Chapter 346 The Hall of Swallowing Gold

"Bullshit!!!"

Hao Ling's face flushed red, and her chest heaved violently a few times.

She turned to look at Chen Yu and took a deep breath: "What exactly do you want! I did lie to you, I was wrong! The supplies have been returned! I've apologized! Isn't that enough!"

Chen Yu didn't expect her to suddenly say something like that.

"Is this your apology?"

"Yes, I'm apologizing! I've paid the money, you've killed my people, what else do you want?"

Hao Ling gritted her teeth.

Chen Yu shook his head and stepped toward her.

Hao Ling subconsciously took half a step back, her back pressing against the doorframe: "You—"

"You..."

"Pfft!"

Chen Yu had pulled out the ghost head blade at some point, flipped the blade, pointed it forward, and thrust it forward violently!

A single strike, piercing through!

Chen Yu said calmly: "If I had died just now, would you have planned to apologize to a corpse?"

Hao Ling's mouth hung open, her fingers clutching the blade, and her body slowly slid down along the doorframe!

Ma Kui stepped up and said slowly: "Brother Chen Yu, you... you following us, is it..."

"Yeah."

Chen Yu turned his head: "I came to find her too, but not just to find her."

Ma Kui was stunned: "What do you mean?"

Chen Yu explained: "Running scams in the apocalypse must be very profitable, right? I'm just envious..."

"Uh."

Ma Kui and the teammates who had just gathered around exchanged glances, all of them feeling numb. Who would openly admit to being envious?

But they had just walked back from the gates of hell. And it was all thanks to Chen Yu.

Ma Kui led everyone in a deep bow, their waists bent very low.

"Thank you for your help, Brother Chen Yu! Our Changzhou Iron-Faced Team will remember this debt! If you need anything in the future, we will not refuse!"

Chen Yu nodded.

Liang Jing hesitated for a moment, unable to suppress his curiosity: "Um... Brother Chen Yu, since you said you are envious of those scammers, do you intend to...?"

"Brother Chen Yu certainly wouldn't go around scamming people, that's so low!"

Wang Mengmeng's voice came from behind.

She walked over, hands on her hips, "Our Brother Chen Yu is upright and honorable, he walks tall wherever he goes. He wouldn't do those petty, sneaky things like scamming!"

Chen Yu: "..."

Deng Yuxin nodded from the side: "Exactly, if Brother Chen Yu wants something, he takes it himself. Why would he need to scam anyone?"

Yang Kexin laughed: "Mengmeng is right, scamming is so boring."

Liang Jing swallowed hard: "Listening to that, you guys are planning to... rob the robbers???"

Chen Yu shook his head and corrected him: "That's not accurate. It should be called industry rectification. We are the light of the righteous path."

As he spoke, his gaze fell back to the side of the doorframe, onto Little Xu.

Chen Yu walked up to her and stood three steps in front of her: "Tell me, where is your main organization now?"

Little Xu looked up, looking aggrieved: "Brother Chen Yu, there is no main organization... I'm just a worker, helping Sister Hao Ling. I don't know anything!"

Chen Yu shook his head: "Hao Ling mentioned before that the supplies you scammed would be handed over."

Little Xu pursed her lips: "I... I really don't know. I'm just a Perception-type. I usually just watch people, I'm not in charge of the supplies."

Chen Yu felt a bit helpless and raised the ghost head blade high.

"Let's try a different question,"

"If you don't tell me the location, I'll slaughter you right now."

Little Xu's expression changed drastically: "You..."

Within her field of vision, the ghost head blade slowly descended, getting larger and larger!

Until—

Little Xu closed her eyes: "I'll talk! I'll talk! Don't kill me!!!"

Chen Yu withdrew the blade. Generally speaking, very few people could withstand this process. Especially young girls like her.

Chen Yu nodded: "Speak, keep it brief. I don't want to hear a story."

Little Xu swallowed hard and began to speak slowly: "Our... ah, no... their organization is called the Gold-Swallowing Hall. The boss's codename is Inkstone. He never shows his face. The second-in-command is called Red Scale, who is responsible for assigning tasks. The third-in-command is called Ledger Ghost, who manages the cash flow. Sister Hao Ling... Hao Ling used to report directly to Red Scale."

Chen Yu narrowed his eyes: "Gold-Swallowing Hall, Inkstone, Red Scale, Ledger Ghost?"

Little Xu nodded and continued: "The core members of the Gold-Swallowing Hall all come from the Linping area of The Highway. There are at least five or six... top ten Teams there that are connected to the Gold-Swallowing Hall. On the surface, they are independent Teams, but the supply distribution channels are shared."

Chen Yu roughly understood: "In other words, every time you enter the Living Area, you have a superior assigning locations. Hao Ling is responsible for screening targets, collecting money, and providing fake goods. The collected items are sent through a transit channel, transported out in batches, and eventually end up in the Gold-Swallowing Hall's inventory."

"You can harvest a batch of people in one Living Area cycle, but because of the rule of paying first and delivering later, no one can find you except by using a tracking card."

Zhang Wanyue stood to the side of Chen Yu: "Under the general framework of surviving on The Highway, this model is basically unsolvable. It's just hard on those Teams that get scammed."

Wang Mengmeng spoke from behind: "In the apocalypse, supplies are life! By this logic... how many people have they killed?"

No one answered her.

Chen Yu said calmly: "I've had a bad habit since I was a kid: I can't stand seeing others bully the weak. Those who hide behind the scenes to harvest the hard-earned money of the innocent—I will never stand idly by!"

The women: "..."

Little Xu, Ma Kui, and the others, however, were dumbfounded.

Ma Kui coughed: "Ahem, Brother Chen Yu, you are... really... really righteous!"

Little Xu stammered: "Um... Brother Chen Yu, can I join your Team? I'm willing to take you to the Gold-Swallowing Hall organization in New Capital City!"

Chen Yu shook his head: "You're overthinking it. Whether you take me or not, I'm just going to kill you."

"Uh."

Little Xu's face stiffened. The person who was so righteous just a moment ago was going to kill her the next turn?

Ma Kui was a bit awkward: "Um... wait a second, Brother Chen Yu, our supplies haven't been retrieved yet..."

Chen Yu said calmly: "Wait until I wipe out the Gold-Swallowing Hall, then you can find me."

"Where is the Gold-Swallowing Hall?"

"New Capital City, Yan Garden..."

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New Capital City, Yan Garden. Located in the eastern part of the core area. Yan Garden sits on the east side of the core area, at the end of a quiet side road. It is a three-story detached building with off-white exterior walls. The arched window frames are painted dark gray, and the Glass is wiped clean and bright.

The main entrance is a dark brown solid wood door with brass handles. A sign hangs above the lintel, engraved with two regular script characters: "Yan Garden."

The reason why such a quiet location exists in the apocalypse is certainly not because of the Living Area. It's because someone has blocked it off.

At the street corner, one person stands on each side, wearing a uniform gray-black uniform, with the posture of a security guard.

You have to know, this is the core area, and there are many people coming and going. People passing by almost all slow down to take a few more looks inside Yan Garden. After all, such an eye-catching cordon is still very easy to attract attention.

"The Living Area isn't owned by his family, why are they blocking us out?"

"Yeah, accommodation is already tight, and we can't go out at night. How can someone occupy resources like this?"

"Keep it down. Anyone who dares to do this might just be the number one on The Highway!"

"Yeah, say less. It's definitely someone you can't afford to offend, that's all there is to it!"

Some people stood with their arms crossed, standing on tiptoe to look, while others whispered to each other.