It wasn't that Nozaki Cangjian didn't want to answer the phone.
It was that he simply hadn't been able to make it home.
On his way there, he was kidnapped.
Let's turn back the clock by more than half an hour.
When Yan Valley Dalang started closing in and Nozaki Cangjian had left the scene, having successfully completed his mission, he was ready to go home.
But on his way, he was stopped by a white Volkswagen sedan driven by a blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigner who asked him for directions in broken Japanese.
Seeing that the man was a foreigner, Nozaki Cangjian let his guard down; after all, it's not unusual for foreigners to get lost.
After giving directions, the foreigner pulled out a cigarette from the car to thank him. Nozaki Cangjian, completely unguarded, went forward to accept it, but that's when he was caught in a trap.
As he approached the car window, the foreigner's other hand, which had been hidden, pointed a gun at him and forced him into the car.
