For Luke Cage, twenty million dollars was an amount he could never save in his lifetime even if he neither ate, drank, nor spent a single cent. Yet the person who came to him had handed over a huge suitcase of cash without a word, asking only that he sign a loan agreement.
It even specified that the interest would be calculated according to Citibank's current rates. It was simply unbelievable.
Twenty million—exactly the same amount the kidnappers had demanded as ransom!
Luke Cage immediately restrained the lender.
But what was the point? The man was a legitimate employee of a financial company... He knew nothing whatsoever about the kidnapping!
Luke Cage did not dare cause trouble for the financial company yet. Everything could wait until after he rescued his wife.
Such a bizarre situation made Luke Cage hesitate. What exactly did they want?
He forced himself to resist the urge to see his wife and stood at the edge of the ruins for more than ten minutes.
This man was quite resilient.
After passing several crumbling walls in the ruins, Luke Cage saw three figures.
One was dressed in a white hospital uniform and wore a ghostly mask, holding a gun to his wife's head.
The other was a woman in a red bodysuit and red hood, wearing a black trench coat.
There was no large group of gunmen as Luke Cage had imagined, nor were there any of his enemies.
They were just two completely unrelated people.
"Here at last~"
The man in the ghost mask and white uniform spoke in an oddly affected tone, but Luke Cage was certain he was the leader. He would never forget the voice from their phone call.
"Here's twenty million. Let my wife go!"
Luke Cage's wife had tape over her