The other party replied quickly: [You are testing our patience. We do not accept any form of counter-threat. You just gave us 5 Bitcoins, which does not meet our previous demands. In two minutes, we will chop off one of Jin Yongnian's fingers. This is your fault.]

Chen Feng saw the other party reply so quickly and use Chinese, and he couldn't help but feel suspicious. Previously, when they replied to messages, Chen Feng thought it was Jin Yongnian typing.

But now it felt like these Chinese messages were obviously not typed by Jin Yongnian. Firstly, Jin Yongnian shouldn't have such fast typing speed on a mobile phone, and secondly, the context and tone of this reply clearly weren't from Jin Yongnian.

Moreover, if it were Jin Yongnian, with his cunning nature, he wouldn't fail to mix in some of his own private words.

Chen Feng had some vague guesses in his mind, but the urgent task now was to save Jin Yongnian's finger.

So, he quickly operated his phone again and sent the other party another 5 Bitcoins, then texted them saying: [I hope we can transact face to face, money in one hand and the person in the other. Otherwise, even if you kill Jin Yongnian next, I'll accept it. Because all this money was laid out by me, if it weren't for his daughter, I wouldn't go this far. If he can be saved, I will definitely save him.

But currently, I don't see any sign that you're ready to release him after receiving the ransom. On the contrary, your actions make me feel you're prepared to kill Jin Yongnian.

So, I don't want to end up with nothing. If you can't give me some assurance, I will have to leave this matter alone. After all, it's all my money, I don't want it to go down the drain.]

After roughly two or three minutes, the other party replied: [We only want the money, not lives. As long as we receive the ransom, we will definitely release the person. We have no need to kill him. If you do not believe us, there's nothing we can do, we will wait until the time we previously agreed upon. If by then you have not paid enough ransom, then sorry, Jin Yongnian must die.]

[You are putting me in a tough spot. Taking out so much money really hurts, I don't want it to go down the drain. This person must be rescued. So, I hope you can understand.]

[We can't meet you face to face, much less release him beforehand. If you're reluctant to spend money, then he will surely die. Then his daughter will hate you for life.]

[I've already directly lost more than two million for her, what could she hate me for?]

...

Chen Feng kept dragging the conversation with the other party, with the purpose of stalling for time.

After chatting for five or six minutes, the other party seemed to sense something was wrong, dropped a line saying, "Consider well," and stopped chatting with Chen Feng.

Through Chen Feng's interaction with them, Jin Yongnian's phone location became more precise.

Meanwhile, in an old apartment building, a middle-aged man with yellow skin and black hair put down his phone and said to a thirty-something man with the same yellow skin and black eyes beside him: "The other party is very cunning, I'm a bit worried that they won't continue to send Bitcoin."

The 30-year-old man hesitated and said: "Why don't we just do what he says? After all, we just wanted money from the start, not to kill Jin Yongnian."

That man is Wang Qingxi, one of the two company employees Jin Yongnian sent here to collect debts. And the older man is Wang Qingfeng, Wang Qingxi's cousin, a businessman who's been hustling in the Red Demon Country for several years.

This kidnapping of boss Jin Yongnian was instigated by Wang Qingfeng to Wang Qingxi for a simple reason: greed.

Firstly, there's the unpaid balance of over nine hundred thousand US Dollars, and secondly, they can extort quite a bit from Jin Yongnian himself once he's kidnapped.

All this was Wang Qingfeng's idea. He's been fighting in the Red Demon Country for several years, initially making quite a lot, but soon squandered most of it, especially over the past two years after he got into gambling. He lost a large sum recently, which directly worsened his financial situation.

In this scenario, his cousin Wang Qingxi happened to come to the Red Demon Country on a business trip. The two brothers reunited after a long time, and a few drinks made Wang Qingfeng see an opportunity to make money.

A bit of persuasion and temptation, especially the lure of buying a house in Xiu Zhou, was particularly hard for Wang Qingxi to refuse. He has been working in Xiu Zhou for many years, his house-buying dream yet unfulfilled, making it hard for him to have lasting relationships.

These days, girls are very realistic; who would be with you if you don't have a house?

As for the colleague who came with Wang Qingxi, Wang Qingfeng's way of dealing with him was simple: spend some money to hire local gangsters to stage a street fight with him, resulting in him getting caught and put away.

In this foreign country, fighting with locals, not knowing the language, laws, or national conditions, it's only natural he'd end up in detention for a while.

"My dear brother, I don't mind letting him go because I've already got a green card here. But it's different for you, your roots are still back home. If you return, Jin Yongnian might suspect you, after all, you were the one who tricked him into coming here to collect debts."

"So... your idea is to kill him?" Wang Qingxi asked, his voice trembling.

Wang Qingfeng chuckled, comforting him: "We don't need to do it ourselves; there are professionals to handle this for us. We just need to pay them."

Wang Qingxi fell silent immediately, not knowing what to say.

Just then, the door was suddenly pushed open, and three Middle Eastern men filed in, carrying guns.

"We don't want to kill you. We want the ransom; hand it over immediately," said a bearded man in the middle, gesturing with his gun at the Wang brothers.

Wang Qingfeng looked furious, speaking forcefully: "Iben, I hired you, I'm your employer, doing this is breaking the rules, if your boss Emir knew, he wouldn't spare you?"

Middle Eastern man Iben laughed and said: "Just don't let Boss Emir know then, right?"

Saying this, he suddenly fired the gun, hitting Wang Qingfeng straight in the head.

Wang Qingfeng widened his eyes, his face full of disbelief, then his body fell straight back with a thud.

Iben, who shot, was also dumbfounded. He had aimed at his shoulder, planning to intimidate him into handing over the ransom, but ended up hitting him in the head.

This was definitely an accident!

But others didn't know that. Wang Qingxi saw his cousin shot in the head, scared, he collapsed onto the ground, repeatedly pleading in English: "I'll pay, I'll give money."

His behavior gave Iben and the others no satisfaction at all.

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