Seeing Tao Mu holding the phone for a long time without moving, Wang Boyuan, who had been paying close attention to Tao Mu, couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, I received a text message." Tao Mu wasn't sure if someone was joking with him or really wanted to ask for help. I looked at the caller ID and the phone number was also from H Town. Tao Mu thought about it and called back.

It rang twice and someone hung up. I called again, but the phone was turned off.

Tao Mu's heart sank, and he stood up with his phone: "I'm going out to make a call."

As he walked, he quickly reviewed his network of contacts in H Town. A light bulb went off in my head, and I found the phone numbers of three girls I met last week and called them one by one. Shut down all.

"No way." Tao Mu muttered to himself and called Damao: "Have you seen Yun Duo, Wu Xiaoxuan and Zhang Hanya these days?"

Damao was stunned: "Who is it?"

Tao Mu: "..." I can't complain at all.

"It's the three girls who had dinner together last week." Tao Mu spoke quickly: "I just received a text message for help from a strange phone number, and the mobile phone number is also from H Town. I called but no one answered. I called again but the phone was turned off. I called the three of them again, but couldn't get through to any of them. Nothing happened, right?"

"Ah?" Da Mao was shocked. "That can't be. Didn't they say they were going to visit the set today?"

"Which crew are you visiting? Whose crew are you visiting? Ask around. They're all girls, it would be best if nothing happens." If something really happens...

Tao Mu didn't say anything further. Big Hair and Little Fatty were also very scared. The key point is that they are not very familiar with the three girls. We had dinner that night. The three girls inside really wanted to meet Tao Mu. It's a pity that Tao Mu is too busy and usually can't see him. Big Hair and Little Fatty wanted to please the girls, but the girls thought it was not fun to have them around and insisted on "going out in the world" on their own.

Big Hair and Little Fatty weren't going to stick to him anyway. Besides, they have to pick up newcomers to Hengdian every day, help them rent houses, and apply for temporary residence permits, actor certificates, etc. If they don't provide home service to every single person, they simply won't have the time and energy for that.

Considering that they were all from Yanjing, Da Mao and Xiao Pang only agreed with the three girls to go back to Yanjing together on the 24th.

Also, this morning, the little girl named Yun Duo called Damao and chattered about wanting to join a fan group to visit a popular male star on set. Call Damao to ask for the address of the crew. Da Mao and Xiao Pang felt that nothing would happen if a large group of people acted together, so they didn't ask any further questions. As a result, Tao Mu received a call for help at the dinner table.

"It can't be the three of them, right?" Xiao Pang still couldn't believe it. How could it be so ridiculous? "Could it be a prank?"

"It's possible." Tao Mu frowned, "But since the message has been sent, I'd better believe it." The key is that the person who has Tao Mu's phone number is from H Town. Apart from the three girls, Tao Mu can't think of anyone else who would send such a text message.

"Whether it's a prank or not, find a way to find those three girls. It's best if nothing happens." Tao Mu frowned and warned.

Da Mao and Xiao Pang nodded repeatedly, hung up the phone and ran to the hotel where the three girls were staying. After asking the front desk, I found out that the three girls had not returned yet. I also called various places to contact them. But who can they go to in the middle of the night? Even though H Town is a small place, it has a temporary population of tens of millions. There are all kinds of people here. What would happen if these three girls were really targeted by bad guys?

"Isn't it true that something happened?" Da Mao was thinking about the lawsuit and called Tao Mu again: "What should we do? We can't find the person! How about we call the police?"

But the person had been missing for less than 24 hours, and Tao Mu just received an unclear phone call. Can the police file a case?

Tao Mu couldn't tell. But he couldn't sit still at the dinner. He apologized repeatedly and wanted to leave early. A number of big names also noticed that something was wrong. Guo Yaning asked a question. As soon as Tao Mu told the story, everyone took it seriously.

After all, they are three young girls in their prime. The adults don't want to see anything happen to the children.

"I'll help ask too." Guo Yaning was the first to pick up the phone and called all the old acquaintances who were still filming in H Town, asking them to help find the person.

Tao Mu suddenly had an idea and called Damao again, asking him if he had any photos of the three girls.

Da Mao and Xiao Pang did take a group photo that day when they went to pick someone up. When Tao Mu asked, he quickly sent the photos over.

Tao Mu forwarded the photos to the big names one by one, and when the big names asked for help, they forwarded them via MMS.

