Chapter 259 - Rescue (1/2)

Lilia gripped her phone tightly and stared at the screen. The phone number listed there was only one digit short, but the boy was caught before he could finish it. In that case, Lilia could only try one by one until she found the right number!

The dizziness that had been pounding her was getting stronger, making her head throb in pain. But she ignored the headache and started trying numbers from 0 to 9.​​

Whenever someone picked up her call, Lilia's first sentence was always the same.

”Excuse me, have you lost your child?”

A telephone receiver called Lilia a lunatic. Another person immediately hung up the phone without listening any further. Some of the numbers she tried were not connected to anyone. Even so, Lilia didn't give up.

Finally, when Lilia called for the eighth time, the receiver gave the response she had been waiting for.

”Yes, right! Our young master has been missing for weeks! Little girl, have you seen our young master?” The interlocutor spoke hurriedly and excitedly.

Black spots began to appear at the edge of Lilia's vision. She rubbed her eyes in annoyance, but the freckles refused to disappear. The little girl tried to focus on the other person.

”Yes, I was at summer camp. I met a boy in Arum Village. He's wearing a white shirt and... ”

After that incident, Lilia couldn't remember exactly what she had said on the phone. Her ears were ringing loudly and her head ached so much that she couldn't think straight. Her lips babled something, but she was unable to process her words. Lilia's mind was filled with the figure of the boy brutally beaten and whipped.

”Lilia! Here you are!”

When she heard her teacher's voice, it felt like the invisible rope holding her c.h.e.s.t had finally broken. She intended to rise from the ground and tell her teacher about the bad guys. But instead of standing up, Lilia fell on the ground. Lilia's gaze turned dark as she lost consciousness. The cellphone in her hand was thrown not far from there.

The teacher was shocked when Lilia suddenly fainted. But when that man saw the blood staining the face of the student, the teacher immediately panicked. He picked up Lilia in his arms and rushed towards the village shouting for help. The man was completely unaware of Lilia's cellphone, which was still connected to the person on the other end of the line.

In the end, only a cellphone and a pink backpack were left behind in the bush. These two objects were silent witnesses that Lilia's meeting with a boy covered in blood and in chains was not her imagination.

That very day, Lilia was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. The school called her parents, prompting Robert to rush over to pick up her daughter.

When Lilia woke up, the first thing she saw was her father's face.

”Father…?” Lilia muttered in a hoarse voice. Her throat felt dry.

”Yes, Father is here with you.” Robert sat his daughter in bed and helped her drink a glass of water. ”Thank God you gained consciousness fast. The doctor said… ”

”What about that boy?!” Lilia immediately interrupted Robert.

”That boy…?” Robert tilted his head with a confused expression.

”There is a boy there! He was beaten by bad people! And… and there is a whip too! Then he…!”