Part of the setting in this chapter is based on the movie "Blind Mountain", and if there are similarities, it is not a coincidence.

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Few people know that in the territory of the Federation there is a place called "Blind Mountain".

Why the Blind Mountain is called the Blind Mountain, even the inhabitants who live there do not know, and of course, they have no interest in studying these things.

It is a very simple mountain village, poor, isolated and backward...... The villagers' living standards and ways of thinking seem to be disconnected from the outside world for dozens or even hundreds of years.

The inhabitants of the Blind Mountains are basically self-sufficient, most of the families make a living from farming, and the few businessmen are also locals, doing small business.

The largest and only "official" in the village is the village chief, who directly leads the four police officers in the village police station - yes, there is no "police chief" in this place, and in fact, there is no formal establishment of law enforcement officers in the federal government...... The four police officers were more appropriate than the village chief's personal arms.

Anyway, if something big happens in the village, everyone will go to the village chief to solve it...... Basically, it depends on who is cross, and no one will call the police.

This kind of system, similar to the "county lord", lasted for many years in Blind Mountain Village.

We are very familiar with this power system, and I don't need to say that everyone understands that the son of the village chief is the next village chief, and whether the son of a police officer can continue to be a police officer depends on whether they are "sensible".

At first glance, there is nothing too big a problem in this village, although their system is different from the outside world, but after so many years, they have been able to get along well, which shows that this set of things will work at least in this small place.

However, beneath this apparent peace, there is actually a gruesome evil......

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In the spring of 2215, a woman named Afaf arrived.

She was twenty-three years old.

The first thing Afaf wanted to do was to travel around the world, but unfortunately, the first thing he wanted to do was to travel around the world...... No sooner had she come out of her native Ismailia than she fell into the clutches of human traffickers.

After several rounds, she was sold into this blind mountain.

On his first night, Afaf was ...... by his buyer A local farmer in his forties raped; During the other party's violence, the other party's elderly parents were next to him, responsible for holding Afaf's hands.

Like all families in the Blind Mountains, the family has been saving money for many years in order to "buy a daughter-in-law" from the traffickers and pass on the family to their son.

In their opinion, this is a very normal thing, and the old mother of the buyer herself was also abducted and trafficked to this village back then.

After a nightmarish night, before dawn the next day, Afif escaped through the window and ran to the village police station in Blind Mountain.

As a result, in less than an hour, on the orders of the village chief, she was "escorted" back to the house.

The village police are already familiar with this kind of thing, and everyone in the blind mountain ...... I'm familiar with this kind of thing.

They told Afarf that she was already a member of the family and that if she ran away, her "husband" had the right to break her legs.

And just like that, the nightmare that seemed like it wouldn't wake up continued......

More than nine months later, Afaf gave birth to a baby girl.

Although she also thought about suicide when she learned that she was pregnant, and she also beat her stomach hard to kill the child, but as this little life slowly grew in her womb, the maternal instinct and the softened attitude of the "husband" family made her endure it.

It's a pity that she hasn't been able to look at her children yet...... On the night she gave birth, her "husband" threw the newborn baby girl like garbage into the river outside the village and drowned herself.

He did it for a simple reason, because it was a girl.

In the eyes of the people of Blind Mountain, it is a very stupid thing to raise a girl, and it is someone else's family to raise it, or ...... They don't treat women as human beings at all.

In the eyes of these villagers, women are nothing more than tools for reproduction, and after completing the task of giving birth to children, they still have to take care of the children and do farm work, otherwise they will waste the family's food.

Affaf, who lost her child, collapsed, hit the wall, and went on a hunger strike...... She committed suicide, but the villagers of Blind Mountain were apparently familiar with the situation, and they imprisoned her, and every day they had some women who were accustomed to life in the village persuade her, telling her that if she survived, she would be able to escape.

But in fact...... It's not that likely.

Because the village is remote and surrounded by mountains on three sides, it is almost impossible to escape on foot, and the means of transportation are in the hands of the villagers; In addition, on the only road out of the village, and in the county town closest to Blind Mountain, there are village chiefs' eyes, and these related people have interests with the villagers of Blind Mountain Village, human trafficking gangs, etc.

There were also abducted women who fled to the county town with great difficulty, but in the end they were caught by the chasing villagers in the street and dragged back; Even if she cried desperately when she was caught, begging passers-by for help was useless...... The people who came to arrest her were all familiar with her, and while they testified together that she was "mentally ill" and threatened passers-by to "be nosy", they shoved people into the car and took them away from the scene as quickly as possible.

Most of the time, things will end there.

