The consignee was in a room a few blocks away. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Consignees, have they been in this business for a long time?" asked Eric.

"I don't know. But they only showed up there a month ago. I hadn't touched the business at all. The old man seemed to be arguing something.

The time coincides with the time of the disappearance. It seems that Eric's conjecture was correct.

"They buy goods in the name of recruiting maids and servants of noble families, so I am willing to sell the homeless girls into them. ”

Where will there be nobles who buy servants in the ghetto...... The old man should also know that this is a lie, but he would rather not puncture it and do business with good intentions.

After all, as long as the goods are sold through that door, what people do to those goods is not in the scope of the human traffickers' consideration.

Eric was extremely disgusted by this shift of responsibility.

He asked, "So for the past month, you have been earning ill-gotten gains by coercion?"

"No, don't get me wrong. Today this girl is an exception. I've been dealing with live goods before, and today is the first time I've done dead goods. ”

Dead goods are the code words of human traffickers.

Live goods are people who are conscious and voluntarily sold. Dead goods are people who are forcibly trafficked. They are often sold in a state of unconsciousness and are called dead goods.

Even if the old man knew such code words, Eric didn't believe that he had only been in the business for a month.

Generally speaking, buying and selling live goods is a consensual transaction, and ordinary police officers do not care about it.

But Eric is no ordinary police officer: "Whether you buy or sell live or dead, it's illegal! ”

"Oh, my cop. I admit that I deserve to be punished. But if you say that whether it is alive or dead, then the whole slum is inseparable. Everybody has been in this business for the rest of the month. ”

Eric was shocked.

"The whole ghetto?

"It's true! Although there are very few dead goods, almost everyone makes live goods. No one in our country is going to be overwhelmed by a good pay. ”

Eric remembered the old man's words again: I am not the only one doing this, there are at least dozens of families in the entire slum doing this business.

Could it be that these dozens of families are just talking about people who do the business of dead goods?

In this way, if live goods are added, the scope of the crime will spread to the entire slum.

In this way, the problem is serious.

When a crime is committed by everyone, how is it reasonable to punish them?

The law does not hold the public accountable.

Indeed, there should be a lot of full-time human traffickers like the old man in the slums. But there must be many of them who do it only occasionally.

And what forces them to do so is poverty. They need to have more money to live a good life. So after explaining their daily hard work, they will look for lonely and homeless people on the streets and persuade them to find a good place to go...... It's like a part-time job. And this part-time job is called human trafficking.

Crucially, some people don't even know they're sinning.

Do you want to punish them all?

Putting all the slum dwellers involved in prison

If we do that, I'm afraid the whole of Oude will become a mess.

Those people went from free coolies to prisoners to be kept in an instant. Their families will resent the loss of them. What awaits those families is a more difficult life, which breeds more and worse crime.

The machine called society has lost one of its gears, and naturally it cannot run smoothly.

In this case, if Eric chooses to be a qualified police detective, then he will surely become the destroyer of a city.

For the first time, Eric felt a deep sense of powerlessness in the face of a difficult problem. He had never imagined that the prisoners of Oude's disappearance would be all the residents of the ghetto.

If it's a disease, then it's a plague.

Eric was powerless to cure Odel's plague.

For now, we have no choice but to remove the source of all this, the consignee, from Oude and then make other plans.

"Tell me the address of the consignee. ”

After receiving the information, Eric untied the rope from the girl's body and tied it to the old man. Because Eric had to investigate alone, he couldn't take the old man with him, but he was afraid that he would run away, so he had to make this decision.

The girl was obviously drugged, and Eric couldn't wake her, so he put her in a different room from the old man.

A few minutes later.

Eric appeared next to a room a few blocks away.

The old man was right, the location of the consignee was indeed not far away. But Eric didn't immediately enter it, but hid in a corner not far away and observed.

After a while, a man walked in with a cloth bag on his shoulder.

In the blink of an eye, he came out again. As he walked, he counted a few old bills in his hand with saliva.

Eric is sure he witnessed a transaction.

Don't forget that it's the middle of the night, and at such a time, there are still people coming to trade. It's hard to imagine how many traffickers will be frequented here in a whole day.

The entire slum ......

Eric shook his head, trying not to think about it.

Just as he was thinking about how to go in and find out, a horse-drawn carriage drove out of the courtyard next to the house.

Eric immediately decided to keep up with it.

Unsightly goods often need to be transported late at night.

If the wagon is the goods received by the consignee, then the carriage must have been driven to the buyer behind the scenes.

The real princess is most likely there.

With that in mind, Eric followed.

You know, it's not easy for people to keep up with carriages. In addition, Eric has to avoid the dim lights of the street to avoid being noticed.

The carriage left the ghetto, passed through the civilian quarters, drove past the Royal Square, and was still moving.

This direction is somewhat familiar to Eric.

After a few more moments, as the delivery man tightened the reins, the wheels of the carriage stopped turning, and it reached its destination.

Looking at the towering building in front of him, Eric was so surprised that he wanted to scold his mother.

Cathedral ruins.

Also known as the Sunflower Orphanage.