The police had already assembled a team and headed for the outskirts, taking Bo Xi and the others with them.
To avoid alerting the kidnappers, the Lin family and Xu Chen stayed home, waiting for their call, with police officers beside them.
That afternoon, the kidnappers sent another text saying they would call at nine that evening.
After all, the kidnappers knew it was no small sum. Even if the family could pay, they certainly couldn't get it ready on such short notice.
If they really were willing to pay, the kidnappers would demand even more! If they weren't, the kidnappers would still squeeze as much money out of them as possible!
And nighttime was when people were especially prone to acting on impulse.
Qin Ke was summoned over. The scar-faced boss had nothing but contempt for the pretty boy, who was as scrawny as a plucked chicken. If not for the other party's demands, he wouldn't have bothered with him.
They had insisted he bring Qin Ke along and take him abroad with them once the job was done.
Someone overseas would meet Qin Ke there. If they dared do anything to him, they wouldn't see a single cent of that money.
In a way, each side held a hostage.
After all, the account belonged to the other party. They couldn't arrange something like that themselves, and Qin Ke was their hostage, their guarantee that they would get paid in the end.
They were using each other.
"Don't go wandering off." The boss was thoroughly fed up with him. He was already fucking useless, and now he kept running around. If anything happened to him, wouldn't all that money go down the drain?
Qin Ke couldn't be bothered with him either. The system had told him that all he