I'm in Love Apartment, and the system is making me cultivate immortality.

Chapter 188 The Human Trafficker and the Foolish Beauty
"It's freezing rain in Antarctica, and many polar bears have frozen to death. Big brother, would you like to show your love and care?"

The little girl's timid tone pulled Gu Yifan back from the system notification.

"Offering charity?"

“That’s right, big brother. Donating to polar bears will get you a small potted plant. This way, you’re contributing to both protecting polar bears and greening the earth,” the little boy watching chimed in.

Gu Yifan seemed to be deep in thought, and looked around.

Sure enough, across the street from the shops, a group of middle-aged women with suspicious-looking eyes were seen peering in their direction.

As soon as Gu Yifan looked up, she immediately lowered her head and avoided eye contact with him.

There's definitely something fishy going on.
Now Gu Yifan was certain that someone was behind these two children.

The system reminder is certainly not unfounded.

Upon receiving the system notification, Gu Yifan became more vigilant.

There was indeed such a scene in the original story, where a child knocked on the door asking Guan Gu to give him a donation, but since it's a comedy, there was no sequel.

If it weren't for the system reminder, Gu Yifan probably wouldn't have thought much of it.

But now.

Gu Yifan took out his wallet, pulled out a red bill, and handed it to the little girl with a smile.

"This child is amazing; at such a young age, he already understands the importance of contributing to the protection of the environment."

The little girl's eyes were drawn to the red bills, and she eagerly took them, saying sweetly.

"Thank you, big brother."

"You're welcome. Little girl, aren't your parents worried about you coming out to do charity work all by yourself?" Gu Yifan reached out and patted the little girl's head, smiling gently.

With initial positive feelings and the added charm of her presence, the little girl blushed and hesitated for a moment before saying, "My mom and dad live nearby."

"Alright, big brother, we're leaving now."

The little boy, however, was alert. Seeing the little girl chatting with Gu Yifan, he immediately pulled the little girl aside, bowed to Gu Yifan, and then the two ran away.

Gu Yifan turned around nonchalantly, put the small potted cactus back into the car, and got in.

His gaze swept out the car window.

really.

Across the street, a suspicious woman who had been loitering outside a shop also left in the direction the two children had gone.

"A conman? Or a human trafficker?" Gu Yifan muttered to himself.

This kind of charity scam is all too common; it usually takes advantage of people's sympathy.

For example, at airports, subway entrances, or tourist attractions, there are always some scammers wearing red vests who claim to be deaf and mute, asking people to donate to charity.

They'll complain that ten yuan isn't enough, and if you don't give them any, they'll keep chasing after you.

It is not uncommon for people to exploit children to gain sympathy, and some cruel individuals will even deliberately maim children.

Some of them are even the children's biological parents, yet they are beasts in human form.

Gu Yifan has always opposed abolishing certain forms of torture, especially those used against human traffickers and drug dealers, suggesting that they be subjected to the most severe punishments.

However, judging from these two children, they probably haven't been abused at all; they're fair-skinned and delicate.

Perhaps the parents are using their children to swindle and deceive.

Regardless, Gu Yifan had encountered this situation and couldn't simply ignore it.

He pushed the door open again and got out of the car.

The two children met up with the suspicious woman at the end of the street and went to a corner together.

The woman looked around to make sure no one was paying attention before she eagerly asked.

"How much money did that person give?"

"One hundred, Auntie."

"Only a hundred yuan? He drives a Mercedes, what a penniless wretch! What did he say?"

The woman became wary because of a single glance from Gu Yifan.

"They didn't say anything, they even praised us," the little girl said timidly.

“He asked us if our parents wouldn’t worry,” the little boy replied.

"What did you say?"

"I said my mom and dad live nearby," the little girl said, her face showing she was about to cry, which made the woman look impatient.

"Alright, stop crying! All you do is cry all the time."

"What did I teach you? If an adult asks you any other questions, just say it was something the school arranged. How could you forget that?"

"sorry"

"I'll remember that next time!"

"Let's go to that apartment complex up ahead. Go up and knock on the doors, I'll wait for you downstairs. Remember to ask for plenty, understand?"

The little girl nodded quickly.

Women treat boys differently, calling them to their side.

She handed him a can of Want Want milk and some candy, affectionately stroked the boy's hair, and helped him straighten his clothes.

