Life-or-Death Rescue

The 49th floor of Xingge Building.

Su Xingzhi, holding the phone, instructed, "Why do you need this person? I'll just return the money to you, 1.2 times the original amount."

Chang Ping the other Man Butcher of the phone, "But he's already found a buyer, and they've paid a deposit. If you want me to keep him, I'll have to return their deposit..."

Su Xingzhi frowned. Doing favors for the small boss was one thing, but he didn't want to break the rules.

His persona in the black market is that of the most trustworthy big dealer, a golden reputation.

What's rather strange is that in a place where trustworthiness is the least important, the most trustworthy are the most sought after. As a result, Su Xingzhi's business has always been the best in the entire black market of City No. 18.

Besides, Su Xingzhi wasn't particularly short of money. "I'll compensate you for the deposit, and I'll also refund 1.2 times the amount. Is that alright?"

"Alright, alright," Chang Ping on the other end of the phone grinned. "But I'm curious, what does Boss Su need someone like this for?"

Su Xingzhi sneered, "So you've learned to pry into other people's business now? How about I keep him for you to sweep his grave next year?"

Chang Ping was so frightened that he immediately apologized, "No, no, I shouldn't die next year, you can keep it... No, I won't ask around anymore, I won't listen, I won't ask, and I won't meddle!"

"Remember not to tell him he was rescued. Tell your men to be more careful and not mess up the performance," Su Xingzhi patiently instructed. "If they mess up, I'll twist their heads off."

"No problem!" Chang Ping assured him, patting his chest.

Even through the phone, I could hear the sound of his chest.

After hanging up the phone, the skinny old man with a mustache and a hunched back patted the chest of the thug beside him twice. "Damn it, what's wrong with Su Xingzhi? Why does he keep this good-for-nothing around?"

As he spoke, he walked into the house and wandered around, seemingly inspecting the place, but his eyes were actually fixed on Zhang Chengze the whole time.

However, Chang Ping examined it for a long time but couldn't find anything special about it...

"Could he be a pawn of some big shot? Someone wants to buy him through Su Xingzhi?" Chang Ping muttered. "I heard someone say that the gang's attack on Heng Society was orchestrated by the Qing Clan Fourth Branch. Could this be someone planted by the Qing Clan Fourth Branch?"

He wondered to himself if it was possible for him to bypass Su Xingzhi and directly profit from the Qing Clan Fourth Branch.

Chang Ping ultimately gave up. After all, he only had one head, and if he failed to make contact with the Qing Clan Fourth Branch, he would be gone.

In the beginning, Su Xingzhi's reputation for "keeping his word" was not earned through business.

It means that if I say I'll twist your head, I will definitely do it.

Later, as the business grew, everyone assumed that it was due to the reputation Su Xingzhi had built up through his business dealings.

If a person succeeds, everything they say will be right.

At the Xingge Building, Su Xingzhi looked at Qing Chen: "Young boss, everything's arranged here... By the way, I wanted to ask, don't you feel uneasy about arranging things for him like this?"

Qing Chen knew that Su Xingzhi had deliberately put Zhang Chengze into the most fearful state before rescuing him.

This kind of behavior doesn't seem like something a good person would do.

However, he really didn't feel any psychological burden at all.

Without daylight, Zhang Chengze's fate tonight would undoubtedly be death.

He was not the one who hid Zhang Chengze, nor was he the one who sold Zhang Chengze.

He was unaware that Zhang Chengze had called Gu Huozai, only to have the call end before Gu Huozai could finish explaining that he had been tricked.

Even if he finished speaking, Gu Huozai and his three companions were unable to rescue him.

Qing Chen looked at Su Xingzhi: "Intentionally scaring him was indeed somewhat malicious, but I never claimed to be a good person. If someone thinks I'm a bad person because of this, then I'm willing to be that bad person. But I'm a little curious, from what standpoint did you ask that question?"

Although Zhang Chengze breached the contract first, Qing Chen would not try to find various reasons to justify his actions.

Maximizing profits is the only objective; there is no other reason.

Su Xingzhi smiled and said, "Don't misunderstand, young boss. I was worried that since you're a good person, you'd despise many of the things I did. Now that I've discovered how ruthless you are, I'm relieved!"

