Chapter 122 Encountering members of the slave hunting group on the road

Huo Yuhao looked at the beautiful woman, and Zhu Zhuqing had already helped her untie the ropes.

The beautiful woman bowed to the ground, tears in her eyes, and said: "I, Zhang Youwei, greet the three benefactors. Thank you for saving us mother and daughter from the water and fire."

Huo Yuhao quickly helped the beautiful woman up, "This sister is too polite. For scum like human traffickers, everyone has the right to kill them."

The beautiful woman said gratefully: "If it weren't for you, I don't know what kind of dark life my child and I would have to live in the second half of our lives. I can die at most, but my child is still so young, and in the future-"

As she spoke, the beautiful woman shed tears again, hugged her child tightly, and choked without saying a word.

Huo Yuhao was silent. On the Douluo Continent, beautiful women like her and her child, if captured, would most likely become playthings of the nobles.

He waited quietly for the beautiful woman to calm down, then asked softly: "Where are you from, who else is in your family? What are your plans for the future?"

Zhang Youwei hesitated and said: "My family is in a small village nearby. My husband was killed while protecting us. From now on, I don't know where to go. I can't go back to the village."

Ning Rongrong asked in confusion: "Why can't I go back?"

Zhang Youwei said: "My benefactor, you don't know that this slave hunting group has been wreaking havoc in our area for several years. No woman who is targeted can escape. If my child and I go back, we will be caught in a trap."

Ning Rongrong frowned and said: "As far as I know, the Tiandou Empire seems to have a clear ban on slave trading, right? Why don't you report it to the City Lord's Mansion?"

"We have reported it, and the City Lord has organized several arrests of slave traders, but each time we have returned empty-handed."

"Didn't the City Lord report it to the imperial capital? Let the higher authorities send more powerful people to arrest them!" Ning Rongrong asked in doubt.

"I don't know about that." Zhang Youwei shook her head.

Huo Yuhao frowned. He had failed to capture the slave traders several times, but the slave traders were still so rampant. It was obvious that the city lord was fine. He twisted the head of the strong man just now and kicked it like a ball.

Huo Yuhao asked: "Didn't you ask for help from the Spirit Hall?"

Zhang Youwei hesitated for a moment before saying: "My benefactor, you don't know that the people of the Spirit Hall are in the same group with these human traffickers. Every time the deacons of the Spirit Hall help the children awaken their spirits, the human traffickers will come to capture those beautiful children."

"So, everyone suspects that it was the people of the Spirit Hall who told the information of the good-looking children to the human traffickers."

Huo Yuhao frowned. It seemed that the city lord of this place and the people of the Spirit Hall were in collusion with each other.

Ordinary people don't have this kind of hand. There must be a big man behind it, and it must be a high-ranking official of the Tiandou Empire.

Huo Yuhao asked Zhang Youwei some more questions, but he didn't get any useful information, so he turned his attention to the strong man.

Using his mental power to wake him up, the strong man saw Huo Yuhao and the others and started shouting, "You'd better let me go. You can't afford to offend us with our background! Don't ask for trouble!"

"Oh, us? It seems that a gang committed the crime. What's your background?" Huo Yuhao stared at the strong man with cold eyes.

"Little brat, this is not something you can ask. Let me go obediently, and the adults behind me may spare your lives?" The strong man said arrogantly.

Ning Rongrong was so angry that she took a stone from somewhere and threw it on the strong man's face. "What's your background? How dare you compare your background with me? Do you know this token?"

Ning Rongrong took out a blue jade token and shook it in front of the strong man. The token was shaped with the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower.

"Seven Treasures Glazed Sect!" The strong man exclaimed.

"Can you answer our questions now?" Ning Rongrong asked.

The strong man closed his eyes and said nothing. No matter how Ning Rongrong beat him, he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Huo Yuhao said coldly: "You think we can't pry open your mouth if you don't say anything, right?"

The strong man remained unmoved. Ning Rongrong asked: "What can you do?"

Huo Yuhao said indifferently: "Just wait a moment."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao used mental interference and began to modify the strong man's consciousness.

"I ask, you answer."

"First, introduce your gang in detail."

The strong man said in a daze: "There are hundreds of people in our slave hunting group. It was established ten years ago. The leader is a soul saint. In recent years, we have been operating in several surrounding cities. Every year, we capture hundreds of beautiful children and girls from the villages of several surrounding cities. After training them, we send them to the adults behind them."

Huo Yuhao looked solemn when he heard this, suppressing the anger in his heart. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's eyes were as cold as ten thousand years of black ice.

"Who is the boss behind you?"

"I don't know."

Huo Yuhao frowned and asked, "Are the mayors of the surrounding cities in the same group as you?"

"Yes."

"What about the Spirit Hall?"

"Most of the people in the Spirit Hall have been won over by us. Those who cannot be won over have been killed and replaced by our own people. The people in the Spirit Hall are responsible for providing us with information about those beautiful girls, and we are responsible for arresting them."

Huo Yuhao sneered. The high-level officials of the Tiandou Empire behind this slave hunting group are really good at planning. They obtained slaves and made money, and threw all the dirty water on the Spirit Hall. These mayors of the Tiandou Empire seem to be pure and innocent, and they can collect money from the masses from time to time to "suppress bandits" and make a wave of money.

"What is the cultivation level of the recent mayor of Orlan City?"

"Soul Emperor."

Huo Yuhao asked a few more questions, and when he had asked almost all of them, he restored the strong man's will.

The strong man woke up, his face turned pale, and he looked at Huo Yuhao with horror.

Huo Yuhao killed the strong man mercilessly, and said lightly: "You have done so many evil things, and it's a bargain for you to die so simply."

"What should we do next?" Zhu Zhuqing asked.

Ning Rongrong suggested: "Why don't we go back to Tiandou City first. I will tell my father about this matter, and he will definitely take care of it."

Huo Yuhao shook his head and said: "I still want to find out who is behind this slave hunting group. The ordinary members don't know, but the city lords must know."

First of all, he really hates these scums and wants to find out the mastermind behind the scenes in time. Although he is not a good person, he still has a bottom line. Such a human trafficker and the people behind him are no longer worthy of being called human beings.

Secondly, this is also related to his subsequent plan.

Who is behind this slave hunting group in the Tiandou Empire? It can't be one person, that is, Qian Renxue pretending to be Xue Qinghe.

If he wants to go to the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire, he must contact Dugu Bo, and the best way to contact Dugu Bo is his granddaughter Dugu Yan.

Dugu Yan is in the Royal Academy of the Tiandou Empire, and the three teaching committee members of the Royal Academy of the Tiandou Empire are all Qian Renxue's people. Therefore, it is best to sell Qian Renxue a favor and then enter the Royal Academy of the Tiandou Empire through him to find Dugu Yan.

Moreover, he has a guess in his heart that the person behind this slave hunting group may be Prince Xuexing.

In the original book, he hated Prince Xuexing and the avalanche he supported.

In order to disguise himself, Xue Avalanche bullied men and women all day long, and I don't know how many families were broken up.

In the original book, it was because Shrek Academy had a strong background, otherwise, they would also be one of the people killed by Xue Avalanche.

Unexpectedly, such a person was finally whitewashed, and Tang San and his friends helped him become the emperor, which is really disgusting.

Choosing Xue Ke to be an empress is thousands of times better than choosing Xue Aeng.