Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 736: See the corpse after death
Li Xia grew up in a border city.

Because of his natural intelligence, coupled with his boldness and meticulousness, after reaching adulthood, he followed a smuggling boss in the lawless border region and amassed a considerable fortune at a young age.

But because she had always been involved in the dog-eat-dog world of the black market, she longed for a normal life even more, which is why she always opposed her younger brother, who was unemployed in their hometown, following her.

He would set aside a portion of the money he earned to send home. This was partly to support his elderly parents, and partly because he hoped his younger brother could start a small business, make a decent living, find a wife, and settle down.

However, the younger brother was also a strong-willed person. After his older brother repeatedly objected, he gave up the idea of ​​following him. But in order to prove his ability, he simply asked some so-called friends in society to take the initiative to go to Myanmar, with the aim of making a name for himself.

These children, raised in a greenhouse, were unknowingly sold all the way to Myanmar by their friends, and even thought they had found a good company because the company would cover all their travel and accommodation expenses.

Upon reaching the land of tigers and wolves, they would naturally and quickly become pigs to be slaughtered, without any suspense whatsoever.

Even after paying out all of his family's savings, Li Xia still couldn't get his younger brother to come home.

He sought help from his boss, who was in charge of smuggling, and the boss gave him some money and two solutions.

After being exploited once, Li Xia clutched his last remaining life-saving money and dared not squander it again, firmly remembering his elder brother's teachings.

First, we'll go to Lincang. The people there specialize in sending piglets overseas, so they have connections with those doing business in Myanmar. It's one of their channels. We'll see if we can find a way to connect with the boss of the KK Industrial Park so we can trade directly.

The second option is to find a local law firm in Anxi. Lawyers deal with all sorts of people, both legitimate and illegitimate, and have connections to some extent. If you find the right person, offer them a consultation fee and a "tea money" arrangement, and agree to pay them after the matter is resolved, you can generally solve the problem.

Following his elder brother's advice, Li Xia's first stop was Lincang, but he didn't find much success there.

Over there, some people who had also come to search for their relatives huddled together for mutual support, and a few of them, who were in extreme emotional states, even planned several acts of violence in response to violence.

For example, go to Anxi and find a job as a security guard or courier at a luxury residential complex. While doing so, investigate which families in the complex have only the wife and children at home, while the husband is abroad. Or, where the parents are at home, but the children are in Southeast Asia.

They can investigate one building a day and find out the whole neighborhood in a month. Then they can settle scores and grievances, or take hostages and make the other party's husband or son help them find the victim in the local community.

Those who managed to travel to Lincang were people who had been scammed several times, and some of them were quite shrewd. The plan became increasingly sophisticated with continuous refinement, to the point that they even uncovered the gathering place of the Anxi bosses in Xiamen's Wuyuan Bay residential area.

This is a solution that isn't really a solution.

Whether a plan can work depends on how ruthless people are.

Li Xia subconsciously made a plan in his mind, and then, following his elder brother's instructions, he went to Anxi to find a law firm in the local circle.

"At least fifty out-of-province guys, and there should be around a hundred in total. Since it was Lao Pan who introduced us, I'll give you a cost price, 60% off, 600,000." Wearing gold-rimmed glasses and looking like a high-end person, Attorney Liu introduced his business with a smile.

Since it was a job that involved making a living, the introduction was completed in no time.

After the business was settled, perhaps because they were acquaintances, Attorney Liu gave his most sincere advice: "It's really not worth spending so much money to end up with a half-dead guy. Instead of spending so much money on a useless person, you might as well have another one."

Li Xia took a deep breath and kept his voice calm: "I only have 300,000 yuan. Can that get me back?"

This money was the last sum of money Li Xia's older brother gave him; it was his lifeline. If he were to be scammed again, he would lose his life.

Lawyer Liu shook his head, pointed to his cheek, and said, "Young man, I've already deducted my 300,000 profit, and then shamelessly reduced the fees by 100,000 on behalf of Myanmar. The remaining 600,000 is a must-pay amount, not a penny less."

At that moment, Li Xia could only nod expressionlessly.

Later, after Zhang Yang revealed his police friend's analysis of the video of his brother's kidnapping, Li Xia, who had been involved in the black market since childhood, keenly sensed the danger and watched the video repeatedly.

He then discovered a computer with its screen on in the corner of the video feed. After sending the video to professionals via Taobao for processing, he found that the date displayed on it was a month earlier than when they first made contact, directly confirming his suspicion that it was pre-recorded.

So Li Xia immediately contacted the pig deliveryman he had met in Lincang.

The other party made no attempt to downplay the issue, stating that such things were perfectly normal over there. They would gather the same batch of useless piglets, film them being abused in unison, blackmail their families, and then sell them off early – it was like a factory assembly line operation.

They all sold large numbers of piglets at once, treating them like commodities. They were gathered together for prosthetic testing; those that could be sold were sold, and those that couldn't were thrown into water dungeons, their fate left to chance. They couldn't afford to raise people themselves; those would incur costs.

Then a video was sent, an action movie with a plot, in which a young man looked very much like Li Xia, with regular features and a square face.

It must be mentioned that this is an inevitable process for men with sexual appeal in Myanmar.

The unique environment there makes them less resistant to men.

Only the lucky ones get to suffer, experiencing both pain and pleasure, with the pleasure referring to the contrast with the unlucky ones.

Those who are unlucky are easily sent to a neighboring country for surgery to become transgender. The surgery there is stable and cheap, and they can basically survive. Then they are brought back to film videos.

"Why?" Li Xia's hands trembled as he typed out a line of text after a long while.

"If you can't squeeze any money out of them, you have to send them to make videos. That's the most basic sex work over there. Yeah, there are so many male prostitutes coming over there every day, so it's all assembly line work. They don't have the energy or time to wait. Besides, if a lot of money really comes in, they can just bring the guys back. Anyway, they're all in the same park." The other side quickly sent a message, flat and indifferent, clearly someone who had seen it all before.

"Who is it?" Li Xia calmed down, his thoughts shifting from saving people to revenge.

"This is an industry chain with a clear division of labor. The people who make the videos and the people who sell them are not the same group. We're sorry, we don't know who it is either. Um, this video is the latest one to leak, so the person should have just moved away."

The other party sent a message, and soon followed by a few more cruel ones.

"If you want to save him, you'd better hurry. Once the piglet gets to this point, he's not far from being played to death."

"After the porn videos are almost sold out, the next thing to do is make torture videos."

"Although we should try to save him, he's probably beyond saving now."

"Go to Myanmar and find the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce."

KK Park

Li Xia threw down his phone, covered his face with his hands, and slumped into a chair.

Just then, his parents, who lived far away in Northeast China, called. It turned out that when his younger brother left his hometown, he had told his parents that he was going to work for his older brother at the border.

"Dad, Xiaoqin is very conscientious and hardworking."

"Mom, don't worry, he's gained a few pounds."

With trembling hands, Li Xia hung up the call. A moment later, with red eyes, he dialed Zhang Yang's number.

"I'll go to Myanmar with you!"

"I demand to see his body if he's dead!"

(End of this chapter)