Now I feel firsthand the trouble of not having WeChat groups and Moments.

In a flash, such an idea flashed through Tao Mu's mind, but was immediately overwhelmed by the urgency of finding someone.

Cheng Baodong also called the management of H Film and Television City and asked them to help find someone.

Seeing that he couldn't help here, Tao Mu ran to the police station to meet up with Da Mao and Xiao Pang.

The facts turned out to be just as Tao Mu expected. The report information they provided was too vague and the police station was unable to file a case. But the incident involved three girls, and the police also took it very seriously. Promise to let them check the surveillance footage.

Damao immediately reported the location of the crew that the three girls were going to visit.

Tao Mu and the other two followed the two policemen and squatted in front of the monitor to watch for most of the day, their eyes were red from staying up all night. Finally, I saw the three little girls on one of the screens.

"It's them!" Damao pointed at the screen excitedly, "Uncle police, it's them!"

The police quickly froze the video and zoomed in. In the video, Yun Duo and the other two were seen following a group of girls of similar age into the film and television city. More than an hour later, another large group of people came out, stood for a while and said goodbye to each other, then left in either a taxi or an electric tricycle.

Yun Duo and the other two got on an electric tricycle with a girl wearing a white T-shirt and a short skirt. The tricycle is a very common electric vehicle with a blue shed. The camera had low pixel count and could barely capture the side profiles of the girl in the wrap skirt and the driver. The police officer enlarged the frozen photo in the video for identification. Tao Mu also took a picture with his mobile phone and sent it to Gou Rixin via MMS, asking this local snake to help find someone. Then the video continues, the electric car goes south along the street, turns left at the intersection, and finally enters an alley. The camera can't track it.

——In 2008, China did not have cameras everywhere like in later generations. Especially in a small place like H Town, cameras are only installed on main roads and important locations. It can't be tracked anywhere else.

Tao Mu told the police the phone number where he received the text message for help. The police checked and found that it was just an anonymous phone card.

The matter has come to a stalemate. Fortunately, Tao Mu immediately received a call from Gou Rixin: "Why are you looking for Qi Lao San? Did they provoke you?"

Tao Mu's heart skipped a beat: "Dog brother knows this person?"

Gou Rixin: "I know him. We drank together before. He's quite a loyal person. What's wrong?"

Tao Mu briefly told the story of the text message he received asking for help: "I'm not looking for a tricycle driver, I'm looking for those girls."

"I'll call Qi Lao San right away. You wait." Gou Rixin didn't waste any words. He hung up the phone and returned it within two minutes. During this time, Tao Mu also took the opportunity to send Gou Rixin a photo of the three girls with Damao and Xiaopang.

"Qi Lao San said that they got off the bus in the middle of Wansheng North Road. From what they said, it seemed like they were going to a film crew to interview for a special guest role."

"Interviewing a group of special agents in the alley?" Tao Mu raised his eyebrows. This is nonsense.

"I heard it was a hotel or an inn or something." Gou Rixin said, "I asked Qi Laosan to come over. Let's go to Wansheng North Road to look for it first. If we can't find it, we can talk about it later."

This is the only thing we can do!

Tao Mu and the other two rushed to Wansheng North Road after leaving the police station. Before leaving, the policeman who helped them check the surveillance and mobile phone numbers gave Tao Mu his personal contact information: "Contact us in time if you find any clues."

The police are also investigating the identity of the girl who was with Yun Duo and the other two. However, there are too many floating populations in H Town, making the investigation difficult.

Tao Mu nodded. Suddenly, he remembered something and called Gou Rixin again: "Can you find out the information of that woman from the extras?"

Because H Film and Television City attracted a large number of migrant workers to serve as extras, and H Town increasingly relied on the tourism industry, the population management in H Town was not strict. If the woman is not a local and has not used her own ID card to apply for a temporary residence permit and an actor's certificate, the police may not be able to find the woman's true identity in the system. After all, H-Town has always had a habit of extras using other people's actor's licenses to get away with it - especially during the time of year when the Screen Actors Guild stops issuing actor's licenses.

But this woman hangs out in H Town all the time, so there must be someone who recognizes her face. Gou Rixin is one of the older group leaders in H Town, with extensive connections and familiarity. Tao Mu felt that if anyone could find out the information about this woman faster than the police, it would be Gou Rixin and his gang of local tyrants.

Human life is at stake, so Gou Rixin did not shirk his responsibility: "Okay. I will immediately send that photo to all the actors in the group and ask everyone to help."

