Chapter 296: Chapter 296: Ugly People Make Trouble
Jiang You calmly watched the scene unfold.
She was certainly not in the mood to plead for her!
Since ancient times, ugly people have committed more evils, she got what she deserved!
“Let me go!”
“Christian, you can’t treat me like this!”
“I’ve been so good to you, why would you listen to that bitch!”
Xu Xinyi screamed at the top of her lungs, but the man didn’t even glance at her.
Jiang You looked at the man in front of her, her eyes full of confusion.
But ultimately, she said nothing.
Minutes later, Xu Xinyi was hoisted up.
Her face was pale, her body stiff, and her eyes closed, not daring to move.
She was terrified that any slight movement would loosen the rope, and she would truly fall into the vast and boundless sea.
A wave of fear spread from the bottom of her heart, enveloping her.
At the same time, she also hated Jiang You, hated this cold-hearted man.
In the way the man treated Xu Xinyi, Jiang You did not think it was because he listened to her.
On the contrary, it made her feel that this man’s heart was cold.
Also, it seemed like he was indirectly telling her that he had no soft spot for beauty and kindness, regardless if it was a woman, he would not show mercy for what he wanted to do.
Just then, he suddenly turned around and looked at her, with a slight smirk curling up the corner of his lips, his dark eyes teasing.
“How about it, satisfied?”
Jiang You: “…Boring!”
“Since Mr. Christian has no other matters, I won’t disturb you any longer.”
Saying this, she grabbed Su Baobao and turned back to go to her room.
However, the man did not stop her.
“Boss, why are you so indulgent with this woman? Does she have something special?”
Curious, the man in black asked.
Christian hooked his lips, glanced at him indifferently, and said lightly: “Nothing special, if there’s anything, it’s probably that we share half the same blood.”
“…”
At that moment, the bodyguard suddenly realized.
Changing the topic, the man in black asked: “What about Miss Xu? Will she just continue hanging there?”
Christian glanced at Xu Xinyi, suspended mid-air, and said expressionlessly: “Just let her enjoy the hard-to-come-by sea breeze, to wake her brain up.”
Man in black: “Okay, boss.”
“Did you find the person I asked you to look for?” the man suddenly asked.
Man in black: “Boss, we already found them, and can bring them up at the next port.”
…
On the other side.
Su He watched the video several times over, noticing that the little one’s lips were moving.
Based on the lip shapes, she deduced that the little guy said: “N, 2, 3, 3, 7…”
She then wrote it down on paper.
“What’s this?”
Gu Beiyan looked at the letter and four numbers, confused.
“Is this the young master’s plea for help?” Jiang Feng also asked.
Su He crossed her arms, head slightly bowed, without speaking.
Su Baobao could speak out these numbers, which definitely meant something.
Although he was young, his mind was clever.
What could they mean?
“N, 23, 37…”
She mulled over the numbers repeatedly.
When everyone was at a loss, Su He suddenly raised her head.
“I know! It’s coordinates, latitude 23 degrees 37 minutes!”
“Their direction is in the South Sea District.”
As soon as Su He spoke, Jiang Feng immediately checked.
“My god, it’s true!”
“…”
Jiang Yan gravely said: “Jiang Feng, notify the police, and if necessary, coordinate with the military personnel.”
After all, that area was under jurisdiction, and his people were inconvenient to intervene.
“Wait! Be careful not to leak the news, find trustworthy people!”
“Okay, Master, I understand.”
The police had been unable to find them before, likely because someone covered up the news.
Jiang Feng just exited when Xing Siyang arrived.
He had been out of town for business these few days, and just heard about the incident upon his return.
“Leave this matter to me, you don’t need to notify them, just keep investigating as you are,” Xing Siyang said to Su He and the others.
Su He almost forgot about him.
“Alright, thanks for your efforts, Siyang.”
Jiang Yan could approach the military personnel, but Xing Siyang would be even more appropriate.
After all, the Xing Family was a military family.
“Don’t be polite with me, Xixi also calls me uncle, and Jiang You is like my sister, they are family to me.”
So, rescuing them was naturally what he should do.
On the cruise ship.
The man in black looked at the man sitting in the chair and said: “Boss, there’s a call from that side.”
