It seems that the villain is targeting me.

Chen Xiaoya hoped that the other party would say a few more words, but no matter what he asked, the little beggar just sat there in a daze, didn't say a word, didn't eat the sesame cake, and just bowed to beg for money.

She could tell that the other person was not from Taoyuan—

When the noodle shop owner was speaking, Chen Xiaoya had some difficulty listening.

But a beggar wandering the street doesn't mean anything, even if he's not local.

At this point, Chen Xiaoya was already a little annoyed and planned to go back.

It was at this moment that she suddenly realized that there seemed to be a stranger heading towards her not far away.

He was a rather strange adult, sitting in a shop without a sign, and he didn't seem to have ordered anything. He just occupied a table and smoked.

At first glance, this person is just an ordinary idler in society, but if you look closely, you will find that he would glance in the direction of the little beggar at the intersection from time to time.

Chen Xiaoya noticed this because she had stayed in front of the little beggar for quite a long time - the strange stranger noticed her and seemed to be about to get up and walk over here.

Chen Xiaoya restrained his urge to run away immediately, and calmly took out two coins from his pocket, bent down and put them in the little beggar's bowl.

Then she slowly turned around and walked in a completely opposite direction of the hotel.

The child didn't dare look back. She suppressed her pounding heart and walked as far as possible towards the crowded area. After making sure that the man didn't catch up with her, she quickly took a shortcut and turned back into the hotel.

The bird had not come back yet, so Chen Xiaoya locked the door and went to the window.

As luck would have it, the window of the room they lived in happened to face the street outside.

Chen Xiaoya pulled most of the curtains, leaving only a small gap for herself to observe. She put her head close to the glass and searched the street nervously.

The strange man was no longer in the original store. After searching for a while, Chen Xiaoya found him again in a roadside store.

The view from above brought certain observation advantages. The man didn't notice that anyone was following him at this moment. He went to buy a new pack of cigarettes and sat on the stairs smoking them.

Almost two or three hours passed like this, the sky gradually darkened, and the number of pedestrians on the road began to decrease.

The little boy who had been begging at the intersection slowly packed up his bowl and cart, grasped two pieces of cloth with his hands to support himself on the ground, and pushed himself forward shakily.

Chen Xiaoya became nervous and stared closely at the little beggar's movements.

The other party disappeared deep into an alley.

After a while, the strange man dropped the cigarette butt in his hand. He had been wandering around the area all afternoon until he patted his pants and stood up nonchalantly.

The man was wearing a black jacket.

Under Chen Xiaoya's gaze, the man in the jacket walked towards the alley where the little beggar disappeared.

She judged intuitively that this guy didn't seem like a good person.

Ten seconds later, Chen Xiaoya stood at the door of the hotel. There was a public telephone booth twenty meters outside - she even prepared the change to call the police.

But when she really picked up the phone, her heart began to beat with hesitation again.

What should she tell the police? She said she suspected she had seen a suspicious person who was trafficking children.

Chen Xiaoya was too young, and it was hard to guarantee that the police would believe what she said - even if the police really sent someone over, the other party would definitely have disappeared long ago.

She held the red microphone in her hand and glanced towards the entrance of the alley not far away.

At this time, almost a minute had passed since Chen Xiaoya started to go downstairs.

One minute is enough to walk a long distance. Logically, the person should have been lost by now.

Chen Xiaoya actually only hesitated for a few seconds. She put down the phone and thought: I'll just go and take a look, just take a look.

——If the person is gone, I will go back immediately.

Then she threw Xiao Niao, who had been warned to "stay still and don't run around", back to Java and chased after him happily.

About two minutes later, the child began to regret it.

Chen Xiaoya thought: Isn’t my luck a little too good?

I don’t know if it was because the little beggar moved so slowly, but Chen Xiaoya met his target after just a few minutes of chasing him in the alley.

She quickly noticed the exposed cart handle at the corner, stopped in time, and hid behind the wall.

Her reaction was correct, because the next second, the voice of the man in the jacket was heard in the alley.

"Is that all for today?" the man said impatiently, counting the money with his hands. "This is from this morning."

Sweat oozed from Chen Xiaoya's palms. She leaned against the wall and listened carefully.

Then the little beggar's voice came: "There's no morning... morning... Mom wants to collect..."

This disabled boy may really have some intellectual problems. He speaks slowly and his word choice is a bit awkward.

Chen Xiaoya listened for a while and judged from their conversation that the little beggar seemed to have given all the money he had begged in the morning to a person called "Mom".

The man in the jacket cursed, put all the money in his pocket, and threw the bowl with only a few coins left in it back onto the wooden board.

"That's enough," he said, "let's go home!"

The little beggar still reacted slowly: "Oh."

Footsteps sounded.

The man in the jacket did not follow the little beggar, but turned around and walked back.

He came to the alley

I turned the corner and glanced at the wall in the shade.

There was no one there.

The man in the jacket withdrew his gaze and continued walking forward.

A few minutes later, Chen Xiaoya crouched down and moved out from behind a dilapidated pickup truck.

She looked in the direction where the man in the jacket disappeared, and made sure that he had really left. Then she quietly followed the sound of the little beggar moving and carefully chased after him.

The other person walked very slowly, but fortunately his alertness was very low and he didn't realize that there was someone following him.

