The Man Standing on Top of the Food Chain - Chapter 33

[Chapter 3 Jade]

really…really, the Shadow Sect is the ancient religion of the Emerald City.” The legendary sect, it is said that they were the masters of the Emerald City before Daxia.

Their favorite thing was to kill living people and sacrifice them to please their gods. But more than a hundred years ago, Daxia’s After the army reached southern Xinjiang, it ruled the entire Emerald City, and the Shadow Cult was annihilated as a cult. Except for the legends left behind, there is no record of the Shadow Cult. Older locals all know this. “

After hearing this, Li Anping became more and more confused. I didn’t expect that this human trafficking matter would also involve ancient cults. It seemed that things were more complicated than he thought.

At that moment, he asked the driver a few more things. When he found that the driver didn’t know more, he gently touched the driver’s arm. After eating the driver’s soul, he casually threw the body on a nearby mountain road. Then he started running towards the Emerald City.

He wants to kill the lone wolf and wipe out all the human trafficking criminal organizations here.

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Three hours later, the long-distance station in Emerald City.

Li Anping walked out of an alley, and two gangsters behind him fell to the ground, moaning. Li Anping’s face was filled with gloom.

This was the third group of thieves he saw after getting off the train at the long-distance station. He had imagined how many criminals there were in Emerald City and how high the crime rate was. When he actually got to this place, he realized that his thinking was still too simple.

Looking up, gray haze covered the entire sky. Not to mention a single star, not even the moon could be seen in the entire sky. This is caused by the uncontrolled discharge of sewage from large tracts of factories in the city. Various gray and black gases emerge from the chimneys and are discharged into the sky wantonly. In this kind of place, there is no one to manage pollution.

Inside the station, there were ragged citizens everywhere with grim expressions. There is no innocence or childlike interest on the faces of the only few children. Because they are not playing on the street, but surrounding passengers getting off the bus, begging for property. After being scolded, he didn’t worry, he just replaced another passenger and continued begging. The numbness and accident on their faces made Li Anping feel chilled.

There were many pedestrians on the road, but they were all minding their own business. They were walking in a hurry, with indifferent expressions, and never asked about what was going on around them. Li Anping asked for directions several times, but was ignored by the other party.

On the street, the shops on both sides of the street were colorful and endless, but most of the shops around the station had one or two scantily clad women standing at the door. When they saw the neatly dressed Li Anping, they cheered loudly and greeted him. Li Anping was posing and posing.

“Handsome boy! Come in and play!”

“Handsome boy, come in and my sister will love you.”

What’s more, in front of everyone, he took off his shirt, revealing a pair of plump little white rabbits and jumped out, attracting attention on the street. The citizens looked over one after another.

Li Anping glanced at them and left quickly. This place was messier than he imagined. Faced with such a self-destructive person, he didn’t know what to do.

In this atmosphere, Hei seemed to feel particularly happy. He asked, “Hey, why don’t you teach them a lesson?” Are you excited? ‘

‘They… are just forced by life. Li Anping considered it carefully and said, “It’s not really a big evil.” ‘

‘Whatever you want. But this is really a good place. I feel like the air is full of crime. And it has developed very prosperously, not inferior to Zhongdu. It really makes me tremble with excitement! ‘

Li Anping nodded and did not deny it. Black is indeed right. Although the environment is terrible, the citizens seem more indifferent and the crime rate is alarmingly high. But the Emerald City is indeed prosperous. Looking up, you can see towering buildings in the southeast, northwest, and elevated roads built as densely as spider webs.

Especially now that it is dark, if you look at it from a high place, the entire Emerald City is a sea of lights. It was like daylight. This situation has reached its extreme in urban centers. From the underground to the ground, there are shops selling all kinds of clothing, food, housing and transportation, including pornography, gambling, and drugs.

From beautiful virgins to extinct animals and even weapons eliminated from the army, you can buy them here. It’s simply a paradise for criminals.

Li Anping took a taxi on the street and rushed towards the place where the trafficker gave him the stolen goods. The sight of crime and prosperity dancing together in the Emerald City made him feel unspeakably irritable.

But the information around him continued to pour into him. Fifty meters away, a prostitute with heavy makeup was fighting with three men in an alley. Their breathing sounds seemed to be in Li Anping’s ears.

A hundred meters away, a man snatched a woman’s bag and ran away, but within a few steps, he was shot to death by the woman who pulled out a gun. The woman picked up the bag, kicked the man’s body a few times, cursed a few times and left. The people around seemed not to be surprised, and no one even called the police.

