"These... these people with disabilities were all bought by Yang Bin from human traffickers." Lian Hao stammered.
"Hold on." Zhao Ya immediately interrupted Lian Hao, then asked coldly.
"How could human traffickers have so many people with disabilities? Don’t tell me there’s someone specifically trafficking such disabled people, because as far as I know, no one would buy them at all."
In this world, there’s a profession dedicated to trafficking humans, with men called human traffickers and women called Ya Po.
But regardless of what kind of human trafficker, they are all in it for money, so they usually sell children around seven or eight years old.
Children at this age are easier to control, and after some care upon being bought, they can start working, which is very cost-effective.
The second type they target are girls around fifteen or sixteen, who are usually bought to become concubines.
But no matter what the age, they are all normal people.
Zhao Ya had never heard of anyone specifically trafficking people with disabilities.
After all, no one wants to bring home a burden.
Sweat appeared on Lian Hao’s forehead from being questioned.
"I... I don’t know, every time Yang Bin could buy many disabled people, but I don’t know exactly where he bought them from."
"Really don’t know?" Zhao Ya looked at Lian Hao coldly.
"I really don’t know." Lian Hao replied with a look of despair.
But Zhao Ya could tell in an instant that Lian Hao was lying, at the very least, hiding something.
Even when faced with the threat of force, he still chose to risk hiding the truth, which suggested that the truth was shocking.
For someone as sly as him, simple beating and scolding no longer work.
Just as Zhao Ya was about to resort to some tactics with Lian Hao, the Mute Girl, who had been hiding in the corner, suddenly ran over and knelt in front of Zhao Ya, kowtowing heavily.
The force was so great that her forehead quickly began to bleed.
This unexpected action stunned Zhao Ya, but he understood that the Mute Girl must have something to tell him.
Lian Hao’s expression changed, and even in front of Zhao Ya, he couldn’t help but loudly scold.
"What are you doing? Go back quickly."
But the Mute Girl was unmoved and became more agitated instead.
Lian Hao forced a smile, "Sir, this woman is not right in the mind, you... "
"Shut up, did I let you speak?"
As he spoke, Zhao Ya slashed again, this time cutting off Lian Hao’s left foot.
Lian Hao let out a cry of pain, but the scream stopped abruptly.
It turned out that Zhao Ya had kicked him to the ground.
This kick scattered Lian Hao’s Qi Blood and veins throughout his body, rendering him unable to move and even making him incapable of speaking.
Then Zhao Ya went to the Mute Girl and forcibly stopped her from continuing to kowtow.
"What’s going on? What do you want to say?" Zhao Ya gestured and spoke.
The Mute Girl seemed to understand, tears instantly streaming down, and then she dipped her finger in blood and wrote four large characters on the ground.
"Save us!"
Zhao Ya’s expression gradually became solemn, and he nodded resolutely, "Alright, since you can write, write everything down, and I will help you."
As he spoke, Zhao Ya looked around and saw a table by the window with paper, ink, and brush on it, so he went over, took them, and handed them to the Mute Girl.
Although mute and deaf, the Mute Girl seemed capable of reading lips, so she understood Zhao Ya’s words just now.
She took the paper and pen and began to write quickly.
She wrote while using the back of her hand to wipe her tears, her expression exceedingly sorrowful.
Zhao Ya stood silently behind her, watching, his expression growing more grim.
When the Mute Girl filled an entire sheet with writing, Zhao Ya could hardly suppress the anger within him.
Although he had always understood the treachery of human nature, and knew that human nature should not be tested because it is sometimes more vile than you imagine,
yet when the truth was laid bare before him, Zhao Ya was still exceedingly furious.
The Mute Girl wrote in great detail, recounting her own and the experiences of those around her that she knew.
It turns out Yang Bin didn’t, as Lian Hao claimed, buy these disabled people from human traffickers.
As Zhao Ya had suspected, no human trafficker would bother with such a thankless business.
So the children Yang Bin bought from human traffickers were all healthy children.
After buying them, Yang Bin would keep them for some time, then personally instruct Lian Hao and others to torture these children into becoming disabled.
The Mute Girl was originally a normal child and had even attended school for several years due to her family’s affluent status before she was abducted.
But after falling into Yang Bin’s hands, she was first forcibly deafened by stabbing both ears, then given a concoction that rendered her mute, and from then on became a disabled person who was both deaf and mute.
Apart from this, countless children had their limbs broken.
Some of them eventually died from being unable to bear the torture of the injuries.
Among the survivors, some were killed by Yang Bin and his subordinates for resisting.
In the end, only the Mute Girl and those Zhao Ya saw during the day were left.
Although some of them were not made mute or deaf, due to years of torture and oppression, they had become completely numb, so even when outsiders approached, they dared not utter a word.
And so, this shocking secret had remained covered until now.
Until the day Zhao Ya arrived.
Initially, the Mute Girl had had no hope, because the experiences of these years told her that these men were basically all birds of a feather.
Until Zhao Ya gave her the upper garment to put on, the Mute Girl felt a hint of anomaly.