Xie Qining thought she was scared and said manfully, "If anything really happens, I'll handle it. Don't worry, it won't implicate you."
"Alright, then you must be extra careful yourself," Sasha asked. "How do you contact these people? Give me their contact information too. If anything happens to you, I can go find them."
"Thank you, wife." Xie Qining, without much thought, gave her the contact information of those people.
After hanging up, Sasha looked at the contact information of the group and thought about how to make them truly work for her.
...
Susu stayed here for another week. Lan Yu no longer had any particularly irritable or uncontrollable episodes and had recovered to be much like before.
She planned to return to Lancheng in two days. Tianyi had also booked flights for her and Daisy.
It was another sunny, breezy, and clear day. Susu and Lan Yu deliberately wore matching sportswear to go hiking.
They walked slowly from the foot of the mountain upwards, like twin sisters, enjoying the scenery and chatting merrily.
Daisy followed them, occasionally joining their conversation.
During their free time these past few days, Daisy had also taught them boxing, so she had become familiar with Lan Yu.
This small mountain, not far from Xiao Mu's house, was not high in altitude. Fitness enthusiasts in the vicinity loved to run or walk along its paths.
When they reached the mountainside, they found a car broken down on the road. The entire vehicle was positioned sideways, almost blocking the entire path.
From a distance, they could see several people sitting inside the car, and a man standing in front of the hood, his face obscured by the open hood, presumably repairing the car.
Susu and Lan Yu exchanged glances. "Let's go take a look and see if they need help?"
Just as Lan Yu was about to nod, Daisy quickly walked ahead of them and said, "It's better to be careful. I'll go take a look, you two wait here."
Susu agreed. In this unfamiliar place, they couldn't be too careless, so she and Lan Yu stayed put.
She then said to Daisy, "See if they can move the car off the road soon. It's inconvenient for everyone to walk when it's blocking the way like this."
Daisy hummed and quickly walked to the front of the car, asking, "Hi, do you need any help?"
The person suddenly turned their head to look at her, but it wasn't a human face. Instead, they were wearing a terrifying clown mask, which startled her.
Daisy instinctively threw a punch at the person and shouted to Susu and the others, "Robbers, run!"
Seeing Daisy engaged in a fight, Susu and Lan Yu, frightened, turned and fled down the mountain.
After running a few steps, Susu felt something was wrong. She took out her phone and said, "No, Daisy is dealing with several bad guys alone. We need to call the police first..."
At this moment, the three people who were originally in the car immediately got out, all wearing masks, and chased after them.
Before Susu could even dial the emergency number, she and Lan Yu were caught by the three pursuers.
They all had weapons, and neither Susu nor Lan Yu dared to struggle too much.
Susu thought they were just common robbers looking to steal money. "Don't hurt us. We can give you all the money we have."
However, the three robbers looked back and forth between the two women. One robber uncertainly asked, "Which one are we supposed to take?"
Susu didn't understand their intention for a moment. She took off her diamond stud earrings and said, "Oh, oh, and jewelry. We can give you all the jewelry too..."
A robber punched her in the face. "Shut up, you're too noisy!"
At this point, Daisy had already knocked down the robber at the car hood. Seeing Susu in danger, she immediately flew over again, knocking a weapon out of a robber's hand, and fiercely protected Susu, saying, "Run!"
A robber immediately pointed a weapon at Daisy's head and roared, "You're looking for death!"
Lan Yu was also held at gunpoint and dared not move.
Susu made a desperate move, lunging at the robber pointing at Daisy's head, and said to them, "If we run, we run together!"
Daisy seized the opportunity to kick the robber to the ground and, protecting Susu, prepared to leave.
As a result, the robbers with weapons raised them, about to fire at Daisy and Susu, who had only run a few steps.
To evade their weapons, Daisy hugged Susu and rolled down a nearby slope.
Before Susu could even exclaim, she felt the world spin and was rolled down with Daisy.
Except for one person who was still holding Lan Yu, everyone else rushed to the edge of the slope, wanting to grab Susu and pull her up.
However, they then noticed some people exercising on the mountain were also walking up the path.
Fearing discovery, they had to hastily grab Lan Yu and put her in the car before speeding away.
Susu could feel the impact of hitting plants and rocks as she rolled down, her whole body aching.
Daisy, lying beside her, had fainted.
Daisy had used herself as a human cushion to protect her, so she must have been more injured than Susu from the fall.
Susu pushed her hard. "Daisy, wake up, wake up!"
But Daisy still didn't wake up.
Susu could only shout for help upwards, but they had rolled to the very bottom of the slope, and her calls could not be heard by anyone.
She searched around for her and Daisy's phones. Her phone had been lost somewhere.
Daisy's phone was still on her, but it was also broken.
With no one to call and nowhere to turn, Susu glanced at the dimly visible road above and knew she had to climb up herself to get help.
She took off her jacket and covered Daisy with it, hoping Daisy would be alright. Then, she resolutely began to climb up with her hands and feet.
With great effort, she finally managed to climb back to the road on the mountainside. The white SUV that had tried to abduct them was nowhere to be seen.
Those people and Lan Yu were also gone. Tears welled up in her eyes, and she could only hope to encounter other people or vehicles coming to exercise on the mountain.
She stood in the middle of the road, looking up and down, but saw no one. She decided to head down the mountain to find help.
After walking a short distance, she finally saw an elderly couple walking hand in hand up the mountain. She quickly stopped them to ask for help, borrowed their phone to contact An Jing and Tianyi, and also made a police report.
...
The group only managed to capture Lan Yu and brought her back to their hideout.
In their haste, they hadn't clearly identified who they were supposed to capture. They only relaxed after arriving at their base.
Everyone immediately confirmed with the leader whether they had captured the right person.
The leader of this group was the one Daisy had knocked down earlier, Wen Wei, whom Xie Qining had met when he was indulging in his extravagant lifestyle in Lancheng.
He covered his injured face and said angrily, "I didn't expect such a scrawny woman to have such powerful fists! If I catch her, I'll kill her!"
"Boss, quickly check. Is the person they asked us to capture her?" a subordinate asked, eager to get his share of the money.
Wen Wei took out a photo from his phone and looked at the tied-up Lan Yu, wishing he could smash his phone. "It's not her."
The subordinates were extremely dejected, feeling like they had all their efforts wasted.