"You called the police, right?"
Father Shen was stunned and looked at Yan Ji for help. Yan Ji nodded lightly.
"Of course, I called the police! What else could I do? Where would we ordinary people get 200 million for you?! "
A cold electronic voice came from the other side of the phone. "Very good."
Father Shen was stuck and couldn't answer for a while. The small conference room fell into a suffocating silence.
Yan Xuan took out his phone and quickly typed a few words. Then, he flipped his hand and flashed it. Father Shen squinted his eyes carefully and followed Yan Ji's instructions. "We, we still want our son to come back. Name a price! As long as our family can afford it, we'll sell everything to you! "
"200 million," the other side said. "Not a penny less."
"I'm not Jack Ma or Wang Jianlin. If you want to kidnap and extort money, you should at least ask for a more realistic number, right? At most, we can sell our house and car to get a few million for you. 200 million, aren't you trying to force people to die?! "
Huang Xing poked his head out from the hallway and gestured from a distance to indicate that the technicians were tracking.
Yan Ji nodded to indicate that he understood.
Father Shen's bargaining skills, which he had trained in business, finally came into play at this moment. "You want money, I want people. This could have been resolved peacefully. Why do we have to make both sides suffer? I definitely can't take out 200 million. Either you lower the price, or I can only pretend that I never gave birth to this son! "
With a loud slap, Mother Shen slapped Father Shen so hard that he staggered a few steps.
It was clearly just an act! Father Shen angrily defended himself with his mouth, which was immediately followed by Mother Shen's mouth: Acting won't do!
Yan Ji's ears twitched. Suddenly, he heard a faint sound from the other side of the phone, like a mocking sneer. He immediately stepped forward and pulled the couple apart.
Sure enough, the electronic voice sounded again, like an emotionless computer program, stiffly repeating,
"Two hundred million, not a cent less."
"Damn it!" Father Shen flew into a rage. "Idiot, don't play tricks with me. My son isn't in your hands at all! My son is fine! Why don't you take a good look at yourself before trying to scam others? Do you think you can scare me with a piece of clothing stained with bird blood? Bullshit! I, Shen De, am not afraid of anything in this life. I, Shen De, am not afraid of anything. Anything … "
Ding!
As if some program had been activated, Father Shen's angry rebuke subconsciously stopped, and everyone stared at the phone.
"There are 48 hours and 24 minutes left until the execution."
The call was hung up.
The conference room was shrouded in a confused atmosphere. After a long while, Father Shen finally blurted out, "… What is this thing?"
Yan Ji ignored him and quickly walked into the technical investigation department. "Did you find Big Yellow?"
"This is a network dialing made using a certain foreign payment service. It should have been charged in advance by the payer before setting up a separate platform to make a call or send a text message. The number was automatically generated by the system. It's similar to a lot of spam messages in China, but the difference is that this server is set up outside the country, and it's very low-level, so it's a bit difficult to track it down. "
Yan Ji asked, "But the person who made this call should be in the country, right?"
Huang Xing said with certainty, "Of course."
"These days, the TV stations broadcast criminal investigation dramas. All the criminals have learned how to counter-investigate," Yan Ji muttered. He suddenly remembered Jiang Stops's comment a few hours ago, and his heart trembled slightly.
"If it's a prank, the method is too ingenious."
Indeed, if it was a wire fraud, the criminal couldn't have asked for 200 million yuan and understood the Shen family's situation so well. If it was a prank, the method was too ingenious, and it was beyond normal behavior.
Then the only explanation was that the kidnapping was real.
This was not a dirty joke.
"How is it?"
Yan Ji glanced over and saw Jiang Stops standing next to him with his arms crossed.
Jiang Stops' facial expression was still as calm and relaxed as usual. His waist was slender, his shoulders were wide, and his legs were long. He looked like a model in a shop window. Looking at him, Yan Ji's heart skipped a beat. It was as if a stone had been thrown into a lake, creating ripples that were difficult to calm down.
"Network dialing." Yan Xuan rubbed his nose, trying to hide his unnatural expression. He told her the results of the investigation and asked, "What do you think, Ba Wang Flower?"
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