Episode 118: Collective Disappearance (Part 2)

  Come on, come on.

  Just then, Wang Jian's phone suddenly received a text message. He let out a long sigh of relief and took out his phone to open the message, only to find that there was not a single word on it, just numerous sentences and underscores from an unfamiliar number.

  "I guess this guy is using his face to wipe the phone." Wang Jian made a humorous remark, showing the text message to Tianran Er for a glance, to ease the awkwardness: "Look..."

  He hadn't finished speaking when Tian Ran Er suddenly snatched his phone: "This is Huan Huan's number, and the message is in Morse code!"

  "What?"

  "Morse code!" Tian Ran furrowed his brow and began to decipher the long and short symbols, then gasped: "Dawei and the others have been kidnapped!"

  Wang Jian's heart suddenly shrank, and he stood still on the spot: "What did you say?"

  "Morse code, a universal version of the English alphabet. She tapped out so many, only to find they were all tied up!"

  Wang Jian picked up the phone and dialed Da Wei's number, but although it rang through, no one answered. He then dialed Jin Huiming's number, which also rang through, but again, no one answered.

  Er Tianran dialed Liang Huanhuan's number on his own phone, and this time it went through as well. However, unlike before, someone picked up the call.

  As soon as Tianran picked up the phone, he immediately put his mobile phone to Wang Jian's ear, then lowered his head and had a face-to-face with Wang Jian across the phone.

  However, although the phone call went through, he didn't hear Liang Huan's voice, but only a loud roar of car engines and some scattered male voices. Since it was too far away, Wang Jian couldn't hear clearly.

  Just as Wang Jian was about to speak, a clear knocking sound suddenly came from the other side. The long and short sounds were connected into a piece, obviously also using Morse code.

  Tianran Er's ears stood up high like a rabbit, listening carefully to the knocking sound coming from the phone, and then almost simultaneously translated:

  "Guarantee safety, these people are rubbish. I am investigating, hahahahahaha."

  Wang Jian was taken aback and seriously asked Tianran Er: "What are you laughing at suddenly?"

  Tian Ran Er was also confused: "Not me laughing... The translation of this section of Morse code is: Guaranteed safety, these people are rubbish. I'm investigating, hahahahaha."

  "How did this 'haha' get translated..."

  "Symbol abbreviation, lol, represents big laughter. The main English extension is, laugh out loud. She connected three lols together, which means three haha... Connected together is hahahahahaha."

  "Alright... stop laughing." Wang Jian was left speechless by Tian Ran Er's teasing: "I have to go find them, can't let Da Wei and Hui Ming follow this crazy girl on an adventure."

  "I think Xiao Hui Ming will be even more formidable than her." Tian Ran Er added, "I have a premonition..."

  Wang Jian sighed and didn't speak, continuing to listen to the voice on the phone: "Do you know where they are now?"

  "Twenty-five kilometers southeast of us, heading east-southeast at nineteen degrees, speed is approximately seventy-five kilometers per hour."

  Wang Jian's brain stopped working at that moment, but before he could speak, Tianran Er explained:

  "Just now on the phone, I heard a cow's mooing sound. Being able to hear a cow's moo at night means that there are cows in that place and they are dairy cows. There are three dairy farms in the city. And one and a half minutes ago, I heard the whistle of a train. Along the way, there is only one dairy farm with a railway. Moreover, based on the two sounds of the cow, one slightly far away and one slightly closer, using the Doppler effect and the speed of sound propagation calculation, it's easy to know the speed and direction..."

  "After thinking for a moment, Tian Ran Er said: 'Their destination should be further away, and there are many places suitable for holding hostages, so I...' "

  She was just about to say that she couldn't go on when the voice on the phone suddenly became very noisy, the signal also becoming very weak, and then it suddenly stopped.

  "Ah." Tian Ran's face lit up with a smile: "Just now I heard the sound of a concrete mixer, they must have entered an underground parking garage on a construction site, otherwise the signal wouldn't have disappeared so quickly!"

  Wang Jian was thoroughly convinced by Tianran Er, and those famous detectives in her eyes were simply rubbish. Now that she had said so, the original confusion suddenly cleared up, and it only took a look at the real-time map to know exactly where Dawei and others were taken.

  Without saying a word, Wang Jian started sprinting westward with Tian Er on his back. For Wang Jian's physical strength, carrying Tian Er was almost negligible, and since he had just replenished a lot of energy, he rushed all the way to the west in the direction Tian Er told him.

  Wang Jian's speed was extremely fast, when he came to the front of a wall, he suddenly stopped and put Tian Ran Er down, then took off his own outer garment, re-shouldered Tian Ran Er, and tied her to himself, deeply warning: "Must hold on to me tightly."

  "I feel like you're carrying a monkey on your back..." Tian Ran looked even more exhausted than Wang Jian, panting heavily: "You're going so fast."

