Chapter 1108: Kidnapping and Choice

"Mom, when can we go back?"

In a small city in the neighboring state, the big-bearded man's wife was holding her child's hand, purchasing the living supplies needed for the next week in a supermarket.

Ever since the big-bearded police chief decided to stand on Lansi's side, he had arranged for his family to be in this place.

Here was the place where his wife's younger brother was working, and his wife's younger brother was the local police station's sheriff, also a person who had some power.

Small cities had the disadvantages of small cities, but the advantages were also obvious. This city was very small, and all outsiders were very easy to be discovered by people.

Plus, having one's own people in the police station, the big-bearded police chief felt that this arrangement was very reliable. He didn't even tell Lansi.

Before, Lansi also had such a proposal in his communication with him, letting him send his family to Likai State or Xinjin City, and Lansi would arrange for people to protect them, but he was rejected by the big-bearded police chief.

His rejection of this matter was within Lansi's expectation. After all, as a new cooperative partner who actually wasn't particularly understanding and trusting of each other, if it were him, facing the same problem, he would also find it very difficult to choose to send his family to the other party's territory.

Even the big-bearded police chief might also suspect in this regard whether Lansi would use his family to remotely control him, letting him do some things he actually didn't want to do very much.

So in the end, he still chose his own idea, a decision he thought was very steady.

Mother and child had been in the villa for more than a week. The big-bearded police chief repeatedly asked them not to show up, not to show up.

Quite a few gangs in the federal middle region were subordinate to the Perez family. These gangs might not stand out to exert any effect in gang warfare, but in the matter of finding people without spending much energy and cost, they would still obey.

Once discovered, they would likely suffer.

At first, the big-bearded man's wife did listen to his words, always staying in the villa without coming out, quietly waiting for news to come.

But... their child was still young, and the freshness of the villa soon dissipated. He began to cry and make trouble to go out for a turn, even if it was just for a little while.

The big-bearded police chief's wife wasn't a very tough person, and the one begging her was her child, so in the end, she agreed, and asked the child to repeatedly guarantee that it was just for a little while.

Walking in the supermarket, the big-bearded police chief's child didn't feel how interesting it was here either. The barren goods and the lack of rich toys made him feel bored.

Just after strolling for a while, he felt annoyed, so he asked this question he cared about most.

When could they leave here and return to the old city.

Although its name was "Old City," the development in all aspects was very good, far exceeding here.

He liked the life there—happy, relaxed, and there were playgrounds, unlike here, where there wasn't even a fun playground.

The big-bearded police chief's wife held the little boy's hand tightly. "Soon we can go back."

The little boy lowered his head somewhat frustratedly. "I want to go watch a movie."

His mother was stunned for a moment. "We agreed before we came out, only half an hour."

The little boy disagreed and acted like a spoiled child. "No, I want to go watch a movie. It's too boring here, there isn't even a TV!"

The TV was still considered a luxury item for ordinary people. Although its price had quickly dropped from the two thousand dollars when it was launched to three hundred dollars, it was still a luxury item for ordinary working-class families.

It was said that several TV manufacturing enterprises in the country were preparing for further price cuts. There was a rumor that the president of one of the enterprises required the company to reduce the TV's selling price to one hundred dollars within two years!

If its price really dropped to one hundred dollars, then it would have the qualification to walk into more families.

But now they hadn't done these things, so the upstream and downstream industries surrounding the TV hadn't covered some small cities, such as TV stations, TV signal towers, and cable TV networks.

There was no signal here, no cable network. Even if there was a TV, it couldn't be played.

This was simply terrible for the little boy who had already gotten used to big city life. He had had enough of the boring life here. He now urgently wanted to return to the big city.

Children, when they wanted something but couldn't get it, they would make trouble.

He actually didn't want to watch any movie at all; he just wanted to express his attitude through such a way. Anyway, as long as he wasn't allowed to go back, he would make trouble.

The little boy's mother looked at him and finally nodded helplessly to agree to his request to watch a movie. The two police officers following them looked at each other and finally shook their heads helplessly.

They agreed on half an hour, and now they were adding to it again. But they also didn't feel that doing so had any danger. It was just deviating a little bit from the initial plan.

They were police officers arranged by the big-bearded police chief's wife's younger brother to protect them. Two police officers in this small city were already enough to deal with various problems.

Soon they arrived outside one of the few movie theaters in the city, where quite a few people had already gathered. In this small city lacking entertainment, movies were definitely the most popular and one of the few leisure activities people could choose from, so watching films was very popular here.

