Elder brother's garrison

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They just came to attend an auction and then left? Were they simply there to see themselves make a fool of themselves...?

Hmm... I feel that while this is one reason, it's not the main reason.

Xiao Bai put down his hand and looked at the children behind him, as well as Gao Le.

Perhaps... they appeared here simply to let me know that they've arrived...

Xiao Bai pondered for a moment, then followed Gao Le out of the villa.

The village was full of drafty walls, and the news that Xiaobai had been sold for ten million seemed to spread quickly throughout the village.

Just after Xiaobai left the villa, on their way back to school, more villagers gathered around, watching Xiaobai from afar and pointing and whispering about her.

When Xiaobai and the others went back, they passed by the same convenience store again.

As soon as the shopkeeper saw Gao Le and Xiao Bai's group, he grinned and called out to Xiao Bai.

"Hey, little God of Wealth!"

Xiao Bai ignored the shop owner.

The shop owner wasn't angry. He grinned and said, "Now you're putting on airs. You're definitely got the makings of a rich person." Then he grabbed a handful of snacks and threw them at Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai didn't reach out to take it; the snacks were still taken by the children next to him.

Watching the children scramble for the snacks on the ground like little chicks, the shop owner let out a series of satisfied laughs.

Xiaobai simply stared quietly at his face, memorizing his features.

Xiao Bai and his group returned to the campus.

Back on campus, Gao Le separated the children with buyers from those without. He first randomly found a dormitory manager whom Xiao Bai didn't know and asked the manager to take the children without buyers back to their original places. Then he was about to take the children from Xiao Bai's side away.

"Aren't we going back to where we were?" Xiaobai asked Gao Le.

“You have buyers, and there will be special training coming up,” Gao Le said.

"What kind of special training?" Xiaobai asked again.

“…” Gao Le glanced at Xiao Bai, “I’m going to make you forget who you are, and forget the special training here.”

Gao Le's gaze was somewhat cold.

But Xiaobai wasn't afraid at all, and she said to Gao Le.

Can I go back to where I used to live?

“No.” Gao Le refused.

"I'm the highest-paid girl in this campus right now," Xiaobai thought for a moment, then reminded Gao Le, "What if I make you unhappy, what if I get wrinkles, and the sister who bought me suddenly doesn't like me anymore?"

"..."

Gao Le stopped in his tracks.

Gao Le looked at Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai smiled and continued speaking to Gao Le.

"This wrinkle of mine might be worth tens of thousands of dollars."

"..." Gao Le withdrew her gaze and asked Xiao Bai, "Do you know the way back?"

"Ah, I know. The roads and corridors here are crooked, but they're fine for me."

“Then you can go back by yourself. I’ll come find you later.” After Gao Le finished speaking, he left with the other children. “You can only go back for one night. Tell your roommates that you need to come to my place the next day.”

After Gao Le finished speaking, he casually left Xiao Bai on the spot.

Xiao Bai stood there, watching Gao Le and the group of little boys behind him disappear at the end of the corridor.

Xiao Bai scratched his head and looked around at the walls.

Chapter 3707 The Vanished Girl

It seems that Xiaobai is as compliant and cooperative as ever. In addition, the high price of tens of millions she "sold" at the auction today has made Gao Le lower his guard against Xiaobai.

I don't know if this counts as gaining the right to move freely...

Xiao Bai muttered to herself, looking around at the surroundings and the imposing walls, and finally shrugged.

That's it.

In any case, even if I'm free to move around, I probably won't stay in this human trafficking base for too long.

Now that the top ten admirals have found their way here and even infiltrated the auction posing as buyers, it means that the countdown to arresting this human trafficking base and village has officially begun. It is estimated that the operation will take place tonight or at the latest tomorrow.

With that thought in mind, Xiaobai took a step and walked towards her and Miao Yan's residence.

