Clown Game
Chapter 300 - 287: Kidnapping

Chapter 300: Chapter 287: Kidnapping

Chen Xiao slowly opened his eyes.

He was quite familiar with this feeling, somewhat like amnesia, coma, deep sleep, or waking up after being knocked unconscious by something—it was all the same sensation.

Only this time, what he saw wasn’t any ceiling but several steel supports, and above that, the dark ceiling.

Chen Xiao shook his still groggy head, and with that shake, a surge of pain emanated from the back of his head. He instinctively reached back to touch it...well, without even thinking, he could guess—blood.

At that moment, he vaguely remembered that he should have been closing up the coffee shop, finished the last piece of cake, then walked along the alley towards his apartment, and then...

"Well, it looks like someone played a dirty trick on me," he said with an extremely pained expression.

It was indeed hard to accept. Speaking of Xiaoxiao, he had been mixing at the Foundation for a good while now, and he had enough bizarre experiences to write a novel. Yet, to be clobbered late at night was embarrassing to even mention, but there was nothing to be done; so far, his physical condition was still that of an ordinary person.

What’s done is done, there was nothing more to say; come what may. Since he was only knocked unconscious, he could fairly assume that the person didn’t want his life, at least not for now. So, the priority was to figure out the surroundings.

And Chen Xiao had already done just that.

This place looked like some abandoned factory. He was in a small compartment surrounded by walls on all four sides, with no ceiling—which was why Chen Xiao could see the factory’s roof. The walls were very high, virtually impossible for an ordinary person to climb. The walls were covered with flaking plaster and old mold inside. Directly in front was a slightly ajar rusty iron door. Beyond that, nothing else was in sight. A row of high windows let in a bit of moonlight, providing some visibility and concurrently making the atmosphere even more frightening.

Chen Xiao smacked his lips in annoyance, while fumbling in his pockets.

Since he usually didn’t walk around with a gun and a Shocking Dagger in his pockets, he was now completely weaponless,

As expected, his phone had been taken too.

"What the hell..." he muttered, then pushed the door open and walked out.

And the second he pushed the door open,

he saw another person, leaning against the outer side of the wall next to the door, eyes lightly closed, lips slightly parted, saliva accumulating into a puddle, accompanied by snoring sounds, just about to overflow.

This person... was none other than the owner of the maid café, the chubby Xiao Yu.

Chen Xiao stared with a dead-fish eye, eyeing the guy for a full three seconds before kicking his plump buttocks.

The latter grunted a few times, scratched his buttock, and then slowly opened his eyes.

"Uh, er... what time is it?" he asked groggily, casually wiping the drool from the corner of his mouth—it seemed he had been sleeping rather soundly.

Suddenly, it seemed like he realized something, and his eyes instantly widened: "F*ck, f*ck, f*ck! What are you doing!!"

Chen Xiao suddenly became alert, laboriously shuffled his buttocks, and pushed himself toward the wall, also tugging at his collar as if he had just been molested.

Chen Xiao looked at him expressionlessly... "Oh, you were kidnapped," he said nonchalantly.

The other’s expression grew even more panicked than before, quickly placing his hands behind his buttocks, his eyes a mix of anger and sorrow, now tinged blue: "You...! What did you do to me!!"

Chen Xiao helplessly hung his head: "I’m not interested in doing that kind of thing to you, and besides, I didn’t kidnap you, I was kidnapped too!"

At that, Xiao Yu also felt that his private parts hadn’t been harmed, and he began to relax a bit. He then looked around at their surroundings and asked somewhat fearfully, "What’s going on here?"

"I don’t know, I was knocked out, and when I woke up, I was here," Chen Xiao responded.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu sprang to his feet: "See, I knew there was no good end to associating with someone like you, definitely you have been sneaking around dealing in stolen goods, seducing other men’s wives, and now someone has come seeking revenge, and because I’m always with you, I’m implicated too!"

Having said that, he started spinning in circles, looking up at the roof as if trying to find someone to plead his case to.

Chen Xiao’s dead-fish eyes grew even darker.

"Get over it, you’re not implicated by me because you are one of the targets too."

"Bullshit, I’m a good citizen, never wronged anyone, not even bullied the neighbor’s dog, why would anyone want to kidnap me?" he yelled unconvinced.

Chen Xiao ignored him and started speaking to himself.

"I was knocked out, so not much time must have passed, judging by the light outside, it must be between 2 and 3 am. The wind coming in is strong, there’s no building around to block it, based on the location of Shell Street, filtering out places you can reach within three to four hours, plus there’s no sound of traffic around, so I’ve prepared for the worst... We should be in a disused factory in the southern outskirts of K City, about 10 kilometers from downtown, far from transport, scarcely populated, your phone must have been taken already, but even if it were still here, there’d be no signal, this place is made for kidnappings or worse, oh right, I said you were one of the kidnapping targets because you were brought here drugged, you always eat something before your store closes, right? The kidnappers have been watching you for a few days, they seem to care more about you than they did about knocking me unconscious. And... if it were really just about getting at me, those people would have at least brought an armed squad..."

"No good!!" Xiao Yu, without letting Chen Xiao finish, jumped up: "The late-night snacks! The late-night snacks!" he became incredibly panicked.

"What’s wrong?" Chen Xiao asked, eyebrow raised.

"Them! Cousin, Xiao Nan, Jingjing! They’ve been kidnapped too!!"

"Ah... I know," Chen Xiao waved his hand impatiently, signaling him to calm down: "They must have been brought here too."

"Damn it! You’re still acting all nonchalant, they’re in great danger!!"

Chen Xiao sighed helplessly.

"Hey, have you gone dumb from baking cakes? Think about your two shop assistants, if there’s really someone to worry about right now

... it ought to be the kidnappers, right..."