The Baby I Lost Is Actually with My Ex-Husband!-Chapter 159 - Signs of Trouble

Chapter 159: Chapter 159 Signs of Trouble

Chapter 159: Chapter 159 Signs of Trouble

Wu Xianjun had just left when Momo went downstairs with his laptop in hand.

He placed the mini computer in front of Huo Tingdong and said, “I’ve figured it out.”

Huo Tingdong picked up the computer and glanced at the screen.

Momo continued, “Wu Xianjun, a fugitive with a bounty of fifty million. He’s connected to several dark web organizations. Among them, there’s an organization called ‘Black Mass’ behind him, but he’s not the leader of ‘Black Mass’.”

Huo Tingdong had heard of the “Black Mass” organization. Its members were scattered across the globe. They were capable of any evil deed and considered a cancerous presence of dark forces, running rampant.

However, after the public security’s “sweep-black campaign,” the influence of “Black Mass” had been greatly reduced domestically, but internationally, they remained lawless. Some members even been involved in a number of terrorist attacks, making it an infamous criminal group.

Huo Tingdong didn’t understand how Zheng Xuanyi got entangled with this organization,

and why would they target Lin Qi?

Momo said, “I’ve spent a few days reassigning surveillance and getting to the bottom of Aiyou Maternal and Child Hospital’s background.”

He and Huo Tingdong seriously combed through the intelligence he had gathered, “Aiyou Maternal and Child Hospital had its license revoked many years ago, and I suspect they have dealings with ‘Black Mass’, engaging in human smuggling and organ trafficking in private. So… It’s very possible that my brother was sold by them overseas.”

Huo Tingdong replied, “I’ve also come across the same information but it has not yet been confirmed.”

Momo said, “What now? I’m worried about Mommy…”

Huo Tingdong asked, “Do you think we should call the police?”

Momo paused,

surprised that Huo Tingdong would ask for his opinion.

In Huo Tingdong’s eyes, Momo was not your ordinary seven-year-old child. On the contrary, he was calm, wise, and very decisive.

Momo said, “I think… it’s better not to call the police. If it really is the ‘Black Mass’ organization, they want money, not lives. As long as we give them the money, they probably won’t go as far as killing to silence someone.”

He had also heard the ransom demand set by Wu Xianjun through the living room surveillance.

10 billion.

For him and for Huo Tingdong, 10 billion was not a large amount.

The tricky part was how to turn this figure of 10 billion into US dollars in cash.

Huo Tingdong said, “He wants US dollars, obtaining such a large sum in one night will be difficult.”

Not to mention other logistics, even if the mint were to work overnight, it’s uncertain if they could print so much cash in one night. If the funds were to be drawn from the bank, it would inevitably require a vast amount of manpower and cash counting machines.

Huo Tingdong turned his head and said to Mo Ke, “Mo Ke, I need to withdraw 10 billion in cash before tomorrow night.”

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Huo Tingdong had personal banks with branches all over the world, and he had dozens of bank accounts.

Luxembourg Bank, Zurich Bank, North Rhine-Westphalia Bank…

Even if transferring funds from overseas bank accounts and chartering overnight flights, he would need to raise the 10 billion in cash.

Momo said, “I have accounts with UBS and Rieffels as well, we must meet their demands and gather the 10 billion in cash, no matter what.”

Mo Ke, slightly worried, said, “After gathering the 10 billion, will they honestly release the hostage? I always feel that it’s not that simple.”

Sixth sense was something quite mystical.

Huo Tingdong also had a bad premonition.

He, too, felt there was something off about this situation.

That Wu Xianjun had a very dubious background.

In the early hours of the morning,

Huo Tingdong’s premonition was confirmed.

An explosion occurred in the city area.

On the urban overpass, an Audi A8 exploded. Due to it being night, there were few cars passing by, but it still affected some innocent bystanders.

Apart from the Audi A8, several other cars parked by the roadside, and five passing sedans, were flipped five meters into the air and blasted into wreckage.

The police immediately cordoned off the scene.

After receiving the news, Mo Ke rushed to the site of the accident.

At the center of the accident scene, firefighters continually lifted charred bodies from the destroyed vehicles.

The center of the accident, an Audi car, had been blown to pieces, with remnants of bodies found inside. Before forensic experts could piece together the remains, it remained unclear how many people in the Audi had perished.

The license plate, blown off the Audi, belonged to Wu Xianjun’s car.

Morning.

The police received a report that two bodies had been found at an abandoned chicken farm in the suburbs.

A man and a woman.

The female body was identified as Zheng Xuanyi, who had been reported missing by her family. Preliminary cause of death for both male and female was determined to be gunshot wounds.

Mo Ke relayed the news to Huo Tingdong.

Even though the police had not yet divulged any details of the case, Huo Tingdong keenly realized: Wu Xianjun was dead.

…

Lin Qi finally regained consciousness.

A long darkness, as if an entire century had dragged by.

When she woke up, she felt like she was trapped in a square box.

Her hands were tied, her eyes covered, and her mouth sealed. An object was deeply jamming her throat, preventing her from making any noise, almost making her retch.

She lowered her head, rubbing her face against her knees, managing to shift the blindfold off one corner of her eyes.

On the box, there was a round hole, seemingly meant for ventilation.

Through the hole, she saw the world outside the wooden crate.

Dusk, with the setting sun staining the horizon, stretching across the vast sea and dyeing it with incredibly vivid colors.

The sound of a cargo ship’s horn reached her ears.

“Woong—”

The sound of waves and the sea breeze mixed together reached her ears.

With the oxygen thin, she lost consciousness again.

When she awoke again, all was dark before her eyes, and she found herself locked in a cage.

Lin Qi slowly sat up within the cage and discovered that there was also a little girl locked up with her.

She appeared to be malnourished, about five or six years old, wearing tattered clothes, with scars all over her face and body.

Seeing Lin Qi awaken, she timidly opened her eyes wide, and her emaciated little face with dark eyes shone with a glimmer of light.

She had thought Lin Qi was dead; to her surprise, she was still alive.

Lin Qi murmured in a daze, “Where is this…”

The little girl shook her head.

Lin Qi looked around and realized that they were in a large ship’s cargo hold, completely dark with only small ventilation holes, resembling the bottom deck of a cargo ship.

Besides her, there were dozens of cages large and small throughout the hold, with neatly stacked wooden crates of various sizes on top of them.

Suddenly, footsteps approached from a distance.

The little girl uttered a frightened cry, and Lin Qi quickly covered her mouth.

A flashlight beam swept over them.

Lin Qi lay down with the little girl, closed her eyes, and dared not make any noise.

The conversation between two men reached them:

“Why did I hear a cat’s meow?”

“Are you hearing things?”

“Did you hear? Mr. Wu and his henchmen got whacked.”