At a passing casino, a man in a suit jumped out of the window and fell to his death on the spot. Several big men hurriedly ran out of the door and dragged the man’s body back. They discussed who to sell their human organs to to pay off his debts.

In the Emerald City, everything here hides their unique rules under the appearance of sin. Everyone acts according to the rules, no matter how absurd and unruly these rules may seem to outsiders.

Li Anping’s eyes were looking out the window, and his ears were listening to the sound. For the first time, he felt that he could not contain his sin even with his own strength.

Because there are too many, the Emerald City is simply full of crime and evil. Can he really manage it by himself?

Li Anping gradually began to think. Think about how to change the situation in Emerald City. The idea of what should be done to change the world was actually presented to him for the first time.

Although he said before that he wanted to uphold justice, his idea was very simple, just to kill bad people and help good people. But when he came to the Emerald City, crime and death seemed to line up in front of him. He understands that it is not simply killing bad guys that can change the world and uphold justice.

He needs some more complex and effective means.

Half an hour later, the car stopped, interrupting Li Anping’s thinking. He got out of the car and the taxi drove away impatiently, as if it was very dangerous here. Looking around, Li Anping found that his destination was a somewhat remote area. It is surrounded by dilapidated buildings and abandoned factories.

The walls are covered with graffiti of unknown meaning. There are some homeless people gathering in twos and threes in the distance. From time to time, his cold eyes looked at Li Anping who got out of the car.

There are several old residential buildings a few hundred meters away. Downstairs are several grocery stores and convenience supermarkets, but the business is deserted and there are no people around.

Li Anping glanced at it and walked towards his destination. It was an abandoned building. The door was rusty and locked by a large iron lock.

Li Anping frowned, this was different from the news he had received from the driver in advance. His ears did not pick up the sound of anyone in the building.

Although it’s not as lively as the city center, it shouldn’t be so desolate. As one of the strongholds where lone wolves accept abducted women and children, there should not be anyone left.

He touched the iron lock on the door, looked around, and then pulled the iron lock open with a little force. Pushing open the door, Li Anping walked in at a leisurely pace.

This abandoned building has five floors and was originally built as a nursing home. So the first floor is a room of offices, and the second to fourth floors are various dormitory-like rooms.

Li Anping didn’t notice the presence of people, so he could only scan the rooms one by one. Opening the office on the first floor, the coffee on the table was half drunk. I rummaged through the drawers and filing cabinets and found that there was nothing left inside. I can only find some professional magazines and tool books.

At the very back of the office, a rectangular object was covered with a black cloth. In the darkness, if you didn’t pay attention, you would almost miss him.

Li Anping smelled the pungent smell coming from his nose, and a bad premonition flashed through his mind. He stretched out his hand and pulled the black cloth aside. Looking at the scene in front of him, his eyes narrowed to a slit.

It was a simple cell made of iron cages. It is only one meter high and about two meters wide. People can only lie down or prone inside. There was also a small basin on the ground, which seemed to be full of rancid leftovers.

There were still some bright red blood stains around the iron cage. The stench of feces and urine emanated from the cage.

A emaciated body of a child lay just like this in the cage, with large swathes of ants crawling on his body, exposing the dense white bones.

It is unimaginable how much torture and destruction he suffered in front of him.

Li Anping covered the black cloth again. His face was livid and his fists were clenched white. But he didn’t say the last word, he just took a deep breath and checked other corners of the office.

But Li Anping’s actions yielded nothing. Judging from the messy office, it seemed that the people here evacuated in a hurry, but they took away all the information without leaving anything useful.

So Li Anping then walked upstairs, planning to check all the dormitories. The corridor was dark. Li Anping tried the light switch and found no response.

But with his current eyesight, he could see everything clearly even in the dark corridor. He opened the bedrooms on the second floor one by one, and the environment inside was as bad as he expected.

Those traffickers did not care for the abducted people as human beings. There was excrement everywhere and blood that had turned dark. There is nothing in the dormitory except a bed. The windows were all boarded up, so no outside could be seen, and no sunlight could come in.

According to the trafficker driver, those sent here can only eat one meal a day, and those who resist fiercely will also be given sleeping pills. Everyone has been in a state of weakness and can only lie on the bed. There is neither a shower nor a bathroom, and the person who guards them often only cleans the dormitory in a few months.

Only when you take them out to meet the seller will you have the opportunity to take a bath.

Such a dormitory can leave even fewer clues. Li Anping’s only gain was that he found that several people had carved their names and origins on the walls and bedside with nails or blood.