As Jiang Cheng heard it, so did Sun Aiguo and the driver up front.

The driver, Xiao Li, had already cut his seatbelt, ready to pounce and fight.

He was a retired comrade personally found by Shen Que, with solid skills, and wouldn’t have retired if not for an injury.

"Hold on a second."

Jiang Cheng whispered, and after Xiao Li turned back to meet Jiang Cheng’s reassuring gaze, he hid the small knife between his fingers.

"Get them out quickly!"

"I told you to use fewer spikes, don’t cause any deaths!"

"Hurry up!"

There were lots of voices outside, and amid the ruckus, the car door was violently pried open, pulling out Jiang Cheng and the other two.

"Don’t move! We don’t want to hurt you, just follow commands, and we’ll release you in a few days."

Jiang Cheng and his two companions sat on the ground, looking up.

Around them were seven or eight men with their faces covered in coarse cloth, three of them holding hunting rifles, the other four machetes.

Even if Xiao Li was a great fighter, he was still made of flesh and blood.

With blood streaming down his forehead, Jiang Cheng managed a wry smile.

"Alright, as long as you guys are so reasonable, we’ll certainly cooperate."

"Come on, why don’t you tie us up a bit?"

Jiang Cheng put his hands together, wrists forward, with an expression of eager cooperation, which puzzled the seven men across.

Is kidnapping supposed to be like this?

It was their first time too; they really had no clue about the proper procedure.

Out of the seven men, six looked at one person, who was evidently the leader.

The tall man, with a pinched voice, said, "Tie them up."

A few minutes later, Jiang Cheng and his companions, wrists bound, were watched by the seven as they marched towards the wilderness.

After about ten minutes, a donkey cart appeared ahead.

"Get on!"

Jiang Cheng cooperatively remarked, "Wow, there’s even a cart, how nice."

"I’ll sit up front, or I’ll get car sick in the back and delay the journey, which wouldn’t be good."

Saying this, Jiang Cheng actually sat at the front, right beside the leader.

The others exchanged looks, all thinking the same thing: is this lady out of her mind?

Jiang Cheng didn’t care what others thought. After sitting down, she adjusted to a comfortable position and asked the tall leader beside her, "Brother, may I know your esteemed surname?"

The tall man turned his head and said, "I’m the kidnapper."

"Ah—sorry, my mistake for asking about trade secrets."

Jiang Cheng said with a look of apology, "Why don’t you make up a fake name? It wouldn’t be polite to keep calling you ’hey hey hey’, right?"

"My name is Jiang Cheng, you can call me Sister Jiang or Cheng Sister."

"Oh dear, dear kidnapper brother, how old are you? I wouldn’t want to call you older than you are, that would be disrespectful."

...

Once Jiang Cheng started yapping, she didn’t stop, talking to the leader from when they sat down to when they got off.

Jiang Cheng didn’t mind at all and kept chatting with the new underling.

From time to time, the new underling was almost chatted up by Jiang Cheng.

If not for the reminder from others, he might have revealed where he lived.

The kidnapper leader finally couldn’t take it anymore and fiercely said to Jiang Cheng, "Shut up!"

"Alright!"

Jiang Cheng cheerfully agreed and didn’t say another word.

This straightforward response left the seven kidnappers speechless.

Was she really this obedient??

Then what was all their torment earlier for? Were they the idiots?

Jiang Cheng, who was silent, actually had more thoughts in her mind.

She hadn’t intended to extract information but was testing their limits.

The result was their limits were quite low.

Or perhaps these people weren’t truly evil, so if the current disadvantage could be turned around, it might work in their favor.

Jiang Cheng was pondering this as the donkey cart continued on.

After a while, they got off and began climbing the mountain.

After an unknown period, the sky had turned completely dark, and wolf howls were occasionally heard on the mountain.

The seven kidnappers automatically formed a circle to protect Jiang Cheng and the others in the middle.

Jiang Cheng: These folks are good people, confirmed.

They walked into the mountain for a few hours, entering a valley through a hard-to-find path.

Then they went from the valley into a cave.

Inside the cave were hung three sacks of grain, along with some pots, utensils, and firewood, clearly left by hunters.

So, were these people hunters?

"Sit down, don’t move!"

"We don’t want to hurt you, just stay here for a while."

After the lead kidnapper finished speaking, two kidnappers went to start a fire and cook porridge, preparing to eat.

"Kidnapper brother, we’re unfamiliar with the mountain, it’s howling with wolves out there. We wouldn’t run and we can’t escape, so why not untie us?"

"My hands are losing circulation."

Jiang Cheng made a request, and after much thought, the kidnappers actually untied them.

But the three with the hunting rifles sat right across from Jiang Cheng and the others, watching intently.

Jiang Cheng was even more relaxed than the kidnappers and obediently raised her hand to speak up.

"Kidnapper brother, I need to use the restroom."

"Go!"

Jiang Cheng got up, and one of the kidnappers with a gun followed, along with the kidnapper leader.

Xiao Li and Sun Aiguo wanted to get up, but Jiang Cheng turned back to reassure them, "It’s fine, the kidnapper brother will protect me, right?"

Kidnapper leader, gritting his teeth, agreed with a hum.

Jiang Cheng, with a beaming smile, said to the kidnapper leader, "Brother, you’re the nicest kidnapper I’ve ever met, though I’ve never met any others, but you’re really not bad."

Jiang Cheng chatted familiarly as she went to answer nature’s call.

The kidnapper leader and another kidnapper who followed her turned their backs, with the leader asking Jiang Cheng to keep talking to ensure they knew she was there.

Jiang Cheng was very cooperative.

"Kidnapper brother, you said you want us to stay for a period, I guess someone doesn’t want me out?"

"Not wanting me out must mean they fear my intelligence threatens their plan."

"Being too smart is indeed a burden... By the way, brother, did you take this job for money or to return a favor?"

The kidnapper leader remained silent, but Jiang Cheng continued anyway.

"Brother, if it’s for money, I might offer more, and I won’t call the police."

"If it’s for a favor, then it’s a shame for your righteousness, ending up working for foreign devils."

"Sigh—helping those foreign devils damage our Hua Xia’s local industry, using their toxic foreign stuff to ruin our Hua Xia people’s bodies, really... what a move."

"Brother, have you heard of the destruction of opium at Tiger Gate?"

Jiang Cheng continued her tirade, from the opium destruction at Tiger Gate to how foreign devils persecuted the people, from the Nanjing Massacre to the hardship of the anti-Japanese war.

"Our good days have finally come, yet these foreign devils aren’t satisfied, coming back to Hua Xia to collapse my food factory."

"Once my food factory fails, their food factory can occupy the market share. Do you really think these foreign devils care about our Hua Xia people’s health and will sell us good things?"

"Sigh—I have no power over these matters."

"Wow—a cry for help, Brother Geng—we can’t be the dogs of the foreigners!"

Jiang Cheng watched the younger one weep and thought: Not bad, still got the knack for BSing.