Chapter 559: Rescue
To be in the hands of human traffickers, there was no such thing as a “day.” Every day was the same life, with no shortage of beatings and curses. Growing up in such an environment, most children would also be affected and become full of hostility, fierce and incomparable. But Yu Linna did not. Or rather, the impact was not that great. In an environment where other children would have dirty words on their lips all day long, and would take violence as a virtue, although she would also use violence, most of the time she still had a sense of propriety.
But she was also very clear that she was just one of the many children who wanted to live on. As long as she could live on, she could do anything. She didn’t care how many things she stole, how many things she snatched, let alone who she had beaten to the hospital. She had never cared, because she just wanted to live.
This day, Yu Linna had heard the music on the street, her head was splitting, and many memories that did not belong to her had drilled into her brain. She held her head in pain, and sweat had soaked the ground, her face pale. She was panting, looking at her own hands.
“I, am…”
Who am I?
Only this one question was left in her mind.
Her brain had been stuffed with a memory that did not belong to her, or rather, a memory of a little boy. She had buffered for a long time. And then she had understood. This was probably a memory from her previous life, but this memory could not help her with anything…
The impact of this memory was not great, but after she had had this memory, the first thing she had thought of was to escape. She felt that although she was a child, she had an extra life experience in her head. She should be able to try to escape.
But she was too naive. When she had really done so, she had undoubtedly been caught and had been given a good beating, and then she had been thrown into a small dark room, with no food to eat, and her wounds were left exposed outside. She had almost felt that she was going to die.
She had finally understood. It was impossible for her to leave this hellish place. As long as she was still in the hands of the human traffickers, it was absolutely impossible. The police? If she could find the police, she would have found them long ago. It wouldn’t be like this.
Because she had committed a crime, Yu Linna had been sold again. She had changed several buyers.
But Yu Linna would only grow older and older, and eat more and more. The human traffickers did not want to raise a rice worm. Although her foundation was really good, and at a glance, you could tell she was a good product, but for various reasons, she had not been sold. After being tossed around like this, the last buyer had also felt very annoyed. If the child in his hands could not be turned into money, then what was the point?
“Little Four, let’s just slaughter that blonde-haired child. Her organs can be sold.”
“Boss, are we really going to do this?”
“Then will you raise her? I’m telling you, this child has no merits, but the organs on her body can be sold. That’s also money.”
“I understand. I’ll go right now.”
Yu Linna was just five years old this year. She had been in the hands of human traffickers for several years, and still had no buyer.
But the human traffickers felt that they could not sell her, and did not plan to sell her anymore, but to directly slaughter her and sell her organs. They had forcefully dragged Yu Linna away. Yu Linna had resisted desperately. She saw the knives in the hands of those adults, all of them with a greedy look. She was extremely scared.
“Let go of me! Let go of me!!”
Yu Linna had run everywhere. The basement had only a little space, and plus, a child was more flexible, and plus, she had often stolen and snatched things on the streets, so she knew how to escape. For a moment, the human traffickers couldn’t even catch her. Although several adults had made a move, Yu Linna was very flexible and just wouldn’t be caught.
These few human traffickers were angry. At this time, one of them had thought of something, had called the other little children over, and had taken out the small bag that Yu Linna had been hiding. In this small bag was an exercise book, with a name written on it that she didn’t know. Yu Linna had been carrying it with her all along, never leaving it. For these few years, it had accompanied her like this. In the beginning, the human traffickers had also felt that it was nothing. After all, it wasn’t a big deal for a little child to have her own personal belongings. They had no interest in snatching a little child’s things. It wasn’t worth any money, and it was a waste of time.
But today, the human traffickers had taken out the bag, had held a knife to the bag, and had threatened.
“Girl, are you coming over or not? If you don’t, I’ll cut your thing.”
“Don’t!!”
As expected, Yu Linna had stopped running. She had stopped and was looking at the other party with pleading eyes, begging the adult to be able to return the thing to her.
