English in an extremely sophisticated voice under Wei Ran's eyes, "Damn it, the boss screwed up. I'm already preparing to write a press statement to condemn the robbers."
Anfiya also said in English, "If those idiots really send something, we can make big news that will make the boss interviewed by the media again, which will save us a lot of publicity expenses."
"You're right!"
Suisui, who had vaguely realized something, also complained dissatisfiedly in English, "The boss is so stupid. He should deliberately provoke those idiot robbers. He just exposed our trump card. What a disaster, he just
Can’t you let me answer the phone for him?”
"Mr. Robber, if you don't plan to say anything else, I'm going to hang up the phone and continue preparing for the press conference." Wei Ran urged in French before Suisui could finish her words.
"Give us back what Matthew's parents stole"
The man on the other end of the phone said again, "Give it back to us now, and then we will let Matthew go, otherwise..."
"I reject"
Wei Ran pretended to be greedy and said, "Do you know how precious the thing you want is? Are you actually imagining asking me to return it to you? Why don't you let the Germans return the gold teeth to the Jews?"
"Since you insist so much, we can only kill the horse..."
"You have other options"
The greed in Wei Ran's tone became more and more undisguised, "Tell me something I don't know, and maybe we can maximize our interests."
"Maximize the benefits?"
The kidnapper on the other end of the phone was stunned. He never expected that he would hear such a sentence from the mouth of the person being kidnapped.
"I am a righteous public figure"
Wei Ran said proudly, "I need hot spots and spotlights, so it is impossible for me to compromise with the robbers, but this does not mean that we cannot cooperate."
"How do you want to cooperate?" the robber on the other end of the phone asked warily.
"Listen idiot"
Wei Ran's tone became more and more rude and proud, "I have enough resources and manpower to help me adjust..."
Wei Ran, who seemed to realize that he had missed something, cleared his throat, "In short, I can investigate the mysteries behind things like that in my professional field, but these require payment.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Obviously, if it is just Matthew's life, it is not worth my investigation of that thing. If you have any doubts about my words, you can cut off one of Matthew's hands now
Let me prove that that little guy really doesn't mean much to me."
Do you think I'm an idiot?
The kidnapper on the other end of the phone muttered to himself. It was not that he couldn't hear the encouragement in Wei Ran's last sentence, nor could he hear the faint English complaint that just came from the receiver.
Because of this, he would inevitably want to spit in the face of that sanctimonious historian - if he knew the idiom sanctimonious, he would definitely be the first to use it on Wei Ran, three times in a row!
Seeing that the robber on the other side of the phone didn't say anything, Wei Ran even more unconcealed his disappointment and mocked, "It seems you don't dare to do anything."
"It's the cooperation you just mentioned," the robber on the other end of the phone couldn't help but remind him.
"Okay, I did bring it up, but you kidnapped me."
Wei Ran said nonchalantly, "Let's talk about what you want first! We must at least see if there is any conflict of interest."
"Of course it's that thing"
The robber on the other end of the phone said, "As long as we get that thing, we will let go..."
"Can we not talk about that unimportant child?"
Wei Ran glanced at the text typed on the screen of the mobile phone handed over by Suisui, and said in a greedy tone, "You guys tell me what secrets are behind things like that that are worth the risk of kidnapping Matthew, and then I will decide how to distribute our profits."
Sample?"
"There's no secret behind something like that."
The person on the other end of the phone said, "We just want to get that thing and know the historical mystery behind it."
"How much are you willing to pay me to investigate this?"
Wei Ran said before the other party could speak, "This is related to whether I am willing to cooperate with you."
"Hire you? Mr. Victor, we have been talking on the phone for long enough." The person on the other end of the phone said suddenly, and then hung up the phone without warning.
"He's a rookie," Wei Ran said firmly in Russian.
"Can you hear this?"
Suisui looked at Wei Ran suspiciously, "This is about Matthew's life, so don't mess around."
"Do not worry"
Wei Ran's tone became more confident at this time, "I can guess that their kidnapping methods were 100% learned from movies."
“The boss is right”
Anfiya picked up her phone and shook it, "They limited the call time to five minutes. But in fact, doing so can only add some tension to the movie. In fact, it has no meaning at all. They even
You shouldn’t use an encrypted Internet phone call.”
"Where did this idiot come from?"
Suisui patted her forehead, then picked up the phone again and pointed at Kou Kou's reply and said, "Just now Kou Kou has sent most of her bodyguards to rush to the address where Kamei has located. They will quickly
You'll be there soon.
In addition, Tassie asked Coco to tell us that he has asked Mr. Charlotte for help, and the other party is already urgently contacting his friends in France, and there will soon be more manpower to protect Coco and the others."
"How many bodyguards are there with Kou Kou?" Wei Ran asked curiously as he resumed driving the car and continued walking out of the forest.
"12, divided into two groups and taking turns."
