Chapter 310

310 Reinforcements

Just as Tian Lin was about to walk to the small path up the mountain, she met a middle-aged man. She immediately placed her hands behind her back.

When the man saw Tian Lin, he increased his pace and walked towards her. As he walked, he scolded with a frown, “Where are you going?”

Seeing the man approach, Tian Lin acted shocked out of her wits. She hunched her shoulders and lowered her head slightly. “I want to go to the bathroom.”

The man sneered. “What a lunatic. Your home has a bathroom, but you actually came out to use the bathroom.”

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Tian Lin pretended to be like a child as she retorted, “I’m not crazy!”

The man laughed loudly and reached out to grab Tian Lin back to the Jiang family. Tian Lin took advantage of the man’s approach to take out a stone from behind her and hit the man. The man hurriedly turned around, but he was still scratched by the sharp edge of the stone.

The man came back to his senses and went forward to grab Tian Lin as he said fiercely, “You were actually pretending to be crazy!”

As he spoke, he tried to drag Tian Lin back to the village. Tian Lin pulled the man’s hand in the opposite direction, but she was still dragged back.

She was so close! Why was it like this every time?! Tian Lin was overcome with despair.

At this moment, a touch of green flashed in her peripheral vision. After the man’s forearm was held tightly by a pair of strong hands, he felt a sharp pain and immediately let go of Tian Lin’s hand. “Ah! My hand!”

When Tian Lin saw that the man who had saved her was wearing a military uniform, she was overjoyed. “I was kidnapped and brought here. I have important news to tell Zhao Xing.”

This person was the member of Zhao Xing’s team who was in charge of observing the terrain outside the village. When he heard this, he decisively knocked the man out and brought Tian Lin and Zhao Xing to meet up. Only then did Yu Bing and the others receive help in time.

“Put down your weapons! Everyone, raise your hands and squat on the ground!” Zhao Xing shouted in a low yet sonorous voice.

When the villagers saw more than twenty black guns, some of them were already scared out of their wits.

Chen Jiang watched this scene with terror. He knew that it was hopeless in this situation, so he stopped struggling. He threw down his weapon, hugged his head, and squatted down. The other villagers didn’t have the courage to resist either and did as they were told.

Before Zhao Xing entered the village, he divided the people into three teams. The first team started at the front of the village, while the second team started at the back of the village. The remaining people split into two and surrounded them from the left and right to ensure that no one escaped.

When the police suddenly appeared in the village, the villagers were stunned. The military police were all holding guns, while the villagers only had farm equipment. Faced with the suppression of martial strength, everyone hugged their heads and obediently squatted on the ground in a row.

After the police handcuffed the villagers and left 20 people to guard them, the rest followed them into the village to rescue the other victims.

In less than half an hour, all the people in the village gathered on the empty field in the middle of the village.

In the end, they discovered that there were 12 children and 56 women who were victims, 23 of whom had been here for 15 years, some of whom even had grandchildren already.

Therefore, at least half of the people chose to continue staying in the village because of the children. Some of the children of the victims were already 18 years old and didn’t remember where they used to live at all. They, who were used to living in Tunli Village, were afraid of going to an unknown environment and chose to continue staying here.

The people who suggested leaving were strongly refuted by the buyers. Their reasons were similar to Dashan’s. They all used money as an excuse. Just like goods, whoever paid for them should own them.

In their eyes, weak people like women and children were goods, instead of free and independent people with unique personalities.

Such mentalities couldn’t be changed with just a few words. Sometimes, the firm enforcement of the law by the authorities was more useful than reasoning. The threat of being imprisoned for a few years was far more effective than persuasion.

This matter alarmed the entire country. Because there were many people involved, the range was too wide. In the end, public inspection authorities at the city and county levels were sent to four villages. They spent a week sorting out the cases and arrested all the people who had been involved in human trafficking to the county city to carry out the sentencing.

The human trafficking organization, which had existed for more than ten years, was finally caught. As the main culprit, Wang Long was sentenced to death for many crimes. The other people were sentenced to three to life imprisonment according to the severity and number of crimes committed.

After Yu Bing and Xiao Sheng returned to the guest house in City F, they called the Wu family to report their safety and called Zeng Li to thank him. Due to time constraints, they could only find another opportunity to visit these two families to thank them.