I suddenly doubt if I am in the small village with inconvenient transportation and few people come to visit.
It seems that a month is really short. Standing in front of me, Robbie is still as cold as before, looking at me as if I were a stranger.
But this time, he didn't wear a suit but a casual suit.
Maybe I have been influenced by Vann and Xenia, so the first sentence I said to Robbie was, "How about you? What is your identity here? Are you also my assistant?"
"It's not assistant but entertainment agent," said Robbie dryly
As soon as he finished his words, Robbie turned around and took the lead. I was really in a very bad mood at that time.
If people really think that they are my assistant and entertainment agent, they will laugh at me.
Xenia held my hand and I walked towards a courtyard at the end of the village with the other three aliens.
I looked at the place and couldn't help asking Robbie, who was opening the door with a key, "Where are we now?"
"This is a house I found from the villagers. I said I was in the film crew, and they kept a room for me excitedly. This is the end of the village. Except for going up the mountain, very few people pass by. It's very quiet."
"I don't mean that. Can you tell me why you are here?"
I was not so naive as to believe that the reason why the three of them came here was that they missed me.
As soon as we entered the yard, Vann closed the door and deliberately looked both sides of the road.
Xenia led me inside. The house was so dilapidated. There was nothing but a few quilts and two old-fashioned boxes.
Xenia pursed her lips and complained, "This place is too rough. How can we live here?"
"As I told you a long time ago, you insisted on coming with us," Vann said.
"I'm not here with you. I'm here to visit Jasmine and be her assistant!"
Xenia and Vann were still talking glibly, but my mind was messed up by a great number of questions, and I couldn't get them out of my head. So I asked again, "Can you make it clear to me?"
Vann nodded and sat down with his back against the window.
Just like afraid of being overheard, he looked outside.
"Jasmine, I am asking you. You have been here for such a long time. Have you found anyone or any family unusual?"
Vann's question came as a surprise to me. "No, the people here are honest and friendly, and people are easy to get along with. I didn't find anything unusual. Why, why do you ask this?"
"Here is the thing. We have caught a kidnapper few days ago. He told us that a woman whom we lose contact with in the city had been bought here. But he didn't remember the source of the woman whom he had sold. The first thing I came here was to get in touch with the local government. I hope they can cooperate with our rescue. Then is to make a first investigation and to get to know more about the woman. If we can find out the missing people, then we can avoid the missing people. It's out of the way. It's a remote area and all the families here have close connection. They all have a strong sense of the outside world, so it's likely that we will encounter the obstruction if we take people away."
I've seen some similar news before, so I understand why Vann was worried about that.
"But I don't think anyone would do such business in this village. I think they are well behaved."
"These men bought women to be wives and have children to carry on their family name. Their intention is simple. But it doesn't mean that their simple intention is not a crime and they are bad people. After all, they don't have legal awareness."
"So you took advantage of me to hide your identity, right here?"
Hearing that, Vann shrugged and said, "Yes, I think so."
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