Chapter 535: Found the Person Who Took the Children

Seeing Nan Qinghuan in such pain, Ying's heart ached too. He reached out and pulled her into a tight embrace. "Qinghuan..."

At this moment, Jiguang naturally found it awkward to stay. "Well, I'll go check if their bonfire party is ready."

After Jiguang left, Ying, afraid that A Mu might overhear them, also pulled Nan Qinghuan outside.

Outside, dusk was settling low.

The sky was about to turn dark.

But the child was still missing.

This made Nan Qinghuan's heart very anxious; she worried the child might be killed.

Thinking of how the two children were still so young and didn't understand anything, she couldn't help but want to cry.

Yet she also knew crying was useless; crying wouldn't bring the children back.

"What's going on? Have you found any news?"

Ying looked at the tears in her eyes, his heart feeling as if cut by a knife. He nodded. "Found them."

"Who?"

"Someone saw two men leaving Small Town with two children. I've already sent people to chase them."

"Which way did they leave? I'll go chase them now!"

Nan Qinghuan wanted to go after the children, but Ying pulled her back. "Qinghuan, calm down. It's useless for you to go. Right now we only have one clue, and that's the child..."

"Ying, Goddess."

Suddenly, the voice of Natu came from behind. Natu was holding A Le's hand as he walked toward the couple. When A Le saw that Nan Qinghuan was crying, she quickly stepped forward and hugged her. "Sister, don't cry. The children will definitely come back to you. They will."

A Le hugged Nan Qinghuan. The child's words made Nan Qinghuan's heart even more sorrowful. She crouched down and picked up A Le, looking at her face covered in sweat from playing. She gently stroked her forehead. "Thank you. My babies will come back."

Natu had actually heard some unpleasant rumors too. He strode forward and looked at Ying and his wife. "Ying, Goddess, I have nothing to do with the children's disappearance. I've heard some bad talk saying I took the children. I can swear on my and my daughter's lives that I, Natu, would never do such a thing."

"We didn't do it. Father never takes children."

A Le was also speaking up for her father. When they went to School today, they were stopped. That Dashan said the children were stolen by them, so Father brought her here to explain things clearly to Divine Sister.

They didn't steal her children.

No!

Hearing Natu's words, Ying tried to find any hint of lying in his eyes, but he failed. He found none, and moreover, there was a firmness in his gaze.

That was the look of someone who hadn't done anything wrong.

Ying frowned tightly but suddenly let out a laugh. "Haha, don't listen to those people's nonsense. How could you have stolen the children? I never thought that. The children are still being searched for."

Natu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Ying didn't suspect him. He had only just managed to improve his relationship with Ying and the others; he absolutely couldn't let anything go wrong because of these two children.

"Ying, what's happening with the children? Have they been found?"

"Thanks for your concern. They will be found."

"If you need my help, I'll definitely help. Just say the word. My people are all in Small Town."

"Thank you, but it's not needed. My people have already gone to find the children. They'll be back soon."

"That's really great. When you find out who did it, you have to feed them to the beasts. How despicable. A Le said they were two very cute children. Are they twins?"

Mentioning her own children made Nan Qinghuan very distressed. She turned her back and sobbed quietly, thinking of the children's faces, thinking of the pain she endured during childbirth, thinking that the children were only a little over ten days old. She was truly afraid something would happen to them.

What were those two people who took the children after? She really couldn't figure it out.

Ying knew Nan Qinghuan was in pain, but he still nodded. "Yes, twins. Very cute children."

"What a pity. But who would do such a thing? The Goddess is so kind and has saved so many people. I heard today that many tribe members have been saved by her. Who could be so heartless as to take the children?"

Thinking about this, Natu suddenly remembered something.

"Could it be them?"

"Them? Who?" Ying and Nan Qinghuan didn't understand. Natu then murmured and told Ying about the people who had come to their place. When Ying heard it, his expression turned horrified.

"Are you saying that people from Baiqi Tribe have come to Small Town?"

"Yes, those two came as refugees. They had nothing to eat on the road, so I had my people give them some food. Later, when I asked, they said that someone in their tribe had committed a crime, and the chief killed them all, so they came here to escape."

The people from Baiqi Tribe were prime suspects.

Nan Qinghuan could almost be certain now. The people from Baiqi Tribe had always harbored ill intentions toward them.

"Ying..."

"Don't worry. They will be caught. Soon."

It had only been an hour since she was separated from the children, but Nan Qinghuan felt like many days had passed. She desperately wanted to know where the children were, how they were doing, and who had dared to steal her children.

Once she caught them, she would not let them off this time.

Definitely not!

Because Nan Qinghuan's children had been stolen, almost the entire town turned out to help her find them. Learning that the townspeople were so enthusiastic, Nan Qinghuan was truly grateful.

Soon, Ji Lei and the others returned, but they only brought back two corpses.

The children were not found.

"Ying, we caught them, but they're dead."

Soon, the two corpses were carried over. Nan Qinghuan quickly went to look at them. They were indeed two men, killed, with a bloody hole in their chests.

"Didn't you see the children? Where did you find them?"

Ji Lei knew how distressed she was. He shook his head. "We searched many places but didn't find the children. Only the bodies of these two men."

No children... Nan Qinghuan almost couldn't stand steady. What to do? Where had the children gone? She knew this place was different from the modern world; if the children were left in the wilderness, there would be wild beasts. No!

"I'm going to find my children. I have to find them."

Nan Qinghuan completely broke down. The people who took the children were dead, but the children were nowhere to be found. She simply couldn't hold on any longer.

"Qinghuan, don't be like this. Calm down. Ji Lei, are you sure it's these two?"

"Let me take a look and see if it's them?"

Not far away, the old ancestor helped A Mu over; A Mu really couldn't sleep after hearing that the one who stole the child had been found, and she wanted to come see if those two people who came for water were the ones.

"A Mu, be careful."

A Mu now wants to find the child; she no longer fears the dead, and she slowly walked up to the two deceased men, and when she saw their pitch‑black faces, she suddenly stepped back a few paces.

She reached out and pointed at the two dead men, "It's them, it's them."