The Baby I Lost Is Actually with My Ex-Husband!-Chapter 163 - Another Fight Might Be Lethal
Chapter 163: Chapter 163: Another Fight Might Be Lethal
Chapter 163: Chapter 163: Another Fight Might Be Lethal
Huo Tingdong said, “Don’t worry. Since she’s being sold as ‘merchandise’, she won’t come to any harm before she reaches the buyer.”
Momo asked, “Who exactly is the buyer, and why would they spend 8 million to buy Mommy?”
Huo Tingdong did not respond directly to his question.
He was very clear, as those living beings turned into “merchandise” and fell into black market trades, what their ultimate fate would be—and he could imagine it.
If Momo knew, he might become even more anxious.
“What about Han?” Huo Tingdong suddenly asked.
Momo replied, “Han has been staying in the room. Since you don’t allow him to leave, he’s been obedient and stayed there all this time.”
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The ringtone of the cell phone suddenly rang.
Huo Tingdong answered the call, and the anxious voice of Mo Ke came from the other end: “Mr. Huo, I’ve got some news.”
Huo Tingdong asked nervously, “What did you find out?”
“The police found a nameplate on that blown-up Audi A8. The nameplate showed ‘Perseus’, seemingly the plate of a cargo ship.”
Huo Tingdong abruptly stood up, “Perseus?”
Mo Ke said, “The case has been upgraded and handed over. The police can’t reveal much, only that Wu Xianjun is suspected of multiple smuggling cases, and Interpol has already got involved in the investigation. This ‘Perseus’ has now entered the Public Sea, and the highest leader of ‘Black Mass’ might be on this cargo ship. Interpol is limited in its police force and has not dared to act and arrest them.”
“Public Sea…”
The Public Sea does not belong to any national territory, and therefore, under international law, it is not under the jurisdiction or control of any national laws, making it a lawless place.
Many black market transactions are carried out on the Public Sea.
Huo Tingdong speculated that by that time, the Perseus would definitely stay in the Public Sea for two days to conduct transactions for two days.
Two days…
He only had two days.
Huo Tingdong said: “Mo Ke, inform ‘Xiao’ immediately, I need to dispatch a mercenary group of about 500 people.”
‘Xiao’ is a mysterious mercenary organization on the international stage. Most of its members come from mercenaries from various countries. If the price is right, they can be hired by anyone.
Half of Huo Tingdong’s personal bodyguards come from this organization.
Each of them has previously been elite special forces of various nations, with extraordinary skills, and could easily face even wars.
Mo Ke was stunned for several seconds, without the slightest hesitation, he replied: “Yes, I’ll gather the troops immediately.”
…
On the cargo ship, the security team patrols past every few minutes.
Below the deck lies a dark, sunless cabin.
The third day.
The pieces of bread that are distributed to each person are getting smaller and smaller.
Everyone is hungry.
Thirst, cold, death…
Invisibly, they are surrounded by immense fear.
From the cages, the panicked cries of children can be heard from time to time, oppressive enough to make one’s scalp tingle.
Lin Qi is sitting in a cage, if she’s not mistaken, the fourth round of food distribution is about to begin.
She’s shaking from hunger.
As the man said, she’s never experienced the taste of real hunger; when people are truly starving, they really do lose their rationality.
Therefore, when that group of men stepped in again, there was a stir in the cage, many people and children began to plead: “Give me another piece of bread, please!”
“I’m so hungry…”
Lin Qi also crawled to the entrance of the cage, grabbed the bars, and looked outside.
A few men stopped in front of a cage, in which a woman, gaunt and pale, pleaded desperately: “Give me another piece of bread… Someone stole mine yesterday…”
The man snorted, “I’ve said it before, one piece of bread per person. If you can’t get it, you’ll starve.”
The woman bit her lip, feeling wronged.
The man stroked his chin, looking at the woman, a sinister idea suddenly arising, he kicked the cage with his foot, and said with a laugh: “You want me to give you an extra piece of bread, but that depends on your performance, doesn’t it?”
The woman said, “As long as you can give me an extra piece of bread, I am willing to do whatever it takes…”
The man showed a fierce and sleazy smile: “Really, you would do anything?”
“Yes…”
The man continued, “Then I want to see how you perform!”
He spoke while slowly approaching the cage.
Lin Qi didn’t know what he wanted to do, she only heard a mocking laugh: “To think you’d stoop so low for a bite to eat.”
“HAHAHA! Food will get scarcer and you’ll get hungrier.”
Every day it was fixed to two pieces of bread, just getting smaller and smaller, enough not to starve to death, but once you’ve experienced hunger, you’ll listen and behave quickly, not making noise anymore to get that extra bit of food.
Soon, the person distributing the bread came to Lin Qi’s cage.
They threw two pieces of bread into the cage, and suddenly Lin Qi lunged to the front of the cage and shouted loudly, “Let me out!”
The man was startled and kicked the cage door, “Shut up! Keep quiet!”
Lin Qi cursed through clenched teeth, “Beast.”
Her single word “beast” instantly enraged the men.
A dark-skinned young man stepped forward, unlocked the cage, pulled Lin Qi out, and slapped her in the face, “It seems you’re not starved enough yet if you still have the energy to insult people, huh?”
When the little girl saw Lin Qi being bullied, she quickly crawled out of the cage, but was kicked back in.
She was so terrified, her eyes red, her hands clinging to the cage, watching as several men beat and kicked Lin Qi.
One of the older men, with a beard, said, “Alright, stop hitting her, or you might kill her.”
Lin Qi was thrown back into the cage, she struggled to support herself and crawled to the cage door, her mouth bleeding, but she still stubbornly lifted her little face and spat blood at the man.
“Damn it, this bitch…” the young man rushed forward again, but was immediately held back.
“Enough, don’t be rash. If worse comes to worst, we’ll just not feed her tonight. Starve her for one meal and she’ll behave.”
Upon hearing this the man finally relented, re-locked the cage door and walked away, cursing and swearing.
The little girl crawled over to Lin Qi, “Sister, are you okay…”
Lin Qi furrowed her brows, sitting up, “I’m fine.”
Soon, the men distributed all the bread and left the cabin.
Lin Qi sat up, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, reached out of the cage, and grabbed the lock. With a flick of her wrist, the lock fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
The people in the other cages showed stunned expressions.
Lin Qi and the little girl had planned in advance; she deliberately provoked the men so that they would inevitably open the cage and drag her out for a severe punishment.
In that moment, the little girl stuffed the breadcrumbs compacted into a ball into the lock core.
After one night, the bread dough was hard and naturally blocked the lock core. When they re-locked it, it wouldn’t last long and would fall off, not secure at all.
Lin Qi and the little girl climbed out of the cage together.
