Chapter 56. Next comes the screening. ...
The next step is screening.
Shen Lang isn't a policeman; he doesn't have law enforcement power, but he's rich! And he's willing to spend money!
It was difficult to identify the others, but the middle-aged woman who abducted Jiang Can and the young man who was supporting Xu Min were seen by others.
The middle-aged woman was in her early forties, wearing a floral jacket and a red headscarf, with dark skin.
The young man was in his early twenties, wearing a black down jacket and a Lei Feng hat. He had an average face and small eyes.
By sharing this information, even more people will remember that they have seen them before.
Everyone was searching in the crowd. A human trafficker was worth five hundred yuan. Who could turn down money?
Now, all that's needed is time.
Those who come to burn incense on New Year's Eve are usually people with nothing to do; they'd just go home to sleep anyway. Now, there's excitement to watch, money to be made, and even the chance to catch human traffickers, so nobody's in a hurry to go home.
Some kind-hearted people are actively involved, and we must bring the human traffickers to justice.
There were fewer people at the gate now, and more than a dozen young people had gone over to block the gate and the wall. Now, if the traffickers wanted to escape, they would have no chance of getting away.
Master Bai also had some medical skills. He examined Jiang Can and the others and found that they were fine; they had just been given a drug, but it wasn't a serious problem.
Shen Lang wasn't worried about that. Human traffickers go to so much trouble to abduct people in order to make money; they'll only give them sedatives, not poison.
A refined and cultured middle-aged man squeezed through the crowd: "I am a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. I'm here to examine a few young women. I don't know what kind of medicine they've been given, so I hope it doesn't harm their health."
Shen Lang glanced at him and nodded in agreement.
The middle-aged man held Jiang Can's pulse, his brows furrowing with each pulse. He switched to Jiang Can's other wrist and pressed for a while longer before finally saying, "The situation is not good. Get him to the hospital immediately! Otherwise, it will affect his lifespan."
Shen Lang: "Will it affect my lifespan? Can I be saved if I go to the hospital?"
The man nodded: "If you get to the hospital and have your stomach pumped in time, you'll be fine. You must hurry!"
Shen Lang, his face cold, grabbed the middle-aged man by the collar, shoved him to the ground, and tied him up with a rope: "Where are you a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner? Your medical skills are lacking! Or are you a human trafficker?"
He took Jiang Can to the hospital at this time, and once the people at the temple were in chaos, the human traffickers would be completely out of reach.
How could he possibly let those who tried to harm Jiang Can get away with it?
Master Bai: "This person's face indicates a very evil person! He is most likely an accomplice of human traffickers."
Shen Lang: "Master Bai, take a look quickly and see who else has a vicious face! Catch all the human traffickers. Don't rush, look at them one by one."
Master Bai: ...
He looked around, carefully examining everyone's faces. Normal people wouldn't feel guilty being stared at, but some people really would. A little girl was so frightened that she lowered her head and took a step back, hiding in the crowd. Naturally, she was dragged out and tied up.
Why would a perfectly normal person feel guilty and afraid of being watched by Master Bai? They must have done something immoral.
Unfortunately, there was only this one who felt guilty.
A commotion arose in the distance. Several young men were seen tying up a middle-aged woman wearing a blue striped cotton-padded jacket. The woman struggled desperately, shouting, "Why are you arresting me! I'm innocent!"
The old lady walked beside her with her head held high and a proud air. "I can see you clearly, it's you! You think I won't recognize you just because you took off your headscarf and your flowery jacket? I remember your face! And your ears, you don't even have an earlobe, you look like you're destined for a bad life."
The middle-aged woman was brought over bound and tied up. She cried and wailed that she was innocent.
The old woman pointed at her: "It's her, no doubt about it! Um, was everything you said before true?"
Shen Lang: "Five hundred for each human trafficker. If I mistake someone for someone else, it's on me."
Master Bai was also excited, hoping that the guilty-looking girl was also a human trafficker.
Someone at the scene pointed out a middle-aged man with a beer belly, saying that this middle-aged man had spoken with the middle-aged woman before, so they must be in cahoots!
If I pointed to the wrong person... well, so be it. The police won't hurt me if they ask me a question. The young man said he'd compensate me if I pointed to the wrong person.
