Chapter 14 Departure

Two days later, Li Cu— who was admitted to the hospital for the second time to get his bandages changed— saw Liang Wan again. Since it had been exposed that she had taken him out of the hospital, she received a lot of criticism. As a result, Li Cu was assigned to another doctor that was too serious, wore glasses, and had an unsmiling manner. Li Cu has always hated such people, but the thought of his back injury still meant he had to depend on him. He would die if he tried to fix himself, so he hadn’t made any complaints.

Li Cu and Liang Wan still didn’t call the police. Li Cu had even picked up the phone several times, but ended up putting it down in the end. When he thought back to when Wu Xie left, there hadn’t been anything threatening said to them, like telling them not to call the police. Obviously, he was extremely fearless. Li Cu wanted to try telling his father about it, but he didn’t expect that he had never returned home. And his mother… he really didn’t want to bother her other family.

The biggest temptation was that two hundred and twenty thousand yuan.

Li Cu didn’t even touch the money he had withdrawn from the check, but simply left it with Su Wan instead. It was a large sum of money. He wrapped it in kraft paper and put it in a bag before handing it to Su Wan, thinking that he might need to use the money to redeem himself later. If he really couldn’t come back, Su Wan may as well give his family an explanation. Su Wan was completely blindsided when he saw the money. The rich second generation was afraid that someone like Li Cu suddenly having so much money meant that he had robbed a bank or sold a kidney or something. Li Cu didn’t explain much either. He really wanted to leave some information with Su Wan in case he couldn’t come back so that there would at least be an explanation, but he only left a letter to Liang Wan in the end. He didn’t want to implicate Su Wan in case the other party was really vicious; he didn’t want his good friend to get involved.

When he saw Liang Wan this time, she came with fruit, as if she were visiting a patient. Li Cu saw her peek into the room to ensure that there were no nurses or doctors, before sneaking in and closing the door.

She was carrying several bananas in her hand, which were of poor color. She didn’t even give them to Li Cu either, just put them aside and said to him, “I have good news and bad news.”

“Hehe.” Li Cu gave a stiff chuckle, exuding an air of indifference. I’m at peace now. Nothing you might say even matters anymore.

Liang Wan said, “The good news is, I know what the pattern on your back is.”

“Oh, what is it?” Li Cu asked with a straight face.

“You’d better listen to the bad news first.” Liang Wan said, “It seems that Boss Wu doesn’t know that you transferred doctors. He just sent someone to send something to me and I brought it to you.”

Li Cu looked at the bunch of bananas: “Is this it? Help me thank him, and then shove one up his ass.”

“No, you shouldn’t be so rude.” Liang Wan took out an envelope from her bag, “Take it and have a look.”

Li Cu poured the contents of the envelope onto his blanket, but they turned out to be very trivial. First, he picked up something like a certificate, looked at the cover, and found that it was an inspection certificate. After opening it, he found his registration photo inside.

Name: Li Cu

Age: 27

Identity: Team Photographer

Twenty-seven? He touched his chin, twenty-seven years old. Did he look like a twenty-seven-year-old? What was a team photographer?

He continued to search and found that there was a smaller document underneath, which turned out to be his photographer’s qualification certificate. There were also some supporting documents, medical examination forms, driver’s license, a bundle of hundred yuan in cash (about three thousand in total, fuck that was a lot of money), a plane ticket, a fake ID card, and a folder tied with rubber bands.

He fiddled with all the other documents, tore the rubber band off the folder, and found that the contents were instructions for an expedition. There were introductions of personnel, road maps, maps, temperature change tables, precautions, and many other things.

The last piece of paper was the assembly notice: meet at Beijing Capital Airport, Gate Ten of Terminal Three at three tomorrow afternoon.

He put everything down and looked at Liang Wan, suddenly feeling that it was really a little fucking interesting.

“Can I be discharged tomorrow?” He asked.

Liang Wan shook her head, but added: “Don’t worry, the person who sent this told me that I have to send you to the airport on time, otherwise I’ll be killed. So I’ll think of some way to get you out.”