Soon a new disagreement appeared. The little boy just looked at the promotional poster and asked to watch an art film. He felt that the art film's poster was more in line with his aesthetics.

But the big-bearded police chief's wife was persuading him to choose a comedy film. Children couldn't understand art films, but comedy films could be understood.

The depth of art films, let alone children, even adults might not be able to understand!

Another quarrel, and in the end, the big-bearded police chief's wife still compromised to the child. But she, as well as the little boy and the two police officers beside them, didn't notice that when the little boy was making a scene, the gazes of several young people outside the movie theater fell on them.

At first, they just felt that this was a very ordinary quarrel between mother and child about what movie to watch. Such things often happened here, between parents and children.

Parents wanted to completely control their children, even arranging what movies they watched, while rebellious children struggled and resisted with all their might, which happened from time to time.

But soon their gazes became somewhat strange.

When Bob decided to finish off the big-bearded police chief, and he himself hid in the police station and didn't come out, using his family to force him to compromise was the simplest and most effective way.

Gangs weren't those people who called themselves partners of justice. They only looked at the results when doing things, not the process. If doing so was very effective, then they would do so.

As for morality or something, that wasn't within the scope of their consideration.

They notified all the small and medium-sized gangs subordinate to them in the federal middle region, letting them pay attention to the big-bearded police chief's wife and child.

There were photos, from the school's roster, as well as descriptions of this pair of mother and child.

During this period, tens of thousands or even more than ten thousand gang members had seen the little boy's photo. Finding people like this definitely wouldn't be the gang leader finding them himself; it was all done by these gang members under his hand.

It was just that no one had discovered this pair of mother and child these past two days, but they had indeed looked for them.

People all felt that the big-bearded police chief must have hidden his family very well and wouldn't show any flaws. This could only be considered a choice of doing one's best and listening to destiny.

But it seemed that here, a turning point occurred.

Several young people soon dispersed. Someone was staring at the movie theater here, and several other people reported this matter to the gang they belonged to.

Not long after, the leader and cadres of their gang all came and brought the little boy's photo.

"In this movie theater?" A man wearing sunglasses who looked a bit thin, or even a bit "weak," pulled his eyes down and took a serious look at the name of the movie theater.

The several young people under his hand nodded repeatedly. "Yes, I watched them go in."

The gang leader nodded and asked people to block the back door at the back of the movie theater, and then others waited here for the end of the show.

In fact, there was no need to wait for the end of the show, because the art film was very boring. The little boy only watched for more than ten minutes and couldn't watch anymore, and was making a scene again, wanting to leave here and go home to sleep.

During this period, the big-bearded police chief's wife had been apologizing to the two police officers protecting them, apologizing for the child's rudeness.

Apologizing was very useful. The two police officers who were originally somewhat impatient also showed their maturity and generosity.

When the four people walked out of the movie theater, the two police officers clearly felt something wrong.

The moment they walked out, some people who were originally parked by the roadside, leaning on the guardrail to smoke, or sitting on the steps, all stood up suddenly. Their gazes were all cast here.

These people were gang members. This city was very small, so small that the police were actually quite familiar with these gang members.

The two police officers looked at each other. They immediately pulled the woman and child and ran toward the police car. This action of theirs also startled those gang members who were waiting for them.

This gang leader was determined to curry favor with the Perez family, so he had already given his people a death order: must get this pair of mother and child!

The gunfight actually ended the moment it broke out.

When the two police officers saw that these gang members had all drawn their weapons, they raised their hands and threw their pistols on the ground.

When these gang members approached, one of the police officers said with an iron-blue face, "You don't intend to continue staying here. Do you know who they are?"

The gang leader didn't care at all, holding the woman and child's hands, glanced at him sideways, didn't say anything, got into the car, and left quickly.

Once they curried favor with the Perez family, who the fuck would still be messing around in such a small city? Their future was the big city, the stars, and the sea!

By the time the big-bearded police chief's wife's younger brother knew about this, it had already been more than ten minutes. The big-bearded police chief's wife and child had already disappeared.

This small city had several roads that could leave the city. He didn't know at all whether the other party was still in the city, whether they had already left the city, what road they took, or if they took the train. He didn't know anything.

The only thing he could do was to tell the big-bearded police chief about this matter in the first time.

"So... have they been confirmed to have been kidnapped?"

The big-bearded police chief's voice on the phone was very low. It could be heard that his mood was very low now.

His wife's younger brother said "um" embarrassedly. "I have already asked people to look for them, but there was no discovery. You know, I am just a sheriff, not a chief."

