Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Trafficking Orphans for Exorbitant Profit Several police cars stopped outside the orphanage gates.
Over a dozen Martial Arts police officers quickly cordoned off the area.
Tang Zhan got out of his car and yawned.
He then focused his gaze and looked into the courtyard.
"What’s the situation?"
"Captain Tang, there are signs of a fight at the scene. Three orphanage staff members are unconscious with serious injuries. Next to them are two bound children!"
"They’re around four or five years old, drugged into unconsciousness!"
An officer reported hurriedly.
Tang Zhan nodded and walked into the courtyard.
With the arrival of the Martial Arts Police Station, the orphanage staff and its director all ran out from the building.
But each and every one of them looked tense, trembling uncontrollably.
Tang Zhan first went to look at the scene. The three staff members were lying on the ground.
The fronts of their clothes were soaked crimson with blood.
He reached out and checked for breathing under their noses, discovering they were still alive.
Tang Zhan couldn’t help but chuckle. "Looks like the other party didn’t intend to kill them. They were left barely alive!"
He then turned and said, "Get them to the hospital first!"
"Yes, Captain Tang!"
A few officers quickly ran over and carried the three out.
Tang Zhan glanced at the two children again.
They were young, around four or five years old.
Their fair skin was a little chubby, and they looked plump and tender...
"Who’s in charge of this orphanage?"
Tang Zhan turned to look at the trembling staff members.
The next moment, a man in his fifties wearing a pair of silver-rimmed glasses stepped out from among them.
"I... I’m the one in charge here!"
"Your last name?"
"It’s Zhou. My name is Zhou Limin!"
"Dean Zhou, is it?" Tang Zhan gave him a cold look.
Dean Zhou nodded hurriedly. "Yes..."
"Are you cold?" Tang Zhan asked strangely.
Hearing this, Zhou Limin quickly shook his head. "N-no, I’m not cold!"
"Not cold? Then why are you—and them—trembling?" Tang Zhan chuckled.
As soon as he said it, Zhou Limin’s eyes filled with terror.
He quickly stammered, "There... there was a demon! A Cat Demon! Just now, someone was in this courtyard fighting that Cat Demon for a long time. We... we all saw it..."
The other staff members all nodded in agreement.
Tang Zhan smiled. "A Cat Demon? And a Demon Hunter, was it?"
"Even if that’s the case, what’s so strange about it? Even if you don’t practice Martial Arts, you should be used to life in the Old District by now, shouldn’t you?"
"Just like those three, you make deals with demons, selling off the children from the orphanage for profit?"
"Oh, right. I’m a little curious. How much do you get for selling a child?"
Tang Zhan glanced at them with a smile.
Immediately, Zhou Limin and the others shook their heads frantically.
"You’ve got it all wrong! I... we really didn’t know anything about this..."
"Right, we... we weren’t involved in selling children! Really, we weren’t..."
Dean Zhou and the other staff members all started trying to explain.
The smile never left Tang Zhan’s face as he nodded lightly. "You weren’t involved? This probably isn’t the first time those three have worked with demons to sell children, is it?"
"And you never noticed anything unusual? You didn’t know children were missing?"
"Or is it that you weren’t directly involved in the transactions, but you knew what was going on?"
This series of questions left them all speechless.
Instantly, Tang Zhan’s expression darkened, and his tone turned icy.
"People like you are even more despicable than the demons.