MAPF Chapter 74

Chapter 74: Imprisonment – You’re Not Xie Shiwei

Xie Shiwei went over and sat down.

In truth, Xie Shiwei didn’t particularly enjoy being around Huang Jingzhi; he felt the risk was too great.

Huang Jingzhi liked the original Xie Shiwei, which meant he should know the original owner very well. Moreover, the examination back then hadn’t revealed any problems. He didn’t know if Huang Jingzhi would see through the excuse of amnesia.

Huang Jingzhi sat opposite Xie Shiwei, with only a cup of coffee in front of him. He hadn’t ordered any other food and smiled, urging Xie Shiwei to eat quickly.

Xie Shiwei had no choice but to unwrap the hot dog packaging and take a bite. “So, you wanted to see me about something?”

“It’s nothing. Shiwei, just relax and eat. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other. I want to spend some more time with you.” Huang Jingzhi picked up his coffee and took a few sips.

Xie Shiwei forced a smile, feeling a chill in his heart.

He really didn’t want to spend more time with Huang Jingzhi.

He sped up his eating, devouring the hot dog with a grimace. Slightly choked, he gulped down the lemonade from the set meal and then told Huang Jingzhi that he had things to do, planning to leave as the best option.

But the moment he stood up, he suddenly felt dizzy, and everything before his eyes turned black.

Xie Shiwei lost his balance without warning. His heart raced, and he had a bad feeling. He struggled to take two steps forward, staggering as he grabbed onto someone passing by.

He couldn’t see the person’s face clearly, but he heard that it was a girl.

The girl, suddenly grabbed by the hem of her clothes, screamed in terror, “You pervert!” and shook him off, running away.

Immediately afterward, Huang Jingzhi stood up and quickly walked to Xie Shiwei’s side, supporting him. He said to those who were looking at Xie Shiwei, “I’m sorry, my brother has a bit of low blood sugar. He didn’t mean to touch that girl.”

Xie Shiwei’s vision was blurred. He tried to open his mouth to ask Huang Jingzhi what was wrong with him, but a feeling of sleepiness or oxygen deprivation replaced the dizziness, and he fainted in Huang Jingzhi’s arms.

“Should we take your brother to the hospital?” someone at another table asked.

Huang Jingzhi smiled. “No need, I’m a doctor.”

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When Xie Shiwei opened his eyes again, he was in an operating room filled with the smell of disinfectant, with no one around.

The room was very simple and crude; it probably wasn’t a proper hospital. Pale light poured down from the ceiling, creating a sinister atmosphere.

Even with his thinking a little slow, Xie Shiwei realized something very unfortunate and terrible had happened—he had been kidnapped.

Had Huang Jingzhi kidnapped him? Or had something else happened along the way?

Confused thoughts arose in Xie Shiwei’s mind, but he couldn’t remember, so he had to stop thinking about it for now and carefully analyze the current situation.

His jacket was gone, and naturally, the phone in his pocket had also been taken by the mastermind. A thick hemp rope was threaded through his fleece-lined inner layer, wrapped around his waist several times, tightly binding him to a chair. His left and right feet were tied to the left and right legs of the chair respectively, making him unable to move.

But for some reason, Xie Shiwei discovered that his hands were not tied up, and he could still move freely.

Realizing this, his first reaction was to reach for the phone in the hidden compartment of his clothing.

Thank heavens, the phone was still there.

He calmed himself down, ignored his racing heartbeat, and cautiously, with small movements, controlled his hand actions, quietly pulling open the hidden zipper of the inner lining, reaching into the compartment and feeling for the phone.

He Qin had two phones. This was his daily personal phone, containing important documents and several games that Xie Shiwei had downloaded. Before it broke, Xie Shiwei often borrowed this phone to play games, so he knew the positions of the buttons like the back of his hand.

Afraid that there were pinhole cameras in the room, he didn’t dare to take the phone out rashly. Under the cover of his clothes, his fingers deftly pressed a few times, quickly pressing the side button of the phone three times, then pressing and holding for five seconds, and then quickly pressing it once more.

Soon, the phone vibrated; he knew he had succeeded.

