Chapter Seventy-Five: The Search
[Host, you're such a pervert! You're actually collecting other people's hair?]
Gu Zuozuo's forehead creased with annoyance, and her hand holding the box of hair trembled. She was almost driven mad by the system.
"I accidentally broke off a few strands while combing their hair, and then I put them into my spatial storage!"
That's pretty weird! Shouldn't a normal person's first reaction be to throw it away?
Gu Zuozuo took a deep breath. She couldn't get angry; if she did, no one would take her place. The system was stupid; she wouldn't stoop to its level. Why did such a perfectly good system have a mouth?
He took out the missing person talisman, wrapped the hair in his hand inside, and lit it on fire.
Ashes fell, a flash of light appeared, and an arrow, invisible to outsiders, pointed towards the outskirts of the county town.
Gu Zuozuo narrowed her eyes, her figure quickly disappeared from the spot, and followed the arrow at lightning speed.
...This is the dividing line of the mentally challenged system.
When Qi Meng woke up, she was still a little dazed and didn't know where she was. She moved her fingers and realized that she was tied up tightly.
Her eyes darted around, and she tried to shake her head to clear her head. She was so dizzy, even more so than if she hadn't eaten for two days.
As her vision gradually cleared, she saw Ma Liang, who was also tightly bound beside her, and her blank stare suddenly turned into fear.
She remembered!
Today, she, Meng Tian, and Ma Liang came to the county town to pick up Zuo Zuo and also to collect the package sent from home.
Because the package was too heavy and inconvenient to carry around, the three of them decided that Meng Tian would stay where she was and watch the package while she accompanied Ma Liang to collect the subsidy. However, on their way back from collecting the subsidy, they encountered an old woman who was lost and couldn't find her way home.
Seeing how pitiful she was crying, she softened and forgot about the abduction cases Zuo Zuo had told her about. In a moment of impulsiveness, she offered to help find them. As a result, she and Ma Liang were led to the abductor's hideout and drugged.
Thinking back to this, Qi Meng almost bit off a mouthful of white teeth in grief and indignation. Where was her brain? Where was her judgment? How many times had Zuo Zuo pulled her ear and lectured her about the methods of kidnapping people? Had she forgotten it all? If Zuo Zuo found out, wouldn't she be punished by writing a self-criticism? And it wouldn't be less than 50,000 words!
She struggled to sit up, and only then did she realize that not only she and Ma Liang were tied up, but there were also seven or eight children, mostly boys, around four or five years old, and about four or five girls around her age in the room.
At this moment, they were all bound with expressions of numbness or terror. Some didn't even dare to cry loudly, only whimpering softly, and didn't even dare to lift their heads.
No one spoke; everyone was equally panicked, their hearts pounding and their hands trembling. No one knew what awaited them next, and all sorts of tragic endings flashed through their minds, making them even more afraid to move.
Qi Meng secretly hoped that her two sisters would discover she was missing soon, otherwise she might really be sold to the mountains to be a wife to a bunch of bachelors, just like Zuo Zuo said. The thought alone made her shudder.
Gu Zuozuo moved with light and swift steps, flashing across the rooftop without attracting the attention of pedestrians below.
The arrow points to an inconspicuous residential area in the suburbs, where all sorts of people live. For human traffickers to choose this place as their hideout is either because they are too confident or too resourceful, and they are not afraid of being reported by their neighbors for hiding someone in their home.
She landed lightly on the roof and, noticing the arrow stop moving there, knew she had found the place.
Instead of immediately going down to look for the person, Gu Zuozuo lifted two roof tiles, looked down at the bound person, and smiled slightly. "Found them."
Seeing Qi Meng, who was tightly bound, making little movements and rolling her eyes around, Gu Zuozuo knew what she was up to.
In her previous life, she had heard that the two most arrogant types of people in this era were the Little Red Guards and human traffickers, both of whom were both hated and feared by everyone.
For the safety of the two local girls, and wanting to prevent any potential dangers, he would spend his free time educating them about the various methods used by human traffickers as portrayed in later generations, and also teaching them what to do if they were abducted and how to escape.
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