The beer-bellied man's face turned red with anger. He reached out and shoved the woman who had just pointed him out: "Are you fucking crazy?! You can't even be on the same side just by saying a few words?"
Woman: "You're getting anxious, you're getting anxious! Who did you come to the temple fair with? What's your workplace? What's your name? Where do you live?"
The man with the beer belly gave his address, workplace, and name, but he came alone and no family members testified for him.
Someone jumped out and said, "Pah! I've never seen you at work."
The explanation about the beer belly was useless, and he was tied up as well.
About twenty minutes later, they brought back another young man, who was wearing a jacket and was shivering from the cold.
Young men are actually hard to find. Many young people wear black down jackets. I did find two men with small eyes wearing black down jackets, but they always had companions, so it's almost impossible for them to be human traffickers.
While everyone was still searching, they spotted a man wearing a thin jacket, shivering with his shoulders hunched over, and, more importantly, with small eyes.
He was captured by several young men.
The squinty-eyed man was both angry and anxious. "Why are you arresting me?!"
A little girl said disdainfully, "Why don't you take off your down jacket? Look at those little eyes of yours, so shifty and sneaky, you're no good!"
The squinty-eyed man shouted, "I didn't take off my clothes. I've been wearing this outfit the whole time!"
Who cares what they say, just arrest them first.
In less than an hour, a total of eleven suspected human traffickers were apprehended, not including the six men who ganged up on Zhu Zi.
All eleven people claimed innocence, but whether it was true or false would only be known after a detailed investigation at the police station.
Shen Lang felt this wasn't enough. He placed Jiang Can next to Xu Rao, picked up the shivering, squinty-eyed youth from among the traffickers, and carried him into the side hall. The squinty-eyed youth shouted, "You fucking let me go! What the fuck do you want to do!"
Soon, the side hall quieted down. After about ten minutes, Shen Lang came out carrying the squinty-eyed youth and threw him into the pile of human traffickers.
The squinty-eyed youth reeked of urine and had already passed out.
A short, stout middle-aged man asked anxiously, "What have you done!"
Shen Lang: "I didn't do anything, he just fainted from the cold." He then dragged the middle-aged man inside as well. The men who were tied up were shouting that Shen Lang was using torture and that he was a criminal.
But nobody paid them any attention.
The old woman who had previously exposed the human traffickers said, "Wearing such thin clothes, they would have fainted from the cold. Why would we need to use any form of torture?"
After a while, Shen Lang pulled the middle-aged man out as well. He was also unconscious and reeked of urine; he had wet his pants too!
The bound men were terrified, huddled together, afraid that Shen Lang would take them inside.
He's the devil!
The sound of police sirens rang out; the police had arrived.
An old acquaintance, Deputy Director Wang Xinhe, was followed by about a dozen police officers.
He was promoted to deputy director because of the college student identity theft case, and his future looked bright.
A dozen or so people were crying foul, accusing Shen Lang of hiring people to tie them up, claiming they were all innocent! They said Shen Lang was breaking the law by doing this! They also said Shen Lang had tortured and knocked two people unconscious, and that he was committing a crime.
Wang Xinhe knew Shen Lang quite well. Since Shen Lang had arrested these people, they were definitely right to be arrested! As for vigilante justice... he hadn't seen any of it. He waved his hand: "Take them to the police station. Whether they are innocent or not, we'll find out by checking their identities."
Shen Lang instructed Fang Yuan and Zhu Zi to take Jiang Can and the other two to the hospital, and told Fang Yuan to stay by Jiang Can's side at all times. A policeman also went along to take care of the two children.
No one knows where the traffickers abducted them from; no one in the temple has lost a child.
Then Zhan Junzhuo distributed money to everyone. He and Jiang Can brought a total of more than 3,000 yuan, Fang Yuan and Zhu Zi each brought more than 1,000 yuan, left more than 200 yuan for medical expenses, and Zhan Junzhuo himself also had more than 2,000 yuan.
Fortunately, it was Chinese New Year, and everyone brought a lot of money to keep as a gift.
The total is over seven thousand, which is definitely not enough. I'll write an IOU for the rest.
Zhan Junzhuo: "Brother Lang, don't worry, I'll take care of things here." How could he not handle something as simple as this?