On her way back to her lodgings, Xiaobai encountered several children working in the corridor, along with dormitory supervisors and guards watching them. Initially, when these people saw Xiaobai swaggering past them alone, they seemed completely bewildered that there would be children capable of moving freely in this building, and they all gave Xiaobai puzzled and surprised looks. As a result, Xiaobai was stopped and questioned several times by different dormitory supervisors.

Fortunately, the news that Xiaobai had been sold for a high price of tens of millions quickly spread throughout the campus. When the dormitory supervisors who had been blocking Xiaobai learned that the well-behaved white-haired girl in front of them was actually the most valuable girl in the entire village in history, and that she had even been granted the privilege of free movement by Gao Le, they were all afraid of hurting a single hair on Xiaobai's head, and quickly made way for her.

It seems that even "commodities," as long as their intrinsic value is high enough, can enjoy human rights within this campus.

Xiao Bai felt a pang of sadness as he watched the dormitory supervisors retreat from him one by one.

Xiao Bai returned to his dormitory safely.

"Miao Yan, I'm back." Xiao Bai opened the door and walked into the dormitory, calling softly to the room, "Are you doing alright on your own... Hey?"

As soon as Xiaobai entered the dormitory, she was stunned for a moment.

The dormitory was quiet and peaceful, with no one on the beds or on the floor.

What about people?

Xiao Bai stood at the door, curiously searching inside the dormitory.

At first, Xiaobai thought that Miao Yan was too scared to stay in the room alone, so she hid under the bed or somewhere else. However, after searching all the places in the dormitory where people could hide, she did not find any trace of Miao Yan.

Miao Yan seems to have already gone out.

However, Miao Yan should not be allowed to move freely.

So she was called out to do some work?

Xiao Bai stood in front of the bed, lost in thought.

"Strange... Didn't Gao Yang say before that he could let Miao Yan rest after I left...?"

"Could it be..."

Thinking of this, Xiaobai seemed to have realized something, and then quickly went out.

Xiao Bai did not go to see Gao Yang, the dormitory manager.

She knew that with Gao Yang's authority as dormitory manager, if Miao Yan didn't encounter any special circumstances, it would only be a matter of a word for him to let Miao Yan stay in the room to rest. Moreover, Gao Yang had already agreed to her request before, so he couldn't possibly do something like this, paying lip service while secretly going against her wishes.

Therefore... the answer must be that Miao Yan was influenced by someone with higher authority than Gao Yang.

During her work yesterday and her walk today, Xiaobai memorized most of the places and layouts on campus. After leaving the dormitory, she headed towards the lobby. The other dormitory managers she encountered along the way recognized her as Xiaobai and knew that her status was now much higher than before, so they tacitly ignored her and did not stop her.

When Xiaobai arrived at the campus lobby, although she didn't see Miao Yan, she found someone who would most likely know where Miao Yan was.

Xu An pushed up his glasses. He had just walked in from outside the campus gate and hadn't even had time to brush off the dust when he saw Xiao Bai standing right in front of the door, quietly staring at him with her big eyes.

Xu An remained poised to brush the dust off his body, staring at Xiao Bai for a moment.

"..." Xu An slowly lowered his hand. His eyes behind his glasses were long and sharp, like a cobra flicking its tongue. "Why are you here alone? Didn't Gao Le take you to training?"

"I'm free to do as I please today," Xiaobai said.

"Freedom of movement?"

"Yes."

"Ha, when did Gao Le get this kind of privilege?"

"What, do you have any kids under your command who are worth ten million like me?" Xiao Bai asked Xu An, hands on her hips.

"..." Xu An didn't speak. He just stared at Xiaobai, his expression turning cold, but then he managed a smirk. "So you stayed here just to show off to me?"

"I didn't mean that." Xiaobai put her hand down, walked up to Xu An, looked up at him, and asked, "Do you know where Miao Yan went?"

"Miao Yan?"

"It's the girl I live with."

