Having said that, the captain quickly stood up, looked at his two sons beside him and ordered: "You two, quickly gather some people, we're going to find them!"
Then, he looked at Su Qingqing and Qin Huaichuan and asked anxiously, "Which direction did the young educated youth Su go? Let's go over there and find him!"
Su shook his head gently. "Zhiqing Shen asked us to come to you and asked you to gather some people to go to the village and ask if anyone had seen Mianmian leave the village today. He went to the back mountain to look for her himself."
The team leader nodded and quickly made arrangements: "Xiangnan, quickly gather some young and strong men to search the back mountains. Xiangbei, you follow me, and we will go door to door to ask if anyone has seen the educated youth Xiao Su."
The captain picked up the remaining half of the steamed bread on the table, took two more and handed them to Su Qingqing and Qin Huaichuan, "Let's go."
Dong Xiangnan and Dong Xiangbei followed suit and each took one and ate while walking.
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Su Mianmian didn't know that her family was out looking for her anxiously. She walked to another fork in the road and was hesitating whether to go left or right.
In the end, Su Mianmian followed her heart and chose the left path. Why? Because she had chosen the right path once.
Su Mianmian raised her wrist to check the time. It was eight o'clock in the evening. She looked at the sky which had completely darkened, thought for a moment and decided to give up.
She couldn't even go out during the day, let alone at night.
She simply gave up looking for a way out and turned around to enter her own personal space and lie down for the night.
However, at this moment, she suddenly felt something pulling her ankle tightly.
She turned around suddenly, only to find that there was no one there, only the pitch-black night and the occasional cold wind.
Su Mianmian's heartbeat instantly accelerated. Was she being targeted by something?
When she thought of this, she didn't dare to look or move. She could only reach out and cover her mouth tightly, for fear that she would shout out in excitement.
She stood there stiffly, letting the thing tug at her ankle.
All kinds of horrible images flashed through her mind, and she felt like she was about to collapse.
Su Mianmian took a deep breath and shivered as she felt the dampness and coldness in the night.
Going on like this was not a solution, so she closed her eyes slightly, trying to adapt her vision to the dim environment, but everything around her was still blurry.
She shook her head helplessly, took out a flashlight from the space she carried with her, pressed it lightly, and a bright beam of light instantly illuminated the ground in front of her.
In the light of the flashlight, she saw a figure.
He was a dirty, pale, and seriously injured man.
Su Mianmian was speechless for a moment. Why did she encounter this situation every time?
"Could this be the group of people in the cave before?" Su Mianmian thought to herself. She frowned slightly and was about to squat down to check the man's injuries, but suddenly she felt something cold and hard against her lower back.
"Don't move." A cold and low voice sounded in her ears, with a hint of unquestionable majesty.
Su Mianmian's body stiffened instantly and the flashlight in her hand fell to the ground and rolled away.
"Who are you?" the man asked coldly again, his eyes full of vigilance and hostility.
Su Mianmian didn't say anything. She knew she was at a disadvantage and couldn't act rashly.
She silently raised her hands to show that she was not hostile.
Without waiting for Su Mianmian to speak, the man was not in a hurry and said directly: "Heizi, quickly help Xiaoliu up and bring him into the cave."
Then he said to another man, "Leopard, take a rope and tie her up."
"Okay, second brother." The two figures acted quickly, one helped the injured man up, and the other took out a rope and walked towards Su Mianmian.
Su Mianmian stood there, her heart beating faster, but she tried to stay calm, trying to observe the situation around her and look for an opportunity to escape.
However, in the dim light, she found that she had no idea how many of them there were, and there was almost nowhere to escape.
She resigned herself to letting the men tie her up. One of them bent down to pick up the flashlight she had dropped on the ground. Then she was held on the left and right by two men and forced to move forward.
In the cave, the firelight flickered, illuminating many unfamiliar faces.
Su Mianmian was brought to the fire. She looked up and saw six people there. Their eyes were focused on her, full of vigilance and curiosity.
Langya saw someone coming and was about to help support Xiaoliu, but suddenly saw Su Mianmian. A puzzled expression appeared on his face and he turned to Yinger.
"Second brother, why did you bring a woman back?"
Eagle Ear found a place to sit down and began to explain, "I don't know who this person is, but Xiaoliu must have been pulling her hard before she passed out."
Su Mianmian was speechless. It was just pulling. It took a lot of strength to be so badly injured.
She looked at the stern-faced man in front of her and thought that this was the person who had just stood behind her.
Su Mianmian shifted her gaze to the man's hand and discovered that what was pressed against her lower back was actually a pistol. She couldn't help but secretly feel lucky that she didn't fight hard, otherwise she would have died!
Langya frowned, scrutinizing Su Mianmian with a sharp gaze, and asked again, "What took you so long?"
Leopard came forward and explained in a deep voice: "We were originally planning to come back with Xiaoliu on our backs, but suddenly we heard some movement nearby. We were worried about danger, so we put Xiaoliu down and went to investigate nearby. Not long after we walked away, we found a faint light at the place where we were just now. We immediately realized that something might have happened to Xiaoliu, so my second brother hurried over and saw that she was being held by Xiaoliu." As Leopard spoke, he pointed specifically at Su Mianmian.
Su Mianmian rolled her eyes inwardly when she heard this. She tried to look innocent, forcing an unflattering smile to ease the tension.
Langya stepped forward, staring at Su Mianmian sharply, his voice low and dignified: "Tell me, what are you, a little girl, doing up here in the mountains at night?"
Su Mianmian curled her lips, with a hint of helplessness and dissatisfaction in her tone: "What else can I do? I'm lost! It's already 8:30 in the evening, my family must be worried to death." She deliberately pretended to look pitiful, hoping to arouse the sympathy of these people.
However, Langya and others did not easily believe her words.
They looked at each other, with a hint of vigilance and doubt in their eyes.
After all, the sudden appearance of a strange little girl in this uninhabited mountain does make people feel a little uneasy.
Su Mianmian looked at these people with clear eyes and breathed a sigh of relief that she was not in any danger for the time being.
At this moment, Su Mianmian saw the man named Xiaoliu trembling all over. Although Su Mianmian did not know medicine, she knew that the man was not in good condition.
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