Zhou Lin

The current village chief of Blind Mountain Village is Abdul, who is forty-five years old. He has four wives and five sons at home.

Although monogamy is practiced in the Federation, no one takes it seriously in Blind Mountain, because most of the women in the village are trafficked, so no one goes to the government agency to "register marriage" , and no one will hold any weddings. Things like the "Marriage Law" that emphasize equality between men and women are like a fantasy here.

People in Blind Mountain only know that a poor man only buys one, while a rich man has many wives and concubines.

Abdul, is no exception.

At noon today, he was still in a very happy mood, because one of the three women brought by the regular traffickers this time was quite beautiful, and village chief Abdul wanted to make her his fifth. A wife.

However, those traffickers were also very smart. They knew that the "goods" this time could be sold at a high price, so they started to speak loudly.

Since the two parties could not reach a consensus on the price within a short period of time, the village chief decided to keep the few people at home for dinner tonight and slowly bargain over the price during the dinner. The three abducted women were temporarily detained at the village chief's house. in the cellar.

This cellar has been specially modified and can be said to be used to imprison people. Almost every household in Blind Mountain Village has a similar cellar. Once someone from the federation comes to inspect the village, each household can close those who have the tendency to escape. The women were imprisoned.

Originally, Abdul planned to take advantage of his free time in the afternoon to play mahjong with a few traffickers to bond. Unexpectedly, in the afternoon of that day, Afaf's father came to the village.

As a result, the village chief asked the traffickers to stay at his home for a while, while he rushed to the scene in a hurry. With the help of his four "police officers" and a large number of villagers, he captured the father and daughter of Afaf. He was put into a detention room at the police station in Blind Mountain Village.

At 4:15 in the afternoon, just as Abdul was discussing with several local tyrants and evil gentry in the village how to deal with the father and daughter, suddenly, there was a noise outside the police station.

There is no doubt...this is Shi Sanwen and his group.

The process of how they found this place was not complicated. People like Zhang San naturally knew how to achieve their goals through negotiation. As soon as their car entered the village, Zhang San caught a passerby and said that he was sent by the Federation. The commissioner made a surprise inspection and asked the other party where the village chief was.

Blind Mountain Village rarely sees outsiders other than traffickers and abducted people come in, and there are still things going on in the village at this moment. When the villagers heard that the other party called himself a federal commissioner, they thought... No matter if you are a real commissioner You are still a fake commissioner. Just leave you to the village chief.

In this way, Zhang San asked where the village chief was and drove directly to the door of the village police station.

After the car stopped, amidst the discussion of the villagers, the other three people except Lieba got out of the car together and strode to the police station.

"Wait a minute! Who are you?" The four policemen under the village chief were standing guard in the courtyard. When they saw three strangers rushing in, they rushed to stop them.

"We are in business, and we would like to discuss some business with your village chief." Zhang San was still responsible for the negotiation.

"A businessman?" The leading evil policeman held a cigarette in his mouth, draped an old-fashioned police uniform that had long since been eliminated by the regular federal police force over his shoulders, and squinted at the three people in front of him, "What kind of business? You can meet the village chief whenever you want? And...where do you think this is? The police station! What kind of business are you talking about? Go, go, go..."

"Hey, brother, don't be angry." How could Zhang San, a man who had gone through big storms, be scared off by this little village chief? Not only did he not retreat, but he took half a step forward without being humble or arrogant, "We We are doing a business with those who came here at noon today..."

As he spoke, he handed over a pack of cigarettes; the cigarette box of this pack was open, and in addition to a few unfinished cigarettes, there were also a few folded banknotes stuffed inside.

The evil policeman glanced at the cigarette case, his expression changed immediately, and he glanced at the three colleagues around him. Then, he looked at the villagers who were peeping outside the courtyard gate, and suddenly raised his voice and shouted at those people. He yelled: "What are you looking at! If you want to watch the excitement, go back to your home!"

These four evil policemen were all vicious dogs raised by the village chief. How dare the villagers offend them? After being treated like this, they could only disperse in anger.

A few seconds later, when the people were almost dispersed, the leading police officer pretended to clear his throat, raised his hand to touch his nose, and when he lowered his hand, he took the box held by Zhang San. cigarette.

After taking the cigarette in his hand, the evil policeman lowered his eyelids and glanced inside again to confirm, and then put the cigarette case into his pocket.

"Fu—" After receiving the benefit, he spit out the cheap cigarette he was smoking, then threw the cigarette butt to the ground and stamped it out, and said to Zhang San unhurriedly, "Wait here."

After saying that, he turned back, walked to the door of the house, knocked on the door twice, and went in.

