Chapter 425: Someone is Crying for Help

“Why are we still waiting? Let’s go!” After saying that, she grabbed his hand and ran towards the north.

When the couple finally arrived in the northern area, they found themselves in a large, overgrown wasteland.

“There are large and small footprints here.” Just as the couple was about to step into the weeds, Jiang Hong suddenly stopped and shined his flashlight onto the footprints on the ground.

The couple stared at the large and small footprints for a while.

“Do you see anything?” Li Yiyi couldn’t make sense of the footprints and asked her husband directly.

Jiang Hong shifted his gaze from the footprints and said, “From the looks of these footprints, the small ones follow the large ones, one after another. This means the little one was secretly following the other person. Based on this, it seems the person hasn’t noticed that the child was tailing them.”

Li Yiyi, hearing his analysis, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly said, “So, what are we waiting for? Let’s hurry and follow these footprints!”

Soon, the couple continued to follow the footprints deeper into the grassy area.

As soon as they stepped into the weeds, they quickly discovered that the dense vegetation had been trampled into a clear path.

They immediately realized where the path had come from, and tightly held hands as they followed the trail.

After walking for a while, they noticed that the path suddenly ended.

Li Yiyi, standing in the endless expanse of grass, began to panic. She squeezed Jiang Hong’s hand tightly and asked, “How can there be no path anymore? Where are they?”

Jiang Hong patted her hand and said, “Don’t worry. The other person must have left in a car. There are tire tracks here, signs of a car leaving.”

Li Yiyi, hearing his analysis, looked down and indeed saw two tire marks.

“Could it be that the little one was also forced into the car?” she asked anxiously.

Jiang Hong continued examining the ground for a while, then suddenly smiled softly, “No, that kid wasn’t put into the car.”

Li Yiyi quickly asked, “Really? How can you be so sure?”

“Honey, come here and take a look. When we stepped into this area, the small footprints stopped following, which means what? It means our son found a place to hide,” Jiang Hong said happily.

Upon hearing this good news, Li Yiyi smiled with relief. “That’s great, I knew my son wouldn’t be so foolish.”

After a moment of happiness, she suddenly remembered, if her son wasn’t forced into the car, then why hasn’t he returned home?

“If you say our son wasn’t taken by them, then why hasn’t he come home yet?” she immediately asked.

Jiang Hong, still in a celebratory mood, hadn’t fully processed her sharp question before the smile on his face immediately faded.

Indeed, if their son hadn’t been caught by those people, then why hasn’t he come home yet? That doesn’t make sense.

Just then, a faint cry for help reached his ears.

Jiang Hong’s ears, trained from his time in the military, were highly sensitive, and he could hear sounds from a long distance.

“Shh, honey, did you hear that? It sounds like someone is crying for help?” he quickly stopped her, lowering his voice to ask.

Li Yiyi held her breath and perked up her ears, listening intently.

Unfortunately, all she could hear were the nearby winds and the chirping of crickets. There was no sound of anyone crying for help.

“I didn’t hear anything. Are you sure you didn’t mistake it?” she asked, looking at him.

Jiang Hong raised his hand. “I’m not mistaken, there really is a cry for help.” After saying this, he closed his eyes, quietly waiting for the sound to come again.

After waiting for a while, the cry never returned, and Jiang Hong couldn’t help but wonder if he had been mistaken.

Li Yiyi waited with him for a bit, but seeing how urgent the situation was, she finally spoke up. “Why don’t we forget about that and just hurry up and find our son?”

Jiang Hong listened again, but still didn’t hear the cry for help. Just as he was about to give up, suddenly, the cry returned, coming from his left ear.

“Honey, I heard it again! It’s coming from this direction,” he said excitedly, then immediately started walking toward the densest part of the grass.

Li Yiyi watched as he ran off, then hurried to follow him.

When she caught up, she saw him standing motionless in front of a patch of grass about the height of an adult.

Li Yiyi pushed aside the thick grass and walked up to him. “What is it?”

“I’m trying to figure out where the sound is coming from,” Jiang Hong explained, listening intently to the surrounding sounds.

At that moment, he suddenly turned around, pointing excitedly at the grass to the left. “I finally found where the cry for help is coming from! Let’s go, honey, it’s this way, I’m sure of it.”

Before Li Yiyi could respond, he grabbed her hand and pulled her toward the direction he had pointed.

“Help! Is anyone there? I’m here! Someone help me! I don’t want to die here! I haven’t seen my parents, my grandparents, Aunt Huang, or my sister yet,” came the hoarse voice of Jiang Zhanpeng, who had fallen into a deep pit. His chubby face wore an expression of despair as he shouted from the bottom of the pit.

If he had known he would be so unlucky and fall into this pit, he would never have followed that bad person. Not only did he fail to track the bad guy, but now he was stuck in this pit. Thinking back, he just wanted to cry.

He wondered if his family had noticed he was missing and if they were out looking for him.

Also, if his parents realized he was gone, would they scold him?

Thinking about this, Jiang Zhanpeng suddenly shivered all over.

“Was it fun down there?” A familiar voice suddenly came from above.

Sitting in the pit, Jiang Zhanpeng was stunned for a moment, muttering to himself, “God, is this a hallucination? Why does it sound like my mom’s voice?”

The couple, standing above the pit, listened to their son’s silly self-talk. They exchanged a glance and saw mutual helplessness in each other’s eyes.

“Now, I can tell you, you’re not hallucinating. Your mom and I are real. Do you want to come up now?” Jiang Hong said, unwilling to admit that the child in the pit was his own son.