Chapter 163: Fighting Violence with Violence – Human Trafficking Village (14)

Chapter 163: Fighting Violence with Violence - Human Trafficking Village (14)

Wei Haoyu was truly terrified.

Not only did he put three locks on the bedroom, but he also, when Huang Yuxin was not at home, sealed all the front and back gates, as well as every window, shut tightly. The keys hung around his neck, worn close to his body, like a talisman to ward off evil spirits. He even wished he could splash several bowls of black dog blood on any place Huang Yuxin might enter, just to send this evil spirit away for good.

Nothing else mattered to him anymore.

Not the villagers pointing fingers at him, nor the police’s endless investigations and interrogations. All he wanted now was to sleep peacefully.

He didn’t want to wake up in a foreign place where no one understood him, or worse, find out he had somehow gotten a woman pregnant.

He had never felt such fear before.

The village was like a toxic cloud, suffocating anyone who breathed it in.

Yet, most people in the village couldn’t escape.

They had no education, no will to earn money, and were accustomed to living on welfare assistance, along with the village’s many ingrained old customs.

Forcing them to start over in a strange city would be like trading the poison for a sharp blade—either way, they’d be dead.

This kind of fear was new to him—something he’d never felt before, even when he was abusing Huang Xuerui.

Handing over a few thousand yuan and dragging a tied-up woman from some stranger’s car, Wei Haoyu had never been afraid.

He had felt good at the time.

He finally had a wife, and he wasn’t the village joke anymore—the guy who couldn’t get married. He would have sons and daughters to care for him in his old age.

Good—more than good. She might not have been perfect, but now she belonged to him, and that was enough.

Forcing her, beating her, listening to her animal-like wails, watching her struggle and cry, Wei Haoyu felt good.

His father was paralyzed in bed but still managed to be the head of the household through grunts and eye-rolling, ordering Wei Haoyu, his mother, and his brother around endlessly.

Before, he could only boss around his mother, but now he had someone else to do all the chores—washing his feet, doing his laundry, warming his bed, and cooking his meals.

If she didn’t obey, a beating was just what she deserved—everyone in the village did it that way.

He could control someone else. Completely dominating a woman and enjoying her helplessness, it felt good.

Huang Xuerui died very early.

Malnourished and constantly violated and abused, she passed away silently one night without ever experiencing a pregnancy.

When Huang Xuerui died, he barely reacted, but his mother sobbed uncontrollably.

She cried about how the Wei family’s hard-earned few thousand yuan had gone to waste, the family line hadn’t been continued, and she felt guilty toward her two sons and her paralyzed husband.

Wei Jiehua was a bit nervous, not daring to go out for several days.

"Bro, will we get into trouble over this dead person?"

"It’s family business—what do outsiders care?" Wei Haoyu said dismissively. "Can the police interfere in family affairs?"

"Besides, she died from a cold—what did that have to do with us?"

That trafficker Cai Er needs a serious beatdown. What did we get for all that money?

She couldn’t even give birth to a son, neither could she cook nor take care of the elderly, what a waste!

If I ever run into that guy again in the village, I’ll definitely beat him up and get every single penny back!

Huang Xuerui had been gone for half a year, and another half a year had passed since her death before the Huang family finally found this mountain village.

The first time they didn’t find their daughter, the older couple left, but the younger one was not willing to give up and managed to sneak back into the village.

No one had expected things would spiral out of control to this extent.

A man, pregnant? That’s impossible!

An extra child in the belly, a living thing growing bigger each day?

Wei Jiehua had used a hammer to secure every lockable spot in the house. He didn’t dare to close his eyes when sleeping at night. After much thought, he placed a knife under both his and his brother’s pillows.

He would rather—and planned to—stab this madman to death.

That night, he had a dream.

In the dream, he could see everything inside his own belly.

A stomach that opened and closed as if breathing, only as big as a fist, with some undigested vegetable soup inside.

A liver soaked in alcohol turning black, and coiled, wriggling intestines of varying thickness bundled together.

And a child.

When he saw the child with no hair, his heart stopped for a second. He tried to scream, but no sound escaped his throat.

He wanted to rip open his stomach and yank that thing out, whether it was his own child or some demonic fetus. He didn’t want it, he didn’t want it!!

He was a man, there was no way he could be pregnant!!

Wei Jiehua jolted awake, and the bright light almost made him go blind.

“Bro—”

“What the—Ow! My eyes!”

Both brothers sat up from their beds, instinctively covering their eyes from the strong beam of the flashlight, unsure if they were still sleeping in the old house.

Huang Yuxin waved the flashlight.

“You were sleeping like a log, even snoring.”

Wei Jiehua reached back to pull out the knife from under his pillow, but when his hand went in, he found the object was thin and short, with no blade at all.

