Were they discovered?

And the retreat has been cut off?

Jiang Baige and Song Siwen huddled close to each other, hardly daring to look back - for fear that if they looked back they would fall into an abyss.

"Don't be afraid."

Someone was coming, his footsteps were light on the dirt.

Hearing these two words, they became even more frightened.

If you ask Jiang Baige how she feels now, she will say that she regrets a lot. She should really leave. Why does she have to live here?

Now it’s over, my life is gone, and my future is also…

Will they also be forced to give birth to children?

Or was he silenced because he discovered the truth?

Or is it even worse, that their organs will be sold in batches?

Although he pretended to be an internet celebrity, he also live-streamed his route, saved the replays, and accurately stated the location of each place.

It also exposed those who might have murdered them...

But will anyone come to find them?

Will it be too late when we come to look for them? Will they have already been moved or killed?

All kinds of thoughts burst out from the cerebral cortex uncontrollably.

Jiang Baige went over in her mind all the plots of horror, suspense, and criminal investigation novels and TV dramas she had read over the past thirty years...

No one could understand Xiaomi and Zhuang Yao's fear better than she did at this moment.

If she had thought of herself as a savior before, now was the first time she prayed to God to send someone to save her...

Her legs went weak and she almost fell to her knees.

Song Siwen staggered back when she pulled him like that.

"Go in."

With just two short words, they were powerless to resist. Jiang Baige gradually regained consciousness from the frozen state she had just been in, and her brain started to work... She stretched out her hand, with her back to the kidnappers, ready to take out her cell phone to call the police.

But he didn't know that his actions had been betrayed by the shadow on the wall.

"do not move."

The other party shouted loudly, and Jiang Baige's phone stopped halfway, not daring to act rashly.

At last they entered the cave.

"Turn around."

At this time you can only obey.

They turned around and opened their eyes wide when they saw the person coming. "It's... it's you..." They both said at the same time.

"It's me." Sha Gu tied up her loose hair, revealing her original young face.

But although the face was young, it was not innocent.

"You're not crazy?"

"Were you kidnapped too?"

Jiang Baige and Song Siwen asked the question at the same time, but Sha Gu did not answer immediately. Instead, she covered the wooden door of the shrine with a floor mat and turned off the flashlight.

"Someone might come to patrol the mountain later, and we can't let them find us."

She explained quietly.

Then he handed them something in a hard leather case with metallic bumps on it.

"My name is Shu Xiu, and I'm a police officer."

Jiang Baige pulled open her clothes and used the dim light from her cell phone to confirm the names and photos on the police ID cards in their hands.

"Are you an undercover agent? Are you here specifically to investigate the human trafficking case in Wangnan Village?"

Song Siwen's tone was excited, as if he had really seen a savior.

Unfortunately, Shu Xiu disappointed her: "I'm just a household registration police officer... I found something wrong here, but I lack evidence and cannot file a case for investigation, so..."

She glanced at Jiang Baige and Song Siwen and said, "Like you, I came here secretly to investigate."

"You know we're here to investigate this?"

"I've been following you for a day." Shu Xiu laughed. "Besides, we do the same thing, and I've used many of the same tactics. But you're more advanced than me, and you know how to use live streaming to protect yourself."

She paused: "And I can only rely on pretending to be crazy and stupid."

"So, did you find out anything? Do you have backup? Are you... injured?"

Shu Xiu seemed touched by their questioning if she was injured: "Although I came here secretly to investigate, I have... helpers."

"helper?"

"Well, I call her Aunt An. She was also abducted."

Aunt An...a new name.

Before Jiang Baige had the time to ask who this person was, Shu Xiu had already started to tell the whole story.

Shu Xiu noticed something was wrong when she was sorting and entering the household registration information of Wangnan Village - because the electronicization of archives is now being promoted.

She found that the population of the village did not match at all, but when she asked her master, he said that this situation was normal in rural areas and he would find someone to deal with it and she didn't need to worry about it.

After completing the information entry, she still couldn't suppress her curiosity and logged in to take a look, only to find that her permissions did not allow her to view the information of Wangnan Village.

This aroused her vigilance, so she mentioned the matter to her criminal police friend.

The other party took the matter very seriously and went to Wangnan Village to investigate twice, but the feedback they got back was disappointing: the people there seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding long ago, and no matter how they asked, they were all ironclad.

Without evidence, the case cannot be filed and can only be shelved.

But Shuxiu couldn't sleep at night, so she finally decided to sneak in to investigate.

It’s just that the villagers are very vigilant, and it would be almost impossible for her to break into this "world" by herself.

She was also hiding in an abandoned Buddhist shrine in the mountains at the time. One day, she saw a man holding a photo and kowtowing and praying to the dilapidated Buddha statue.

The woman said, please bless my daughter with good health, and made a wish that if the Bodhisattva appeared, please let me see my daughter again.

Song Siwen understood: "You mean, that woman was also abducted? That person is... Aunt An?"

Shu Xiu nodded: "That's right. But I wasn't sure at the time, so I had to take a gamble. When she came to worship again, I threatened her that if she didn't help me stay in this village, I would tell her husband about her affairs."

"So she was coerced?"

"No."

To Shuxiu's surprise, Aunt An decided to help her with almost no conditions, just because if her daughter grew up smoothly, she would be as old as Shuxiu.

But she was an incompetent mother and had no way of escaping - she tried, was dragged back and beaten, and finally gave up and gave birth to two sons.

Her son needs his mother, and if she doesn't run away she won't be beaten, so it seems she has no choice but to accept her fate.

She also thought about dying.

But she wanted to see her daughter again, to tell her that her mother had never abandoned her and supported her in living.

"Aunt An pretended to pick me up from the mountain when I was crazy, and brought me to Wangnan Village."

"It's too easy..." Jiang Baige complained.

Shu Xiu laughed, "Of course not. How could Wangnan Village allow a lunatic from outside to exist? So Aunt An told those people that I was the daughter-in-law given by God to her youngest son, and no one could touch me. After hearing what she said, at least her husband stood with her."

"And her little son?"

"I work outside and only come back during the Chinese New Year."

"New Year's Day?" Jiang Baige rubbed his cold arms, "Doesn't that mean... there are only a few days left?"

Because the “year” of 2017 came especially early.

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