After hanging up the phone, Tao Mu and the other two took a taxi to the middle section of Wansheng North Road. Gou Rixin, along with a group of martial arts brothers and Qi Laosan, were already waiting at the alley intersection where the girls disappeared.

Gou Rixin looked unhappy. When he saw Tao Mu, he immediately said, "Things are not good. Someone in our group recognized the girl. Dahei, you tell us."

Gou Rixin waved over a dark-skinned boy, who spoke Mandarin with a strong southern accent, "I know this woman. Her name is Xu Jiao, and she has been in H Town for more than a year. She was originally an extra, but then, somehow, she got to know a bunch of dubious people and started doing pyramid selling."

Tao Mu's heart skipped a beat, and Big Hair and Little Fatty immediately asked, "Are you saying that Yun Duo and the others were tricked into joining a pyramid scheme?"

"More than that." Gou Rixin shook his head: "I've heard of that group of people too. Their backgrounds are very complicated. Not only are they involved in pyramid schemes, they seem to be pimps in nightclubs and have some connections with human traffickers." Anyway, those are the only trivial things that can involve girls. That group of people has it all.

Tao Mu shuddered and quickly called the police.

As soon as the police received the call, they took it seriously and immediately opened a case for investigation. Police were also sent to join Tao Mu.

Gou Rixin has always been kind-hearted and even more anxious than Tao Mu: "Don't wait. Nothing will happen to a group of us. Let's go in and take a look first."

The leader of the dog pack was not afraid of anything because he relied on his numbers. The martial arts brothers who came with him were also eager to try. As a man, who doesn’t have some fantasies of being a passionate hero?

At this moment, almost three hours had passed since Tao Mu received the call for help. Tao Mu was also worried that something might happen to the three girls, but he was more worried that a large group of people would go in like this and alert the enemy. Scare people away again.

Gou Rixin hissed, not taking it seriously: "If they were well-informed, they would have run away when our group came over. Besides, if I send the photo to the Jiujiu group, there's no guarantee that someone will tip them off. If you delay any longer, you'll not only alert the enemy, but also end up with nothing."

Tao Mu felt that Gou Rixin's words made sense.

Seeing this, Gou Rixin waved his arm and immediately went into the alley with a group of brothers. Qi Lao San, who had led Yun Duo and a few others before, took the lead and walked through the alleys until they stopped in front of a hotel called "Longmen Inn".

Da Mao looked up at the name of the hotel and couldn't help but sigh: "It's a very impressive name!"

Da Gou and a group of his friends entered the hotel first, took out his phone and asked the front desk: "Have you seen these girls?"

The Shamatte girl who was lying at the front desk touching up her makeup glanced at the big dog and spoke with a mouth full of corn grits: "I didn't notice. We run a hotel, and there are a lot of people coming and going every day. I'm watching you. Do you want to stay in the hotel or not? If you are, take your ID card. If you are not, get out of here quickly. Who are you bringing so many people here to scare?"

"Hey, how can you be so powerful, little girl? I'm telling you that human life is at stake, don't you know? We now suspect that these three girls were deceived into a pyramid scheme. Can you cooperate with us?"

"What do you mean? You said my hotel is a den of thieves?" The Shamatte girl slammed her makeup mirror on the marble, rolled up her sleeves and started shouting, "Brothers, come out here! Someone is messing with us!"

Before he finished speaking, seven or eight burly northern men rushed out.

Gou Rixin's martial arts brothers also came over. Gou Rixin's eyelids jumped and he stopped them: "Who is looking for trouble? I'm not looking for anyone! I say, little girl, if you don't want to help, can you please not make trouble? This is really a matter of life and death. If you are not in the same group with them, you should help us. These are three lives!"

The Shamatte girl rolled her eyes and said, "Are you a police officer? Show me your ID!"

"No." Gou Rixin explained patiently: "These three are my friends. The girl came from another place to travel and experience life, but who would have thought that she would be targeted by bad guys in just a few days. This girl——"

Gou Rixin pointed at Xu Jiao in the photo and said, "She is not a good person. She is involved in pyramid schemes, pimps in nightclubs, and has connections with human traffickers. Look at these three girls, they are about your age, beautiful and charming. I think you are a loyal person, you can't just watch these three girls get into trouble, right?"

