When Rong Dai heard the other party agree, she let out a sigh of relief in her heart. She was really afraid that the other party would go back on their word. If that happened, she was afraid the only way she could leave this place early would be when the other party wanted her to leave.
She glanced at the countless missed calls and WeChat messages on her phone, most of which were from Huo Shao Ting.
She didn't call Lu Nianzhi, but instead called Huo Shao Ting's personal number. She didn't know if Lu Nianzhi was busy or not. If Lu Nianzhi didn't answer her call because she was dealing with something, things would get troublesome.
Huo Shao Ting was sitting in the police station looking at the surveillance footage brought out by Lu Hong when his phone that was sitting on the table rang with a familiar ringtone. He grabbed it in one swift movement, startling Lu Hong with his action.
Just as Lu Hong was about to say something, seeing Huo Shao Ting's gaze fixed intensely on the screen, he shut his mouth.
"Can it be traced?" Huo Shao Ting's voice was icy cold and creepy. Then he passed his phone with the incoming call to Lu Hong.
Seeing the note on it, Lu Hong immediately understood and quickly asked the tech team to start tracing the signal source.
Only then did Huo Shao Ting answer the call and start recording it.
"Shao Ting!" As soon as the call connected, Rong Dai called out immediately! Her emotions were hard to put into words, but she didn't dare show it.
Hearing Rong Dai's voice, Huo Shao Ting's whole body shook, and both his hands subconsciously grabbed the phone.
"Where are you? How are you? Are you hurt?" Huo Shao Ting rapid fired three questions.
He had rushed back overnight on a flight with no time difference adjustment or sleep, and had come straight to the police station. He didn't expect that in the few days he was away, a blind fool had come knocking on death's door!
Hearing the anxiety in his words, Rong Dai's nose soured and she almost cried.
"I'm fine. I sent an account number over, transfer 10 million into the account...and don't trace it."
She didn't forget the task at hand. The Blind Old Woman was still staring at her!
10 million was not a small sum, but compared to her life, it was nothing.
Moreover, she had already promised the Blind Old Woman. Although she was not an overly sympathetic person, the Blind Old Woman had said earlier that the 10 million was life-saving money.
No matter who the Blind Old Woman wanted to save, she was using the money to save her own life.
Huo Shao Ting listened to her words carefully. Rong Dai also longed to talk to him a bit more.
But the Blind Old Woman somehow sat up and snatched the phone from her hand, directly hanging up.
The Blind Old Woman was not stupid. She opened the call log from the phone Rong Dai had just used and sent the account number herself.
Then she turned off the phone and put it under her own pillow.
Her remaining eye stared at Rong Dai, and she said, "Once the money arrives, I'll take you down the mountain."
Rong Dai nodded and sat down.
In less than a few minutes, the Blind Old Woman's old-fashioned mobile phone vibrated.
The Blind Old Woman immediately turned it on and brought it close to scrutinize with her eye. After carefully counting ten times to confirm, she made a call and spoke in a dialect Rong Dai couldn't understand.
After hanging up, the Blind Old Woman got down from the kang with her gaze slanted at Rong Dai, "I'll take you down the mountain."
Her voice was really unpleasant, hoarse and coarse, hurting Rong Dai's ears.
Rong Dai looked outside the wooden house into the pitch blackness.
Thinking of the lone wolf from earlier, she felt somewhat reluctant in her heart to venture out.
Traveling through such dense forests at night was an extremely dangerous thing.
But she had no other choice. If she didn't seize this opportunity, it wouldn't be impossible for the Blind Old Woman to go back on her word by the next morning.
She nodded, reached for her backpack. The Blind Old Woman held her phone in her hand with an icy cold gaze, "You'll get it back once we reach the foot of the mountain."
Rong Dai didn't object either. She slung her backpack over her shoulder and took the lead to go to the storage room.
She took a torch and put two daggers, which she had secretly sharpened over the past three days, into her bag.
"Take this."
The Blind Old Woman handed her a long, thin machete. Rong Dai took it without hesitation.
It was currently the beginning of spring and there would be more wild animals out and about in the middle of the night in this dense forest.
The Blind Old Woman locked up the wooden house properly and lit a torch. Rong Dai followed behind her as the two delved into the forest.
The night forest was creepy. All kinds of subtle and strange sounds could be heard extra clearly.
Although the Blind Old Woman was injured in the leg, she walked very nimbly, as if she felt no pain.
Rong Dai didn't ask much. She was vigilant in her heart because she knew the way down the mountain.
The Blind Old Woman kept her promise and led Rong Dai down the mountain all the way.
There were layers of peaks surrounding this mountain and the trees were very lush.
It took the two women two hours to descend the mountain. Fortunately nothing dangerous happened along the way.
Rong Dai was very vigilant, her eyes scanning all around, worried that the old woman would play tricks.
But she had overthought it. The Blind Old Woman only cared about money.
Now that the money was in hand, she just wanted to hurry up and send Rong Dai away.
She was greedy for money, not murder.
But she was also afraid her greed would get the better of her, so she sent Rong Dai away to keep the problem out of sight and out of mind.
"Go left at the three-way fork towards Shengjing. Here you go."
The Blind Old Woman pointed to the three-way intersection ahead, then handed Rong Dai her phone and took out two somewhat hard corn cakes from her backpack to give her.
Before Rong Dai could say anything, the Blind Old Woman gripped her torch and turned back into the woods. Rong Dai watched as the torch gradually disappeared into the dense forest.
Rong Dai felt the tension in her heart slowly easing, but looking at the pitch black dirt road, she still felt a little apprehensive.
She had never walked on such a pitch black road before. It was deathly quiet here and all she could hear was her own breathing.
She left the edge of the forest and headed towards the left fork in the three-way intersection.
Not fully trusting the Blind Old Woman’s words, she walked about seven to eight hundred meters along the three-way road and then stopped. She extinguished the torch and threw it at the roadside.
Then she backtracked and walked along the middle road. Without even turning on her phone, she felt her way in the dark to crouch under a windproof boulder.
After making sure there was no danger around, she took out her phone from her pocket. With one hand wrapped in her coat, she rapidly shared her location with Huo Shao Ting.
Seeing the location she shared and finding that she was over two hundred kilometers from Shengjing, Huo Shao Ting's eyes turned icy cold and terrifying!
He didn't call Rong Dai but sent her a message instead.
He told her to stay put, keep location sharing on, protect herself well. He would be there immediately.
Rong Dai swiftly replied and then turned off the phone screen, pricking up her ears to listen for sounds around her.
She hadn't slept well these past three days either and her eyelids were very heavy. But she had no choice but to stay alert to her surroundings. She was worried the Blind Old Woman would come with people to look for her.
