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Yuan Ning and his party soon arrived in the severely affected county.The electricity and water supply have been cut off in the county town. Fortunately, the county town is already poor and does not use much electricity and water. The situation here is not bad, mainly because the traffic and communication are cut off.

The problem is the township below.Most of the houses in the villages and towns are earth-embryo houses and wooden houses, which do not have much load-bearing capacity and are prone to collapse when there is heavy snowfall.There are also a lot of abandoned mines here. The good wood used as supports in the mine has been dismantled and obtained in sevens and eights. pit.

Yuan Ning couldn't find Zhang Xiuyan relying on Lingquan, and felt a little anxious, so he went to meet the person who finally received Zhang Xiuyan in person.As soon as they made contact, Yuan Ning immediately noticed that the other party was weird. After probing left and right, he was sure that the other party was hiding something.

Yuan Ning is young and has a tender face, so she can't scare people.He turned around to find the team leader, and expressed his doubts.The team leader was brought out by the Han family. He frowned after hearing Yuan Ning's words, and immediately took someone to take care of him. He was forced and frightened, and finally asked about the situation.

It turned out that the problem was in a poor mountain ditch.

The day Zhang Xiuyan came, it had already started to snow.The few people who came to investigate came here by car. As soon as they got out of the station, they saw a group of people blocking a car.Soon, the group of men with fierce faces tore a woman from the car, dragged her onto a tricycle and took her away.At that time, Zhang Xiuyan was obviously suspicious. After inspecting the county, he proposed to go down for a walk. Among the villages proposed was the village where the group of people lived.

The person in charge of the reception happened to be from there, worried that Zhang Xiuyan, who was rumored to be upright and upright, would find out what happened in the village, so he quietly called back to the village to report the news.

They are poor, no one wants to marry, and there has always been a custom of buying a daughter-in-law.Everyone bought it, and no one thought it was wrong—his mother was also bought, and she lived well. She stayed in the village to raise him, taught him to read and write, and gave him the opportunity to work in the county.

After working in the county, the receptionist had more experience and knew that this was illegal, so he covered it up for the village on weekdays.

The whole county is poor, which village is not like this?Everyone tacitly knows it on weekdays, and they turn a blind eye when they encounter it.When the patrolmen encountered those who escaped and asked for help, they would also persuade them to think about their children and live with their husbands at ease.

no kids?It is impossible to escape without a child, and will only be tied to the bed until the child is born.

Some poor families buy a wife together with a few poor men. That is miserable. The children have to be born one after another, and there is not much time in a year when they are on the ground.There is also a man in the village who likes to gamble, and his hands still itch when he has no body. Seeing that his son has given birth to two, he doesn't think about it anymore. Well, that man lost so badly that he forced a few people to miscarry his mother-in-law, but she almost didn't lose her life.

Compared with these places, the receptionist felt that their village was considered good, and most of them wanted to live a good life. After giving birth, the mother-in-law would never spoil them, and treated them as serious marriages.

The confession was natural, but the rescue team was filled with righteous indignation.Before they came here, they knew that this place was poor, but they didn't know that this place was poor and evil. It was really a poor place and a bad place for troublemakers!

Yuan Ning had been exposed to many abduction and trafficking cases in the past, most of which were targeting children. When he suddenly encountered this abduction and trafficking of women, the anger in his heart was indescribable.Thinking that Zhang Xiuyan lost contact, probably because these evil people trapped him, and even made a move on him, Yuan Ning's heart was on fire.

Yuan Ning didn't insist on rushing over directly, but only asked the team leader to control the receptionist, and went directly to the receptionist's village after the other two groups came over.He and the tree man could communicate, and he could get some sporadic information, and he could roughly determine the direction of Zhang Xiuyan.

The members of the rescue team knew Zhang Xiuyan's background, so they didn't dare to ignore it. They temporarily put aside other rescue work and went with Yuan Ning to find Zhang Xiuyan's trace.The rescue team also brought hounds. Yuan Ning took out the book Zhang Xiuyan read last time from Lingquan, let them smell Zhang Xiuyan, and took them to search.

The snow field is vast.

The wind was blowing hard and the snow was so deep that it was difficult to walk.Yuan Ning did not lag behind, trekking in the snow with the well-trained soldiers.Snow is the most troublesome, snow will cover all traces: footprints, smells, and even blood.

Seeing Yuan Ning's face darkened, the team leader couldn't help but comfort him: "Mr. Xiaozhang is not a reckless person, and he will be fine. He must have just been trapped by the snow."

Yuan Ning has his own judgment: "Brother is not reckless, but it's just that someone communicated with the village in advance." If he hadn't come here and was familiar with the team leader, he might not have been able to get clues from the receptionist at all. Come.

If no one notices the abnormality, will the elder brother disappear silently into this vast snowy field, and no one will be able to find his trace again?

Just thinking of this possibility, Yuan Ning felt as if someone had stabbed him in the chest, and the blood gushed out uncontrollably.