This was the quick rescue setting he had set up, which could be completed without unlocking. Originally, it was intended for He Qin to deal with extreme situations, since He Qin was a commercial celebrity and might be targeted, but he didn’t expect it to save him now.

He Qin’s work phone should have received the location and rescue message he sent. He Qin would be landing at the airport tonight, so this information would definitely be useful.

Just as he sent out the message, the door opened.

Xie Shiwei suddenly looked up and saw Huang Jingzhi walking in with a gloomy expression.

“The rope wasn’t enough just now, so I went to buy two more. Now I can tie up your hands too.” Huang Jingzhi took out the hemp rope and came behind Xie Shiwei, grabbing his struggling hands and tying them behind the chair.

It really was Huang Jingzhi!

Why would Huang Jingzhi kidnap him?

What was this all about?

Xie Shiwei struggled and twisted his body, but it was no use; his hands were also restrained.

He glared at Huang Jingzhi angrily. “What did you do to me at the restaurant?”

Huang Jingzhi put on surgical gloves and opened a stainless steel box, taking out a tube filled with liquid. “I just added my homemade mild anesthetic to your lemonade. Don’t worry, the damage to the human body won’t be too great.”

“Why did you do this?” Xie Shiwei was even angrier. “Just because I rejected you?”

Huang Jingzhi didn’t speak, focusing his gaze on the syringe. He pushed the plunger up with his thumb, and drops of yellow liquid dripped from the tip of the needle onto the white floor tiles.

Xie Shiwei thought of the hospital horror stories he had read, feeling a little scared, but tried to appear composed. “Huang Jingzhi, I’m asking you why you kidnapped me. Please answer my question.”

Huang Jingzhi approached with the syringe, his usual gentle eyes replaced by a sinister look, his tone cold. “You shouldn’t love drinking peach juice.”

Xie Shiwei didn’t understand what Huang Jingzhi was talking about. He didn’t particularly like drinking peach juice to begin with. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you have some kind of misunderstanding about me?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Jingzhi pointed the needle at Xie Shiwei’s neck.

The touch of the needle pricked Xie Shiwei’s neck, and he flinched subconsciously, frowning and shouting, “What are you doing! What is this stuff! Aren’t you afraid I’ll call the police?”

“Call the police?” Huang Jingzhi laughed. “Your phone isn’t even in your hands, how can you call the police? You don’t need to waste your energy, I won’t hurt you. This is just a kind of nutrient solution that I concocted, so there’s no need to waste police resources, right?”

Xie Shiwei didn’t believe that this yellowish concoction was a nutrient solution and tried to stall for time. “I said, I don’t understand what you’re talking about. Let me go, let’s talk things out clearly. There’s no need to be so impulsive, right?”

Huang Jingzhi said in a sinister tone, “Have you forgotten? At the auction, I met you at the door, and I said I brought you your favorite peach juice. You didn’t say anything and just drank the peach juice.”

“But Shiwei never drinks peach juice.”

Xie Shiwei’s pupils shook. He had completely forgotten about this.

Huang Jingzhi had used peach juice to test him back then, indicating that he had long suspected something.

This was troublesome.

“Shiwei would feel like vomiting at the smell of peach juice because he accidentally drank a bottle of expired peach juice when he was little and got severe acute gastroenteritis. Because his physique was too poor and his immunity was low, the gastroenteritis triggered myocarditis, almost leading to a catastrophe. Peach juice is his most hated drink.”

Xie Shiwei forced a smile. “I’ve grown up. I can drink peach juice now. I don’t particularly like it, but I can drink it.”

“Enough!” Huang Jingzhi roared, “I don’t want to hear any more lies that even a three-year-old wouldn’t believe! You’re not Xie Shiwei at all. He wouldn’t disgust me like you do! What exactly did you do to Shiwei? Where is he now? Confess honestly, and you still have a chance to walk out of here.”

Xie Shiwei looked at Huang Jingzhi’s furious eyes and didn’t dare to give an answer easily.

If he said that Xie Shiwei had disappeared from this world, Huang Jingzhi would definitely be very, very angry and might even do something very extreme. In this state of mind, he might even kill him.