He blankly pulled out the item from under his pillow and realized it was a pregnancy test stick.

“Know how to use it?” Huang Yuxin asked kindly. “Just pee on it. One line means negative, two lines mean congratulations, you’re pregnant.”

Wei Haoyu stared at Huang Yuxin’s face illuminated by the flashlight and finally screamed.

He screamed for almost three minutes, while his brother stood there, still holding the pregnancy test stick, dazed. Their mother didn’t come to check on them, and they weren’t sure if she was even alive.

He screamed so loudly he felt like vomiting, gasping for breath between wails. His cries were shrill and filled with despair, like those of an animal.

Huang Yuxin was still messing around with the flashlight.

"It is a bit blinding." He turned off the flashlight, then pulled out a candle and lit it with a lighter. Holding it up in front of the two brothers, he said, "Make a wish—twins or triplets?"

"I'm begging you," Wei Jiehua struggled to communicate. "We're sorry about what happened with your sister, but she died of illness. We..."

"Don't like twins?" Huang Yuxin seemed a bit troubled. "A boy and a girl might not be good. It would be a sin for any girl born in this place."

Wei Jiehua took a deep breath to speak again, but a loud bang interrupted him. Older brother Wei Haoyu had fainted.

"Bro!! Bro!! Wake up!!"

"Mom—Mom—save us! Something terrible has happened!!"

In the midst of the chaos, Huang Yuxin slipped out through the open door, calmly ticking off items on his list.

(1) Distribute flyers to spread the good news

(2) Ask about the second child at 4 AM

(3) Inform nearby villages of the great news

(4) Arrange for journalists to conduct interviews

...

As the young man was lost in thought, the system gave him a gentle nudge.

"Ke Bao!"

"Yeah?" Ke Bao replied. "What's up, sis?"

"Um," the system twisted a bit. "The AI asked me to pass you a message."

Ke Bao sensed something was off.

"What does the AI want?"

"The AI noticed Wei Jiehua's breaking point just hit over 500," the system coughed twice. "It's checking in, no big deal. It wants to know if you want to make a deal."

"What's the AI trying to sell me?"

"The AI wants to sell you a favor," the system coughed again. "With this whole village male baby plan, there's some deception involved, right?"

"In the original plan, even confirming one intersex pregnancy would have been enough, and most of it relies on psychological suggestion, misdiagnosis of stomach illness, ultrasound interference, and actors fooling around..."

"Do you want this guy to actually have twins?"

"Not really," Ke Bao hesitated. "It wouldn't be fair to the kids. They'd have no way out from birth."

The system short-circuited for a moment, unsure how to respond. "You, you, you... give me a few minutes."

She scurried off for an urgent discussion with the AI and, when she returned, visibly relaxed.

"The AI said that Wei Haoyu can get pregnant and carry twins, but they won't have souls, with properties similar to a teratoma, and they will naturally miscarry after about eight months."

Keding mused, "What does the AI want from me?"

The system replied, "20,000 points."

"Excluding the unsettled breakage value in this world, you currently have 28,764 points," the system added.

Keding showed little emotion and said, "These points could have been exchanged for cash, rare items, exotic pets, or personal assets. Now, this mission is going to take away two-thirds of them?"

He didn't want to spend a single penny for that bastard. But for that older sister, he was very willing.

It would be even better if there was a discount.

The system carefully said, "Don't be mad, oh sweetie, the AI just wants to see if you're willing."

"10,000 points," Keding said. "At the start of the mission, you said that breaking an arm or a leg in the store only costs a few thousand points. I won't even discuss it if it's over 10,000 points."

The system took a deep breath, aware that she had an important task.

"I'll try to get the best deal!"

"Let me do it," Keding said. "I feel like you can't."

"You're right," the system sincerely said. "I'm not good at negotiating."

She conveyed the intention to the AI, asking if it was willing to talk to Keding directly.

The AI calculated the success rate of the negotiation and gave a final reply.

"No need for a face-to-face; take it or leave it—18,000 points, or you handle the mission on your own."

Keding said, "18,000 points for Wei Haoyu to carry twins, and the stubborn old man to carry one."

The system didn't react immediately. "Who? Which old man?"

Keding: "Wei Haoyu's father."

The system: "...??"

"You're serious??"

Keding silently reviewed the entire plot.

If he remembered correctly, from the plan to buy women to the actual funding, it was all the idea of that old man.

That old man, bedridden, even after a stroke left him unable to speak, could still command Old Mrs. Wei with a few indistinct hums. He was the source of all evil.

A triple blessing for the father and son—perfect, absolutely perfect.

After a while, the system returned, a bit dazed.

"The AI said it has never heard such an absurd demand in its life."

"But deal."