Chapter 474: Report It to the Police
Chapter 474: Report the Case
Cheng Jiuhe went to the school again to ask around and learned that Nan Mengyu hadn’t been to school at all recently, let alone today, which was a Sunday.
Unable to find Nan Mengyu and not knowing where she went to rescue the kidnapped women, he was certain she had sought him out for help, and he wondered if she might be in danger.
His heart was filled with intense anxiety, and he cursed the person who had answered the phone and claimed he wasn’t there to the bone.
"If I find out who answered that call, I will never let him off," he vowed.
After going around in circles without finding Nan Mengyu and seeing that it was getting dark, he thought that Gu Dongxing should have returned and so he drove off to find him: Might as well get Gu Dongxing on board!
Meanwhile, Nan Mengyu landed outside the county city and, using her Qinggong, moved swiftly to find Zhang Shuiyu, who had just hung up the phone.
She asked urgently, "What happened? Did you tell Wang Huilan not to go?"
Zhang Shuiyu, with a look of anxiety: "The duty officer from the brigade said that they were taken away by a car brought by Jiang Haidong this afternoon."
Nan Mengyu became even more anxious in her heart – They actually took the people away in a car this afternoon?
If she were to search alone, it would certainly not be easy, mainly because there are so many cities along the coast; she had no idea which direction they might have gone.
Moreover, her Divine Sense could only cover a distance of three miles; beyond that, she couldn’t see.
After a moment of thought, she said to Shuiyu, "Let’s go, we need to report this to the police!"
To report the case, naturally, they would have to go to the Public Security Bureau, but instead, Nan Mengyu led Shuiyu straight toward the County Committee Office.
Shuiyu, puzzled: "The Public Security Bureau is in that direction."
Nan Mengyu, without turning her head, replied: "To the County Committee!"
It wasn’t that she didn’t trust the Gong An Bureau, but she suddenly remembered that in that Gong An Bureau there was a peculiar director named Lai Zidong, who held a very odd belief.
He considered that human traffickers were also making contributions to humanity, claiming that human reproduction includes both the reproduction of human beings themselves and the reproduction of material resources.
However, in the mountains, women all want to marry out, so without women, the men in the mountains cannot reproduce themselves.
Fortunately, due to human traffickers selling women into the mountains, those men who couldn’t find wives could now fulfill their task of human reproduction.
So, he argued, human traffickers were serving human reproduction – from that perspective, they had merit.
Later, a man whose daughter was kidnapped, furious with his statement, secretly abducted Lai Zidong’s younger son and sold him to a distant place.
Many people said that the kidnapper must have had the audacity of a heart of a bear and a leopard to dare kidnap the child of someone from the Gong An Bureau.
But even more believed this was a retaliatory kidnapping. Who made him utter such outlandish views and show little enthusiasm in cracking down on kidnappers?
Perhaps, when his daughter grew up, she would not be spared either.
Hearing others’ discussions, he himself started to worry. When his daughter turned sixteen, he watched over her constantly, fearing she would be abducted too.
As for the praise he had previously given to human traffickers for their contribution to human reproduction, he dared not speak of it anymore.
But despite his vigilance, his daughter was still kidnapped.
Nan Mengyu from the previous life heard this story and scorned the man: Without the revolution reaching his own head, he didn’t know the pain.
Of course, this is a later story. At this time, his children were still by his side.
Now tell me, with such a director who was not keen on anti-trafficking work in the Public Security Bureau, could she afford to waste precious time at the Gong An Bureau?
However, Mengyu had wronged Director Lai. In fact, Director Lai had never said such things; he was wrongly accused, primarily because he was targeted for his vigorous crackdown on human traffickers, resulting in people deliberately misleading public opinion against him. (For the real story, please see Chapter 523, The Injustice of the Past Life)