Chapter 20 Triggering a Hidden Mission
Town police station.
Xi Jianzhong walked out of the director's office with a dusty face, walked to his seat, flipped through the files in his hands, and had two huge dark circles under his eyes.
The apprentice Xiao Tang walked in from outside and handed over a new confession: "Master, another family just came to report a case. Another child was lost."
When Xi Jianzhong heard that another child was lost, he felt a splitting headache and the director's roar just now seemed to appear in his ears again.
Having been a police officer for more than 20 years, he has never encountered such a rampant gang of human traffickers. It is obvious that they are repeat offenders, and there are quite a lot of them.
The town was in a panic these days, and parents were afraid to let their children go to school, and he was scolded a lot.
"We sent people to patrol the whole town, how come another one is missing? More than 20 children have been lost in the past half month. What will the people think of us?"
Xiao Tang smiled bitterly and pointed at the dark circles under his eyes: "Master, we don't have enough manpower. The brothers have already been on duty all day, and I haven't slept for three days."
The town police station has only about ten people including the director, and there are many side roads and forks around Anqi Town. Even though they patrol and set up checkpoints day and night, they have not yet found the lair of the human traffickers.
Xi Jianzhong couldn't sit still any longer, so he took his hat and walked out, "Let's go to the place where the child was lost this time."
Before I walked out of the office, I heard a scream coming from the door.
"Found it, found it, the lost child is found!"
Xi Jianzhong was stunned and ran out without caring about the hat that fell from his hand.
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On the other side, Shen Yuanjia followed the ox cart carefully with an electric baton in his hand. He did not dare to follow too closely for fear of being discovered. Fortunately, the ox cart was not moving fast, and he did not lose it by following the ruts.
As he walked forward, he scattered the corn kernels in his arms on the road. This was also an agreement between Shen Anan and him. In this way, when Shen Anan called the police, they could follow the traces and catch up.
After the ox cart drove out of Anqi Town, it drove for more than an hour and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated temple at the foot of a mountain.
As soon as the ox cart arrived at the temple gate, two people came forward and moved all the sacks on the cart into the house. The middle-aged man who had been driving the car also followed into the dilapidated temple.
At the entrance of the dilapidated temple, there was a thin man guarding the door, looking around vigilantly.
Shen Yuanjia slowly walked around the mountain to the back of the dilapidated temple. The temple was not big. Apart from the main hall, there was only a connected meditation room. When Shen Yuanjia approached, he could hear voices coming from inside.
"Brother, I can't stay in Anqi Town anymore. When I went to the town to pick up the goods today, I saw several patrolling policemen. Fortunately, I took a detour and got out smoothly."
"It's okay. We've already found a buyer for this batch of goods. We'll leave tonight and it will be safe once we leave here."
"No! Brother, there is one item missing!"
"Tiezhu! What's going on? Why is there one item missing?"
"Oh no, maybe I accidentally fell off the car on the way. I'm sorry, brother, I really didn't mean to do that."
"You idiot! You are more likely to cause trouble than to help. Why don't you just throw yourself away!"
Shen Yuanjia approached the window of the dilapidated temple and looked inside secretly. He saw about five people in the dilapidated temple. There were sacks that had just been unloaded from the ox cart on the ground, and some of them were opened.
Shen Yuanjia's breathing became heavy for a moment. There were indeed unconscious children in the sack, both boys and girls, and the oldest was probably only five or six years old!
The man who had just been driving the ox cart was curled up on the ground and was being kicked hard by the leader of the group. He was screaming in pain and there was blood at the corners of his mouth.
"Ah... Big Brother, please forgive me. I... really didn't mean it. I won't dare to do it again."
"Stop howling, you're going to kill me sooner or later! Hurry up and get to work, I'll deal with you later!
"Hurry up and load the goods onto the oxcart. We will be met by a truck when we reach Shipankou. We have to leave immediately. If we are any later, we will not be able to leave."
"Give these kids some more medicine, and make sure they don't wake up halfway."
Shen Yuanjia was secretly anxious when he saw that the people in the dilapidated temple had already started to move, as the police station had not arrived yet.
It only takes an hour to drive from here to Shipankou by ox cart. If he lets them get on the truck with the children, he won't be able to follow them and it will be difficult to rescue the children.
After thinking about it, Shen Yuanjia took out a tinderbox from his body, sneaked to the side of the parked ox cart, loosened the reins of the ox cart, and then used the tinderbox to light the ox's tail.
The cow felt the heat and was frightened for a moment. It ran around the yard wildly, broke through the fence next to it and ran away.
"Boss, come out quickly, there's someone here!"
"Who are you! Damn, are you trying to kill yourself?"
As soon as the cow ran away, the man who was watching at the temple gate immediately noticed it, and rushed over shouting, with an axe in his hand, and was in front of him in a few steps.
Shen Yuanjia threw the dirt in his hand forward, leaned sideways to avoid the knife, and knocked down the man in front of him with an electric baton.
Turning around, he saw that the people who had come out of the dilapidated temple had heard the noise and were coming over to surround him. Shen Yuanjia tightened his grip on the stun baton.
“Tiezhu, are you a dead man? You didn’t even know someone was chasing you home!” the kidnapper leader cursed viciously.
"Brother, blame yourself for meddling in other people's business! Come on, chop him up and throw him on the mountain to feed the wolves!"
"Hurry up, if you let him get away, you will all be shot like me!"
One against four! This group of people are all holding knives!
Shen Yuanjia couldn't help but break out in a sweat, but there was no way to avoid it, so he was about to fight hard.
But then I heard a gunshot in the distance, followed by a chaotic sound of footsteps approaching from behind.
"Don't move! Put down your knives and put your hands up! Or I'll shoot!"
When Shen Yuanjia saw the police rushing towards him with guns, he breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking of his sister's instructions, he quickly hid the stun gun around his waist.
"Sixth brother, are you okay?" Shen Anan ran up to him breathlessly.
The police just asked her to wait at the police station, but she was worried, so she followed them anyway, and her bicycle almost started smoking along the way.
"Brother is fine, don't worry, you guessed right, the sack is indeed full of children."
Shen Anan was supporting Shen Yuanjia to catch his breath, but suddenly a prompt sound came from his mind.
"Ding, the host has triggered a hidden mission. Rescue 22 abducted children. Reward: 50 sign-ins and 220 system experience points."
"Ding, experience has been detected to be full, 007 sign-in system starts upgrading."
"The sign-in function is temporarily suspended during the upgrade process. Please wait patiently."
Shen Anan was confused by the series of prompt sounds in her mind. How could the system have hidden tasks, and hidden tasks even give experience points?
She had observed this before when she discovered the upgrade experience bar on the system interface. Each time she signed in, she would gain more or less experience based on the value of the items obtained.
But you can only see the progress bar changes, not the specific values.
The experience bar had always been a little short before, but I didn’t expect that the unexpected reward this time would directly fill up the system experience bar and start upgrading.
The system upgrade countdown is displayed in the upper left corner of the system interface, and there are still 8 hours left until the upgrade is completed.
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