Chapter 29: Chapter 27 Other Abducted Girls Chapter 29: Chapter 27 Other Abducted Girls The old van, clearly used for many years, emitted an unpleasant odor, compounded by the owner’s disregard for cleanliness.
Kuang Tun sat in the driver’s seat, driving, while Liu Guobin sat in the passenger seat, both clutching lit cigarettes in their mouths.
Kuang Tun seemed quite excited, chatting with Liu Guobin all the way, “Boss, after we deliver the goods tonight, I will go home and rest for a bit.”
Liu Guobin, “Rest for what?”
Kuang Tun chuckled, “My mom called this afternoon, told me to come back for a blind date, and the girl is a teacher!”
“Oh?” Liu Guobin scoffed, “A teacher willing to consider you?”
Kuang Tun looked smug, “Doesn’t matter if she looks down on me or not, after we get married, I have ways to deal with her!”
Liu Guobin grew even more skeptical, “You haven’t even met her, but you’re already thinking about marriage.”
Kuang Tun was provoked by his words, gripping the steering wheel tighter, and forgetting his mother’s instructions to keep it a secret, he blurted out, “Not only is that woman a primary school teacher, but she also just graduated from university last year. She has three younger sisters and a little brother, and she’s the eldest!”
“She’s impressive, that girl. Her family initially didn’t want her to study, but she was so academically gifted that even the teachers and the principal personally visited to persuade them, offering to waive her tuition and living expenses, and she could even get scholarships every year to support her family.”
“Her brother knocked up a girl, and the girl’s family demanded a settlement of five hundred thousand.”
Liu Guobin noticed something in the story, “So, your family is paying the five hundred thousand?”
“How could that be.” Kuang Tun rolled his eyes. With five hundred thousand, he could sleep with so many different women.
“That girl has some distant relative connection to my family, and thanks to my mother’s cunning, she managed to negotiate the compensation down to one hundred and sixty thousand. But my mother didn’t help for nothing…” As he said this, Kuang Tun smirked lewdly.
Liu Guobin understood, “Your mother’s condition was to have their family send you a wife?”
Kuang Tun nodded. Solving the marriage issue so easily and without cost, who wouldn’t be happy about it? Plus, this wife was two or three years younger than him!
If it was not for the goods that had to be delivered tonight, Kuang Tun would have been eager to get home the moment he received his mother’s call earlier in the afternoon.
Just thinking about it made Kuang Tun itch with anticipation, “That girl is quite feisty. After she learned about this, she had a huge argument and even thought about running away from home. Now she’s locked up by her parents, and even her phone has been confiscated, just waiting for me to go back…”
Locking the girl in her room, waiting for Kuang Tun to return, the intent was obvious.
As dusk fell, the two men, in the late night, discussing such matters, were somewhat excited, and their talk was rife with crude and foul words that spilled out unceasingly.
In the darkness, Jiang Ning, who should have been drowsy, opened her eyes.
There was no confusion in her gaze as she faced the unfamiliar environment; her pupils were dark and calm.
As soon as she saw the task concerning He Hui, Jiang Ning knew that if she had been trafficking humans for so many years, she definitely wasn’t working alone.
Jiang Ning intentionally used herself as bait to find out about the other accomplices.
Those capable of such acts were beasts devoid of conscience and deserved to be punished by the law.
This afternoon, while helping He Hui with some tasks, Jiang Ning had asked the System for a favor.
Jiang Ning and He Hui differed greatly in strength; He Hui’s only option to catch her would have been to drug her.
Jiang Ning had the System help her counter the effects of He Hui’s sedative.
Only after receiving an affirmative response from the System did Jiang Ning confidently accept the glass of water He Hui handed her.
If the System hadn’t helped, Jiang Ning would have had no choice but to apprehend He Hui alone.
To portray a more convincing drugged state, Jiang Ning had the System block just sixty percent of the drug’s potency.
Therefore, Jiang Ning was in a semi-conscious state throughout the afternoon.
She couldn’t move her body, but she could hear the words spoken by those around her and had a general idea of what was happening.
What she hadn’t expected was that this mission could actually trigger two consecutive tasks!
Although Jiang Ning had resolved to take down He Hui’s gang in one fell swoop, on top of this, there was a threefold mission reward. The additional two rewards could be considered the System’s way of rewarding Jiang Ning’s kind heart.
If she had simply captured He Hui and left without considering anything else, there would have been no opportunity for He Hui to contact Liu Guobin, and naturally, those two additional mission rewards would have gone down the drain.
In the van, Kuang Tun had been talking about his life after marriage, even boasting shamelessly that he must have his wife bear him a son next year.
Liu Guobin sat in the passenger seat, laughing at him.
A trace of disgust flickered in Jiang Ning’s eyes, and her hands, tied behind her back, clenched into fists.
Her hands itched with a desire to strike someone.
However, from the conversation of the three men this afternoon, Jiang Ning learned that there seemed to be another batch of “goods” elsewhere.
What this batch of goods was, the result was self-evident.
Jiang Ning calmed her mind and closed her eyes, silently noting the current anger in her notebook.
These two had made her so angry, but once they arrived at their destination, she would see how she’d deal with them!
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The minivan continued driving on the rugged and winding mountain roads. It was unclear how much time had passed when it finally came to a stop.
Maoxi Village, a remote mountain village.
Thanks to national support policies to help villagers leave the mountains and achieve prosperity, the people of Maoxi Village had all moved to the county town two years ago, settling in apartments provided for free by the government.
As a result, Maoxi Village was deserted, rarely visited by anyone, making it an excellent hiding spot for Liu Guobin and Kuang Tun.
Liu Guobin and Kuang Tun got out of the vehicle, ignoring Jiang Ning inside, and walked over to a spot piled with firewood.
The moon was nearly full, casting a lustrous glow in the sky.
Using the silver moonlight for visibility, the two simultaneously moved the firewood to one side, revealing the bricks hidden underneath.
Removing the bricks would reveal an arched wooden door.
It turned out there was a hidden cellar!
Kuang Tun took out a flashlight from his pocket and turned it on.
Standing in front, Liu Guobin took out a key and unlocked the padlock hanging on the wooden door.
The light broke through the darkness, exposing the fearful eyes of seven or eight individuals in the cellar.
A few girls, terrified, huddled in a corner of the cellar, bound hand and foot, even their mouths sealed with tape.
Everyone’s eyes widened in terror at the sight of Liu Guobin and Kuang Tun’s tall figures, their tears flowing non-stop, their bodies trembling incessantly.
Beside these girls, two unconscious children lay.
Kuang Tun stepped forward and kicked them, saying with a laugh, “What are you crying for? Get up. We’re waiting for you to get on the bus.”
Kuang Tun’s words sounded ominous, prompting the terrified girls to press close together like defenseless quails, shaking violently, wanting to cry but not making a sound.
“What are you dawdling for? Hurry up and bring them out,” Liu Guobin ordered from the cellar entrance.
Upon hearing this, Kuang Tun lost his patience and roughly lifted them up from the ground, speaking viciously, “Didn’t you hear? Hurry up! The last one out gets raped by me!”