  Wang Jian smiled: "Carrying a 100-kilogram load across the wilderness is a daily routine."

  After he finished speaking, he suddenly jumped up, grabbed the top of the wall with one hand, and then jumped over the high wall of about three meters with a single leap. Tian Er let out a cry of surprise, her heart almost jumping out of her throat.

  After landing, Wang Jian turned his head and took a look at Tianran Er who was tightly hugging his neck: "Are you scared? If you're scared, I can send you to a taxi now."

  "Don't worry, it's exciting!" Tian Ran Er's body was trembling, but his voice was very firm: "Being with you is...very...safe..."

  Wang Jian didn't have time to consider the ambiguity of these words, and nodded his head. Carrying Tian Ran Er, he started urban parkour in the city. This was called parkour, but it was actually more incredible than parkour, and could be called urban green giant parkour. In order to save time, he advanced in a straight line all the way, flipping over walls and climbing buildings when he saw them. Not only that, but he even grasped everything that seemed impossible for others to grasp or step on, and used these things to advance quickly.

  How capable is Wang Jian at climbing? The data has already explained everything. An eight-story residential building, Wang Jian reached the other side in just seventeen seconds. A wall with anti-theft spikes, he jumped over it with a single push of his hand. A ten-meter-wide small river, Wang Jian was even able to step on the stones in the shallow water and jump across it three times with a "plop plop plop" sound.

  All of this was simply a paradise for Tian Ran Er. Although she knew that Wang Jian was very powerful, she absolutely had not expected that Wang Jian would be a nearly superhuman person. Except for the fact that he couldn't fly in mid-air or climb and jump without using his strength, he had almost become an extraordinary master who could only appear in TV dramas.

  After about fifteen minutes of straight-line sweep, Wang Jian finally arrived at the cattle farm that had been continuously transmitting cow calls, and according to Tian Er's analysis, he began to speed along the main road.

  Perhaps he was afraid of being too sensational, so he tried not to exceed the electric cars and bicycles on the road, but he completely ignored the onlookers who had just witnessed him running through the urban obstacles.

  Actually, when Wang Jian was flipping through the first residential building, an old lady had already called the police, but 110 didn't believe that one person could carry another and easily jump over a six-story building. It wasn't until more and more people reported it that 110 formally dispatched four nearby patrol cars to head in this direction.

  "Ah Jian, we need to hurry up." Tian Ran furrowed his brow: "If the calculation is correct, within five minutes, a patrol car will pass by us. We must have been reported..."

  Wang Jian grunted, suddenly stopped in his tracks, bent down and directly removed the lead block from his leg, casually throwing it to the side of the road. Then...his speed actually increased again, running wildly with an inhuman posture.

  The night wind was quite cool, and because of the high speed, it blew against Tianran Er's ears with a whooshing sound, forcing him to bury his entire head in Wang Jian's neck.

  "Ah Jian, can you go any faster?"

  Of course... Wang Jian accelerated again, but this time he showed a few signs of fatigue. His originally even breathing became somewhat disordered, but overall it looked very stable, just like the final sprint in the short-distance running stage.

  "Judging from your heart rate, Ah Jian... you can't hold on much longer." Tian Ran hastily shook Wang Jian's neck: "Take a rest."

  Wang Jian was so out of breath that he couldn't speak, but he didn't listen to Tianran Er's words and ran with all his might for almost two kilometers until he saw a construction site in a residential area under construction. He finally let out the air he had been holding in and plopped down onto a large stone on the side of the road that had been overturned during construction, panting like a dog.

  "Physical strength has decreased a lot." Wang Jian shook his head: "Still need to practice more."

  "You have already exceeded human limits..."

  "This human limit is not set for people like me."

  Wang Jian took a few big gulps of air and started sprinting again, soon scaling the construction site's wall in no time. Taking advantage of the workers' distraction, he dashed into the underground parking garage that hadn't been plastered yet.

  "Ah Jian, it's Da Wei's car!" Tian Ran whispered, pointing to a corner: "They're really here!"

  Wang Jian sneaked up and peeked around the side of the car, but couldn't see anyone. He gently pulled on the car door and found it wasn't locked. With a satisfied smile, he said, "Get in, hide inside!"

  She nodded naturally and twenty percent understood, she nodded, her brain was all in, then gently pulled the car door shut and locked it from the inside.

  Wang Jian saw this scene, his mood suddenly calmed down. Dawei's broken car was known for its bulletproof design when it was bought. Dawei even let Wang Jian test it out. With Wang Jian's leg strength, a sudden kick couldn't even shake the glass on top. Tian Er would be very safe in here.

  After the second safety check, Wang Jian sat at the front of the car and rested for thirty seconds. He made an "OK" gesture towards the black glass window of the sedan, then ducked into the passageway that was still without a door but had its lights on, following the fresh footprints on the ground slowly down to the basement.