Suisui made a number with her hand, "They used to be Mr. Dominic's bodyguards."
“It seems there are not many robbers”
Wei Ran said firmly, "At least they can't compare to Kou Kou's bodyguards in terms of numbers and combat power, otherwise they wouldn't threaten me."
"But why didn't they kidnap Matthew's parents?" Suisui asked confusedly, expressing her doubts.
"Maybe I know why."
Anfisa raised her head and expressed her guess, "Matthew's parents are currently stationed at a scientific research station in Antarctica, where it is winter now."
"So?" Suisui asked confused.
"Now if you want to contact them, you can only use the communication equipment of the scientific research station. As you can guess, those scientific research projects are extremely confidential.
In other words, if the kidnappers contact Matthew's parents to threaten them, the trouble they face will not be a Chinese historian in Russia, but the police forces of France and Italy."
Anfisa spread her arms, "As we all know, France and Italy have always maintained in-depth cooperation in Antarctic scientific research projects. When the family members of scientific researchers are kidnapped, they will definitely cooperate unconditionally to find the kidnappers."
Anfiya took over the topic and analyzed, "There is no point in threatening Monica and Tassie. They are not normal people at all, especially Monica. She will only make this matter known to everyone.
Let both sides have no way out."
"If you think about it that way, there is still Kou Kou."
After Suisui finished speaking, she patted her forehead, "The Carlos lawyer next to her is enough to scare off most of the kidnappers. What's more, if you think about it, a rich woman like her will definitely be able to mobilize a lot of resources."
"Actually, I'm afraid the kidnapper contacted me for another reason."
Weiran pressed the accelerator to the bottom while analyzing, "I am a historian. Among their optional targets, no one knows those things better than me, especially since I have left France. This is a key factor.
I just need to help them investigate some things and give them the sword to save Matthew, which doesn't sound difficult to me."
"Who would have thought that a historian can be as bad-tempered as a two-kicker?"
Suisui switched to her native language and joked with a smile. Although the French communication between Wei Ran and the kidnapper had not yet been translated to her, based on her understanding of Wei Ran, combined with the few words that the Katenka sisters just said as if they were acting.
In English, she had already guessed a lot.
"They're calling again"
Before Anfiya could finish her words while staring at the computer, Wei Ran's cell phone rang again.
"Where are Kou Kou's bodyguards?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "It's almost there," Suisui said immediately.
After clearing his throat, Wei Ran answered the phone again, but this time what came out was Matthew's screams and cries.
"If you just want me to hear that little thing scream, then I'm going to hang up the phone."
Wei Ran looked at the Russian word "It's a recording" that Anfiya typed on her mobile phone and said with interest.
Soon, Matthew's crying in the receiver became farther and farther away, and finally disappeared completely with the sound of closing the door. Only then did the person on the other end of the phone say, "Mr. Victor, I don't have the patience to cooperate with you. Now
Return what Matthew's parents stole to us, or I will kill that little thing immediately."
"Even if you kill him, I can't give you anything unless you are in Kazan, Russia."
"You took it back to Kazan? That's impossible!"
"What's impossible? I just got some antique firearms from England to Russia by shipping a few days ago. I just need to send someone to send those things on the ship. It's not that troublesome."
This time, Wei Ran's indifferent tone was mixed with gloating and undisguised pride, "Anyway, that thing is in my hands now, so I just said in the second call from you
, you are welcome to come to Kazan to participate in my exclusive interview on this matter."
Obviously, this new change once again disrupted the kidnappers' plans.
Just at this moment, Suisui's cell phone heard a pleasant ringtone. Immediately afterwards, Wei Ran saw a photo displayed on the screen that Suisui handed to his eyes - his hair was naturally curly, with hair hanging from the corners of his eyes.
Teardrop little Matthew! He even had a pizza corner in his hand!
Turning his head and looking at Suisui, who was nodding his head vigorously and giving a thumbs up, Wei Ran stepped on the brakes again.
At this moment, the robber on the other end of the phone said, "Victor, I give you three days to send that thing back, otherwise..."
"OK"
Wei Ran agreed to their request without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, "Where should I send it?"
"you..."
"So where to send it?" Wei Ran asked again impatiently.
"Monaco!"
The robber on the other end subconsciously reported a location, "Get there with your things and update a photo of yourself there on your social platform, and I will contact you."
"No problem." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he hung up the phone happily.
"Rescued?" Wei Ran confirmed again.
"Rescued"
Suisui immediately said, "It was found in a single-family house at the address provided by Kamei. Matthew was only spanked and was not injured."
Hearing this, both Wei Ran and the Katenka sisters, who were good friends with Matthew, all breathed a sigh of relief.
But while relaxing, everyone including Suisui was wondering about the origins of the rookie robbers who kidnapped Matthew, how they knew about the existence of the sword, and the most important question - why did they
