Chapter 173: This is Your Last Chance
After the farce was over, the people in the crowd felt it was rather dull and began to leave.
"How boring. Why'd he suddenly collapse like that?"
"I thought that woman was going to get beaten to death!"
"Too bad Third Brother wanted to handle it himself. Otherwise, I would've claimed that woman as my prey!"
Xiao Ye followed the crowd out of the arena.
The area outside was a lounge, filled with sofas and top-shelf liquor.
Besides the guards, there was another type of person here: the servers.
Scantily clad, beautiful women carried trays of wine glasses. If one caught a patron's eye, they could be dragged away, and things would happen right then and there.
Spectators were all around, enjoying the show. Some would even get worked up enough to join in midway.
On the outside, they were successful men in suits and ties.
But in here, they weren't even human. Each and every one of them was worse than an animal.
Xiao Ye's gaze swept the room. He could now be certain.
This was a place designed for these beasts to vent.
And their method of venting was to use the bodies—and even the lives—of innocent people.
Xiao Ye planned to venture deeper. After confirming there was nothing he needed, he would destroy this place completely.
He had only taken a couple of steps when a young man with an impatient look on his face blocked his path. "You. Go get me a bottle of wine. Crawl there on your knees, and crawl back on your knees. Got it?"
"If you screw it up, I'll chop you to pieces!"
Xiao Ye turned his head, his icy gaze staring straight at the man through his mask.
Seeing him stand still, the young man raised his leg to kick him. "Fuck! Are you deaf or just fucking stupid?"
Xiao Ye sidestepped the kick.
"Son of a bitch, you dare to dodge!"
"Don't you know I'm a guest here?! You have to do whatever a guest wants!"
The other young masters with him immediately shouted, "Hey, you're just a dog here!"
"Hurry up and fetch the wine like you're told, or you'll be leaving your life here today!"
Xiao Ye stretched slightly. He was finding it hard to hold back.
'I really want to smash their goddamn heads in!'
However, the men opposite him were still courting death.
"Shit, why isn't he doing what he's told? Is he a mute?"
"Can a mute even be a guard?"
"Of course not! The kid's just pretending not to hear!"
"You're really asking for it!"
The young man casually grabbed an empty wine bottle from nearby and swung it at Xiao Ye's head.
Xiao Ye raised a hand and caught his arm.
"You dare resist!"
"So the dog-slave won't obey, huh?"
"Someone, hold him down for me!"
"Then drag him away! I want to watch you chop him to pieces and feed him to the dogs!"
Several guards approached from a short distance away.
They wore the same masks as Xiao Ye and moved like walking corpses, actually intending to restrain him.
They were the same as him, yet they were willing to be dogs.
Xiao Ye dodged away. "Are you really going to move against me?"
"Don't forget, you're guards too!"
"If they're in a bad mood, they can kill me just like that. Next time, it could be you!"
Xiao Ye's words made their eyes flicker for a moment, but that was all.
They had long since forgotten how to resist, or rather, they knew resistance was futile.
Instead of throwing their lives away, it was better to obey. Maybe they could live a little longer that way.
Xiao Ye found them truly pathetic.
"There are only four kinds of people here: the powerful, the servers, us guards, and the prey who can be killed at will!"
"The guards have the best skills! As long as you're willing to fight back, I will lead you out of here today!"
"This is your last chance!"
The commotion attracted many of the powerful patrons.
They gathered around, looking at Xiao Ye as if he were a joke.
"Kid, you must be dreaming. Let me tell you, the guards here only listen to us!"
"To think you'd dare to resist. You must have a death wish!"
"What are you all standing around for? Get him, now! I want to see where he got this nerve. Did one of you tell him something?"
These powerful men loved to play all sorts of games here. Perhaps one of them had made a false promise to a guard, leading to this situation.
The guards showed no sign of defiance.
They continued to close in on Xiao Ye, their goal to capture him.
They would rather chop up their own comrade and feed him to the dogs than make one last stand.
Xiao Ye was deeply disappointed. He raised his hand and sent the loudest of the young men flying with a single slap.
He moved so fast that the others didn't have time to react.
Besides, they never thought a guard would actually dare to strike them. At most, they expected a bit of feeble resistance.
"You... you actually dared to hit me!"
"I'm going to do this myself! First, I'm going to chop off your hands!"
The young man had never been so humiliated. He lunged forward like a madman.
Xiao Ye simply gave him a kick.
This time, he used a full fifty percent of his strength.
It was enough to send a spoiled brat to hell to atone for his sins.
The young man fell to the ground, spat out a mouthful of blood with a GAG, and then went still.
"Shit, he actually did it!"
"I think he's dead! A guard killed someone!"
"The dog actually bit its master! This is insane!"
More and more guards rushed over.
This underground structure wasn't very large, especially this section, which was only wide enough for five people to walk abreast at most.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Ye was surrounded, hemmed in on all sides with no chance of escape.
"The guards are nothing but dogs raised by the Xiao Family."
"And now one dares to bite its master!"
"Seize him! I will deal with him personally, in front of everyone!"
Someone in the crowd had spoken.
The guards immediately lunged forward.
Xiao Ye rolled his neck, producing a sharp CRACK.
The next second, he charged into the crowd.
THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
One by one, the guards fell to the ground.
Once all the guards were down, only the so-called "powerful" remained.
They had treated this place as their personal playground, utterly devoid of humanity.
And today was their retribution.
Seeing this, the faces of the powerful men changed, and they turned to run.
How could Xiao Ye possibly give them that chance? He drew a dagger from his waist.
One slash for each man.
He didn't kill them outright. Instead, he severed their legs.
Let them also experience what it felt like to await death, unable to escape.
The pain they inflicted on others would be repaid a hundredfold today.
"AHHH!"
The screams were endless.
People from other areas heard the commotion and came over to see what was happening.
But the moment they stepped through the doorway, they saw a flash of cold light. The next instant, they too were on the ground, joining the chorus of wails.
「Half an hour later.」
Xiao Ye had switched to his King Yama mask.
After confirming that no one in the entire underground area was left standing...
...he walked step by step toward the back.
This was where the "prey" were kept.
There were men and women, some born to wealth and privilege, others from poor families.
Now, they were all chained up in small cages. Food and water were simply thrown in the corners. They were treated worse than house pets.