About a minute later, he poked his head out of the door again, waved to Zhang San and others, and motioned for them to come in too.

Zhang Sanye exchanged glances with Shi Sanwen and Saleh, and then walked over together.

This room is where the police station works. It is not small in size. There are several desks put together in the middle of the room. There are seven or eight stools scattered around the table. They are all occupied by the "country squires" at the moment.

Zhang San and Shi Sanwen, the two old fritters, already knew which of these people was the village chief with just a quick glance, but neither of them said it. It wasn't until the police officer introduced them that they fixed their sights. on the other party.

"Do you guys... have anything to do with me?" Although Abdul is not a smart person, he is considered smart in this village. He will not let down his guard so easily. He has to be on guard. The three people in front of me are plainclothes agents tracking down trafficked persons.

"I won't beat around the bush," Zhang San said, "I'm here today to announce to you that we have taken over the business of Urd (the leader of the traffickers) and theirs."

"Huh?" Abdul continued to pretend, "What Urd? I don't know anyone with that name at all."

His acting skills when lying seemed to Zhang San like a primary school student pretending to be sick to skip class.

"Ha..." Zhang San sneered, "I understand, you don't believe us, don't worry, we come with 'sincerity'."

When he said the word "sincerity", he turned to look at Saleh. Because they had already planned it in the car, Saleh saw this and immediately took a few steps forward and moved himself A crossbody bag taken from the car was placed on the desk.

"What is this?" Abdul still had a sullen face and an indifferent expression.

"Sincerity." Zhang San said and made a gesture of invitation.

Abdul stared at Zhang San for a few more seconds, then raised his chin and motioned to the police chief standing nearby to help him open his satchel, and the latter quickly did so.

With the sound of the zipper sliding and the mouth of the bag being opened, a large bag of cash appeared in front of everyone.

At this moment, the squires from Blind Mountain Village who were sitting in the back saw their eyes straight and stood up from their seats one after another, as if they wanted to burn through the bottom of the satchel with their sight... Even though they were in this village They were considered rich, but they had never seen so much cash piled together in their lives.

The village chief, Abdul, had naturally never seen so much money. A look of surprise instantly appeared on his face, and was quickly replaced by greed.

"These... are just deposits." Zhang San saw that they had all taken the bait, and his tone of voice changed, becoming full of temptation, "The deal is concluded, and there is more."

"What do you want?" At this time, Abdul had no intention of hiding anything anymore. He seemed impatient. After all...that's the extent of the vision and understanding of a person like him.

"Let me tell you straight, we all belong to a criminal organization whose name you better not know." When Zhang San said this, he took out an I-PEN from his jacket pocket. He casually searched for Zhang Lieba's wanted poster on the Internet and quickly waved it in front of the bunch of country bumpkins. "This guy in the photo is our companion. He is sitting in the car outside the police station right now." Here, if you don’t believe me, you can go out and see what he looks like..."

When he showed the photo, he deliberately kept the I-PEN screen moving horizontally, so that those people could only roughly see Hunter's face and the capital letters "WANTED", but could not clearly see other captions below. (Although Zhang San can also be fooled by the content of these words, it is better to do less than to do more).

After only three seconds, Zhang San took the I-PEN back and continued: "Based on this alone, I think you should understand... We are definitely not federal plainclothes or other civil servants, to put it harshly. ...The federation is too lazy to take care of a place like your village, let alone..." He pointed to the bag of money on the table again, "...using so many resources to play with you. What an undercover game.”

"Yes...yes." Abdul nodded in agreement, "You are right, by the way...I haven't asked you for advice yet..."

"You can call me Zhang San, but don't ask for other people's names. It's better for you to know less." At this moment, Zhang San has completely turned away from guests, and his tone of voice has become more aggressive.

"Okay, Mr. Zhang," Abdul said, "I already believe your identity, and I probably know what business you are doing...but I don't understand, what are you doing by giving us the money?"

This is a good question. Generally speaking, it is the people in this village who give money to the traffickers, not the other way around.

"Our organization now wants to monopolize the human trafficking business in the entire Eurasian continent. Therefore, there are orders from above to integrate resources, reorganize teams, expand sales channels, and optimize operating models..." Zhang San said in the word "order" These people in Blind Mountain Village basically didn't understand a word of what was said after that. Of course, this was exactly what Zhang San expected.

"In short..." After bluffing the other party into confusion, Zhang San used a summary tone to transform the lines into a form that the other party could understand, "You will never see Urd and him again in the future. Those men, we will provide the supply of goods here in Blind Mountain from now on..."

