Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

He was a rather stout man who, upon seeing Eri rush out without any warning, immediately raised his fist to attack.

Admittedly, if they are at the same level of fighting, men have a natural advantage in strength over women, not to mention the element of surprise in penetrating their skin.

To the strong man's surprise, the female lawyer turned out to be a judo expert.

..... . ...

Eri Kisaki only hesitated for a moment before reacting. Her body reacted even faster than her brain. She instinctively raised her hands and grabbed the fist that the burly man was throwing. At the same time, she leaned forward, dragging the burly man's arm and her whole body forward.

In a dizzying instant, the burly man was sent flying high into the air, and a second later, with a loud bang, he crashed heavily to the ground on his back, losing consciousness on the spot.

That was an extremely high-level over-the-shoulder throw!

"Phew~ What's wrong with this person?"

Gently wiping the cold sweat from her forehead, Eri muttered to herself as she prepared to take out her phone to dial the police.

What she didn't notice was that just as she took out her phone, another slightly thin male figure silently and quickly walked in from the door behind her, one of his hands hidden behind his back as if he were holding something.

Her reflection in the glasses made Eri Kisaki suddenly realize something, but it was too late.

A stun gun was plunged into her waist with lightning speed. A strong electric current ran through her body, and the lawyer struggled for a moment before collapsing weakly.

In the moments before she lost consciousness, she seemed to hear the thin man say something to the fat man.

"Seriously, you're such a disgrace. You can't even handle a woman."

"Hmph, I was just careless. Who would have thought this woman was not only good with words but also so skilled in combat? Alright, let's get her out of here... Huh? What are you doing with her phone?"

"Hmm? Need I say more? This female lawyer is married, isn't she? When she sends the video of her being humiliated to her husband, it will definitely be very interesting."

"Ah, you really are the best at this kind of thing."

Wait, are these people going to...?

Before she could think any further, Eri Kisaki's consciousness plunged into darkness.

……predict.

586. Absurd and unrestrained

Rumble, rumble...

Eri Kisaki woke up amidst a series of jolts, and when she opened her eyes, all she saw was darkness.

She wasn't blind; rather, she had been placed in a container, and judging from its shape and feel, it seemed to be... inside a suitcase?

Moreover, judging from this bumpy feeling, it seems like we are still in transit, on a vehicle?

Her head still throbbed with a dull ache, but Eri Kisaki ignored it and struggled to reach the inside pocket of her shirt.

Her previous work phone had been taken away, but she still had another phone on her.

That was the same model that Lin Xiaofeng and I bought together; it was Eri Kisaki's personal cell phone.

And precisely because it's newly purchased, it only has two contacts on it so far.

One is her daughter Xiaolan, and the other is Lin Xiaofeng.

When she hovered her finger over the latter's avatar, Eri Kisaki felt a strange sense of absurdity welling up inside her: "May 13th".

She once read a psychology book that said the first person you think of asking for help in a crisis is the person you trust most in your life.

Now that a critical moment has arrived, the first person she thought of asking for help was a boy who was almost twenty years younger than her.

Eri Kisaki found it hard to articulate her feelings for Lin Xiaofeng, but she did have an inexplicable trust in him, as if as long as she sent out a distress message, he would definitely arrive in time to save her.

Even Eri Kisaki found it somewhat amusing. After all, text messages are so unreliable. Even if you send one, whether the recipient can see it in time is one thing, whether they can come in time after seeing it is another, and how they can find you is yet another...

So she sent the text message.

The content is very simple, consisting of only two words.

Help me!

Five seconds after the message was sent, a reply came.

【coming. 】

Eri Kisaki wouldn't joke about something like this, and Lin Xiaofeng knew that very well.

Since the other party sent you a message, they must have encountered real trouble.

Upon receiving the text message, Lin Xiaofeng acted swiftly, grabbing his cane and car keys, putting on his shoes, and heading out.

The elevator in the apartment building was still descending when Lin Xiaofeng's gaze fell on his phone screen.

As expected, Eri Kisaki sent him another message.

They locked me in a suitcase, and I don't know where I am. Do you have any way to find me?

Compared to the calm and elegant female lawyer she usually is, Eri Kisaki in the text message is clearly in a state of tension and fear, otherwise she wouldn't have asked a question like "Do you have a way to find me?" that completely entrusts her fate to someone else.

Lin Xiaofeng's answer was also very simple and clear, consisting of only two words.

Once you've quickly finished writing, click send.

Eri Kisaki, who was in the trunk of a car in Tokyo, felt her phone vibrate slightly. She was taken aback when she saw the words displayed on the lit screen.

【Can. 】

Even Eri Kisaki was a little skeptical. In the current situation, she herself couldn't figure out where she was, but Lin Xiaofeng said he could find her.

Is it for real? Or is it just a way to put your mind at ease?

Geek!

The sudden tremor interrupted the female lawyer's thoughts. Eri, who was locked up, noticed that the entire suitcase shook, followed by a feeling of being pushed by inertia.

Is the car slowing down while it's in motion?

After thinking for a second, Eri Kisaki quickly realized something, and her fingertips flew across the screen, typing out a line of text.

They need to park.

