Thug: The More You Scream, the More Excited I Get!

From then on.

He rarely went to that street.

He knew very little about it.

However.

The voice he had just heard sounded somewhat familiar.

But for the moment, he couldn't remember who it belonged to.

This was Spirit City.

It was a paradise for Soul Masters, because their status here had reached its peak.

It was far higher than in the empire.

It was also a holy land for ordinary people.

The reason was.

The people who could come here were either rich or noble.

A month spent doing business here.

Was worth more than several years of backbreaking farm work elsewhere.

And some ordinary people.

Were often bullied by Soul Masters of ill intent because they were weak.

And after that cry of "Help!" just now, no further sound came.

Li Mubai looked at the pedestrians on the street.

There was no trace of curiosity on their faces.

Because the first rule of life here.

Was "Sweep the snow from your own doorstep; pay no mind to the frost on your neighbor's roof."

When it came to such disputes, no one had any desire to go and take a look.

They simply went about their business.

As for this sort of thing.

Li Mubai could only say that he was powerless to help.

After all, such things happened almost every day.

Though he had the ability to intervene, there were simply far too many such incidents.

If he meddled in every one.

Wouldn't he work himself to death?

Shaking his head, Li Mubai stepped over the threshold and entered the house.

Looking at the graceful figure before him.

The flutter in his heart that had just subsided rose again.

However.

At that moment, Xiao Qian's brows were slightly furrowed.

Elsewhere.

In a dead-end alley.

The lights on the street flickered, casting the alley into alternating darkness and light.

Several members of the Wild Wolf Gang reeked of alcohol.

Looking at the two females with their backs against the wall and nowhere to run, they couldn't help showing their excitement.

Scarface even stuck out his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth.

In their eyes, the mother and daughter against the wall were like lambs waiting for slaughter.

"Widow Zhao, don't you like to scream?"

"In a moment, I'll let you scream all you want in front of your child!"

"Don't think someone will come and rescue you from the fire just because you cry out. Who on this street doesn't know our Wild Wolf Gang is infamous for its cruelty?"

"When they see us, they can't run away fast enough, and you think they'd dare come save you?"

"Keep dreaming. The more you scream, the more excited we get!"

"Even if you scream your throat raw, no one will come save you."

"Heh heh heh..."

The burly men sneered without stopping.

Seeing how brazen and overbearing they were.

The woman in the corner could only hold her daughter tightly, despair on her face.

Today.

She was probably doomed...

A feeling of intense regret suddenly rose in the woman's heart.

She had long heard that this street was chaotic and full of thugs and hoodlums.

When she had chosen to rent a room here, an elderly woman had tried to dissuade her.

She had said there were many hoodlums here.

Though the young woman was a widow, she was comely and dignified.

If she rented a room here, she might find scoundrels coming to her door to harass her, and by then it would be too late for regrets!

Though she had reservations at the time, she had rented a room here in the end.

Only because she had just arrived.

She simply didn't have enough money to rent a place on another street.

And the rent here was cheap.

So in the end, she had chosen this place.

She was a craftswoman, and her plain tofu was exceptionally good.

Because this street was chaotic.

She never dared sell it here.

Instead, she would take her prepared tofu and her daughter to the neighboring street early in the morning to sell it.

Setting up a stall on someone else's turf was, after all, taking their business.

They would drive her away.

Fortunately, in the end.

A kind woman named Xiao Qian had persuaded her to stay, telling her to set up her stall outside Xiao Qian's home.

That way, no one would drive her away.

And the price.

Was to leave that family a piece of plain tofu every day.

The key was that they even paid for it!

Not only that.

The woman named Xiao Qian was also very fond of her little daughter.

Whenever she was busy selling tofu.

Xiao Qian would take her daughter into the house, so she could focus on her business without worrying.

And on her first day setting up a stall outside that family's home.

Her tofu had sold so well that it sold out.

With business booming like that, she naturally earned a lot of money.

She had originally planned.

Once her business had achieved some success.

And she had a little money to fall back on, she would move away from this chaotic street at once.

Her life should have been happy and harmonious, bright and beautiful.

But who would have thought.

The people of the Wild Wolf Gang had somehow gotten word.

And learned that her business was booming.

They had brought people straight to her door to extort protection money.

For her daughter's safety, she had no choice but to swallow the injustice.

She could only hand the profits she earned over to the Wild Wolf Gang.

As a result.

Her plans to move had been put on hold.

Originally.

Things would have been fine even so.

But tonight.

For some unknown reason, her daughter had suddenly developed a high fever and fallen unconscious.

It had pained her terribly.

Yet she hadn't known what to do.

So she had broken her iron rule of never going out at night.

She had gone out to find a doctor, and now her daughter's fever had subsided and she had fallen fast asleep.

But.

What she had feared most had still happened.

On the way home, she had run into members of the Wild Wolf Gang, a group of drunken hoodlums at that.

The moment the thugs saw her, they surrounded her.

Her pretty face had gone pale with fright, and she had run all the way.

Who would have thought.

In her panic, and because the lights on the street were rather dim.

She had run into the wrong alley, entering a dead end.

Heaven truly offered her no protection.

Now.

Looking at the men drawing closer and closer.

The woman already understood the worst that might happen next.

She was only a widow.

Her body was no longer chaste anyway, so it didn't matter.

But.

The little daughter in her arms was her only hope for living on.

She couldn't be allowed to come to the slightest harm!

Otherwise, even dying ten thousand times wouldn't absolve her of the blame, and her heart would never know peace.

The woman had now accepted reality.

No one would come to save a mere ordinary person like her, let alone a vulnerable woman.

Now she was only worried about her daughter's safety.

Thump.

The comely woman dropped to her knees, still holding her child.

"I beg you, please have mercy and spare my daughter, will you..."

Tears welled up in her eyes.

Glistening in the wavering lamplight.

However.

Those pleas could not stir the slightest sympathy in the human scum before her.

On the contrary.

A man beside Scarface showed an even more frenzied, infatuated expression.

"If you hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have known!"

"So there's a little thing in your arms... heh heh heh."

"Spare her? What kind of dream are you having?"

"To think I'd run into such a good thing. Brother Scar, I'll leave the old one to you. I won't touch her; I want the little one!"

"I don't like the others. This is just what I have a taste for!"

As he spoke.

A sick, perverted smile appeared on the man's face.

His scarlet eyes were fixed on the child in the woman's arms, as though he wanted to devour her!

"Hahaha... kid, I never knew your tastes were so unique. Fine, I agree! But the child's so small, don't break her while you're playing."

Scarface laughed.

There wasn't the slightest pity in his eyes either.

"Don't worry, Brother Scar, I know my limits!"

The perverted madman chuckled, an evil gleam in his eyes.