Chapter 140 Nine People
In the darkness, people's breathing was clearly audible. Rong Yuan felt the cold blade in his hand. Although he could hardly see with his eyes, based on the sounds, smells, and the gazes piercing his body, he could perceive the positions of all the people around him as if he saw them with his own eyes.
As the atmosphere became increasingly tense, a faint fire suddenly lit up.
The silhouette of a person lying on the ground moved, and with a click, he lit a cigarette with a lighter. He used the light to shine on his face, smiled awkwardly, and said, "Xiao Yuan...it's me."
The moment the firelight illuminated the person, the shadow cast by the outline of the organs made the whole person look particularly terrifying, but Rong Yuan still recognized who the other person was from that face that looked like a devil from hell, and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
——It was a face that he had long buried in his memory and brushed away like dust.
Li Zhanpeng, he is the nephew of Rong Lixin's wife, and has a non-blood relationship with Rong Yuan. They have known each other since they were very young. Later, Rong Guangde passed away, and Rong Lixin became Rong Yuan's guardian. I don't know what he learned from his family, but since then he has often brought people to cause trouble for Rong Yuan. However, Rong Yuan can fight and run, is very good at taking advantage of the situation, and is deeply loved by adults. Several conflicts have made Li Zhanpeng miserable. Of course, in the process, he himself will be more or less injured.
However, Li Zhanpeng has a characteristic that he is more protective of his family members. He can bully his own family members, but not others. Therefore, when he ran into Rong Yuan fighting with gangsters a few times, he would go up to help without saying a word, which can be regarded as a kind of "fighting side by side" friendship. On two occasions, he even paid for Rong Yuan's meals after the fight. Rong Yuan's impression of him was not very bad. Later, Rong Yuan was admitted to the No. 1 Middle School in City A with the first place in the city, which caused a sensation in a small circle. At that time, Li Zhanpeng had given up his studies and lived on the streets. Perhaps because he felt that the two were no longer from the same world, from then on, whether he was looking for trouble or helping in a fight, he no longer looked for Rong Yuan.
Two years later, Rong Yuan happened to hear from someone that Li Zhanpeng had been imprisoned for intentional homicide and was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Now, less than ten years later, this person appeared in front of him.
——Prison break? The prisons in Sugar Country are not so sparse that a character like Li Zhanpeng can easily escape.
——He just happened to appear in front of him... and these people around him... this matter is much more interesting than it seems.
Rong Yuan's eyes flashed with a barely perceptible smile. He put away the fruit knife hidden in his palm and asked, "Why are you here? Did you escape from prison?"
"Uh... yes..." Li Zhanpeng looked at the others fearfully, and begged humbly, "Xiaoyuan, can you please do me a favor?"
"I don't remember our relationship being so close that you would call me that." Rong Yuan looked at the others with a cold expression and asked, "Who are these people? Are they your cellmates?"
"ah."
Li Zhanpeng's face turned pale and he responded vaguely.
"Hey, scientist." Someone in the darkness laughed sinisterly and threatened, "You'd better be obedient, or I can't guarantee that I won't cut some parts off your body!"
Someone responded, "Little brother, if you insist on drinking a penalty toast, don't blame us for being ruthless!"
"This guy's attitude is really annoying! If you ask me, I'll give him a hard time first, and then he'll know what to do!"
"Everyone! Everyone! Don't do this. If we make a big fuss, it will definitely attract the attention of the police. Let me talk to him, I will talk to him nicely, and he will listen to me." Li Zhanpeng hurriedly limped in front of Rong Yuan and begged.
As he walked, the smell of blood in the air became stronger, and Rong Yuan glanced at his legs.
After Li Zhanpeng pleaded, he turned around and said to Rong Yuan hurriedly, "Fool, can't you see what's going on now? If things go wrong, they might really kill people! Please don't anger them, okay?"
Rong Yuan stopped talking. He also wanted to find out the purpose of these people. These guys definitely didn't come to him to kill him, but they probably didn't mind inflicting some physical pain on him. If he wanted to be polite to them, it would be better to keep a low profile.
——Rong Yuan has not yet realized that there is no place on his body that says “low-key”.
Seeing that they seemed to have reached a consensus, a tall man stepped forward and said, "Boy, take us to where you live, away from people. Also, give me your phone."
He took Rong Yuan's phone and checked it. He found that there was no alarm or recording video. He breathed a sigh of relief, put the phone in his pocket, leaned behind Rong Yuan, and deliberately waved a dagger in front of his eyes, then put it against Rong Yuan's lower back and said in a low voice: "Go!"
Rong Yuan glanced down and obediently led the way. Li Zhanpeng dragged his injured and bleeding leg and followed with difficulty. A man came from behind to support him. Li Zhanpeng whispered, "Thank you."
Other than that, they kept silent until they entered the warehouse, and then they took away the daggers from their backs. The group relaxed immediately. Some immediately went to the refrigerator to find food, some filled a glass of water in front of the sink and started drinking, and some even lay down on the bed and refused to get up. The door to the laboratory was also opened, and one of the fugitives whistled directly: "Wow~ cool!"
All the expensive and large experimental instruments in the laboratory have been moved to the warehouse, leaving only a few bulky test benches and a variety of glassware on them, which still looks very intimidating.
As soon as Li Zhanpeng entered the room, he sat on the ground against the wall, gasping for breath with his head tilted back, his face as pale as paper due to blood loss. Rong Yuan saw that his legs were tightly wrapped with several layers of cloth strips and a plastic bag, as if to prevent blood from dripping onto the ground.