The adult had used a knife to cut a large gash in this small bag. Then the exercise book in the bag had fallen out. Yu Linna had run over to catch this notebook, for fear that others would snatch it.
And the moment Yu Linna had caught the notebook, the human traffickers had also stabbed down with their knives, stabbing into Yu Linna’s shoulder.
“Ahhh, it hurts so much!!”
Fresh blood had flowed out just like that. Yu Linna was in so much pain she was about to burst into tears. These human traffickers had surrounded her, not letting her run.
“What are you running for? After today, you won’t be in pain anymore. Who asked you to be blonde and blue-eyed, and a foreign product at that? On your body, only your two kidneys and your two eyes are worth some money. Don’t worry. You will die, but you will be reborn in someone else’s body.”
“No, no!!”
Yu Linna was terrified. How could she not know what the other party meant? Wasn’t this clearly to kill her!
Yu Linna did not want to die. She still wanted to live.
The adult had still wanted to get closer. She had gritted her teeth and had rushed over, had used her head to smash into the lower part of the knife-wielding man’s thigh, and had fiercely let the other party feel the taste of a raw egg being smashed on the ground.
“Ahhh, this little bastard!!”
This man’s eyes had turned white. He was holding his crotch and was curled up on the ground. He looked as good as he could.
Yu Linna was holding her notebook, wanting to escape. At this time, a man had come down with a wooden stick. The wooden stick had hit her on the head.
“Ah!”
She had fallen to the ground again. She had tried hard to get up, and then she had been grabbed again, and her head had been fiercely beaten with a wooden stick.
“Run! I’ll let you run! You’re disobedient! I’ll let you be disobedient!”
That wooden stick had hit her on the head. Fresh blood had flowed down from the top of her head. Her vision had become a sea of blood. She had opened her eyes, and her brain was a blank. She had tried hard to move, but had found that she didn’t even have the strength to cry out.
And then, the other party had continued to hit her fiercely, hitting the wooden stick on this little child’s head, not at all knowing how to be gentle.
This child, who was only a few years old, and did not even have the ability to resist, was being fiercely beaten on the head just like that. Fresh blood was flowing. She knew it hurt a lot, but her body was holding onto her exercise book tightly, not letting go. She didn’t want her own things to be snatched away at all.
This notebook was given to her by an important person. She couldn’t lose it…
But…
That important person, who was she…
That’s right. She had been abducted and sold. She was… where had she been abducted and sold?
She remembered that one day she had heard a song on the street. As she was listening, she had started to cry. Why had she cried? What song had she listened to? In her memory, there had once been the gentle smile of a very gentle person. That person, who was she?
She, where had she come from? What was her name? Why had she come here?
Her consciousness had gradually blurred, as if she were about to die. But it didn’t matter anymore. They had originally planned to kill her and then sell off her organs. To die early or to die late was actually the same.
Thinking like this, it seemed to have been a little easier.
“Don’t move!! All of you, put your hands up! Police!!”
Suddenly, the large iron door was smashed open. With the sound of gunshots, the basement had suddenly become a scene of panic and chaos. Then, more and more footsteps had entered. In her ears, there were still the echoing sounds of gunshots, curses, and police sirens. In short, it was a scene of chaos.
This basement had not been long before it was surrounded by the police. This group of human traffickers had been caught in one go, all of them handcuffed. This large-scale operation had dispatched a lot of police force. They had been observing this group of people for a long time and had originally wanted to make a move later. But seeing that this group of human traffickers seemed to be about to kill a child and dig out her organs to sell for money, the police could not sit still and had acted in advance, bringing this group of people to justice.
Yu Linna had been helped up in a daze. It seemed to be a very young police officer. He had seen that she was covered in blood and had quickly asked if she was okay.
“Mmm…”
“So good. The person is fine. Old Li, the person is fine! Quick! Call someone! Send the child to the hospital!”
Yu Linna had slowly regained a little consciousness. She had seen a lot of police officers, a lot of adults, and also an endless stream of curses.
