 Eventually, they had ordered him into the wilderness in the middle of winter. Otherwise, they said, his family back in China would be harmed. It was all part of a plan to trick Kai's parents into believing he really had been kidnapped. At that point, we learned that they had received a photograph from Kai from his phone, and it was a photograph where it made it appear as if he was being kidnapped or held captive. After that, they subsequently started receiving phone calls from the alleged kidnapper