PNB Chapter 182 Finding a Way Out
Chapter 182 Finding a Way Out
"Woo!"
Suddenly, he heard sobbing. Hu Wa covered Wu Youcheng's mouth with his hand and whispered in his ear:
"do not Cry!"
Wu Youcheng tugged at the hem of Hu Wa's torn jacket and said, suppressing his tears:
"Have we been kidnapped by human traffickers?"
"I don't know. My name is Hu Wa. What's your name?"
Hu Wa introduced quietly, and Wu Youcheng also replied:
"My name is Wu Youcheng."
"Your name sounds so familiar. What's your relationship with the deputy chief of the police station, Wu Youwang?"
Hearing what Hu Wa said, Wu Youcheng hesitated and lowered his head, not daring to speak.
"What does it matter? Your brother is your brother, and you are you. He is a running dog of Japan, and you are not."
Hearing Hu Wa say this, Wu Youcheng's eyes filled with tears.
"really?"
"Don't cry, we are men, we shed blood, not tears!"
After hearing what Hu Wa said, Wu Youcheng immediately held back his tears. He was raised by Wu's mother, who was a crybaby and easily influenced by others. He was a bit like her.
"Da da da"
When Hu Wa heard the sound of the door opening, he quickly pulled Wu Youcheng to the ground and the two pretended to be unconscious.
The two men looked at each other, chatted for a while, and then walked out.
Hu Wa sat up and said solemnly:
"Why do human traffickers speak Japanese?"
Lin Ruotang arrived at the police station. When Haozi saw him, he immediately shouted:
"Secretary Lin, what brings you here?"
Lin Ruotang pretended to be surprised and asked:
"What's going on? Why are you so flustered?"
Haozi had a bitter look on his face and said to Lin Ruotang:
"The Wu family's little brother has been kidnapped!"
"Kidnappers are so bold nowadays. They even kidnap the deputy police chief's brother..."
He asked about Lin Ruotang,
"Secretary Lin, what are you doing?"
"I have a friend whose brother is also missing. He's also in his teens. I'd like Deputy Director Wu to help!"
"no problem!"
A voice came from behind. Lin Ruotang turned to look at Wu Youxiang and said to him:
"That's really troublesome for you."
Wu Youxiang winked at Haozi, then said to Lin Ruotang:
"Let's talk first!"
After Lin Ruotang entered, he said to Wu Youwang:
"My friend's younger brother is called Hu Wa. He's just a newspaper seller. He hasn't offended anyone. I don't know why he disappeared."
Hearing this, Wu Youxiang's expression changed.
"The driver, Uncle Wang, said Youcheng saw two people pulling a teenager. They said the teenager looked familiar and usually sold newspapers on the street. Youcheng asked Uncle Wang to come over, but they knocked him unconscious and Youcheng was taken away..."
Hearing this, Lin Ruotang wanted to spend some time to persuade Wu Youxiang to intensify the search, but she didn't expect that Wu Youcheng and Hu Wa were arrested together.
Wu Youhao was already overwhelmed, and now the director of the bureau was also trying to make things difficult for him. He was so busy that he had to give up looking for Dong Zhenzhen and focus on looking for his brother.
Lin Ruotang finished speaking and was about to leave when Wu Youxiang stood up and called her,
"Secretary Lin, do you have any ideas?"
Lin Ruotang frowned, remembering what Xie Wuwei said, "You little brat is going to eat me to death." He said to Wu Youhao:
"You'd better check how many children have disappeared recently. It's impossible to transport so many people away at once. They must be somewhere. Even with so many children, they must have enough food. Check those restaurants and grain stores."
Wu Youhao nodded slightly. If they continued to search in this direction, as long as they didn't leave the city, there would still be hope.
After Lin Ruotang left, he went to find Niu Batian again.
"At the dock, send someone to take a careful look. Don't miss any suspicious areas."
After Hu Sanjiu returned, he also called some underground liaisons.
"Tiger Boy is missing. He's suspected of being abducted. Some comrades suspect he was captured by the Japanese for experiments. So many young men are missing these days. This is very unusual."
