CHAPTER 57: CHAPTER 57: THEY CAN’T SPEAK OUT

The scene seemed frozen.

Ye Tong stood there in shock.

The man across from her looked bewildered, staring down at his waist, reaching to touch, it was all red.

"Ah—"

A scream like a slaughtered pig rang out instantly, and Er Ye raised his trembling hands: "Have mercy, ma’am."

Ye Tong’s hands trembled, her brain seemed to have stopped working, completely blank, it took a while for her to recover, frightened enough to drop the weapon, "No... it’s not..."

"Pick it up!" A stern voice commanded.

Ye Tong’s body shook, and she looked up at the sound, seeing Ji Ning standing on a rooftop, arms crossed, gazing at her coldly.

Ye Tong reflexively squatted down to pick up the weapon, holding it tremblingly.

"Never drop the weapon you’re carrying at any time, it’s your second life!"

"Ning... Ning... Sister Ning..."

"Come out, it’s time to go." Ji Ning leapt down from the roof, as graceful as jumping down a low step.

With her words, a woman emerged from a nearby rooftop.

Her hair was a bit disheveled, her delicate face slightly bruised, her clothes were torn and dirty-looking, but her mental state appeared fine.

"My legs are numb, I can’t get down..."

The woman looked embarrassed, even glancing back at her own legs.

Ji Ning looked at Ye Tong and pointed to the roof, "Carry her down."

"Huh?" Ye Tong’s mind was somewhat dazed at the moment, but her body obediently moved toward that house.

All the houses here had flat roofs; there was a ladder by the wall to get onto the roof.

Once the two safely landed, the woman bowed deeply to Ye Tong, "Thank you for coming back to save me. Thank you..."

The cold girl told her that if it weren’t for the girl recognizing her car, they wouldn’t have returned so quickly to rescue her.

Ye Tong was a bit at a loss, looking up at Ji Ning, seeing her still cold-faced, hurriedly helped the woman up, "No, it’s Sister Ning..."

"If it weren’t for your timely arrival, I might have been... violated now..." As the woman spoke, her voice turned tearful, and tears started streaming down uncontrollably.

Watching her cry, Ye Tong empathized, her eyes reddening, she comforted her with a hand on her shoulder, "It’s okay now, it’s all over."

While the two were comforting each other, all the men living here were already obediently standing in front of a row of houses, including a few children.

And in front of them stood a seemingly slender figure.

"Men stand on the left, women and children stand on the right."

Ji Ning stood coldly with her hands behind her.

The group quickly separated and stood correctly, with the children following the women, looking at her timidly.

Because at her feet lay a man, half-dead, with blood spreading everywhere.

Though not life-threatening, his face was paper-white, obviously from excessive blood loss.

In the right line, a woman with slightly reddened eyes gazed intently at the man on the ground, her eyes complex.

This man was the one who initially abducted her and is also her child’s father.

Ji Ning glanced over the women here; most showed expressions of numbness, with no light in their eyes.

"Who among you were kidnapped?" Ji Ning asked.

Only three young girls raised their hands; the other women had no reaction.

"Those who want to leave, follow me."

The three girls moved forward without hesitation, but the other women remained unresponsive.

Ji Ning’s patience was limited; she asked again, "Who else wants to go?"

This time, a woman with a child timidly approached, pulling her child along, "Can I take my child with me?"

Ji Ning nodded slightly.

The woman quickly brought her child over, her face showing a sense of release.

Seeing this, Ye Tong became very anxious, shouting, "Why aren’t you leaving? We can take you out to find your families; you’ll never have to be coerced by these beasts again."

Yet these women still remained silent, numbly holding their children, looking to the ground.

Finally, the woman who brought her child out revealed the truth, "We were all kidnapped here, and the children were born with these beasts. How can we go out and face our former families? We’ll only be their stain. It’s better for them to think we’re dead than to go out and be criticized, putting them to shame. If possible, I don’t want to leave either; it’s just that my little girl is sick. I can’t let her rot here like me..."

Ye Tong’s tightly clenched fists gradually loosened, feeling extreme heartache yet helpless.

When Ji Ning was about to take this group of traffickers away, some women came forward to obstruct, even defending these people, claiming to be their wives and that there was no abduction, asking to let them go.

This greatly infuriated Ye Tong and the rescued women.

In the end, Ji Ning used force to suppress them, successfully taking all the traffickers away from the hands of these frenzied women.

There were a total of 12 traffickers, just enough to fit into their small truck for a one-time transport.

To avoid revealing they possessed controlled weapons to the police, the injured man was given "special care" by Ji Ning alone in the front row.

Ye Tong didn’t know what Ji Ning did, only hearing the pig-like screams from the man inside the truck.

This also made the traffickers inside the truck sit upright, not daring to have any ulterior thoughts.

Approaching the city, Ji Ning looked at the road ahead and suddenly murmured, "Forget."

It was like time suddenly stopped; the state of the people in the car paused for a moment, and when they moved again, their eyes seemed somewhat unfamiliar.

When a truck full of people and the victims showed up at the police station at the same time, it alerted all the officers, from the leaders to the clerks.

Several women and a child first stepped down from the truck.

Timidly saying, "We are here to report..."

***

On the other side, Ji Ning and Ye Tong continued on the road in a brand-new luxury car.

"Sister Ning, do you think they really won’t mention our possession of controlled weapons?"

As long as the rescued women don’t speak recklessly, even if the kidnappers say they carried weapons, there is no evidence.

The premise for their rescue was that they wouldn’t speak recklessly. Although they all swore not to betray, Ye Tong was still uneasy, twisting her body nervously on the leather seat.

Ji Ning glanced at her, opened the car window, "They won’t, they can’t say it. If you keep moving, you’ll have to get out."

Ye Tong immediately sat up straight, not daring to move again.

She thought Ji Ning meant "can’t say" as in the women wouldn’t betray them, didn’t realize it meant truly being unable to speak.

During police interrogation, they found these victims remembered their abduction details clearly, but when it came to those who saved them, their memories were chaotic.

Except for that delicate-looking woman who spoke clearly and logically, most other women exhibited little sense.

Many details were ambiguously recounted, even the identity of their savior described confusingly, either they didn’t see clearly or didn’t remember.

Similarly for the traffickers, among them was a man severely injured, with deep wounds resembling knife cuts, yet vaguely showing some burn marks. But he insisted he was stabbed and that the knife had only his fingerprints.

When asked who stabbed him, his memory was fuzzy, sometimes insisting he did it, sometimes saying it was a woman’s accidental injury, as if suffering amnesia.

This frustrated the police greatly.

Also made them suspect the rescuer might be a superpower user.

They now just wonder what the superpower user’s identity might be?

If currently executing a mission, they should not interfere too much.

After weighing the pros and cons, the bureau chief personally made a phone call.

"Old leader, we’ve got a case involving a superpower user. Please advise!"