After returning and lying on the bed, the photographer and I lamented the poor girl's plight and cursed the ignorance here.

We cursed like this until midnight, when we were about to turn off the lights and sleep, but we heard the sound of small stones knocking on the window outside the hotel.

Opening the curtains, it turned out to be Bai Zhaodi standing below the window. She was wearing thin hospital clothes, shivering from the cold, her expression completely different from when she was at the hospital.

Seeing us stick our heads out, she clung to the windowsill and begged, "Uncle reporters, I'm Bai Zhaodi, I'm not crazy, I was just pretending earlier. Please save me."

We were caught off guard and very flustered. We let her into the room.

But she shook her head and whispered, “I sneaked out and must return immediately.”

“If I'm caught, I won't survive.”

“Everyone here is the same, only you can save me.”

The girl pleaded in a low voice, “My brother is dying, and my father and uncles plan to give me to them to produce another brother.”

“I don't want to, I ran away, and they said I disrupted the ritual, and that I would cause everyone here to be punished. They plan to take me up the mountain to starve to death.”

“I have no money or ID and can't go anywhere. I can only pretend to be crazy, saying I turned into my brother. Please, save me.”

The girl's words shocked us

both, and for a moment we didn't know what to do: “Then come with us, we'll take you to the city to find the police, go to the province.”

Bai Zhaodi hurriedly said, “Finding the police won't help. I have no other relatives. If you hand me over to the police, I’ll just be sent back, and I still won’t survive.”

“I know you are reporters and good people, please help me, help me find an adoption, help me expose this. Only this way can I be saved.”

“Okay, okay.” We quickly agreed.

Bai Zhaodi kowtowed once at the window, then turned and ran away quickly.

Faced with such a situation, no one would stand by and do nothing.

We trembled with anger and contacted old classmates overnight, preparing to discuss how to properly rescue and settle the girl.