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Chapter 221 - 173: Secret Door (3 more)_2

Chapter 221: Chapter 173: Secret Door (3 more)_2

Side quests are definitely to be accepted, and once accepted, they must be completed.

Chen Cangwen is always quite enthusiastic about the tasks within the game.

This Diao Deyi, despite his young age, has climbed up to the rank of a top ten householder and is deeply favored by Li Bahu, so the rewards he offers are definitely not to be sneezed at.

As for how to find this secret door.

Hehe! Can any other NPC search for something as thoroughly as a player like himself who digs three feet into the ground?

If time permits, he would love to touch and search every corner of the Peony Workshop.

"Big brother?"

Manager Yu from the side had his heart skip a beat.

Could it be that the Mo Family had actually kidnapped the big brother of the leader from the Foolish Underworld here??

They’re crazy! Don’t they do a check before kidnapping someone! No wonder other workshops were only conducting simple inspections, and yet there was such a big fuss here.

This is bad, this is really bad!

They’re going to get killed by the Mo Family’s doing!

While Manager Yu was thinking all sorts of things, Fang Yu had already gone over to inspect.

There were a total of seven or eight people locked in the secret chamber.

At a glance, they were all ordinary humans.

The kind with just over ten points of health, their appearances were all quite delicate. Although their faces were smeared with dirt and mud, one could still see that they had good features and a good base, after a little cleaning and dressing up, they would all be excellent beauties in the making.

There were also two youths, who also looked very attractive, the kind you couldn’t tell apart even if they cross-dressed.

Fang Yu was taken aback and thought, human traffickers?

He turned to look at Manager Yu.

"Manager Yu, do you have anything you’d like to say now?"

"I, I really don’t know anything!"

Manager Yu knelt down, looking innocent and wronged.

Fang Yu walked over and casually picked up a few iron implements to throw beside Manager Yu.

"Manager Yu, we have an old saying, ’The wise adapt themselves to the times.’"

"With so many instruments of torture in this secret chamber right now, I think we can definitely pry your mouth open."

Using private punishment?!

Manager Yu’s pupils shrank slightly, he truly started to panic.

With his strength, escaping presented no problem, and even counter-killing would be effortless.

But... what after that?

Killing a person from the Foolish Underworld, you wouldn’t expect to get along in Tianyuan Town anymore.

To flee from home and escape for a lifetime?

After thinking it over, Manager Yu shouted,

"Big, big sir, it’s the Mo Family! All this is the work of Mo Lingyu!"

"Mo Lingyu?"

"Yes."

Since he decided to spill the beans, Manager Yu simply stopped pretending.

"The Peony Workshop is an ancestral property of the Mo Family, and Mo Lingyu is the current shopkeeper and head of the family."

"About ten years ago, due to poor management, I took a fancy to this property and made additional investments, which is why I got to manage half of this place."

"But I’m absolutely not involved in the current dirty business."

"She colludes with the [Star Collection Gang], and has been engaging in some slave trading."

"These people are her goods."

Slave trading?

Fang Yu’s mind stirred.

Could it be that big brother is also...

But no, that doesn’t seem right.

At big brother’s age, it wouldn’t be his turn to be sold as a slave, right?

And the [Star Collection Gang], weren’t they wiped out?

While Fang Yu let Chen Cangwen release those slaves, he said to Manager Yu,

"Go on, explain in detail."

So far, he hadn’t seen any demons; was it really just filthy human trading after all?

No, that couldn’t be right, the matchmaker from Luo Shen Cloth Workshop must have tipped them off, all the demons must be hiding.

As for where these slaves were sold, they might have ended up in the bellies of demons.

Thinking this way, it was most likely that not even the bones of big brother were left behind.

"Sir, I don’t know, I honestly know nothing!"

"I just know that the [Star Collection Gang] was Mo Lingyu’s backing."

"And she’s not responsible for capturing the people, she just handles the imprisonment and shipping of the goods."

"There’s no need to talk about the imprisonment, like these secret chambers with hidden doors; to my knowledge, there are three more in the Peony Workshop. Even more, I don’t know where else she’s created secret chambers, after all, I found out about these things secretly, she would never tell me proactively."

"I’ve investigated; the slaves that are captured are usually of this petite and cute kind. There are rarely other types."