The little beggar walked for a long time in twists and turns. He left the alley and came to a completely unfamiliar neighborhood, and then walked onto a small path.

Then he arrived at his destination.

The cart creaked and drove into an old and desolate yard.

Ha...ha...my luck is a little too good, isn't it?

The excessive secretion of adrenaline made her steps a little weak. Chen Xiaoya swallowed her saliva and hid in the green belt on the side of the road. Her fingertips and heart were trembling.

From the outside, it didn't look like anyone was living there. She waited for a long time, but no one came out.

There was a house number hanging at the entrance of the yard, and Chen Xiaoya silently memorized the address.

Okay, I'll stop here...if I go any further, I'll definitely run into danger...

I'll go back first and tell the bird the news...

Just when she was about to return and leave, she suddenly found that someone was standing behind her.

Chen Xiaoya's hair stood on end in an instant. She turned her head and took two steps back involuntarily.

It's the jacket man.

"Who are you?" The man looked at her gloomily. "What are you doing hiding?"

Chen Xiaoya didn't say anything. She glanced behind the man and there seemed to be no other people around.

But this was a rather desolate path, with no side roads or alleys for her to hide in. In a place like this, there was no way she could outrun an adult male.

What's more, the man in the jacket was standing right in front of her.

What should I do? Chen Xiaoya's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and his hands and feet felt cold.

"I'm asking you a question. What are you looking at in the yard?" the man in the jacket asked sternly.

With a horrified expression on his face, he reached out to grab Chen Xiaoya, but was suddenly bumped hard.

Chen Xiaoya heard the sound of a bicycle brake. She looked closely and saw an old and outdated 28-inch bicycle that made noises everywhere except the bell.

There was a sister who was at least 1.75 meters tall riding on the broken 28 bicycle.

She was wearing a mask, and her eyes were a rare, pure black.

Chen Xiaoya was sure that she had never seen this person before, but the other party looked straight at her.

It was as if he was being stared at by a snake. Those dark eyes seemed like a nightmare lurking in a sweet dream, carrying a chilling air that did not belong to this world.

The man in the jacket, who was staggered by the front-end hit of the bicycle, also turned around. He wanted to get angry, but some inexplicable intuition sounded heartbreakingly at this moment. A creepy feeling crawled all the way along his spine, screaming at him to turn around and run away.

The man in the jacket shuddered subconsciously.

The older sister didn't even look at the man in the jacket. She just reached out and picked up Chen Xiaoya, who was standing there in a daze, and threw him on the crossbar of the bicycle.

"Don't move," she said.

The other party drove her away.

Chen Xiaoya turned around and looked back.

The man in the jacket stood there for a long time without moving until the old, dilapidated yard disappeared from her sight.

Chapter 44 Chen Xiaoya: That damn bad woman!

Chen Xiaoya held the bicycle seat with his hands and let out a trembling breath from his throat.

She didn't dare to speak, but just silently held on to the bike. The bike was riding towards the downtown area, which somewhat relieved the tension in her back.

The person who was carrying her also said nothing and showed no intention of explaining.

It was very quiet, with only the sound of bicycle wheels rolling on the ground.

She didn't know if it was an illusion caused by nervousness, but she always felt that... this woman of unknown origin seemed to smell like disinfectant.

Chen Xiaoya stared at her trembling knuckles. She licked her palate nervously, wondering with fear where the other party was going to take her.

Should I just jump down and run away? she thought.

However, before she could hesitate for too long, the bicycle stopped.

Chen Xiaoya looked up and found that he had been taken to a relatively busy neighborhood.

"Get out of the car," the man said to her.

Chen Xiaoya did as she was told. She turned around and looked at the cyclist warily, only to find that he had taken off the mask on his face at some point.

Before this, the black mask covered most of the other person's face, and the boy could only see the pair of snake-like, creepy eyes exposed.

When the other party was silent before, he looked like a murderer who was planning to massacre the city, but when the mask was taken off, the murderous aura that was frozen in his brow was diluted.

The other person's face was much more gentle than he had imagined. If those dark eyes were lowered silently, she would even seem a little easy to bully.

Chen Xiaoya looked up at her in a daze.

This face looks familiar

Siddhi was completely baffled—she was absolutely certain that she had never seen this person anywhere.

But...it looks familiar no matter how I look at it.

The strange feeling of shock seemed to have set off a tsunami in his mind. Many chaotic thoughts flashed through Chen Xiaoya's mind, and he forgot what he should do next.

The other person was also looking her up and down at this moment...his gaze lingered on her face for a particularly long time.

Chen Xiaoya felt that the skin all over his body was tense.

"Who are you?"

She took a half step back, leaving herself a little room to escape, "I don't know you."

A strange expression appeared on the other person's face, which was neither a smile nor a smile - and it was not the kind of sarcastic sneer.

This was really strange, but Chen Xiaoya felt that this person was amused by his words.

But that shallow smile did not last long.

The strange sister glanced at her lightly and asked, "Why did you come to Taoyuan?"

"Come here to work?" the man guessed, "or to find someone?"

Chen Xiaoya's pupils suddenly contracted, and he looked at the woman opposite him in disbelief - she bent down, and her obsidian eyes were almost at hand.

The snake hissed.

"I can't believe he's so short and so brave, he actually followed me all the way from the west side of the city."