The smell was not like the perfume on Chu Ling's body, but more like the bitter smell of some medicine.

"Chu Ling?" Lu Ning slowly withdrew his hand and prepared to retreat.

The person in front of me...is not Chu Ling!

Just when Lu Ning was about to step back, the figure in front of him suddenly moved.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed Lu Ning's wrist.

The rough fingertips brushed against Lu Ning's red wrist, causing an immediate stinging sensation.

"How did you find out?" A male voice suddenly came from the darkness.

The voice was low and contained a hint of mockery. At the same time, the palm that was holding Lu Ning's wrist suddenly tightened.

The moment the stinging pain came, Lu Ning’s eyes instantly sank.

Lu Ning's expression changed and he chose to take action directly.

She pressed down the hand that was holding her wrist with her backhand, and the next second she pushed the person down suddenly.

Lu Ning was extremely fast, but the other party's reaction was not slow either.

The two forces collided almost at the same time. Although Lu Ning failed to step on the other party as she wished, the other party also failed to pull her over.

His wrist was loosened, and Lu Ning turned the knife in his other hand with a gloomy face.

Having just cut the rope, she kept the knife close at hand in case of emergency.

Now it seems like a wise choice.

She turned the blade in her hand and stabbed directly at the figure opposite her in the next two seconds.

Suddenly there was a cry of surprise in the darkness, followed by a girl's scream.

Lu Ning recognized that it was Chu Ling's cry, and moved the blade forward to avoid hurting Chu Ling who was being held hostage by the man.

Just now, Chu Ling was grabbed from the chair and held in front of someone. If the blade in Lu Ning's hand moved forward a little more, it would hit Chu Ling.

Lu Ning cursed the other person in her heart as a shameless rubbish, but she had to slow down her movements.

The surrounding environment was too dark, and even Lu Ning could not accurately determine the other party's position.

What Lu Ning didn't expect was that there were not only her and Chu Ling here, but there was actually a third person.

And when did this person move away from Chu Ling and put himself in Chu Ling's position?

“Are you in the same group as the people who captured me?” Lu Ning slowly turned his wrist. Although his tone was calm, his whole body had already adopted a defensive posture.

The figure on the other side did not move, but suddenly smiled when hearing the words, "No, in fact, I was also captured."

The man's deep voice sounded again, and Lu Ning could feel that he suddenly moved.

"Lu Ning, he didn't mean to attack you. He just woke up and doesn't know what happened." Chu Ling's voice suddenly sounded, her tone full of protection for the man.

"Chu Ling, do you know him?" Lu Ning raised her eyebrows. Clearly, the man had used her to block the knife just now, but Lu Ning did not hear any complaints or dissatisfaction from Chu Ling's mouth.

Lu Ning thought about herself and thought that if Xie Qingxing or anyone else dared to use her to block the knife, she would probably stab the other person twice without saying a word.

In the darkness, the man didn't say anything else, but Lu Ning heard a rustling sound, as if someone was looking for something.

After a moment, Chu Ling's voice sounded again, "He and I are friends. He has no ill intentions. He just thought you were going to hurt me, so he did that."

"I was with him when he was kidnapped. It was actually me who implicated him."

As if worried that Lu Ning wouldn't believe it, Chu Ling tried to explain to Lu Ning.

Lu Ning was tired of listening. She simply found a wall to lean against and said, "Okay, I believe you."

After saying that, Lu Ning paused and said, "The key now is how we can escape. What do you think?"

Hearing this, Chu Ling fell silent again. Apart from her identity as a female celebrity, she was just an ordinary girl. Faced with such a situation, all she could think of was to wait for rescue.

Obviously, the person Lu Ning really wanted to ask this question to was not Chu Ling, but the man beside him.

"It's still unclear what they want us to do. It might not be wise to act rashly." The man began, but suddenly coughed twice after he finished speaking.

Lu Ning finally understood why she smelled a hint of medicine just now. It turned out that among the three people, she was the only one in good health.

Perhaps he had been holding it in before, the man's cough gradually became uncontrollable.

Under the current circumstances, Lu Ning knew how unlikely it was to take everyone out without the system's reminder.

The cell phone had already been taken away by those people. Lu Ning tried to search his pockets, but found nothing.

The only thing to be thankful for was that Lu Ning had changed her clothes before going downstairs. If she had come out wearing that pajamas, the situation would have been even worse.

Half an hour passed like this, and suddenly there was a noise outside the utility room door.

Soon, footsteps stopped in front of the door.

When the sound of the key turning in the lock was heard, even the man next to him tried hard to hold his breath to prevent himself from coughing.

"I don't know what happened to these guys. The two from before should be awake by now."

"Who knows? Judging from the looks of those two, they might even go crazy when they wake up."

"Go in and take a look, but don't turn on the light."

"Okay, I know what's going on."

As the conversation died down, a figure appeared in front of the door.

The lights in the corridor came on, and Lu Ning could use the lights to see figures in the corridor, but unfortunately the light was limited and he couldn't see the situation inside the room clearly.

"Oh, so you are all awake." The man at the door was wearing a hat and his back was facing the light, so he couldn't see the other person's face clearly.

But the voice was a little rough, and at first glance it sounded like the voice was damaged.

"That's great, why don't we chat first." The man said as he took two steps forward and blended himself into the darkness of the room.

"We have no special intention in bringing you three here. It's just that our brothers are a little short of money recently and happened to have run into some troubles, so we need you to sponsor us."

"Just tell us how much ransom you want. We can afford it." The man next to Chu Ling suddenly spoke, but his voice was a little weaker than before.

"Don't worry. We dare to arrest people because we know that you three are rich. We will send people to contact your family and friends for the exact amount. But before we get the money, you will have to stay here."

After the man finished speaking, he walked out the door, and then the door was closed again.

The moment darkness fell, Lu Ning tapped lightly on the wall behind him with his fingertips.

[Host, what are you going to do now? 】

Lu Ning fumbled with his fingertips, his expression still calm, "Of course I waited."

She didn't know about the other two, but the other party definitely didn't capture her just for money.

"Will we be in trouble?" In the darkness, Chu Ling subconsciously lowered his voice.

It was the first time she had experienced such a thing, and the panic in her tone did not seem fake, so almost instinctively, she subconsciously grabbed the arm of the man next to her.

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