After giving his instructions, Shen Lang left with Wang Xinhe, but their destination wasn't the police station. "To the coal yard!"
Wang Xinhe glanced at him, then drove straight to the coal yard, turning off the siren.
Shen Lang: "The human traffickers' hideout is in the coal yard, and there are about five or six human traffickers being held captive. They have guns. The temple was sealed off before we came out. Even if there are still human traffickers who haven't been caught and have gone back to report, they will definitely arrive later than us, and they won't have time to move them."
Wang Xinhe glanced at Shen Lang again. This kid's got some nerve! So he wasn't beating people up just to vent his anger, but to find out where the human traffickers were hiding!
These human traffickers have brought this upon themselves by falling into Shen Lang's hands; they've only got themselves killed.
Shen Lang is truly remarkable. After the incident, he managed to bring such a large temple under control, catching the human traffickers off guard and leaving them with nowhere to run. They were all wiped out in one fell swoop. Now that he's enrolled in the Public Security University, his future is limitless.
Wang Xinhe kept pressing the accelerator and accelerating, but the road was too slippery, otherwise he could have driven even faster.
About half an hour later, the police car stopped near the coal yard.
In an abandoned mine, several burly men were playing poker around a campfire, with a pile of loose change scattered around them. One of the burly men, wearing glasses, chuckled and threw down his deck of cards: "Straight! I won again!" He reached out and shoved a pile of money in front of him. "When luck comes, you can't stop it."
The sound of a child crying came from inside again. A skinny man with a key walked over, turned a corner and saw a door. He opened the door and found a group of girls and children inside. One of the children, a one-year-old, was wailing loudly: "Cry, cry, cry! All you do is cry!"
The young woman holding the baby flinched: "The baby is hungry."
The skinny monkey chuckled: "Can't you breastfeed the baby?"
The little girl's face turned pale instantly. She was an unmarried girl, so where would she get breast milk? She didn't even recognize the child. She had been abandoned by human traffickers and left to take care of. She dared not say anything and could only take care of the child.
But I didn't give the baby formula today, so the baby woke up hungry and naturally cried.
The skinny monkey tossed her the bottle of milk he had prepared, saying, "Feed her." Then he left the room.
The baby fell asleep after drinking the formula, which contained a sedative. But the baby couldn't refuse it; otherwise, the baby would be hungry and cry.
After the skinny monkey went outside, he shuffled and dealt the cards, grinning lewdly, "I didn't lock the door, I wonder who will be today's little mouse!"
Several men chuckled lewdly. Those who behaved themselves couldn't be played with, but those who ran away could be played with however they wanted.
After playing for a while, the group lay down on their bedding on the floor and took a nap. Their snoring was particularly loud, as if they were sleeping soundly.
A soft rustling sound came from inside. Several bold girls quietly came out of the house. Suddenly, a burly man turned over, scaring the girls half to death. Fortunately, he was fast asleep and started snoring again.
The girls quietly walked to the mine entrance, climbed the wooden ladder, and once they reached the top, they could escape!
The girl in the lead grabbed the escalator, her heart pounding. She was about to be safe when, in the next moment, she was pulled down and fell to the ground. When she looked up, she met the eyes of a one-eyed, burly man.
"Where are we going?"
The other burly men who had been asleep had now woken up and were laughing loudly: "Brother Long, I bet she's the one who instigated the others to run away. If you win the bet, let me go first."
Others also placed their bets, and a short, stout man laughed, "I'll bet on the last one, the one with the student-style haircut. I think she's calm enough."
The main reason was that when he looked at the girl last, her captivating eyes ignited his passion.
The girls' faces were as pale as snow, and their whole bodies were trembling. On the first day they were captured, they were warned that those who did not run away were good girls, and they would be served good food and drink, and no one would touch them.
The one-eyed man, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, said, "You're not good girls. Pick one out."
Five girls escaped. Such beautiful girls are worth a lot of money. We can't squander them all; we can only squander one.
What does it mean to choose one?
One of the girls screamed, clutching her head, "It wasn't me, it was her! She made us run away with her! I was wrong, I'll never run again!"
The one-eyed man touched the girl's face: "Go back."
The girl stumbled and ran back.
