Chapter 42: Time and Place

"Shut down?" Yu Yue asked with a frown.

"Yes, if you don't believe me, listen."

Zhang Jiao called again, and a notification sound came from the loudspeaker: "The phone you dialed has been turned off..."

Yu Yue felt that something was wrong. He knew something about the system. The nature of Jiang Rou's work required her not to turn off the phone for 24 hours. Now that her phone is turned off, could there be some problem?

"Have you been in touch with her recently?" he asked.

Zhang Jiao thought for a while and said, "It seems... I haven't contacted you for a few days. Graduation is not like before. Everyone has their own things to be busy with."

Yu Yue drove the car without speaking.

Zhang Jiao asked tentatively: "Then today..."

Yu Yue said: "I'm sorry, I suddenly remembered that I still have some things to deal with later, so I won't invite you to dinner at home today, next time... Next time I will invite everyone."

Zhang Jiao's complexion changed, and she said with some embarrassment, "Okay, then... I'll just get off at the subway entrance in front."

Yu Yue didn't try to be polite with her, he drove over and pulled over.

Zhang Jiao has quickly adjusted her mentality, straightened her chest, leaned slightly towards Yu Yue, and said with a smile on her face, "Old classmate, I keep in touch with you often. We are all in Kuncheng. If you have nothing to do, you can make an appointment..."

While speaking, he gently scratched the back of Yu Yue's hand with his long diamond-encrusted nails.

It seems to convey a meaning that I am willing to let go of my reserve for you.

Yu Yue didn't know if he understood the meaning, and said, "Okay. Oh, by the way, if you contact Teacher Jiang, please tell me, I have something to do with her."

In fact, he was fine, and he was mainly worried about Jiang Rou's accident.

Watching the tall and mighty Ford Raptor Wild King drive away, Zhang Jiao stomped her feet depressedly. Am I no better than that Jiang Rou?

When he got home, Yu Yue was worried, so he called Jiang Rou himself, but it was turned off, and sent two WeChat messages, but there was no response.

Serving the little guy after eating and then putting him to sleep, Yu Yue has been thinking about this matter, and he always has a bad feeling in his heart.

At this moment, the mobile phone rang, and the call was from an unfamiliar number, which seemed to be a foreign number.

Yu Yue was afraid that the ringtone would wake up the little guy, so he quickly picked it up: "Hello?"

But there was no sound on the other end of the phone.

"Hello, how are you?" Yu Yue called out a few times, but there was no response from the other side.

Just when he thought it was a harassing call and was about to hang up, a deep voice suddenly came from the other end of the phone: "Is it Yu Yue?"

The voice was dull and uncomfortable, like a man's voice, but it couldn't be determined because a voice changer was obviously used.

Yu Yue's heart trembled, and he asked, "Who are you?"

The man said: "It's not your turn to ask me a question yet! Let me ask you first, is Jiang Rou your friend?"

Yu Yue said in a deep voice, "What happened to Jiang Rou?"

The man said, "Don't you understand me? It's not your turn to ask, you have to answer the question first!"

Yu Yue said, "Don't be so wordy, just say what you want!"

The man chuckled, and there was still a bit of banter in the changed voice: "Actually... I don't want to do anything, just call to tell you that I'm safe. Teacher Jiang is fine with me."

The expression on Yu Yue's face turned cold: "Where is Jiang Rou?"

The man smiled and said, "Stay with me. Do you want to...listen to her voice?"

Yu Yue turned up the volume, but after listening for a while, he couldn't hear anything on the other end of the phone except for a few noises.

Snapped!

Suddenly, there was a crisp sound, like a slap on the cheek.

Immediately afterwards, the man yelled at the other end of the phone: "Speak, tell him!"

However, his voice fell, and there was still no other voice on the other end of the phone, as if he was speaking to the air.

Yu Yue frowned again.

Then, another slap came from the other end of the phone.

"I'll let you talk!"

The more Yu Yue listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly called to the phone: "Jiang Rou! Is that you Jiang Rou? How are you?"

over the phone.

Jiang Rou was sitting obliquely on the sofa with her hands and feet tied, and a man in black, with a hat and a mask held the phone to her mouth and kept asking her to speak.

But Jiang Rou kept her mouth tightly shut, allowing the other party to beat her however she could, without saying a word.

"Mist Grass!" Enraged, the man grabbed her hair and pulled her up vigorously, then pulled her to the ground.

Jiang Rou's hands and feet were tied, unable to resist, she could only groan in pain.

Yu Yue keenly caught this sound, and asked again: "Jiang Rou, don't be afraid, just tell me where you are, and I'll go find you right away!"

Jiang Rou knew that she couldn't hide it anymore, so she didn't hold back anymore, she opened her mouth and shouted, "Yu Yue, don't come to me! Call the police, call the police..."

"Stinky bastard, you still want to play tricks!" The man slapped Jiang Rou again, knocking Jiang Rou to the ground.

After finishing the call, he picked up the phone and said darkly, "You'd better not call the police, otherwise you will only find a dead body..."

Yu Yue suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice, "What exactly do you want?"

The man laughed strangely: "I don't want to do anything, I just want to play with you... I will give you the time and place later, and you come alone. Remember, you are alone. If you don't come after the time limit, then I will Just sell her where no one can find her. Toot...toot...toot..."

Yu Yue wanted to say something, but the phone had already been hung up, and when he called back, there was a notification that he could not be connected.

After a while, Yu Yue received a text message with the time and place.

The location is not in China, but somewhere in Nanyue Guolaojie Province.

The time limit is 24 hours.

Then, I received another message: The countdown begins.

Nothing else.

Such text messages, even if called to the police, cannot be used as evidence.

And Yu Yue didn't intend to call the police at all.

He picked up the phone and called Su Murong.

"Mr. Yu?" Su Murong's voice was a little surprised, as if he didn't expect Yu Yue to call him suddenly.

"Miss Su, I want to ask you for a favor."

"Mr. Yu, grandpa said that you are a nobleman of our Su family, if you need anything, just ask."

"Look up a number for me."

"Okay, I know people in the provincial department and the municipal bureau. It should be no problem to help you check the communication-related information."

After hanging up the phone, Yu Yue sent the number to Su Murong.

After a while, Su Murong replied: "I found out that the number is the mobile phone number of Nanyue Country, and the last call was made from Laojie Province of Nanyue Country, but because it is a foreign number, personal information cannot be retrieved, so I can't find out who it is Call."

Yu Yue said, "Okay, thank you."

He just wanted to check it out.

Su Murong heard something wrong, so he asked one more question: "Mr. Yu, did something happen, do you need me to do something?"

Yu Yue knew that the Su family had a lot of energy, but he didn't want to bother him every time. What's more, this time, he couldn't confirm the identity of the other party, and he didn't have enough evidence to prove something.

He said, "It's nothing, let's do it first."

Putting down the phone, sitting on the sofa thinking for a while, Yu Yue got up to pack his things, and when the little guy woke up, he said, "Youyou, dad will take you out to play, okay?"