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"Now the fallen leaves have completely covered the well opening, how dare they swagger into this forest without even checking the way? They're just making a fool of themselves."

These shafts were dug by some clever little devil back in the day to escape the war. They weren't very deep, only about 10 or 20 meters deep, just enough to hold one person to hide in.

Falling down wouldn't necessarily kill you, but it could very easily cripple you.

Those people actually jumped! Just thinking about it is painful.

The fellow villager's exclamation was like a wake-up call for the bewildered viewers in the live stream.

Good heavens, we've found the reason why they all disappeared into thin air: they all slid down the slide and into the hole in the ground!

Song Shiwei also burst into laughter inwardly. [This is hilarious! These guys really hit the bullseye perfectly; they stepped on all seven vertical shafts! Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter!]

Song Shiwei's merciless laughter startled everyone. Hahaha, this is just too funny! This is truly a perfect example of stepping on a landmine.

As soon as the fellow villager finished speaking, the viewers in the live stream finally erupted in fierce laughter: {Fellow family members, does anyone understand? Didn't this master check the almanac before going out and know that he was destined for this calamity? Hahahahahaha}

{I'm dying of laughter! Even the master fell into this trap? I hope he's alright.}

{Yeah, this master should be really amazing, right? Doesn't he have a family secret recipe? How did he end up getting himself involved? Could he be a fake master? Hahahaha.}

The live stream room immediately became incredibly lively, and yesterday's trending topic belatedly and successfully came into play at this moment.

{Sister, I just realized too, what are these masters looking for inside? The child is perfectly fine, isn't he?}

Judging from their commotion, do they think a little girl is in a shaft? It's obvious they don't know there are shafts in this area; they're even heading elsewhere. Do they think the shafts are in other places?

{Holy crap, this is really terrifying, family. I now reasonably suspect that the little darling who appeared in the Gossip Courtyard yesterday was deliberately abandoned there. And today they brought so many Daoist priests—what are they trying to do?}

{My goodness, I'm also finding this a bit chilling. This dad didn't call the police the moment his child went missing; instead, he posted videos to gain views. Did you see he even listed his bikes on Ofo? They were already listed yesterday. This is very unusual.}

{Didn't you hear what Old Deng said during his livestream? He kept saying that this master was hired at a high price, isn't that just a way of indirectly asking us to send him gifts?}

{Yes! Now that you mention it, and considering what happened today, I'm starting to have my suspicions too. And did you guys notice that pregnant woman...?}

{Oh my god, I'm suddenly starting to have conspiracy theories. Could it be that they deliberately abandoned their baby on a mountain to fend for himself in order to have a son, and unexpectedly gained attention, then feigned sympathy from netizens to get them to send money to their son?}

{Ahhh! Sister, I completely agree with your analysis. Just looking at this father's actions of opening a shared bike account and livestreaming it, this is clearly a premeditated murder.}

{...}

Within just a dozen minutes, netizens, like Holmes, had guessed the family's intentions with remarkable accuracy, and the public opinion that had been brewing since last night erupted like a fountain.

Netizens gradually realized that this interconnected series of events could not possibly be a premeditated murder.

[Holy crap! This isn't just a group of human traffickers, it's a dark web of underground organ trafficking!]

[No wonder I was wondering why these people were each carrying a large box; these are insulated containers for the removed organs.]

[This Uncle Li is a middleman specializing in human trafficking and organ trafficking. Last month, he collected blood samples from a batch of eligible children in the village, ostensibly for free physical examinations, but actually to secretly conduct genetic testing. Yesterday's little girl was unfortunately chosen by this beast.]

[Her physical examination data matched perfectly with that of a critically ill child abroad, and that family offered ten million to buy her organs.]

[So Uncle Li devised a scheme to make the old woman, Li Shulan, completely believe in his secret formula for conceiving a child. Coincidentally, Li Shulan's daughter-in-law was pregnant, which was a golden opportunity. Sure enough, Li Shulan came to ask him about the secret formula, and he took the opportunity to tell her, while deliberately feigning innocence and repeatedly warning Li Shulan not to use it.]

[The so-called secret formula for having a child was just a scheme he devised to trick Li Shulan into abandoning her child. His talk about emptying the child's organs and burying it under a peach tree was all fabricated to deceive Li Shulan. Unexpectedly, this old hag actually believed it, and yesterday she actually went ahead and took Tongtong to Fengquan Mountain.]

[If that old hag hadn't misremembered the location of the shaft, Tongtong would probably be in grave danger right now.]

Song Shiwei was trembling with anger as she read the plot summary. She picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at a vertical shaft. It hit the shaft precisely, and a pig-like scream immediately erupted from inside.

[You bastard, why didn't you get smashed to death? You crazy old hag, don't go too far. You stole someone's child, and now you want to kill them? Why didn't you get killed by the fall?]

Those who didn't believe Song Shiwei's true feelings last night, now truly believe them.

This is all too abnormal, every detail is eerie. I never expected it to be like this. This group of people are actually bastards who sell human organs. They don't even spare such a small child. They really deserve to die.

Liu Xueqin, clutching her large pregnant belly, screamed in terror. Her expression was as if she had seen a ghost. She cried out, "Save my husband! Please, save my husband! I'm too scared to move!"