Chapter 6

"Delia, take a look at this."

As the young officer placed an old newspaper photocopy in front of me, my fingers trembled.

To be honest, I had thought that the fake Monica's background must be quite significant.

After all, in Callie's description, both her psychological makeup and modus operandi were like those of a habitual offender.

But when I truly traced back to the source, her identity still shocked me.

At the end of the last century, a man named Dashiell and his gang bought illegal firearms on the Yunnan border. They first carried out robberies and murders near the national highway, then began kidnapping children and demanding high ransoms.

Monica was the last child they kidnapped.

She was also the only one who survived.

On April 18th, Monica escaped from Dashiell's gang's headquarters and ran to a nearby highway, where she was rescued by a passing truck driver.