The little boy hiding in the cabinet is obviously not human, he appeared here, there must be a story.

Zhou Xiaolong asked what was the name of this little boy?

The little boy said that he could no longer remember his name.

Later, the uncle gave him a name, called Twenty-Three.

Twenty-three?!

What's the name of this?!

How can you give a child such a name, it sounds more like a code name?!

Who is the uncle in the little boy's mouth?!

Is that really the child's uncle?!

Hearing this name, not only Zhou Xiaolong, but also Uncle Nine was stunned for a moment.

Immediately, Uncle Nine continued to ask the little boy, "What about your father and mother?" ”

The little boy just shook his head, and then began to talk about himself with his head down.

The little boy, named Twenty-Three, said that he could no longer remember where his parents were, nor could he remember what they looked like.

He only remembered one time, at the door of a certain shopping mall, a car drove up in front of him, and an uncle got out of the car, and the man gave him a nice ice cream.

After only one bite of ice cream, he quickly fell asleep and didn't know anything......

When he woke up again, he was already at the so-called uncle's house.

It was a big dilapidated yard, and there were four or five children in the yard, all about the same age as him, and they were wearing very shabby, dirty, and thin.

The wall of the courtyard was very high, and a thick iron chain was wrapped around the big iron gate, and a large iron lock was attached to it, and a big wolf dog was tethered under the tree, barking from time to time.

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaolong and Uncle Nine looked at each other, and they couldn't help but be stunned.

Originally, Zhou Xiaolong and Uncle Nine thought that the child's ghost was just abandoned, but they didn't expect that he was abducted by human traffickers.

The child's name was twenty-three, and it is not difficult to imagine that in front of this child, twenty-two other poor children were probably also abducted into that yard.

What exactly did those traffickers do to these children?!

Thinking of this question, Zhou Xiaolong's heart tightened, thinking about it, it would not be a good thing, otherwise, the child opposite would not have died......

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaolong's fists were subconsciously clenched fiercely.

After all, Uncle Nine is old and his heart is relatively calm, he patted Zhou Xiaolong's shoulder, signaling him to calm down, listen to what this little boy has to say first?

Then, Twenty-Three continued his story—

After arriving at the so-called uncle's house, for the first three days no one gave him anything to eat, not even water.

After three days, the uncle appeared, and he told Twenty-Three that he would let Twenty-Three go out with the other little brothers and sisters to ask for money, and that he would have food until he had money, and if he didn't have money, he would continue to starve.

Twenty-three didn't understand these things at the time, he was just scared and cried all the time.

However, as soon as he cried, the uncle beat him, and the more he cried, the more painful the uncle became, and then, twenty-three, he did not dare to cry.

Everyone is hungry and wants to eat, and Twenty-Three doesn't want to be hungry or beaten, so he can only follow the other two children to the train station to ask for money.

And just like that, the begging life of twenty-three began.

Speaking of which, Zhou Xiaolong and Uncle Jiu already knew that the so-called uncle was definitely not just one person, but a gang.

In this begging gang, every time the children move, there will be adults behind them.

Therefore, Twenty-Three and the other children could not run away, let alone seek help from someone, or they would be beaten when they returned.

After all, the children's bodies are relatively weak, and, in order to look pitiful, in the winter, the gang does not buy cotton clothes for the children.

Last winter, Twenty-Three fell ill.

Late one night, Twenty-Three's consciousness slowly woke up, he felt his body warm, and then he felt himself slowly floating out of his body.

It was a light-hearted, pleasant feeling, as if everything was liberated.

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaolong's eyes were moist, and Uncle Jiu's heart was also churning.

While Uncle Nine and Zhou Xiaolong felt sorry for this little boy, they were more angry in their hearts, angry at those bad people.

Uncle Nine turned his back and rubbed his eyes, and asked Twenty-three, "Little friend, why did you come to this kindergarten?" ”

Twenty-three said without thinking: "Before, I was in this kindergarten, and I didn't know how, so I came back here, but the children here don't seem to like me anymore......"

Zhou Xiaolong held back his tears and asked Twenty-three, "Little friend, what can we do for you?" ”

Twenty-three thought about it, but shook his head slowly, he probably didn't ask for anything.

The little ghost in this kindergarten is just an ordinary good spirit, and he needs to go over it, but this case is far from over, and more importantly, it is necessary to eradicate that begging den.

……

In order to further understand the clues, Zhou Xiaolong and Uncle Nine drove directly to the police station in the jurisdiction.

Because the police at the police station are more familiar with the environment in this area, they may be able to find the big yard that is locked all year round.

On the way, Uncle Nine asked Zhou Xiaolong while driving, why did he start from the neighborhood, could the child named Twenty-Three come from other places or far away, after all, that child is a ghost, and it can't be speculated by human thinking.

Zhou Xiaolong has his own guess, he thinks that the little boy is a new ghost, the spirit has not been opened, although it is a spirit body, but the distance of activity is limited.

To put it simply, the newly dead ghost likes to move around the corpse the most, so Zhou Xiaolong believes that the little boy's body should not be too far from the kindergarten, let alone in the field.

When Uncle Nine heard this, he also felt that what Zhou Xiaolong said made sense, so he kicked the accelerator and soon arrived at the local police station.

After the police comrades listened to Zhou Xiaolong and Uncle Jiu's descriptions, the police officers asked them how they knew about this situation?

But Zhou Xiaolong and Uncle Nine can't be said to know through a child's ghost.

Uncle Nine is a scheming man, he is very smart, and immediately lied and said: "One of my subordinates followed a begging child and saw that there was a big yard, the door was locked all the year round, and several children were still locked there, by the way, there was a big wolf dog in the yard......"

The efficiency of the police officers is still very fast, from reporting the case to arranging the police, it only takes a few minutes.

So, seven or eight police officers in two police cars set off immediately, and Uncle Nine and Zhou Xiaolong drove closely behind.

The three cars turned around and drove all the way to a relatively remote place.

The environment of this place is very poor, and there are bursts of stench wafting over, Zhou Xiaolong looked through the car window, it turned out that there was a garbage mountain not far away, and most of the citizens' domestic waste would be transported here, decomposed and then disposed of.

The environment is very poor, so very few people will drive through here, and it is likely that some criminals are hiding......

(End of chapter)