“How would I know her name? Only employees deserve to have names.” After saying that, Xu An was about to walk past Xiao Bai. “Also, don’t think that just because I sold you for a good price I won’t dare to touch you. Go back to your dormitory and stay there quietly.”

Xiao Bai watched Xu An walk past her, and she quietly followed in his footsteps.

Xu An was completely unaware that Xiao Bai was following him, but after walking for a while, he soon noticed that some dormitory supervisors and children passing by were looking at him with strange eyes, so he stopped, frowned, and turned around.

The moment Xu An saw Xiao Bai following behind him, his expression turned somewhat gloomy.

"What are you doing following me?" Xu An asked coldly.

"If a little girl leaves here, where is she most likely to go?" Xiaobai asked fearlessly.

"Why should I answer you?"

"If you don't answer me, I'm going to go ask Aunt Mei about this."

"..."

Xu An's gaze towards Xiao Bai finally changed.

The moment Xiaobai mentioned Aunt Mei, she clearly saw Xu An's gaze towards her begin to fill with indifference and murderous intent.

"Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you got a good price?" Xu An said coldly, reaching out his palm towards Xiao Bai's face. "You even dared to set your sights on Aunt Mei, do you have a death wish..."

"Xu An".

Just a second before Xu An was about to grab Xiao Bai's face, a kind voice suddenly rang out from behind Xu An.

Upon hearing the call, Xu An's hand froze in mid-air.

Xiao Bai brushed aside Xu An's hand and looked behind Xu An.

“It’s Aunt Mei,” Xiao Bai said, looking at the person behind Xu An.

"..."

Xu An turned around and saw a kind-looking middle-aged woman slowly walking down the stairs leading to the second-floor office, surrounded by several tall women.

The kind-looking woman walked slowly with a smile on her face, making jokes as she went.

"Oh my, this is the first time Aunt Mei has ever seen anything like this. A little girl who just arrived at our campus actually has the courage to argue with Supervisor Xu." Aunt Mei finally walked into the lobby, and she and the women around her stopped in front of Xiao Bai and Xu An, looking at the two of them and saying.

"Aunt Mei." Xu An immediately bowed his head to Aunt Mei, adopting a respectful attitude.

"Xu An, being questioned like this by a little girl, where is your authority on campus?" Aunt Mei asked Xu An with a smile.

"..." Xu An's eyes widened immediately, and he became somewhat nervous. "Aunt Mei, I'll punish her right away..."

"Alright, alright, you can go now." Aunt Mei shook her head with a smile.

"But Mei..."

"You're always like this, so indecisive. If you had even a fraction of Gao Le's decisiveness and competence, you wouldn't have let a little girl take advantage of you." Aunt Mei's smile faded slightly, and she stared at Xu An as she slowly said, "What? What else do you want to do to this little girl? She just set a high price. What if you leave a scar on her and the seller doesn't want to pay it back?"

Xu An's expression froze in mid-air, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets, and the veins on his forehead bulging.

Xiao Bai clearly watched as Xu An clenched his fists and then released them.

Xu An eventually bowed his head to Aunt Mei.

"Aunt Mei, I was wrong."

"Well, at least you're sincere in admitting your mistake," Aunt Mei said. "Go down, I'll take care of this little girl."

"Yes."

Xu An lowered his head, silently passed by Aunt Mei, and went upstairs to leave.

Xiao Bai looked in the direction Xu An left, and she quickly realized that her view was being blocked by the tall women around Aunt Mei.

Xiao Bai withdrew her gaze and looked at Aunt Mei.

Aunt Mei was also smiling as she looked at Little White.

"Little girl, you have a sharp mind," Aunt Mei said to Xiaobai with a smile. "There aren't many children like you anymore."

"Thank you for the compliment..."

"However, little girl, you should also know that besides physical punishment, we have many other methods here." Aunt Mei continued to smile at Xiaobai, speaking casually, "Don't go too far in anything, or you'll regret it."