Zhao Chuji’s hands and feet went ice-cold, and she clenched her teeth tightly.
She only felt all her blood instantly rush to the top of her head, and her limbs could not help but tremble. Almost immediately, she crawled up from the bed and bought the fastest plane ticket to the city where Yu Yao was located.
At the same time, she found a way to have her secretary contact a batch of temporary bodyguards locally, ordering them to disguise themselves as cyclists and also go to that mountain village at night.
She required her secretary to strictly forbid these people from eating the food in the village; the number one priority was to guarantee Yu Yao’s safety.
After packing her luggage, estimating that Yu Yao had returned to the town and gained a signal, Zhao Chuji, while rushing on her way, called Yu Yao.
“Yu Yao,” the moment she opened her mouth, her voice carried a crying tone, “Can I come to see you?”
“What’s wrong?” Over the phone, Yu Yao’s voice expectedly became anxious.
Zhao Chuji’s face was extremely calm, but her voice was sobbing and choking as she spoke about how she had been stalked by a male student at school: “I am very scared right now, just afraid that at some point someone else will suddenly pop out…”
“How disgusting! Simply garbage!”
Never expecting that Zhao Chuji would encounter this kind of scum, Yu Yao was both worried and furious, and could not help but spit out a curse.
Zhao Chuji’s eyes darkened…
She had to admit that she also possessed a disgusting and sticky desire for possession over Yu Yao, except she was better at disguising herself than that male student.
But she would keep pretending to be good forever, so that Yu Yao would never perceive it.
Yu Yao seemed worried that it was unsafe and did not want her, a young girl, to come over.
“I will contact an older sister or aunt from the organization in a moment to accompany you, okay?”
Zhao Chuji did not speak, only continuing to walk forward in silence.
She betted that Yu Yao would feel distressed for her.
Sure enough, within a few seconds, Yu Yao suffered defeat and gave in.
“Forget it, if you want to come over, then come over!”
“I’ll call to ask for leave from your teacher…”
“I can ask for leave myself.”
Zhao Chuji smoothly stopped Yu Yao: “The signal on your end is not good, I will go find Aunt Liao to help me ask for leave.”
Aunt Liao was an eye that Zhao Chuji had placed inside Yu Yao’s public welfare organization. She possessed strong working ability, and Yu Yao trusted her extremely.
Sure enough, Yu Yao did not mention the matter of calling to ask for leave again.
She incessantly exhorted Zhao Chuji that she must be careful taking the plane alone, must keep her phone battery charged at all times, and must call the moment she landed…
Being treated as a small child by Yu Yao, Zhao Chuji did not have the slightest impatience. She obediently responded to all of Yu Yao’s words; all the anxiety in her heart was thoroughly pacified, and the smile on her face grew deeper.
At a time when Yu Yao did not know, she had already gone out on business trips alone an unknown number of times.
But she still craved this feeling of being cared for by Yu Yao.
She quickly arrived at the airport.
“I land tonight. I want you to drive me around to wander about and clear my mind. You must eat less food today, and you absolutely cannot drink alcohol.”
Zhao Chuji spoke out her purpose.
Yu Yao did not suspect anything else and nodded in agreement: “Then is there anything you want to eat? I am afraid the shops won’t be open late at night, so I can pre-order it for you first…”
Zhao Chuji answered almost immediately: “I want to eat a cake.”
Very few cake shops would still operate late into the night. For Yu Yao to pick up the cake, she would definitely leave the mountain village a bit earlier.
The matter was settled just like that.
Zhao Chuji was about to board the plane. She exhorted Yu Yao a few more times to pay attention to safety, and then hung up the phone.
She had calculated the time; the fastest she could see Yu Yao would also take six hours, and at that time it would already be past nine o’clock at night.
She only hoped that within these six hours, no more accidents would appear.
Chuji is truly becoming more and more like a housekeeper!
And turning the heavenly relations upside down, always treating herself as a small child…
Yu Yao sighed as she hung up the phone.
She took a rest in a small inn in the town. Not wanting to stay too late in the village, around four o’clock in the afternoon, she prepared to drive to the village.
Hearing that Yu Yao and her party prepared to go to that village, the innkeeper looked at Yu Yao, and then looked at the surrounding bodyguards, hesitating to speak.
Just then, the landlady came out from the room. Seeing the situation, her brows furrowed tightly…
“You should still come back earlier, do not spend the night in the village!”
“For the past twenty-odd years, the village has lost several women. The mountains are too big, and the village people are brutal and unreasonable. The police searched for a long time but could not find anyone, and could do nothing about them.”
