Chapter 18: The Pursuers
After they were full of wine and food, Shi San asked them and the group came to the street outside the house.
According to the agreement between them and the village chief, after the "goods" were counted, they would pay the "full amount" in addition to the deposit.
The work of counting was done by Zhang San and Saleh, and their purpose was twofold: one was to confirm the number of people, and the other was naturally to find Saleh's wife, Anaye.
However, when they counted all the women who had been kidnapped, they found that Anaye was not among them, which made Saleh panic.
Fortunately, there is also Zhang Sanzai; He was a man with a good memory and a very careful mind, and because he had already seen the photos of the three women who had been sent to him at the gas station, he kept an eye on them as he counted them, and found the two men who had been sold with Anaye.
If you want to know where Anaye is, just ask them, and at least provide some clues.
But...... Zhang San thought about it, and finally decided not to ask them, but the village chief.
The village chief didn't lie, when Zhang San mentioned this to him, he just smiled and said, "I think that girl is very beautiful, so I keep it in the cellar, I won't sell this, I keep it myself."
When Zhang San heard this, he quietly glanced at Saleh and signaled the latter not to act rashly.
Then he asked, "Is there anyone else besides this?" ”
This time, the village chief hesitated for a few seconds before telling him that there was also an abducted woman named Afaf who was being held in a detention cell in the back room with her father.
After the village chief said this, he deliberately put on a very embarrassed expression, and added: "We are worried about how to deal with them......
The meaning of this is understood by Zhang Sanyi when he hears it, and the meaning of the village chief is ...... It's best to let Zhang San and the other "members of the criminal organization" easily kill the woman's father, and then buy the girl to help them solve this problem.
Zhang San didn't say anything after hearing this, just smiled and asked the other party to wait, and then went over to ask Shi San to whisper.
The two of them chatted for a few minutes, during which time Shi Sanwen used his ability to confirm the truth of what the village chief said, and double-checked to see if there were any people in the village who had not been there, but he only found some toddlers and children who had been left at home and had fallen asleep.
After a while, Abdul, the village chief, who was a little impatient, took the initiative to come up again, and said to them tentatively: "You two...... It's not early, and in the middle of the night, the whole village is standing on the street, not too particular...... I see you've already counted the heads just now, can we ......?" he said, raising his hand and making a gesture of "twisting the banknote".
Coincidentally, at this time, Shi Sanwen and Zhang San had already discussed it, and when they saw him coming over to urge, Shi Sanwen immediately turned his head and responded: "Well, I have also 'confirmed', it's time......"
"Huh...... Good! Good! As soon as Abdul heard that he could start trading, he immediately smiled, he was already a little tired of his daughters-in-law, and now he could sell them at the original price, and then replace them with new ones in the future, thinking about it, he felt beautiful, "Then you see, whether to give cash or transfer ......"
Before he could finish his sentence, his feet were off the ground, and his whole body went up to the sky.
Not only him, but all the men in the village, including some teenagers who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, and some old men and women, also "floated" at this moment.
One by one, they moved upwards in a straight line like balloons, and came to a halt about fifteen meters above the ground.
"What's going on?"
"Is this haunted?"
"Help!"
After a brief moment of consternation, those who had ascended to heaven cried out.
They are unable to explain the phenomenon that is happening to them, and the only perceptible anomaly is that their body seems to have been lifted to this height by a force originating from their abdomen.
After these people were all in the sky, Hunter Ba followed Shi Sanwen's instructions to release the Afaf father and daughter who were locked in the detention room and Anaye who were locked in the cellar, and by the way, they took back their bag of "deposit" from the safe.
At the same time, Zhang San ran into the house, turned on the only radio in the village, and announced through the radio: All the women who were abducted and trafficked to this village are now free, and the police from outside the village will arrive within an hour (when Zhang San called the police, in addition to telling about the situation in the village, he also sent a photo of the hunting tyrant to the past, claiming that this wanted criminal happened to be in this village, and he believed that this move could speed up the police dispatch from the federal side) to deal with their affairs, and it is up to them to decide what to do in the future.
His words should have been hard to believe, but after seeing the men of the whole village "go to heaven", it doesn't seem so impossible.
When Zhang San came out of the house again, Saleh and Anaye were already hugging, and both of them were crying with joy; Although the conflict between the couple may not have been resolved, it seems that it is okay for the time being, and after that, Saleh will naturally confess to his wife and explain what has happened in the past few days.
Afaf, on the other hand, dragged her father back to her "home" in a hurry, looking for her child, who had been left alone in the house.
As for the group of people who flew into the sky, they had been moved to the distant mountains by Shi Sanwen with their abilities at this moment, and their next fate was probably even more terrible and miserable than most people could imagine.
After doing this, Shi San asked them to calmly get on the car and leave the village under the suspicious gaze of everyone; They also piggybacking on Saleh and Anayeh in order to prevent Saleh, who knew a lot of inside information after the police arrived, from getting into trouble again.
When the small trailer drove to the entrance of the village, Hunter poked his head out of the window and looked back at the "Blind Mountain Village", which he saw with excellent vision in the dark...... The women of the village, holding the child's hand or holding the child in their arms, stood on the main road of the village, looking at the entrance of the village and watching them leave.