"What experiment?"
"You don't even understand experiments, you fool!"
"It's about researching shells and ammunition!"
After they finished speaking, Hu Sanjiu said solemnly:
"A comrade revealed that the Japanese would use our compatriots, especially young people like Tiger Boy, for experiments, draining their hearts, livers, spleens, and lungs..."
"Oh my god, the devils are not human!"
"Tiger boy!"
"Let's go rescue Tiger Boy!"
"Damn it! They're trying to wipe us out! They're killing our children!"
"Too vicious!"
After everyone had finished arguing, they hurried away. They were very worried that Tiger Boy would be ripped open.
Tiger Boy has been an orphan since childhood. He started working when he was in his teens and later joined them. He is very smart every time he passes on information.
They all said that they wanted to send Hu Wa back to his hometown to study and not waste this good boy's cleverness.
Hu Wa was also looking forward to going to his hometown to study. He had just submitted an application and disappeared before he knew whether it was approved or not.
This teenager is not two or three years old. It would be difficult to take him away silently unless it was a malicious robbery.
Everyone had a boring Spring Festival in 1942, and before we knew it, it was spring 1943.
There are more ordinary people on the streets, some aunties buying groceries and silently observing passers-by, or young wives and old women shopping, even some old porters, or some street vendors selling things.
They appeared in places with a lot of people, all hoping to find Tiger Boy.
Although Hu Wa is young, he thinks he is different from other children. He is an underground courier who has been lurking for many years and has been looking for a way out.
He held Wu Youcheng in his arms and let him look out through the ventilated window.
"what did you see?"
"Nothing, just a window for ventilation."
After putting Wu Youcheng down, Hu Zi started knocking and hitting things everywhere again.
Suddenly, a sound came from the room next to him. Hu Wa listened carefully against the wall, his expression frightened and worried.
"There's someone next door!"
Hu Wa felt that there were walls on all sides and he couldn't see how many people were next door. Judging from the sound of hammering on the wall, there should be more people than on their side.
"There's no way to know who's next door."
The group of kids next door also looked depressed. They had been locked up in this small room for several days.
Hu Wa refused to give up. He pulled out a piece of wire from his ragged cotton coat and twisted it around the wall. The dirt started to fall off. He looked up at Wu Youcheng and said quickly:
"What are you standing there for? Go to the door and keep an eye on me!"
Wu Youcheng quickly ran to the door and stood there. Seeing that Hu Wa was not panicked at all, he was very impressed.
Tiger Boy gave up after a few attempts and said dejectedly:
"There are bricks in the mud."
Thinking of something, he said to Wu Youcheng:
"It's strange that this room is neither hot nor cold."
Hu Wa stretched out his hand to the window next to the door and felt it for a moment.
"There's not a breath of wind, it must be underground!"
Although Wu Youcheng was young, he had been with Wu Youwang since he was a child, and he had heard some things, such as the fact that Japan always sent people to do coolie labor. He whispered:
"Why did the Japanese arrest us? Are they going to send me to Japan to work as a coolie?"
Hearing this, Hu Wa sat down against the wall with his arms folded, and said helplessly:
"With your physique, the Japanese asked you to be a coolie? Are you crazy? Do you look like someone who can be a coolie?"
Wu Youcheng pinched his arm, feeling a little embarrassed. Hu Wa was only two years older than him and was also very thin. He easily picked him up. He looked puzzled.
"Then why did the Japanese arrest us?"
"I don't know, but the Japanese must have been holding their farts in. It might be worse than hard labor..."
After Tiger Boy finished speaking, he looked thoughtful and said:
"Will they take us away and train us to be spies for the Japanese?"
Wu Youcheng's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.
"Can this still happen?"
Then he said to Tiger Boy with admiration:
"You know so much!"
Hu Wa smiled complacently, but felt depressed when he thought about being locked up here. He was going to the rear to study soon, and he would definitely be able to hold a gun then, but now he was locked up here.