After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 405, Episode 0438: A Tribute to the Unsung Heroes (Part Two)
So when Wang Jun learned that Luo Hui had a package and that Leng Zhan had taken it, he immediately went to find Leng Zhan.

Fortunately, the trash hadn't been taken away yet, and that old notebook was still there.

“Wang Hui and Luo Hui have a communication symbol that only they know. The notebook is blank, but it contains messages that Luo Hui told Wang Hui.”

"Luo Hui has something hidden in an abandoned theater in Beijing."

“Wang Jun dared not tell anyone about this. He pretended to be going back to his hometown to visit relatives and took a detour to Beijing. Because of your father’s relationship with your uncle, he didn’t even dare to ask your father for help. He went to retrieve the things Luo Hui left behind.”

Little did they know, this was someone else's scheme.

"When Luo Hui entered the city, he pretended to be a farmer from the countryside who had come to the city. He was 'tricked' into digging for illegal coal. It was a private coal mine deep in the mountains. People who were tricked into going there could never come out."

Luo Hui was a very smart and observant person. After a period of time, he discovered an anomaly there: every ten days they could rest for half a day, and during this half day they were only allowed to stay in their rooms and could not leave.

The timing was too regular, and restricting their movement was also abnormal. Although the mine did not allow them to leave, their movement was usually not limited to indoors.

The only ventilation window in their house was on the roof; once inside, they couldn't see anything outside.

Therefore, it is questionable that they were all trapped inside for half a day.

The mine managers didn't treat these people who had been tricked into coming here as human beings at all. They did the heaviest work but ate very poorly. Beatings and verbal abuse were commonplace, and the living conditions were naturally not good either. Some had mud walls, and some were even just made of wooden planks.

Luo Hui lived in a mud house, the kind where twenty or thirty people lived together.

Luo Hui lived in the corner. He secretly hid a small piece of iron and used it to pry open the wall every day after everyone else fell asleep. It took him more than half a month to pry open a small hole in the wall.

During another half-day break, Luo Hui saw through the small hole that an armed team had arrived at the mining area. They came empty-handed, but left carrying one heavy-looking box after another.

The distance was so great that Luo Hui couldn't even hear their voices, but this matter drew his serious attention.

Later, Luo Hui intentionally approached the people who were in charge of them. By chance, during a mine collapse, Luo Hui saved the people who were guarding them.

No one knows the man's real name; everyone calls him Brother Luo, which happens to be his surname as well.

Perhaps for this reason, and also because Luo Hui saved him, that Brother Luo took good care of Luo Hui afterwards.

Brother Luo held a high position in the mining area. He was the brother-in-law of Boss Qiu, the highest-ranking manager, and Boss Qiu's favorite concubine was his sister.

Brother Luo transferred Luo Hui away from the mine and sent him to work in the kitchen.

With Luo Hui's deliberate approach, his relationship with Brother Luo grew better and better, and he was directly taken under Brother Luo's wing and became his underling.

Finally, Luo Hui was able to access some of the mine's secrets.

At this moment, Luo Hui encountered a life-or-death situation.

Boss Qiu had seen Luo Hui's performance all along and seemed to have taken a liking to him, but he hadn't fully trusted him yet.

Another soldier who had infiltrated the area was discovered by Boss Qiu and his men. Boss Qiu took Luo Hui and ordered him to kill the soldier who had been tortured beyond recognition. When Luo Hui faced the soldier, the soldier understood his gaze and mouthed a few words to him: "Room Seven, west corner!"
Luo Hui took the dagger that Brother Luo handed him and personally plunged it into the soldier's chest.

From then on, Luo Hui gained Qiu Laoda's trust. He was not only allowed to move freely within the mining area, but also became one of the people managing the miners, just like Brother Luo.

Luo Hui knew that even so, he still hadn't gained Boss Qiu's true trust, so he didn't take any other actions and dutifully served as a 'security guard,' even managing the miners more strictly and harshly than the other 'security guards.'

As for the place the fallen soldier told him about before he died, he never went there.

Luo Hui's dedication pleased Boss Qiu. In particular, Luo Hui was good at observing, and after spending more time with Boss Qiu, he figured out some of Boss Qiu's preferences and often catered to them.

Luo Hui's status has risen noticeably, and he can now go out of the mining area with Brother Luo to purchase supplies.

Even so, Luo Hui still couldn't contact the outside world because Boss Qiu and his men were very cautious. Unless Luo Hui was in the mining area, he was always accompanied by someone no matter where he was.

Boss Qiu is extremely suspicious. He doesn't just doubt Luo Hui; he doubts everyone, even Brother Luo, whom he doesn't fully trust. Luo Hui himself is also responsible for monitoring others.

The men who followed Boss Qiu were all desperate criminals. They all knew what would happen if they fell into the hands of the authorities. They were all people who risked their lives, so it was naturally difficult for them to trust each other. Therefore, it was impossible for Luo Hui to cooperate with anyone else.

But he still managed to find an opportunity to secretly take out what the fallen soldier had hidden, and then, under the guise of going out, he hid it in an abandoned theater.

That abandoned theater was a bit eerie. It was gloomy even during the day, and there were rumors that you could hear opera singing coming from inside at night. Some people even had similar experiences of being trapped in a maze when they passed by the theater. When they came to, they found themselves inside the theater, sitting under the dilapidated stage.

Even Qiu Laoda's men were afraid of that.

Luo Hui used this information to hide the items under the stage inside the theater.

Unfortunately, Luo Hui was still discovered.

It was also discovered that the fallen soldiers had left behind some belongings, which Luo Hui had hidden.

Boss Qiu and his gang subjected Luo Hui to severe torture, but Luo Hui gritted his teeth and refused to say anything. One of the people who had lived in the same room as Luo Hui had a conscience and couldn't bear to see him suffer any longer, so he secretly gave Luo Hui a small piece of metal.

Luo Hui used that not-so-sharp piece of iron to slice open his own neck.

Luo Hui is dead.

In fact, he didn't know much about what happened in the mining area. He didn't even know what the things left behind by the soldiers were. The flat iron pen box was very old and so rusted that it couldn't be opened without special means.

"Luo Hui did not open the pencil case to see what was inside. He took out the pencil case on the first night he was allowed to leave, hid it after leaving, and was arrested when he returned."

Speaking of this, Zhang Hongying felt very heavy-hearted. Whether it was for Luo Hui or that soldier, their sacrifices were too great.

"Luo Hui also had no chance to send out any news. The person who sent the package to the Beijing News Department was not Luo Hui himself. Luo Hui had been trying to contact the outside world, but he had not found an opportunity. After Luo Hui hid the things in the abandoned theater, he probably sensed that something was going to happen to him. On the way back, he handed the notebook to a passerby."

That was a choice made when all other options were exhausted.

Unfortunately, Boss Qiu had long suspected Luo Hui, so Luo Hui's every move was under the watchful eyes of Brother Luo and the others. The notebook eventually ended up in Boss Qiu's hands after going around in circles.