He didn't see any joy or sadness in the faces of these people, all he saw was helplessness and confusion.
About an hour later, Shi San asked them to leave the Saleh couple in front of a motel and gave them a sum of money to go home; At this point, Shi Sanwen can be regarded as fulfilling his promise to help Saleh find his wife, and the two sides will say goodbye.
Looking back on the two-day journey, from the "Mushen Sect", to the "gas station", and then to the "Blind Mountain Village", it was basically a very bad experience, even if Shi Sanwen, Zhang San and Lieba had changed some things, but the three of them did not feel much relieved.
They all know in their hearts that if their actions represent "justice", it is only "justice delayed".
They did change some things, but there were many more things that they couldn't change and could never change again.
"What's wrong with you?" On the bumpy car, Shi Sanwen saw through the rearview mirror that the hunter in the back seat was preoccupied, so he asked.
"I'm thinking...... How much meaning does everything we do? Hunter looked at the night outside the window and said in a deep voice, "There are countless things in this world that are even uglier than what we have seen in the past two days, can we manage them?" ”
Shi San asked this, was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "I used to ...... I don't remember what year it was, once rescued a girl who was coerced into prostitution from a den, you know when I said to her, 'It's all right'...... Did she reply to me anything? ”
Hunter didn't answer, just waited for Shi San's answer.
Shi Sanwen didn't wait a few seconds, and then answered: "She cried bitterly and said to me over and over again, 'Why are you here now?'" "Since then, I've never said anything like 'it's okay' to the people I've saved, because I know...... Something.
"When there is 'justice' that needs to be done, it means that 'sin' has already taken a step forward.
But you can't say that justice is meaningless just because it is always later than sin, and sometimes it doesn't come at all.
"If we don't even have the justice that is delayed, then the evil in this world will expand without scruples...... Eat away at the last bit of goodness in human nature. ”
"Heh......" Hunter smiled bitterly, "Although you seem to be very reasonable, a few of us ...... They all seem to be 'bad guys', right? ”
"There are many kinds of bad guys." Zhang San suddenly took over at this time and said, "At some point, the world needs 'bad people' like us to do something that 'good people' who abide by their duties and rules will not do. ”
"Hah!" Hunter smiled dryly this time, "So you're quite great at the Cross?" ”
"Greatness or not greatness is something we ourselves will not evaluate, if you want to see what the reverse cross is all about, just complete the practice well, and we will let you stand in an excellent position to witness this cross-era show......" Zhang San also gave an ambiguous answer with a smile.
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At the same time, Jerusalem, a federal police station.
OUTSIDE THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE, A MIDDLE-AGED, BLONDE MAN OF MEDIUM STATURE WITH A COMBED BACK IS FIDDLING WITH THE I-PEN IN HIS HAND.
He didn't wear a police officer's uniform, but he didn't look like a civilian in the police department.
His face was pale, his temperament was cold, and he was as lifeless as a corpse; If he is standing behind someone else, even if he is only a few centimeters away, the other party will probably not notice that someone is there.
It's hard to imagine that such an inconspicuous-looking man would be the highest combat power of the "EF (Evolution_Factory, that is, the special agency 'Evolution Factory' directly under the Federation)", and he is a super reformer with the positions of "deputy factory director" and "first combatant" - Jacside Newman.
"Mr. Newman, is there anything else you need? Would you like to sit down on the sofa in the lounge and I can clear it for you. "On weekdays, the secretary or assistant usually asks about this, but today, the director himself asks.
Compared with Newman, the police commissioner of such a small city is not an "official" at all.
"I need you to work hard and give me as much useful information as possible to solve the case, instead of focusing on how to please me." Newman's voice and tone had a lifeless coldness that matched his dead face.
"Yes...... Yes, subordinates understand. The director had no choice but to smile awkwardly, but as soon as he turned around, the expression on his face changed to hideous and twitching.
"Director!" Just as the commissioner was about to leave, a police officer suddenly ran quickly from the other end of the hallway, and shouted as he ran through the office area, "Look at this!" ”
"What are you shouting? What kind of system is panicked? "The commissioner is also on fire and has nowhere to go, so he just makes this police officer angry.
"It's not...... Director, there is an emergency. The officer ran up to the commissioner, panting and said, "Look at this ......," and as he spoke, he handed over a hot photograph that had just been faxed, "...... The substation in the north received a report that an S-class wanted ...... codenamed 'Hunter' had been found in Blind Mountain Village."
Before he could finish speaking, Newman stood up like a ghost, flashed between the commissioner and him, and snatched the photograph.
This photo was taken and sent by Zhang San with his mobile phone (the alarm platform in this era can already receive all kinds of information sent by smartphones), and the light and angle are not good, but because of this, at a glance, you can see that this is not the kind of fake photo that Ps the prisoner's face to someone else through retouching software.
"Prepare the car." After looking at the photo for two seconds, Newman didn't say a word of nonsense, and directly gave an order.
After a second of pause, the director immediately said to the police officer next to him, "Deaf? Didn't you hear the chief say that he wanted to prepare a car? Go ahead! ”