The sun rose at eight or nine o 'clock in the morning, but it couldn't reach the Bronx.
The high-rise buildings surrounded the area, and the people living there felt gloomy even in broad daylight.
Tan Guiren had just woken up in a dilapidated, grayish-white six-story building in the middle of the Bronx.
She hugged her shoulders and curled up in the corner, instinctively covering her forehead with her arm.
The piercing sunlight seeped in through the cracks in the window and shone right on her face, waking her up from her sleep.
She sat quietly in the corner for a while, waiting for the blinding light to move away before lowering her arm.
She opened her eyes and scanned the small room for a while.
There were no lights in the room, and the windows were nailed shut, so it was dark even in broad daylight.
Only the occasional sliver of sunlight seeped in through the cracks in the wood, illuminating her so much that she didn't look like a ghost.
She didn't know how long she had been locked up in this small room.
She could still try to count when she was first locked up, but as time went on, her hopes became slimmer and slimmer, so she gave up.
Tan Guiren felt that she might never be able to leave this place.
"Miss … I'm hungry …" A timid child's voice sounded not far from her.
Tan Guiren looked up.
The four-square-foot hut was divided into small spaces by iron cages.
There used to be a person in each cage, but as time passed, the people stopped moaning and were carried out motionlessly.
In the beginning, she remembered that there were three adults and eight children around seven or eight years old in the room.
Now, there was only one adult and two children.
The two children were a boy and a girl, and they depended on each other here.
They stayed in their own cages, like animals, without freedom or dignity.
The other little boy had already started to cry.
Tan Guiren quickly moved over and comforted him through the cage. "Little Quan, don't cry. A man bleeds, not tears …"
"I'm not a man. I'm only eight! I want Daddy and Mommy! I want my brother and sister … Sob, sob, sob, sob … "Xiao Quan cried even harder.
"Why are you howling at your mother's funeral so early in the morning!" A rough voice suddenly exploded at the door. Then, Xiao Quan's iron cage was opened, and a big man went in. He took an iron ruler and slapped Xiao Quan's head and body!
Xiao Quan suddenly let out a blood-curdling scream that pierced the clouds, and then he fell to the ground, motionless.
Although Tan Guiren was scared out of her wits, she couldn't watch such a young child be beaten to death. She mustered up her courage and clung to her cage in fear. "What do you guys want?! He's still a child! "
The man suddenly turned his head and stared at her fiercely. Seeing that although she was skinny, she still had an elegant and beautiful face, his cloudy eyes revealed a trace of lasciviousness. A big hairy hand reached out towards her.
Tan Guiren couldn't dodge in time, and his large, sticky hand brushed past her cheek. She hurriedly sat back to avoid the man's ill-intentioned hand.
"Damn it! How dare you dodge! Who do you think you are?! " The man's eyes turned red from Tan Guiren's disdainful expression. He pounced over and tore the lock off her cage with one hand, throwing it to the ground. He pulled open the iron door and pounced on her.
Tan Guiren resisted with all her might, but the front of her shirt was still ripped open.
She didn't know how long she had worn this silk shirt for, but it was starting to stink. However, the people here didn't allow her to shower, and she didn't dare shower here.
However, her filthy and smelly appearance triggered the man's animal instincts.
Tan Guiren hadn't eaten for a long time, and she was already very weak. She often gave the bread she saved to the children, so she was so skinny that she was nothing but a bag of bones. How could she have the strength to fight this big, burly man?
She was quickly pinned down by him until she couldn't move. Her eyes stared straight at the top of the cage and the ceiling above it. Tears gradually seeped out of the corners of her eyes as she thought about how her innocence was going to end here.
She had always been well-behaved since she was young, and the Tan family was a scholarly family with extremely strict upbringing. She didn't even have a boyfriend, so she didn't expect to be defiled by this criminal today …
Her heart was dead, and she was about to commit suicide when she suddenly heard someone yell, "Jack! What are you doing?! "
Then a gust of wind hit her, and she felt her body lighten. The burly man on top of her was dragged out and thrown out the door.
"B … Boss, I … I … Just give her to me! I've had my eyes on her for a long time! "The criminal refused to give up outside and shamelessly begged for someone to let him go.
"Get out!"
There was a muffled thud, and the criminal's voice couldn't be heard anymore. She didn't know if he'd rolled on his own or if he'd been knocked unconscious.
After a while, the door to the room was pushed open, and a tall, skinny young man walked in with a piece of clothing in his hand to cover Tan Guiren's body.