“Look at that family diagonally opposite; that family’s little girl was tricked into this village the year before last and has still not come out to this day! His wife went mad, asking everyday on the street if anyone has seen her family’s little girl, and running into the village from time to time to look for her little girl…”
Yu Yao’s eye color turned sharp, and she seriously expressed her thanks to the landlady.
On the street ahead, an elderly, thin, and weak figure was lowering her head, walking forward with faltering steps.
“X” furrowed his brows tightly: “Yu Yao, tonight it is fine if we go, you should not go over.”
Yu Yao shook her head, looked at the haggard old woman ahead, and dialed the phone number of the municipal police station.
“I must go.”
She narrated the course of the event in detail, requesting the police to come quickly, and to place the most advanced wiretapping and positioning devices on her body, intending to use herself as bait to draw out the location where the village hid people.
She certainly knew this action was dangerous.
But right now was the best opportunity.
It was not her measuring the hearts of others with a petty mind, but the local area was remote and backward; if it were any other time, the local local police might be tied by blood and marriage to the village and would notify the local people in advance.
Only a thunderous action could find the evidence of crime, and perhaps even find some of the missing women…
She also knew that she was merely a task-taker, and right now she ought to prioritize repairing the world line.
But before her eyes were living lives, and she could not sit idly by and ignore it.
This was merely one of the small worlds she experienced; even if an accident occurred, her soul would not be damaged.
But if she continued to tolerate it, it was highly likely that more girls would fall into prison…
The police deployed very quickly, and before long, two cars arrived.
They placed several positioning and wiretapping equipment inside Yu Yao’s pockets and inside her bag; only then did they pretend to be bodyguards, following behind Yu Yao with solemn faces.
At this time, it was already close to six o’clock, and the village could not wait, calling over to urge them.
Not wanting to let Zhao Chuji know that she was wading into danger with her own body, Yu Yao intended to settle the matter before nine o’clock as much as possible.
Driving for half an hour, the party entered the village.
The bonfire party in the village had already begun.
This time was the season of the early rice harvest.
The village people cared exceptionally about this season, and every year they would hold a bonfire party to celebrate, praying for smooth weather and a bumper harvest of grain afterwards.
The village slaughtered pigs and made fresh pig-slaughtering meals. A piece of land was specifically cleared out in the open space at the center of the village, a raging bonfire was lit, and many tables were set up.
Amidst the firelight, everyone’s faces were enthusiastic and simple. Who could have thought that behind this village lay hidden a man-eating evil?
The village chief was extremely hospitable, saying that he had specially reserved two tables for them, leading Yu Yao and her party to the very back.
Obviously, the village chief did it intentionally; the position of these two tables was placed close to the mountain forest, and just a few meters away was the entrance to the mountain.
Yu Yao feigned ignorance, exchanged a look with the people around her, and sat at the position closest to the mountain.
The group of people seemingly talked about everything under the sun, but in reality, they quietly took out food prepared long ago and exchanged it with the food on the table.
Not long after, the village chief carried a pot of wine and brought several little girls over to propose a toast: “It is all home-brewed, the alcohol content is not high.”
“Girls, quickly come over to thank the kind-hearted people…”
The oldest of these girls looked only seven or eight years old, and the youngest was only three or four years old; every single one was skin and bones.
The oldest child lifted her head to look at Yu Yao, her eyes filled with struggle and pain. She seemed to want to say something, but the village chief slapped her on her back, and the little girl instantly staggered.
Yu Yao pretended not to see the message revealed in the little girl’s eyes and took the wine from the children’s hands.
After the children finished toasting Yu Yao, they went to toast the “bodyguards” next to her, and the atmosphere for a time became increasingly enthusiastic.
And at this time, a group of people cycling entered the village from nowhere, saying they wanted to stay behind to watch the excitement.
The village chief’s expression was very bad, and he forced himself to rise up to deal with them.
Those people insisted on staying, and according to custom, the village chief could not easily refuse either, so he could only clear up two tables to let them sit.
He wanted to repeat his old tricks, but that group of people took out things from their backpacks to eat and drink themselves, completely not touching the food provided by his village.
There were even several people who gathered at Yu Yao’s table and chatted with her.
The bodyguards brought over by Yu Yao seemed unable to handle their alcohol, all sleeping drunkenly on the table, and Yu Yao also looked as if she was about to fall asleep…
The village chief gave a look, and an old woman from the village popped out from nowhere, saying she wanted to support Yu Yao to go rest in the village.
That group of people was unwilling, coming over wanting to support Yu Yao. After a bout of pushing and shoving, they started fighting with the people of the village.