Chapter 1122: Who Are You Trying to Fool?
Chen Yu kept one phone for himself, set aside twenty as backups, and left the rest with the hacker. He told him to order takeout after he was done processing them, then bring everything back.
After hearing Chen Yu's arrangements, Fang Xiaowei asked doubtfully, "Do your classmates have a lot of dirt on you?"
"No."
"Then do you owe them a lot of favors?"
"No."
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"Then why are you giving them phones?"
"We were classmates, after all. And there's a lot of karmic entanglement involved. I can't just leave them alone. With phones, it'll be easier for us to learn what's happening outside, and easier to take delivery orders to make money. Then we can afford the ferry."
"I don't understand, but I approve. This way, good brother. Our benefactor is here."
As they headed down a side passage, Chen Yu noticed the surroundings growing darker and the number of people dwindling.
Then more and more crying reached them, low voices like an irritating wind that kept winding around them.
The ceiling lights grew fewer, while strange, pungent smells became more common. At some point, the crowded masses had vanished, making the once-cramped passage seem spacious instead.
At the end of the road, Chen Yu finally learned where the crying was coming from.
More than a hundred parents stood outside a room, each holding their child. Occasionally, someone would emerge from inside, clutching their child as they hurried away.
Whenever that happened, the others would stretch their necks like emus, staring blankly at the room behind its rolled-down shutter.
Then a man who looked completely unhinged would come out.
He was bare-chested, and three hideous cartoon drawings had been painted on his shriveled body. Other than the