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."

I couldn't draw in a full breath. I stared at the dried blood on and around the car. It was not difficult to

My kids...

The soldier quickly steadied me and gave me the

hesitation to keep their mouths shut.

children in the car?" I grabbed the soldier's arm with

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

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I broke through the cordon,

I went steadily deeper with my flashlight. A little while later, I spotted

took off one candy wrapper and studied it carefully. This candy was a specialty

certain that they had

and didn't make my way to the hospital morgue to check the

hadn't seen any children's bodies, I had

I was searching the forest, I kept calling my kids on their smart watches, but my call

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 recall how many times I'd called the

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