Chapter 79: Chapter 77: Liking Miracles, but Also Caring About the Truth

After the two police officers left, Wen Ying closed the clinic and went out to find Zizi.

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Zizi’s mother took Zizi for a stroll along Wenxiang Street, but after looking around, she found the street wasn’t very long and was also quite ordinary.

It wasn’t much different from any other town.

She bought a lollipop for Zizi. Afraid that going back would interrupt Doctor Wen’s livestream, Zizi’s mother led Zizi toward the mountain behind Wenxiang Street. The environment looked quite nice.

She had always lived in the city with Zizi, so it was rare to see such pristine mountains and trees.

Zizi’s mother also liked the air here; she had been to places like this when she was a child.

Maybe they could hear birds singing on the mountain. Zizi, a city dweller, had never heard such things, just as most city children nowadays have never heard a rooster crowing in the dead of night.

But for the older generation of rural people, this was an essential part of every day.

As dawn broke, you could hear the rooster’s crow from inside the house, signaling that the day had begun, it was time to get up, and it was time to go work in the fields.

Rural children grew up to the sound of the rooster’s crow, a sound that became an ingrained part of their daily lives.

Now that they had the chance, and having spent money to come here, Zizi’s mother decided to take Zizi for a slow hike up the mountain.

The mountain didn’t look too high, just a bit sprawling. Zizi’s mother asked an older woman on the road for directions, and the woman showed them a small path, reminding them to be careful.

The path wasn’t steep, but for a city kid like Zizi who had never experienced anything like it, the walk was a little exciting.

This was the second time since they arrived that Zizi’s mother had seen a change in Zizi’s perception of the outside world.

The sides of the path were lined with trees, some of which bore fruit. The fruits were small, and if you looked closely, their skins were a little red. Zizi’s mother picked one, wiped it, and popped it in her mouth. It was sweet and sour, so she picked a few for Zizi.

In the countryside, if you see fruit like this on the road, even if it belongs to someone, no one will stop you from trying a piece as long as you aren’t greedy. In fact, they’d be happy to let you have a taste.

But for some reason, halfway up the mountain, Zizi’s mother felt her heart begin to race with anxiety.

Zizi’s mother, who normally didn’t believe in such feelings or premonitions, pulled Zizi over to sit and rest on a rock by the side of the path.

But the feeling of panic seemed to grow even stronger.

Zizi’s mother felt her eye start to twitch uncontrollably. She grabbed Zizi’s hand and immediately turned to head back down the mountain.

"Stop! Don’t move and don’t even think about running!" A threatening voice rang out. Zizi’s mother felt a powerful force yanking her precious daughter from her grasp.

But she instinctively hugged her daughter tight and tried to run in the opposite direction!

In the midst of the struggle, Zizi’s mother stumbled while holding Zizi, and they both fell onto the path.

But Zizi’s mother still held her daughter tightly, cradling her in her arms.

Only then did she get a good look at the man who had suddenly appeared. He was around five-foot-nine, a bit overweight, with a vicious look on his face that was instantly terrifying.

"If you don’t want to die, stop running, understand?" The man’s smile was like that of a Demon.

’Ugly and disgusting!’

"What do you want!" No matter how scared she was, Zizi’s mother had to protect her daughter.

"Hand over your daughter. You come with me, or I’ll kill you both!"

The man crouched down and reached for Zizi, as if to lift her up.

Just then, the man’s long-honed counter-surveillance instincts made his expression change in an instant. He lunged forward and grabbed both Zizi’s mother and Zizi.

He lifted them up as if they were little chicks.

Then he dragged them toward a cliff face at the side of the path.

"Don’t move! Come any closer and I’ll kill them!" the man shouted viciously toward an empty spot.

Zizi’s mother had no idea what was happening, but after the man shouted, people did indeed appear where there had been no one before. She didn’t know who they were, but they seemed different from ordinary people.

And the man wrapped his arm directly around her neck.

"You’re surrounded! Harming innocent people will only add to your crimes!"

"Hahaha! You think I’m afraid of you?!"

As he spoke, the man dragged Zizi’s mother and Zizi toward the edge of the path.

At the edge was a sheer cliff. A fall from there wouldn’t necessarily kill you, but you’d be half-dead. Most likely, there’d be no rescue, unless you were incredibly lucky.

"Take me instead! Let my child go!" Zizi’s mother couldn’t help but cry.

’It’s my fault Zizi is in danger. If I hadn’t brought my daughter here, how could something like this have happened?’

’I just want my daughter to live!’

But how could the man care whether they were adults or children? The police wanted to catch him? Fine, he didn’t mind letting them face a public backlash!

Let them choose: his life, or the lives of this mother and daughter!

"Get out of here, now! I’m going to count to ten. If you’re still here after ten, I’ll throw this little girl straight down!"

Zizi’s mother immediately struggled to hold her daughter tighter. "If you’re going to throw someone, throw me! Don’t touch my daughter! Over my dead body!"

"Don’t do anything rash!"

As the two sides were in a standoff, the man felt a gust of wind from behind. He grabbed the woman and flung her behind him.

"Stop! You bastard!" As the shout rang out, the scene was of Zizi’s mother, holding Zizi, being thrown by the force over the edge of the cliff!

Meanwhile, the man, due to the force from behind and a kick from Zizi’s mother as she was thrown, fell to the ground and started rolling.

He rolled right in the direction of the plainclothes police officers.

Someone rushed forward to restrain him, but the man pulled a dagger from his waistband and stabbed the person grabbing him right in the kidney!

"Brother Zhang!" a heart-wrenching cry.

The man was subdued, pinned to the ground by the feet of three people, and his arms were tied.

In her despair, Zizi’s mother held her daughter tight. As they fell, her only thought was to act as a human shield so her daughter might survive.

But... 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

A burst of golden light!

It seemed to shoot out from her daughter’s chest, as brilliant as the sun and impossible to block.

In that radiance, Zizi’s mother felt a powerful force catch her body and lift her back up.

Zizi’s mother sat on the ground, gasping for breath. Zizi looked curiously over the edge of the cliff, but held in her mother’s arms, she didn’t struggle.

The man was taken away, and a police officer came over to explain what had happened to Zizi’s mother and to comfort them.

Upon learning they weren’t locals, the police were a bit curious. Almost no one came here for tourism; why did something happen the one time someone did?

Besides, everyone had clearly seen that last scene: the two of them had been thrown off.

They loved a miracle and were very Satisfied with the outcome, but they were truly curious how the two had gotten back up.

Under those circumstances, it should have been impossible to get back up unharmed, right?

Meanwhile, Brother Zhang spat at the man, then took out the stone that he had first put in his pocket and later stuffed into his shirt.

"Do you know Doctor Wen?"