"Keep a close eye on your sister, make sure she doesn't make any more mistakes, understand?"

The little girl looked at the two of them with envy, then lowered her head in grievance, tears welling up in her eyes.

Within the community.

The two children and the woman came in without attracting any attention.

Two children carrying a basket of small potted plants walked into a building.

The woman pretended to be taking a leisurely stroll and waited outside.

Through a grove of trees, Gu Yifan observed the other person's every move and even recorded a blurry video on his phone.

His judgment was correct.

This woman was indeed the mastermind behind the two children.

Unbeknownst to the woman, Gu Yifan overheard her conversation with two children at the end of the street.

Drip!

Gu Yifan's phone vibrated, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a message from Su Weiwei.

Having two lawyers around, I naturally had to consult them.

Su Weiwei told him that this behavior constituted fraud by exploiting a child, which was illegal.

After hearing Su Weiwei's words, Gu Yifan prepared to call the police.

Just then, a middle-aged man, leading three children, headed straight for the woman standing in Building Number One.

The three children had very few potted plants left in their baskets, suggesting they had all brought them together.

Good heavens, there are accomplices?

Including those two children, there are now five children in total.

They are clearly not from the same family.

Gu Yifan initially planned to call the police directly, but after thinking about it again, he dialed another phone number.

"Hello, Officer Moran?"

After hanging up the phone, Mo Lan said she would be right there. Gu Yifan had considered many factors before deciding not to call the police directly.

On the one hand, no job is perfect, and if they encounter some seasoned veterans, it might be possible for these two to get away with it.

But Moran has a strong sense of responsibility; she would never let these two swindlers get away with it.

On the other hand, it's certain that there's something wrong with these two people.

Gu Yifan knows Mo Lan, so why not give her the credit?

Although Moran has now been transferred to the traffic police, she previously worked as a criminal investigator and is very skilled in her duties.

However, it will take Moran a while to get there.

Gu Yifan's current task is to stall the two men and catch them red-handed without arousing their suspicion.

What should I do?
The man and woman exchanged only a few words before deciding to part ways.

The appearance of a pair of strangers in the neighborhood, accompanied by so many children, seemed highly suspicious.

It's clear that the two are experienced and likely repeat offenders, but not very clever.
Why do I say that? You can tell from the language they teach their children: Who has a polar bear living in Antarctica?

at this time.

"Hey! You guys, wait a minute!"

A shout came from afar.

The middle-aged man and woman looked at each other in surprise, but they managed to compose themselves and turned to look at each other from where they were standing.

Meijia chased after him, panting, and ran all the way over, carrying a potted plant with garlic sprouts in her hand.

"Is something the matter?" The man and woman exchanged a glance, and he asked with a sigh of relief.

"Of course!" Meijia exclaimed, hands on her hips. "A broken potted plant actually cheated my friend out of a thousand yuan! Give me back my money, I don't want this potted plant anymore!"

"Madam, we are simply making a charitable donation. Regardless of the amount, we will send a potted plant as a token of our gratitude for your contribution to environmental protection," the man said after coughing.

"I don't care, give me my money back." Meijia ignored the other party and angrily reached out her hand.

At that moment, a little boy spoke up.

"Big sister, why don't you take a look at these photos first? We're donating money to protect animals."

Meijia rolled her eyes. "Even if it's a protected animal, it shouldn't cost a thousand yuan, right?"

But I couldn't resist looking out of curiosity.

A few minutes later.

"Is everything you said true?" Mika asked the little boy, her eyes filled with tears as she looked at the photo.

"It's freezing rain in Antarctica, and the giraffes are all freezing to death! So pitiful~"

"Sister, sister, would you like to donate money and help us protect giraffes?"

In the grove next door.

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Gu Yifan stared at the crying, silly beauty with dead fish eyes.

He retracted his statement that "those two swindlers aren't very smart," and yet, there are still some idiots who fall for it.

Or perhaps Mika is just too kind?
Fortunately, Mika managed to stall the middle-aged couple for a while.

"Then I'll donate all the money I have to the giraffes."

After hesitating for a moment, Mika, with red eyes, took out her wallet.

The middle-aged man was initially wary, but when he saw that Mika really believed it, he was surprised.

"Thank you for your contributions to animal protection."

The middle-aged man happily accepted the five hundred yuan that Meijia handed him, his heart brimming with joy.