He had to find a way to stabilize Huang Jingzhi and buy some time, and maybe he could wait for He Qin to arrive.

Xie Shiwei decided on a strategy and mustered his courage, asking mysteriously, “Dr. Huang, why do you say I’m not Xie Shiwei? Do you know him very well?”

Huang Jingzhi sneered. “Don’t pretend. Shiwei is the younger brother I’ve been protecting since childhood. I know him like the back of my hand. Of course I know you’re not him! I’ve been observing you for a long time, and you’re completely different people. The so-called amnesia is just an excuse you use to cover up your behavioral changes.”

“Then, what kind of person is Xie Shiwei in your heart?”

The madness and sinister look in Huang Jingzhi’s eyes were suddenly replaced by a trace of tenderness. He said softly, “In my heart, Shiwei is a perfect person. You hate him, saying he’s spoiled, incompetent, tyrannical, vicious, and stupid, but that’s just because you don’t like him. If you don’t like him, everything he does is wrong.”

“But I like him like that. Shiwei looks good when he scolds people, he also looks good when he throws things, and he’s cutest when he’s being unreasonable. Even those stupid things he did to pursue He Qin, I find them all very cute. If he could treat me like that, I would love to offer the whole world to him!”

“I’m very good to Shiwei. He trusts me, he’ll discuss every thing he wants to do with me, he’ll come to me to cry when he’s sad, and he’ll come to me to take care of him when he’s sick. Compared to He Qin, I’m the one he needs the most, and He Qin is just a choice he made when he was dizzy!” Huang Jingzhi smiled sadly. “But he just doesn’t like me no matter what.”

“I don’t blame him. Liking him is my decision, and it must be my problem that I can’t change his mind and make him fall in love with me!” Huang Jingzhi suddenly turned his head to glare at Xie Shiwei. “But you suddenly appeared and ruined everything!”

“You’re completely different from him, only doing those boring things every day, going to work, working, pleasing He Qin, pleasing the other people in the company, performing a so-called good person in front of everyone, and self-righteously thinking that you’re just too great to do such correct things!”

“But you’re completely wrong. You people are all the same—mediocre! How could Xie Shiwei be so mediocre? He would never change himself to get praise from others! He has the capital to be willful, so he should live as freely as he originally did, instead of living like a program, like a machine!”

Xie Shiwei was dumbfounded, his mouth slightly open, not knowing what to say at all.

Was Huang Jingzhi speaking human language?

That’s right, the original owner was indeed not some heinous person, but it was generally acknowledged that he had bad character. He had malicious intentions towards people, bullied others, and hindered the company. Any normal person would not be able to say words like Huang Jingzhi’s, right?

What do you mean scolding people and throwing things looks good?

Oh my god.

Just as Xie Shiwei was in a daze, Huang Jingzhi suddenly became ruthless, stabbing the needle into Xie Shiwei’s skin with force, preparing to inject the concocted medicine. “Are you going to talk or not? Where exactly did you take Xie Shiwei? You’ve been living in his place with malicious intentions for so long, isn’t that enough!”

The momentary pain instantly brought Xie Shiwei back to his senses. He hadn’t fully reacted, relying only on his subconscious reaction to lower his head and bite Huang Jingzhi’s hand hard, shaking his head desperately.

Huang Jingzhi hadn’t expected Xie Shiwei to have the strength to bite, and he was caught off guard. The syringe also slipped from his hand and fell to the ground, right beside Xie Shiwei’s feet.

Xie Shiwei extremely quickly turned the direction of his toes and stepped down with all his might. With a crack, the syringe shattered, and the liquid spilled all over the ground.

Huang Jingzhi’s anger rose from his heart. He grabbed Xie Shiwei’s neck, snarling, “Be honest! Otherwise, I’ll just strangle you to death!”

Xie Shiwei had difficulty breathing and nodded with difficulty, not daring to move again.

Huang Jingzhi let go and went to load another syringe. “It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to tell me. I’ll make you confess later!”