"If your lordship’s elder brother is about your age and good-looking, indeed, it may be possible he has been detained here..."

Fang Yu’s heart stirred, he asked,

"My elder brother is average-looking and not strongly built, people like him, how do you deal with them?"

"Dealing... Once dealt with, I only know that Mo Lingyu categorizes such people as inferior goods, gathered them together as labor, and sold them off at a low price altogether."

"Sold to where?"

Fang Yu felt he had found a flesh supply point for demons in Tianyuan Town.

So many demons lurking in Tianyuan Town, besides those who stealthily roamed outside to hunt alone, other organized demons were probably such slave traders, providing special services.

Following this lead, whoever bought slaves could possibly be a demon!

Fang Yu’s eyes lit up, but Yu Xiguo shook his head.

"I don’t know. Mo Lingyu might keep accounting records, I never intervene in such matters, I’m truly innocent, milord!"

Fang Yu rolled his eyes, innocent my foot.

Claiming ignorance, yet you’re almost spilling your partner’s entire fortune.

However, having said this much, if Yu Xiguo didn’t clarify the most crucial destination, perhaps he truly was unaware.

After all, the destinations of the slaves might be directly related to the identity of demons, which was the most sensitive content.

Big fish.

If this lead were to spread out, who knows how many demons could be captured!

Fang Yu looked over to Chen Cangwen, how is the interrogation of those slaves going.

The result...

"Little sister, do you like playing the doctor game?"

"Don’t be scared, once big brother finishes his official duties, I’ll accompany you to go shopping, alright?"

Goodness, are you a lolicon?! You’re flirting with a little girl here.

Fang Yu’s face darkened.

Didn’t you see the girl was in a trance, trembling with fear, what kind of conversation could you have with her?

Fortunately, the other two were more reliable, conducting thorough interrogations.

Seeing Fang Yu come over, the two hurriedly bowed.

"Milord!"

"Milord!"

Fang Yu nodded slightly. Earlier, the candlelight was too dim to take a close look.

But now, he saw that these slaves had more or less all sustained injuries, the kind that wouldn’t leave scars.

Fang Yu found it strange.

Huh, do demons also have appearance requirements for their food vessels now?

Or is this not merely food but also subjects that some demons need to disguise and transform into?

That’s too conspicuous, isn’t it? Disappearing for a few days and coming back with a record, if the Foolish Underworld were to investigate in the future, they would inevitably be a prime suspect.

Fang Yu felt a contradiction in the information compared to his conjecture.

He couldn’t help but frown slightly.

"How’s the questioning going?"

"They’re mostly from the west street."

West street, that’s synonymous with poverty and dilapidation.

Although there were also wealthy people, the majority were poor and the area was somewhat chaotic.

Many times, reliance was on gang forces for protection, rather than expecting the Foolish Underworld to patrol.

After all, the patrols of the Foolish Underworld were for the whole of Tianyuan Town, while the gangs were watching over their own small territory, and the intensity of protection was incomparable.

Conversely, if a gang intended to harm their own turf, the danger could be even greater.

Fang Yu’s home was also in the Sweet Flower Lane area, which fell under the jurisdiction of the west street.

Fang Yu suddenly felt a bit apprehensive.

It was fortunate that his second sister was skinny, like a bag of bones; otherwise, based on her facial features and the devoid-of-background poor person template, it would have been a matter of time before she was captured as a slave.

As for himself, he was average-looking, the kind that might be considered a hindrance even for labor.

He hadn’t heard his sister mention that the game’s original body, working at the docks and lifting a brick, could be exhausting to death.

West street was very poor, the security was chaotic, and it was also known as Tianyuan Town’s slum.

But there were still pleasures to be found within, such as the famous Yanliu Lane in Tianyuan Town, which was located within the west street.

That street of brothels, offering food, drink, entertainment, was exceptionally prosperous, a complete contrast to west street, a perfect gold pit.

It’s very hard for one to become wealthy.

But becoming poor could just be an overnight matter.

This world, it never lacks poor people.

It’s as if they were constantly being refreshed, and before you know it, new faces would appear in west street.

Moreover, as Tianyuan Town kept expanding, there was no restriction on the residency of its people, so the population kept increasing.