Even After My Death - Chapter 732 - 630 The Disappearance of Huo Minghui
Chapter 732: Chapter 630 The Disappearance of Huo Minghui
Jiang Ning wasn’t surprised when Zhang Lang’s boss asked for her contact information.
In fact, when she handed over the items, Jiang Ning had already anticipated it.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have redeemed the lie detector’s production diagram and manual from the system in advance.
However, what Jiang Ning didn’t expect was that the first call she received wasn’t from Capital City Public Security, but from M City police…
“Miss Jiang, the clues you previously provided, after joint investigation and deployment by our police and colleagues from other distant police departments, have resulted in the arrest of seven human traffickers and the discovery of more than twenty children who were previously abducted…”
Jiang Ning was surprised when she heard this: “So quickly?”
It’s only been about ten days since she filed the report.
She thought that for something that happened over twenty years ago, the police would surely need at least a month to conduct visits and investigations.
She had also reviewed the materials the system wrote overnight, which involved several provinces. Of course, the main issue was that too much time had passed, making it not so easy to investigate now.
On the other side of the phone, Gong Li chuckled: “Now that information technology is advanced, collaborating with other police departments can save a lot of time.
Of course, the most useful are the details you provided. Whether it’s the place names you recorded, or the hand-drawn pictures, or terrain maps, they are very close to the actual appearances! That’s why we were able to find them so quickly.”
Talking about this, not only Gong Li but even other colleagues involved in the investigation were amazed when they saw that small notebook.
After knowing these were Jiang Ning’s memories from before she was abducted at five years old, they were even more shocked.
Truly, she’s the partner everyone in the public security department wants!
Jiang Ning’s memory, her abilities, it’s really a pity she’s not in public security!
But now isn’t the time to lament these things; Gong Li continued: “We’ve also identified the human trafficker who abducted you. You were her third abducted child, and after you, she went on to abduct more than ten others. So far, we’ve contacted seven of them.
Besides her, her son is also a trafficker, and the first person he trafficked was his own mother.”
What???
What did she just hear?
Jiang Ning’s tone was a bit uncertain: “Are you saying?”
“That’s right.” Gong Li seemed to know Jiang Ning’s suspicion, giving her a firm confirmation: “At forty-three years old, she was sold by her twenty-one-year-old son for three thousand yuan to an old man in the mountains.
When our colleagues found that mountain village, we learned from the villagers that she was tied up in a pigsty for seven years and was eaten by pigs who were terribly hungry.”
Jiang Ning was eating when she heard Gong Li’s words, and she almost felt sick.
Gong Li was completely unaware of the impact his words had on Jiang Ning, or perhaps, having been in law enforcement for many years, he’s heard all kinds of explosive stories, and such tales of pigs eating people aren’t really a big deal.
He related the human trafficker’s fate to Jiang Ning to tell her that this person had already received due punishment and reaped what she sowed.
If she hadn’t chosen the path of trafficking, her son wouldn’t have been exposed to such affairs.
If she hadn’t spent years elsewhere abducting other people’s children, her son wouldn’t have become a left-behind child deprived of maternal love and proper guidance, whose first act of revenge was against his own mother and father.
…He even sold his own father, sold him off to a black-hearted coal mine as labor.
Jiang Ning: …
This person really is ruthless.
But that’s not all, Gong Li coughed lightly: “There’s one more thing, I’m not sure if you’ll want to hear it.”
Jiang Ning was numb: “What?”
Gong Li: “It’s regarding the Huo family members.”
The affairs between Jiang Ning and Huo Miao, the Huo family members, were known even to the police officers who dutifully stood guard every day.
Gong Li said: “We found Huo Minghui in a very remote and backward little village.”
“Huo Minghui?”
Isn’t that her third biological brother?
It had been a long time since Jiang Ning heard that name.
It seemed that ever since she left the hospital and cut ties with the Huo Family, Huo Minghui had vanished from the world, never to appear again.
To suddenly hear it from Gong Li was like hearing from another world: “What’s he doing there?”
No wonder even with all the events happening with the Huo Family these past few months, Huo Minghui hadn’t shown up; he was in the village.
No, a village??
Why would Huo Minghui, in good health, go to a village?
Jiang Ning was deep in thought, and after a while without a response from Gong Li, she seemed to have deduced it herself.
An incredible notion arose in Jiang Ning’s mind.
Impossible?!
…
When Huo Li received a call claiming to be from the police, he also thought they were scammers.
He coldly retorted: “My third brother is a graduate student; how could he be duped.”
“Mr. Huo, I reiterate to you, I’m an officer from M City’s General Police Bureau, not a scammer. We understand your feelings, your brother was discovered by us today in a village where we were on an anti-trafficking operation. The phone number you have is one he provided us. Don’t hang up; I’m going to find your brother now so that he can talk to you…”
Listening to the words on the other end of the phone, Huo Li felt, for some reason, that what they were saying might be true.
Several months ago, when Jiang Ning came out of that first variety show, he already had the idea of persuading her to come home, and he had tried reaching out to Huo Minghui.
After all, Huo Minghui was the most gentle among the brothers and might have a way to bring Jiang Ning home.
But despite trying many times, he couldn’t get in touch.
Huo Miao and Huo Kaian told him that Huo Minghui was out working on a project.
Huo Minghui was a graduate student and often traveled with his mentor, and sometimes he’d isolate himself.
This wasn’t the first time they couldn’t reach him, so Huo Li didn’t pay much mind.
Later, with so many things happening, he simply didn’t think of that third brother.
In the few minutes he waited, Huo Li felt it stretched on like a century.
Until the phone emitted a familiar, weak: “Brother, it’s me…”
Huo Li’s hand holding the phone trembled fiercely.
That night, Huo Li flew to M City Police Bureau and saw his third brother.
In just a few months, Huo Minghui was so thin it was like he had shed a layer of skin!
The once gentle, elegant, confident man now looked ten years older, became haggard, and acted timidly.
What Huo Li couldn’t accept the most was that one of Huo Minghui’s legs was actually broken!
The police said they had the doctor check it, and because the injury wasn’t treated in time, Huo Minghui would be crippled forever.
After meeting Huo Li, though humiliated, Huo Minghui still hesitantly recounted his ordeal during that time.
His topic was too difficult and had no lead, so he went out to get inspiration. But he was deceived and trafficked to a remote place.
The people who bought him were a ferocious father and daughter.
Their reason for buying him was to breed sons.
Because the daughter was ugly, no one in the village wanted to marry her, so they thought of buying a son-in-law from outside.
Huo Minghui’s leg was broken by the father, for disobeying at night after being sold there.
“Brother… I thought I would never see you all again.” Huo Minghui clutched Huo Li’s clothes tightly.
You can imagine how devastated he was when such a thing happened to him.
Several times, Huo Minghui wanted to die, only to be discovered by the pair and beaten severely.
He had almost resigned to fate, never expecting to regain freedom and light.
Maybe seeing Huo Li, the once lifeless Huo Minghui suddenly had the will to live; he looked toward the police officer beside him and asked: “I want to know how you found that village?”
The village was so remote, with no roads or electricity even now!
Huo Minghui wasn’t the first person trafficked there, but because of the police’s appearance, the village got raided entirely; such things won’t happen there anymore.
Gong Li gave them a complicated look: “It was the leads Jiang Ning provided us ten days ago; she was trafficked to that village as a child. This time, we went there based on her information to capture traffickers and rescue those like you who were trafficked…”
Source: Webnovel.com, updated by novlove.com
