Chapter 1111: Drawing the Net
They finally reached the deepest part of the warehouse. Seeing that the area where those women were held was right ahead, Steward Chen thought he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. But just then, someone suddenly cried out, “W-What is that?!”
This was the deepest part of the dungeon. Since there were only a few prisoners left, the lighting was dim. The ceiling above was two stories high, so the upper area was shrouded in darkness. If one did not deliberately look up, it was nearly impossible to notice anything above.
Following the sound, Steward Chen lifted his head and saw one hanging figure after another.
These were the people who had vanished earlier.
Steward Gao—the one who vanished after taking a single punch—was the first hanging corpse, followed by Old Zhou, Xiao Luan, and the others. All of them were bound by thin, ribbon-like strips of paper rope, dangling from the dungeon’s high ceilings and swaying gently.
Before joining the Nanyang United Trading Company, Steward Chen had been a seasoned man of the Jianghu, believing himself hardened by countless storms. However, he could not stop trembling at the sight before him.
His legs shook uncontrollably, and his knees went weak, nearly unable to stand. He tried to speak, but his throat was dry, producing only a few hoarse croaks.
One could imagine the state of the others if the leader, Steward Chen, were like this. Some of them could no longer even stand and collapsed onto the ground from fright.
None of them saw even a shadow, so they did not know whether it was a Heavenly Being or a thousand-year-old ghost haunting them.
But seeing their colleagues strung up like puppets shook them to the core.
However, most of these men were Jianghu desperadoes, the kind who lived life on the edge. Terrified to the extreme, one of them lashed out in anger and cursed loudly, “You gutless bastard! All you do is sneak around like a rat! If you’ve got any balls, come out and fight me! I’ll fucking skin you alive, motherfucker! Show yourself, shameless mutt!”
Steward Chen wanted to stop him, but it was already too late.