I heard that when Lao Chen posted the child's photo in the group that day, the couple immediately noticed the two whorls on the child's forehead.
They immediately tagged Lao Chen in the group chat, asking him to check if there was a hairy bluish spot on the right side of their child's back.
Without a second thought, Old Chen went up to the child and started chatting, but the child had no idea what his name was or who his parents were.
At that time, Lao Chen noticed that when he was talking to his child, several men who were smoking together not far away would keep staring at him.
It was only thanks to his military background that he was so vigilant. Otherwise, who would have noticed this situation?
It is said that Old Chen did not touch it at the time, but gave some money and left.
Once the men lowered their guard, Old Chen began keeping watch from a nearby corner.
This surveillance lasted until almost midnight.
Around one or two in the morning, when the streets were deserted, those men came to collect the people.
That evening, Old Chen followed the group and found the man's hideout.
This kind of thing is nothing new to Old Chen, who has been on the road to finding his son for many years.
According to Old Chen, it was a three-story self-built house.
When he sneaked in that night, he realized that this group of people had not just one, two, three, or five children under their control, but a full twenty-odd!
These twenty-odd children, whose bodies had been deliberately maimed, were crammed into one room.
They were missing limbs or covered in burns, their faces so disfigured that they had no healthy skin left.
Some of them are missing limbs and have large areas of burns and scalds on their faces.
Let alone distinguish their appearances, it's impossible to tell whether they're boys or girls.
However, they could only huddle together, warming themselves with each other's body heat.
This group of heartless scum only gives food to children who beg for money; they don't even give food to those who don't beg for money or beg for very little.
There wasn't even a straw mat in the house, let alone a bed.
The children huddled together, curled up on the ground like stray dogs.
Even though their stomachs were rumbling like thunder, they didn't make a sound.
Old Chen, who had witnessed this, originally planned to leave first and then call the police.
Unexpectedly, just as they were about to climb over the wall, they heard a shrill scream coming from the second floor.
Driven by curiosity, he decided to go upstairs to check.
When he followed the sounds of crying and laughter to the room on the second floor, he saw two men breaking a little girl's leg.
Not far away, in a corner, were about a dozen children, around eight or nine years old, squatting.
The little girl had a childlike face and looked to be only six or seven years old.
They stepped on her back, one leg already bent upwards at a 90-degree angle from the thigh.
One of the men, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, laughed loudly and said that this angle looked good, and that his other leg was also bent like this, making it look like a wing or something.
"No, it hurts so much, please, please don't hurt me. I'll do anything you want, I'll earn money, I'll steal, I'll cheat, I'll beg. Please, please stop breaking my legs."
The little girl cried and begged.
However, those scumbags laughed even more smugly.
The group of children in the corner said, "See that? This is what happens when you try to run away! If anyone tries to run away again, I'll break off your legs and roast them for you!"
But the children in the corner were like dolls, with empty eyes and no expression.
It's like... it's like this kind of scene, and it's happened more than once or twice.
Old Chen couldn't stand it anymore.
In the many years he has been searching for his child, he has encountered female college students who were trafficked to remote mountains and forced into marriage and childbirth. He has also encountered women who were sold to a family of three brothers to be their wives.
I've also encountered cases of young girls being abducted and sold to others to be child brides.
They even encountered gangs that made children beg on the streets or sell flowers once or twice.
But this was the first time he had ever seen how a perfectly healthy child could be "manufactured" into something neither human nor ghost by these beasts.
Old Chen, who had originally planned to sneak out to call the police, couldn't hold back at this moment and rushed in to fight with the group.
It's thanks to his experience as a special forces soldier that, although he can't fight like the ones in the movies, he can still take down three or four of these guys at the same time without any problem.
Old Chen said that he was almost furious at the time.
So he vented all his anger on those few people.
However, the commotion he caused by taking down three people attracted the attention of the other people who were eating and drinking upstairs.
The scene was chaotic for a time.
While he was fighting those people, he shouted for the children to escape in the chaos.
But to his surprise, the children didn't leave!
Old Chen said that he didn't know where he got the strength from, but he managed to beat those people one by one until they couldn't get up.
Of course, he was also covered in injuries.
The other person had already been knocked down, but he also collapsed due to excessive blood loss.
With his last shred of sanity, Old Chen called the police, and then lost consciousness.
When he woke up, he was already in the hospital.
The largest wound was on my back, which required fourteen stitches.
The police all said he was lucky, because there were originally more than just those ten or so people in the group.
Most of the people weren't at that hideout that day.
If those people had been there that day, Old Chen's reckless actions would undoubtedly have been fatal.
Afterwards, Old Chen asked the police why the children refused to escape even though they clearly saw an opportunity to do so.
The police told him it was because the children were too afraid to run away.
They also said that those children had witnessed those scumbags harming children, and this wasn't the first or second time.
They don't even remember how many times they've seen it.
All I remember is that I must not run away, no matter what.
Because if you escape and get caught, you'll be the one lying on the chopping block.
So those children were released to steal, rob, and cheat, and even though they were outside and no one was watching them, they didn't dare to run away.
Every time they succeeded, they would obediently return and hand over the money.
When you have plenty of money, you only get a couple of scraps.
When you have little money, or no money at all, you get beaten up.
But they just wouldn't run away.
That fear was like a mental shackle, firmly imprisoning them.
It was thanks to Old Chen's efforts in dismantling the den that the couple's child was found.
Finally, Zhou Chunhua saw the sign for Xiangzai Noodle Shop at the entrance of a back alley.
As soon as she entered, a woman with a full head of silver hair greeted her and asked what she wanted to eat.
"Hello, excuse me... are you Sister Huang?"
The woman looked at her with a look of astonishment.
Zhou Chunhua quickly explained, "I came to inquire whether... Old Chen has been in contact with you recently?"
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