Skinny Monkey: "Hehe, since none of them are choosing, then they're all bad girls." He went up and hugged a girl, reaching out to pull off her clothes: "Brother Long, give me this one, I'll play with her until I die."
The girl screamed and hurriedly pointed at another girl: "It's her, it's her!"
The skinny monkey was disappointed and finally let go, saying, "It's pointless."
Finally, only a girl with a student-style haircut was left. Her face was deathly pale when a short, fat man rushed up and hugged her. "Brothers, I'm sorry, I made the right choice."
The girl was dragged onto the quilt, and as the short, fat man tore at her clothes, she raised the brooch she had hidden in her hand and stabbed it into the man's eye.
The short, fat man couldn't dodge in time and quickly closed his eyes. The brooch scratched his eyelid, and blood flowed down his eyelid onto his face and onto the girl's body.
The next moment, the short, fat man held the girl down and slapped her across the face. "Bitch!" He roughly tore at the girl's clothes, tearing her down jacket to shreds. Down feathers flew everywhere, just like the girl's cold heart.
She's finished.
She resisted fiercely, trying to push the short, fat man over, but the man was too strong, as if Mount Tai was pressing down on her. Her resistance only made the man more excited.
The group of men watched her as if she were a spectator, shouting and whistling, some even taking off their pants and lining up behind her.
Just then, a young and unfamiliar man climbed down the wooden ladder. He was not one of the human traffickers. He walked over quietly, chopped down the skinny man who had taken off his pants, and the skinny man collapsed to the ground without even struggling. Then, three more people came down the wooden ladder.
Her eyes widened, her heart almost stopped, and she even forgot that the man on top of her was tearing at her clothes.
The man tiptoed around and, before anyone noticed, kicked the short, fat man who was pulling at her clothes to the ground. The others had already noticed and rushed towards him.
The one-eyed man pulled a pistol from his waist and fired at the man.
The man, holding the short, fat man by the arm, blocked the shot. The bullet pierced the short, fat man's stomach, and he screamed in agony, blood instantly staining his clothes.
The next moment, the man slammed the short, fat man at the one-eyed man and quickly stepped forward to snatch the pistol from the one-eyed man's hand.
The others rushed over quickly and subdued the human traffickers almost instantly.
Shen Lang looked at the girl on the ground, "Are there any other human traffickers?"
The girl covered her face and got up from the ground: "The others went to the temple fair to traffic people, the rest are all here." She walked up to the short, fat man, stepped between his legs, and bounced up and down, "You fat bastard, I'll curse your ancestors for eight generations!"
The short, fat man ignored the wound on his stomach and, like a shrimp, hunched over, clutching his mangled groin and howling in agony, large beads of sweat rolling down his forehead onto the ground.
The girl pulled off one of the men's down jackets and put it on. Luckily, it was winter and she was wearing very thick clothes. Her down jacket was torn to shreds and could no longer be worn. Her thick vest and sweater were also torn off. She is now wearing thermal underwear, thermal undershirt and thermal vest, but she is still very cold.
The wound on my face was also extremely painful.
She then rushed toward another lewd man who had taken off his pants. The man was terrified and tried to protect himself, but his legs had been broken and he could barely crawl.
The girl kicked him, yelling, "Fuck your grandpa!!! I'll make you take your pants off, I'll make you line up, damn it, I'll make you a father-in-law for life!"
The man screamed in agony, unable to escape.
Wang Xinhe looked up at the sky, Xia He looked down at the ground, and the other two policemen exchanged glances but ignored them. Hearing the piercing scream of pain, they also felt a pain somewhere in their bodies.
The girl was thrilled to have gotten rid of the one-eyed man's egg again. She began to thank her saviors, bowing to them and saying, "Thank you, officers! How did you find this place? Did you catch any other human traffickers? Or did you find us through other clues? There are still twelve human traffickers who went out to abduct people, and they will definitely be back before dawn! Let's wait and catch them."
The girl glanced at Shen Lang a few more times, feeling that he looked very familiar. Maybe all handsome guys look alike!
Shen Lang frowned. Twelve human traffickers? The group that beat up Zhu Zi didn't know this place, which meant the girl hadn't seen them before, and they weren't among the total number of people.
Eleven people were caught at the temple fair, and these eleven people are not necessarily all human traffickers.
Someone ran away!