"Did I cause them to get into trouble?" The Shamatte rolled his eyes and sneered, "You called the police when the person was gone, why did you come to our hotel? Sorry, we as hotel owners don't have this obligation! Besides, you brought such a group of people with you and made such a fuss. People who don't know would think my hotel is a den of thieves. How can I do business in the future?"

"No. How can you be so stubborn as to refuse to obey me?"

The two of them sang in unison like a crosstalk, and Tao Mu couldn't listen any more. He squeezed forward and interrupted the two of them: "Hello, can you help us check? These girls have been missing for several hours. We have also called the police, and the police are rushing here. But time is urgent, and we are really worried about the safety of these girls."

"Oh my god!" The shamatte girl glanced at Tao Mu, closed her eyes, covered her chest and took a big step back: "Don't laugh. You are so handsome and your smile makes my eyes go blurry. This guy is so hard that he even uses the beauty trick!"

Tao Mu: "..."

Tao Mu took a deep breath: "Then can you help us check——"

"Check! Check! Check! I'll check for you right away!" the Shamatte girl said, stretching her neck and yelling, "Third brother! Come down and see if you have seen these girls when you were on duty this afternoon."

There was a sound of footsteps coming from upstairs, and a bald man wearing an old man's shirt, flowered shorts and flip-flops came downstairs: "Haha?"

"These women!" The Shamatte girl snatched Gou Rixin's phone and threw it to the bald man: "Have you seen them when you were on duty this afternoon?"

The bald man took a look and said, "Yes, I have! They came with a woman, saying they were here to audition for a special role. Isn't that nonsense? Do you think a crew would stay in this crappy place? I told them but they didn't believe me. The leader almost glared at me. What do you think—"

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, and Tao Mu asked, "Where are the people?"

"Gone!" The bald man scratched his neck. "They left as soon as they got there. A large group of people left together. They took a small broken bread--"

Gou Rixin quickly asked: "Do you have a license plate number?"

The bald man glanced at Gou Rixin and said, "Brother, do my eyes have hooks? Can I show you the license plate number of someone's car while sitting at the bar?"

This is a rebuttal to——

Tao Mu took a deep breath: "I see there is a camera at the door..."

“It doesn’t work.” The Shamatte girl shook her head: “The camera has been broken for a long time. It’s just there to scare people.”

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts when they heard this. Tao Mu was about to say something when he was interrupted by a ringing phone.

Tao Mu picked up the phone: "Officer Yao? We are at Longmen Inn... We couldn't find the person. He said he came for an audition and left with a group of people in a van... Okay, I'll pick you up at the door."

Tao Mu hung up the phone: "Officer Yao is here with the local police. I'll go to the door to greet them."

Da Mao Xiao Pang immediately said, "We'll go with you."

Then he complained angrily: "Do you think these three people are stupid? I told them that this place is very chaotic and told them not to trust others easily and follow others. Why don't they listen——..."

"So you don't know him?" The shamatte girl understood now. Looking at Tao Mu's handsome face, she couldn't help but comfort him, "Then don't worry too much. If this person is too stupid, even gods can't save him. But handsome guy, you are not only handsome, but also kind-hearted. Handsome guy, are you also a star? What movies have you acted in? Why don't I have any impression of you?"

Tao Mu didn't have time to pay attention to the girl's chat at this moment. He walked out of the hotel with his phone in hand and walked straight forward along the alley. In a few minutes, he met Officer Yao's police car.

Officer Yao rolled down the window and asked Tao Mu and the others to get in the car. Tao Mu explained the matter of the hotel, and finally said: "I knew it was taken away by a van. There is no license plate number."

Officer Yao's eyebrows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death. He first asked for a confession at the hotel, and what he said was basically the same as Tao Mu's. I called the police station again and asked them to investigate - but as I said before, H Town is too big, with so many migrant workers, and the police force is limited. Fortunately, Gou Rixin and his gang of martial arts brothers were there to inquire around, and the police also gathered all the famous gang leaders in H Town to ask for help.

Lian Qi Laosan kept calling his fellow tricycle riders, sending those photos everywhere and asking for information.

In the end, it was the Shamatte girl from Longmen Inn who got the news first. The bald man who had seen Xu Jiao asked around and finally found out from a drinking buddy that Xu Jiao usually rented a house and a courtyard house she rented on the outskirts of the city.

