Crystal's POV:

After leaving the imperial palace, I went to the place where the group of merchants should have been stayed.

I searched the underground parking lot of the most expensive hotel in the imperial capital thrice, but couldn't spot the vehicle I'd seen in the surveillance video.

I took my phone out and opened the maps app. I retraced the route of the caravan and searched the road inch by inch.

Finally, in a forest near the suburb, I stumbled upon the remains of the car and saw the bloodstains that covered the ground. The surrounding area had been cordoned off, and soldiers were cleaning up the

scene.

I stopped a soldier and asked him about the situation.

At first, he was stunned. "Are you a family member? The dead bodies are not here anymore. They have been taken to the hospital morgue."

full breath. I stared at the dried blood on and around

My kids...

unable to finish that thought. The soldier quickly steadied me and gave me the

robbed by gangsters, who are hard-core criminals and possess guns. They have always been ruthless and merciless. They would murder people without hesitation to keep their mouths shut. Very few people have survived this incident. The dead

in the car?" I grabbed the soldier's arm with bloodshot eyes, very close to

didn't come across the corpse of any child while I was cleaning up the scene, but I don't know if anyone else had found a child before I arrived here. Maybe you can go to the hospital and

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I broke through the

steadily deeper with my flashlight. A little while later, I spotted candy wrappers tied around several branches and bushes,

This candy was a specialty of my border pack,

that they had

didn't make my way to the hospital morgue to check the corpses until

any children's

kept calling my kids

getting brighter and rain had started to fall as the day broke. Because of the chill in the air, my phone's screen was now covered with a thin layer of mist. I couldn't

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