Chapter 20 Triggering hidden tasks
Chapter 20 Triggering hidden tasks
Town police station.
Xi Jianzhong walked out of the director's office with a dusty face, walked to his seat, flipped through the files in his hand, and had two huge dark circles under his eyes.
Apprentice Xiao Tang walked in from outside and handed over a new confession: "Master, another family just came to report a case. Another child is missing."
When Xi Jianzhong heard that another child was lost, he felt a splitting headache and the director's roar just now seemed to appear in his ears again.
He has been a public security officer for more than 20 years, but he has never encountered such a rampant human trafficking gang. They are obviously repeat offenders, and there are quite a few of them.
The town has been in a panic these days. Parents are afraid to let their children go to school, and he has been scolded a lot.
"We've already sent people to patrol the entire town, so how come another one is missing? Over twenty children have gone missing in just half a month. What are the people going to think of us?"
Xiao Tang smiled bitterly and pointed at the dark circles under his eyes: "Master, we are short of manpower. The brothers are already working all day. I haven't slept for three days."
The town police station has only about ten people including the director, and there are many small roads and forks around Anqi Town. Even though they patrol and set up checkpoints day and night, they have not yet found the human traffickers' lair.
Xi Jianzhong couldn't sit still any longer, so he picked up his hat and walked out, "Let's go to the place where the child was lost this time."
Before I walked out of the office, I heard a cry of surprise from the door.
"Found it, found it, the lost child is found!"
Xi Jianzhong was stunned and ran out without caring about the hat that fell from his hand.
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On the other side, Shen Yuanjia followed the ox cart carefully with an electric baton in his hand. He didn't dare to follow too closely for fear of being discovered. Fortunately, the ox cart was not moving fast, and he did not lose it by following the ruts.
As he walked forward, he scattered the corn kernels in his arms on the road. This was also an agreement between him and Shen Anan. In this way, when Shen Anan called the police, they could follow the trail and catch up.
After leaving Anqi Town, the ox cart drove for more than an hour and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated temple at the foot of a mountain.
As soon as the ox cart arrived at the temple gate, two people came forward and moved all the sacks on the cart into the house. The middle-aged man who had been driving the car also followed them into the dilapidated temple.
At the entrance of the dilapidated temple, a thin man was guarding the door, looking around vigilantly.
Shen Yuanjia slowly walked around the mountain to the back of the dilapidated temple. The temple was not big. Apart from the main hall, there was only a connected meditation room. When Shen Yuanjia approached, he could hear voices coming from inside.
"Brother, I can't stay in Anqi Town anymore. When I went to the town to pick up some goods today, I saw several patrolling police officers. Luckily, I took a detour and got out safely."
"It's okay. We've already found a buyer for this batch of goods. We'll leave tonight and it will be safe once we leave here."
"No! Big brother, there's one item missing!"
"Tiezhu! What's going on? Why is there one item missing?"
"Oh no, maybe I accidentally fell off the car on the way. I'm sorry, brother, I really didn't mean to do that."
"You idiot! You're more likely to cause trouble than to help. Why don't you just throw yourself away?"
Shen Yuanjia approached the window of the dilapidated temple and looked inside secretly. He saw about five people in the dilapidated temple. There were sacks that had just been unloaded from the ox cart on the ground, and some of them were opened.
Shen Yuanjia's breathing became heavy for a moment. There were indeed unconscious children in the sack, both boys and girls, and the oldest was probably only five or six years old!
The man who had just been driving the ox cart was curled up on the ground and was being kicked hard by the leader of the group. He was screaming in pain and there was blood at the corners of his mouth.
"Ah... Big Brother, please forgive me. I... really didn't mean it. I won't dare to do it again."
"Stop howling! You're going to kill me sooner or later! Get back to work! I'll take care of you later!"
"Hurry up and load the goods onto the oxcart. We'll be met by a truck when we get to Shipankou. We have to leave now, or we won't be able to leave any later."
"Give these brats some more medicine, and make sure they don't wake up halfway."
Shen Yuanjia saw that the people in the dilapidated temple had already started to move, and he was secretly anxious because the police station people had not arrived yet.
It only takes an hour to drive from here to Shipankou by ox cart. If he lets them get on the truck with the children, he won't be able to follow them and it will be difficult to rescue the children.
After thinking about it, Shen Yuanjia took out the tinder from his body, sneaked to the side of the parked ox cart, loosened the reins of the ox cart, and then used the tinder to light the ox's tail.
The cow felt the heat and was frightened for a moment. It ran around the yard frantically, broke through the fence next to it and ran away.
"Boss, come out quickly, there's someone here!"
"Who are you! Damn, are you trying to kill yourself?"
As soon as the cow ran away, the man who was watching at the temple gate immediately noticed it, and rushed over shouting, with an axe in his hand, and arrived in front of him in a few steps.
Shen Yuanjia threw the dirt in his hand forward, dodged the knife by leaning sideways, and knocked down the man in front of him with an electric baton.
Turning around, he saw that the people who had come out of the dilapidated temple had heard the noise and were surrounding him from all sides. Shen Yuanjia tightened his grip on the stun gun.
"Tiezhu, are you dead? You didn't even know someone was chasing you home!" the kidnapper leader cursed viciously.
"Brother, blame yourself for meddling in other people's business! Come on, chop him up and throw him on the mountain to feed the wolves!"
"Hurry up! If you let him get away, you'll all get shot just like me!"
One against four! And they all have knives!
Shen Yuanjia couldn't help but break out in a sweat on his back, but there was no way to avoid it, so he was about to fight hard.
But then he heard a gunshot in the distance, followed by a chaotic sound of footsteps approaching from behind.
"Don't move! Put down your knives and put your hands up! Or I'll shoot!"
When Shen Yuanjia saw the police rushing towards him with guns, he breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking of his sister's instructions, he quickly hid the stun gun around his waist.
"Sixth brother, are you okay?" Shen Anan ran up to him breathlessly.
The police just asked her to wait at the police station, but she was really worried, so she followed them anyway, and her bicycle almost started smoking along the way.
"Brother, I'm fine, don't worry. You guessed right, the sack is indeed full of children."
Shen Anan was supporting Shen Yuanjia to catch his breath when a prompt tone suddenly came from his mind.
"Ding, the host has triggered a hidden mission. Rescue 22 abducted children. Reward: 50 check-ins and 220 system experience points."
"Ding, experience has been detected to be full, the 007 sign-in system has begun upgrading."
"The sign-in function is temporarily suspended during the upgrade process. Please wait patiently."
Shen Anan was confused by the series of prompts in her head. Why did the system have hidden tasks, and why did hidden tasks give experience points?
She had observed this before when she discovered the upgrade experience bar on the system interface. Each time she signed in, she would gain more or less experience based on the value of the items obtained.
But you can only see the progress bar changes, not the specific values.
The experience bar had always been a little short before, but I didn’t expect that the unexpected reward I got this time would directly fill up the system experience bar and start upgrading.
The system upgrade countdown is displayed in the upper left corner of the system interface, and there are 8 hours left until the upgrade is completed.
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