Lock and secure

Luo Yao pursed his lips. Although he had guessed all this, he still couldn't help but feel that these secret guards were too inefficient!

If only there was a life detector... or a good dog...

What a hassle!

An hour later, the two swindlers and several respected elders in the village arrived at the ghost village first.

The group did not dare to enter the ghost village and talked in the wide area at the entrance of the village.

Luo Yao and his group hid in the dark and watched everything at the entrance of Ghost Village. From afar, they heard the villagers thanking the two swindlers.

An hour later, five horse-drawn carriages slowly drove over from the road in the east. The carriages were quite formal and looked quite real.

The mountains are high and the roads are long. The villagers have never seen so many carriages before and they are all very excited.

A white-haired old man gratefully grasped the hand of Swindler A. "Sir, I'm so grateful to you for sending a carriage to pick up the child. The roads in the mountains are difficult to travel, and I... I, an old man..."

The old man was so excited that he burst into tears before he could finish his words.

The carriage stopped in front of several people, and they heard their voices before they saw them.

"The old man is right. This mountain road is really difficult to travel on. There are some sections where we have to get off the car and clean it before we can pass!"

A well-dressed middle-aged man in his thirties or forties got off the carriage, followed by several strong men dressed as guards.

The villagers were a little scared by the scene.

Seeing the fear on the villagers' faces, the middle-aged man smiled kindly.

"Don't be afraid, folks. These are the guards from the mansion. The journey is long, and someone needs to protect the children."

"You rough guys should go to the back. It's scary to be blocked here." It was a woman's voice.

Luo Yao and Li Er looked at each other in the dark.

There are women among them...it is indeed a criminal gang, a criminal gang committing crimes together!

The villagers saw the two kind women smiling and said, "As you should, as you should. You two are very thoughtful!"

Each of the dozen or so abducted children was given a piece of cake. Knowing that they were going home, they happily surrounded the two beautiful sisters and talked. Then they were sold to northern Myanmar by the two beautiful sisters... and put into a horse carriage.

There were nearly twenty children from the village, aged between six or seven and fourteen or fifteen. The villagers watched their children go away with eager eyes.

"Don't worry, Dad and Mom. I'll send money back home when Ashu makes some money!"

The older children said goodbye to their parents, and the younger children also waved their hands.

The children lined up and each received a piece of cake, then got on the carriage one after another.

Luo Xiaoye, who was not even seven years old, held a cake and turned his head to look at the villagers crying at the entrance of Hualin Village. If it weren't for these people, he would have starved to death when he was born.

Looking at the cakes he had never seen before, Luo Xiaoye raised his head and asked the pretty sister who was handing him the cakes, "Sister, can I give my cakes to Grandpa Li?"

The woman looked down at him, a hint of displeasure flashing in her eyes, then faded into a kind smile. "What's your name?"

"My name is Luo Xiaoye."

"Xiaoye, don't worry. My sisters brought a lot of cakes and pastries, so everyone in the village will have some. Ying'er, go get some cakes and distribute them to the villagers, and have two guards bring down the rice and flour."

Luo Xiaoye watched the woman named Ying'er carry cakes to distribute to the villagers, and saw two guards carry two large bags of rice and flour to the villagers. He was very moved.

"Sister is such a good person."

Luo Xiaoye gave his beautiful sister a good guy card and finally got on the carriage obediently.

What the happy Luo Xiaoye didn't know was that the woman behind him was looking at his back with eyes as sharp as a scorpion.

The children got on the carriage, and the villagers were reluctant to let them go. The carriage dragged on for two hours but still hadn't set off.

The middle-aged man in the lead lost his patience and stopped the villagers' attachment by saying, "We have to hurry up tonight, otherwise we might have to sleep in the open air." Then the carriage slowly left.

The villagers watched the carriage go away. It was already afternoon and the two scammers were losing their patience.

"Fellow villagers, hurry back! This is a difficult uphill climb, and the road is not easy to walk on at night. You still need to carry food up the mountain."

The villagers looked at the direction where the carriage left with reluctance, still in shock.

"Let's go. The road is hard to walk on at night." The white-haired village chief Li urged everyone.

As the former village chief of Hualin Village, he fled to Xiaogui Village with the villagers and became highly respected by the villagers. He still held the title of village chief.

When the villagers heard that he had spoken, they all bid farewell to the two swindlers.

After watching the two swindlers ride away on horseback, the villagers prepared to go up the mountain.

The nobleman sent them two large bags of rice and flour. Since there were no young and middle-aged men in the village, the rice and flour could only be divided into small portions and carried up the mountain by the women.

"Princess, what should we do? We searched the entire ghost village but couldn't find the young master. Why did those two leave? Aren't they going to look for the young master?"

Luo Yao frowned. These two scammers definitely couldn't go looking for Luo Xinchen, who they had hidden, in public. However, Luo Yao was not sure whether these two scammers, who had swindled so many children, would give up a little one who needed to be raised for a few more years.

Li Er had sharp eyes and saw the two scammers hiding in the distance.

"Master, they haven't left yet. They're coming back."

Luo Yao saw nothing and waited anxiously for half an hour. From a distance, he saw two swindlers sneaking back on horseback.

"I told you to leave that brat alone, you have to come back!"

"Hey! That kid's good-looking, isn't he wanted by someone higher up? The Taurus guy just said that person has some background. You don't even want money, are you crazy?"

"I'm just afraid of being discovered when I come back. Those villagers are really difficult to deal with!"

"What can those old, weak, women and children do to us? Let's go!"

Luo Yao stared at the direction of the two men and whispered to Ye Shisan beside him: "Let the people in the west go to the east and attack from both sides. The villagers have just come up the mountain and we can't let them come back!"

Ye Shisan left, and the two swindlers entered the ghost village with a quarrel.

Luo Yao, Li Er and two secret guards followed.

The ghost village is located on the mountainside and has lost its sunlight early on. It is covered in a gray haze and the collapsed houses look like beasts with bloody mouths in the dim light.

The further you go in, the quieter it becomes, and there seems to be no wind blowing.

The collapsed houses were connected to each other, and the village was overgrown with weeds, with the dried weeds from the previous year mixed with the newly grown green grass.

A single fire can burn this place clean! Luo Yao sighed in his mind.

Luo Yao's heart started pounding when he discovered his horrifying thoughts. He covered his mouth and walked in, not noticing that the two scammers in front of him had stopped.

Li Er quickly grabbed him and made a prohibiting gesture.

"Did you find anything strange?" Liar B asked Liar A.

Swindler A shook his head, and the two scammers continued to walk inside.

After walking for a while, the two scammers suddenly went their separate ways, and the four people who followed them were shocked.

"Discovered?!"

Luo Yao gestured to the two secret guards to chase the other one, while he and Li Er continued to hide.

Swindler A: "Hahaha, where are you hiding? I saw you!"

"Still not coming out yet?!"

"You're not going to come out, right? That's fine too. Since you like to play hide-and-seek, I'll burn you all out!"

Luo Yao looked at the trafficker who was dawdling with his back to them, and looked at Li Er in confusion, "What is he doing?"

Li Er's expression was serious. "Light the fire."

A trace of fear flashed in Luo Yao's eyes. He looked up at the human trafficker, who threw out a burning bundle of grass.

"Li Er!"

Li Er flew out quickly and kicked the burning grass away. The grass fell on the open ground and burned.

Luo Yao walked out and looked at the human trafficker.

"Where did you hide him?"

The trafficker scratched his ear and said, "Oh, you came too late. He's dead."