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Chapter 6 6. The Town of La Maine
Only then did Zheng Yun look up.

This La Maine town is a very typical western gold rush town style, with a main street running through it, and both sides are full of taverns, casinos, and brothels that gold diggers love most.

The gold rush has long passed, and most of the places along the street have been abandoned, the houses are old and black, and most of the signboards outlined by old neon tubes are rotten.

Looking at the end of the depth, many wooden buildings have been swallowed by the tropical rainforest, only a group of pointed roofs are exposed, and the rest are covered by climbing vines and green plants.

It was getting late, and the town was covered with mist, and there seemed to be no cages on the street. Several bonfires were raised at the entrance of the main street tavern, and many people gathered around the bonfire to drink.

It looks fine.

There are rumors in this place that there are gold mines nearby, and the name of the town directly refers to the place where there are mines. Looking at it at a glance, you can see gold diggers swarming in and then scattered, and the history of hundreds of years can be roughly seen.

There should be a hundred more residents in the town.

There are also many off-road vehicles and station wagons parked in the open space at the entrance of the town. There are license plates everywhere, and they should all belong to tourists or gold diggers.

"Do you suspect human trafficking?"

Liu Ming interjected and asked, he saw that there was a brothel in the town, combined with the beautiful girls who often disappeared, he had some bad associations.

That's really old tradition.

There are no such western gold rush towns that do not have human trafficking. If girls are caught in the town to be prostitutes, thousands of people in the town will all acquiesce, just like hell.

Occasionally, I met a well-meaning gold digger who said he wanted to take the girl out to escape, but just after he got out, there were a group of gold diggers who had no money, and they would kill them after they finished.

Larger towns have tens of thousands of people, and there are police stations in the town, but no one cares about this matter at all. It belongs to the default rule like black slaves, and they cannot escape for a lifetime.

"It's just a suspicion. This girl is like possessed by a demon. There must be a reason for her insistence on running this way."

Hu Ruihua didn't say much, turned his head to look at the trunk of one of the cars, and said in a low voice, "So this time I brought some things, mainly for self-defense."

"What the hell, this kind of thing still exists, damn it." Liu Ming cursed in a low voice.

"Think about it." Hu Zi patted him.

This kind of thing is inevitable. Many gold rush towns are located in deep mountains and old forests, and they are thousands of kilometers away. No one can control them, or even want to control them.

Not to mention the deep mountains and old forests, in these foreign places, even the big coastal cities and ports are flooded with guns. If there is a disagreement, the officials will not be able to provoke them.

Zheng Yun was also deeply moved.

The history of gold panning in the East and the West is completely different. In the ancient East, it was basically the official end. There were tens of thousands of people at every turn.

Those are the high officials of the court who are ordered to lead the navy, accompanied by eunuchs and eunuchs, and there are also a lot of court guards and many factory guards mixed in the team.

Once some things are involved with immortals and gods, there will be more rules and regulations in words and deeds.

On the other hand, most of the people in the West who go out to pan for gold are individuals, and many of them are poor and poor, and there are even fugitives. There are basically no rules.

These people are even more unscrupulous when they enter the land of disorder. To put it bluntly, it is called unleashing the wild and the jungle, but to put it bluntly, it is to completely beastize and abandon civilization.

Throughout the history of the gold rush in the West, basically not much personnel work has been done, from individuals to groups.

The East and the West have completely two styles, one is godly and the other is full of evil. In fact, neither is very good, but let Zheng Yun choose, he still thinks that the East is more particular about things, at least better than the barbarians.

As my adoptive father mentioned before, in the years when the confrontation between East and West was the strongest, there were also people abroad who were concerned about Chinese cultural relics and fought against each other. Lao Jiang's family met one by one overseas, and the two sides fought more fiercely in the wilderness than in war.

"We have no ability to manage this matter. After dinner, we bypassed this town and found the person first. The target is equipped with a positioning device and is about eight kilometers ahead."

Hu Ruihua took out a map, on which a circle was drawn, in the northwest direction of the town, separated by two or three hills, neither far nor near.

"This is very strange. If she was coerced, what did she do in the mountain? What is there in the mountain? Or was the positioning device thrown into the mountain?"

Liu Ming asked again.

This is also where Zheng Yun is puzzled, but his 'identity' is complicated now, and he can't show timidity, so it's not easy to ask, so he can only let Liu Ming be his substitute.

"I don't know. I asked the girl's parents whether it was kidnapping or coercion, and whether there was any request for a reward. Her parents said they never did, but this is a family scandal after all, so I can't be sure if there is."

Hu Ruihua shook his head, then gave Huzi a wink, then looked at Zheng Yun and asked, "In any case, we have to be careful, are you short of guys?"

Before Zheng Yun answered, the tiger took out a black travel bag from the trunk, put it heavily on the ground, and asked Liu Ming to open the door and put it in the car.

Liu Ming looked at Zheng Yun with a serious expression. Zheng Yun thought for a while and threw the SUV keys to him.

As soon as this action was made, Liu Ming understood. He opened the back door of the off-road vehicle, and moved the travel bag to the back seat of the car with Hu Zi, so that he could take it at any time.

After discussing for a while, several people decided on the candidates to enter the mountain, and divided up all kinds of equipment.

In addition to renting a car, Liu Ming bought a lot of things this time. In addition to the clothes needed to enter the rainforest, he also has a batch of protective equipment and professional equipment, which is a level higher than that of the search and rescue team. He doesn't care about this small amount of money. up.

Everyone had dinner together, changed their equipment and drove off. Zheng Yun and Liu Ming drove, and Hu Ruihua brought Hu Zi and a thin young man over there.

The rest of the people also have to go into the mountain, but only half of it. It is safer to communicate through the walkie-talkie. In case something happens, there will be an extra way out.

Zheng Yunjin drove the car and followed Hu Ruihua. As soon as the ignition started, Liu Ming turned around and opened the black travel bag, took a look, and sighed:
"This time the stall is big, money is hard to earn and shit is hard to eat. If there is really someone kidnapped and sold, and the two sides are on fire, we brothers won't break it here, right?"

Zheng Yun also adjusted the rearview mirror and took a look. The black travel bag contained everything that should be there, and everything that shouldn't be there. It felt oppressive looking at it.

Just now Liu Ming was filled with righteous indignation, but now that he saw the real thing, he was instantly afraid.

Zheng Yun also felt weak, but he was too short of money. Thinking that Jiang Meng was still in the hospital, he was not afraid. No matter what the situation was, he had to see it first.

"Let's take a step and take a look. It shouldn't happen. That's just the worst plan. I just took a look and it doesn't look like it. There should be other reasons for this."

Zheng Yun turned his head and looked down. They had already gone up the mountain, and they could overlook the small half of La Maine Town, and they could even see the tourists and locals at the entrance of the tavern.

Those people stood or sat around the bonfire, none of them had guns, and they were all holding beer.

It was very conspicuous that the three cars went up the mountain together, and it also attracted the attention of the other party. Many people turned their heads or got up to look this way, and waved and shouted at the convoy.

The distance is relatively far, and they can't hear what they are shouting, but judging from their body movements, these people are relaxed, and they should be whistling and booing after drinking too much.

Eight kilometers is very short.

Ten minutes later, the first two cars climbed up a hill, but the sight in front of them was unexpected.

(End of this chapter)