Qing Chen silently observed Su Xingzhi, thinking to himself that this was indeed a strange person, and he wondered what the relationship between the other party and Li Shutong was.

Judging from his age, he should also be an orphan adopted by Li Shutong.

But how could Jiang Xiaotang not know the relationship between Su Xingzhi and Li Shutong?

Or rather, most people outside the community don't know about it.

Su Xingzhi asked with a smile, "Young boss, is there anything else you need? I have everything here except gene serums! Intelligence too!"

Qing Chen thought for a moment and then asked, "Where are the Qin Family settled now?"

"District 6," Su Xingzhi seemed somewhat surprised that Qing Chen would ask this question. He replied, "I simply replaced their mechanical limbs with better ones and provided them with four basic gene serums based on their needs. They don't want to owe the boss too many favors, so they continue their business as wilderness hunters and remain self-sufficient."

Qing Chen nodded.

Su Xingzhi glanced at him. "There is some news about Qin Yiyi... In the southwest, someone said they saw a young girl surnamed Qin walk into the snow mountain, which is where the hearth is. She is still alive."

Qing Chen said, "Thanks."

After saying that, Qing Chen walked towards the elevator.

Su Xingzhi thought for a moment, "Young boss, why don't you stay for something to eat and drink? I have plenty of good wine here, and there's a chef downstairs on call 24 hours a day..."

"No need," Qing Chen waved his hand.

"Why don't you pick something out of me?" Su Xingzhi said enthusiastically.

"Since Master has told you to try not to help me, he must have his reasons," Qing Chen replied. "This time it's already an exception."

Su Xingzhi laughed, "The boss has already left City No. 18, why bother with all that?"

"Thank you, but no need," Qing Chen said with a smile, pressing the elevator button.

"Young boss, you must be careful when dealing with Li Dongze. He is a wicked and despicable man!" Su Xingzhi as he left, not forgetting to dig a pit for Li Dongze.

As the elevator doors closed, Su Xingzhi suddenly let out a long sigh of relief, "I wonder what the young boss's first impression of me was... It must have been very good, considering how enthusiastic I was! The young boss's impression of Li Dongze definitely wasn't as good as mine, since he never smiles!"

In the small house in District 8 where Zhang Chengze was being held captive, only four people remained.

They huddled in separate corners, far apart from each other.

It was as if they were afraid that when they arrested others, they would also be arrested themselves.

Tonight, Zhang Chengze fully experienced the danger of the Inner World, and felt the hysterical fear that arises when humans are treated as commodities.

Compared to everything that is happening now, the great storms he experienced in peacetime seem insignificant, after all, there are laws in the Outer World.

As fewer and fewer people remained in the room, everyone lost all hope.

A man quietly moved to Zhang Chengze's side and said, "Chengze, why don't we fight them? At least we can die quickly and not just watch ourselves become merchandise... I've heard of the butcher Chang Ping. They say he harvests organs while the person is still alive. He puts anesthesia on a certain part of your body and makes you watch him remove your organs to satisfy his perverse tastes."

Zhang Chengze's eyes were already numb.

He no longer knew how to escape.

In my memory, Liu Dezhu imposed the following conditions on him: he was not allowed to contact the outside world, he was not allowed to make friends, and he was not allowed to go to the Lower Three Districts.

These conditions, which seem to restrict his personal freedom, actually sound like they are for his own good.

The evil in the Inner World's lower classes was worse than he had imagined.

Zhang Chengze was filled with regret. If he had chosen Liu Dezhu back then, or if he had remembered Liu Dezhu's number properly, perhaps he would be fine now.

At this moment, the thug who had dragged everyone out of the house went back inside.

After looking around, his gaze locked onto Zhang Chengze trembled involuntarily when he met his gaze.

The thugs walked towards him with heavy, oppressive footsteps.

Zhang Chengze began to shrink back, but there was only a cold wall behind him. Where else could he shrink to?

The thugs bent down, grabbed his ankles, and dragged him out as if he were a pig waiting to be slaughtered.

Zhang Chengze struggled desperately, but to no avail.

