Chapter 663

"Oh,"Liu Zi finally grew impatient; he was not a patient person to begin with. "Since you think I'm deceiving you, I'll admit it. You're not the only one who wants to live. If you want to leave, do you think I don't want to? There's no point in talking to you so much; in any case, I won't let you go."

Ning Chen's face slowly turned pale. He seemed to suddenly remember something, and his expression immediately grew agitated: "There should be another person in the room where you locked me up, right?"

Liu Zi's face went white: "How did you know?"

"Of course I heard the sound!"Ning Chen sneered coldly. "Do you think you can deceive heaven and earth? Do you think that since I disappeared for so long, my family wouldn't call the police if they couldn't find me? Do you think you can live in peace forever after doing so many bad things?"

Liu Zi, as if suddenly struck in his weak spot by Ning Chen, leaped up in a rage.

"I told you to stay here, not to say angry words to anger me! Even if I kill you, those people in Hua Country can't do anything about it; they simply don't have the ability to extend their hands into the Cang Northern Realm. I've been doing this for so many years, and now I'm still living just fine, aren't I?"

Ning Chen choked, slowly lowered his head, a trace of contemplation flashed in his eyes, and he began thinking of countermeasures in his mind.

Indeed, as Liu Zi said, the police in Hua Country couldn't manage affairs within the Cang Northern Realm, and furthermore, the Cang Northern Realm itself was very chaotic; the Hua Country police were not unaware of these matters.

This resulted in the atmosphere of the Cang Northern Realm growing worse and worse, with more and more vicious criminals appearing; no matter what the matter, those people could do it. Kidnapping and extortion like Liu Zi's was even considered a relatively minor crime in the Cang Northern Realm.

Liu Zi watched Ning Chen, who had already quieted down, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Ning Chen appeared quite obedient on the surface, Liu Zi subconsciously felt that Ning Chen was not as harmless as he presented himself; if he hadn't been so short of money recently, why would he have taken such a risk?

When doing such things before, Liu Zi would choose people who were easier to target. Although Ning Chen did look innocent, Liu Zi was not a criminal novice; his experience told him it was best not to choose someone like Ning Chen to target.

Thinking of the hostage still tied up in the other room, Liu Zi's mood began to lift; after all, the hostages tied up here were all money trees to him.

Thinking of this, Liu Zi lowered his head and glared at Ning Chen, threatening: "You just stay here properly. After the storm passes, I will let you out. Don't get any funny ideas."

Ning Chen frowned: "Where are you going?"

"It has nothing to do with you,"Liu Zi said while opening the door. Just as he was about to walk out, he stopped, turned his head, and said to Ning Chen in a low voice, "But you can't run anywhere anyway."

After saying this, Liu Zi slammed the door shut with a "Bang!"

Ning Chen looked at the tightly closed door, his face shifting between gloom and agitation.

Breaking free from such ropes was merely a matter of minutes; they simply couldn't trap him, but compared to breaking the ropes, Ning Chen wanted to obtain more information from Liu Zi.

He wanted to see what kind of criminal chain existed throughout the entire Cang Northern Realm.

In less than five minutes, the door was opened by someone again.

Ning Chen was startled and raised his head to look toward the door.

He saw Liu Zi walking ahead, dragging a person by the hand.

Ning Chen narrowed his eyes, looking cautiously, and observed the figure of the person being dragged behind Liu Zi, realizing he had seen this person not long ago.

This person was the hostage who had been in the same room with Ning Chen before.

At that time, the light in the room was not very bright, so Ning Chen hadn't seen that person's face very clearly, but now with sufficient light, Ning Chen discovered that the person being dragged behind Liu Zi, who temporarily had no ability to move, looked very young... not like a university student, but rather like a Gao Zhongsheng or a middle school student.

"... Is this a Gao Zhongsheng?"Ning Chen was startled in his heart and couldn't help asking.

Liu Zi didn't even look at him; he dragged the hostage to Ning Chen's side, patted the dust off his hands, and said: "It should be, I don't know either."

Ning Chen gritted his teeth: "Are you a beast?"

Liu Zi suddenly turned his head and stared at Ning Chen, remaining silent for a long while.

Liu Zi and Ning Chen locked eyes; both clearly saw that each wanted to put the other to death.

But Liu Zi didn't think Ning Chen posed any threat to him, so he just laughed strangely: "So what if he's a Gao Zhongsheng? I only care how much money he can bring me... And people of this age probably haven't broken free from their original family's control yet, right? Isn't that the best for extortion?"

Ning Chen finally sincerely spat out two words: "Beast."

"If you want to think that way, I can't help it; anyway, I'm no different from a beast."Liu Zi, acting like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water, shrugged his shoulders. "Isn't everyone in the Cang Northern Realm like a fish on a cutting board, at the mercy of others? I just don't want to be that fish."

After speaking, Liu Zi ignored the bound Ning Chen, took a ladle of water from the side, and splashed it onto the Gao Zhongsheng's face.

The move was exactly the same as when he dealt with Ning Chen back then.

Ning Chen watched this scene with a frown.

The Gao Zhongsheng seemed to sense something; after the water was poured on his face, he opened his eyes almost immediately. He unexpectedly met Liu Zi's gloomy eyes and was instantly frightened.

Liu Zi asked: "Are you awake?"

Wu Mu nodded subconsciously, then as if just realizing his current situation, his eyes widened: "You, who are you?"

531. Being too innocent isn't a good thing either.

It was still this same old question.

Thinking that this Gao Zhongsheng could bring him quite a bit of money, Liu Zi spoke with rare patience.