Tan Guiren opened her eyes to see a handsome, cold man squatting in front of her. She couldn't hold it in anymore and screamed. She frantically crawled backward and shivered in the corner of the wall.
It hadn't been easy for her to keep her chastity. She didn't want to be defiled by someone like this even if she died …
The man didn't make things difficult for her. He held a cigarette in his hand and flicked the ash off. In a raspy voice, he said, "Change your clothes. This won't happen again."
Tan Guiren pursed her lips and turned her head to avoid looking at the cold-looking man. However, she clutched the clothing covering her body tightly, and the veins on the back of her hands were about to pop.
After a while, the man walked out, but he returned shortly with a few paper plates with freshly baked pizzas on them. He placed a slice in front of Tan Guiren and the two children. "Eat."
Tan Guiren still didn't move, but the two starving children pounced at her without a care in the world. They picked up the pizza and ate it in big bites.
The man locked the cage and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. Only then did he say to the strong men guarding the door coldly, "Whoever dares to harass the people in the room again will end up like Jack!"
In front of them, the strong man who had been strutting around earlier was lying face down on the ground. There was a hole in the back of his head, and white brain matter was spurting all over the ground. He had already been beaten to death at the door.
The strong men guarding the door were all murderers with countless lives on their hands, but they were as obedient as lab rats in front of this cold man.
"Drag him away and deal with him," the handsome, cold man said coolly without looking back. He went downstairs.
The noises outside disappeared, and Tan Guiren's gaze moved to the window. She wanted so badly to return to the sunlight and her ivory tower from before, but she couldn't. She didn't know what she had done wrong. Twenty-three years of comfortable and warm days had disappeared in one morning.
She still didn't understand how she had woken up in this hellish place after sleeping peacefully in her dorm!
Tan Guiren put on the clothes covering her body with trembling hands and hugged her knees as she sat in the corner. She started sobbing again.
…
When Huo Shaoheng returned to the office of the Special Operations Forces in New York, the recent personnel turnover report in the Bronx was already in his mailbox.
He turned on his computer and opened the email to analyze the data.
The Bronx had always been the area with the worst security in New York. The people there were all kinds of people, and most of them had criminal records.
It wasn't easy to find someone who hadn't committed a crime, but it was easy to find someone with a criminal record, and there were still people who slipped through the net.
This was the best place to hide hostages, wasn't it?
Even if someone robbed or killed someone there, no one would know. Even the police couldn't be bothered to patrol the area and let the people there fend for themselves.
As long as they didn't cause trouble in the area, everyone would treat it as a real shadow. They would pretend it didn't exist where the sunlight couldn't reach.
However, Huo Shaoheng also noticed something different in a place like this, where criminals were everywhere.
It should have been a place where crimes could happen anywhere, but in the past month, there was one place with an extremely low crime rate. All the hooligans with criminal records seemed to avoid that place.
What could make these fearless hooligans, who would pull out their guns and shoot at each other at the slightest disagreement, take a detour?
Only forces that were more ruthless and evil than them.
Huo Shaoheng pulled up the map of the Bronx again. Using the personnel turnover data, he quickly located the place where all the hooligans took a detour.
It was a small six-story building in the center of the Bronx.
"Little Ze, take a look. Can you get a satellite image of this area?" Huo Shaoheng asked Zhao Liangze as he pointed at the map on the computer.
Zhao Liangze looked over. "No problem. There's a street map of this place. I can pull it up right away."
In a short while, Zhao Liangze found the map of the place.
This was a small building that had a gray and dilapidated exterior, but the surroundings of the building were surprisingly clean. Not only was there no trash that could be seen everywhere on the street, but there weren't even drug addicts and prostitutes wandering around. It was unusually clean.
Even Zhao Liangze gasped. He pointed at the street map and said, "… Could it be here?!"
"It should be." Huo Shaoheng rubbed his chin with one hand and said calmly, "However, the people here will be difficult to deal with. We need more firepower."
"No way?!" Zhao Liangze blinked. "Although the people here have criminal records, they're just small-time hooligans. Using firepower to deal with them is like killing a chicken with a butcher's knife, isn't it? Or using anti-aircraft guns to kill mosquitoes?! "
"Don't be ridiculous." Huo Shaoheng's expression was unusually serious. "If Tan Guiren is here, do you think it'll be easy for us to rescue her and ensure that none of our people are harmed or discovered by the American police, military, FBI, or CIA? Of course we'll use firepower to end this quickly! "
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