"The child wasn't found." Xu Huo said coldly. Back when High Ponytail and her companion handed things over, it wasn't just one person.
"That child is already dead." Jiao Cheng said, with a hint of barely noticeable regret in his voice, "What they took was the record storage containing what the child experienced before death... Those human traffickers are real freaks, to even record stuff like this at the end..."
Xu Huo's expression didn't change. High Ponytail had said at the hotel that the stolen data was about live human experiments. At the time, he'd already suspected they hadn't fully told the truth. Turns out, part of it really was about kidnapping and trafficking, but the false part was that it wasn't for the cause of justice or exposing the industry chain. They'd been hired to look for a child, and ended up bringing out something unexpected. Of course, it's also possible they went along with whatever came their way.
"Do you trade in the city center often?"