"Cangbei, I assume you aren't unfamiliar with this place?"Liu Zi said. "Did you come here looking for a job?"

Hearing Liu Zi say this, Ning Chen remained silent; he knew what Liu Zi would do to this Gao Zhongsheng.

But under the premise of not threatening the other's life, Ning Chen temporarily didn't want to intervene.

Wu Mu let out an "Ah," looked down at the ropes on his body, and said: "Yes, I came to find a job through an introduction. I remember you were the one who introduced the job to me, right?"

Liu Zi laughed: "Yes, today is your first day of employment; I need to give you some tests."

Even if Wu Mu was stupid, he knew the other party definitely had ill intentions.

In such a dark and narrow space, with hands and feet bound, escape was impossible; he could only adapt to the other's words and ask: "What tests?"

"You know, right? Our company focuses on communications. First, I need you to contact your family."Liu Zi said.

Wu Mu's heart skipped a beat: "Contact them? What should I say to them?"

"Just say you've found a job here but urgently need money; you should bring out ten thousand yuan first. Although we are a legitimate company, last month we had some issues due to certain reasons, causing a large financial gap in the company now, so you need to fill it first."

Ning Chen's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he interjected: "Why just ten thousand?"

Liu Zi sneered coldly: "Because I think you're a waste, and you can't even come up with ten thousand yuan."

Ning Chen immediately felt an impulse to untie the ropes and fight Liu Zi.

But finally, looking at Liu Zi's face, Ning Chen forcibly suppressed this impulse.

Wu Mu's face had already turned somewhat pale: "T-ten thousand yuan is no problem, but why would a company have a financial gap requiring employees to pay?"

Liu Zi perhaps hadn't expected this Gao Zhongsheng to think of that point; his eyes narrowed slightly, and he quickly found another excuse: "Because this job requires capable people to do it. Since you came here looking for work, you must show some sincerity, right?"

Ning Chen finally understood; Liu Zi was deceiving the other party.

When Liu Zi faced me, at least he was straightforward and too lazy to lie; yet when dealing with this Gao Zhongsheng, he actually bothered to think up a deception, using such a clumsy and low-quality excuse.

But—

Ning Chen looked at that Gao Zhongsheng, saw the other's expression still one of deep conviction, felt a jump in his heart, and couldn't help but speak: "Where did you get so much money?"

Although Liu Zi was dissatisfied with Ning Chen speaking up at this moment, figuring out this Gao Zhongsheng's family background was a necessary step, so he said nothing. Wu Mu opened his mouth: "Surely no one can't even come up with a hundred thousand yuan; this amount is just a matter of me and my family opening our mouths."

This time it was Liu Zi's turn to be dumbfounded.

Liu Zi, who even stuttered a bit, asked: "What does your family do?"

"Just," Wu Mu said, "running a company?"

Liu Zi almost failed to maintain his expression.

He never expected that simply introducing a job would hook such a big fish, and if he could use the identity of a wealthy Young Master to blackmail his parents, this one deal would surely earn him a fortune!

Liu Zi rubbed his hands: "Good, good, good... then contact your parents first; I will return the full hundred thousand yuan to you without a single cent missing in the end."

Wu Mu was truly innocent; after hearing this, he nodded and lit up his phone screen.

Liu Zi stared closely and saw that this phone was also the latest model on the current market; he licked his lips, clearly drooling.

Ning Chen glanced at him, took note of Liu Zi's unsavory behavior, then looked at Wu Mu: "So why come to this place to find work? You clearly know this place is unsafe."

Wu Mu saw this person's hands and feet were also bound, felt somewhat puzzled, but answered Ning Chen's question first: "I don't really want my parents managing me; every time I ask them for money, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Originally, we planned to travel abroad this time, so we set the destination at Cangbei, just to come and take a look."

Ning Chen felt a lump of air stuck in his throat: "There are so many places in the world, yet you insist on coming to this kind of place?"

Ning Chen carried a strong sense of frustration, like hating iron that won't become steel; although this Gao Zhongsheng had only crossed paths with him a few times, he held the mindset of saving whoever he could, and said: "Don't you know what situation you are in right now?"

As soon as Ning Chen finished speaking these words, Liu Zi shouted from the side: "Are your skin itching?"

A hint of mockery flashed in Ning Chen's eyes; he restrained his desire to break free from the ropes, let out a cold sneer, and said nothing.

Wu Mu looked at Ning Chen: "Are you here to find work too? Is the rule of this company that employees' hands and feet must be tied up upon meeting?"

The question he asked was truly too stupid; Ning Chen closed his eyes, feeling unable to bear looking, while Liu Zi laughed heartily: "Good! I just like you, such an innocent and simple little kid. Rest assured, as long as you do well here, you will surely achieve financial independence soon."

Wu Mu believed him completely and said: "I need to make a call; can you untie me?"

After a pause, Wu Mu added: "Untie him too."

Wu Mu was referring to Ning Chen.

Ning Chen looked at Wu Mu.

Wu Mu rolled his eyes, walked over to Ning Chen, and untied all the ropes on his body: "Just untie yours; there's no need to deal with his for now."

"On what grounds?" Ning Chen couldn't help but ask.

"On the grounds that I'm in a bad mood right now, and you angered me." Liu Zi, being completely unreasonable, glared at Ning Chen and said.

Seeing this, Wu Mu no longer insisted on waiting for Liu Zi to untie the ropes on his body; he took out his phone and dialed a number.

And Liu Zi stood aside, not even checking whether the number Wu Mu dialed was a private number, letting Wu Mu complete the call and speak to the person on the other end.