Chapter 9: Trouble Remains
The next night, as they do every day, the three of them went to the lake, put their clothes in the grass, and when they saw that there was no one, they went out into the water. At that moment, Leo suddenly noticed something strange in the grass farther away. Remind Anna and the two, pretend that they didn't find anything, and continue into the water.
In the grass in the distance, a person suddenly jumped out and ran to the lake to see what was going on in the lake. She couldn't see what was in the water because of the distance, but she was sure it was human, and it was three small children, three scary children with big heads.
She was afraid that the children would have an accident and ran out directly, just when she was anxious to know if the three children were okay, a crisp voice suddenly came from behind her: "Are you looking for us?"
She was startled by the sudden sound, and when she turned around, she saw three small-headed children looking at her with scrutinizing eyes. When Anna saw her face, she was surprised and said, "Why are you again!"
This person hiding in the grass is Daisy who was rescued by them last night, Daisy came to the lake today to see if the person who threw him into the lake yesterday will still appear, and if so, she may find some other clues. But I didn't expect to meet the three of Leo.
"How do you know me? I just saw you go into the water, why did you come from the shore again?" Daisy asked, knowing what Anna meant.
Leo thought that since he had already been seen, there was no need to lie to her anymore, so he said, "We are sure we have met, in fact, we rescued you ashore last night, because we look a little special, and we don't want to be seen, so we can only go home and ask Sister Xiaolan for help." Her questions were automatically ignored by Leo.
Daisy looked at the three people who were younger than Xiaolan incredulously, speechless, thinking about how these three little guys were rescued by her, but asked another more concerned question: "Why are you still swimming by the lake so late, how dangerous it is, aren't your family worried?"
Leo replied: "We can all swim, as you can see, we look like this, we come out during the day for fear of scaring people, so we can only come out to swim at night when no one is around." Besides, if we didn't come out to swim yesterday, how could we save you?"
Daisy opened her mouth to thank you and said, "Thank you very much yesterday, if it weren't for you, I would have drowned, you are the family member Xiaolan said has a strange disease." Why are you growing so big?"
Leo explained: "We don't have a strange disease, it's just that the head develops faster than the body, in fact, the body will be fine when it grows up in a few years, I haven't asked you yet, why are you here again today?"
Daisy said angrily, "I came today to see if the people who threw me in the water yesterday will come again, and I may be able to find some evidence to accuse them of murder." Yesterday's police were so irresponsible, because I didn't know who my kidnappers were, what they looked like, how many of them were, none of that. The police said that there were too few clues to help me now, and said that I was fine, so I would go home and rest first, and they would contact me again when they found clues. They won't take the initiative to look for them, they are all waiting for clues to come to them, I know the local police too well.
I thought it would be quicker for me to find a clue myself, so I came as soon as it got dark, and I waited in the grass all the time, but I didn't expect to wait for you. ”
Anna asked with concern, "Then aren't you afraid to investigate by yourself? You were almost killed last night."
Daisy smiled and said, "It's nothing to be afraid of, I've long been used to it, since I was a columnist, I knew that I would face a lot of dangers, and I had been threatened before." But this time I almost lost my life, so I have to find out what's going on?
You'd better go home, I'll have to wait a little longer, I don't know, if they'll come," he said and walked back into the grass.
Since this matter also involved Sister Xiaolan, Anna pulled Leo and Mason over and said, "We have nothing to do, we just want to come out to swim, and we can't swim now, let's wait with you." ”
It's good that Daisy hears it, and it's not dangerous to wait here anyway, and they can still talk to her here. So he asked, "I haven't asked you all names? My name is Daisy, and I'm a columnist for Miami TV." ”
Anna preempted Leo and said, "My name is Anna, his name is Leo, and this is Mason".
Daisy looked at Leo and asked, "You and Xiaolan should be Asian, what is your relationship with Anna, how can you live together?"
Anna was just about to answer, but Leo preemptively said: "Xiaolan and I are both Chinese, Xiaolan is my sister, in fact, we are the same as Anna and Mason, we are here to heal, and we will go back when we are cured." ”
In this way, a few people chatted, Leo and their experience was very simple, and they didn't say much, they all said that Daisy was telling her story.
Daisy is 28 years old, Argentinian-American, immigrated to the United States with her parents shortly after birth, because Miami is an immigrant city, there are many foreign immigrants here, so Daisy's parents chose to live here. After graduating from college, Daisy worked as a reporter for a Miami TV station for five years. A columnist like her, who specializes in reporting on foreign immigration, is something that no native American wants to do, and many immigration issues are related to crime, so they are quite dangerous. Daisy is also an immigrant herself, and she is also very concerned about many immigration issues, so she accepted the job.
This time, a number of immigrants from Cuba have recently disappeared mysteriously, which has attracted the attention of the public, and Taiwan sent her to report on it.