After receiving the news, the police immediately dispatched. Tao Mu and Gou Rixin followed behind. Taking into consideration that the police did not know how many people there were in the pyramid scheme gang and the human trafficking gang and that they might not have enough energy, they were willing to ask Gou Rixin and his gang of martial artists for assistance. As direct informants, the Shamatte girl and her brothers must go with them. During this time, Shamatte insisted on riding in the same car with Tao Mu, and asked for Tao Mu's contact information straight out of the gate: "I'm telling you, I'm targeting you. If it were someone else, I wouldn't wade into this muddy water!"

Tao Mu had no choice but to tell Shamatte his cell phone number in H Town. The Shamatte girl carefully saved the phone number and pressed the issue: "Do you use Weibo? How about we follow each other?"

Before Tao Mu could speak, the Shamatte girl said, "Wait a minute, I'll change my Weibo name first."

Da Mao and Xiao Pang secretly glanced at the phone of the Shamatte girl out of the corner of their eyes and found that her original Weibo name was "Big Sister with a Knife on Shoulder" and her Weibo avatar was a majestic Siberian tiger. While speaking, he has already changed his Weibo name to "Gentle Little White Rabbit" and his Weibo profile picture to a little white rabbit with red eyes.

Big Hair and Little Fatty: “…”

Several police cars and a dozen vans roared past in the darkness. We entered the village that the informant mentioned and finally stopped in front of a very remote courtyard at the end of the village. When Tao Mu got off the car, he heard a commotion inside - the pyramid scheme gang was indeed hiding in the courtyard. When the police arrived, they happened to see Xu Jiao negotiating business with a human trafficker. She wanted to transfer all the disobedient girls away, but she didn't expect to be caught by the police. This time, not only did they bust the pyramid scheme den, but they also caught a group of human traffickers hiding in H Town, who deceived young girls under the guise of recruiting for a film crew. A group of victims who were trapped in a pyramid scheme were rescued in time.

This is good news and bad news.

——Yun Duo and the other two girls struggled so hard when they found out they were cheated that one of them was slapped on the head by the suspect during her resistance, causing her to hit the wall and fall into a coma with blood all over her.

The suspect was also afraid of causing loss of life, so he wanted to send the injured girl to a black clinic for treatment. Others disagreed, fearing that something else might happen. The two groups started arguing, and Yun Duo took advantage of the chaos to grab the phone of one of the suspects and sent a text message to Tao Mu asking for help - the reason why she didn't call the police directly was because she was worried that she didn't have the time.

Sure enough, Yun Duo was discovered just after she picked up the phone and typed two words. Fortunately, the little girl pressed the send button in time during the scramble - fortunately, Tao Mu's face was so handsome that the three little girls memorized Tao Mu's phone number as soon as they got it. Fortunately, Tao Mu did not take it as a prank after receiving the text message, and really called the police to rescue them.

When Tao Mu and others arrived at the scene, they saw a group of scarred girls and other victims controlled by the pyramid scheme organization.

Yun Duo's entire body was covered in bruises and wounds, all of which were caused by being beaten by those people. The remaining two girls were not in good condition either. But luckily nothing happened - it was because the three of them made such a big fuss. The suspects were worried about getting into trouble, so they moved to another place and contacted the next buyer, hoping to sell the three girls to the mountains as soon as possible. In addition, one of the little girls was covered in blood and was in danger of dying at any time. A bunch of scumbags are worried about killing people, and have no intention of harming the little girl...

"Tao Mu, wuwuwuwu..." Yun Duo collapsed at the first sight of Tao Mu: "I want to go home. I want to go home, wuwuwuwu... I'm scared to death..."

Tao Mu reached out and patted the little girl on the back. He listened to the sound of the ambulance whistling by and said softly, "It's okay. It's okay. The police have rescued you. We'll go to the hospital now. By the way, do you remember your family's phone number? You can use my phone to call them and ask them to pick you up."

"Yeah!" The little girl nodded, still holding Tao Mu tightly: "My dad's name is Yun Xingjian, our home phone number is..."

Tao Mu paused holding the phone, and looked at Yun Duo with a slightly strange look in his eyes: "Yun Xingjian? Is that the surgical expert Yun Xingjian from the First People's Hospital of Yanjing?"

Yun Duo looked at Tao Mu in shock: "Do you know my dad?"

Tao Mu looked strange: "Do you have a brother named Yun Yi?"

"Ah~" Yun Duo was more and more dazed: "You still know my brother?"

nonsense! Tao Muxin said: Who the hell doesn't know the richest man in China who founded Skynet Technology!