Crime Prison Island
Chapter 99 - 36: Sending Him to See the Great Spirit

Chapter 99: Chapter 36: Sending Him to See the Great Spirit

Peter begged for mercy and admitted defeat.

He was thoroughly subdued; there was nothing stubborn left in him.

If Gao Xin had relied solely on underhanded tricks, with his fiery temper, Peter might have still been unconvinced.

Even if his testicles were crushed, he would have returned to Silver Tower to heal and enhance himself, determined to reclaim his position.

But Gao Xin had genuinely fought fifteen people in a row, and in the end, he left Peter in such condition, there was just no way to be defiant.

"You’re formidable... Gao... Boss Gao..."

"Stop it, I admit defeat."

Hearing this, Gao Xin withdrew his foot.

Meanwhile, the battle involving a hundred people also came to an end as the fight on this side concluded.

"Haha! Brother Xin has won!" Su Lei was the first to exclaim joyously.

Then came Qiao Long and others, who were merely evenly matched, even barely holding on; now seeing Peter defeated, they quickly shouted to demonstrate their power.

The morale of those who followed Peter plummeted instantly.

"How is this possible? Boss Peter actually lost?"

"No, not just Peter..."

"He alone took down sixteen men!"

"This newcomer is too strong. He’s truly the fierce man who killed Oyama Mas. Who dares say he relied on luck?"

A group of people instantly lost their will to fight, dropping their arms.

They weren’t fighting for survival or other vital interests in the first place.

They mainly followed Peter to establish dominance but failed to assert themselves, instead dealing a submission to Gao Xin.

Naturally, there was no need to continue fighting.

Even most had realized that starting today, the leader among the Redemption group’s glass figures had changed.

"Are you truly convinced? I hope no one will try to sabotage me behind my back," Gao Xin stated coolly, his complexion unaffected.

He had bathed in Su Lei’s secret medicinal concoction, and now some of the bruises and minor injuries on his body were slowly healing.

Peter got up, his face swollen and bruised, and said with a smile, "I hate underhanded tactics the most. If we fight, it must be fair and square. I accept my loss."

"From today on, I’ll listen to you. If anyone dares to trouble you, I’ll deal with them first!"

Gao Xin casually asked, "What if the Japanese trouble me?"

Peter paused, seemingly realizing something, and looked solemnly at Gao Xin before bitterly saying, "Boss, I want to live."

Gao Xin scanned everyone present, "Who the hell doesn’t want to live?"

"All being damn slaves here, still infighting, fighting for supremacy, what’s the point?"

"Even if you had won today, what could you have done? Could you have refrained from serving the Japanese in the game tomorrow? It’s still uncertain whether any of you will disappear any day now."

The crowd fell silent, bitterness in their hearts.

They too knew their plight, but what could they do?

The Yakuza’s power was too formidable, definitely not something this group of glass figures could confront.

All those who had rebelled or tried to escape had failed.

They could only try to regain some dignity among the other glass figures.

Just as the atmosphere turned still, suddenly a frail voice emanated from the scaffold, "Well said, so what do you plan to do about it?"

The speaker was a thin man hanging, an ordinary member of Team 12, now severely mutilated.

Gao Xin glanced at him but did not respond.

At the same time, Qiao Long stepped out from the crowd and said aloud, "What else can we do? Let’s just get through our own lives first."

He then slightly shook his head at Gao Xin.

Obviously, it wasn’t appropriate to discuss more in such a public setting.

Of course, Gao Xin understood and did not continue the topic; instead, he walked up to the team leader of Team 12.

This guy’s pants were all bloody, still moaning on the ground.

He watched Gao Xin in terror, never expecting Peter to lose this group fight.

"What are you going to do?" His voice was sharp with pain.

Gao Xin asked, "When you were recruiting new people, you took a woman away, didn’t you?"

The Team 12 leader was startled, repeatedly shaking his head, "No, no!"

Upon hearing this, Peter immediately came over and yelled, "How can you say no! Ohno Shinkachi even brought a woman and directly handed her to you."