He could only mobilize the people under his hand. Wanting to mobilize people under other departments or other sheriffs wasn't impossible. A few, a dozen were no problem. Any more, and he had to go through procedures.

After all, the police station was a federal law enforcement agency, not some private company where one could do whatever one wanted. And he wasn't the head, just a small role.

Although he was also very heartbroken, losing them was losing them.

After a short silence, the big-bearded police chief seemed to have accepted this fact. "I know. I will find a way to save them on my side."

His wife's younger brother expressed his apology for his work error and then added, "If there is anything you need me for, call me!"

Soon the phone call ended. The big-bearded police chief sat there in a daze for a while, and then dialed a phone call to Lansi.

Now Lansi had already arrived in Xinjin City, not far from here.

"This is Lansi..."

"It's me, Hel from the old city. I encountered a bit of trouble."

"What trouble?" asked Lansi.

The big-bearded police chief lit a cigarette and took a puff. "My family might have already been kidnapped by people from the Perez family."

They had talked about this problem before. Lansi paused for a few seconds. "What happened?"

He told the things he knew once. Lansi was also speechless about this. "I told you before that the best way was to send them to me, but you refused."

"I will ask people to investigate this matter, but I must tell you the truth. The probability of finding them is very low, very low."

"If this matter happened on my territory, I can guarantee that they would always be on my territory and wouldn't be transferred away."

"But this isn't my territory. I'm not familiar with the gang branch situation here, and I have even less friendship with them. I can only arrange for people to investigate and let the state police coordinate."

The state police station belonged to the state government management. Lansi could find someone to pass a message, letting them pay attention to the kidnapping incident that happened on the interstate highway.

But the effect actually had no use.

Police couldn't stop every passing car, then search these cars and ask every child if they were kidnapped.

They could only rely on their own experience and preferences, randomly sampling some of the vehicles passing through. For example, someone felt that this kidnapping incident should have used a box truck.

Then they would give up searching other vehicles and mainly target box trucks.

The success rate of this kind of interception with strong subjective will might not even be one percent, so this was also doing one's best and listening to destiny.

But in terms of comforting people, this statement still had a bit of effect. At least it was better than doing nothing.

"Thank you, thank you very much for your help!" The big-bearded police chief seemed a bit exhausted. When speaking, it was that kind of powerless feeling.

Lansi smiled and said "You're welcome," and then asked, "Hel, I like to consider some problems from reality, and I like to make various precautions."

"I mean if, if we didn't intercept the vehicle with your wife and child, and they fell into Bob's hands, what do you plan to do next?"

"They will definitely force you to do some things you don't want to do now, and might even... you know, we have cooperated very happily during this period."

"We have cooperated as happily as we have, and he hates you as much. I'm worried he will find a way to lure you out and then finish you off."

"Because the hostile relationship and hatred between you are already very difficult to resolve simply. Do you understand what I mean?"

Lansi's words made the big-bearded police chief have to think about these things. During this period, to help Lansi, the police side also finished off some gang members of the Perez family in the process of arresting them. Those police officers who fired had many retreats. After all, they were just executors. The real target of hatred was the big-bearded police chief who gave this order, so he actually had no retreat.

At this time, the big-bearded police chief's brain was very chaotic. He knew the meaning of Lansi saying these words, but it was very difficult to accept such a result.

He didn't answer Lansi's words and kept silent all the time.

Lansi continued, "I'm not asking you to make any decision. I'm just telling you what you will face. As for what you want to do, that's your freedom. I won't interfere."

"Actually, for me, it's nothing more than changing a cooperative object."

"If the newly appointed chief can cooperate with us as intimately as this, that's the best. If he isn't willing to cooperate with me, I can only do the same things as Bob did."

"I hope our cooperation can continue. After all, we already have a foundation of mutual trust. You should think about it carefully."

"If there is anything you need me for, call me."

The big-bearded police chief said "Okay" and then hung up the phone. He was thinking.

He loved his wife and child, but he also knew what he was facing now. He sat there, silently smoking, one after another.

That night, Bob called him.

"Your wife and son are in my hands. I think we can talk."

"Look, we have known each other for a much longer time than you and Lansi have known each other. Even if we cooperate, it should be you and me cooperating, not you and him."

"Hel, I know what kind of person you are. We shouldn't be like this. Now God has given us an opportunity to correct mistakes. We should sit down and talk."

"To express my sincerity, whether we can talk or not, you can take your family away!" ===== CHAPTER 1109 =====

"To express my sincerity, regardless of whether we can reach an agreement, you may take your family away!"