A carefree soldier king in the city

Chapter 5 Kidnapping

Chao Bufan, who had been dozing off, was secretly shocked when he heard the girl's voice: Damn, she looks cold as ice, but her voice is so sweet!

“Oh, young lady, it’s like this,” the driver replied, “a section of the road in Zone L is blocked and impassable, so it will be a longer journey, but it will be quick. We should reach Zone L in about half an hour.”

When Chao Bufan turned his head to look out the window, he realized that it was already dark. He quickly took out the old cell phone that Falcon had used before he died and checked the time. It was almost nine o'clock. So he asked, "Master, is PSH town far from L district?"

The driver, focused on driving, replied, "It's not far, only about a ten-minute drive. Young man, is this your first time here? Your accent sounds like you're from the north."

Upon hearing this, Chao Bufan laughed and said, "Yes! I'm from the North, and this is my first time in the South."

“That’s right. Actually, my hometown is also in the north, but I haven’t been back for a long time.”

To kill time, the driver and Chao Bufan started chatting. However, the two men in the back seat had only said one sentence since Chao Bufan got in the car and hadn't spoken since. As for the ice queen, she only said one sentence just now and then remained silent, continuing to listen to her music.

Suddenly, the driver jerked the steering wheel, and the car immediately drove onto a narrow mountain road that could only accommodate one vehicle at a time. Because the road was not paved with cement and was uneven, the car immediately began to sway from side to side and bounce up and down.

The girl quickly took off her headphones, immediately becoming alert. She frowned and asked cautiously, "Sir, why aren't you taking the main road?"

The driver chuckled, "Oh, this road is shorter. It's not far to reach District L after you turn the corner."

Upon hearing this, the girl raised an eyebrow, remained silent, and quickly opened the navigation map on her phone. She saw that this was not the way to District L at all, and according to the map, it had already passed District L and was quite far away. The girl's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly said, "Driver, please stop the car."

Upon hearing this, the driver immediately sensed something and said, "Miss, it's pitch black in the middle of nowhere, why would you stop? Besides, the road here is narrow, it's not convenient to park!"

The girl frowned and said, "Sir, I need to get off to use the restroom. Could you please stop the car for a moment?"

The driver refused, saying, "Just bear with it for a bit, we'll be there soon."

“This isn’t the way to District L at all,” the girl seemed to realize something and started to panic, angrily shouting, “Stop the car! If you don’t stop, I’m calling the police!”

Unexpectedly, the two men sitting in the back seat each suddenly pulled out a military knife, one to Chao Bufan's neck and the other to the girl's neck. The man with the knife to the girl's neck shouted sternly, "You only just realized it now? Too late. You'd better behave yourselves."

The girl suddenly felt a chill on her neck, and her already icy expression changed drastically, becoming even more frosty. Chao Bufan, however, remained calm, his expression showing little change. He had sensed something was amiss with the two men behind him earlier; when they got into the car, he had seen through their bodies that each of them was hiding a military knife.

The military knife was nothing new to him; in fact, he was intimately familiar with it, after all, he had always come from a place known for its military. Therefore, his first instinct was that these two men and the driver seemed to be in cahoots, using the guise of soliciting passengers to actually commit robbery.

"You—" The girl was already pale with fright, and in her panic, she asked tremblingly, "What do you want to do?"

"Heh," the man chuckled coldly, "What do you want? Little girl, haven't you realized yet? We're kidnapping you!"

The girl's heart sank. Kidnapping? My God, they—they really were kidnapping her! She hurriedly cried out, "G-brothers, I have no grudge against you, please let me go! I'll give you whatever money you want."

Clearly, the girl was trying to play the bargaining card, but it seemed that this tactic wasn't working on these people.

"Money?" The man with the general's knife to Chao Bufan's neck sneered and said, "No, no, no, we don't want money. Little girl, your surname is Tang, and your name is Tang Qianqian, right?"

Upon hearing this, the girl's heart skipped a beat, her face changed drastically, and she exclaimed in shock, "You... how do you know my name?"

"Hehe, not only do we know your name is Tang Qianqian, but we also know that you are the apple of Tang Guoqiang's eye in the Tang Group!"

Clearly, this was a targeted and premeditated kidnapping.

“Also, Tang Guoqiang is not only the president of Tang Group, but also a military officer…” The other man continued, but before he could finish speaking, Tang Qianqian interrupted him.

Tang Qianqian said in a panic, "What...what do you want? If you want money, I can ask my dad to give it to you."

"Hehe, Miss Tang, I told you, we don't want any money, not a single penny," the man said with a disdainful look.

Tang Qianqian grew increasingly panicked. Kidnapping without money? The only possibility was… She dared not think further, and stammered, “Without money? Then… then what do you want?”

"What? Actually, we don't want to do anything!"

"Then...then why did you kidnap me?"

"Well... then you can only blame your father. Miss Tang, don't worry, as long as you cooperate with us obediently, we won't do anything to you, not even a hair on your head. But if you don't listen, then I can't guarantee what will happen next."

Everyone knows that kidnappers are often untrustworthy people who will kill their hostages at the drop of a hat.

Another man chimed in, "Miss Tang, do you know why we went to such lengths to tie you up? It's all your father's doing. I wonder if he ever mentioned a man named Tang Guorong to you."

"Tang Guorong?"

Tang Qianqian's heart skipped a beat. She thought, "Isn't that my uncle's name? When I was very young, my father would occasionally mention that I had an uncle named Tang Guorong. Because this uncle was a good-for-nothing, he did petty theft, fighting, and robbery. Later, he was caught and sentenced to death... How could this be..."

Tang Qianqian frowned slightly and asked him cautiously, "Do you know my uncle, Tang Guorong?"

The man was slightly taken aback, then smiled, his tone softening considerably as he said, "Tang Qianqian, I didn't expect you to still remember having such an uncle! It seems Tang Guoqiang still has some conscience."