"I understand, I understand..." Abdul responded tremblingly, "Then you want Urd and the others..."

"Don't worry, we will handle it cleanly. You don't need to take action, and no one will come to investigate. You just need to tell us where they are now, and the rest will be none of your business." Zhang San replied.

"Okay! They are at my house!" Abdul said, already standing up, "I will take you there right now."

"Don't be busy yet." Zhang San waved his hand and motioned for the other party to sit down. "This matter is not urgent. They won't run away. I still have something to say..." He paused and then said, "I As I said just now, the most important thing for the organization is to 'integrate resources', which means... we need to collect the 'goods' from all over the place, count them, screen them... and then redistribute them and sell them."

Abdul looked suspicious when he heard this: "You mean...you want us to return the women we bought before to you?"

"That's right." After Zhang San said this, he patted the money on the table, "This money is the deposit for this transaction."

This request made the village chief, the squire and the evil policeman next to him frown. Firstly, they didn't quite understand the other party's purpose of taking the person back, and secondly, they asked them to send away the wife they had obtained. They were somewhat a bit reluctant. Tangled.

"Hey, aren't you guys stupid?" At this time, Shi Sanwen, who had been silent for a long time, began to "push the edge". He said in a gangster-like tone, "We are going to do what you said in the beginning." What's the loss for you if you buy back your 'used' daughter-in-law at the original price? You got her body and son for free, and you got the money back. Wait until we organize the goods again After the distribution, you can buy a new one with the money."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang San took advantage of the situation and said, "That's right! You all make money from this deal. Also, when our organization is on track, you don't have to wait as eagerly as you do now to buy a daughter-in-law. Let guys like Urd come to your door, and only bring two or three people here for you to choose at a time, and you still have to bargain after the selection... From now on, we will sell on demand, and we will directly choose from hundreds of pictures of girls. , choose what you like and then deliver it to your door, and the price is clearly marked on each item.”

When the two of them interrogated "Rough Noodles" at the gas station, they already understood 70% to 80% of the behavior of the traffickers and the situation in Blind Mountain Village, so they used this "Blind Mountain" method in a tacit understanding. Let’s sing in harmony with the thinking mode of “people” and settle the accounts for those scumbags.

After they said this, the village chief and his group suddenly became enlightened, and some even clapped their hands and applauded on the spot.

Even Zhang San didn't expect that things would go so smoothly...

What happened after that all unfolded according to Shi Sanwen's plan.

Village Chief Abdul did not hesitate to sell out the human traffickers who had been with him for many years. Twenty minutes later, those people were buried in the mountain... Of course, all the work of digging holes and burying people was done. It was Hunter Ba who carried the shovel and did it.

Just after five o'clock in the afternoon, the village chief, the squire, and the four policemen couldn't wait to go door-to-door to convey the "deal" proposed by Zhang San and others.

There was no way to talk about this on the public radio because it couldn't be heard by the women in the village.

Fortunately, Blind Mountain Village is not big. When many villagers heard about such a good thing, they immediately joined the ranks of disseminators of the news. In less than three hours, all the men in the village, as well as some elderly people, knew about the sale. .

At eleven o'clock that night, after the children and unsuspecting women in the village fell asleep one after another (this kind of village had no shops open at night, and naturally there were no entertainment activities), the greedy villagers took action.

By midnight, hundreds of people had gathered on the main road in front of the village police station.

Every household tied up their daughter-in-law and "escorted" them here; some of the tied women struggled hard, and their "family members" pushed them to the ground, and several people sat on them and held them Suppress it for a long time, and they won't have the strength to resist anymore.

At this time, Shi Sanwen and his party were in a small room at the village police station, eating the good wine and food provided by the village chief (Lieba didn't eat or drink because Shi Sanwen wouldn't let him), looking through the window from a distance Look at this ugly drama.

"Hmph...this money is not in vain." Hunter Ba said in a mocking tone, "I'm afraid I won't be able to find this kind of scene even if I search the entire planet."

"Why did you just 'spend' it?" Zhang San heard this and immediately asked, "I still want to get the money back, okay?" He took a bite of peanuts, sipped his wine, and then said, "Although that bag of cash is It was found from Nassar’s villa, but I didn’t intend to just give it to them.”

"Huh?" Hunter Ba didn't understand again. "How can we rescue those women from the village without giving them money? Although the people in this village are stupid and greedy, it's precisely because they are this kind of people... not very good. Maybe you’ll be a free hand.”

"Yeah, they won't hand over the person until they get the money." Saleh also added.