The man responded with a heavy voice: “Put it through.”
“Yes!”
…
After a while, a low, hoarse voice rang out in the living room: “Christian, where are you now?”
“Near South Sea City,” the man just gave a vague location: “What’s up? Something wrong?”
The other side paused for a few seconds, “You better think of a way to pull out, I can’t cover it up any longer here.”
The man frowned slightly, “What do you mean?”
The other said: “They mobilized military forces.”
Christian: “Don’t you know people there?”
He had escaped all previous chases due to having that side’s resources as shelter.
The other: “Yes, I know, but an arm can’t twist a thigh, it’s like a food chain, but if they employ the top person of that food chain, even with the best intentions, I can’t help you. I just got the news here, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but just in case, you better think of an escape route quickly, I’ve said my piece.”
After that, the other party hung up.
“Boss, what should we do?” The man in black had heard the whole conversation.
“If they really employed that side’s people, we might really be found.”
Even blocking the signal source would be useless.
“You go down first, let me think,” the man said with furrowed brows: “Also, how much longer until we reach the next port?”
Man in black answered: “About half an hour.”
“Tell them to speed up, pick up the person and leave!”
“Okay.”
…
“Little aunt, what’s wrong?”
In the room, Su Baobao looked at Jiang You with a dejected face.
“It’s nothing, the little aunt is just thinking about how to escape with you.”
“…”
Su Baobao: “Little aunt, we are surrounded by sea, even if we could escape, with these little arms and legs, I couldn’t swim back.”
The little guy pouted.
He wondered if mommy and daddy had noticed the signal he had given them.
His watch was confiscated, and the pendant’s distress signal couldn’t be sent either, but luckily, he had been cautious and saw someone filming, thinking they must be sending it to mommy and them.
Su Baobao knew Su He could read lips, so he used this method, but he wasn’t sure if they would notice.
Jiang You saw his pouting lips and asked: “What’s wrong? Why are you looking more worried than me?”
Su Baobao whispered in her ear, “Auntie, let me tell you a secret…”
A few seconds later…
“What, you…”
Jiang You looked at him in disbelief.
“Shh!”
Su Baobao quickly covered his rather unreliable auntie’s mouth with his little hand to keep her from speaking.
“Auntie, don’t be so shocked, okay~”
Jiang You: “…”
How could she not be shocked? This was simply unbelievable.
“Baby, are you really only four years old?”
“Could it be that you were reincarnated with memories from a previous life?”
“Or is there another soul living inside you?”
Jiang You’s barrage of questions left the little guy speechless…
“…”
In the restroom.
The aunt and nephew, one sitting on the toilet lid, the other on the sink.
To prevent anyone from discovering their wrongdoings, Su Baobao pulled Jiang You into the restroom.
“Baby, where did you learn all these knowledge points from?” Jiang You asked curiously.
These knowledge points were beyond his age, and although she knew he was smart, the idea of using latitude and longitude to convey location was something she, a person who had lived for nearly twenty-five years with higher education, had never thought of. How could this child come up with such an idea, which made her feel so incompetent?
It was indeed quite embarrassing for her…
Not to mention coming up with this method, she didn’t even know what the coordinates were…
So, even if she thought of it, it was useless.
“I read it in a book,” Su Baobao said nonchalantly.
Jiang You: “…”
Nonsense, she knew it was from a book.
She was curious about how he could remember it, since this place was surrounded by the sea on all four sides. At best she could only differentiate the cardinal directions, but nothing else.
Yet, he just went out for a look and knew this is the South Sea District.
She wouldn’t even know where this place was if he hadn’t told her today.
“But don’t you inherit your mommy’s poor sense of direction?” Jiang You asked.
This little guy could still get lost while using navigation.
Su Baobao: “Auntie, please, I may be directionally challenged, but I’m not stupid.”
“…”
That seems reasonable too.
“Alright, then let’s just wait calmly for someone to rescue us, since we can’t escape anyway.”
Jiang You sighed, her shoulders slumping in resignation, adopting a resigned attitude.
Maintaining a good mental state is important.
–
In the evening.
Around 7:30 PM, after eating in their room, the aunt and nephew went out.
