Chapter 150: Fighting Violence with Violence – The Kidnapping Village (1)

Chapter 150: Fighting Violence with Violence - The Kidnapping Village (1)

"Strictly speaking, that mission doesn't even belong to the realm of web novels," the system said. "It's a dark documentary-style story with no romantic subplot, and the story is so heavy that it's suffocating."

"In fact, the earlier stories were also heart-wrenching," Keding said softly. "Tang Zhi's old ending, I really couldn't accept it."

The system sighed. "The difficulty of escaping from a kidnapping village… you should have heard about it."

Most cases of human trafficking involve villagers banding together to resist the authorities, and even the absurd situation of the crowd resisting the law together.

Once you fall into such a situation, your human dignity and rights will be stripped away, and everything becomes oppressively hopeless.

It's a real case of remote and desolate areas where not even the roads for escape exist.

The areas that national highways pass through usually see the economy and education levels gradually improve, and old practices slowly disappear.

But if the victim of trafficking is in a remote mountainous area where not even a tractor can enter, even if the police intend to rescue them, it's extremely difficult to locate where they are.

"This mission, like the last one, has special requirements."

The system opened the corresponding interface and highlighted a few lines to make them more noticeable.

"The victim's family demands that the human traffickers be sentenced to death, and the murderer must pay for their sister's life. The village has a long history of bloodshed, and at least five people must be imprisoned before he is willing to move on."

Keding was stunned. "He refuses to move on? Isn't it generally possible to be reborn in regular missions?"

At least, in the previous eight missions, most people commissioned him to reverse their fate and then embrace a better new life.

But when it comes to the kidnapping village…

The system silently handed him the old storyline summary to read.

The victim's sister, named Huang Xuerui, suddenly disappeared during a job interview. There were no surveillance cameras at the scene, and the police couldn't find her whereabouts.

Their parents, who had struggled to raise their daughter to the age of twenty-five, went mad with anxiety, selling almost all their assets before finally obtaining the correct clues after two and a half years.

Huang Xuerui was trafficked to a place called Weijia Village.

Her master's degree and talents in playing the piano and singing were worthless there.

The kind of suffering she would have endured can already be imagined.

Weijia Village is located deep in a severely impoverished mountainous area. To reach Weijia Village, one must take a high-speed train, switch to a bus, then a motorcycle, and finally hike for several kilometers.

There is no internet in the area, and phone signals are intermittent. The locals, who make a living by selling mountain goods, are very xenophobic.

The family didn't dare to wait a second longer and, after much hardship, reached the location indicated by the clues, only to be unanimously denied by the local villagers, who claimed they had never seen this Huang Xuerui.

Although the police cooperated and went door-to-door with photos, they indeed found no trace of such a person.

The Huang family searched and searched, crying themselves nearly blind, and had to leave in frustration ten days later.

But the victim, Huang Yuxin, always felt that his sister was there.

After several months of preparation, he went to Weijia Village again, trying to obtain clues by offering cash or ways to get rich, only to be lured by the mountain people into a house and finally reduced to a state of subjugation.

—His sister had already died.

The woman, unable to bear the hellish life, had committed suicide by drinking pesticide in the middle of the night two years ago.

No one told the Huang family the truth; everyone knew it but said nothing.

Huang Xuerui had been passed around like property, and when she couldn’t bear a child, she was sold to the Wei brothers for eight thousand.

The Wei brothers claimed they had spent eighty thousand on her emergency treatment at the county hospital and now wanted to get back what they saw as their 'fair share' from Huang Yuxin.

Huang Yuxin desperately negotiated, hoping money could buy his freedom, but little did he know he had already fallen into an abyss where even clean water was a luxury amidst endless labor.

In the end, he couldn’t tell if he had escaped or lost his mind.

With his sister gone, his sanity and soul also dissipated.

Keding finished reading and closed all the interfaces, holding the white dolphin in a daze.

The system waited a beat and softly suggested, "How about we switch to something else?"

“So, he saw that his sister had already reincarnated and gave up other thoughts, deciding to seek revenge for her instead?”

“Yes.”

The system paused for a moment. "You know, most time travelers have some kind of shortcut. With those abilities, someone trapped in the mountains could find a way to escape, or even kill everyone in the village in one go."

"But according to the victim's request, getting the traffickers and perpetrators imprisoned and facing proper legal justice is really difficult."

The law has its dark, unreachable corners.

There are many murder cases in this world that happen silently and then vanish without a trace.

Keding was still lost in thought.

The system, worried he might obsess over it, comforted him, "Look, in the middle of the night, just grab some chopsticks and eat like crazy, and you can escape."

"Then call a luxury car, and even if it’s beat-up, just floor it and you’ll be safe."

"But getting these people to turn themselves in and confess their crimes isn’t something a simple trick or fantasy can solve."

"Time is money; maybe we shouldn’t dwell on such difficult cases."

Keding shook his head. "I’ve made up my mind."

The system sighed, "...I knew this would happen."

"I’ve turned off the pain receptors to the maximum for you, but be prepared, you might still get beaten when you go in."

"Let’s go."

