379: Chapter 379: Robbery on the Way 379: Chapter 379: Robbery on the Way Miyun Mountain, about three hundred miles from Donglin City, is a very famous tourist Holy Land.
The number of people visiting Miyun Mountain during the double golden weeks each year is quite substantial.
The foothill of Miyun Mountain flourishes with numerous townships, which earn their living from the lodging and food expenses of these tourists, thereby enriching the surrounding towns.
The scenery around Miyun Mountain is truly picturesque, with emerald hills enveloped in mist throughout the year, giving visitors a sense of descending into the Immortal Realm.
The area around Miyun Mountain is dotted with no less than ten large and small towns, and the number of villages is even greater.
However, the most famous is Miyun Town.
From Miyun Town, one can find the best entrance to Miyun Mountain, and many tourist spots are also under its jurisdiction.
Tangyu’s destination was precisely Miyun Town.
Guo Momo and her two companions had never been to Miyun Town before and were quite unfamiliar with the area.
After getting off the expressway, they slowed down the car because the navigation system was no longer useful, and they had to rely on a map to barely recognize the way.
“There’s a fork in the road ahead, which way should we go?” Tangyu was naturally driving, and the Range Rover with its strong off-road capabilities provided a comfortable ride.
Guo Momo and the others sat in the back, checking the route on their phones.
“Turn left for Miyun Town,” Zhao Yaya said.
Lin Feifei shook her head, “No, it says here to go right to reach Miyun Town.”
“So should we turn left or right?” Tangyu slowed down the car again.
The lack of navigation, the non-detailed map, and especially the absence of road signs complicated the situation.
They were not on the main route but had taken a shortcut, suggested by Zhao Yaya.
This was what had led to their current predicament.
To quote Zhao Yaya: taking the road less traveled.
Going all the way on the expressway would mean a detour because Miyun Town was not under Donglin City’s jurisdiction.
Departing from Donglin City would add over a hundred more miles, so Zhao Yaya found a shortcut online that would save a lot of time and enable them to reach Miyun Town by noon for a meal.
“Turn left, definitely to the left, trust me, Feifei,” Zhao Yaya said with conviction.
“Hiss—”
Suddenly, Tangyu slammed on the brakes, and the car screeched loudly on the road.
The significant inertial force thrust Guo Momo and the others forward, but fortunately, the car wasn’t going too fast.
After regaining their composure, they braced themselves against the front seats to avoid being thrown out.
Tangyu was somewhat speechless because a person had suddenly rushed out from the roadside, gesturing them to stop, forcing him to brake abruptly.
“What’s going on?” Guo Momo was the first to ask.
The person who had stopped the car threw herself at the car window, pounding on it desperately with a look of longing.
It was a rural woman in her mid-thirties, with an expression of shock and urgency on her face, as if something significant had happened at home.
Guo Momo glanced outside and furrowed her brow slightly, “Tangyu, roll down the window and see what’s happening.”
Only then did Tangyu lower the window, and the countrywoman immediately said in an earnest tone, “Kind folks, please hurry and save my man.
My husband has suddenly come down with a serious illness; I implore you to help take him to the hospital in Miyun Town.”
Hearing the countrywoman mention Miyun Town, Tangyu and the others were moved, as they themselves were unfamiliar with the route.
This could be an opportunity to have the woman guide them.
“Sister, don’t panic, what exactly happened?” Guo Momo asked.
The countrywoman looked at Guo Momo, “Kind Miss, it’s like this.
My husband and I raise fish around here and we live nearby.
He suddenly fell ill just now.
Please go over there and help carry my husband here to get him to the hospital in Miyun Town.
It’s not far from here to Miyun Town.
Please, I beg you, you’re all good people, you’re all angels.”
A faint smile crossed Tangyu’s lips—he could tell from the woman’s somewhat vacant gaze that her words were surely deceptive.
From the way she examined them upon her arrival, Tangyu had noticed that the woman’s intentions were definitely not simple.
Perhaps she was out to swindle money or even rob them.
No matter how good her acting was, there were flaws.
The eyes are challenging to deceive, at least for Tangyu.
Being a descendant of the Ghost Doctor, Chinese medicine’s most basic skills are “look, smell, ask, and feel.” Therefore, discerning people’s true colors was one of Tangyu’s strengths.
“I see, well, it just so happens that we’re also headed to Miyun Town,” Guo Momo said.
Tangyu wanted to refuse, but since Guo Momo had already agreed, it wouldn’t be easy for him to object.
However, he felt no fear toward whatever the countrywoman’s motives might be.
All schemes and plots fade before absolute strength, like flowers in a mirror and the moon in the water.
“Thank you all, you’re such good people, you’re my family’s savior.
I can’t lift my husband on my own; please come over and help me.
We live just over there, a few minutes’ walk away,” said the woman, her eyes brimming with gratitude.
Guo Momo felt a bit troubled.
With the three girls, how much strength could they muster?
“Tangyu, why don’t you go and help this lady bring her husband over?
We’ll wait for you at the house,” Guo Momo said.
