Chapter 727 - Captive

Chapter 727 - Captive

Li Huowang held his cleaver tightly and glared at the tall man with glasses.

Even though Li Huowang had only seen him once, he still recognized the man. The man was in the same group as Li Huowang at Kangning Hospital. He recalled the man’s name—Yuan Heping.

“It’s you?! You were one of them?” Li Huowang’s breathing quickened as he gripped his cleaver.

Yuan Heping swallowed his saliva nervously when he saw Li Huowang’s cleaver and Qing Wanglai’s gun. “Wait, don’t be rash. Murder is a crime, and we didn’t do anything!”

Qing Wanglai walked towards Li Huowang and pushed the cleaver down. “We’ve surrounded them. There’s no need to use your cleaver for now.”

Qian Fu and Chen Hongyu then appeared with a rope. They tied the two people's hands together.

Li Huowang finally put down his knife when the two were tied up. He only focused on the gun after they had been subdued.

“Where did you get a gun? Those are harder to come by than knives.”

Li Huowang started to doubt Qing Wanglai and his background.

Qing Wanglai laughed and pointed the gun at Wu Qi’s head before pulling the trigger. Everyone froze up due to his unexpected actions.

A small fire lit up from the muzzle of the gun.

Wu Qi took out a cigarette and lit it up.

“It’s fake?”

“Of course this is a fake gun. This is a world with laws and regulations, so how could I get a real gun? I bought it online during a sale.” Qing Wanglai released the trigger and placed the gun-shaped lighter into his pocket.

“AAAAH!” Someone screamed from the other alley. The familiar voice made Li Huowang’s heart jump.

“Oh no! It’s Yang Na!”

Li Huowang ran down the alley and quickly counted the gazes he had sensed just now. There were four, but we only found three! One of them must’ve been hiding to ambush us!

Li Huowang thought the situation was dire, but he was stunned when he reached Yang Na.

“There’s no need for that. Let’s find another place to interrogate them. My RV is already a third-hand car. I don’t want you to destroy it.”

The RV wasn’t large to begin with, and it felt cramped after so many people entered it. Qian Fu had to sit on the induction stove while Chen Hongyu was forced to sit in the toilet.

“Let’s go to my place. There’s no one there.” Zhao Lei’s voice came from outside.

“Is it remote and safe?” Li Huowang asked.

No matter who the three people were, Li Huowang was technically kidnapping them. It would be hard to explain to other people if they saw what they were doing.

“Don’t worry, he lives somewhere very remote.” Chen Hongyu stretched out from the toilet as she opened the fridge.

The RV bounced along the road until they stopped near the city's outskirts. It was already starting to get bright outside when they entered an old home. Li Huowang finally understood what they meant by Zhao Lei staying somewhere remote. Zhao Lei was actually staying in an underground basement on the outskirts of the city.

Li Huowang pushed Yuan Heping underground before he caught the scent of mold. The basement was huge but covered in many objects. There were bottles and cans of various sizes, as well as organs preserved in formalin. Li Huowang saw a kneecap and a single eye in the jars. He wasn’t sure if they were real.

A strange moldy smell came from the takeout boxes and trash near his feet.

There was a shelf on the wall lined up with various toy models. Some of them were incomplete, with only their heads.

Zhao Lei’s fashion was weird, and his place was weird too.

“Is this place soundproof?” Li Huowang walked to the table and tapped the bottles on the table. There were wooden boat models inside the bottles. It seems that Zhao Lei sells these for money. It’s so real. He even carved out the sailors inside the boat.

“Yes, it’s soundproof.”

“Good.” Li Huowang approached Yuan Heping and pinned him to the wall before bringing the cleaver down on Yuan Heping’s right hand.

“AH! MMGH!” Yuan Heping tried to scream, but Li Huowang covered his mouth.

“Stop! Your arm is still intact! You can scream later!”

Yuan Heping almost fainted from shock when he saw Li Huowang’s cleaver planted on the ground right beside his hands.

Just as he managed to catch his breath, he saw Li Huowang swinging the cleaver sideways onto four of his fingers.