Chapter 914 First Encounter (1/2)

The next day, just after dawn, the doorbell in Li Du's villa rang.

Ah Ow woke up and howled twice. Li Du went downstairs in his pajamas and looked outside. He saw three policemen at his doorway.

He went out in a daze and asked, ”Hey, officers, what's going on?”

A policeman saluted him and took out his little book. ”Hello, sir. Something happened to your neighbor last night. We have questions to ask you, please cooperate.”

Li Du was immediately stunned and said, ”Something happened to my neighbors? Can I ask what happened?”

The officers looked at each other, and the black policeman nodded. ”Of course. They were kidnapped . . . ”

Li Du shook his head with a smile. ”That's impossible, they had dozens of people over. A lot of people. Young, strong people. To silently kidnap them . . . you would have to use an army.”

The policeman immediately caught a flaw in his remark and asked, ”Two questions. One, how did you know there were many people in their house? Two, how do you know kidnapping them requires silence?”

”It's simple,” Li Du said. ”I went over last night, talked to them, and saw from the door that they had a lot of people over. As for the silent kidnapping? Still very simple. I am their neighbor, so if I did not hear anything, of course, it was silent . . . ”

Apparently, the police suspected he was the culprit. Of course, Li Du certainly would not admit to anything.

Li Du did not think that he'd kidnapped them—kidnapping and ransoms often went together. Brother Wolf and Big Ivan had only tied them up—they did not ask for a ransom.

He understood that they had committed a crime, but he did not believe that the police could find evidence.

Brother Wolf and Big Ivan had been very meticulous. They even covered their shoes with cotton clothes before entering the villa. There were no sign of them entering.

He followed the police to check the situation. Several police cars arrived at the villa. The four little kids joined in with him, chasing each other around him.

A few young men sat slumped on the grass, looking spiritless with coffee or cigarettes in their hands.

A few youths were fighting; two police officers went up to try to break up the fight, but they were punched by them. The officers were angry and simply ignored them.

Looking at the young men's inner conflict, Li Du asked in surprise, ”What are they doing? Is there something fishy going on between them? Like, maybe they did this kidnapping?”

”No. One of them picked up the other's girlfriend, ” grumbled a handsome policeman. ”Apparently these two unlucky couples secretly made love while there was no electricity in the villa. Then they were tied together. After daybreak, the girl's boyfriend saw the scene . . . ”

The policeman next to him interrupted and laughed, ”Oh, my god, that must have been very exciting. No wonder they fought.”

The handsome policeman smiled too. ”Yes, apparently the girl's boyfriend was not far away from them at the time, and they slept together right by him. You can imagine how angry he was when the dawn rose.”

Li Du knew it was the first couple that Big Ivan had tied last night—they had been doing some ”business.” He thought they were a couple—it turned out that it was a secret affair.

Big Ivan had done this for fun, but it had resulted in tragedy. The man who was betrayed felt too miserable. His girlfriend riding a man beside him was definitely a big loss.

Seeing Li Du, one of the youths was angry and came over to start trouble.

The police stopped the young man and said he was here to cooperate with the investigation. The young man shouted angrily, ”He did it. He must have done it. ”

Li Du spread his hand and said, ”I don't know what you're talking about.”

The young man was furious and pointed at him, shouting, ”It must be him. Check the surveillance camera: it was his men who cut off the electricity and then kidnapped us. Send them to prison—”