The kids were taken away

Kong Pili's eyes widened, she couldn't believe that someone was daring enough to kidnap them from the front of the shop. She opened her mouth to scream but the woman who had kidnapped her chopped her on the back of her neck.

"Damn this darned thing," cursed the woman who was hired by Sister Qiao as she looked down at Kong Pili. "She is quite sharp." 

The other woman who was following behind snorted and said, "We are lucky that no one was paying attention because of the fuss that mer made, if that mer hadn't caused such a diversion we couldn't have caught them." 

The woman who spoke first began to speak but before she could say anything, she saw one of her partners walking over with two mers. 

"Why did you bring them with you?" She asked with her eyes widening in anger. "Didn't I tell you that only these two girls will be good enough, Big Dou?"