CHAPTER 654: CHAPTER 629: THE HUMAN TRAFFICKERS HAVE REALLY COME

Bai Yiyi groggily got off the train with Tang Yuan and Baozi.

It’s four thirty in the morning.

The platform was still a bit dark.

But there was a faint hint of dawn on the horizon.

Tang Yuan and Baozi had never gotten up this early, but there was no choice, Bai Yiyi shook them awake, it was time to get off the train.

The two suddenly remembered that they were on the train with Bai Yiyi. They could only reluctantly get off the train.

Luckily it was July, the weather was hot, and it was bright early in the morning.

They walked out of the station, looking at the empty street.

The three of them were a bit bewildered.

Bai Yiyi and her companions could only sit on the curb outside the train station.

Bai Yiyi had already figured out that to get back to her uncle’s village, they still needed to take a bus.

If they took the bus, it would take more than three hours.

But the long-distance bus wasn’t open at this hour, they could only wait until after 8 o’clock when the station opened, then they could buy tickets to get on the bus.

Bai Yiyi had a mild headache.

Train tickets were manageable, but what about these bus tickets?

Buying tickets might be easy, but getting on the bus, people would see they were three kids, that might be hard to explain.

If they walked to the village, she couldn’t do it, especially when bringing along two little ones with short legs, when could they ever get home?

Finally, it was broad daylight.

Bai Yiyi perked up, buy the tickets and go quickly.

And find a place to make a phone call.

She pulled Tang Yuan and Baozi, first went to buy tickets, buying tickets was easy, the ticket sellers generally thought it was the parents letting children come to buy tickets.

After all, kids in this era could go out to run errands at three or four years old, let alone a normal eight-year-old buying a ticket.

Bai Yiyi held the bus tickets and was a bit worried about where to make a phone call!

In this era, making phone calls wasn’t easy, there weren’t many public phones on the street, unlike how public phones would be everywhere later.

People all have mobile phones, not to mention public phones.

She couldn’t find a phone.

Bai Yiyi could only pull the two brothers onto the bus.

But before they could get on, someone rushed over.

Three women, middle-aged, strong and robust, rushed over quickly, picked up the children and ran.

Yes!

Stealing kids!

Bai Yiyi just wanted to scream for help.

A big hand tightly covered their mouths, and Bai Yiyi’s vision went blurry, and she fainted.

Baozi reacted fastest, mainly because he was experienced.

No choice, he had encountered human traffickers often.

He directly ran towards the police station in front of the station, those people saw him running faster than a rabbit.

And indeed, Baozi’s position was too close to the police station’s post.

Those people couldn’t catch up, mostly because they didn’t dare to chase.

Chasing would lead them directly into the hands of the police.

Seeing they had two kids in hand, they decided it was enough, the three quickly prepared to retreat.

As a result, they saw the little fat boy who ran as fast as a rabbit had not run into the police station’s post but turned and ran back.

Running while waving and shouting.

"Wait for me! Wait for me!"

Sister Hua, the leader, was a bit dumbfounded.

"That little fat boy might be a fool?"

The nearby Xifeng glanced.

"Couldn’t be, seems quite clever, doesn’t matter if he’s a fool or not, let’s take him away first. Today’s a big haul, three kids at once."

Without another word, she crouched down, picked up Baozi, and walked away.

Afraid the little fat boy would call for help, they instantly stuffed his mouth shut.

The three of them quickly disappeared from the station with the children.

People nearby didn’t notice a thing, even if someone did, they assumed it was the children’s relatives taking them away.

But these three didn’t notice, there were two people in blue work clothes silently trailing them.

The three children were bound hand and foot, mouths stuffed, and were thrown into a room.

Tang Yuan fell to the ground, thought he would get hurt, but to his surprise, he landed on a person. Looking up, a terrified three or four-year-old boy was staring at him.

He was bound and couldn’t sit up.

Bai Yiyi had already woken up, waking up knowing trouble was imminent.

This is surely the infamous human traffickers, they must have encountered traffickers.

Bai Yiyi was so anxious tears started to fall.

Why was she so foolish?

What was with the pride, if she had told Sister, things wouldn’t have spiraled out of control.

If the two brothers hadn’t followed her out secretly, how could this have happened?

If Tang Yuan and Baozi were sold into the deep mountains, never seeing Sister and Brother-in-law again in their lives.

How could she face Sister and Brother-in-law?

Bai Yiyi cried for a long time.

Then someone started untying her ropes.

Bai Yiyi turned to see Baozi skillfully untying the ropes.

Bai Yiyi cried two sounds out of joy.

Baozi looked out the door, didn’t hear anything, gestured for silence, and only then removed the rag from Bai Yiyi’s mouth.

Bai Yiyi whispered, "How did you do that, how can you loosen their knots?"

When those people bound them, they wouldn’t bypass the little fat boy.

Baozi looked at Bai Yiyi with a mysterious glint.

"There are only so many ways human traffickers tie people up, I had been bound by them often, and long learned how to loosen such ropes to escape."

While talking, he untied Bai Yiyi’s ropes and freed Tang Yuan’s as well.

Tang Yuan was clever, not making a sound.

Now if they alerted those people, it would be disastrous, he didn’t want to be bound again.

The three finally had time to observe the surroundings, it was a warehouse-like room, windows were sealed shut with wood.

Aside from some rays coming through the wooden gaps, it was pitch black, nothing could be seen.

But with these beams, they could make out the room inside. It was full of hay, atop which laid seven kids about their age.

Mostly boys, six of them, only one girl.

The oldest was only five, the youngest not even one year old.

All had their mouths gagged and were tied up, tossed in the corner, watching the three with frightened eyes.

"Shouldn’t we untie them?"

Bai Yiyi saw Baozi undo their ropes but stopped moving, instead was searching around, unclear what he sought.

Baozi looked around.

"Don’t untie them, they’re too young, if you do, they’ll cry like banshees. That would alert those outside, we want to flee without becoming noticed."

Baozi said confidently.

These traffickers were pretty experienced, facing a bunch of seasoned kids.

Bai Yiyi said nothing.

Baozi wasn’t wrong at all, untying them now would mean instant tears.

If the traffickers outside heard, how could the three of them escape?