Wait a minute.

  Deep in the night, a desolate mountain, numerous disguises to lure the tiger away from the mountain, a unique and silent gaze, an unclear love-hate relationship, a family caught like animals.

  What does he want to do?

  The Zhu family was still wailing, and at the bottom of the cave, there were probably set up things like animal traps, wooden spikes, and sharp thorns. The surroundings were still quiet, but I felt a layer of cold sweat seeping out of my skin. That chill was almost about to seep into my heart.

  Then, the stage is set, and it continues to be set.

  Flocks of birds descend.

  Flocks and flocks of birds flew in from all directions, flying into the forest like a group of black specters, landing on the edges of caves and branches. They flapped their wings, as if calling out, as if excited, and also as if ferocious and cruel, ready to strike at any moment.

  I bowed my head very low, and the atmosphere was really terrifying. I couldn't imagine how Wu Yu encountered a person who was fighting with these fierce monsters yesterday. At this moment, I was lying in the grass, and although Wu Yu's hand had let go of mine, the other hand remained on my shoulder, making me feel safe.

  That person finally came out.

  A flock of birds chirped softly.

  They are really under his control. This is true, it's not our imagination. I have really seen abnormal things with my own eyes, starting from tonight.

  He was still wearing the dirty coat from that night, perhaps he hadn't changed it at all. His face still had a silly smile on it, and in his arms he held a child, who was Zhu Zihang. The only thing was, the child wasn't moving, it was unclear whether he was dead or alive. In his hand, he was also holding an oil lamp.

  "You... have arrived." He spoke with a slight stutter, walked to the edge of the pit, placed the lamp at his feet, and gazed down intently.

  It was probably seeing the child in his arms that suddenly made the bottom of the pit transmit a crying and shouting sound. He smiled lightly, saying: "No... no problem, he's asleep. I gave him something to eat, ate sleeping pills. Too noisy!"

  I let out a sigh of relief.

  "A trembling voice asked: 'What do you want to do? We brought 100,000 yuan, didn't notify the police, hurry up and let us go, let the child go!' It sounded like the child's father, Zhu Zhongling."

  "You, you first throw your phone up here. I guarantee that after going back... will not, notify the police." His face turned stern, "Otherwise... I'll immediately kill the child."

  I had a bad feeling. As expected, the Zhu family was at someone's mercy and had no other choice. The phones were thrown up from the pit one by one. He kicked all the phones to one side. Soon, several birds flew away with the phones in their beaks.

  "I don't want money..." he said, then drew out a foot-long knife from his waist and pointed it at the child, smiling, "I'm going to kill him."

  The pit was filled with wailing and crying all at once.

  "Tell Shen Shiyan." Wu Yu's lips touched my ear, almost whispering. And that numbness spread from my ear to my neck, numbing a large area.

  I turned my head to avoid his face, slowly took out my phone, pressed it against my chest, used my arm to block the light, and sent the location to Shen Shiyan. Then I sent a text message to him: He and the child are here, as well as the Zhu family.

  As for when Shen Shiyan will arrive, I'm also unsure.

  I turned my face in the darkness and found that my mouth seemed to have rubbed against Wu's face again. He was motionless, as if he had lost all consciousness. I asked: "When will we be rescued?"

  "He replied: 'Now we are not his opponent, wait for an opportunity.'"

  The cries and wails of the Zhu family only made him stand at the edge of the pit for a while, his expression completely numb and indifferent. Then he threw the child to the ground and said: "You don't want... him to die, there's another way." He raised the sharp knife in his hand: "I'll just chop three times. You choose three people to replace him, take three chops... and I'll let you go." He smiled: "How about it?"

  The Zhu family gradually quieted down.

  My heart sank. I knew it, something had begun.