Both he and Zhang Xiuyan walked so smoothly that both of them ignored the possible danger and malice.

Sometimes the human heart is much more terrifying than imagined.

After seeing the village that received people from a distance, Yuan Ning took a deep breath and paid attention to the movements of the hounds.This feeling of having to rely on other things is terrible. He and Zhang Xiuyan are the closest people in the world, but they can only rely on hunting dogs to find Zhang Xiuyan's life when encountering such a thing.

At this moment, he even thought about not being separated in the future, and he would go wherever Zhang Xiuyan went.Yuan Ning breathed a sigh of relief, warmed his frozen red hands, and ran forward with the hound.After arriving at the village, the hounds stopped moving. The wolfhounds raised by each family poked their heads behind the door, as if they were waiting for an opportunity to jump out and bite off the hounds' necks.

There seemed to be a pair of desperate and numb eyes hidden behind some dark windows. They could no longer see hope in their eyes, and they only thought about how to give birth to a child as soon as possible to survive this terrible day of darkness.

Yuan Ning felt a strong sadness and despair.He looked up, and saw black silk threads floating out of certain houses, as if they were showing their teeth and claws, showing off their power, and they seemed to be calling for help on behalf of the people in the house.

The heavy snow covered all the clues, and the hounds couldn't help.The leader of the team persuaded Yuan Ning a few words, went to knock on the doors of each house in person, and found the house of the village chief.The village chief was holding a pipe to warm up the fire, and he opened the door with a smile and invited Yuan Ning and the team leader into the house. After hearing the team leader's question, he was not in a hurry to answer, took a deep breath on the cigarette, exhaled white air, and then said : "Let's go early, I don't know where they went. We don't go out by ourselves in such a heavy snow. He wants to go. I can't stop him. I can only ask someone to send him away. He hasn't come back yet. , I don’t know where they went, maybe they were trapped by snow.”

The village chief's attitude was calm, without moving any wrinkles on his face, as if he was stating the simplest facts.

There was a big ferocious wolfdog lying on the floor in the room. Seeing Yuan Ning's gaze on it, it immediately bared its teeth and showed a fierce expression at him.Yuan Ning couldn't find a flaw in the village chief, so he turned his idea on the big wolfhound.He could tell that this big wolfhound was very vicious and wiser than ordinary wolfhounds.After a brief exchange with the tree people, he took out a fruit from his "pocket" and walked towards the big wolfhound.

This is the fruit that Xiao Hei and the others found. It is not very useful to people, but it is quite good for attracting good fortune. It has always been loved by dogs.

Seeing that Yuan Ning was young, the village chief thought he was playful, so he stopped him: "The big man is fierce, don't approach him casually, or he will bite your neck off." Seeing a fruit in Yuan Ning's hand, the village chief Chang said again, "It never eats fruit, it only eats flesh with blood. It's useless for you to tease it with fruit."

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, the big wolfdog pricked up his ears, raised his nose and sniffed, opened his mouth and swallowed the fruit whole, staring at Yuan Ning with burning eyes, as if he wanted to get more from Yuan Ning. Fruity.

This is a good thing that Xiao Hei found for Zhao Fu.

Yuan Ning said: "If you lead me to find the foreigners who have come here these days, I will give you some more fruits." Even the lowest creatures have the instinct to live longer, let alone such a smart one. big wolfhound.

It is very loyal to the village chief, but it is also eager to get the fruit in Yuan Ning's hand.After struggling again and again, it was the nature of the wolf that prevailed. The big wolfhound stood up, raised its tail and ran out.

The pipe in the village head's hand was lost for a moment, and fell to the ground with a slap.

Yuan Ning was not in the mood to argue with the village chief for the time being.He yelled to the team leader and ran out following the big wolfhound.

The big wolf dog ran for a while in the snow, paused for a moment, turned around, and ran to the south of the village.There are bare mountains over there, and the road is densely covered with large or small snow pits. It can be seen that mines have been opened here like Lijiaao, and it has collapsed everywhere like Lijiaao!

The team leader found it incredible, but he still led his people to chase after the person and dog in front of him.Suddenly, Yuan Ning and the big wolf dog stopped.

Yuan Ning asked the big wolf dog: "Is it here?"

The big wolfhound wagged its tail.

Yuan Ning kept his promise, gave the big wolf dog another fruit, and continued to ask: "Where can I find the entrance by digging?"

The big wolfhound pointed him in the direction with its paw.

Yuan Ning turned to greet the team leader who came after him: "Have you brought all the tools? Dig from here."

Although the team leader didn't quite believe Yuan Ning's judgment, he still couldn't bear Yuan Ning's disappointment and asked someone to fetch rescue tools and start digging the snow.Yuan Ning has no professional training, even if he is anxious, he only dares to help.He was afraid that he could not make a good judgment, so he dug away the load-bearing place, and instead let the uncollapsed mine collapse, burying Zhang Xiuyan and the others underneath.

Yuan Ning was anxious and tormented, and it took more than half an hour before he heard someone say: "It was dug up! There are people inside!"