“No, no!” screamed Luo Fei as her face paled with fear.
“You despicable woman! I may as well feed you to the wild animals since you refuse to tell me the truth anyway.”
Luo Fei turned to Zheng Lunlun and realized that he wasn’t bluffing.
She never could’ve guessed that a man who looked like a pretty little girl would have a heart that cold and vile.
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk,” said Luo Fei who finally admitted defeat, “Let me go. I’ll tell you everything.”
“Take your time and be specific. If you lie or even tell a fib, I will throw you overboard!”
“I didn’t place the needles there, it was Zhao Mingjie,” said Luo Fei who was still hiding part of the truth, “it had nothing to do with me.”
“Don’t change the subject! Tell me about the kids!”
“I don’t have that level of influence, and I didn’t kidnap the kids, but I am aware of it.”
“Go on. And let me remind you, do not lie! If I caught you lying, you will not have a second chance and will be thrown out!”
Luo Fei’s eyes sparkled as she weighed her options and wondered what she could say and what she must keep to herself.
“Tell me now! Or are you coming up with a story to lie to me?” growled Zheng Lunlun.
“No, no! I was just trying to figure out where to begin.”
“Doesn’t matter where you begin, just start talking. Who kidnapped the kids?”
“That, I truly have no idea. I only know that the criminal is a citizen of the M Nation. He is tall and has lots of subordinates who refer to him as ‘captain’.”
“Captain?” asked Zheng Lunlun, “How did you meet him?”
“I’ve always wanted to get Ding Mi to leave because I didn’t want her to marry into the Nan Family. Unfortunately, I kept failing. The captain contacted me and asked me to provide him with information about the Nan Family. In exchange, he would help me get rid of Ding Mi.”
Zheng Lunlun gestured her to continue.
Luo Fei tried to calm herself before she continued her statement.
“He wanted me to provide him with all sorts of information about the Nan Family but I knew very little about them.” “Fortunately, Ding Mi and I work in the same production set so it was easy to learn everything about her. That is how I found out about the kids. I told the captain about them because it seemed that the Nan Family are very protective of the kids and kidnapping them would force the Nan Family to cooperate. After all, that b**** Ding Mi was able to use the kids to get close to the Nan Family. She wouldn’t be worthy of their attention otherwise.”
Slap!
Luo Fei was slapped by Zheng Lunlun who ordered, “Just speak your truth. Do not insult Ding Mi!”
“After I told the captain about Ding Mi, the kids, and their connection with the Nan Family, I helped him concoct a kidnapping plan. He was only targeting the kids, and we never thought that Nan Chen would chase after them,” said Luo Fei.
“You truly have no idea who the captain is? Or why he is after the Nan Family? Does he hold a grudge against the family? Or is he after the money?”
“I honestly have no idea,” said Luo Fei as she shook her head, “I was never interested in finding out because I only wanted him to get rid of Ding Mi and those two bas… err… kids so that she would not be a threat. That is why I only bothered to carry out the missions he sent me because nothing else, not his identity nor his intention, mattered to me.”
“You vile woman! How could you do that to two young children?”
“Because they are Ding Mi’s children!” shouted Luo Fei who was getting upset again, “Their only fault was that they are Ding Mi’s kids!”
“The captain ever mentioned why he wanted to kidnap the kids and bring them to the M Nation?” asked Zheng Lunlun.
“No, he only mentioned that the Nan Family is too powerful in the country so it’d be difficult to fight them. He wanted to bring the kids and Ding Mi to a foreign country so that the Nan Family’s influence could not reach them.”
Zheng Lunlun deliberated. He knew that Luo Fei’s words could not be fully trusted but it shouldn’t be too far from the truth either since the situation they were in matched Luo Fei’s description.
“How do you contact that captain?”
“I don’t,” said Luo Fei, “He was the one who reached out to me, and he used a different phone number each time he did so I have no idea how to contact him.”
“Are you sure? If you’re lying, I will throw you out of this plane!”
“No, I’m not lying,” said Luo Fei, “This incident was my fault, and I will talk to Mr. Nan Chen about it in person when we find him.”
“Young Master Lun,” said Quan all of a sudden, “An airplane is tailing us!”
“What’s happening?” asked Zheng Lunlun who was also a little nervous, “Why are they following us?”
“This country has always been at war,” explained Quan, “They probably think that we’re their enemy.”
“Then give them a holler and explain that we’re neutral and that we’re only here as a rescue team.”
“They didn’t respond and kept tailing us,” said Quan, “Maybe it’s the language barrier?”
“Then let them tail us. We’re fine as long as they don’t fire.”
Zheng Lunlun had just finished speaking when they heard a strange noise.
“Oh shit! They’re firing at us!” shouted Quan.
“What the f*ck?” cussed Zheng Lunlun, “Isn’t it a little extreme to start firing all of a sudden?”
“Do we retaliate?”
“Retaliate my ass! This is not a military helicopter, and we don’t have any bullets to fight back! Just run!”
A few minutes later, Quan reported to Zheng Lunlun and said, “The plane was hit. Young Master Lun, please prepare the parachutes.”
“Huh? Why are we jumping?”
“The fuel tank had been hit,” explained Quan, “There’s a good chance the plane is about to explode so we must jump now!”
Luo Fei was so scared that she was crying. This is it. This is how I die.
She was fine in Flower City, but that Zheng Lunlun forced her to travel to that godforsaken jungle, and she was going to die there!
“Let’s go,” said Quan as he opened the helicopter doors, “We have less chance of surviving if the plane explodes.”
“Alright then, we’ll have to jump. Get the parachutes!”
On the ground, Nan Chen and the others were staring at the sky and watching the planes battling.
“It seemed that one of the planes is attacking the other,” said Qiao Zhan, “It doesn’t look like the other party is retaliating.”
“Could it be that the plane that was shot down is our rescue team?” asked Nan Chen.
“It’s possible,” said Qiao Zhan as he turned to Nan Chen, “What should we do?”
“The parties on the plane will likely parachute down before it catches on fire,” said Nan Chen, “get ready to rescue them.”
“But what if the ones on the helicopter are our enemies?”
“We’d still have to rescue them before we can determine that,” said Nan Chen harshly, “Get everyone prepared now and have the team scan the surroundings for survivors!”
“Yes, sir!” said Qiao Zhan before he left.
“If the helicopter that was shot down was our rescue plane,” muttered Ning Ran, “then our chance of getting back would be slimmer.”
“This place isn’t so bad,” said Nan Chen who had suddenly turned to Ning Ran, “Is it?”
Ning Ran didn’t know how to reply. Is this place supposed to be good? Does he like this place?
“Yes, the place is pretty cool,” said Ning Ran who was just being polite.
“Take care of the kids,” said Nan Chen, “I’ll go help the rescue team.” “If that was our rescue team, then they are definitely not alone. Someone else would come along and we should be able to leave soon.”
That was rare. The Poker Face was talking to her in complete sentences!
Ning Ran was so shocked that it was like she had just witnessed the Sun rising from the West.
