Chapter 3 Jade

'Nonsense. What religion would require so many people to sacrifice. Li Anping looked at the driver's panicked face, shook his head and said, "What is that shadow sect, why haven't I heard of it." ”

"I don't know what to do, really...... Really, the Shadow Sect is a sect in ancient legends in the Emerald City, and legend has it that before Great Xia, they were the masters of the Emerald City.

Their favorite thing was to please their gods by killing the living and offering sacrifices. However, more than a hundred years ago, after the army of Great Xia reached southern Xinjiang, it ruled the entire Emerald City, and the Shadow Sect was also exterminated as a cult. Aside from the legends left behind, there is no record of the Shadow Cult anymore. Older locals know about it."

After Li Anping heard this, he became more and more puzzled. I didn't expect that this human trafficking would also involve ancient cults. It seemed that things were more complicated than he thought.

At that moment, he asked the driver a few more things, and after finding that the other party did not know more, he gently touched the other party's arm, and after eating the driver's soul, he casually threw the body on the nearby mountain road. After that, he ran and hurried towards the Emerald City.

He wants to kill the lone wolf and wipe out all the criminal organizations that traffic in human beings here.

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Three hours later, the long-distance station in the Emerald City.

Li Anping walked out of an alley, and the two thugs behind him fell to the ground, moaning constantly. And Li Anping's face was gloomy.

This was the third group of thieves he had seen after getting off the train at the long-distance station. He had imagined how many criminals there were in the Emerald City, and how high the crime rate was. Seeing that he had really arrived at this place, he realized that he had already thought too simply.

Looking up, the gray haze covered the entire sky, not to mention a trace of starlight, and the whole sky could not even see the moon. This is caused by the uncontrolled discharge of large tracts of factories in the city, and all kinds of gray and black gases come out of the chimneys and are discharged into the sky wantonly. In this kind of place, there is no one to manage the pollution at all.

Inside the station, there are citizens in ragged clothes with cold expressions. The only few children have no innocence and childlike innocence on their faces. Because instead of playing on the side of the street, they surrounded the passengers who got off the bus, begging for money. After being reprimanded, he was not annoyed, but just changed another passenger and continued to beg. The numbness and accident on their faces made Li Anping feel cold.

There were many pedestrians on the road, but they all walked on their own, they walked in a hurry, their expressions were indifferent, and they never asked about the things around them. Li Anping asked for directions several times, but was ignored by the other party.

On the street, the shops on both sides of the street are colorful and endless, but most of the shops around the station are one or two scantily clad women standing at the door, when they see Li Anping who is neatly dressed, they cheer loudly and scratch their heads towards Li Anping.

"Handsome guy! Come in and play! ”

"Handsome guy, come in and my sister hurts you."

What's more, in front of everyone, he took off his shirt, revealing a pair of plump little white rabbits jumping out, attracting citizens on the street to look at it.

Li Anping glanced at them and left quickly. It's even more chaotic than he imagined. In the face of this kind of self-depraved person, he didn't know what to do.

In this atmosphere, Hei seemed to be particularly happy, and he asked, 'Hehe, why don't you teach them a lesson?' Are you tempted? ’

'They...... Just forced by life. Li Anping pondered and said, "It's not a big evil." ’

'Whatever you want. But it's a great place, and I feel like crime snoozes in the air. And it is also very prosperous, and it is not inferior to the central capital. It really makes me shiver with excitement! ’

Li Anping nodded and did not deny it. Black is right. Although the environment is bad, the citizens seem more apathetic and the crime rate is alarmingly high. But the Emerald City is indeed thriving. As far as the eye can see, you can see towering buildings in the east, south, and northwest, and elevated roads are densely built like spider webs.

Especially now that it's night, if you look at it from above, the entire Emerald City is a sea of lights. It's like daylight. This situation is even more extreme in the center of the city. From the underground to the ground, there are all kinds of shops for clothing, food, housing and transportation, even including pornography, gambling, and drugs.

From beautiful virgins, to extinct animals, and even out-of-arms from the military, you can buy them all here. It's a paradise for criminals.

Li Anping hailed a car on the side of the street and rushed to the place where the traffickers had given him to sell the stolen goods. The sight of sin and prosperity dancing together in the Emerald City made his heart unspeakably irritable.

But the information around him continued to instill in him. Fifty meters away, a prostitute with heavy makeup was fighting three men in the alley, and their wheezing voices seemed to be in Li Anping's ears.

A hundred meters away, a man snatched a woman's bag and fled, but within a few steps he was shot dead by a woman with a gun. The woman picked up her bag, kicked the man's body a few times, cursed a few words and left. The people around seemed to be surprised, and there was not even a single person who called the police.