"Middle-aged man: I knew it~ Young people in Shanghai are all stupid and rich, and they're all easy to fool~ I didn't expect to find one who would come to me." Meijia was preparing to take two bowls of garlic home.

"Mika?"

"Zhanbo?"

Zhanbo was returning to his apartment when he happened to pass by this road and greeted Meijia.

"What are you doing?" Zhanbo asked, craning his neck to look at the two pots of garlic sprouts that Meijia was holding.

"Is this garlic? Why is it packaged in a potted planter box?"

The middle-aged man and woman's joy at seeing another person arrive and having tricked another fool vanished instantly. They exchanged a glance and prepared to slip away quietly.

After Zhanbo heard Meijia's story, he was puzzled to hear that freezing rain had fallen in Antarctica and many giraffes had frozen to death.

"Wait a moment!"

The middle-aged man and woman, who were about to turn around and sneak away, were forced to stop and turn to look at Zhanbo, who was frowning.

"Are you lying to me?!"

The middle-aged man and woman's expressions darkened.

"Giraffes are only found in Africa, and penguins should be found in Antarctica," Zhanbo pointed out the error in a serious tone.

"Have you been to Antarctica?" the middle-aged man asked slowly.

"I've never been there, but the book says..." Zhanbo hesitated, startled, before he could finish his sentence.

"You've never been to Antarctica, how do you know there are no giraffes there!" the middle-aged man immediately retorted, trying to argue his point.

"I also have pictures of penguins here, would you like to take a look?"

Zhanbo peered over with a mixture of disbelief and skepticism.

After a few minutes
"Waaaaah, the penguins are so pitiful. They have no food or water and have to suffer from hunger. Humans should save them."

Zhanbo and Meijia cried together.

"."

Gu Yifan couldn't stand it any longer.
He really wanted to go over there, grab Zhanbo by the collar, and give him a good talking to.

Zhanbo! Zhanbo, you're a fucking PhD! Fuck!
Is this reasonable?

Gu Yifan was initially worried that the exhibition would expose the two swindlers' scam, causing them to escape.

In hindsight, he overestimated Zhanbo.

Gu Yifan's phone suddenly rang: "Loving you is like a mouse loving rice."

Oh no, I forgot to turn off my phone's ringtone.

The middle-aged couple, who were just wondering what a wonderful day it was that there were so many fools out and about in pairs, looked towards the small garden next door.

Gu Yifan answered the phone and calmly walked out from a side path.

"I'm in the residential area, what's up? Oh, I'm almost there, I'm at building number one."

When the middle-aged woman saw Gu Yifan, her pupils contracted, and she tugged at her companion's sleeve.

"Ok?"

"I just saw this guy. Something's not right. Could he be a cop?"

The two whispered to each other.

Zhanbo, who had just generously donated 1,000 yuan, greeted Gu Yifan with delight, "Brother Gu, you're back?"

"Yifan~" Meijia greeted him as well.

good chance!
"Zhanbo, Meijia? What are you two doing here?" Gu Yifan feigned surprise.

The middle-aged man, who had originally prepared to escape, suddenly stopped being in a hurry.

Instead, he shook his head at his companion.

"Middle-aged man: What a joke, someone who knows two idiots as friends, can he be a cop? He's probably just a sucker."

The fact that the other party made two easy gains in a row lowered their guard and blinded them to greed.

“We are currently donating money to penguins and giraffes in Antarctica,” Zhanbo replied.

"Yeah, the giraffes and penguins are so pitiful." Meijia wiped her eyes. "Yifan, do you want to do some charity too?"

Gu Yifan took a deep breath, his veins throbbing.

At that moment, he saw Moran, dressed in a police uniform, appear at the intersection.

Stable.

Where did the giraffes in Antarctica come from?

"That's not right. Have you ever been to Antarctica?" The middle-aged man, unaware of the approaching danger, tried to use the same trick again.

"I've never been to Antarctica, but I know there are no giraffes or polar bears there."

Gu Yifan stood in front of the middle-aged man and woman with a half-smile, tilting his head to look them over.

Seeing Gu Yifan's expression, the two of them also sensed that something was wrong.

This person doesn't seem as easy to fool as the two 'idiots' behind him.

"Since you've already donated, sir, we'll be leaving now," the middle-aged woman said quickly, and then prepared to depart.

