276 The Deal

Had Wu Zhang said something else, Jin Lan would not have bothered to talk to him, but what he had said was the truth: even if it was just an arrow thrown in the dark by him, it had hit the bullseye; right where Jin Lan would get affected.

Jin Lan was a bright pupil in school and a purple belt in martial arts. But he had to drop out of school when his father suddenly ran away one day after losing too much money in gambling, leaving him behind with his mother. After that, he took various odd jobs but they were not paying enough so he one day finally joined this group of hooligans after catching the eye of the boss with his fighting skills, to earn some quick money. It had barely been three weeks since then, and only he knew how much he was disliking this work. 

Wu Zhang looked into the boy's eyes and it did not look like he was lying. After a few minutes of silence, Wu Zhang said, "What if I help you to take care of your mother and all your other expenses? You will be able to go back to school as well."

Wu Zhang had been observing the men who were keeping a watch on him for the two days while trying to hatch out a perfect plan for his escape. Even though he knew that it was hard to get people like them to cheat on their gangs, his experience as the king of the business world had taught him something very important: that everything and every person can be bought, provided you are willing to pay the right price and he had used just that tactic with Jin Lan.

Jin Lan's eyes widened when he heard that, and his expression clearly said that he thought Wu Zhang was bluffing with him. "You... You mean the entire treatment expense?"

"Yes, everything till you become capable enough to earn on your own."

"Why... would you help me? There is no such thing as free lunch," he stated, still in disbelief. When Wu Zhang mentioned the deal, he had expected it to be some money that would be enough for him and his mother to survive a few more months. Never in his dream had he expected this man to give him such an offer.

Wu Zhang nodded his head, "Indeed, there isn't."

"So...?"

"And here I thought you were a smart boy. Isn't it obvious that I want you to help me get out of here in return?" Wu Zhang asked with a small smile lingering on his lips.

Jin Lan did not break his gaze away from Wu Zhang and the words that he spoke next, made Wu Zhang chuckle. "I am fifteen, not foolish!"

"I don't think I said you are, did I?" 

"But you think that I am. However, I am not stupid enough to believe that you will spend so much money on a stranger just for helping you in getting out of here. Cancer treatment is very very expensive!"

"Miss Fei just called you Wu Zhang, so? Not like you are the president of the Wu Corporation just because your surname is Wu!" Jin Lan rolled his eyes as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Because he was new here, for precaution, all he was told was that this was an important mission, but the details had been spared from him. So he just knew that the mission was important, but he didn't know that it was because of the person that they were abducting.

"Well, I am. You need to get your facts checked boy."

The boy looked shook to his core, but he didn't let that expression stay on his face for too long and immediately schooled it. A frown appeared on his forehead next and he asked in all seriousness. "How do I believe you are the same, Wu Zhang? What if you are bluffing?"

"I assume you have a phone with an active internet and you know how to use it?" Wu Zhang asked.

"Of course I know!"

"Then how hard is it for you to look up my details on the net?"

The boy scratched his head awkwardly before pulling out his phone and opening Baidu to search for the president of Wu Corporation and his jaw dropped open when he saw the man in the picture there, looking exactly the same as the one sitting in front of him... no they were the same people.

Jin Lan pushed his phone back inside his pocket and asked cautiously, "Even if you are, why should I trust you that you would help me after you get out?"

Wu Zhang said nonchalantly, "Whether you help me or not, you should know that I will still manage to get out of here because my people would be looking for me as we talk. So it's up to you now. If you decide to help me I can change your life overnight, but if not I would still get out of here, maybe just a day or two later but for sure. Whereas for you, you will continue rotting in this place, struggling to earn every single yuan, and that too if my men let you get out of here alive. Your mother would then have no one to take care of her Jin Lan. The choice is now yours!"

Jin Lan looked dumbfounded after he heard what Wu Zhang said. His words had now forced him to seriously consider his offer. It was after all, a once in a lifetime opportunity and if he really was Wu Zhang, it was best to help him out and live a better life rather than to continue working with these hoodlums.

As if still slightly lost in his chain of thoughts, Jin Lan softly asked, "What do you want me to do? Because I cannot make a call as our phones are being traced by that psychotic woman for precaution."

Wu Zhang thought for a while before asking, "How many men does she have here?"

Jin Lan thought for a while before saying, "We have a huge gang but most of them are out at this moment and will come back two hours later. So right now, it is just a bunch of them, but you don't have to worry, I am their best fighter and I think I can take down those who are present right now. And you also know how to fight, don't you?"

"Do they still have guns?" 

"Yes. For safety." And the boy went into thought. He could fight them physically, but with guns, it would not be very easy to defeat them and he was still getting used to handling one.

"Oh, by the way, where are we?"

To this Jin Lan immediately replied, "We are in C City. This is a servant quarter of some big mansion."

Wu Zhang's eyebrows raised hearing this!

C City?

Big Mansion?

So if they were in C City then the mansion would probably be Fei Yan's personal mansion, he thought. There was no other mansion that he could think of.

So Fei Yan kept him right on his turf so that people would find it difficult to find him. Well, then this was not a problem. All he now needed to do was get out of this mansion and get to a place with slightly more crowd and that's all. Fei Yan would not be able to anything to him then.

But he needed to act quickly. Today was already the third day and if Wu Zhang had heard right, Fei Yan had plans to take him out of the country by today's evening so he just had only a couple of hours before that.

"Let me go out and see the situation there, I will come back in a while, and then we can think about what to do next." Wu Zhang nodded his head on it and Jin Lan went out of the room, closing the door behind him.

It was not long before Jin Lan returned, looking in a hurry, excitement bubbling on his face. He rushed towards Wu Zhang and started cutting down the ropes, freeing his hands. He then whisper-yelled very fast, "That bitch has kidnapped some other woman as well now and she had called everyone to where she is kept. Only I and two other men were asked to stay back to keep a watch. This is the perfect time to run out. Let's go Mr. Wu!"

Wu Zhang flexed his muscles before he got up and both of them reached towards the door. After walking through various corridors, they reached the main entrance of the servant quarters where two guards were stationed. 

Wu Zhang and Jin Lan both attacked one and they took them down with an exchange of just a few hands. Wu Zhang saw the pistols with a silencer attached to them, tucked in the waistline of their pants, and pulled them out, tossing one to Jin Lan and keeping the other for himself.

Once they came out, the shock that Wu Zhang felt after seeing the surroundings and the mansion, it was hard to put it into words. "That bitch, she sure chose the perfect place."

No wonder, his people did not come to his rescue yet, they would have never in their wildest dream thought that the place where he would be kept all this while would be this one.

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