The Team 12 leader agitatedly said, "Boss Peter! I came today all for you, so why are you speaking for outsiders!"

"You still deny it!" Peter gripped him, "Every time I came, wasn’t it just enough for Qiao Long to bow his head a little? You directly forced me to go to full-scale war with them, you think I don’t know what you’re up to?"

He was actually really frustrated, a bitterness he couldn’t express.

Despite his bravado, he wasn’t truly aiming for a full-scale conflict with Qiao Long and his group; it had always been minor skirmishes before.

This time, because of Gao Xin, he suggested meeting at the scaffold at night but didn’t finalize his words, mainly wanting to show Gao Xin his influence.

If he truly liked brainless fighting, he would have started at the hospital, not waiting until night.

Seeing Peter now siding with Gao Xin, the Team 12 leader instantly panicked.

"So what if that woman is with me?"

Gao Xin stared at him, "That’s my person."

The Team 12 leader gritted his teeth, "Ohno Shinkachi gave her to me. If you want her, go ask the Japanese!"

Before Gao Xin could respond, Peter slapped him hard twice.

"If I had won this time, you could have taken a few people and left... I lost, and you bring up the Japanese? Hand the person over, or see how I deal with you!" After saying this, Peter slapped him two more times.

The Team 12 leader retorted desperately, "My team is done, pressuring me is useless!"

"Even if I let you have her, when it comes to using people to settle accounts, she won’t be able to escape!"

Everyone’s face darkened, but indeed that was the case.

It’s impossible for a member of one team to simply transfer to another team; otherwise, if the quota isn’t met, the Japanese would just check the list. If only the team leader is left and the other team members have all fled to other teams to hide, how would that work?

So usually, even if there is a change, it is one person for another.

"You want that woman, right? Fine, but you have to ensure my team meets this month’s quota, or she goes down with me!" Squad Leader 12 seemed to have gained leverage, speaking excitedly.

Gao Xin sighed, "Is there a possibility I could kill you first?"

Squad Leader 12 clenched his teeth, "If someone dies outside the game, the Japanese will intervene, plus I’m a squad leader! Whoever kills me will pay with their life!"

Gao Xin stared at him, "Really? What if you were to run away?"

"What?" Squad Leader 12 was startled.

Then he gave a forced laugh, "How could I possibly run away? Are you trying to lure me out of the village to frame me? Even so, at least one person would have to die with me!"

At that moment, a frail man hanging from the gallows suddenly spoke faintly, "You don’t need to leave the village, just enough people to hand you over to the Japanese as a commendation, proving you almost escaped, would suffice."

Squad Leader 12 became somewhat panicked but still said, "Are you joking? You think Ohno, the group leader, is that easy to fool?"

The frail man weakly said, "So many people pleading, the focus isn’t whether he’s easy to fool, but whether you hold any value..."

"You knew your team couldn’t meet the quota this month. Being the leader, you can’t escape the blame, so you decided to take a risk and flee in the middle of the night."

"The question is, whether your teammates were your accomplices."

"If worst comes to worst... I can be your accomplice! Heh heh heh..."

By the end, he was staring intently at his squad leader, his expression resolute, clearly meaning: if it doesn’t work out, we’ll both be doomed!

Hearing such terrifying words, and the air of ’doom for us both’, the muscular tough guys beside them were terrified, quickly saying, "We’re not accomplices, we can testify too, Boss Peter, you can’t do this to us."

Peter and Qiao Long could almost rally half of the Redemption Group’s Glass Men, and they were also teams that regularly met their quotas.

If they decided to act this way, there was a high chance of success, so they decisively made their stance clear.

"You..." Squad Leader 12 turned pale.

It was initially just a high likelihood, but now even his own teammates were exposing him, sealing his fate.

Especially since he was behind on his quota this month, he was already a leader hanging by a thread.

"Idiots, if our team doesn’t meet the quota, you too will die!" Squad Leader 12 glared at his teammates.

