CHAPTER 40: CHAPTER 13: IF YOU ACT FAST, YOU CAN STILL SAVE YOUR FATHER

Lin Tianyou: !!!

[Another twist?]

He looked at Mu Yunchu in disbelief, as if all the sounds around him had disappeared.

"What did you say?"

"My father didn’t abandon us? What’s really going on here?"

Just one sentence made Lin Tianyou so anxious that he stomped his feet.

He wished Mu Yunchu would tell him everything right now.

"He truly had no choice at the time." Mu Yunchu looked at him.

[I don’t understand, what reason could justify abandoning one’s family?]

[Exactly, no matter the reason, it’s unforgivable.]

However, what Mu Yunchu said next plunged everyone in the livestream into a long silence.

"He lost his memory."

Those simple four words, spoken in Mu Yunchu’s gentle voice, felt like a thousand-ton hammer, striking hard at Lin Tianyou’s heart.

He murmured, "How could he lose his memory...?"

He simply couldn’t understand.

Mu Yunchu sipped the hot water poured by Li Shang to soothe her throat and quietly recounted the events from thirty years ago.

"The year you were born, a great famine struck. Many people couldn’t get enough to eat, and the crops in the fields couldn’t sustain so many people."

"At that time, your mother had just given birth and couldn’t work. The whole family had to rely on your father to support them. His salary was barely enough to keep you fed."

But both the postpartum mother and newborn baby desperately needed nourishment.

"Your father wanted to see if he could find another job."

Mu Yunchu paused, her gaze turning cold.

"It was then that he met someone, who was the instigator of his tragic fate later on."

For some reason, even though Lin Tianyou still didn’t know what exactly had happened, he clenched his fists, his expression becoming very serious.

Lin Tianyou’s father’s name was Wang Zhengze.

He was only in his early twenties then, working from dawn to dusk, unable to afford even an old hen to make soup.

Seeing his wife out of milk and his baby crying from hunger, he gritted his teeth and went to the job market, intending to find a night shift job.

Although he didn’t hold much hope, perhaps heaven pitied him, and he actually found a suitable one.

The work hours weren’t short, but they didn’t overlap with the daytime, and the boss was generous, offering wages higher than the market rate and paying daily.

Wang Zhengze hesitated for a bit, but when he saw that they were about to hire someone else, he quickly agreed.

However, the work was urgent, and they took him away immediately, not allowing him to say goodbye to his family.

When Mu Yunchu got to this part, some of the more perceptive viewers realized something was wrong.

[High pay? Not allowed to go home? So urgent—could it be a scam?]

Mu Yunchu nodded faintly.

"You could say that."

At the time, many illegal factories were conducting shady businesses secretly.

They took Wang Zhengze away with no intention of letting him come back home.

Back then, police resources weren’t as advanced as they are now, and missing persons in villages were common, so even if reported, it was often futile.

Those people took advantage of this.

[So what happened next, host? Don’t stop, I’m so anxious to hear.]

[Yeah, what happened after that?]

"Later, his father met up with a big group and found out they were going to take him aboard a ship to go overseas."

"He didn’t suspect anything at first until he accidentally overheard the leader speaking and realized it was all a scam!"

As Mu Yunchu’s voice grew heavier, Lin Tianyou’s heart skipped a beat.

"They didn’t want him dead."

But Wang Zhengze was worried about his family and insisted on leaving.

In the struggle, he accidentally fell off the boat, hit his head on a reef, bled profusely, and lost consciousness.

Fearing he would survive and reveal their secret, they didn’t hesitate to fish him out from the water at night and tied him up in a woodshed.

But the next day, they found he’d lost his memory.

The leader saw this as an opportunity and kept him to work.

For thirty years, he lived without his memories, continually being exploited by various gangs.

[Wait, what kind of gang lasts thirty years? Doesn’t the leader age?]

[Yeah, I was going to say, even if he was in his thirties at first, he’d be in his sixties by now. How long can this work last? Thirty years is longer than the existence of my job’s company.]

Mu Yunchu corrected them.

"It wasn’t one gang; he was sold multiple times and now risks his life daily working in illegal mines."

Lin Tianyou didn’t know what to say.

When he learned his father had left because of memory loss, most of his anger had already dissipated.

Not to mention the tragic experiences Mu Yunchu recounted afterward.

Even in his fifties, he had to mine.

He couldn’t imagine the life his father had led over the past thirty years.

Suddenly, a viewer thought of something, furiously typing to awaken Lin Tianyou, lost in sadness.

[Hey, you, don’t just stand there, go save your father!]

[Yeah, is he in danger in the mine?]

Lin Tianyou’s pupils instantly widened, looking at Mu Yunchu for confirmation.

Mu Yunchu had told him about his father’s danger three days ago.

Doesn’t that mean...?

"If you act fast, you can still save your father."

Mu Yunchu lowered her gaze, her expression serious. "I’ll give you an address, but you can’t go there alone."

Lin Tianyou: ?

Then, she addressed the livestream: "Captain Zhou, it looks like we’ll need your help."

In front of the screen, Zhou Zhicheng, wearing reading glasses: ???

"What the hell!"

He couldn’t help but curse as he jumped from his office chair in surprise.

How could Mu Yunchu know this?

Noticing Zhou Zhicheng’s reaction, a small smile appeared in Mu Yunchu’s eyes.

But her tone remained very serious.

"His father was injured last time in the mine but fortunately regained his memory."

"And now the gang realizing this has him under house arrest."

Mu Yunchu waited until today because the situation needed police involvement to resolve.

The gang had more than one or two lives on their hands.

Including the recent sudden collapse of that illegal mine...

Now, they’re planning to completely erase their criminal evidence.

Zhou Zhicheng understood her implied meaning, and his expression also became serious.

He typed on the phone:

[I’ll assemble the team now.]

[Send me the address.]

Without hanging up, he hurriedly rushed out of the room, his flustered demeanor catching the attention of many.

Even Wen Xu, who had stayed up all night to finish an autopsy report and was ready to debrief him, was left unattended.

"Just leave the report on my desk."

"I have an urgent task to handle now."

"We’ll talk after I get back!"

Wen Xu, one hand in his pocket, slightly frowned, watching him leave. His peripheral vision caught sight of the phone screen, furrowing his brow deeper.