Hong Kong variety show: Hung Hing, are you contributing to society?

That day at Dong Le Investment Company, the assassin interrogated Brother Yi Shan about where the money was. Hua Gu Long, hiding under the table, was so scared that he almost wet his pants, but he clearly saw a stack of green US dollars peeking out from the edge of the expensive carpet on Brother Yi Shan's desk.

He was completely stunned.

Later, the killer shot and killed people before leaving. In the chaos before the police arrived, that spot seemed to go unnoticed.

He thought it was God finally opening His eyes and giving him money to save his life!

They could pay off the high-interest loan and start a new life, or they could run away with their mother.

The results of it?

Last night, he finally managed to coax Li Zhusong's somewhat naive daughter into unlocking his handcuffs. He sneaked back to the sealed-off scene and, relying on his memory, found the carpet underneath—it was empty!

I didn't see a single dollar bill, let alone a stack of them!

He even searched through other possible hiding places in the office, but still found nothing.

At that moment, he almost wondered if he had been hallucinating from being so frightened that day.

But he knew it wasn't a hallucination...

Damn it, can money grow legs and run away on its own?

Now, the money hasn't been found, the killer is still at large, and he's being targeted because of the "eyewitness" story in the newspaper; his mother was beaten and hospitalized; and creditors are closing in...

Just then.

Ringing~~~

Li Zhusong's cell phone, which was on the table, suddenly rang sharply, breaking the dull and oppressive atmosphere between the two.

Li Zhusong frowned as he glanced at the caller ID; it was an unfamiliar local number.

He muttered, "Could it be that my family is looking for me?"

His wife just returned to China, so she might call him from a public phone.

He pressed the answer button and held the phone to his ear: "Hey?"

The voice on the other end of the phone, however, was deliberately lowered, sounding gloomy and hoarse, completely unrecognizable from its original tone: "Bone-Melting Dragon?"

Li Zhusong's heart skipped a beat, and he instantly became alert, asking in a deep voice, "Who are you?"

The other party seemed to pause for half a second, as if not expecting that the person answering the phone wasn't Huagulong himself, but then that gloomy voice rang out again, faster and with a ruthless tone:

"You're not Huagulong? Never mind! Tell Huagulong that his mother is in my hands! Make him take the US dollars he took from Yishan and go to that abandoned old dock in the western suburbs to ransom her before sunset today!"

Remember! Don't try anything funny, bring all the money! If I don't see the money, or if he dares to call the police...

The voice suddenly turned even colder, "I'll throw his old mother into the sea to feed the fish!"

Click.

The call was abruptly ended, leaving only a busy tone.

Li Zhusong held up his phone, his face instantly turning extremely ugly.

He suddenly looked up at the Bone-Melting Dragon, who was still feeling dejected.

Hua Gulong was startled by Li Zhusong's sudden sharp and serious gaze: "What? Li sir, why are you looking at me like that? Is your wife scolding you?"

"It's not your wife..." Li Zhusong put down his phone and said, enunciating each word clearly, "It's your mother. It seems she was kidnapped by that assassin."

"What?!" Huagulong's first reaction was that Li Zhusong was joking, and he forced a smile that was uglier than crying.

"Stop messing around, Officer Lee! My mom's in the hospital, isn't she? The doctor said it's just a minor injury that needs observation... Besides, how did the hitman know your phone number?"

"The hospital!" Li Zhusong suddenly remembered the key point, his face darkening further. "Yesterday, when I took your mother to the hospital and went through the formalities, they asked for an emergency contact number! You don't even have a cell phone yourself, so you just gave them my number?!"

Hua Gulong was struck dumb, and the color drained completely from his face in an instant.

Yes, yesterday, in a panic, he took his mother to the hospital. When the nurse asked for his contact information, he instinctively gave her Li Zhusong's number because Li Zhusong was the only one there and seemed like someone who could take charge...

"Oh yeah..." the Bone-Melting Dragon murmured, then a wave of immense panic and rage instantly overwhelmed him.

He sprang up from his chair, grabbed Li Zhusong by the collar across the table, his eyes bloodshot, and roared, "Including the family fortune! It's all your fault! It's all your fault for putting me in this public spotlight! If you hadn't published the article saying I was an eyewitness, how would that killer have targeted me?"

How did they manage to find the hospital and arrest my mom?! If anything happens to my mom, I'll take you with me and we'll die together!!

Li Zhusong was also stunned by this sudden bad news, but being experienced, he forcefully broke free from Huagulong's grasp and hissed, "Let go! What's the use of going crazy now?! The most important thing is to find a way to save them!"

The Bone-Melting Dragon was startled by his roar, and the force in his hand loosened, but his body was still trembling slightly from anger and lingering fear.

Li Zhusong quickly gathered his thoughts, grabbed Hua Gulong's shoulder, stared into his eyes, and asked urgently, "I'm asking you, what's the deal with the 'money' the assassin mentioned on the phone?"

US dollars! He said you have to use the US dollars you took from Yishan to ransom him!

Tell me honestly, that day in the office, besides seeing the killer commit murder, did you see anything else? Like... money?

Hua Gulong's expression shifted repeatedly, but he finally lowered his head in despair. At this point, there was no point in hiding it anymore.

His voice was hoarse, trembling with tears, as he said, "That day... the assassin came in and kept demanding to know, 'Where's the money?'... I was hiding under the table, terrified, and then..."

Then, I happened to see that the corner of the rug in front of Brother Yishan's desk was sticking up a little, and underneath... underneath it looked like there was a pile of US dollars...

"US dollars?!" Li Zhusong's eyes lit up.

The Bone-Melting Dragon acquiesced.

"Where's the money? Give it to me! Go save your mother first!" Li Zhusong urged.

Hua Gulong clutched his head in anguish: "It's gone...the US dollars are gone! I went back last night, and there was nothing there! I searched everywhere, but there wasn't a single penny! I want to know where the money went!!"

"Gone?!" Li Zhusong was stunned.

"Wait a minute, you sneaked back last night... How did you leave last night?"

"Your precious daughter is so easy to talk to, unlike you..."

"Get the hell away from my daughter!!"

The two exchanged a few words, omitting the fact that the Bone-Melting Dragon had secretly left.

Li Zhusong's mind immediately raced.

Besides Huagulong, does anyone else know where there's money?

The assassin is definitely looking, but if the assassin gets the money, he won't come back to blackmail Bone Dragon.

So, the money disappeared sometime between the time the killer left and the time the police arrived?

Or...wait a minute!!

Before the police arrived?

A figure suddenly flashed through his mind: Lin Yaodong!

On the day of the shooting, a group of people had already arrived at the scene before the police arrived, and the leader of them was Lin Yaodong.

Lin Yaodong's explanation at the time was that he heard gunshots while passing by, and out of a sense of justice, he helped chase after the suspicious person and "coincidentally" caught the suspect, Huagulong, and handed him over to the police.