Shen Lang didn't want to let anyone go.
Wang Xinhe: "We caught human traffickers at the temple fair! Some of them escaped!"
Shen Lang: "Wait!"
Xia He and her two companions went in to rescue the others: a total of thirteen young women, two infants under one year old, and three children aged four or five.
The babies were all unconscious, but everyone else was awake.
None of the girls suffered any physical harm; they were mainly just frightened. When they saw the police, they all cried uncontrollably, begging the police to take them home immediately.
Xia He quickly reassured everyone, telling them not to cry or be afraid, that they were all safe.
A little girl with long curly hair cried and screamed, "I want to go home! Take me home!"
The girl who had previously exposed the human trafficker rushed up and beat the little girl, yelling, "Shut the hell up!" It was this little girl who had pointed at her first.
Shen Lang: "Shut the hell up! If anyone says another word, I'll throw you into that group of people."
The girl with long curly hair cried loudly, "I want to go home, I want to go home now! If you don't take me home, I'll report you!"
Shen Lang grabbed her by the collar and threw her onto the one-eyed man and his gang. The long-haired girl screamed, her body covered in blood.
Shen Lang looked at her coldly, "Shut up!"
Not only did the girl with long curly hair stop crying and scramble to the side, but everyone else also shut their mouths and stared at Shen Lang in horror.
Shen Lang said to Wang Xinhe, "Director Wang, I'll go up and keep an eye on things. Whoever can't shut up, throw them in."
He didn't want to let anyone go; if someone tipped him off, he would come back.
Shen Lang climbed the wooden ladder out of the mine and hid in a tree. Had Can Can arrived at the hospital by now? He lowered his eyes, hating these clueless human traffickers even more, and blaming himself for not being vigilant enough. In crowded places, he should have kept a close eye on Can Can.
There will never be a next time.
About an hour later, a figure approached furtively. After looking around, he walked towards the mine. He didn't go in directly, but listened carefully. When he didn't hear anything, he looked back and then jumped down into the mine.
Shen Lang also looked in that direction, leaped down from the tree like a leopard and rushed out, catching a miner about ten meters away at the corner.
The other person was startled. "Who! Who are you! What are you doing in the mine!"
Shen Lang beat him up, saying, "Alright, tell the police what you have to say." He grabbed his leg and led him into the mine, carrying him down the mine shaft.
The man who had been sneaking down there has been subdued.
Shen Lang: "Gotcha!"
Wang Xinhe: "Back to the police station?"
Shen Lang nodded, squatted down next to the miner, and thought about what to do next.
Since the human traffickers have been caught, then catch them all, including the contact person.
The girls who were arrested were all very pretty. They were all beauties at first glance. What could be done with so many pretty girls?
Selling sex! And it has to be in a high-end club.
Wang Xinhe told everyone to go out first, and that he would take them back to the police station to give statements, notify their families to pick them up, or send them home.
The little girls were terrified and quickly climbed up the wooden ladder, with Xia He and the other two escorting them up.
The girl with the bulging egg didn't go up. Instead, she moved closer to Shen Lang and squatted down next to him. "Officer, are you thinking about how to catch more human traffickers?"
Shen Lang frowned. "I'm not a policeman. Stay away from me and go home."
This girl has a really tough personality. She was frightened, but she acted like nothing happened and even hit four people in the balls. That's pretty good.
The girl with the bulging balls moved aside but didn't leave: "Get him! He's the boss, he knows everything!"
It refers to a one-eyed dragon.
Shen Lang reached out and grabbed the one-eyed man, punching him on the bridge of his nose. "How are you going to contact your superior?"
He's going to arrest them all; he wants to completely destroy them.
The one-eyed man's nose was broken, and blood was streaming down his face. He was panting heavily. "I wasn't online. I don't know."
Shen Lang looked around. Apart from the girl with the bulging egg, there was only Wang Xinhe. When Wang Xinhe saw him looking over, he continued to look up at the sky. Shen Lang took out his pistol and shot the one-eyed man in the ear.
The one-eyed man's ear was blown off, and half of his face was blown away. He screamed in agony, "Police! Help! He's trying to kill me!"
Wang Xinhe coughed twice, stopping Xia He from getting down: "The human trafficker fired a shot to try to escape, it's fine. You take the victim back to the police station."