Rong Yuan asked the tall gangster who had been watching him, "I want to take care of him, is that ok?"
As if they were in a temporarily safe place, the tall bandit didn't make things difficult for him. He nodded and warned him, "You'd better not play any tricks."
——If you wanted to play tricks, you wouldn’t have waited until now.
Rong Yuan didn't say much. He took out a spare medicine box from the cabinet, cut open the cloth and plastic bag on Li Zhanpeng's leg, and saw only a pool of blood. He simply rinsed it with medicine before he could see the wound clearly.
——It was a very fresh wound , no more than an hour old, and it cleverly avoided the bones and several major blood vessels. It looked serious, but in fact it was only a flesh wound.
Of course, if left alone, there would be danger to one's life.
The size and depth of the wound matched the size of a dagger in the hand of a fugitive. Coincidentally, there was also a lot of blood on the handle of the dagger.
"I'm sorry, Xiao...Rongyuan." Li Zhanpeng said in a low voice with guilt. He felt that it was because of him that these dangerous elements found Rongyuan. He felt guilty for having implicated him and brought him danger.
Rong Yuan thought, who could tell who had implicated whom in this matter? He bandaged the wound again and asked casually, "How did you get this injury?"
Li Zhanpeng's face turned bitter and he said, "Don't mention it..." The tall robber glanced at him and he immediately said, "I was stabbed by glass when I was escaping."
"Oh, glass..." Rong Yuan asked again: "How many of you escaped in total?"
"Nine, that's all." Li Zhanpeng gritted his teeth and snorted. Rong Yuan's actions were not gentle at all, and his injured leg was hurt by him.
The tall bandit said vigilantly at this time: "What do you want to ask?"
"No, nothing." Rong Yuan said, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
His hearing was much better than that of an average person, and he heard someone following them on the way here. He initially suspected that the fugitives had divided everyone into two groups just in case, but now it seemed that they were just catching the mantis while the oriole was waiting behind.
The tiles above my head made a slight creaking sound, and someone was walking carefully on them.
Rong Yuan suppressed his urge to look up, silently apologizing to the mysterious people who had not yet appeared. This house, which was originally a warehouse, of course did not have large French windows. There were only a few small windows with iron bars at a very high place, so even a cat could not get in. No matter what the visitor wanted to do, apart from the main door, he could only do something on the roof.
"Come to think of it, I don't know your names yet! Anyway, the police will definitely issue a wanted warrant later, so it's okay to tell me now, right?" Rong Yuan asked as he tied a knot in the bandage.
Seeing him so calm, the tall gangster couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you afraid?"
"Is being afraid useful?" Rong Yuan asked back.
"Although it's useless, even if I knew, I've never seen anyone who can control his emotions in this situation. Are all scientists so weird? Or are you special and different?" the tall robber asked curiously.
"Who knows? I've never seen a living scientist." Rong Yuan said: "You can actually call me by my name... Do you know what my name is?"
The tall gangster looked at him deeply and said, "Of course, the famous young inventor, Rong Yuan, the inventor of the most popular cotton candy series products... We can also watch the news in prison." He pointed at everyone and introduced them to Rong Yuan one by one: "You know Li Zhanpeng, my name is Peng Gao, his name is Wang Wenzhong, Hou Gang, Zhou Dong, Xu Yimin, Kong Qingchuan, Cui Xuanyao, and Wang Xing."
Rong Yuan looked over there - Wang Wenzhong was rummaging through the refrigerator for food, he seemed to be starving, so he squatted in front of the refrigerator, unpacking the food and wolfing it down; Hou Gang was sleeping on the bed with his mouth drooling, without even taking off his shoes, Rong Yuan had already decided to throw away everything in the room that they had touched; Zhou Dong ran to take a shower as soon as he entered the room, to be honest he was really surprised to see this guy among them; Xu Yimin drank a bellyful of water and was watching the news on TV; Kong Qingchuan seemed very tired, so he sat in the chair behind him to rest; Cui Xuanyao and Wang Xing both ran into the laboratory and looked around, not sure if they were really curious or wanted to find something in it.
Rong Yuan wrote down the appearances and names of several people one by one, and quickly analyzed their purpose and personality from the limited information. He could not get support from Pea for the time being, because this time Pea turned into a watch and was worn on his wrist - in fact, even if it turned into headphones, it would be too strange for Rong Yuan to have the leisure to listen to music when he was hijacked by the bandits.
Hou Gang was pushed aside, and Xu Yimin and Kong Qingchuan carried Li Zhanpeng, who had bandaged his wound, to the bed to rest. Wang Wenzhong looked up from the refrigerator, biting a sausage in his mouth and mumbling, "Peng Gao, this kid doesn't have much food in the refrigerator. I'm afraid it's not enough for a day's ration. What should we do?"
"Then I'll get straight to the point," Peng Gao turned to Rong Yuan and said, "You must have made a lot of money selling that candy, right? Ten million. Give us ten million and we'll leave. I promise not to hurt a hair on your head."
——Seeking wealth?
Rong Yuan smiled.
——That may not be the case?
Among this group of people, Wang Wenzhong looked the most like a real desperado. Zhou Dong and Hou Gang were incredibly bold. Apart from them, the other few people did not look that simple. Even Li Zhanpeng, he did not let down his guard just because he knew him.
Rong Yuan felt that this matter was becoming more and more interesting, especially the merit points on these people, which also showed a very interesting distribution.
Just then, his cell phone suddenly rang.
