The plainclothes policeman pushed the wooden cart out of Li's house smoothly. Li Er stood at the door and watched him leave.
He waited until the plainclothes officer turned the corner and disappeared from Li Er's sight before he closed the door and went in.
The plainclothes officers here went straight to the village chief's house. Except for the police officers lurking in the surveillance, everyone else was waiting at the village chief's house.
The plainclothes officers entered the village chief's house and reported directly to Liu Haibo who was sitting in the hall.
"Report, Li Yuan from the Third Brigade reports in."
"Li Yuan, tell me about what you just did when you went in to investigate."
Li Yuan saluted and said, "Yes, Chief. I just entered the yard and took a general look at the situation. The building structure is an ordinary quadrangle courtyard, just as the village chief said. There is a cellar entrance not far from the storage room and the kitchen. The entrance is a wooden door structure and is locked. The number of people I have seen so far is three men and three women. The rest are unknown."
"Okay, I understand. Go and rest for a while and wait for orders."
Li Yuan said "yes" and went out.
Liu Haibo asked the recorder to record Li Yuan's investigation and notify the police involved in the operation to update the intelligence information. Then they should make preparations, take turns to eat and rest, and sneak in in the second half of the night.
Soon after everything was ready, it was 2 a.m. and everyone in the village was fast asleep. Liu Haibo arranged for four people to meet outside the yards of Li Da and Li Er's house. Gu Chengfeng took some equipment and tools and sneaked into Li Da's yard from the outer wall.
At the same time, another scout sneaked into Li Er's courtyard.
Gu Chengfeng walked along the corner of the wall, looking around. He first went to the wing room to check and made sure that everyone in the Li family was asleep.
I found the wooden door of the cellar, which was locked with an iron lock and located between the storage room and the kitchen.
Gu Chengfeng first lay down at the door of the cellar, bent down to listen for some movement, and heard no sound. He took out the prepared unlocking tools and successfully opened the wooden door.
When the wooden door of the cellar was opened, a bad smell blew towards me. The smell was a bit unpleasant because the cellar had been closed and not ventilated for a long time.
Gu Chengfeng turned on the flashlight and walked into the cellar from the wooden rack set up at the entrance.
After Gu Chengfeng went down to the cellar, he shone a flashlight around and found that there were about ten children, big and small, in the cellar. Their hands and feet were tied up, and their mouths were stuffed so that they could not make any sound. Some of the children were lying on the ground with their bodies curled up, not knowing whether they were unconscious or asleep. Among them was an older child, about 7 years old. He heard the noise and woke up from his sleep. He looked at Gu Chengfeng in surprise and fear.
Gu Chengfeng quietly walked up to the boy and spoke in a low voice.
"Don't be afraid, kid. Uncle is here to save you. I'll take the thing out of your mouth later. Please be careful not to make any noise, okay?"
The boy nodded obediently.
Gu Chengfeng carefully removed the foreign object from the boy's mouth.
"Child, can you tell me, besides these children, are there any other places with people here?"
The boy answered quietly, "I don't know exactly, but there must be people from other places. Three days ago, I was shopping with my mother in a department store. There were too many people and we got separated. Then an uncle patted me on the shoulder. When I woke up, I was here. Including me, there are 10 people here."
"Are the others unconscious or asleep?"
"The two near the cellar entrance are new arrivals today. They haven't woken up yet. The others are asleep."
"I'll untie your rope first. You keep quiet. I'll take you out first and then rescue the others."
The boy nodded obediently.
Gu Chengfeng was very careful to avoid waking up the other children, otherwise it would be troublesome if the unusual noise alerted the human traffickers.
Gu Chengfeng climbed out of the cellar first, and then picked up the boy who came up. After the two of them came up, Gu Chengfeng carried the boy on his back, climbed up the outer wall smoothly and jumped out.
After meeting up with the contact people outside, Gu Chengfeng handed the little boy over to them and explained the situation directly to Liu Haibo who was waiting outside. Not long after, the scout from another yard came back to report that the situation was similar to that of Gu Chengfeng. There were 12 children in the cellar there, 8 boys and 4 girls.
Gu Chengfeng suggested, "I suggest that we arrange two teams to sneak into the yard, pick up all the children first, and then search the wing to apprehend the traffickers."
Liu Haibo: "Just as you said, when you went in, didn't you find anyone patrolling and keeping watch?"
Gu Chengfeng: "After entering, I made a special investigation. There were no patrol guards. Everyone was asleep in the wing room. I guess they had been doing this for a long time and no accidents had happened, so they lowered their vigilance."
Liu Haibo nodded and said, "Team One, Team Two captains, come over here."
Hearing Liu Haibo's words, the two captains stepped forward and saluted.
"Report to the Director, the captains of the First and Second Battalions have arrived."
"Each team will have four people sneak in and bring the child out. The rest will meet at the outer wall. Team One will follow Gu Chengfeng, and Team Two will follow the scouts. Quick, move!"
"yes"
The 1st and 2nd Battalions, upon receiving the order, immediately began to act.
Gu Chengfeng and four police officers sneaked in smoothly. Two people were left at the cellar door to observe, and Gu Chengfeng took the other two directly into the cellar.
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