The tough guys replied bitterly, "We can still try our luck in the game with the quota, but being labeled a runaway seals our death."

Gao Xin laughed, "Are you really so unpopular? Running away and only caring about yourself, no wonder your own team exposed you."

"Don’t do this, okay, okay, I give in!" Squad Leader 12 could only bow his head and beg for mercy.

Gao Xin looked at the man on the gallows, "What’s your name?"

The man gave a self-deprecating laugh, "A dead man."

"A ’dead man’ wouldn’t still be thinking about revenge," Gao Xin smiled.

The frail man remained silent.

Gao Xin spoke earnestly, "I have seen a man, blood drained, arms lost, flesh destroyed, and even his head severed, still screaming for revenge."

The frail man scoffed, "Then he must be dead."

Gao Xin nodded, "Dead, I killed him, for he had turned into a demon."

"Perhaps his father never taught him, no matter what you become, never forget that you are primarily a human first."

The crowd was stunned; Qiao Long knew that Gao Xin was referring to Silver Hand, but others did not.

Hearing about someone calling for revenge even after getting beheaded, what kind of monster is that? Was it a powerful Radiation? Impossible, right? Could Gao Xin kill a Radiation?

The frail man said resentfully, "Primarily a human, huh... But some people are not at all human."

Gao Xin deeply agreed, "Every person comes from the universe’s consciousness and returns to it after death; the journey in between is life."

"If some people don’t wish to be human, then we should send them back to the embrace of the cosmic mother."

The crowd did not expect Gao Xin to start talking cryptically. Peter scratched his head and directly asked, "Boss Gao, what should we do with this guy?"

The frail man sneered, "Didn’t I say? Recycle him!"

Squad Leader 12 was shocked, "No, I’ll hand over the person! I’ll cooperate, why still kill me?"

The frail man said sternly, "With someone like you, you’d get the entire team killed, using up all the public funds before you die."

"That gap can’t be filled even if all team members’ lives were to be accounted for; transferring that woman to another team is useless."

"The only solution is to replace the Squad Leader of Team 12, then the rest may have a chance to survive."

Squad Leader 12’s pupils contracted, "Who... who says so, I’ll definitely earn enough redemption tokens... "

The frail man laughed coldly, "Even if I die, I won’t help you earn redemption tokens anymore, you bastard."

"You’re freaking crazy!" Squad Leader 12 struggled fiercely.

But Peter had made up his mind, immediately having him dragged away, then said to Gao Xin, "Understood, leave this man to me. Qiao Long, come with me, let Group Leader Ohno deal with him."

Qiao Long glanced at Gao Xin, realizing he intended to consolidate all the teams.

And Squad Leader 12 was a huge instability, keeping him was only a menace.

"Okay," Qiao Long nodded.

But to their surprise, Gao Xin shook his head, "Qiao Long, one group from you and Peter is enough."

"I don’t trust that the Japanese are unaware of your power structures."

Hearing this, Peter was still confused, but Qiao Long’s eyes narrowed slightly.

"You’re right, if Peter and I brought everyone to accuse one person, it would backfire."

"Let me handle this affair."

In the end, dealing with Squad Leader 12 and replacing the leader of Team 12 was entrusted to Qiao Long.

"I’ll go too, I can also help you guys bring out Jin Meimei," the frail man said.

Qiao Long helped him down from the gallows, this man was also a member of Team 12, seemingly familiar with Meimei, knowing her name.

The man wiped the blood from his face and the crowd could see his square face, bold eyebrows, and big eyes, yet he had a hooked nose, presenting a deceitful look amidst honesty.

Missing a section of a finger on his left hand and one of his ears, it was unclear whether these were results of torture by the squad leader.

Gao Xin asked, "You haven’t answered my first question yet."

The frail man followed Qiao Long away, without turning back, he said, "My name is Dongfang Yi, a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine."

Gao Xin’s eyes brightened, and the others were also surprised; a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine? In this day and age, who still pursued traditional Chinese medicine? Are they overfed and indulgent or what?

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