The little girl in the cage had her hands and feet tied up, already showing streaks of blood, while her mouth was sealed with a black plastic bag. They were all shedding tears, and so looked at her with pleading eyes. She counted them—there were exactly eight.
"This is not my dad’s warehouse," Luo Qianqian looked at the two n and frowned slightly. "By the looks of it, this must be the warehouse of that uncle my dad ntioned, right? No wonder Dad didn’t take here to play."
With the deanor of a spoiled young mistress, she looked down on people and then asked curiously, "Don’t they eat? Or are they given nutrition injections?"
Seeing Luo Qianqian’s as-if-it-were-normal deanor, the two n also relaxed, naturally treating Luo Qianqian as the daughter of so friend of their boss, for those who owned warehouses in this area were either rich or noble.
"The boss said to starve them for three days. Only if they behave, they’ll be sent away."
Luo Qianqian nodded, "Call my dad over for , will you? I’m too lazy to walk, this place is so big... Ouch, why does my head hurt so much..."
One man touched his head guiltily. Though it wasn’t he who had knocked the person unconscious, but the child herself who had fallen, it was he who had carried the person over. Thinking of his ungentle actions, he turned his eyes away guiltily and then said, "I’ll go outside to check; this place is big, maybe we took a wrong turn."
Luo Qianqian nodded indifferently. She knew that once this man left, Feng would handle the other man left behind, divide and conquer. Seeing those little girls in the cage, she couldn’t show any weakness. If she slipped up, no one would be able to leave.
The remaining man, however, seemingly struck by a whim, poured a cup of water for Luo Qianqian and said, "This is no place for kids. Don’t follow adults around aimlessly next ti. Spend that ti reading books and studying. What you sow, so shall you reap," he lectured, a stark contrast to the lowly thug he had seed before.
Luo Qianqian frowned slightly, wondering if he could be so sort of undercover agent?
However, this thought was fleeting, as she soon saw the man revert to his dutiful thug deanor.
Just then, Feng approached him and struck him down with a karate chop, a flicker of surprise passing through his eyes before he fell.
Luo Qianqian finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "What about these children? We can’t just leave them here to be hard, can we?"
Feng used a chair to break open the giant cage’s lock, "You are brave indeed. But could you please use your head next ti? What if these two n were connected to everyone in this area? You would be risking your life." His voice was stern, reprimanding her as Luo Qianqian shrank her neck and climbed into the cage to untie the rope from the nearest girl’s hands.
The girl freed her feet and mouth on her own, her tears unstoppable as she said "Thank you, thank both of you," and was about to kneel in gratitude.
Luo Qianqian waved her hand, "Now help the others get free. Do you know how to contact your family?"
The girl nodded and efficiently freed the peers who had shared her ordeal over the past few days.
Luo Qianqian’s gaze, however, fell on the smallest and seemingly youngest child. Her eyes were sowhat vacant, not because the child was strikingly beautiful or seriously injured, but because the child’s gaze was too forthright, staring straight at her without blinking.
Luo Qianqian didn’t know why, but she felt this child was also pitiful.
However, this was not the ti to be sentintal, as the door creaked open—it seed soone was coming back.
Sure enough, the voice arrived before the person: "I walked around and didn’t see anyone. Little sister, which warehouse does your family own?"
However, when he ca in and saw the scene, his mouth dropped open in shock: "What are you doing!" Then he saw his fallen companion and imdiately raised his gun at Feng.
Feng raised his eyebrows, "You dare to shoot here?"
The man was at a loss for words; he truly didn’t dare. Although the area was secluded, patroln were not scarce, and the kind of operations their boss ran were far from honorable. However, he couldn’t just lose this standoff. He looked at Luo Qianqian, who didn’t seem to be lying, and waved his hand: "Take this lady and leave, and we will pretend this never happened."
However, Luo Qianqian was reluctant because she didn’t know what would happen to the children once they left. At that mont, a pair of small hands clutched Luo Qianqian’s hand, "Sis, I will listen to dad from now on and won’t run around anymore. Please don’t leave behind; I won’t be jealous of dad being nice to you anymore." The speaker was the youngest-looking child.
The man holding the gun suddenly understood why she had reacted so fiercely; she was acquainted with soone they had captured. He took it upon himself to say, "You can take this child with you. It was the lack of carefulness by those people that got one of their own caught."
On the ground, Sweet Potato opened his eyes to assess the situation but quickly closed them again.
The youngest child yelled at Feng, "Little uncle, hit him. He didn’t give food!"
Feng nodded, then approached the man with an apologetic expression, "You see, just a gesture so I can face my family." Saying that, he knocked the man out with a karate chop.
He nodded at Luo Qianqian, "You take the people and go first, I’ll cover our backs."
Luo Qianqian nodded, grabbed the youngest, and, looking after the other children, they all swiftly ran out.
Feng then kicked the feigning unconscious man, "Should I beat you up?"
The man was not pretentious and stood up, shaking his head, "No need, are you Sweet Potato or a regular potato?"
"I’m a toad, ribbit ribbit ribbit," Feng responded with a flicker of surprise in his eyes.
"Well then, I leave this side to you; I’m pulling out. If you need help, just ask." With that, the man pointed at his wrist.
Feng understood their coded language naturally.
He nodded, pointing at the man on the ground. The man nodded back, "Leave him to ."
Believing his words, Feng turned and walked away. The man watched him leave and laughed, remarking that the young girl didn’t seem the type.
But now was not the ti to think about that. It wasn’t just them two on this shift; there was also the morning shift. Hence, he disarranged everything in the warehouse and destroyed over half of the useless goods ant to deceive the eye before finally carting away the man on the ground.
Luo Qianqian led the children out of the building, uncertain of where to go, and could only wait at Feng’s parking spot. But obviously, the vehicle couldn’t fit so many people—at least half couldn’t fit.
"Five stay with ; Qianqian, you take three by cab to the bar area. There’s a ho-style restaurant there. Do you have money?" Feng saw Luo Qianqian and directly spoke, knowing they couldn’t just abandon them after such events; might as well see it through to the end.
Luo Qianqian pulled out her wallet from the car, nodding, "Who’s coming with ?" As soon as she finished speaking, a child clung to Luo Qianqian’s waist. Luo Qianqian thought of her unborn siblings and her eyes softened considerably.
Then, seeing the remaining girls shuffle towards her, Luo Qianqian saw Feng’s indifferent face and sighed, "Alright, the youngest stay with . This uncle is my family and won’t hurt you. We will see you at the place where we are eating." With that, besides the huge pendant clinging to her waist, two delighted girls stepped out.
Luo Qianqian nodded, first getting into the cab with the three, then Feng finally got into his car and coldly addressed the others, "The heaviest on the front passenger seat, the other four squeeze in the back." The oldest girl, referred to as the heaviest, couldn’t help but feel annoyed; she was just a bit taller, why was she labeled the heaviest.
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