When he opened his eyes again, sharp pain shot through his calf, and his knee was still bleeding.

Keding shifted his body, and the clinking of the metal chains echoed dully.

Chained next to a millstone like an animal, Keding found a cracked earthen bowl by his side. Inside, only a few grains of sour rice remained, not even a single vegetable in sight.

For the first time, Keding felt his limbs weighed down like lead, too exhausted to lift after the grueling labor, with the pain still lingering despite the pain blockers.

The system tensed up. "Are you okay?"

"Exchange the points for something to make me feel better," Ko Ding's thoughts were barely coherent, "Just do whatever makes my body feel better."

After 200 points were deducted, he suddenly started breathing normally again, as if he had just been revived from near death, his chest heaving as he gasped for oxygen.

Before he could fully come to, the sound of a heavily accented dialect conversation could be heard in the distance, as someone approached.

The system pricked up its ears for a moment, then stammered, "Wait, let me download a language update."

When Ko Ding blinked again, there was an additional line of Chinese-English subtitles in front of him.

"Why is there English too?"

"Did you pass CET-6?" The system waved its hand. "You're planning to study abroad, right? So it's good to get some practice with English."

Ko Ding, who had been feeling overwhelmed, chuckled at her joke.

Wei Haoyu and Wei Jiehua, the two brothers, were figuring out how to get their money back from this guy.

They planned to buy another wife, but heard that other villages were offering higher prices, so they might not get a good one.

Plus, women were getting pricier and harder to trick. All the young and pretty ones were being sold to the south.

The light bulb, hanging from a rope, swayed in the wind.

"Give us the money," Wei Haoyu growled, "Or we'll let you starve."

The young man looked up at them for a long time before saying, "I really don't have any money left."

"You're not giving it up?!" Wei Jiehua grabbed a nearby vine and said, "I'll whip you again! Let's see if your mouth stays hard!"

"Before I came, I hid something," the young man sighed, "Untie me, and I'll give it to you."

Wei Haoyu didn't believe him.

They had already searched him thoroughly, taking his phone and wearing his watch themselves. What could he possibly have left?

"If not, kill me."

"That's what you said!" Wei Jiehua warned sternly, "Don't try to trick me!"

They untied his leg irons and watched him slowly stand up, stretching his limbs.

Ko Ding asked, "Is the substitute player asleep?"

"Sound asleep," came the reply.

"Alright, time for some real fighting," Ko Ding thought for a moment and added, "Put some music in my head."

"What else are you hiding?"

"What I hid... is your entire family's brain matter."

The young man lifted his head and chest, assuming the classic stance of Wing Chun.

The BGM fittingly started: "Chi-na… has… divine… kung fu!"

Wei Haoyu hadn't even figured out the stance when the young man charged forward, his fists like iron hammers and his palms like sharp blades.

After eighteen consecutive palm strikes, Wei Jiehua was still dazed, taking several seconds before he started to scream like a slaughtered pig.

“You got the nerve to hit me, you f**king—”

The substitute player was focused on chaining combos.

He used his massive muscles, shifting into a horse stance before delivering a powerful uppercut! The rattan circle hand and iron arm technique hit him so hard he wouldn’t recognize his own mother!

“Southern fist techniques and Northern leg strikes! Shaolin and Wudang martial arts!”

“Taiji Eight Diagrams consecutive palms! China has divine skills!”

Wei Jiehua couldn’t let this stand anymore and grabbed the rattan stick beside him, rushing over.

“I’m gonna beat the hell outta you, you bastard! How dare you hit my brother?!”

The next second, the weapon was disarmed and handed to the youth himself, instantly dealing critical true damage.

“The staff sweeps a wide area! The spear picks a line!”

“Light as a swallow in the clouds! Heroic spirit soaring to the heavens!”

Commentator Xiao Ke provided a professional analysis: “Check it out! He lands a combo right on both their chins, and I think he just knocked out a tooth!”

“Exactly, you go for the face first, then finish with a gut punch. Yeah, we’re all about catharsis here. The substitute player really understands the client’s needs. We’ve gotta give him props and encouragement… System, why’ve you gone quiet?”

System: “I’m turning down the volume. These guys are screaming like pigs, and my ears are about to bleed.”

The two were screaming so loudly that the old lady next door heard them and stormed over, ready to throw down.

“The old lady isn’t a problem,” the system said. “But will you allow her to go and call for reinforcements?”

“If the old lady calls for help, the substitute player won’t just be facing 1v2 or 1v3, it’ll be all units against the entire village.”

Keding remained calm: “I’d take out the whole village if I had to.”

“Just tell the substitute player that I’m willing to pay more, no matter how much, and ask if he’ll take the job, beating them until they have tendonitis.”

The system threw a difficulty confirmation box at the substitute player, who didn’t even think twice before maxing it out.

“Let the old lady go and call for help,” Keding said calmly. “I’ll make sure he gets all the energy boosts and supplements he needs.”

All the points saved up until now were meant for a day like today.

Anyone from the village who comes will be dealt with.

Today, we’re cranking the adrenaline, swinging anything we can get our hands on, and we’re taking all of you down!