Chapter 1228 — The Purpose of the Kidnapping
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"Yes, it seems Mr. Feng understands my meaning." The man said, "The choice is yours, Mr. Feng. Your daughter can't be much more than seventeen or eighteen, surely — just at the age when a girl is like a flower, like jade. For her to die like this would be a pity."
"How do I know Xiaoxiao is really beside you?" Feng Tianlong glanced at Li Yifeng, who shook his head — clearly he had not yet traced the man's location.
"They're using an overseas telecom number; we'll have to break through several gateways..." Li Yifeng scribbled this line swiftly on a sheet of white paper and set it before Feng Tianlong.
Feng Tianlong nodded slightly, understanding: Li Yifeng meant for him to keep stalling, to buy the technicians time to crack it.
"Haha, Feng Tianlong, don't think I don't know what you're up to!" The man laughed with some disdain. "You just want to string a few more words out of me, to drag out the time so your men can find where I am — am I right or not?"
"Hmph. Think whatever you like. I simply want to confirm that my daughter really is with you!" Feng Tianlong had not expected his ruse to be seen through — but even so, he would not admit it.
"Fine, then I'll let you hear your daughter's voice, to set your mind at ease — and then we'll discuss whether this trade is workable." The man spoke as if it were nothing to him, then said to Feng Xiaoxiao, "Little girl, say something to your daddy!"
"..." Feng Xiaoxiao shut her mouth and said not a word.
Feng Xiaoxiao had been straining her ears at the man's conversation with her father the whole while; when she heard that her father was trying to stall for time to pin down their location, her thoughts turned at once to how she might help him drag things out.
When she heard the man demand that she say a word to her father, she hit upon a plan! If she simply refused to open her mouth, surely that would buy time — enough for her father to fix her location?
So Feng Xiaoxiao shut her mouth and said nothing.
Only that way, with her father unable to be sure whether she truly was in the man's hands, would the call drag on! It was the only thing Feng Xiaoxiao could do — the only thing at all!
Feng Xiaoxiao had no idea where she was. It was an unfamiliar room, seemingly in some ordinary dwelling, yet the living room held little furniture — only a sofa — and from where she sat she could not see out the window, so she had no way to judge her exact location.