Lu Yuan, listening from outside, frowned deeply; this family was utterly despicable.
It's not hard to tell from the conversation that this family has been human traffickers for many years and has a long-term partnership with a human trafficking den in Lijia Gou.
This time, they plan to sell Xiao Hui to this place, to be a son to a family that lacks a son.
Not only that, they also have gangs that abduct women and children outside, and in a few days they may send abducted women to that Lijia Gou place.
Lu Yuan quietly withdrew from the village. It was not the best time to save the child yet. Saving the child now would only alert the perpetrators and would not save the group of trafficked women.
He never expected that his search for the missing child would lead him to a human trafficking den and gang. In fact, in this era of strict household registration systems, inconvenient transportation, and information blockage, such human trafficking gangs are theoretically rare, yet they still managed to stumble upon this one.
As they exited the village, the wolf king, hidden in the darkness, tugged at Lu Yuan's trouser leg and stopped moving. Lu Yuan immediately became alert, crouched down, and whispered, "What's wrong? Did you find something?"
The wolf king shook its head, then jumped back and forth twice before lying down on the ground and whimpering twice.
Surprisingly, Lu Yuan understood its meaning: "Want to enter the space?"
The wolf head nodded heavily twice.
Lu Yuan placed his large hand on its body, a wicked smile playing on his lips. "Close your eyes!"
The wolf king obeyed, and the pair of green lights in the darkness vanished instantly.
Lu Yuan chuckled, patted it, and uttered two words, "Dream on!"
After saying that, he strode forward.
The wolf's eyes lit up instantly, staring at Lu Yuan with a ghostly light. It chased after him and bit his trouser leg again, making a whimpering sound.
Lu Yuandao said, "It's so late at night, aren't you worried that I'll be scared walking on a mountain path?"
Its eerie green eyes rolled upwards in a surprisingly human-like manner; it was indeed nighttime, and it had heard ghost stories.
Lu Yuan pulled up his trouser leg. "Alright, aren't you afraid your eyes will roll to the sky? Let's walk a little further before we go into the space together. I'm going to go in and take a nap too."
The wolf king resigned himself to his fate and accompanied him on his journey.
After walking for about ten more minutes, Lu Yuan suddenly flashed into the space. The wolf king paused, then circled around the spot where Lu Yuan had just entered the space. After confirming that its master had abandoned it and entered the space by himself, it angrily dug a hole in the spot with its paws.
"Awooo—Awooo—"
Seeing that there was no one in the pit, it angrily roared to the sky.
"Aww..."
"Alright, stop calling, come in!"
Seeing that it kept barking, Lu Yuan flashed out of his spatial dimension and pulled it directly into his space.
"Doesn't he know how terrifying his own voice is? That voice can travel tens of thousands of miles, isn't he afraid of scaring the people in the surrounding area to death?"
"Waaah!" The wolf king was very aggrieved.
Lu Yuan stripped the black clothes off its body and listened to the low accusation, his lips twitching.
"Tsk, do you even remember you're the wolf king, not a lapdog?"
"Awooo—"
The wolf king roared and pounced. Lu Yuan was not paying attention and was knocked backward, even getting licked on the side of his face.
After taking his revenge, the wolf king dashed off to his territory like a bolt of lightning.
"Hey, you stinky wolf king, trying to rebel?"
Lu Yuan was so angry he laughed, and kept wiping his face with his sleeve.
"Damn it, how can your wife stand your stinky mouth? It's suffocating me!"
This was purely a joke by Lu Yuan. Perhaps because he had been eating food from inside the space, the Wolf King's voice was still very clear.
Lu Yuan woke up and ate his fill before leaving the space. Seeing that his wife hadn't entered the space, he left a note to let her know he was safe and sound, and briefly explained what had happened.
He still took the wolf king out of the space, but after thinking about it, he felt more at ease leaving the wolf king in the village to guard it.
It was still early outside. Lu Yuan walked to the road, took the truck out of his spatial dimension, and drove back to Qianyang Commune before it was fully light. He checked the time and it was only around six or seven o'clock.
He went straight to the police station, where several police officers were already there. Lu Yuan told them the information he had gathered the previous night.
"Comrade Lu, is the news you're telling us true?"
"It's true, of course. I heard it with my own ears."
"How did you track down the human traffickers to their home?"
Lu Yuan showed them his work ID. "After leaving the police station yesterday, I went around asking around and met a passerby who said he had seen an old lady holding a child. So I went in the direction he pointed."
"He said he saw people carrying children on their backs while walking, not in a car or other means of transportation, so I guessed that the traffickers' homes were either not far from the commune or in inconvenient transportation."
After inquiring about which police stations were nearby and analyzing the situation, I followed the directions given by passersby and, luckily, found the first station I went to.
"How did Comrade Lu determine that he found him? Logically speaking, if you go to the brigade, the commune members will already be asleep, and you won't be able to find him by asking around. Besides, asking around might alert him."
"That makes sense, so I couldn't ask anyone. I was just thinking that the trafficker's family had just taken the child back yesterday, and the child might not be used to it at night and would probably cry."
So I went door to door checking, and sure enough, I found a family with a crying child. I even overheard their conversation.
"Comrade Lu is truly a soldier, he's really impressive," a police officer praised.
They didn't believe Lu Yuan was lucky to find the human trafficker's home. They thought all the police officers in their station had the same luck; it was because the trafficker had the power to do so.
The police took the case seriously. If what Lu Yuan said was true, and the traffickers' accomplices had abducted many young women this time, then this would be a major case.
The police chief immediately called his superiors to report the case and request support. The county public security bureau also took it very seriously, and the bureau chief personally led a team to Qianyang Commune.
The Hangzhou Public Security Bureau, which received the report from the Wen family, also sent several police officers to assist in solving the case. The three brother units worked together and quickly made arrangements. Lu Yuan saw that their arrest and rescue plans were reasonable, so he did not get too involved.
That day, the police dispatched several groups of officers to carry out separate operations. The police secretly monitored the brigade where the human traffickers were located, as well as Lijia Gou and the train station in Qianyang Commune.
Everything was ready; they were just waiting for the criminal to be caught.
But just then, the case took an unexpected turn.
Lu Yuan also got involved. He first went to keep an eye on the human traffickers' house and found that the Wolf King hadn't come to secretly look for him. He realized that the Wolf King probably wasn't keeping an eye on the place anymore.
The only plausible explanation for why the wolf king isn't keeping an eye on this place is that it went to Lijia Gou with the human traffickers.
Lu Yuan didn't delay any longer and went straight to Lijia Gou, but he only got halfway there when he encountered the wolf king, who was carrying a baby in his mouth.
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