At a passing casino, a man in a suit jumped from the window and died on the spot. Several big men hurriedly ran out of the door and dragged the man's body back. They discussed who they would sell their organs to pay off their debts.

The Emerald City, where everything hides a unique rule on the surface of sin. Everyone plays by the rules, no matter how absurd they may seem to outsiders.

Li Anping's eyes looked out the window, and his ears listened to the sound. For the first time, he had the feeling that he could not contain his sin by his own strength.

Because there are so many, the Emerald City is simply full of crimes, full of sins. Can he really manage it alone?

Li Anping gradually began to think. Think about ways to change the situation in the Emerald City. The idea of changing the specific way of doing in the world was also displayed in front of him for the first time.

In the past, although he said that he wanted to uphold justice, his idea was very simple, that is, to kill the bad guys and help the good guys. But when he came to the Emerald City, when crime and death lined up in front of him. He understands that it is not simply killing the villains to change the world and uphold justice.

He needed something more sophisticated, more effective.

Half an hour later, the car stopped, which also interrupted Li Anping's thinking. He got out of the car, and the taxi drove away in a hurry, as if it were dangerous. Looking left and right, Li Anping found that the destination was a somewhat remote area. Surrounded by dilapidated buildings and abandoned factories.

The walls are covered with graffiti of unknown significance. In the distance, there were also some homeless people gathered in twos and threes. With cold eyes, he looked at Li Anping who got out of the car from time to time.

A few hundred metres away are a few old residential buildings, and downstairs are a few grocery stores and convenience supermarkets, but business is deserted.

Li Anping glanced at it and walked towards his destination, an abandoned building with a rusty door locked by a large iron lock.

Li Anping frowned, this was different from the information he had received from the driver in advance. His ears didn't hear anyone in the building.

It's not as lively as the city center, but it shouldn't be so desolate. As one of the strongholds for lone wolves to accept trafficked women and children, there should not be no one at all.

He touched the iron lock on the door, looked around, and then with a slight force, tore the iron lock open. Pushing open the door, Li Anping walked in with a pace.

The abandoned five-storey building was originally built as a nursing home. So the first floor is a room for offices, and the second to fourth floors are all kinds of bedroom-like rooms.

Li Anping didn't notice the existence of people, so he could only sweep through the room. Open the office on the first floor, and halfway through the coffee on the table. I rummaged through the drawers and filing cabinets and found that there was nothing left inside. Only a few erotic magazines and tool books can be found.

At the back of the office, a rectangular object was covered with a black cloth, and in the darkness, it would almost miss him if he didn't pay attention.

Li Anping smelled a pungent smell coming from his nose, a trace of bad premonition flashed in his mind, he stretched out his hand to open the black, and looked at the scene in front of him, his eyes narrowed into a slit.

It was a rudimentary cell made of an iron cage. It is no more than one meter tall and about two meters wide, and people can only lie or lie on their stomachs in it. There was also a small basin on the floor, which looked like rancid leftovers.

There were still some bright red blood stains left around the iron cage. Streams of, the smell of urine emanating from the cage.

The corpse of a withered child lay in the cage, and large patches of ants crawled on his body, revealing his white bones.

It is hard to imagine the torture and devastation that has been put in front of him.

Li Anping put the black cloth back on, his face was pale, and his fists were pale. But he didn't say a word at the end, just let out a deep breath and checked the other corners of the office.

But Li Anping's actions came to nothing, and from the messy office, it seemed that the people here had withdrawn in a hurry, but they took all the materials with them, leaving nothing useful.

So Li Anping then walked upstairs, intending to check all the bedrooms. The corridor was dim, and Li Anping tried the pilot light switch and found that there was no response.

But with his current eyesight, even in the dark corridors, everything could be seen at a glance. He opened the bedroom on the second floor, one by one, and the environment inside was as bad as he expected.

The traffickers did not take care of the abducted people as human beings. Excrement everywhere, blood that has turned black. There was nothing in the dormitory except for a bed. The windows were all nailed with wooden planks, so that neither the outside nor the sunlight could shine in.

According to the trafficker driver, those who are sent here can only eat one meal a day, and those who resist fiercely are also fed sleeping pills. Everyone was in a state of limb weakness all the time, and could only lie in bed. There are no showers or bathrooms, and their guards often have to clean their dormitories hastily for months.

Only when you take them out to meet the seller, do you have the opportunity to take a shower.

Such a bedroom can leave even fewer clues. Li Anping's only gain was to find a few people with fingernails or blood, carving their names and origins on the walls and the edge of the bed.