But she really couldn't bear to see the child suffer. Having worked for so many years herself, she understood how inferior and cautious these outsiders felt under the superiority of the locals. So, she agreed to the child's suggestion but reminded him to come straight home after his evening self-study session. She told him to send her a text upon arriving home for peace of mind and warned him not to wander around.
Everything had been calm and uneventful until those two men investigated and found a loophole. Last night, while the boy was passing through a dark part of the neighborhood on his way home from school, they knocked him unconscious and abducted him. Then, using the child's phone, they sent a threatening text to Sister Ding, which led to the subsequent events.
As for the child, the two men had him hidden away in an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts. They had done this sort of thing many times before, so they were quite skilled at it.
