446: Chapter 439: Human Purgatory 446: Chapter 439: Human Purgatory In the northwest corner of the industrial park, inside a small building.
In a tiny room of barely ten square meters, the windows were completely sealed off, leaving only a dim yellow light illuminating the entire room.
The bare ceiling, undoubtedly, wouldn’t have any chandelier installed.
A thick nylon rope was tied to an exposed steel ring on the ceiling, and Sun Jinzhong, with his hands bound by this nylon rope, was hanging upside down here, for nearly twenty-four hours.
Not a grain of rice consumed, not a drop of water drunk, his lips had cracked from dryness, and his entire body seemed to have passed out, with only the slight heaving of his chest indicating he was still alive.
Bare-chested, wearing only a pair of large shorts on his body, his front, back, and legs were covered in ghastly whip marks.
Some of these whip marks had already scabbed over, while others were still oozing fresh blood.
Besides him, this room also held six or seven other men and women.
Although only Sun Jinzhong was inverted in the room, the condition of the others was scarcely any better.
A few of them had their eyes open, but with a vacant stare, as if they had lost their souls, resembling the walking dead.
Moreover, there was a woman, clad only in her underwear, lying on the cold ground in a corner of the room, at times letting out piteous curses and screams.
The fingers of the woman were a mutilated mess.
The nails on her fingers were all violently torn off, leaving none behind.
In this small building, this particular room was known as the “Si Gate Room.”
Generally speaking, only those from whom no amount of extortion could squeeze out money would be placed in this room by the people claiming to be from Changfeng Network Company.
Besides the Si Gate Room, there were other rooms like the Pressing Room and the Forcing Room, and so on.
Some people were deceived into gambling, accumulating massive debts at the casino, and then handed over to these companies operating within the park.
Others, like Sun Jinzhong, were lured here with the promise of high salaries, only to be sold like livestock to these companies within the park.
In the months since Sun Jinzhong had been tricked into coming to Myanmar North, he had been traded three times.
His arrival at Changfeng Network Company was in fact less than ten days ago.
Those held in the Pressing Room were fed three meals a day, generally subjected only to verbal threats, compelled to find money from all corners.
The Forcing Room, however, was another story; those locked up there truly endured physical beatings, often going hungry, suffering several beatings throughout the day.
As for the Si Gate Room, it was truly a matter of being unable to live, yet unable to die.
Originally, Sun Jinzhong was only detained in the Forcing Room.
His parents had passed, and after many years of divorce, he was truly alone.
When they saw that no money could be extracted from him, those from Changfeng Network forced him to lure others from his home country.
It was precisely because of this that he had the opportunity to call Tong Daqiang.
After he pleaded for help from Chen Hai over the phone last night, the infuriated people from Changfeng Network felt that Sun Jinzhong was playing tricks and immediately dragged him into this Si Gate Room to hang him upside down.
“Bang…” The door opened, and several men walked in from outside.
“Hanging him for a whole day and night, that should teach him a lesson.”
“Go, wake him up.
We paid twenty thousand US dollars for him, and we haven’t made that back yet, so we can’t let him die just yet!”
The leader, a man in his thirties, raised his head and glanced at Sun Jinzhong, who appeared to have lost consciousness; then he waved to the men behind him.
Following his gesture, two young men from behind brought over a bucket of cold water.
Perhaps feeling that plain cold water wasn’t stimulating enough, one of the crew-cut youths added a half bag of salt to it with a malicious grin.
With a splashing sound, the half-bucket of saltwater was poured onto Sun Jinzhong.
“Ah…” His scream was piercing, and Sun Jinzhong, already wounded all over, was suddenly jolted awake by the saltwater soaking his injuries.
“Kind sirs, please, spare me, spare me…”
“My cousin is very rich, as long as you can reach him, he can come up with any amount of money!”
Upon seeing the men before him, terror filled Sun Jinzhong’s face.
Enduring the intense pain of the saltwater seeping into his wounds, he quickly begged for mercy.
He was no longer the young man who, in a moment of passion, disregarded anything and everything.
As a man now in his fifties, the harsh reality had taught him what it meant to bow his head under another’s roof.
His cousin Chen Hai, now aware of his predicament, Sun Jinzhong absolutely believed that he would definitely come to rescue him.
Before Chen Hai arrived, he had to stay alive at all costs.
As for pride, he could no longer afford to care about that!
“A bunch of animals, worse than beasts, if you dare, just kill me…”
The woman in the corner, with her nails all torn out, glared at the Changfeng men with a look full of hatred and began to curse bitterly.
Listening to Sun Jinzhong’s words, the men from Changfeng Network, who had yet to respond, were suddenly distracted by this woman.
