Chapter 258 - Finally broken (1/2)

~ Flashback ~

”What? Where is she?”

Wang Lu's voice roared in his office when he heard what his secretary had said. He immediately stood up from his office chair, making it fall to the ground.

”She is in an abandoned warehouse—”

”We have to go there. Now!”

Interrupting his secretary, Wang Lu immediately left the room, his secretary following behind him. They immediately went to the garage and the two of them already entered the car.

The secretary quickly drove away as he got the directions to the warehouse memorized.

Wang Lu was silent all throughout the drive. His hands on his lap turned into a tight fist as his lips turned into a tight line, his eyes reflecting worry and at the same time anger.

He was worried about Feng Mei, and he was also angry at the person who did this.

”Do you have any idea who did this?” Wang Lu asked, the secretary nodding.

”Yes, Mr. Wang,” he answered, ”His name, if I am correct, is Gu Zhi. He was the one who kidnapped your wife,” he added, Wang Lu's rage flowing though his veins.

Wang Lu's knuckles turned white from clenching his fists too hard. He gritted his teeth—an effort to remain silent. His hunched form exuded an animosity that was like acid—burning, slicing, and potent.

His face was red with suppressed rage, and when his secretary was even silent, he still snapped at him, frustrated with what was happening.

”Hurry up at once! I need to see Feng Mei!”

”Y-Yes, Mr. Wang.”

His secretary stepped on the accelerator, following Wang Lu's order so they could immediately come to the warehouse where Feng Mei is.

It had been long since Feng Mei was missing. They have been doing a lot of attempts to look for Feng Mei, but only now did they find leads to where she is.

After a ten-minute drive, they already arrived in front of the warehouse. Stepping into the old warehouse was like stepping into a whole other world. It was like venturing onto a set of old train tracks and following them as far as it took you.

Wang Lu and his secretary ignored the grass peeking up below them. There were a lot of rusted metal around and most of them were even broken. The building seemed to shudder in the wind and sway as the rain attacked it.

Wang Lu and his secretary quickly assessed the area as they walked around, looking for Feng Mei. The building was empty, but for a few obsolete pieces of rusted metal, pieces that seemed perfectly at home within the building's vine-covered walls.

Just as it had been outside, the moment the two opened the door of the warehouse building, the inside looked like something out of a dystopian movie, the walls were rusted and useless as the other carts inside were untouched.

Beams stretched high overhead, and rain dripped down through the cracks of the ceiling, making some parts of the building's floor wet with puddles of water.

Wang Lu and his secretary took further steps into the building, looking around as they left wet footprints on the floor. Wang Lu looked at his secretary, his face very serious.

”Are you sure?” he asked, turning to face the figure of his secretary beside him. The abandoned building seemed like an old place to do much of anything, let alone a suitable place to keep a person away from the crowd.

”It's this place, Mr. Wang Lu,” his secretary said, certainty in his voice. ”The coordinates led here. From the location itself, nobody hears much of anything out here,” he added, taking in a few more steps to look around as his boss stood in the middle of the building, assessing the area more.

How could the man, Gu Zhi, put Feng Mei here? Where could she possibly be, and what was his motive for him to keep her here?

”Feng Mei!”

Snapping himself from his wandering thoughts, Wang Lu called out to Feng Mei, his voice echoing in the vast abandoned building. Seconds passed, but still, there was no feedback. Wang Lu clicked his tongue out of frustration, but when the two of them heard a faint thud on the farther end of the building, they both looked at each other in surprise.

”Did you hear that?” Wang Lu asked, ”There was a faint thud at the farther side of the building,” he mumbled, but it was enough for his secretary to hear.

Feeling cautious, his secretary was trained as Wang Lu's bodyguard as well. He was in a defensive stance as he got his gun from his pocket, leading the way as Wang Lu slowly followed his secretary.

Only their footsteps were heard in the building. The moment Wang Lu's secretary saw the bare feet of a woman, he immediately widened his eyes, quickly turning to look at Wang Lu to inform him what he saw.