A few people chatted and chatted, and the time passed quickly, but no one in the lake came, and Leo agreed with Daisy to come back to accompany her the next day and go home.
After three days, no one came to the lake, and Daisy decided that it would be impossible to wait any longer, so she decided to wait another day, and if no one came, she would think of another way.
On the evening when she decided not to wait any longer, the four of them came to a bush and sat down in the grass just after dark, and talked without a word. It was soon past 12 o'clock, and just as they were about to go back, Leo suddenly said, "There's a boat coming from the lake."
Daisy looked at the lake, but there was nothing on the lake, and she didn't hear any sound with her ears, and said, "Where is it, I don't see anything, and I don't make a sound."
As soon as she finished speaking, a boat-shaped object appeared in the distance on the surface of the lake, heading towards the center of the lake, and the sound of the motor was so small that it could not be heard unless she listened carefully. She looked at Leo with a curious gaze, as if to say, "How do you know?"
Several people looked at the dinghy in the lake, Daisy took out the night vision binoculars and put them in their eyes, and Leo exchanged a funny look. Because they don't need a telescope to see everything on the dinghy clearly, and because of the wind blowing from the lake today, even the sound can be heard clearly.
They saw two people in the dinghy, both of whom were white, and they seemed to have something tied to the boat, left and right. One of them said, "It's so deep here, just leave it here, I heard that the female reporter didn't die two days ago." I don't know who rescued her, and if I hadn't seen her video at the police station, I wouldn't have believed it was real. I tied the rope with my own hands and threw her down, how could she still be alive. I really can't figure it out! The boss said, after dealing with this, I'm going to be quiet for a while lately, and it's easy to be targeted. The female reporter hasn't been home for the past few days, otherwise she would have been killed a long time ago. ”
The other said, "Okay, don't think about it, let's work first, hehe, I still have a Cuban chick waiting for me in the house, I have to vent my fire when I go back, come and take a hand!"
Then Daisy said, "They seem to have left a dead man behind, go back, I will look for the place where they came, maybe there will be a clue," and then went in the direction of the dinghy.
Leo stopped her and said, "No, the man is not dead, Anna and Mason are going to save people, and I will go find a place where they are staying." ”
Daisy said worriedly, "How do you know that the man is not dead, can you keep up with them, besides, this is too dangerous, how can you let a child go", Leo didn't wait for her to ask again, the man had already jumped out like an arrow. While Daisy was still amazed at Leo's speed, Anna and Mason had already begun to undress.
In fact, it was not only Leo who knew that the man was still alive, but also Anna and Mason, because they both heard the "whine" sound of the man when he was thrown down. Anna and Mason quickly took off their clothes and left only their underwear, and ran into the lake. Daisy only saw two villains running into the lake and then disappeared.
After a short time, two heads fell from the water near the lake, and then saw them carrying a man to the shore, and Daisy hurried over, and she found that it was a young Latino man, with ropes tied to his hands and feet, and something in his mouth.
He was no longer breathing, and Anna and Mason got up to work, flattened him, and gave him CPR. After a while, the man vomited a lot of water, and then coughed violently, and then slowly woke up.
He only saw Daisy standing in front of him, Anna and Mason were already hiding, he only knew that Daisy had saved him, and he didn't hurry to thank Daisy and grabbed Daisy and said in Spanish: "Quick, please help me call the police, my girlfriend is still in their hands, she will be Qiangjian later, we have to save her".
Daisy, who is Argentinian and speaks Spanish, comforts him and says, "Calm down, do you know where they are? Can you find them? Can you recognize them? If not, it's useless for the police to come."
The man said: "I don't know what kind of place it is, but it is a villa, it should be not far from here, we were caught by them and locked up in the villa for half a day, I have seen their appearances".
Daisy said, "You don't have to worry about it, wait a minute, my friend has already gone after him, and I hope to know their whereabouts, so that we can call the police." ”
After a while, while the man was anxiously waiting, Daisy's phone rang, she quickly answered, and Leo's crisp but deliberately lowered voice came from the phone: "I know where they are staying, it's in Villa XX, there are three of them, you call the police, you come too, I can't be seen by the police, I'm going to leave first." After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Daisy quickly called the police, and more than ten minutes later, the police surrounded the villa, and the three men were taken away by the police, and the Cuban man's girlfriend was also rescued.
The three men, after being taken to the police station, only admitted that they had kidnapped two people from Cuba and said that they did not want to kill people, but just to throw the man into the water to sober up. The woman didn't get anything wrong, and they wouldn't admit anything. They resolutely denied Daisy's throwing into the lake a few days ago.
Daisy could only get angry, and there was no way, and when the three people were brought into the detention center, they also made a gesture of cutting Daisy's throat with their hands to threaten her. Daisy knew it wasn't over yet, and her troubles were still to come.