This night, I didn't let Zhang Heng leave and confiscated his mobile phone to prevent him from secretly calling Antonsen.
That night, the three of us men slept in the first bedroom. Fu Zhiqiang and I took turns keeping watch, just to prevent Zhang Heng from taking the opportunity to leave.
I will guard the first half of the night, and Fu Zhiqiang will guard the second half of the night.
I finally stayed up until dawn, and immediately booked a flight to Kunming early in the morning.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the three of us arrived in Kunming smoothly.
I contacted the car rental company, rented a Toyota Prado, and rushed to the border town based on the information provided by Zhang Heng.
I don’t know what is waiting for us on this journey. I only know that we must take this trip and expose the black industrial chain of Antonsen.
Along the way, Fu Zhiqiang and I alternated driving.
After getting off the expressway, we took the national highway. After the national highway, we took the county road again. In this way, we climbed one mountain after another.
It was already after nine o'clock in the evening when we arrived at the border town, so we had to find a small hotel to stay.
This border town is close to the border, and it goes without saying that it is chaotic, so since we came to this town, I have been vigilant at all times.
This hotel is the only hotel in this border town. After parking the car, Fu Zhiqiang and I took Zhang Heng into this small hotel.
At a shabby front desk, a middle-aged woman was watching TV with her legs crossed and cracking melon seeds.
The three of us have entered the store and she hasn't noticed yet.
It wasn't until I knocked on the counter at the front desk that she noticed us and turned to look at the three of us strangely.
Then I said: "Boss, we're staying in the hotel."
"What do you do?" The woman looked at us very warily.
I smiled and said, "We are here for a trip."
"Come here to travel?" the woman asked in disbelief.
"Yes, we saw a video online saying that there is a very quaint village here, and we want to take a look."
The woman was silent for a while in disbelief, and then she said, "How many rooms do you want?"
"Is there a triple room?"
"ID card."
After we took out our ID cards to book a room, she handed the ID cards back to us and said: "Upstairs 302."
"Okay, thank you boss."
I turned around and was about to go upstairs. The woman suddenly said to us again: "Don't wander around if you have nothing to do at night!"
I don't know what she meant by this sudden reminder, and it always felt a little strange.
But I didn't think much, so I took Zhang Heng and Fu Zhiqiang upstairs to room 302.
The condition of this hotel is very poor. There are only some simple facilities in the room. Even the TV is broken. The only small table has a broken leg.
The whole room also exudes a musty smell of wood, giving people a sense of depression.
But make peace with what you've come to, it's too late now, let's stay here first and talk about it tomorrow.
I said to Zhiqiang: "Qiangzi, let's take turns to keep watch. You keep watch for the first half of the night, and I will keep watch for the second half of the night."
"Okay, brother, you go to bed first."
I patted his shoulder and whispered, "Be careful. If anything happens, wake me up."
Fu Zhiqiang nodded heavily, and then I walked towards Zhang Heng. He had a motherly face the whole day, which was very ugly.
I came to him, took out a cigarette and handed him a cigarette, and then said: "It's here now, don't always look like a bitter melon, we are now grasshoppers on a rope."
Zhang Heng sighed and shook his head: "You still have room to regret now, let's leave now and go back to Kunming."
"What are we going to do?"
"Can't you feel it yet? Everything here is full of sin. Even this shabby hotel is creepy."
"That's your psychology."
Zhang Heng shook his head, took off his shoes and lay on the bed, saying, "It's up to you. Anyway, I've said enough good and bad things. If something happens, you'll know you'll regret it."
I was tired after running around all day, so I fell asleep not long after lying on the bed.
In a daze, I heard the sound of quarreling coming from downstairs, and I was woken up by the sound.
I opened my eyes and found that the lights in the room had been turned off at some point. I shouted "Qiangzi" but I didn't hear Fu Zhiqiang's answer.
I shouted again, but still didn't hear his answer.
I panicked for a moment, touched the cell phone on the bedside table, turned on the flashlight and took a photo into the room.
Fu Zhiqiang was not in the room, so I took a look at the bed next to me. There was no one on it, not even Zhang Heng!
I was completely panicked and hurriedly reached out to turn on the light, but the light was also broken. The room was pitch dark, with only the faint light from my mobile phone.
I was so anxious that I didn't even put on my shoes, so I was about to run outside, but when I went to open the door, the door was locked, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open it.
I shouted: "Qiangzi, Qiangzi, where are you? Qiangzi"
There was still no echo, only the constant quarrels coming from downstairs.
I pushed the door hard with my feet, once, twice
But no matter how hard I tried, the door still wouldn't budge.
At this moment, a voice sounded above my head: "Brother, what's wrong with you? Brother, wake up."
I suddenly woke up from my dream, sat up straight, and breathed heavily.
Fu Zhiqiang was standing in front of me. He frowned and asked me, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Only then did I realize that I had just had a dream. Fu Zhiqiang was still in the room, the lights in the room were good, and Zhang Heng was still sleeping soundly.
I took a long breath and said, "I had a nightmare just now. I dreamed that you were gone, and Zhang Heng was also gone. I was locked in this room, and I couldn't even kick the door."
"Brother, don't be nervous. Relax. I'm here and I won't leave you."
I nodded heavily, then picked up my phone and looked at the time. It was almost half past one in the night.
I then got out of bed and said to Zhiqiang, "It's already so late. You go to bed and I'll take care of it."
But Fu Zhiqiang said to me: "Brother, I'm fine. You've been tired all day. You can go to sleep. I'll continue to watch over you."
"Obey, go to bed quickly, we must stay energetic."
Fu Zhiqiang nodded and agreed, then took off his shoes and lay on the bed.
I put on my clothes, sat on the chair, and played with my phone out of boredom.
Except for Zhang Heng's snoring, there was no sound in the room. Even outside, it was so quiet that it seemed like it was in no man's land.
But in this silence, I vaguely heard the sound of a car coming from not far away, and it stopped downstairs of the hotel from far away.
I hurriedly ran to the window and looked outside. Sure enough, there was a black car parked downstairs. Then two people got out of the car and entered the hotel together.
After a while, I heard footsteps going upstairs, getting closer and closer.
My heartbeat also started to accelerate, and I even took out the fruit knife I carried with me.
But the next moment, I heard the door of the next room being opened, and the two people entered the next room.
I relaxed then, but then I heard voices coming from next door. The hotel room was not soundproof at all, and I heard it clearly.
One of them said: "Have all those people been taken out?"
"Don't worry, everything has been arranged."
"This time, don't run away like last time. You go to the fucking police and I catch one of you and chop off one of his hands."