Rebirth 90: I changed my fate by winning the lottery

Qi Zan knew the man in the ward; he was the local consul, Wang Chong.

"Officer Zhou just woke up and doesn't have much strength yet. Let me convey the truth about your parents' incident."

Qi Zan did not respond and let him continue:

"That was nine years ago. I was just an ordinary staff member in the consulate. At that time, the Chinese archaeological team came here to assist in the restoration project, which is now open to the public. The Grand Palace of Country J. Your parents were responsible for part of the work."

"We received a report from their colleagues saying that the two had been missing all night and had not returned. We were shocked, so we sent people to coordinate with the local police while searching everywhere."

"We had no idea at the time that the local police would be passive, let alone that they were in league with the criminal gangs."

Qi Zan interrupted him: "So they were also kidnapped by a criminal gang?"

Wang Chong nodded: "Yes, the reason they were kidnapped was the same as Professor Li's."

"And the gang that kidnapped them was the predecessor of the Zhanta gang. Zhanta led his people to overthrow the previous leader and occupied their hideout before becoming the new leader."

"After your parents were captured, they were forced to help them restore the cultural relics, but..."

Wang Chong paused suddenly, and it was a little difficult for him to say the next words facing Qi Zan.

Qi Zan took a deep breath. For so many years, he knew that his parents had passed away, and he was not naive enough to hold on to the hope that they were still alive.

He was not a fool to create hopes and expectations out of thin air.

"Let me speak." Zhou Lang, who was lying on the hospital bed, spoke. He was still wearing a ventilator and his breath was weak, but his words were extremely clear.

Seeing him like this, Ding Mo walked over, dipped a cotton swab in some water and rubbed it on Zhou Lang's lips. He couldn't drink a lot of water right now, so this was the only way to moisten his mouth.

"Zanta was once just Som's follower. Som was the name of the leader of the previous organization. Som started the business of smuggling cultural relics with some people from China more than ten years ago. In order to ensure the quality and condition of the goods, he targeted your father and mother."

After Zhou Lang said this, he glanced at Ding Mo, and Ding Mo immediately put some water on his lips.

Zhou Lang sighed. Couldn’t this girl secretly give him a sip of water? His throat was so dry that it was smoking.

He hasn't had water for days!

Zhou Lang glared at Ding Mo and continued:

"Your father and mother were forced by Som to work for him for about two years. During this period, they tried to escape several times, but were caught again. The place where they worked was..."

He glared at Ding Mo again.

"It was the interior of the white tower that she set on fire. The underground palace was dug out later when the tower's business grew bigger and bigger and they needed a bigger space."

Ding Mo was once again taught a lesson in public for her arson. Feeling guilty, she could only lower her head.

"Until one day, Som got a rare cultural relic, a gilded clock that was later exhibited in the National Museum. You may have visited it. This time, your parents were no longer willing to help Som sell this precious national treasure, so they prepared to give it away."

"Although they rescued the national treasure in the end, they were captured by Som and eventually executed."

When he said this, Zhou Lang also looked sad.

Qi Zan asked: "Did they leave peacefully? How were the cultural relics delivered?"

Qi Zan knew that his parents must have been murdered, but he at least hoped that they died without too much pain.

Zhou Lang shook his head: "As for how they were killed, I don't know either."

"At that time, a policeman had infiltrated Som's organization, so the organization arranged to rescue them. Unfortunately, your parents were willing to expose themselves in the process to save the policeman, and finally helped him escape with the cultural relics."

"The news of your parents' murder was brought back by the second police officer sent by the organization to lurk inside. I also learned the truth of the whole incident from this senior."

"I'm sorry that we were not able to rescue them in time. But our country's diplomatic capabilities were insufficient at the time, and diplomatic pressure was of little use. It was simply a pipe dream for the police to enter the country to investigate the case and rescue them," Wang Chong added.

Zhou Lang also added: "Ahem, that's why the organization could only come up with the idea of ​​sending police undercover into their gang to rescue them. Unfortunately, the rescue failed."

"Of course, after Zhanta overthrew Som and expanded their business many times, the organization realized that by following this gang, they could uncover more criminal organizations behind them, so it became a tradition to constantly send undercover agents to infiltrate them."

Wang Chong's mood was the most complicated. The murder of the experts and their deeds had accompanied him for almost his entire working career. So every time he encountered Chinese people coming to the consulate to seek help, he would ask everyone to do their best.

But only he himself knows how much helplessness was caused by diplomatic issues.

"According to the clues provided by the senior before, the place where they were killed and their bodies were abandoned by Somqi was in the wild forest behind the White Tower. The senior found their remains, recognized their bodies, and buried them simply. You can go and take a look."

Zhou Lang sighed, uttered his last words, then lay down weakly, closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep again.

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Ding Mo accompanied Qi Zan, and accompanied by the consulate staff, they returned to the white tower that was burned black by the fire. The place was still blocked by the police.

All the wooden supporting structures inside the White Tower were burned clean by her fire. Now they not only look dirty, but also a little shaky.

The White Pagoda is hidden in a residential area, so others cannot see how dilapidated the place is.

The barren forest that Zhou Lang mentioned was the grove where they escaped and were rescued by the special police. Across the grove was an abandoned residential area.

Ding Mo remembered that the bushes beside the woods were even used as the toilet by Zhan Ta's gang.

The two of them didn't know how the senior undercover would bury them, so they searched very carefully after entering the woods. After all, they couldn't have a tombstone, and it was even more likely that they didn't even have a grave.

Therefore, every small mound of earth on the ground was carefully observed by the two of them, and if they couldn't distinguish them, they had to use tools to dig them up.

You wouldn't know unless you dug, but almost every small mound of earth contains a corpse.