Chapter 327 – A Thief
Lin Yi took off the leader's baseball cap and shoved the body under a car that hadn't been driven in a while. No one would be able to find him for a while, probably only when his body rotted and started to smell.
Of course, Lin Yi didn't believe the leader's words completely. Who knew if he had ulterior motives? Lin Yi didn't go to the building the leader was talking about right away- what if it was a trap? Lin Yi wasn't that careless.
Lin Yi walked around the building and crouched down quietly at the door like a normal Bluewater member.
A Bluewater member walked out after a while, and Lin Yi followed him, putting a knife to his neck after he'd walked for a while.
But this time, the member spoke up before Lin Yi could say anything. "Bro, don't … don't kill me … I just wanted to sneak in to see if I could get some loot, but I went into the wrong place! I didn't do anything, I didn't steal anything! You can search me if you don't believe me, I really didn't steal anything! Please, let me go …"
Lin Yi paused, speechless. This guy had snuck in just like him? And from what he said, he seemed to be a thief who wanted to fish in troubled waters?
"Where did you get that hat?" Lin Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"I stole it …" The thief didn't try to hide anything. "I saw someone leave it in the car, but the window wasn't closed, so I stole it! I heard this was where the Bluewater made their money, so I came to try my luck. Bro, it's really my first time here … "
"Oh? Then what did you see when you went in? "Lin Yi asked.
"I … I didn't see anything, really, I won't tell anyone …" The thief was on the verge of tears.
"Tell me the truth! What did you see?! " Lin Yi asked helplessly. He didn't expect this thief to misunderstand him and think that he wanted him to keep it a secret!
"Big Brother, you're also a sensible person. You know that's where you keep the hostages. Although I saw it, I won't tell anyone. Really, don't worry. I'll keep it to myself!" The thief said honestly, "I'm not a professional. I won't report you!"
Lin Yi listened to the thief's words and knew that he misunderstood, but Lin Yi didn't explain. Now that he had confirmed that this building was really a place to hold the hostages, it was fine.
"No one noticed you after you went in? Don't tell me there aren't any of our people inside? "Lin Yi asked.
"No … there's no one from you inside … except for the hostages behind the iron bars." The thief thought that Lin Yi was just asking a routine question, so he answered truthfully. He didn't have time to think about why Lin Yi was asking these questions. He was already sweating profusely.
"If I let you go just like that, I'll have to bear the risk if the higher-ups ask!" Lin Yi didn't want to kill the thief anymore- it'd be more troublesome to deal with the corpse. He might as well let the thief go.
But he had to make sure that he didn't get suspicious if he let the thief go too smoothly.
"Big Brother." The thief took out a stack of money from his pocket. "This is my earnings for the day. You can use it to buy some cigarettes …"
"Okay, you know your place. Now scram!" Lin Yi took the money and stuffed it into his pocket in satisfaction, sheathing the knife.
The thief ran off gratefully, not even looking back as he left the place. Thinking about it, he didn't dare to stay any longer and would probably run out of the repair factory.
Lin Yi made sure that there weren't any Bluewater members in the building from the thief's mouth, and so he swaggered in.
The first floor was a big hall, but there was nothing there. The second floor was sealed off, evidently used as a warehouse.
Lin Yi went down to the basement and saw rows upon rows of prison-like cells. Some had people sitting in them, some didn't, but none of them raised their heads to look at Lin Yi as he walked past. All of them looked dejected and dispirited.
They were probably hostages that the Bluewater gang had come up with all sorts of excuses, waiting for their families and friends to come with money to redeem them.
Still, the Bluewater gang was pretty cocky, running a blackmail business like this in broad daylight. It seemed that the security here had fallen to a certain level.
"Xie Jinbiao?" Lin Yi couldn't be bothered to look for them one by one, so he called out the name.
"Here, here!" One of the men in the cell stood up excitedly, waving at Lin Yi as he walked to the edge of the cell.
Lin Yi nodded and quickly walked over. The other hostages were evidently used to this, and didn't even raise their heads.
Whoever brought the money would be called out and released, while the others wouldn't be able to get out no matter what. They didn't seem to care about Lin Yi's arrival at all.
"You're Xie Jinbiao?" Lin Yi looked at Jinbiao, noticing that he was very different from the picture Guangbo had given him. In the picture Guangbo had given him, Jinbiao was tall and strong, but this Xie Jinbiao in front of him looked like a sickly person, skinny as a monkey. But upon closer inspection, he could tell that it was the same person.
"Yes, that's me. Did my dad transfer the money?" Jinbiao was a little excited- he'd thought that he was dead for sure, but his father had found a way!
Xie Jinbiao roughly knew how much money his family had, but the debt this time was too much. Xie Jinbiao estimated that even if his father borrowed money, he wouldn't be able to borrow so much money, so he was already a little desperate …
Lin Yi unlocked the door with a metal wire and let Jinbiao out. "Come with me."
Jinbiao followed Lin Yi carefully. He was so excited that he didn't even see Lin Yi open the door with the metal wire, thinking that Lin Yi was a real member of the Bluewater gang.
"Where's my dad?" Jinbiao asked again when he saw that Lin Yi wasn't talking. "Where's my dad? Can I go now? "
"Put this on, and don't talk nonsense. Follow me!" Lin Yi put the baseball cap he'd gotten from the gang leader on Jinbiao's head. "Don't ask so many questions if you don't want to die!"
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