C541 (1/2)

”What's going on? Is there a power cut? ”

Zhou Lichang's family was not used to the darkness that suddenly engulfed them.

Xu Yongwei anxiously hugged her children, and shouted in the darkness: ”Quickly go to that flashlight, Xin Xin is the one who is afraid of the dark.”

”Got it, didn't I go look for him?” Zhou Lichang said impatiently.

However, it was not easy to walk in this pitch black darkness. With a ”clang” sound, Zhou Lichang cried out, and bumped into the corner of the table.

Right at that moment, a soft ”rustling” sound of keys could be heard coming from the door, followed by a few beams of white light shooting in. It was the powerful flashlight.

Xu Yongwei was blinded by the light as she scolded: ”Zhou Lichang, why are you looking for so many flashlights?”

But just as she said that, she realised that there were at least 7 to 8 light beams flickering. How was it possible for Zhou Lichang to obtain so many light beams by himself.

Just then, she remembered that someone had entered the house, and anxiously shouted: Zhou Lichang, there's a thief!

What answered her was only Zhou Lichang's miserable scream. Under the beams of light, Xu Yongwei vaguely saw the shadows of a few people approaching, and just as she was about to bring her two children and run away, she suddenly felt her shoulders tighten, and that she had been caught.

Zhou Zhihao and Zhou Xinxin, the two little kids, had never encountered such a sudden situation before. They opened their mouths wanting to cry out loud, but then saw two people raise their hands and use a hand blade to hit the nape of Zhou Zhihao and Zhou Xinxin's necks, immediately knocking them out.

Xu Yongwei immediately struggled: ”Don't touch my child …” Before she could finish, there was a sudden pain on the back of her neck. Then, she felt as if all the strength in her body was sucked out in an instant. Her body went limp and she fainted as well.

In the darkness of the night, Zhou Lichang's entire family was quickly carried to a van. The group of people even closed the Zhou Mansion's villa, and only then drove away without showing any signs of abnormality.

When Zhou Lichang woke up, the first thing he felt was that the muscles on his neck and shoulder were extremely sore, as if they were sleeping with their necks crooked.

In front of him was a patch of yellow, swaying about. It was the light bulb hanging from the ceiling that was swinging back and forth.

It took him a few seconds to realize that he was sitting on a wooden chair, his hands tied behind his back, his feet tied to the legs of the chair, unable to move.

”Daddy! ”Father!”

A tearful voice called out, causing Zhou Lichang's mind to tremble. Looking towards the direction of the cry, he saw that his son and daughter were also tied to the wooden chair that was right in front of him.

Xu Yongwei, on the other hand, was tied to the wall to her left with her head lowered and not moving at all.

”Zhihao, Xin Xin, are you alright? Are you hurt?” Zhou Lichang asked anxiously.

Zhou Zhihao shook his head, while Zhou Xinxin was in tears: ”Dad, what's going on? ”Xin Xin is so scared. Xin Xin wants to go home, wuu …”

”Xin Xin, don't cry. Daddy is here. Be good. Xin Xin, don't cry.” Zhou Lichang comforted his daughter as he looked around.

He found that it was a room of more than 20 square meters. It was very old, with large areas of the walls peeling off, revealing the bare brick surface. Besides the wooden chairs used to tie them up, there was nothing else in the room.

On the right side of the wall, there was a window that was welded to death by an anti-theft net. Through the hazy glass, one could vaguely see the shadows of the trees outside and infer that this was a remote wilderness.

Thinking back to the scene before, Zhou Lichang surmised that his entire family was kidnapped.

He was immediately scared, because if this was a normal kidnapping, then at least one of the adults would have to be responsible for paying the ransom. Now that they had captured his entire family, it was not just a kidnapping, but a revenge.

Zhou Lichang knew that he had offended a lot of people, especially those who were competing with him for the government works.

As he was guessing in his heart, the rusty metal door of the room was roughly pushed open.

Afterwards, they saw a few sturdy men wearing camouflage clothes and hoods walk in, causing Zhou Xin Xin to be so scared that she didn't dare to make a sound.

Zhou Lichang immediately said to the few big sized men: ”Wait … Brothers, I wonder how did I offend you all, causing you all to go all out like this?

”You can say whatever you want. This little brother will definitely apologize many times more, as long as big brothers can let this little brother go.”

The leader of the guards took out a black gun from his robes, causing Zhou Lichang, who was sitting on the chair, to be shocked.

”Boss Zhou, I'm really sorry. I caught you guys at home.