The thugs dragged him into a long corridor and then into a small hut.

The small room reeked of blood. Inside, there was a dazzling array of surgical instruments, and a burly man in a white coat was rinsing and disinfecting the operating table with an unknown transparent liquid.

Someone is also using a spray bottle to disinfect the whole house.

This operating room, by all accounts, does not meet the requirements for sterility, so the organs removed in this way are likely to have problems.

But the burly men in white coats didn't care.

The thugs dragged him onto the operating table and strapped his limbs and head to the operating table.

A burly man calmly said, "Cornula, heart, liver, kidneys, take these first."

As he spoke, he held up a scalpel and gestured near Zhang Chengze's eyes.

At this moment, Chang Ping, who had been watching the monitor in the next room, suddenly said, "The performance is too fast. The main character hasn't even arrived yet... Wang Zhi, gesture a little longer to buy some time."

The sound reached the ears of the burly man who was performing the surgery; he had an earpiece plugged into his ear.

As rumored, "Man Butcher" Chang Ping does indeed have a unique fetish: he enjoys watching live organ harvesting. Therefore, he always controls everything from the surveillance camera next to the operating room.

At this moment, Zhang Chengze, lying on the bed, watched in horror as the scalpel that had been gesturing at his face was moved away, and then gestured at his own heart for a long time...

After gesturing to his heart, he spent a long time gesturing to his liver.

Zhang Chengze struggled internally for a long time.

He wanted to say, "Just give me a straight answer, stop gesturing."

But he didn't have the courage to say it.

Just then, a voice came from outside the door. "Who's in charge? Come out and answer me."

Zhang Chengze was stunned for a moment; he recognized the voice.

But then the person outside continued, "We've found a clue. The criminals we're hunting are hiding here. Are you tired of living?"

Outside the door, a man said in a deep voice, "You've got it wrong. We don't have any prisoners here."

Suddenly, Zhang Chengze unleashed tremendous strength, crying out, "Little Niu! Tianzhen! I'm here! I'm here! Help me!"

The closed door was opened again, and three teenagers stood coldly in the doorway, scanning the room.

When Zhang Chengze saw that it really was the three of them, tears and snot streamed down his face as he cried out, "Please save me! It was my fault before. I shouldn't have gone back on my word. I shouldn't have believed the rumors. Please save me!"

Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen exchanged a glance, then calmly said to the guards outside the door, "Take him off the operating table. We're taking this person with us."

The burly man in the operating room frowned. "Do any of you three know where you are? You think you can just save someone like that? Who do you think you are?"

On the operating table, Zhang Chengze, tears streaming down his face, panicked when the guards ignored him. "Xiao Niu, Tianzhen, save me! If you don't save me, I'm going to die here!"

The next moment, the skinny Chang Ping, stroking his mustache, hurried over. "Oh dear, I didn't know it was the bosses of Heng Society coming. I'm so sorry for not greeting you properly..."

Zhang Chengze was stunned.

"Enough with the nonsense. I'm taking this man away now. I have some questions to ask him," Hu Xiaoniu said calmly. "You're 'Human Butcher Changping,' aren't you? You dare intercept someone wanted by my Heng Society. You've got some nerve."

Chang Ping quickly put on a fawning smile, all traces of the Man Butcher's cold demeanor vanishing. "Look at what you're saying. Su Xingzhi sold them to me. I didn't know they were wanted by you when I bought them. If you need anything, just find Su Xingzhi."

As he spoke, Chang Ping waved to the burly men inside the room. "Quickly, quickly, put this person down from the bed and give him to the bosses of Heng Society."

When the burly men heard the name Heng Society, they were already somewhat at a loss.

The recent annihilation of various clubs is still fresh in our minds. Who would dare to provoke Heng Society now?

Zhang Chengze witnessed all of this. Those fierce-looking men melted instantly when they encountered Liu Dezhu, Zhang Tianzhen, and Hu Xiaoniu, like ice meeting the blazing sun.

Chang Ping, who was known as the "Man Butcher," bowed his head before Heng Society like a humble ant.

Zhang Chengze, on the other hand, seemed to have returned to the warmth of the human world from the abyss of purgatory.

