“It’s too dangerous, go back and discuss it before you go, or at least wear Cai Xiaobing and the other snow leopards.” Xia Gehuai insisted that I should not go.
But he didn’t know that I was going to save Han Kun while his life was in danger, and only then could I ask something he wouldn’t tell me.
There were also some secret matters involving the jianghu that it was not convenient to tell outsiders, and I had to go alone to save Han Kun.
Rather than a rescue, it was a chance given to me by God.
“You go back with them first and prepare back-up. I’ll scout out the place first and split up. Old Xia, don’t worry, I’ve been on this kind of rescue mission dozens of times. And that’s Uncle Han, there’s no way I can leave it alone.”
When he saw that he couldn’t persuade me, he had to give up. When he saw that I was about to leave with my gun on my back and my yellow hair in my hand, he said reluctantly, “Can’t you just take a few minutes to rest before you go? You’re a mule, don’t you ever get tired?”
I laughed, “I’m used to it, keep in touch.”
With his hands cuffed behind his back, Yellow Hair was pushed ahead of me.
Although I had Huang Mao leading the way, I was afraid that he would cheat and asked Meng Meng to locate Han Kun’s mobile phone signal as I walked.
The bandits were not well educated and did not know that a mobile phone could be located when it was switched on, so they left Han Kun’s mobile phone on.
Meng Meng even tried to send a virus text message to Han Kun’s phone, packaging a Trojan horse link as a winning message, which the other party opened completely unprepared, turning Han Kun’s phone into a listening device.
Meng Meng forwarded the surveillance audio directly to me, allowing me to access the listener in real time as well. At the same time, Meng Meng quickly consolidated the general situation of the fortress to me, unbeknownst to Yellow Hair when he led the way, although I had not yet been to their fortress, I had already learned all about it.
This fortress is called Blackwater Fortress, not far from Blackwater County, but there is no direct road, and it is more difficult to walk than downhill county. There are about seventy people in the village, men, women and children, most of them men.
The locals know that this section of the mountain road is full of “mishaps” and few people drive through here at night, so Han Kun and I were unlucky.
The yellow hair is quite honest, serious to show me the way.
The two of us were bored on the road, so we chatted about it. I learned that the Blackwater Village was not a natural village, but a place for homeless people in Blackwater County.
Take Huang Mao for example, he was a student. In his second year, his family was given a large sum of money for the development of tourism in Heshui County, which was a good opportunity to make a fortune.
I was shocked when Huang Mao said he was actually 16 years old and had dropped out of school in his junior year. I could tell he wasn’t too old, but I never thought he was still a kid.
“The family house was demolished, there was no place to live and no fields to plant. My dad lost all the money from the demolition, so my parents got divorced and now I don’t know where they are. I went out to work in the city, but when people asked me if I was 16, they didn’t dare to ask. I couldn’t survive outside, so I went to the Blackwater Cottage. There are many people like me in the cottage. Brother, I’m not going to jail, am I? I’m still one day away from turning 16, and tomorrow is my birthday.”
The first part of the story was quite unpleasant to hear, and when I heard the end, I rolled my eyes breathlessly.
“I didn’t expect you to know the law, if you cooperate well with me, I can testify that you have meritorious circumstances, and even if you go to jail, I can give you a reduced sentence.”
He said, “Then you can loosen my handcuffs, it’s uncomfortable to be tied up.”
“Come on, lead the way properly, don’t think about such nonsense.”
I couldn’t let go of him, not because I was afraid of him, but because I was worried that the boy would tip off the people in the fortress.
It was after three in the morning when we finally saw the fortress. The whole fortress was dark, without a single light, and everyone was asleep.
The place was dilapidated, with a lot of mud houses, the better ones being bungalows, and not a single building. The house looked old and I guessed that Han Kun was locked up in one of the woodsheds.
I saw a few pairs of green bean-like eyes in the cottage from afar, and asked Huang Mao if there were dogs in the cottage, and he said there were four hunting dogs, and seven or eight others that were kept by each family for sentry duty.
“Sentry duty?”
“Someone in the cottage used to go out to shoot flower children and let the cops catch them. These dogs found out when they came to rescue the daughter-in-law bought by the Li family. As soon as we got close, the dogs would immediately bark!”
“You’re quite proud of yourself.”
“No, no, no, brother, I think it’s wrong to buy people like that. I mean the dog is a thief, but I’m from the cottage and he doesn’t bark when he smells me. Now that everyone’s asleep, how about I help you get in and let the man out quietly? But you’ll have to untie these cuffs on my hands for me, or else everyone will be exposed once they see this.”
The fortress was halfway up the mountain, and the light was not very clear at night, so I could only see that there were mountains behind the fortress and steep cliffs in front of it.
Luckily I didn’t wait for the Blackwater police to move in together, unless the snow leopard followed me, otherwise the more people there were the worse it would be, and the only way for outsiders to get into the fortress without being spotted was to climb the cliff.
I laughed: “Don’t you dream, you’ll have to keep this silver bracelet on until the court sentences you. Let’s go, it’s just a few dogs.”
I took Yellow Hair by the collar and told him to stand up and come with me.
Huang Mao hurriedly followed me, “Brother, please be kind and let me go. I will definitely change my ways and I will help you get the people out, and I will never use any tricks.”
“It’s useless for you to talk to me, save that for the judge. Cooperate with me now, and I promise to report all the acts you did to the court and try to get your sentence reduced by merit.”
Seeing that he couldn’t persuade me, Yellow Hair cried out, “But I’ll be 16 soon.”
“What’s wrong with 16?”
“I can go out to work, but if I go to the police, I won’t be able to get a certificate of innocence, so it will be difficult to find a job in the future.”
I laughed out loud and stopped to look back at his “overly precocious” face, not expecting him to be so naive.
“Do you really think that if I let you go, the police will have no record of you? Your cohorts are going to bite you off the hook.”
“No, we’re all brothers, we won’t betray each other.”
“You seem to be the first one to betray your brother Tiezhu.”
“Let’s not mention that we can still be friends. Brother, I was cooperating with your investigation ……”
“Then be honest and don’t think I’ll let you go. If I let you go, you’ll be a fugitive. Go ……”
This kid is quite interesting, his heart doesn’t look bad, but it’s a pity that he has a bad life and has entered the wrong profession and a den of thieves.
“What do you have against dogs?”
“I have no intention of dealing with dogs.”
“What? When the dog barks, everyone wakes up!”
Yellow Hair thought I was bragging and muttered after me.
“Brother, it’s fine if you don’t untie me, all the dogs in the village know me, I’ll go in first and help you stabilize them.”
“No need for you, save your strength.”
“So how do you plan to do it? Are you going to put the dogs under a spell so that they don’t know you?”
I cried, “Be quiet.”
I suddenly pulled out my army spikes and threw them at the gra*s, which rattled, apparently something was struggling.
“What is it?” Yellow Hair, an idle one, ran over to look and called out, “A rabbit, brother, you’ve hit its tail.”
I went over and grabbed the wild rabbit by the ears and pulled out my army spikes, it was hard to catch a rabbit at this time of year, I had only wanted to catch a mountain chicken.
“What are you doing hunting rabbits? Are we going to have a snack?”
“I find your mind is too diffuse too, come on, this stuff is for the dogs, not you.”
I tried to hunt some more, but then I only caught a pheasant and it was about time, so I carried a pheasant and a rabbit and headed for the village.