At the same time, Lin Xiaofeng, who had just merged into the city traffic while driving his red Mazda convertible, glanced at the message on his phone screen and used voice-to-text input.

Take care of yourself, I'll be there soon.

After saying that, he closed the chat window, switched his phone to another page, glanced at the flashing but almost stopped dot on the map, and stepped on the gas.

The engine roared with a deep, powerful thud. Driven by the ignition of fuel, the red sports car unleashed tremendous power, tracing elegant arcs through the city streets as it sped forward through the traffic.

……

Meanwhile, in Sudancho, next to Beikacho, a white old van slowly stopped in front of a garage door under a five-story building that looked like an abandoned shopping street.

The passenger door opened, and the thin man who had been holding the stun gun jumped out.

He went to the front of the van, used his key to unlock the roller shutter door, lifted it up, let the van drive into the garage, and then followed it inside. He then closed and locked the roller shutter door again...

The exterior was covered in paint, and the charcoal marks on the walls were exactly the same as those on the outside. (The garage was also a mess.) It was a dilapidated and abandoned place, with broken wooden frames and cardboard boxes scattered everywhere on the dirty ground.

The thin man glanced up at the burly man in the driver's seat who was still busy parking the car, turning off the engine, and pulling the handbrake.

"Then I'll go upstairs first to help set up the venue. You can bring the people up later."

"I know, I know, go ahead."

A gruff, impatient voice came from inside the car.

The thin man left quickly.

On the other side, the burly man finally parked his car.

He got out of the driver's seat, went to the back of the car and opened the trunk. Just as the burly man picked up the suitcase containing Eri Kisaki and took it out of the trunk, a strange dripping sound came from the quiet environment.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock...

It's very close, right at my feet.

Looking down, I saw drops of dark red seeping out from the seams of the suitcase.

Blood?

The glaring color caught the eye, startling the burly man.

These people all harbored resentment towards Eri Kisaki because they lost a lawsuit in court and had to pay a lot of money. So they wanted to kidnap her, strip her naked, force her to record an apology video, and post it online as revenge.

Whether or not the police will catch them later is another matter, but if the target dies, it will become a murder case, which is a completely different matter!

After a brief moment of panic, the burly man quickly put down his suitcase and dialed the number of the thin man from before.

"Hey? There's a problem! Blood is gushing out of that woman's 1.4-meter suitcase!"

"Bleeding!?"

Upon hearing that the word "blood" was involved, the thin man on the phone was stunned.

"Damn it... No, how is this possible? How could she be injured in the suitcase? Oh well, you should open it and take a look first. It would be hilarious if she really died in the suitcase!"

"Okay, okay, I'll open it and take a look first."

After finishing his sentence, the burly man hung up the phone, put it aside, and bent down to unfasten the clasp of his suitcase.

Just as he was about to open his suitcase, a faint, unusual smell suddenly entered his nostrils.

Sour and sweet...it feels so familiar...

Wait, that's not blood! It's ketchup!

The burly man suddenly realized what was happening and tried to fasten the suitcase latches back on, but it was too late.

587. Lin Xiao comes to the rescue.

boom!

With a loud bang, a powerful, black-stockinged leg kicked out of the suitcase, striking the burly man outside the suitcase squarely in the jaw as it opened the lid.

The burly man didn't even see what happened; he only felt a powerful impact hit his brain, and then his eyes rolled back and he fell backward.

"hu~hu~"

Inside the suitcase, Eri Kisaki pulled her leg back, panting, and looked down at the hot dog in her hand, which was wrapped in a plastic bag and almost twisted into a pretzel.

This was originally her lunch. Because of her work, Eri Kisaki was basically unable to eat lunch normally every day, so she often asked Midori Kuriyama to buy her a hot dog so she could eat it while looking at the documents.

However, she was too busy today, and the hot dog she had been carrying with her hadn't been eaten yet, even though it was almost evening.

I should say I forgot about it, but I never expected it would come in handy at a time like this.

As for now...

Eri Kisaki glanced at the burly man who had fallen to the ground and was still unconscious, then looked at the roller shutter door behind him that was locked.

It looks like there's no way out from here; other exits are probably blocked too.

Let's find somewhere to hide first, at least until Lin Jun arrives.

With that thought in mind, Eri Kisaki quickly left the garage.

Ten minutes later, a cell phone ringing loudly in Garage 17 woke up the burly man who had just been kicked in the head by the female lawyer.

"Ugh... Uh... My head hurts so much..."

He slowly got up from the ground, clutching his chin where he had been kicked, and picked up his phone that had fallen to the side to answer a call.

The voice of the thin man who had been on the phone earlier came through.

"Hey, where are you? What are you doing? Did you fall asleep in the garage?!"

"No, I..."

The burly man stammered, dodging the question and gasping for breath.

"I was ambushed by that woman, and I don't know where she has run off to now."

"what?!"

Upon hearing that the person had run away, the thin man's voice suddenly rose eight octaves.

"Tsk, let's hurry and find her! We sealed off all the entrances and exits beforehand, she must still be hiding in this building and hasn't escaped!"

"I, I know..."

The burly man responded and hung up the phone, then prepared to go find Eri Kisaki.

However, he had only taken one step when he heard the sound of a sharp blade piercing through him from behind.