Wild Creatures

Chapter 79

"Wen Rouhan has it? The HeartStone?"

"Jin GuanShan g-gave it to him." Jin ZiXun stuttered, his dark eyes rolling back in his head.

Wei Ying shook him again, his body flopping like a ragdoll. It had the desired effect, as light footsteps came running towards them. A-Qing emerged, breathing erratically.

"Where is it?" Wei Ying demanded, out of frustration. If he was still conscious, he was going to answer questions!

"Twenty-four h-hours-" he coughed once more, and then went totally limp.

"Bind his hands and feet." Wei Ying growled out, incensed that they couldn't get anything more out of him.

Xiao XingChen pulled out cable ties and did as he requested immediately, surprised by this Wei Ying, angry and to the point. He wasn't going to waste time arguing.

XiChen looked at his watch.

"It's nearly midnight now."

Wei Ying drops him like the dead weight he is, and there's another noise like glass rolling away. A-Qing picks something up and brings it to Xiao XingChen.

It's a bottle labelled SUP01.

But this isn't a container for pills.

It's for a liquid solution.

Wei Ying checks her other hand, and she's found a syringe with a sharp looking needle.

"Titanium." Xiao XingChen says, not a little bit horrified. "The needle," he clarifies.

It had to be strong enough to pierce his skin, Wei Ying thinks, remembering his own attempts to bite Lan Zhan before…

"I chased them as far as I could, but they were too fast. Got the number plate though," A-Qing said, bagging the things in her possession and then pulling out her phone and pressing a few keys.

Xiao XingChen's phone beeps and he puts away his sword to check his messages. There are a number of photos, and one of them is an image of Lan Zhan being carried away. XiChen gasps with shock, but Wei Ying just feels numb.

His gaze lands on his own wrist, and sees his bracelet.

"The tracker!" He exclaims suddenly, brightening. "I can find him!" He whirls around to leave, and Xiao XingChen stops him.

"Let's make a plan first."

Wei Ying nods, adrenaline coursing through his body.

"Explain about the tracker."

"Lan Zhan got us both tracking devices hidden in our bracelets. I never thought it would come in useful, this fast." Wei Ying shakes his head, willing himself to focus. "I can track where he is but I need Lan Zhan’s laptop. It's at home. And PoPo said the apartment was broken into tonight."

MingJue lets out a low whistle.

"What happened?" XiChen asks him, and Wei Ying gives him a brief explanation of what PoPo had told him.

"Sounds like they are too prepared. Like they've been planning this for a while." MingJue said, frowning.

"Let's find out where they've got my brother first, and then we can decide what to do." XiChen says with steely determination.

Xiao XingChen is already on the phone and speaking with Baoshan Sanren.

"We got separated," he tells her. "A-Qing was on Lan WangJi, too late to prevent his abduction." He glances at Wei Ying. "Yes…he's here." He handed Wei Ying his phone.