Chapter 174: Have No Mercy
The moment Xiao Ye entered, they immediately cowered together in fear.
Cries and pleas for mercy filled the air.
"Please, please let me go! My family is rich, I'll give you money!"
"Is two million enough? Just spare my life!"
"My mom's sick. She's waiting for me to see her one last time. Please, I'm begging you, let me go see her. Just one look, and then you can torture me however you want!"
"I was just traveling... SOB... why are you doing this to me!"
They were all people who had been kidnapped and brought here. Every one of them looked so young.
'That makes sense,' he thought. 'Only young people could put up a fight against those man-eating beasts.'
'An old person wouldn't be much of a spectacle.'
Xiao Ye took a deep breath, suppressing the rage in his heart. "My name is the King of Hell."
"I'm the one who's here to save you. The people who wanted to harm you have all been incapacitated."
"If you want revenge, go ahead. It doesn't matter if you kill them. No one knows about this place anyway."
"If you don't want revenge, then leave and find the exit on your own."
"I advise you not to show anyone any mercy. Of the people taken from your group just now, one was eaten by wolves, and the other was beaten to death!"
The group stared at Xiao Ye, seemingly in disbelief.
"You... you'll really let us go?"
Xiao Ye opened his cage directly. "Go on, get out."
The man scrambled out of the cage on all fours. Seeing that Xiao Ye truly had no intention of stopping him, he bolted out like a madman.
Seeing this, the others' eyes lit up with joy.
Xiao Ye opened the cages one by one.
They immediately scrambled to escape.
The moment they were outside, the numerous "prey" froze.
The people lying on the ground were the very clients who had come to pick them out earlier.
Before, these people had stood right in front of them, openly discussing how to dispose of them.
And now... these people who held the power of life and death had been reduced to pathetic dogs, unable to even get up!
At that moment, a single thought surfaced in the minds of the prey.
'Should we do it?'
'Should we get revenge?'
'Should we kill them?'
Before they could snap out of it, suddenly, one of the men before them took a bullet to the head, his vicious expression frozen on his face.
Just before he died, he had been about to threaten the prey into saving him.
Too bad he was sent to meet the King of Hell before he could even open his mouth!
The prey turned around to see Xiao Ye standing behind them, holding a pistol fitted with a silencer.
"Whether you make a move or not is up to you."
With that, he turned and disappeared behind the door.
Someone swallowed hard, hatred surfacing in their eyes. "I was just an ordinary person, but they kidnapped me."
"All these days, they haven't given me a single proper meal, just locked me in a cage like a dog."
"And if that wasn't enough, they were actually planning to beat me to death and feed me to the dogs!"
"I want revenge! Who knows if I'll just get caught again after I escape? Before I die, I'm taking one of them with me!"
"Yeah!" someone else chimed in. "Let's kill them all! If they're all dead, no one will ever know it was us. We'll be safe!"
"The guy who saved us already killed someone! He's not afraid, so what are we afraid of?"
The sound of horrific screams began to rise from outside.
Xiao Ye's lips curled into a satisfied smile. 'This is what you call giving them a taste of their own medicine!'
Wearing the mask of King Yama, he continued deeper into the facility.
His scanner confirmed it: there was another, extremely well-hidden space inside, which likely held secrets.
Xiao Ye walked up to a wall and began searching for a hidden mechanism.
「Ten minutes later.」
CLICK...
The wall slowly slid open to one side, revealing a hidden door as expected.
The lights inside turned on simultaneously, revealing a space that resembled an office.
The moment Xiao Ye stepped inside, he raised his left hand.
The person hiding by the door was knocked down with a single punch.
'Trying to launch a sneak attack when you can't even hold your breath? Dream on!'
Xiao Ye had heard their coarse, heavy breathing even before opening the hidden door.
The man fell to the ground, clutching his face in pain.
Xiao Ye grabbed him by the collar and hauled him to his feet.
He dislocated the man's jaw with one hand, checked his mouth for a poison capsule, and then popped it back into place.
"Talk. What is this place, and who's the owner?!"
"Tell me what I want to know, and I might spare your life."
"If you don't, I guarantee you'll experience the most painful death imaginable!"
"Don't... don't kill me! I'll tell you everything!"
The man looked to be in his forties, but his cowardice was contemptible.
Xiao Ye dragged him over to the desk and plopped down into the chair.
While rummaging through things on the desk, he said, "Well? What are you standing there for? Spit it out!"
"The owners of this place are the Xiao Family!"
Xiao Ye had already figured that out. The man in front of him had very similar eyes and brows to his own.
"The Hidden Clan, the Xiao Family?"
"Yes..." The man didn't dare hide anything. "This is actually a private, invitation-only club."
"We invite people who need to... blow off steam. Everyone who comes here must swear to secrecy."
"They can do whatever they want here. Even if they kill someone, we can clean it up."
'Of course they wouldn't talk,' Xiao Ye thought. 'This place is full of hidden cameras.'
'Filming them torturing and killing people is the perfect way to get leverage over them.'
'I never thought the Xiao Family, this Hidden Clan, would be so vicious—using a method like this to control the members of other great families.'
"Where do you get the 'prey'?"
"We have partners over in MD. They're responsible for sending us the prey we need."
The man swallowed nervously and continued, "The rest are people caught by various human trafficking rings."
Xiao Ye sneered. "So a great family like yours is involved in human trafficking. How disgusting."
'For a Hidden Clan, money is just a number.'
'To think they'd come up with a scheme like this just to control other families... they're completely insane!'
The man felt the cold killing intent radiating from him and dropped to his knees in terror. "King of Hell... King of Hell, I was wrong! I really was!"
"I'm just in charge of operations here! I haven't done anything!"
Xiao Ye grabbed him by the hair. "Open the safe."
"Yes, yes, I'll open it right now!"
With a CLICK...
The safe opened.
Inside were some files and ledgers.
Xiao Ye opened them up. They were all records of human trafficking, with the dates and prices clearly documented.
Unfortunately, they weren't recorded individually, but by "batches."
The smaller batches had a dozen or so people.
The larger ones had as many as twenty or thirty!
Besides the ledgers, there were also many videotapes.
Xiao Ye looked at the names taped to them and knew instantly that this was the evidence of them torturing and murdering people.
He found a bag and put everything inside.
"What else is there? Tell me everything you know."