Miaomiao followed the uncle out of the amusement park and got into a van.
Lin Chengzhi, who had happily bought ice - cream and was ready to share it with his younger sister, was scared out of his wits when he saw the empty bench.
At this moment, he didn't care about the ice - cream at all. Lin Chengzhi quickly threw away the things in his hand and ran to find his two elder brothers.
Lin Chengshan and Lin Chenghui had just bought the food. When they heard the news that Miaomiao was missing, their faces both changed.
"Something's wrong. Uncle Four assigned bodyguards to me. Where are they?" Lin Chenghui asked quite calmly.
"Uncle Four was afraid that too many people would bother Miaomiao, so he assigned three bodyguards. Two of them followed you when you left. Later, I couldn't get through the crowd when I went to buy ice - cream, so I asked the last one to queue for me..."
Lin Chengzhi felt more and more self - blame as he spoke. By the end, his voice gradually weakened and he even choked a little.
He was just a ten - year - old boy. He never thought that in the blink of an eye, his lovely younger sister would disappear, and it was all because of his own gluttony.
"Don't panic. Xiaoshan, call Uncle Four. I'll take Xiaozhi to the broadcasting room to make an announcement. Maybe Miaomiao just saw something interesting and got separated. There won't be any accident." Lin Chenghui forced himself to calm down. He was the only one who could make decisions now. No matter who panicked, he couldn't.
"Okay!"
"Okay."
Lin Chengshan nodded, picked up his phone and called Lin Yao. Lin Chenghui didn't dare to waste any time. He grabbed Lin Chengzhi and ran towards the amusement park's broadcasting room.
At this moment, Lin Yao was sitting in the conference hall discussing the acquisition of a company under the Tao family.
The Tao family was the family of the little boy who had bullied Miaomiao.
When Lin Yao received the call from his nephew, his face changed. The children in their family were not the type to bother adults for no reason. If they were willing to call him, they must have encountered some problem they couldn't solve.
"Hello? What's wrong?"
"Uncle Four, something's wrong! Miaomiao is missing. Just now when we went to buy food for Miaomiao, she was gone when we turned around!"
"What? Don't be in a hurry. I'll go there right now. Ask your eldest brother to check the surveillance in the monitoring room. I have shares in the amusement park, so no one will stop you. Miaomiao is usually quite obedient. She shouldn't have gone too far."
Lin Yao suddenly stood up from his chair, picked up his car keys and walked out, regardless of the meeting behind him.
Nothing was more important than his daughter.
On the van, Miaomiao looked at the little girl beside her with a puzzled face.
Since they met, this little girl had been like a wooden dummy. Her eyes were empty and she showed no reaction at all, just like a puppet.
"Although these two are little girls, they're both very good - looking. It would be a good deal to sell them as child brides."
"Oh, are you still picky about gender? It's not easy to abduct kids these days. Parents protect them like the apple of their eye. I'm really lucky to abduct two today."
The uncle in the front drove the car while making a phone call as if no one else was around. Miaomiao twitched her nose and smelled the air.
That's right. Just like those people last time, their car and their bodies had the same smell.
Miaomiao was naturally a bit slow and had extremely low emotional intelligence, but it didn't mean she was intellectually inferior.
On the contrary, because she had to memorize a lot of mental formulas and mantras for martial arts training, her reaction ability and memory were much stronger than those of her peers.
She was slow to react because she liked to focus on things. When she was concentrating on one thing, she wouldn't respond to others if they talked to her.
This made her seem very dull.
However, when it came to things related to the people she cared about, Miaomiao's brain would work at high speed.
Maybe this was a kind of stress reaction?
No matter what it was, when Miaomiao recalled the scene of her father being injured, she made up her mind to avenge her father.
Miaomiao didn't care about getting hurt herself. After all, it was inevitable for a martial artist to get bruised. But she cared about what would happen to her father.
In her memory, her father had been sick for a long time. He couldn't practice martial arts because of blocked meridians. Unfortunately, her father was born into a martial arts family. He had heard so many harsh and mocking words from his fellow martial artists and outsiders.
Back then, she had also practiced martial arts hard to win glory for her father. No matter how hard and tiring it was, she never stopped.
Finally, at the age of seven, she personally taught the bad guy who had humiliated and mocked her father a lesson.
With just one strike, the man's martial arts were completely destroyed. Since then, no one in the martial arts world dared to yell at her father again.
Before her rebirth, she could protect her father's reputation, face and safety. After her rebirth, she could still do it.
The van slowly drove towards the remote suburbs. After making a few turns, it entered a dilapidated small courtyard.
The uncle drove Miaomiao and the little girl out of the car, took them into the house and then left. There was the sound of a lock being closed outside, and the sound of footsteps gradually fading away.
The shabby little house was crowded with kids. Some looked only two or three years old, and the oldest was only seven or eight.
These children all had more or less blue and purple bruises on their bodies. They were huddled in the corner with tear - filled eyes, hugging themselves and shivering in fear.
Miaomiao roughly knew what was going on. She had been a beggar when she was very young and had also encountered this kind of situation when she was wandering around.
Those kids were stolen, robbed, tricked, or even sold or given away by their poor families.
The people who collected these kids were commonly known as child abductors.
It seemed that this was the situation now.
Miaomiao raised her hand and touched the not - very - thick door panel, measuring her strength. They were just some rotten wooden boards. She could break them easily in a minute.
However, her purpose for coming here was to avenge her father. She didn't know where the uncle had gone. Since she couldn't find them, it would be better to stay here and wait for them to come back.
What was this called?
Oh! Right! Her father had said that this was called waiting for the hare by the tree stump!
Miaomiao imitated the other kids in the house and casually found a corner to squat down, waiting quietly.
Meanwhile, after checking the surveillance and learning that Miaomiao had been taken away by a strange man, Lin Yao was furious.
Lin Yao quickly contacted the police and urgently blocked all the exits of Nancheng. The human traffickers captured last time were extremely tight - lipped. No matter how they were interrogated, they didn't reveal any information about their accomplices.
The Transportation Bureau was also ready. According to Lin Yao's description, they quickly locked down a vehicle. Unfortunately, after the vehicle drove into the suburbs, it entered an area without surveillance in the wilderness.
At present, Miaomiao's exact location couldn't be determined. They could only conduct a carpet - style search around the area where the vehicle disappeared.
They searched one village after another, but still found nothing. The sky gradually darkened and night had fallen.
Lin Yao was extremely anxious as he searched with the police.
It was the same as in his previous life. It was those damned human traffickers again!
Was the trajectory of fate really set?
Was he reborn just to watch fate repeat itself, and Miaomiao still couldn't escape the fate of death?