Online Fortune Telling: Your Son Has Another Dad-Chapter 407 - 405: Brother Qiao

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"Brother Tie, my name is Kong Lin!"

"I’m from Central South Province. When I heard Minma here was hiring with high wages, I thought I’d give it a try."

"I didn’t expect this to be a scam operation. My companions who came to work here with me were all captured and taken into the fraud park."

Supported by Tie Xiong, Kong Lin stood up from the ground, leaning on a crutch, and briefly introduced himself.

Tie Xiong listened and lightly nodded.

High-wage recruiting, huh? Not surprising.

Back when he was at Tengxin Park, many people were tricked into coming here like that.

Of course, there were also some who thought they would blend better in such an environment, but the result was the same: they were beaten up so badly even their own mothers couldn’t recognize them.

"Younger Brother Kong, how did you end up here?"

Tie Xiong asked curiously.

He was puzzled as to why Kong Lin would appear in this rugged and complex mountainous forest.

Moreover, he had been shot through the thigh.

If it hadn’t been for him, the boy might not have held on for long before getting buried here.

Kong Lin scratched his head embarrassingly upon hearing the question, and replied sulkily, "I was chased here!"

"I and several companions escaped from Kayinbang’s fraud operation park."

"Then, for reasons I can’t fathom, the armed guards from the park kept pursuing us."

"We ran and fled all the way until we had no choice but to dart into this forest."

"One of us was injured and needed rest. I and another companion went out to scout and search for food and water."

"In the end, we got lost and ran into the armed guards."

"The guards threatened us with guns to give up the whereabouts of our companions."

"Neither of us spoke, and in retaliation, they shot me in the thigh to warn others."

"Later, they forced us to search for our companions. I was injured and couldn’t go far, so they abandoned me..."

While narrating, Kong Lin played a little trick.

He didn’t directly say that he and Brother Qiao considered the injured a burden and left their companions to escape by themselves.

Instead, he followed Brother Qiao’s prior explanation that they were trying to find food and water for their companions and got caught unfortunately.

He didn’t actually want to conceal the truth.

After all, the man before him was his savior.

Though he might be a bit reckless, he knew that kindness must be repaid.

But the reason why he and Brother Qiao were caught was too shameful.

If he mentioned it, it’d easily disgust people.

And moreover, Brother Tie before him was skilled in spells...

He had already made up his mind to cling dearly to Brother Tie.

So, he couldn’t reveal the real reason.

"So, you still have other companions in this forest?"

Tie Xiong slightly furrowed his brow and asked.

"Yes, Brother Tie!"

Kong Lin nodded anxiously.

"Alright then! Let’s go rescue your other companions too."

Tie Xiong didn’t hesitate.

He was there to find his daughter, so rescuing others wouldn’t hurt.

After all, whether it’s one sheep or two, they can all be tended at the same time.

"Brother Tie, thank you so much!"

Kong Lin showed a joyful expression upon hearing this.

Ever since he was tricked to Kayinbang, he’d hardly met good people.

Brother Qiao, Xie Bing, and the others were just the same.

But Brother Tie before him was willing to rescue strangers he hadn’t met.

Such a good person is indeed rare and precious!

...

"Where’s the person? I’m asking you!"

"Are you freaking playing us?"

On the other side, Brother Qiao led Sha Wang and others further ahead but still didn’t see any trace of Tie Shanshan and others.

With the sun almost setting, Sha Wang angrily grabbed Brother Qiao by the collar and roared.

"Big...big brother..."

"This forest is too big. It’s hard to find people!"

Brother Qiao forced a smile and hurriedly explained.

In this vast and dense forest, finding a few living people is incredibly hard!

Moreover, he and Kong Lin had parted ways with Tie Shanshan and the others for too long.

Who knows where Tie Shanshan and the others went after they left?

"Damn! I’ll give you one more hour!"

"If you can’t find them, I’ll break your limbs and leave you here for snakes, bugs, and rats to feast on!"

Sha Wang threatened again.

But merely threatening seemed pointless.

So he pulled out the gun from his waist and smashed its handle against Brother Qiao’s forehead.

"Ouch!"

Brother Qiao instantly let out a scream.

His forehead was split open with blood gushing, barely escaping being shattered.

"Hiss...hiss..."

The intense pain caused Brother Qiao to take sharp breaths.

"Damn! You think I won’t dare to kill you?"

"Get to finding them fast! If not, I’ve got plenty of ways to make you cry for your parents!"

Sha Wang angrily glared at Brother Qiao.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"I will definitely help you find them, big brother!"

Brother Qiao was thoroughly terrified. He nodded repeatedly, scared that a bullet would cripple him like Kong Lin or even worse.

"Hmph!"

Sha Wang snorted coldly, raised his chin, signalling Brother Qiao to lead the way again.

Brother Qiao held his blood-dripping forehead, grimacing, while painstakingly searching for traces of Tie Shanshan and others.

The group moved several hundred meters further when Brother Qiao, while scouring randomly around, suddenly brightened.

He scurried a few steps forward to the right, bent down, and picked something up from the ground.

"What’s going on?"

Sha Wang saw this and furrowed his brow asking.

"Big...big brother... I’ve found a cloth strip! A blood-stained cloth strip!"

Brother Qiao jumped delightedly to Sha Wang like he had found treasure.

He handed the blood-stained cloth strip to Sha Wang and added, "If I’m not mistaken, this is the cloth Zhang Shuai used to wrap the gunshot wound on his thigh!"

"Tie Shanshan and her group must have passed this way!"

"If we search nearby, we’ll surely find their footprints or traces."

"With a thigh-injured person among them, they can’t move fast."

"As long as we head in the right direction, we’ll definitely catch up to them..."

Listening, Sha Wang’s tightly knit brows slowly loosened.

Seeing this, Brother Qiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Sha Wang accepted the cloth strip and examined it closely.

Its material matched the blood-stained cloth strip he found atop the mountain.

Thus, he reckoned that this Dragon Country man’s words were sensible.

He then tossed the blood-stained strip to one of the armed guards beside him and patted Brother Qiao’s shoulder.

"You did well!"

"If you help us find Tie Shanshan and her crew, you won’t be at a loss."

"I’ll allow you to earn big bucks!"

"Have several beauties attend to you!" 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Playing land emperor here isn’t better than going back to Dragon Country?"

Sha Wang smiled and enticed with promises.