But thinking about this, Li Ruo felt somewhat helpless.
Her phone had been thrown away by Darius's men when she was caught.
If she wanted to contact Wen Huaiyan, she had to find another way.
She frowned and glanced outside a few times. Leon was nowhere to be seen, and Darius's men had also left because they couldn't find him.
There shouldn't be any danger now...
Thinking of this, Li Ruo carefully wrapped herself in the tattered cloak, covering half of her face, and limped over to the tent next door, enduring the pain.
"Hello, may I use your phone? I'd like to make a call."
The tent next door belonged to a middle-aged woman dressed in rags, who appeared to make a living by scavenging.
She glanced at Li Ruo and immediately smiled: "Miss, you're not from around here, are you?"
Hearing this, Li Ruo's heart skipped a beat.
She hadn't expected the people here to be so perceptive. Coming to her senses, she hurriedly said pitifully, "I... I was swindled out of all my money by a man in the red-light district. I chased him all the way here, but I'm lost now. I want to call my boss, otherwise I'll get beaten up if I go back too late. Please do me a favor."
"The red-light district?"
The woman looked Li Ruo up and down, initially somewhat suspicious, but upon seeing the red rash on her calves, she instinctively took a step back.
"Hey, hey, hey, do you have a contagious disease? Get out of here right now, I don't have any cell phones here."
Seeing that she believed her story, Li Ruo breathed a sigh of relief and pleaded, "Please be lenient with me, I only need to say a few words."
Seeing that she was still standing at the door, the woman was really helpless. She took a deep breath and explained, "Miss, it's not that I don't want you to use the phone, it's just that I really don't have one. Look at us here, everyone is so poor that they can't even afford to eat. Where would we have the money to buy something like that?"
Seeing her sneer, Li Ruo was stunned for a moment before she realized what was happening.
That's right, this is a slum...
She sighed helplessly, then asked nervously, "Where do I need to go if I want to make a phone call?"
Upon hearing this, the woman seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, and immediately curled the corners of her mouth and said, "Don't even think about it. If you can find a place to make a phone call, it means you've already left the slums. Aren't you lost? By then you'll have already walked out of the slums, so why would you need to make a phone call?"
As she spoke, she looked Li Ruo up and down, her face full of disdain.
Li Ruo, who was inexplicably looked down upon, was also at a loss for words, but she couldn't explain herself for fear of arousing suspicion: "Yes...yes!"
She nodded awkwardly, then left the tent, looking dejected.
It seems that contacting Wen Huaiyan by phone is not an option; we'll have to find another way.
Li Ruo pondered this in her heart, but did not return to the tent in Lyon.
She knew that since Darius's men had come looking for her, they wouldn't give up easily if they didn't get what they wanted.
Lyon's method was ingenious, but it could only be concealed for a time, not forever.
She didn't want to stay any longer and drag the other person down, so she decided to risk going out and seeing what was going on.
However, just as she was halfway there, she ran into Leon, who was carrying food back home.
Upon seeing her, the boy's eyes were filled with shock: "You... how did you get out here!"
As he spoke, he looked around warily, then grabbed Li Ruo's wrist and whispered, "Sister, you're still sick. Why did you run out? Come back with me."
Subconsciously following behind him for a few steps, Li Ru frowned and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
Leon didn't speak, but instead gave her a look.
Seeing this, Li Ruo seemed to understand something and immediately shut her mouth.
Halfway there, once Leon was sure it was safe, he leaned closer and whispered, "I went out begging and found that the entire slum has been taken over by Darius's men. Everyone who goes in or out is being checked. If you go out now, you'll just be walking into a trap."
"What?"
Upon hearing this, Li Ruo's expression changed, and her heart sank to the bottom: "Then does that mean we can't get out?"
She murmured to herself, her expression growing increasingly grim.
Meanwhile, Wen Huaiyan was also extremely anxious after learning of Li Ruo's disappearance.
That very evening, he contacted his assistant directly and mobilized all of the Wen family's resources in H country to search for him.
The assistant naturally dared not refuse.
Although he didn't know Li Ruo's identity, he still sent all his bodyguards to search the surveillance footage along the way.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, the sky brightened.
Early in the morning, Sally brought gifts to visit Li Ruo in the ward, only to find it empty.
She was startled and quickly stopped a passing nurse: "Excuse me, where did the two people in this ward go?"
The nurse glanced inside and explained, "Didn't you know? A woman went missing last night, and the man in this room is looking for her everywhere."
"Missing?"
Upon hearing those two words, Sally's heart skipped a beat, and she asked again incredulously, "Are you sure the woman you're talking about who's gone missing is Miss Li?"
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