Chapter 98: Encountering Escaped Human Traffickers
Wang Yi couldn’t argue against so many people alone and eventually accepted the money.
“Is one hundred and twenty yuan enough?”
“It’s enough, one hundred yuan is sufficient.”
“One hundred yuan is definitely not enough.”
In the end, they still stuffed one hundred and twenty yuan to Wang Yi.
Those appliance coupons were very valuable, and the most critical thing was that they were available in name only.
They weren’t going out to sea today; the whole family was busy harvesting the corn.
Wang Yi tried peeling corn but quickly couldn’t stand the wriggling grubs and went home.
He shouldn’t force himself to suffer.
Yun Jiao’s family didn’t grow much corn, and the whole family working together finished it in two days.
In the evening, Granny Yun said to her two sons, “Your wives’ families will likely be harvesting corn too, and then immediately after, they’ll be harvesting rice. They’ll be very busy. Go back in a couple of days to lend a hand.”
Shen Yunlian and Wang Mei, the two daughters-in-law, were very happy to hear this.
“Okay, Mother, we understand.”
Yun Jiao, chewing on dried fish, grumbled and asked, “Are we going to Grandma’s house again?”
“Yes, Yun Jiao, do you want to go?”
Yun Jiao nodded naturally, “I do!”
Before going to her grandmother’s house, they went out to sea again.
Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe went fishing, while Yun Jiao rode an orca, wanting to explore the seabed for any good things.
She and the orca swam farther away. There were indeed many things on the seabed. Holding a large net bag, she caught several spiny lobsters, large crabs, plump cuttlefish, and some colorful and good-looking fish.
When the large net bag was filled with various items, Yun Jiao led the orca towards the sea surface.
Emerging from the sea, she didn’t know where she had come. After swimming a bit further with the orca, she spotted a boat.
It was still a large iron-clad boat.
She swam around the boat twice on the seabed. This boat must have been over twenty meters long, quite large. Her father wanted a boat like this too, right?
She just envied it for a moment, and Yun Jiao encouraged herself inwardly to work hard and earn money to buy a large boat.
Just as she was about to leave, she noticed two even larger boats approaching in the distance. They didn’t look like fishing boats, and they seemed to be flying a national flag, clearly pursuing this boat.
Yun Jiao wasn’t in a hurry to leave anymore and hid in the sea with the orca to join the fun.
Let her see what was going on.
“The boat ahead, stop immediately! The boat ahead, stop immediately, or you will face the consequences.”
“People on the boat, listen. Stop your futile resistance. Surrender your weapons and the children you’ve captured…”
Yun Jiao listened for a while and understood. The people on this boat were human traffickers!
Could they be accomplices of those human traffickers from before?
As she was thinking this, someone on the boat shouted angrily.
“Damn it, what should we do, boss? Those soldiers behind us are chasing too closely!”
“Go bring out a few children. I don’t believe they won’t let us go if we put guns to their heads!”
Surrender? They knew that if they were caught, they would definitely be severely punished, even sentenced to death. As desperadoes like them, they would rather take a gamble than surrender easily.
Moreover, they had hostages. They believed that the soldiers on the other side wouldn’t dare to act rashly.
After a moment, some people from the boat brought out two children. One was held by the leader of these men, standing at the stern of the boat, with a gun pointed at the child’s temple.
“Damn it, if you don’t want these kids to die, all of you back off, or I’ll kill one every minute!”
The two sides immediately froze at a certain distance.
Yun Jiao watched from the sea.
The children held by the human traffickers weren’t crying, but their faces were unnaturally red, looking as if they were sick.
Suddenly, the child slightly lowered his gaze and saw Yun Jiao in the sea.
He widened his eyes slightly, and Yun Jiao raised a finger to her lips.
This gesture meant silence.
The little boy pursed his lips and said nothing.
The leader of the human traffickers was still arrogantly threatening the soldiers, and Yun Jiao dove deeper into the sea.
“Do me a favor.”
She said to the orca.
A pod of orcas surrounded her, all looking at her curiously.
“Wait for my signal. When I say to ram, you will ram the boat on one side.”
The orcas nodded and, following Yun Jiao’s command, swam to the left side of the boat.
The people on the boat were nervously watching the situation with the military. Their silent swimming didn’t attract any attention.
Yun Jiao held a sea urchin and returned to her previous spot.
The little boy’s previously dim eyes instantly lit up again when he saw Yun Jiao had returned.
But more than that, he was worried that she would be discovered by the human traffickers.
While the human traffickers were still negotiating with the military, Yun Jiao forcefully threw the sea urchin in her hand towards the wrist of the human trafficker holding the gun.
With a “swish,” before anyone could react, the sea urchin’s spines had pierced the skin and flesh of the human trafficker leader’s wrist.
The pain instantly made his hand go numb.
“Ah!!!”
Yun Jiao commanded the orcas: “Ram!”
“Boom.”
Several orcas rammed the boat together, nearly capsizing it.
The people on board lost their balance; some fell into the sea. Those fortunate enough not to fall into the sea weren’t much better off. They swayed and barely managed to regain their footing when the military’s boat had already approached.
The little boy held by that human trafficker leader fell directly into the sea when his grip loosened.
He couldn’t swim.
After falling into the sea and choking on several mouthfuls of seawater, the feeling of suffocation was agonizing.
“Bang, bang, bang…”
Gunshots came from the boat. Just as the little boy thought he was going to die, a pair of small hands pulled him and swam towards the sea surface.
He coughed several times miserably.
Yun Jiao, pulling him, directly tossed him onto the back of an orca.
“Hold onto its dorsal fin.”
After saying this, Yun Jiao quickly dove back into the sea to rescue the other unlucky child hostage.
With the impact from the orcas, the human traffickers on the boat had no time to react and were quickly apprehended.
After the human traffickers were all caught, the leading soldier asked, “Have the two children who fell into the sea been rescued?”
“Where are the people searching the sea?”
The people were currently making eye contact with Yun Jiao and the orca pod.
Yun Jiao lay on the back of a large orca, watching the man in the navy uniform raise a chubby little paw and wave at them.
Have to say, perhaps due to being influenced since childhood, Yun Jiao had a good impression of soldiers in this world.
“Are you looking for these two?”
Yun Jiao pointed at the children on the backs of two other orcas. One looked as if his soul had been scared out of him, dazed.
The other had a flushed face and was coughing.
“He seems sick.”
The sick one was the little boy Yun Jiao had rescued first. He was quite good-looking.
It was the first time she had seen a child as good-looking as him, besides herself and Ninth Brother.
“You…”
“What are you guys doing? The children were found…”
The soldier’s voice was extremely loud. As he shouted, he discovered Yun Jiao and the orca pod, and the rest of his words got stuck.
What was going on?