Even if there are passers-by in the county town who feel that something is wrong and call the police, the villagers are not afraid; Every few years, the Blind Mountain is also visited by "federal officials", and whenever they encounter such "outsiders", the whole village will unanimously open to the outside world, and all the women in the village who still have a tendency to run away will be hidden, and there has been no fault in these years.

Or go back to Afaf...... Eventually, she gave in, and in order to escape this hell, she was determined to live in humiliation.

A year later, she gave birth again, this time as a boy, and she didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

After having a child, Afif was given a certain degree of freedom, and the "husband" family did not look at her very closely, because they all understood that not everyone could leave the child behind and run away alone.

Afaf couldn't do that......

Unconsciously, she has gradually become accustomed to the days in this mountain village, used to being beaten and scolded, used to getting up early every day to take the children in the dark, doing farm work, and being called like a servant.

Until one day in early 2219, an amazing turning point came.

Four years after being abducted, Afaf's father managed to find this remote mountain village, and as soon as he entered the village, he saw his daughter on the street.

Angry, he naturally wanted to take his daughter away, but was surrounded by the family who "bought" his daughter and the villagers.

The attitude of the buyer's family was very resolute: "You can take the person, but the child has to stay, in addition, we bought her for 20,000 yuan, and in the past few years, she has eaten and lived with us, and you don't have to worry about it, you must return the 20,000 yuan to us before you can receive it." ”

When they made these demands, they seemed to be justified, they didn't understand what laws were not legal, they really took what they did for granted - if they spent money to buy a daughter-in-law, then the daughter-in-law is their own, and there is no rape; If the drowned child is his own, then he has the right to dispose of it at will; Of course, the daughter-in-law who bought it should be used as a cow and a horse, or else would she eat rice?

This is their logic, which seems strange to those of us who are accustomed to the rules of civilized society, but it seems to them to be natural.

"Ignorance" is like an onion, only the outermost layer of skin is "pathetic", if you continue to peel it off, you will see hateful and terrible.

That day, Afif and her father did not make it out of the Blind Mountain, and they were imprisoned together in the village police station.

This kind of "relatives looking for the door" thing is indeed the first time in Blind Mountain for so many years; Although these villagers are ignorant, they are not bold enough to dare to kill an adult outside the village.

Therefore, the village chief has to hold a meeting with the villagers who have "heads and faces" in the village to decide how to deal with this matter.

It also happened that at noon on this day, several traffickers who often came and went with Blind Mountain Village came again, and this time the other party abducted three women, one of whom was ...... His name is Anaye.

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It was 4:05 p.m.

I said...... This gets to the bottom of it, right? The bumpy mountain road and the poor shock absorption of the small trailer made the tall and burly man of Hunter Ba uncomfortable, and he couldn't concentrate on listening to Shi Sanwen's lecture, "Could it be that the bowl of 'thick noodles' fooled us before he died?" ”

"Vomit-" As soon as he heard the word "rough noodles", Saleh, who was sitting in the passenger seat, almost vomited.

"Hey...... Don't throw up in my car. In order to facilitate the lecture, Shi Sanwen had already sat in the back seat at this time, sitting side by side with the hunter, and as soon as he heard Saleh's retching sound, he immediately reminded him.

"Right...... I'm sorry......" Saleh was already a little motion sick, and the death of the gas station manager came to his mind, and he couldn't bear it, "I tried my best to hold back...... But can you stop mentioning that person......"

"yes, there's nothing to mention." Zhang San, who was driving, also took the opportunity to answer, "You can rest assured, just in case, I went to look through their account books in the gas station before, and the store manager's confession is true...... I have also confirmed the coordinates he gave through my own intelligence network, and there is indeed a small mountain village that is not marked on the map. ”

"Cut...... Tell me earlier. "Hunting overbearing," I also see that this broken road is particularly desolate, and I can't even see another car after driving for so long, so I will ask this sentence more. ”

"Actually, it's normal." Zhang San replied, "That village is very closed, not to mention the network and communication towers, and there is not even running water...... If it weren't for the fact that the construction of small power stations became so simple after the energy revolution, it is estimated that they would not even have electricity. He paused, "In this kind of village, there are probably no more than ten households with cars, and more than half of them should be traders, and they will only drive through this road when they enter the county town to reload goods, where will we be so coincidentally encountered?" ”

As he said this, something came into his sight.

"Eh~ Look, isn't this here?" Zhang San's eyesight was excellent, and he could already see the street sign at the entrance of the village through the blurred windshield in front of the car.

It was a rather old-looking iron plaque with two large Chinese characters written on it - "Blind Mountain".