121: Chapter 121

Li Long shook his head upon hearing this and said, "You don't need to ask too much about this. Just put those seekers into a group, and I'll talk to them myself."

The operator looked at Li Long and said, "Alright, Brother Long."

The operator then took out his phone, performed a few actions, found those seekers, and replied to them in the comment section to join the group.

Seeing the operator finish, Li Long waited.

Before long, several people joined the newly created group one after another, and Li Long began communicating with them on his phone.

"Do you all have family members who were tricked into Northern Myanmar?" Li Long asked.

"Yes, Brother Long. Do you have any connections there? I haven't been able to contact my son for several months now. They previously said he could come back if I paid a 200,000 yuan ransom, but after I scraped the money together, they stopped replying."

"Brother Long, if you have the ability to bring my son back, I can give you all the money I've saved."

"Please, Brother Long," one person replied via voice message as soon as Li Long asked. Their voice was hoarse, revealing a sense of despair.

The others said much the same. It could only be said that parents' hearts are truly devoted to their children; when a child takes the wrong path, no parent will truly ignore them. Even if it means losing everything, parents want their children to return home safely.

Li Long then said, "The purpose of meeting you today is for this matter. Originally, I didn't want to get involved. After all, rescuing people from abroad is time-consuming and laborious. But seeing you like this, I couldn't bear it. So, after careful consideration, I plan to help you this once. However, I want to ask, are there many people like you whose family members were tricked into Northern Myanmar?"

"Brother Long, thank you so much, really. There are actually quite a lot of people whose family members were tricked into going over. I'm in a group with nearly several hundred people in similar situations, though it doesn't just include those tricked into Northern Myanmar, but also other places in Southeast Asia."

"Yes, Brother Long, I'm in groups too. There are many in similar situations, but everyone is truly helpless. Some paid the ransom, but the other side didn't release the person and demanded even more money..."

The others also chimed in with their responses.

"Have you not sought help from the authorities?" Li Long continued to ask.

"Of course we did, but since it involves foreign countries, the authorities don't have many good options. They can only negotiate, but most of our family members were smuggled across, so there's no record of them leaving the country. Moreover, the authorities don't have transnational law enforcement rights. They say they're negotiating, but..." one parent replied.

Although the person didn't finish their sentence, Li Long understood what they meant. Negotiations between two countries are very lengthy, and the other side might not necessarily put in the effort to find them. Since there were no entry or exit records, the other side could brush them off by saying the person was nowhere to be found. The authorities were also quite helpless.

"Alright, I've understood everything I need to. Pull everyone from your groups who has family tricked into Northern Myanmar into this group. Whether it's one sheep or a whole flock, it's all the same. I'll do a good deed and see if I can bring everyone back this time. However, I also have a condition: each person needs to pay a service fee of 10,000 yuan. No less, and I won't take more. Consider it a service fee for my travel and efforts. Of course, those who don't trust me don't have to pay." Li Long replied.

"Brother Long, I trust you. I'll transfer the money to you right now. I'll leave my son in your hands. Even if he's dead, I need to know for sure before I can find peace of mind." one person replied.

Just like that, this group of people added several hundred more to the chat. Some believed him, some didn't, but in the end, they all paid the 10,000 yuan. There was no other way; Li Long was now their only life-saving straw. Whether they believed or not, 10,000 yuan was worth the gamble.

Upon receiving the money, Li Long put it all into one account, intending to use it for charity once he returned.

That same day, Li Long took his men and flew to Myanmar. He asked the people in the group to post all information about their missing family members in the chat, which he then forwarded to Xin Yang.

After receiving the personnel information, Xin Yang began checking the various compounds one by one. He actually managed to find the vast majority of these missing persons. As for those missing, they had been sold by their original compounds to other places; for those, there was nothing that could be done.

With Xin Yang's help, Li Long's arrival in Myanmar to find people was merely a formality. However, for the hired personnel who came with Li Long, it was extremely shocking. One must know that normally, saving someone from a compound, whether through connections or money, requires a massive price. But what about Li Long?

He claimed it was laborious, yet once he arrived, he only had to pick the people up directly. This led the hired personnel to speculate about Li Long's background—what kind of immense power must he have to achieve this?

Furthermore, Li Long's operation this time was live-streamed the entire way.

Many viewers in the live stream thought Li Long was just grandstanding. In China, minor troubles might go unnoticed by the law, but abroad, especially in a chaotic region like Northern Myanmar where might makes right, what kind of ability could Li Long have to save people from such a place?

But to everyone's surprise, Li Long simply took a trip, spoke with a stranger in a private booth, and just like that, leisurely rescued several hundred tricked Pigletss. His power was so great that the audience was left speechless. Following this, Li Long's popularity skyrocketed, and he became the first major blogger on Peak Entertainment to surpass 100,000 concurrent viewers!

Moreover, Li Long directly admitted in the live stream that he had collected a 10,000 yuan service fee from the families of these tricked Pigletss. He declared that all of this money would be used for charity to help impoverished students, the elderly living alone, and so on. He also promised to publish the full usage of the funds for netizens to supervise.

This approach caused Li Long's popularity to soar again, with his fan count growing exponentially every day.

After Li Long finished picking the people, Xin Yang asked the remaining Pigletss if they wanted their families to pay 10,000 yuan to go home. Only about ten percent of the remaining people were willing. Xin Yang then had that ten percent contact their families to return to the country with Li Long.

As for the rest of the people, the next day, they were sent directly to the China-Myanmar Border Checkpoint by a fleet of buses.

That morning at the China-Myanmar Border Checkpoint—though it was a border checkpoint between two countries, in reality, only China had a station; the Myanmar side was completely unguarded.

Two soldiers at the China border checkpoint got up early to begin their duty.

Suddenly, they saw dust billowing on the dirt road ahead. Buses were driving rapidly toward them, followed by several military vehicles at the very back.

This scene immediately put the two Chinese soldiers on alert, and they quickly notified their superiors stationed at the checkpoint.

The superior rushed over to check. Upon seeing it, he was also stunned. What, were those low-tier armed forces in Myanmar crazy? Did they want to storm the border checkpoint?