At this moment, among the four people, Saleh is the only one who feels nervous and anxious. Although he knows that with these three people in front of him, he has a high chance of being reunited with his wife, but before he actually achieves his goal, It was inevitable for him to feel uneasy.

Two seconds later, Shi Sanwen said: "We don't need them to 'hand over' people, we just need them to gather people together like now."

His words obviously meant something, and Lieba quickly understood the meaning and felt a chill.

"You..." Although Hunter Ba knew that there were only the four of them in the room and no one was watching through the wall, he still lowered his voice subconsciously before saying, "...want to kill them all?"

"Is there any problem?" Shi Sanwen asked.

"Not even sparing the old man?" Hunter Ba asked again.

"In this village... I will not let go of anyone who has bought a wife or has become an accomplice, even if they are only fourteen or fifteen years old." Shi Sanwen replied.

"Isn't this...a bit too extreme for you?" Lie Ba said, "Although I may not be qualified to say this...don't you think it would be more appropriate to let the federal police deal with the people in this village after rescuing these women? ?”

"How to deal with it? How to deal with it?" Shi Sanwen laughed dryly, "Oh, they will sue everyone in the village at the same time? Including the elderly and teenagers under the age of 18? Not to mention the 'law does not punish the public' thing... Even if we assume that there is a very clean and honest prosecutor who plans to prosecute the entire village, how do you think this lawsuit should be fought?

"There are many women in this village who have been captured for many years. They are old and resigned to their fate. Some of them have given up on escaping and their previous lives... How do you collect evidence to prove that their movements here are restricted? How can you convict someone without evidence?

"Taking a step back, what if you are convicted? According to federal law, buying abducted women and children... is only punishable by a fixed-term prison sentence of less than three years. After buying, the victim is raped, injured, humiliated, etc., according to the crime of rape and injury. Separate sentencing, but those behaviors... still require evidence, and without evidence, it will be difficult to impose a heavy sentence."

Hunter Ba originally thought that apart from his achievements in supernatural powers, Shi Sanwen was basically a rude deadbeat. He never expected that... the other party was not only educated, but he could also use his knowledge to fool him if he wanted to.

"Also, don't forget..." Shi Sanwen didn't finish his words, "Those women have been isolated from the outside world for too long. Their families may have given up looking for them or have died. They are still outside." Survival is a problem, let alone raising one or more children alone... How sure are you that they will not lie for the sake of their children and side with the perpetrator?"

"Okay, everything you said makes sense." Hunter Ba couldn't answer the other party's question, but he already understood the point of the other party's words, "Just kill him, I just asked casually."

"Salih, what do you think about Lao Shi's actions?" On the other side, while listening to the conversation between Lie Ba and Shi Sanwen, Zhang San saw that the expression on Saleh's face also changed several times, so he asked .

"I absolutely support it." Saleh replied categorically with these five words. After saying that, he took a sip of wine and said, "If my wife or daughter is caught in a village like this, , being insulted, abused, and used as a reproductive tool...Whether the other person is sentenced to three years, ten years, or more than twenty years, it is not enough for me...because of the life of those scum. In my opinion, it is worthless, how can it be compared or converted with the lives of my relatives?”

"Look, there are still people who understand." Shi Sanwen also took a sip of wine and smiled, "Even if something like 'sin' can be accurately calculated using a certain formula, that formula is by no means a 'law'. "

"Then 'who'...or 'what' can settle this debt?" Hunter Tyrant asked, "Can you?"

"Of course I can't," Shi Sanwen replied, "but today, here, I am more qualified than any individual or system to bear the responsibility of this liquidation."

"Just because you are the strongest here?" Hunter Ba raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Isn't this nonsense?" Shi Sanwen answered in a matter-of-fact tone, "Since the birth of mankind, in every corner of this world, the right to interpret and settle 'fairness' and 'crime' has always been in the hands of the time. In the hands of the most powerful individual or group in the area, the weak can only pray for the kindness and mercy of the strong; however, as the number of humans increases, this originally simple relationship gradually becomes complicated, and this forms society and class. These things, but the nature of some things... doesn’t change.”

"Okay." Hunter Ba leaned back in his chair and took a deep breath. Many of Shi Sanwen's words gave him a headache, but he couldn't ignore them. "Then... I wish you, the kindhearted one, a smooth massacre tonight." As he spoke, he poured a glass of wine and raised it.

"Cheers." Zhang San raised his glass.

"Cheers." Saleh also raised his glass.

"Put down your drink!" But when Shi Sanwen raised his glass, he shouted at Hunter Ba, "Don't fish in troubled waters for me. Who the hell allowed you to drink?" After saying that, he clinked glasses with the other two people, " Come on, let’s do it.”