Shen Lang: "Go online." Jian the One-Eyed Dragon didn't speak, and shot him in the left ear again.
The girl with the bulging eggs: "Kill him! Kill him!! Ask that skinny monkey later, he's the second oldest, he knows a lot!"
Shen Lang raised his gun again, this time aiming it at the one-eyed man's head: "Go online."
One-Eyed Dragon was panting heavily. Just as Shen Lang was about to fire, he shouted, "I'll talk!" If he didn't talk, he would lose his life here.
Egg-bursting Girl: Damn, that's so cool!
It's like seeing my older cousin!
One-Eyed Dragon dared not hide it any longer. If he were shot in the head, he would die here. He didn't want to die, at least not now.
Shen Lang dragged the one-eyed dragon inside, and the one-eyed dragon spoke frankly and openly, saying everything that should and shouldn't have been said.
After he finished speaking, Shen Lang threw him out and pointed the gun at the skinny guy, "Should we talk?"
Skinny Monkey, having had his balls blown off and having learned from One-Eyed Dragon's experience, dared not hide it and followed Shen Lang into the inner room to tell him.
Shen Lang obtained several people's testimonies and gained sufficient understanding of their superiors.
Shen Lang: "I'm going to the hospital."
The girl who exploded was also very happy. She said that the human traffickers should all die, that this human trafficker was very reliable and that he could definitely kill these people.
Waaah, she wants to go home too. She wants her grandparents, parents, and dad to take her home.
The police first took Shen Lang and the others to the hospital. Also in the car were One-Eyed and Shorty, both of whom had been shot and were bleeding profusely. One-Eyed, in particular, was at risk of dying from blood loss if the situation was delayed any longer.
The others should wait; the troops have already been notified to coordinate the operation.
Eradicating the upstream supplier was beyond the capabilities of the Liaoxian County Police Bureau.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Shen Lang went straight to find Jiang Can.
The one-eyed man and the short, fat man were handed over to the police. With the police watching them, the doctor performed surgery on them first to stop the bleeding and save their lives.
As for that part that's been smashed to pieces, there's no need to try to salvage it; just cut it off. That thing has already been crushed into a lump of flesh; it'll be good for the father-in-law from now on.
Jiang Can was lying in the inpatient department, and Xu Rao and Xu Min were also in the ward.
Fang Yuan and Zhu Zi stayed by his side without leaving for a moment.
Fang Yuan: "Brother Lang, Master is fine. He was drugged and has already taken the medicine. The doctor said he will wake up in two or three hours."
Shen Lang sat down on the edge of the bed, reached out and touched Jiang Can's head. It was warm, her body temperature was normal, and his heart calmed down immediately. He wet a handkerchief and helped Jiang Can wipe away the ash marks on her face. He couldn't help but kiss her forehead and hug her.
Shen Lang: "Go to the Xu family and tell Xu Rao's parents."
The news of human traffickers at Amitabha Temple has probably spread far and wide. Xu Rao's parents must have heard about it, and since they can't find Xu Rao, they must be very worried right now.
Fang Yuan nodded, got up and left.
Zhu Zi: "Brother, how's it going over there?"
Shen Lang explained the situation in a few words: "We raided the hideout and traced the supplier. The rest is up to the police."
Hopefully, no one slipped through the net, otherwise they might find out when they go online.
Zhu Zi's eyes were red: "Brother, if it weren't for you, Minmin would probably be..."
No one, regardless of their position, could have rescued the abducted person from the traffickers. No one else could have sealed off the temple, and no one could have imagined that someone would be hidden in a coffin.
Shen Lang: "I was careless."
Given Zhu Zi's personality, he wouldn't get into a fight with anyone in a temple. If he did, he must have something in mind.
As dawn broke, the earth was shrouded in a hazy pink veil. The crowing of roosters dispelled the silence of the night, followed by the sound of firecrackers, and the sky was fully bright.
Jiang Can's eyelids trembled slightly as she opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was Shen Lang's reddened eyes. She was a little dazed, her mind blank. She reached out and wrapped her arms around Shen Lang's neck, nuzzling his face: "A Lang."
Her voice was delicate and soft.
Shen Lang held her tightly, saying, "I'm here."
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