These past two days, they went out for walks from time to time without anyone stopping them, experiencing considerable freedom.
For a moment, Jiang You even felt like she wasn’t abducted, but on a vacation.
Adopting a ‘since we’re here, let’s make the best of it’ attitude, she stopped thinking too much and just went out with Su Baobao whenever she had free time.
The cruise ship had seven levels total, but their activity area was only confined to levels two to five, with the other levels guarded and inaccessible.
However, for the aunt and nephew, it was enough.
“Baby, have you memorized all the locations?”
When they got to the third floor, Jiang You quietly asked the little guy in his ear when no one was around.
Su Baobao nodded and hummed affirmatively.
“This is all on you then, your aunt has limited memory.” Jiang You didn’t want to complain about herself, but she indeed couldn’t remember so many details at once.
These past few days, they seemed to be wandering aimlessly, but they were actually looking for surveillance blind spots.
Although I can’t escape, I still have to do my homework and prepare, just in case I need to use it.
Staying in the room is quite boring anyway.
When the two reached the fifth floor, there was a super large swimming pool, which didn’t seem very interesting at first glance.
There were two more floors above, but they were not accessible anymore.
“Let’s go back then.”
“Alright.”
Just as the two were returning to the second floor, passing by the outside deck, they saw Xu Xinyi had just been put down.
At this moment, she was in utter disarray.
She couldn’t even stand properly, with no one to support her, she directly fell onto the deck.
Jiang You didn’t expect that she had been hung up for so long.
That man was really ruthless.
Xu Xinyi fell in the direction where Jiang You and Su Baobao were standing; she opened her eyes and saw the two figures, one tall and one small.
Her gaze immediately turned sinister.
Jiang You ignored her and continued to walk forward with Su Baobao.
But at this moment, she spotted a familiar figure.
Damn!
Isn’t that Tang Sirou?
Why is she here too?
When did she come up?
She hadn’t seen her at all these past two days.
Suddenly, Jiang You remembered that the cruise ship had briefly stopped at a port this afternoon but left soon after.
Just as she was struggling with the question “Why would Tang Sirou appear here”, Tang Sirou had already walked towards her.
“Xiao You, what a coincidence,” Tang Sirou greeted her with a smile.
Jiang You coldly stared at her, “What coincidence, it’s obviously part of your planned scheme!”
“Tang Sirou, you really are relentless! Or do you think the punishment you received before wasn’t enough and want to try again?”
Tang Sirou remained calm, “Believe it or not, this has nothing to do with me.”
Her words had no credibility to Jiang You at all!
“Fine, you say it’s unrelated to you, right?” Jiang You said, “Then tell me, why are you here? Don’t give me any more talk about coincidences, there can’t be that many coincidences in this world!”
“Why I appear here is not important,” Tang Sirou said.
Then, her gaze shifted to Su Yimo standing beside Jiang You: “Now, what’s most important is that you better ensure your brothers come to rescue you on time.”
After saying that, she didn’t add anything else and turned to leave.
Jiang You didn’t chase after her to ask what she meant.
Because she knew Tang Sirou wouldn’t tell.
What is Tang Sirou’s relationship with that man?
…
Meanwhile, Su He and the others had also set off towards the South Sea District.
“Susu, the satellite scan has already locked on a cruise ship.”
Upon receiving the news, Xing Siyang promptly informed Su He and the others.
“The travel route of this cruise ship was being suppressed before, so you could not find it.”
“Currently, the cruise ship is heading towards James Shoal. There seems to be signal jamming on the ship; we are unable to contact them now. It will take some time to break through the signal jamming firewall, but nearby stationed troops have already rushed there.”
Upon hearing this, Su He said, “If possible, I would like to participate in breaking the firewall system.”
Xing Siyang paused for a second, then said, “Okay, sure, I’ll let them know.”
He knew that Su He’s computer skills were no worse than his.
–
“Boss, are you sure we should do this?”
Christian stood on the deck, hands on the railing, slightly leaning forward, his eyes coldly staring at the sea surface that was made even more solemn by the night.
“Only this way, they will be cautious!”
The man’s coarse and indifferent voice merged with the sea breeze, chilling to the bone.
“Alright, I understand, I’ll have people prepare right away.”