"I don't think you can leave."

Just then, Mo Lan, dressed in a police uniform, walked up behind the two of them, and together with Gu Yifan, they blocked them in from the front and back.

"police?"

Upon seeing Moran, the middle-aged woman's face clearly showed a hint of panic.

"Are those the people you mentioned who use children to commit fraud?" Moran asked Gu Yifan.

"Using children?"

"Scam?"

Zhanbo and Meijia were stunned for a moment before they realized what was happening.

"Yes, it's them." Gu Yifan didn't bother with further words, after all, they were caught red-handed and couldn't deny it.

"Sir, you must have misunderstood. We are an animal charity."

The middle-aged man seemed to want to explain, but seeing that there was only a policewoman behind him, a shadow crossed his eyes.

The next second.
"go!"

The scammer suddenly shouted.

His companions seemed to be prepared as well, and the two of them rushed off to opposite sides at the same time.

They didn't even care about the children standing nearby.

It seems they know that if they don't run, they're doomed to be caught.

But can they escape?

Gu Yifan had long anticipated that the two would try to escape in desperation. Seeing the woman trying to slip into the nearby grove and garden, he strode forward, raised his foot, and kicked her!
"Ouch."

The woman felt a powerful force strike her waist, sending her flying and crashing to the ground, leaving her dazed and disoriented.

"Trying to run? Where can you run to?"

Gu Yifan stepped forward, grabbed the woman, and pulled her up.

Because there were children nearby, he didn't continue.

If the middle-aged woman tries to run away, don't blame him for breaking her arm.

Looking at the man again, he seemed to be trying to bypass Moran and rush towards the entrance of the residential area.

"Don't move!"

Moran shouted, but the man ignored her. Seeing Moran blocking his way, he yelled, "Get out of my way!"

"careful!"

Zhanbo, who was watching from the sidelines, saw the man actually bumping into Mo Lan and quickly shouted.

But Moran remained calm and, just as the man rushed over, she sidestepped and grabbed his arm.

Taking advantage of the man's pause, she kicked him in the back of the knee.

The middle-aged man's knees buckled, and he almost knelt down.

Moran seized the opportunity, threw the man to the ground with a side throw, then kneed him in the back and, ignoring his struggles, quickly handcuffed his hands.

This set of movements is clean and crisp, full of heroic and graceful beauty.

Zhanbo and Meijia were both stunned.

"So handsome!" Zhanbo's eyes were glued to Mo Lan.

"Ouch! You're hurting me! I didn't do anything, why are you handcuffing me? I'm going to file a complaint!"

The middle-aged man even tried to act spoiled and cunning.

Moran ignored him, saying, "If you're alright, why are you running?"

"be honest!"

The man was still struggling.

Gu Yifan pushed the woman, who looked to be in pain, over. "How about I tell everyone that you're human traffickers, kidnapping children? Let's see if they believe you or the police?"

Upon hearing this, the man panicked. "We're not human traffickers! We're absolutely not human traffickers! Officer, you've made a mistake!"

"If you're not human traffickers, how did you give birth to so many children?" Gu Yifan retorted.

Several children stood there dumbfounded, too afraid to move, and two of the little girls burst into tears.

"They are our children, our relatives' children," the middle-aged man hurriedly explained, worried that he would be labeled a child trafficker.

"Shut up. Using children to deceive people into donating money is also a form of fraud." Moran, as expected of a former criminal investigator, quickly guessed the truth by combining Gu Yifan's message with the current situation.

Once the middle-aged couple is handcuffed...

Zhanbo and Meijia, who were standing to the side, finally spoke up.

"Are they lying?"

"But those pictures..."

"Pictures can be photoshopped. Zhanbo, you're a top student who graduated from an Ivy League university and returned to China. Don't you understand this?" Gu Yifan said speechlessly.

Zhanbo lowered his head and remained silent.

Moran, however, looked at Zhanbo with some surprise, as if she hadn't expected him to be a returnee from overseas.

"Thank you, Officer Moran."

Gu Yifan turned to thank Mo Lan.

"By the way, why did you come alone?"

Don't police officers usually work in groups of at least two?

"Well," Moran said somewhat guiltily, giving an awkward smile, "I didn't notify the bureau; I came directly."

Gu Yifan: "."

(End of this chapter)