Northern Myanmar: These players are acting strangely!

Chapter 23 The Tragedy in the Dark Room

"newcomer?"

The middle-aged man in front of him slowly turned his head, his cloudy gaze sweeping over Wang Zixu's face, his voice low and hoarse.

"Yes, I was just tied up."

Wang Zixu nodded, trying to get more information from the other party.

The middle-aged man chuckled and shifted into a more comfortable position, leaning against the wall.

"Hey newbie, just lie there and see if any company will give you an offer."

Wang Zixu looked completely bewildered:
"what?"

"What do you mean?"

People are tied up here, what does that have to do with the "offer"?

Could it be that this place is different from what he imagined?
Didn't the game's cutscene say that this was a scam company?

Do I have to submit my resume and wait for the company to hire me?
"Heh, that means no industrial park is willing to pay for you right now."

The middle-aged man paused, seemingly finding it somewhat boring, and then asked:
Do you know what a human trafficking center is?

Wang Zixu felt a sudden tightness in his chest and shook his head blankly.

"This is it."

The middle-aged man gestured with his chin towards the people lying around him:

"They're just a bunch of piglets sleeping on the ground, waiting for people from outside the park to come and pick them out."

"If they think you can be used by them, they will pay to buy you."

After saying that, the uncle turned over and lay back down on the ground.

"crunch-"

Just as Wang Zixu was about to ask something else, the door was suddenly pulled open from the outside.

A blinding light flooded in, causing a stir among the people in the darkness.

A group of people were immediately awakened from the darkness. As if they had seen a lifeline, they struggled and crawled toward the door, begging the people outside to let them leave. They kept assuring them that their families would send money.

Five people were standing outside the door. The leader banged on the door with a rubber baton, and everyone immediately fell silent.

"Get the hell back here!"

"Anyone who dares to take another half step forward, I'll break their legs!"

The threat had an immediate effect; everyone scrambled back to their original positions.

The curly-haired man in the lead glanced around and impatiently shouted:
"Liu Yang, come with me, a boss has offered to buy you."

The room was deathly silent; no one answered.

"Liu Yang!"

Do you want me to personally drag you out?

The curly-haired man's voice turned cold.

In the crowd, a thin boy stood up, trembling.

With short, jet-black hair and a youthful face, he looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old.

Instead of heading towards the door, he knelt down with a thud, pleading in a tearful voice:
"Brother, please, can I take my girlfriend with me?"

"I beg you!"

As they were talking, a girl emerged from behind him, clinging tightly to Liu Yang like a frightened fawn, her eyes filled with fear and confusion.

The girl's behavior was a bit strange. She was holding Liu Yang, but her eyes were looking at the ground. She kept muttering something under her breath, and her body was swaying back and forth unconsciously. Her mental state seemed to be abnormal.

The curly-haired man didn't even glance at the girl, and waved his hand impatiently.

The two henchmen understood and immediately stepped forward, grabbing Liu Yang's arms and dragging him outside.

"No! Let me go! Xiaoya! Xiaoya!"

Liu Yang struggled desperately, his feet leaving two bloody marks on the ground.

The girl behind him burst into helpless cries, clinging tightly to Liu Yang with both hands, refusing to let go no matter what.

"Ugh……"

A faint sigh rang in Wang Zixu's ears.

He turned to the middle-aged man beside him and asked in a low voice, "Why are you sighing?"

"Didn't you notice?"

The older man asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"Is his girlfriend coming with him?" Wang Zixu replied uncertainly.

The uncle smiled but didn't answer; he simply pointed to his head.

Wang Zixu looked puzzled, then turned to look at the girl named Xiaoya, and only then did he notice something amiss.

I don't know if it's due to low education level, excessive fright, or an inherent intellectual disability.

In short, her reaction was very abnormal.

"We won't separate...we promised we wouldn't separate..."

Liu Yang was being dragged along, looking at the girl with heartache, tears and snot streaming down his face:
"I'll make money, I'll make lots and lots of money for you, please take her with you, I promise she'll be very well-behaved!"

"We won't be apart... Liu Yang... We won't be apart..."

This girl named Xiaoya seemed to only repeat this one sentence, crying incessantly like an abandoned cub.

Why didn't they take his girlfriend with them?

Wang Zixu felt a pang of sadness watching this scene of life and death.

"madness!"

The man beside her coldly uttered two words.

"She's mentally ill; she can't even type. What industrial park would pay to keep a useless person like her?"

After the uncle finished speaking, he turned his head to the other side, seemingly unable to bear watching any longer, or perhaps not wanting to waste any more words on Wang Zixu, this "newcomer".

"No...we won't separate...we promised we wouldn't separate..."

Xiaoya's cries grew louder and louder.

The security guard behind her thought she was in the way, so he slapped her and kicked her to the ground.

"Hey! Don't go too far!"

Wang Zixu's eyes twitched as he watched, and a surge of heat rushed to his head.

Without thinking, he rushed over and shoved the security guard who was hitting the girl aside.

In that instant, the entire room fell silent.

Everyone was stunned, including the security guards who had arrested the man, as well as the other pigs in the room.

The curly-haired man who was in the lead reacted first, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes, and he kicked out with a kick to the chest.

"boom!"

Wang Zixu took a solid kick to the abdomen, and his whole body arched up like a shrimp.

This time, he couldn't hold back. He was seething with anger and pounced on the curly-haired man, intending to take down the leader first.

Unfortunately, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.

They not only had rubber batons in their hands, but also two thugs standing beside them.

In contrast, Wang Zixu had been hungry for a day and a night and was completely exhausted.

As soon as he rushed over, he was pinned to the ground by two other people, and a barrage of punches, kicks, and rubber batons rained down on him.

Wang Zixu felt like all the bones in his body were about to fall apart.

Fortunately, I had set the pain perception to the lowest setting in the game.

"Damn it, you dare to fight back!"

"Believe it or not, I'll break your arm right now!"

Still shaken, the curly-haired man became enraged and kicked Wang Zixu twice more.

Wang Zixu coughed up blood and could only watch helplessly as the girl named Xiaoya was roughly thrown aside, while the boy named Liu Yang was dragged out of the door in despair.

This scene was too real, so real that it didn't feel like a game; it felt like a brutal movie playing out right before my eyes.

Before leaving,
The curly-haired man, still not satisfied, walked back, grabbed Wang Zixu's hair, lifted his face up, and said viciously:
"Kid, you better watch out here, don't you dare be so arrogant!"

"I told you to kneel, so you can't lie down, understand?"

Wang Zixu gritted his teeth, but secretly memorized the beast's appearance.

Arrogant my foot!
One day, I'll kill you, you piece of shit!

"boom!"

The iron gate slammed shut.

The room fell into darkness again, with only the girl's intermittent sobs remaining.

(End of this chapter)