This extreme sensory experience came so suddenly that it even gave him a sense of happiness.

It turns out that Heng Society really does call the shots in the underground world of City No. 18!

It turns out that Hu Xiaoniu and Liu Dezhu really do hold such high positions.

Zhang Chengze climbed off the operating table, but his legs were weak.

Liu Dezhu walked into the operating room, grabbed Chang Ping by the collar with one hand, and led him out. Before leaving, he said to Chang Ping, "You'd better give Heng Society an explanation for this."

After saying that, the three of them walked away.

Liu Dezhu only breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the building that resembled a haunted house.

However, Zhang Chengze couldn't see this relieved expression; the act had to be played out completely.

The boss called and said they only need to handle the personnel matters, there's no need to be afraid, they've already made arrangements.

In fact, while Zhang Chengze was admiring their social status, Liu Dezhu and the others were also admiring Qing Chen, as if they could already conquer City No. 18 with ease...

The future of Baiyue is absolutely bright!

Liu Dezhu, Hu Xiaoniu, and Zhang Tianzhen felt a surge of confidence.

How many Time Walker organizations in the Outer World can reach this level? And this has only been a little over a month since they transmigrated!

A gust of cold wind roused Zhang Chengze, who was being held in Liu Dezhu's arms, making him much more alert. "Thank you all. Without you, I'm afraid I would be in grave danger today..."

Liu Dezhu and Zhang Chengze weren't close, so he simply curled his lip and said, "You should thank us. Before you came, you were so picky, thinking we had too many rules. Now you know what's important, right? Not everyone who comes to the Inner World can become a protagonist. Someone like you is more suited to be cannon fodder."

Liu Dezhu recalled his own experiences with his boss and felt a deep sense of empathy...

"Uncle Zhang, we are so grateful that our boss remembered you today, otherwise we wouldn't have come to rescue you in the middle of the night," Hu Xiaoniu said with emotion. "Although Liu Dezhu's words are harsh, I hope you take them to heart. There are at least 800 to 1000 Time Walker have died, so we must be extremely careful."

Liu Dezhu and Hu Xiaoniu, one playing the bad guy and the other the good guy, was Zhang Tianzhen's strategy to break through Zhang Chengze's defenses and make him grateful.

He himself didn't say a word for a long time.

Zhang Chengze said, "Thank you so much! After going through this, how can I ever repay you?!"

Liu Dezhu sneered, "We'll talk about repaying later."

"Where do we go now?" Hu Xiaoniu asked.

"Let's go to the public bathhouse," Liu Dezhu said with a look of disgust. "This person stinks. If we bring him home, our whole house will stink."

Half an hour later, at the Blue Sea and Clouds Beach in Eighth District, four people with snow-white towels wrapped around their lower bodies sat in the steaming pool.

The bathhouse is now the club's favorite place to discuss matters, because everyone is naked and there is no way to hide listening or monitoring devices.

What is said will not leave any evidence.

Zhang Chengze shaved off his beard and washed away the filth from his body, only then did he feel like he had come back to life.

However, the fear he experienced during those four harrowing hours tonight may linger with him for a long time.

Zhang Chengze looked at the other three people in the pool and said gratefully, "I'm really sorry. I believed other people's rumors and refused to cooperate with you... Thinking that I even complained that you were meddling too much, I want to slap myself now. I was wrong this time."

Liu Dezhu curled his lip. "It's a bit too late to realize you're wrong now."

Hu Xiaoniu said to Liu Dezhu, "Brother Liu, the main problem is that Uncle Zhang really doesn't know how dangerous the Inner World is. Many Time Walker has described the Inner World in too good a way."

Once again, one of them plays the bad guy and the other the good guy.

"Yes, yes," Zhang Chengze said, "I guarantee that our future cooperation will absolutely not be interfered with by external forces!"

"Future cooperation? There will be no future," Liu Dezhu sneered. "The boss only saved you out of kindness. He doesn't intend to continue cooperating with someone like you who goes back on his word, so as not to cause any more trouble in the future and drag our organization down."

Zhang Chengze was startled. "This won't do! Without your protection, I'll die!"

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