Liang Wan’s method was to sneak out in the middle of the night. In the evening, she distracted the nurse on duty while Li Cu endured the severe pain on his back, changed into clothes, and escaped from the hospital. He made do with Liang Wan’s sofa for the night, and the next afternoon, he casually bought some underwear in the supermarket, and then went to Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital Airport.

A dozen people had gathered in front of Gate 10. Li Cu saw a lot of large aluminum alloy boxes piled on the cart, with Boss Wu standing among them, and the man named Wang Meng beside him. The other strong men from that night didn’t appear to be there.

Liang Wan watched him get out of the car and leave. There were so many people at the airport that the parking spaces were full and there was no way to stop. Li Cu walked over with a plastic bag full of underwear in his hand.

Boss Wu and Wang Meng looked at Li Cu and watched as he came up to them. Wu Xie lit a cigarette and handed it to him: “You can’t smoke on the plane. Do you want one?”

Li Cu shook his head and said to himself, don’t try to give me a cigarette and pretend like nothing happened.

The other busy people turned to Wu Xie and asked, “Lao Guan, which one is this?”

“Photographer.” Wu Xie said without looking back.

Li Cu immediately said, “I’m not a photographer.”

He kind of wanted to see what Wu Xie would do if he didn’t give him any face. If he panicked, that would let Li Cu know whether this team was all of Wu Xie’s people or not, and he had to make clear his position in this relationship.

According to Li Cu’s speculation, not everyone present was Wu Xie’s people, otherwise he wouldn’t have to disguise Li Cu’s age as twenty-seven years old.

No wonder he didn’t want to use coercion completely. It turned out that this wasn’t a team he could control. Then you should have kneeled down and licked my toes a few days ago, begging me to say yes. Li Cu was quite proud at this time.

Wu Xie was completely silent as he smoked his cigarette, and then said to him, “Do you know how important this is to me?”

Li Cu didn’t speak, so Wu Xie continued: “If you mess this up, you’ll destroy many very, very important things for me. Unless you tell me now that you’re not afraid of death, you’d better be honest with me. My temper isn’t as good as it was a few years ago. “

“If I can’t speak the way I want, it’s no different from you threatening me. Aren’t you sincere? Don’t you dislike violence?” Li Cu looked at the people around him and suddenly had the confidence to question Wu Xie.

“Has your father not been home for a long time?” Wu Xie suddenly asked, “Aren’t you worried about him?”

Li Cu paused for a moment and then jumped up, “You, don’t you—”

“It’s not what you think.” Wu Xie said, “I pulled some strings. Your father’s just on a business trip. I’m mentioning this just to tell you that I know all about your family. Don’t mess with me. I said this matter is very important to me and I can’t take any risks. I promised you that if you cooperate with us, we’ll not only come back safely, but you’ll also get a lot of rich rewards.” Wu Xie blew out a mouthful of cigarette smoke and then said, “You voluntarily agreed at that time. If you didn’t, I wouldn’t have any reason to ask you to do anything. But, seeing as you’ve already promised, you’ll be responsible for upholding it, otherwise you’ll ruin my business. I don’t have to have you by my side. At most, I’ll be a little pressured. But if you sabotage me, I’ll definitely kill you to vent my anger. Therefore, stay quiet and treat it like a trip.”

“Trip?” Li Cu once again collapsed.

Wu Xie kicked the box at his feet to Li Cu: “This is your equipment. Yes, trip. My Uncle Three used to trick me the same way.”

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TN Note: Li Cu thinks he’s hot shit, and then Wu Xie goes all gangster on him and shuts him down. I miss our lil cinnamon roll, but I kinda like the gangster side too lol. Can’t believe Wu Xie’s fake ID for the kid made him 27. Come on sweetie, at least make it realistic! How many high schoolers can pull off 27? lol Also cracking up at Li Cu listening to him and making a special trip to buy underwear ahahahaha

Super duper sidenote for my darling readers: I’m going to the beach next week to get my pasty ass sunburned (yay!!!) so I won’t be posting from Friday (6/5) to probably Sunday (6/14). You know how gifted I am at stopping on cliffhangers, so I figured if you wanted to stop reading until I come back, this is the chapter to do it. Looks like tomorrow they’ll be in Badan Jilin Desert so the story might pick up.