Zhou Qingyun watched his eldest son run out, and before he could even tell him to borrow a bicycle, Zhou Min hurriedly ran out from behind.
"Mother--"
"Mom—my sister said that human traffickers beat her and threw her into the river—"
Human traffickers?
Chen Suwen suddenly turned around and looked at Zhou Min, "What's going on?"
Chen Suwen hurriedly went back to see Zhou Ling and asked her what had happened.
"Old Zhou, go check if the human traffickers have gone far. We absolutely cannot let them get away!"
Those damned human traffickers!
They trafficked people and even tried to murder her daughter; they absolutely cannot be let go.
Zhou Qingyun's expression also turned serious. He and his wife, who were in perfect sync, quickly left and followed the spot where Zhou Ling had fallen into the water to look for traces of the human traffickers.
"Human traffickers? What human traffickers?"
Everyone around heard Zhou Min's shout as she ran out.
The fact that Zhou Ling fell into the water and was rescued by a passing soldier was already enough to make the whole brigade want to watch the excitement, but now that they heard the keyword "human traffickers," everyone became even more excited.
"My sister was hit on the head by human traffickers and then thrown into the river!"
"My sister didn't fall into the water by accident!"
Zhou Ling can swim.
These country children, no matter how many times their parents warned them, would still sneak off to the river to catch fish and swim.
So Zhou Ling had also learned to swim, so the reason she fell into the water and couldn't get out and be rescued must be because she was unconscious and unable to save herself.
Upon hearing the news, Zhou's neighbors rushed off, all eager to do their part to find the traffickers, especially to find out if any of the children in the village had been abducted.
Song Che also heard the news from Zhou Qingshan's family. He didn't expect that rescuing a woman who had fallen into the water would involve human traffickers.
He originally thought that his rescue would be like some other people's, where he would be offered himself in marriage as a hero.
It wasn't that Song Che was overthinking things, but rather that several of his comrades in the army had rescued girls who had fallen into the water while visiting their families, or while accompanying their comrades on visits home, and subsequently found wives.
If the person who saved the person was already married, then it's fine, but unmarried single people aren't so lucky; they all get entangled with the rescuers.
Song Che thought he would be the same way, but Chen Suwen and Zhou Qingyun's attitude just now made him feel relieved.
Although he was wary of these things because of his comrades' experiences, his duty as a soldier prevented him from standing by and watching people drown.
The situation he encountered this time turned out to be quite complicated; it wasn't just a simple accidental fall into the water, but also involved human traffickers.
Song Che hurriedly told Zhou Qingshan to ask if there was a phone number for the Guangming Brigade, as he planned to call the commune or the county's armed forces to ask for help.
“We have a phone at our brigade headquarters.”
Zhou Qingshan was the accountant of the Guangming Brigade. He knew that the brigade headquarters had a phone number, and he could even bring people there to make the calls.
When Song Che went to contact the troops to come over, Zhou Qingyun had already arrived at the place where Zhou Ling fell into the water.
Although the river in Guangming Brigade is relatively wide, the current is not very rapid, so the distance Zhou Ling drifted down with the current to be rescued should not be very far.
However, it has been quite a while since Zhou Ling was discovered falling into the water and was rescued, so the human traffickers should have escaped by now.
While anxiously searching, Zhou Qingyun also used his mental energy to search for suspicious individuals.
He possessed the original owner's memories, so he recognized the members of the Brightness Brigade, while the human traffickers were likely strangers.
Although the people in the Brightness Brigade have some minor flaws, no one is perfect, and it is impossible for everyone to be perfect, positive, and upright.
However, Zhou Qingyun could say with certainty that the people from the Guangming Brigade would not be human traffickers, and the human trafficker discovered by Zhou Ling was probably a stranger.
Anyway, it's not from their Brightness Brigade.
Zhou Qingyun is a max-level ability user. Although he is not a mental ability user, his mental power is very strong, and the area covered by his mental power is quite large.
Although this body is now over forty years old, Zhou Qingyun is still in good physical condition due to years of hard work, and he moves very fast.
If those human traffickers wanted to silence Zhou Ling because she discovered their human trafficking activities, then they should be holding onto the trafficked individuals now.
Therefore, they must not be moving very fast, or they must have hidden in someone's house and not gone far.
Zhou Qingyun searched with his mental energy for a while but found no suspicious persons nearby. He walked towards the village entrance as he went.
"wrong."
Zhou Qingyun originally wanted to go to the village entrance, but he looked back at the location on the mountain.
Human traffickers wouldn't openly walk down main roads with their abducted victims, would they?
There is a highway right at the entrance of their Guangming Brigade village, and buses pass by every day. There is another brigade, which is a little smaller than theirs, about one kilometer away from Guangming Road.
The commune was three kilometers away.
So the human traffickers probably didn't come this way; they might...
Zhou Qingyun turned around and looked in the opposite direction.
The mountain behind Guangming Brigade is quite large and high, but once you cross that mountain, the other side is no longer their commune.
So, could the human traffickers leave from that side?
"Fourth Uncle!"
Zhou Qingshan's son led a group of men and caught up with Zhou Qingyun, anxiously asking him, "Fourth Uncle, have you found anything?"
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