Animal Detective

Chapter 207 The Cruelty of Reality

In the dead of winter, a pair of cold handcuffs can make anyone lose courage.

The old woman was so frightened that she trembled and collapsed to the ground.

Shen Xin didn't waste any words and, together with Wang Cheng, carried her away.

Ding Yuwei followed, carrying the child.

Once in the car, Shen Xin first thanked Wang Cheng for his help.

"Little things."

Wang Cheng waved his hand and specially added Shen Xin on WeChat, saying that if he went to Nanjiang to handle a case in the future, he could contact him in advance.

The saying "more friends, more paths" applies to police officers as well.

At the same time, Chen Chao also received results one after another.

As expected, all of them were apprehended.

Chen Chao's idea was to take the person back first, and then send the child to the hospital for a check-up.

Then we'll meet at the branch office directly.

Shen Xin immediately drove back to Nanjiang.

The boy was very well-behaved along the way. Ding Yuwei tried to communicate with him, but she didn't know sign language, and the boy didn't recognize many words.

At this moment, the boy reached out and patted Shen Xin, who was driving, making a gesture and giving him an inquiring look.

Shen Xin didn't understand, but after thinking for a moment, she guessed what he wanted to ask: "Do you want to know how the dog is doing?"

The boy nodded.

It seems he's become friends with the tiger-striped tiger.

"Don't worry, the dog is fine."

Shen Xin actually wanted to ask him what was wrong with his throat, whether it had been poisoned by these people and made him mute.

There are those mute-inducing drugs in movies and TV shows, right? They make you unable to speak after taking them.

But after thinking about it, I decided against it, as it might not be a good memory for the boy.

Back at the branch office, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and we went to work as usual.

After handing the old woman over to Sun Zhao, he also arranged for people to search and collect evidence at the scrap yard.

Shen Xin and Ding Yuwei took the boy to the hospital.

The First Municipal Hospital.

Even during the Lunar New Year, there were still many patients.

After registering for emergency treatment, while waiting, Ding Yuwei bought the boy some snacks, which he enjoyed very much.

Ding Yuwei saw this and felt another pang of heartache.

Shen Xin sighed, thinking that boys were better off, at least their legs and feet were intact.

Unlike the other two children, who both have disabilities.

Even so, just the one act of poisoning these children to make them mute is an unforgivable crime.

Not to mention human trafficking.

Evil exists among us; these human traffickers deserve to die.

Soon, it was the boy's turn.

Upon seeing the doctor and hearing that the child was a rescued begging child, the male doctor's expression changed slightly. He got up, closed the door, and began to carefully examine the child.

The boy sat obediently and even smiled at the doctor.

Even the doctor couldn't bear it.

"Doctor, can his condition, where he has been poisoned and rendered mute, be cured?" Shen Xin asked.

"Poisoned muteness?"

The male doctor paused for a moment, then asked what he meant.

“He deliberately made himself mute,” Ding Yuwei chimed in.

The male doctor suddenly realized and said, "You mean the kind of mute drug used in movies and TV shows, right?"

As he spoke, he picked up a flashlight, examined the boy's throat, and said, "You guys watch too much TV. There's no such thing in real life."

"what?"

Shen Xin was taken aback.

If there's no medicine to make someone mute, then how did this child become mute? The male doctor continued the examination and then explained, "As far as I know, to completely make someone mute, you either have to use something irritating, like a strong acid or a strong alkali, and pour it directly down their throat."

“Doing this would cause permanent vocal cord damage and then loss of voice, but the process is very dangerous and has a high probability of causing loss of swallowing, breathing and other functions. No one would do this.”

"Either, the vocal cords should be surgically removed."

"As for the kind of mute drug you mentioned, it doesn't exist. Of course, it seems there are some folk remedies, such as..."

As he was speaking, he looked up and saw that Shen Xin and the other person were staring straight at him, so he suddenly stopped.

I won't tell you.

He smiled and kept everyone in suspense.

Shen Xin expressed his confusion, because it seemed that not only movies and TV dramas, but also various magazines he had read since childhood had mentioned this kind of thing.

But he's a professional, and Shen Xin trusts him.

"Doctor, what caused him to lose his voice?" Shen Xin asked.

The doctor stood up, wrote out a test form, and then said, "It's probably congenital. I just looked at it, and it's possible that there's a laryngeal cartilage deformity, such as webbed throat or congenital absence of the vocal cords. We need to see the X-rays; there might be a possibility of surgical correction."

He quickly filled out the forms and offered to take the child for a check-up.

At that moment, Chen Chao called, and he arrived with his other two children.

"Dr. Qin, please wait a moment. There are two other children here. Could you please take a look at them as well?" Shen Xin stopped the doctor.

"Two more?"

The doctor's expression changed.

Chen Chao carried the girl in his arms, while Lao Qian carried the older boy on his back as they entered the room.

As soon as he entered, the younger boy's eyes lit up, and he quickly jumped off the bed to greet him.

The doctor immediately noticed the two children's disabilities, a flash of anger crossing his eyes. He quickly told them to put them down and began to examine them.

One person couldn't handle it all, so they called a doctor to come and help.

Shen Xin and the others then went outside to wait.

"Team Leader Chen."

Shen Xin told him that the doctor said the child was born mute.

"According to the doctor, that means these three children weren't deliberately made mute by this group!"

Shen Xin thought of a possibility.

Chen Chao paused for a moment, then said somewhat helplessly, "Well, how should I put it? I've never seen a special drug for making someone mute."

"But I've heard people say that there are some folk remedies, or that you can directly damage your throat with strong acids or alkalis."

"Actually, making someone mute is the least of their worries. Some people just throw things in their faces. You simply can't imagine how terrifying human malice can be."

“Like the mute, I heard them say that it’s actually quite easy to get rid of them. Because the children they get are young, they’ll hit them as soon as they start talking. After being hit a lot, the children will stop talking and eventually become mute.”

"More often than not, they specifically kidnap disabled people, or buy disabled children directly from their parents."

"If it's the latter..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

Shen Xin also fell silent.

That's what I thought of.

At first, Shen Xin's idea was to rescue the three children and then try to find their parents.

I've considered all the methods myself, such as using the branch office's short video account, just like the previous online bounty system, which can quickly achieve the effect of widespread dissemination.

They also thought that their parents might have been searching for their children all along and had never given up.

Shen Xin hopes to see the children reunite with their parents.

But what if it's the latter situation that Chen Chao described?

So these children might have been abandoned by their parents, who disliked their disabilities and sold them.

What's the point of finding their biological parents then?
Even if it's sent back, it will only be abandoned again.

Previously, Shen Xin thought that the existence of practices like forced mutilation and organ harvesting in modern society was already very cruel.

However, if the parents actively sell their children, giving birth to them but not raising them, then this situation is even more terrifying and cruel than forced abortion and mutilation.

Ding Yuwei had obviously thought of this as well. Leaning against the wall, she said stubbornly, "We can't be so pessimistic."

She turned to look at the three of them and said, "We should think positively. At this moment, perhaps three families are looking forward to reuniting with their children."

(End of this chapter)