This police officer seemed to want to take the exercise book in her hand. She had suddenly not known where the strength had come from, but she had held on very tightly, refusing to let him take it no matter what.
“Don’t take it! Don’t take it! This is mine!”
“Alright, alright. I won’t take it. I won’t take it. Don’t cry, don’t cry. Big brother didn’t mean to.”
“Don’t take it! This is mine… wuwuwu!!!”
She had held onto the exercise book tightly, not letting anyone take it, and was crying very loudly.
Even if she didn’t remember anything, her body would not forget. She didn’t know where the exercise book had come from, but she knew that it was a very important thing, something that absolutely could not be given to others.
If they wanted to take her things, then she would rather give up her life.
She had been crying all along, without stopping. Her cries were mixed with the curses, cheers, and arguments in the basement.
This year, the police had busted a human traffickers’ den, and had rescued Yu Linna from a life of human trafficking that had lasted for three years. But the little children in the human traffickers’ den had come from all over the country, and had also been resold many times. The original buyers had long since disappeared. For the police to want these children to return to their own families was by no means an easy matter.
Yu Linna had been admitted to the hospital and had received treatment from a doctor just like most of the children. The exercise book in her hand had been properly kept. The police uncles and aunties had heard that this child had refused to let go of this thing no matter what and had thought that it must be something very important to the child, so they had kept it.
The human traffickers’ den had been busted, but the police could only catch a part of them. These human traffickers were all over the country, and it was really hard to say how many cases they were involved in. The police were also extremely busy. Just to help these children who had been rescued from the hands of human traffickers to return to their own families was enough of a headache. Now there were cases of missing children all over the country. Many public security bureaus had files. The police had helped to find them one by one, to see if there were any matching cases. Some of the children had indeed successfully found their own original families. The older ones who had memories and could read were easier to find. The younger ones were not so easy.
“This damn group of human traffickers, they should all be shot. So many children. You tell me, are these people really human? They’re beasts!”
“That’s right. They don’t even let go of the little children. You look at so many children who don’t even remember where their homes are, how they came. It’s all because of these scumbags.”
“Now to want to help the children find their families is really not that easy. But many children want to go home.”
“If we can’t find them, then we can only send them to an orphanage first. There’s nothing to be done about it.”
“Director, that little blonde girl, the mixed-race one, what about her? She doesn’t look like she was abducted from the country.”
“It’s also hard to say. After all, there is no conclusive evidence to prove that she is from outside. And we can only go through the domestic archives and the registered cases one by one to find similar examples. If she was really brought in from abroad, you are committing a transnational crime. And to have to smuggle a little child with this adult across the sea, very few can survive. We are not clear now if she is from abroad.”
“Yes, director. And this child seems to have amnesia. According to the doctor, her head was severely injured, and she has lost a lot of memories. She only remembers that she was abducted and sold, but how she came, what her name is, and when she was abducted and sold, she has forgotten all of it.”
“What a headache. In any case, I’ll contact them first, to see if there are any similar cases of missing persons abroad. This child is the most difficult one to handle. These damn human traffickers.”
The police were extremely busy.
And Yu Linna herself, after her head had been severely injured, there were not many things she could remember. Although to say that it wouldn’t be a big deal for a little child not to have memories of before she was five or six, for the police, it was very troublesome. This meant that they could not find a breakthrough from the child.
Yu Linna only remembered that she had been abducted and sold, remembered that she had lived in the hands of human traffickers for several years. She could sometimes also remember her life experiences in the hands of human traffickers, for example, how to beg, how to steal things. She could sometimes say them. She had sometimes also said that she had once lived on a ship, but she was not clear when. She also did not know where she had come from. The police had asked her if she remembered where her home was, and she had said she did not know.
“Then you can speak Chinese. Do you remember where you are from?”
The police officer asked her.
Yu Linna thought for a long time, looked at the police, and she said:
“I can speak Chinese. Then I should be Chinese, right?”