“No need, let’s drive there.
It’ll be more convenient,” Tangyu replied.
“The place where we live is all mountain roads, and it might be difficult for cars to get through from here?” the woman said.
Tangyu smiled and said, “No worries, our car is great, not to mention a road like this, even on poorer roads, there wouldn’t be any problems.”
“Well–in that case, thank you,” the village woman hesitated before accepting the offer.
“Get in,” Tangyu said to the village woman.
The village woman nodded and climbed into the passenger seat.
Under her directions, Tangyu drove onto the mountain road.
An ordinary car would have definitely struggled, but the Land Rover’s off-road capability was no joke, so it was totally stress-free.
After driving about a kilometer, they saw a large lake with a small cabin by its side.
The village woman pointed to the cabin and said, “That’s the place, my man is inside.”
Tangyu quickly parked the car in front of the small cabin, and the village woman said to him, “Young man, please get out and help me support my man.”
Tangyu nodded, and as soon as they got out, before they could enter the cabin, a group of people suddenly rushed out, surrounding the car.
There were as many as eight of them, all looking fierce and menacing, with unpleasant faces.
Each of them was armed with knives or iron rods.
They were all males, dressed in a ruffian style, with the oldest among them being a bald man in his forties, wearing a tank top, his body covered in tattoos—a dragon on the left and a tiger on the right, looking quite ferocious.
“Hmm, another group of gullible little fat sheep,” the village woman transformed into a bandit on the spot.
To such a sudden turn of events, Tangyu seemed completely calm, his face unflustered, as he had predicted this situation.
Sure enough, they were highway robbers; these people had the audacity to stop cars on the road, lure them here, and then rob them.
And they did it so brazenly, such utter disregard for the law.
Even the black market encounter he had previously wasn’t so overt, as they at least pretended to run a legitimate business on the surface.
But this group was just a bunch of savage bandits.
Momo, Yaya, and Feifei were also taken aback by this unexpected turn, with Momo’s expression coldening as she snorted through her delicate nose, “It seems being a good person is indeed difficult these days.
To rob in broad daylight, such a flagrant defiance of the law, completely lawless.”
The gang eyed the three beautiful women in the car with strange looks, their eyes gleaming with lust, their lecherous intentions blatantly visible.
“Tsk tsk, looks like it’s a bountiful day, to have three beauties no less, much prettier than the girls from the foot-bath city.
Tsk tsk, even if it shaved ten years off my life, I’d be willing just to taste one.”
“Boss, let’s do something harsh today, let the brothers have a good time with these three beauties,” one of them suggested.
“Tsk tsk, such a cool car, I’ve dreamt of owning a Land Rover forever, let’s go big this time,” another chimed in.
Clearly, the bald man was the leader, and his cronies were quick to entertain malicious thoughts.
Listening to this, Momo, Yaya, and Feifei inside the car became incredibly nervous.
They huddled together closely—despite the doors being locked, they still felt insecure and now placed their hopes on Tangyu.
The bald man scanned Momo, Yaya, and Feifei with his eyes, a hint of a strange color flashing across his gaze before he quickly concealed it.
He cast a glance over his men, causing them to reluctantly shut up, though their eyes continued to leer at the three women.
Looking at Tangyu, the bald man said, “Are you going to cooperate with us willingly, or shall we get rough?”
Tangyu calmly responded to the bald man, “That depends on what you want.”
“Money, obviously.
Looking at you, we can tell you’re all rich kids, young masters and mistresses.
If I kidnap you, don’t you think I could make a big profit?” the bald man said with a sinister tone.
Tangyu nodded and replied, “Indeed, if you kidnap us and use it as leverage, you certainly could make a big profit.
However, since you know we come from influential families, do you not fear that you might have money to scoop but no life to spend it?”
“Fuck, what are you saying, kid?”
“Scaring whom?
I dare to act because I know I can spend it.
Don’t worry about that,” the bald man retorted.
With a wave of his hand, the bald man silenced his men before looking at Tangyu with a smirk and said, “You’re quite collected, I must admit you have some guts.
Hmph, my brothers and I, we live on the edge, flirting with life and death.
We don’t venture out often, but when we do, it lasts us three years.
Once we get the money, we surely have places to go.
Over the years, playing cat and mouse with the cops hasn’t been for nothing.
Kid, if you don’t want my men to get rough with those three little beauties, just surrender quietly.
Otherwise, don’t blame us for getting violent.
I believe my brothers would be more than happy to ‘get rough.'”
A dark look crossed Tangyu’s eyes, a coldness flashing briefly.
He had initially planned to deal with these people directly.
However, he faintly felt that something was not quite right; this situation seemed to be more than just a coincidental kidnap.
If it was truly a kidnapping, wouldn’t it be too convenient?
He had never heard of kidnappers who intercept people on the road for their scheme.
Professional kidnappers always have a specific target and prepare thoroughly.
He had never heard of random road abductions, only of highway robberies.
Thus, Tangyu suspected that there was more to this situation than met the eye.