“Killing you would be letting you off too easy!”
“With your age and appearance, even though selling your body wouldn’t earn much, you can still sell blood, kidneys, and other organs, right?”
“Already locked up in the Si Gate Room, why not learn from the others and just accept your fate quietly?”
“Still yelling in front of us, truly unaware of life and death!”
The leader, a man in his thirties, turned back and instructed the people behind him, “Gao, go get the hammer and nails; let’s show this woman some pain!”
“Alright!” The young man known as Gao, with his buzz-cut hair, nodded and left immediately.
In less than a minute, he returned to the room with a hammer and a box of nails in hand.
He signaled to his two companions to hold the woman down.
Gao, with hammer and nails in hand, began driving nails into the woman’s palm, specifically targeting her joint spaces.
At the entrance gate of the park, Chen Hai came to a halt before the iron bars, stopping in his tracks.
After his Divine Soul had crushed and merged into his body, his perception abilities had been greatly enhanced.
With eyes nearly closed, relying solely on his perception, he could sense quite clearly what was happening inside six or seven small buildings not far from the park’s gate!
He seemed to see a man, his body swollen, his blood being drawn out by someone with a large syringe, and put into bottles prepared in advance.
He seemed to see a young man, tied tightly to a crude iron bed.
A cut had been made between his thighs, and his kidneys were being removed and placed into a specially treated cooler filled with ice.
It was just unfortunate that the park was quite large, and his perceptive range was ultimately limited.
What situation was Sun Jinzhong in now?
Chen Hai had yet to perceive any outcome.
“Stop there, who are you?” The few guards patrolling back and forth with AKs at the gate immediately noticed something unusual about Chen Hai.
From across the iron bars, they shouted at Chen Hai with a stern voice.
One of them even loaded his gun and pointed the muzzle at Chen Hai.
“Those who condone tyranny, die!” Chen Hai looked at the guards emotionlessly, as if he were looking at dead people.
No sooner had his words fallen than a mysterious fire erupted on the guards.
They fell to the ground, rolling around trying to extinguish the flames.
Unfortunately, no matter how much they rolled, the fire not only failed to die down but grew fiercer.
The guards’ shrill screams lasted for tens of seconds before they finally stopped moving.
When he had approached the park’s gate, Chen Hai hesitated a little about whether to kill the guards at the entrance.
But after sensing the hellish scenes unfolding in the nearby buildings, his mind had instantly made the decision.
When the avalanche comes, no snowflake is innocent.
The actions of those companies within the park meant that even if these guards at the gate weren’t directly involved, they still deserved to die!
Although the guards were dead, the iron bars remained tightly closed.
Chen Hai was too lazy to detour, so he walked straight over.
When he passed through the gate and truly stepped into the park, the human-shaped hole forcefully made in the two-meter-high iron bars was truly terrifying to behold.
“Boss, is this the power of your boss?
If you say he’s the strongest combat force in the world, we would not doubt it now!”
“Looking at someone and burning them alive?
Iron bars made of thick steel that he could ram through?
That’s beyond human level—if you say the boss is an Immortal, I’d absolutely believe it.”
“Our Four Seas Mercenary Corps, in front of the boss, would probably not even withstand his gaze!”
The mercenaries from Four Seas Mercenary Corps, who were already nearby and watching the situation, were indeed frightened by this scene.
Those who had remained in the vehicles now involuntarily exited them.
Gathered together, they started whispering among themselves, the shock evident on each of their faces impossible to mask.
“Boss, are we just going to stand way back here watching?”
“Looking at the boss’s manner, he’s preparing to go on a killing spree!”
“Our abilities might not be of much help to him, but at least we could help him out a bit, keep watch on the gate, I suppose!”
One of the mercenaries, known as Mountain Cat, looked towards Tian Mingjian, who had already come down from the vehicle, and ventured to ask.
They had all heard their mysterious boss say that he would pass on some Body Refining Technique to their boss, Tian Mingjian.
At that time, they didn’t give it too much thought and didn’t have much of an impression about the so-called beginner-level Body Refining Method that Chen Hai spoke of!
But now, having witnessed the scene before them, their thoughts had completely changed.
Someone like the boss, an Immortal-like figure, even if the Dharma Method he taught was only beginner-level, how could it be simple?
If they performed well and caught his favor, would they have the chance to be taught such a method?
Not just Mountain Cat, several mercenaries on the scene concurrently harbored such thoughts.
“Let’s go, we’ll guard the entrance to the park to ensure none of the heinous criminals inside escape!” Tian Mingjian replied to his subordinate’s suggestion after a brief hesitation, nodding his head.
He waved his hand and led his men towards the park gate.