Xie Shiwei gasped for air, his brain working at full speed non-stop, and suddenly thought of a way that might help him escape.

Since Huang Jingzhi was convinced that he wasn’t Xie Shiwei, he would use this point to threaten him in return.

He said loudly, “Dr. Huang, I can tell you where Xie Shiwei went, and I also know how to bring him back.”

Hearing this, Huang Jingzhi stopped his movements and looked up, staring intently at Xie Shiwei.

“But,” Xie Shiwei coughed twice, mimicking Huang Jingzhi’s appearance, and also pulled out a sinister smile, “if you continue to inject this stuff into my body, oh, no, I should say, continue to inject it into his body, he won’t be able to come back.”

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An hour earlier, He Qin’s plane landed.

Many messages popped up on his phone, but only one made He Qin lose his composure, his brows furrowing tightly.

His private phone had sent a rescue location.

Xie Shiwei was in danger.

He Qin immediately ran to the parking lot, stepped on the accelerator to the end, and got on the expressway, heading towards the location at top speed.

The location was in the suburbs, and as he was about to arrive, he passed Huang Jingzhi’s private hospital.

He Qin’s eyes were gloomy. He was certain that the mastermind was Huang Jingzhi.

And Huang Jingzhi was the Mr. A who had incited Bai An.

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Inside the operating room, Xie Shiwei used all the knowledge he had learned in his life to create a profound and unpredictable sinister appearance, changing the way he told the story of his accidental transmigration, saying that he had been planning it for a long time, using psychic practices to possess Xie Shiwei’s body, just to do one thing. As long as he achieved his purpose here, he could leave immediately and let the original Xie Shiwei come back.

Huang Jingzhi didn’t quite believe it at first. He had never believed that such things existed in the world, but Xie Shiwei said it very convincingly, his expression was appropriately cold, and as he listened, he believed it, and a crazy joy surged in his eyes. He rushed over and grabbed Xie Shiwei’s shoulders. “What do you want to do here? I’ll help you. I can help you no matter what! I just hope you leave quickly and let Shiwei come back!”

Xie Shiwei continued to sneer. “Untie me first. If this body is damaged, you won’t be able to see him for the rest of your life.”

Huang Jingzhi immediately untied him.

Xie Shiwei hadn’t expected this trick to work so well. He was ecstatic inside and almost admired himself.

Regaining his freedom, he stood up and stretched his muscles, then put his hand into the hidden compartment of his clothes again, pressing the side button four times. “Dr. Huang, you and I have different purposes and needs. The thing I want to do, you can’t help with, but what you need, only I can give. You know who should be begging whom.”

Huang Jingzhi became anxious. “I didn’t hurt you just now!”

“What were you originally planning to inject me with?”

Huang Jingzhi didn’t speak.

Xie Shiwei threatened impolitely, “Do you still want him to come back?”

Huang Jingzhi had no choice but to confess. The medicine was also a drug he had concocted himself, with a large amount of anesthetic and nerve-paralyzing sedative components, as well as some nutritional substances to maintain physical characteristics. After injection, it would make him unable to think, and he wouldn’t need to eat or drink for a long time, making it easier for him to conduct deep hypnosis and control over Xie Shiwei.

“You were originally planning to imprison me?”

“Yes, I wanted you to confess the whereabouts of Shiwei. I never knew that there really was such a thing as psychic communication in the world. I guessed that you were his abandoned twin brother, some secret of your Xie family, who came back to seek revenge on him, or that you had plastic surgery to look like him and wanted to live a good life in his place.”

“Okay, I understand. I promise you that after I get things done, I will definitely awaken him, but in the meantime, you are not allowed to mention this matter to anyone, and you must not harm his body again.”

Huang Jingzhi agreed, returned Xie Shiwei’s coat to him, and let Xie Shiwei leave.

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Xie Shiwei walked along the dim corridor towards the exit with light, and what came into view was a desolate courtyard, overgrown with weeds, surrounded by brick walls. The courtyard gate was right in front.

He was a little scared, so he ran. As soon as he pushed open the iron gate, he was pulled into a familiar embrace.

“Shiwei, I’m late, I’m sorry.”