Chapter 284: Tearing Out Your Tongue
Jiang Yu punched the man in the face, his eyes burning with rage. “Bullshit!”
Su Tao’s heart sank.
Song Yuebing anxiously shouted, “You! You told me before that the little girl escaped! Now you’re saying she’s dead?”
The man, struck by Jiang Yu’s blow, lost a tooth, blood spurting from his mouth.
His wife crawled over, clutching Jiang Yu’s pant leg, crying and pleading:
“My husband isn’t lying! She really did run away at first. We searched for her multiple times but couldn’t find her. The last time we looked, someone told us they saw her corpse being devoured by zombies…”
Jiang Yu trembled, his emotions teetering on the edge of collapse, his fury pushing him toward murder.
Shi Zijin grabbed his arm, firmly shaking his head.
Jiang Yu released the man and quickly stepped away, taking deep, shaky breaths.
Lei Xing walked over and stuck a cigarette into Jiang Yu’s mouth, lighting it for him. “Have a smoke. Once we get the full story, then we can kill them.”
Song Yuebing, furious, kicked the man. “You lied to me?! You told me she was alive and that only her family should hear the details! I actually believed your nonsense and brought you all this way, and now you’re playing games with me?!”
The man spat out a mouthful of blood, staying silent.
His wife clutched Song Yuebing’s leg, crying. “Captain Song, we had no choice! If you didn’t bring us with you, we’d have died of starvation and thirst back there…”
Jiang Yu, who had been trying to calm down, snapped when he heard that and lunged forward to hit them again, only for Lei Xing to hold him back.
Su Tao, fed up, sneered coldly. “You think you’ll have an easy life in Xindu? Captain Song, please toss them back in the trunk. No food, no water. Since they have no useful information, their deaths don’t matter.”
The woman’s face turned pale as she collapsed onto the ground.
The man’s face twitched violently.
Song Yuebing, seething with anger, grabbed the woman by her hair and dragged her back into the trunk despite her screams.
The man started shaking uncontrollably.
Just a week of being locked in a small, suffocating space, not knowing day from night, had left a deep psychological scar on him.
He did not want to go through that again!
Cen Tianjiao stepped up to help Song Yuebing drag the man into the trunk. Suddenly, the man, trembling, shouted, “I know where her body is!”
Jiang Yu’s entire body tensed. The word “body” sent a wave of despair through him, making his bones audibly crack as he clenched his fists.
Shi Zijin quickly pulled him aside, taking him a little farther away to keep him from completely losing control.
Before leaving, Shi Zijin shot Lei Xing a look.
It was clear: You should leave too.
But Lei Xing refused. He shamelessly stood right next to Su Tao, even throwing a provocative glance at Shi Zijin.
Shi Zijin narrowed his eyes.
Lei Xing, unfazed, narrowed his even more.
Su Tao, oblivious to the silent battle between the two men beside her, turned back to the man and said coldly, “Tell us everything you know. If you leave anything out, I’ll make you and your wife suffer the same fate as Jiang Tong did.”
Kidnapping, human trafficking, abuse, being eaten alive…
The man felt a chill run down his spine and spilled every last detail.
Jiang Tong had been bought from a desperate fugitive.
They had no idea where she’d originally been kidnapped from.
They bought her because she was beautiful and planned to sell her to some perverse warlord along the coast as a plaything.
But after they made the purchase, they realized she was half-blind.
Without glasses, she couldn’t see a thing beyond half a meter.
The buyers didn’t want a blind girl.
To resell her at a high price, the couple reluctantly spent money to get a doctor to examine her eyes.
But after checking, the doctor simply shook his head and said, “This is congenital. If it were before the apocalypse, she could have undergone surgery in a major city to restore her sight. But now? It’s impossible.”
The woman panicked. “Aren’t there contact lenses?”
Glasses wouldn’t work—Jiang Tong was beautiful, and rich buyers wouldn’t want a girl with glasses.
The doctor still shook his head. “Her case is complicated. To fit her with contact lenses, you’d need specialized equipment. Maybe you could try taking her to Changjing.”
But the couple would never take her to Changjing—just one trip would cost more than what they paid for her.
They were furious, feeling scammed. Looking at Jiang Tong only made them angrier.
So they beat her, tortured her, and tried to sell her off quickly.
Jiang Tong, knowing what fate awaited her, scarred her own face.
That was the final straw.
No one wanted to buy a scarred, half-blind girl.
The buyers who were still interested offered less than what they had originally paid.
The couple, livid, nearly had heart attacks from rage. Their abuse of Jiang Tong grew even worse.
Eventually, with the help of a kind stranger, Jiang Tong managed to escape.
She was limping when she ran.
“She… she was bitten by zombies and died. Afterward, someone took pity on her and buried her body nearby,” the man said.
He truly believed Jiang Tong brought this upon herself.
If she hadn’t run, she might have survived. Since she chose to escape and ended up being eaten by zombies, that was her problem—not his.
“Where is she buried? Give me the exact location,” Su Tao demanded.
Lei Xing, hearing the controlled rage in her voice, felt his mood sour as well.
He didn’t care about Jiang Yu. He cared even less about Jiang Yu’s sister. But if this made Su Tao angry, then it became his problem.
Lei Xing stepped forward, grabbed the man by the throat, and slammed his head into the ground twice.
“Don’t think I don’t see what you’re doing. Trying to hold out for a better deal? Forget it. If you don’t talk, I’ll rip out your tongue and make sure you never speak again.”
The man’s tongue felt numb with fear—Lei Xing wasn’t bluffing.
With no other choice, he begrudgingly gave an address.
It was far in the north, at least a ten-day drive away.
Su Tao felt suffocated with frustration.
Jiang Yu had finally found a lead on his sister, only to be told she was dead—and her grave was on the other side of the country.
She exhaled heavily and waved her hand. “Take care of it.”
The man stiffened. “What do you mean? I already told you everything!”
Lei Xing grinned, then stepped on the man’s throat.
CRACK.
With a single sound, the man was dead.
