Kacha!
Chen Hao's feet and calves were originally bent at a ninety-degree angle.
After Meng Chao stepped on it a second time, it went from ninety degrees to one hundred and eighty degrees, and it folded completely.
Chen Hao's eyes rolled back, and he was about to faint from the pain.
Meng Chao increased his strength and rotated his feet to grind the broken bones that protruded from Chen Hao's wound into powder.
Chen Hao let out a blood-curdling scream. He felt as if his entire calf had been stuffed into a meat grinder, but no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't get it off. He was in so much pain that the world was spinning around him. How could he possibly faint?
Even Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong, who was known for his ruthlessness, felt his heart palpitate as he watched from the side. He wanted to say something, but he hesitated.
"No problem, Senior Zhou. Trust me."
"Just as you know, aside from being an Ultimate Style martial artist, I'm also an experienced harvester. Over the past two years, I've harvested more than one thousand monsters, and on average, I cut three to five monsters into pieces every day. I know their physiological structures like the back of my hand.
"I can disassemble a Tyrant Mammoth the size of a castle into pieces the size of a fingernail in half an hour. I can remove all the flesh from the bones, but I won't hurt the most fragile periosteum. All the bones can still be pieced together into a complete specimen.
"You can also extract the core tissues of some monsters' brains through their ear canals without any damage to them.
"Compared to many small monsters, the physiological structure of humans is rather simple, especially since we don't have to worry about whether our limbs and organs are still intact. That's why you don't have to worry about me killing him.
"I guarantee that even if we crush every bone in his body, he will still be awake and tell us what we want to know."
As he spoke, Meng Chao moved his feet above Chen Hao's knees.
Meng Chao's words terrified Chen Hao. When he looked at Meng Chao's expressionless face, he looked as if he was looking at the most monstrous demon in hell. He was so terrified that he screamed, "I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!"
Meng Chao ignored him and continued stomping on him.
Chen Hao's knee was instantly crushed. His calf curled up, and his foot, which had a comminuted fracture, drooped down limply. His nerves were affected, and the pain made his tears flow like crazy. His teeth were chattering, and he almost bit his tongue off.
"Be careful of your tongue. That's the only reason we're sparing your life."
Meng Chao crouched down and told Chen Hao calmly.
Then, he groped his pelvis, shoulder blade, and arm joints, as if he was testing how much weight his bones and joints could withstand.
After groping around for a long time, Meng Chao grabbed Chen Hao's shoulder and slowly dug his fingers into Chen Hao's flesh. He said slowly, "If your leg is broken, after you amputate it, you can still move if you put on spirit mechanical prosthetics, chassis, or tracks.
"But if both arms are shattered, it will be troublesome. Right now, artificial limbs can't simulate the functions of arms and fingers with 100% accuracy.
"And if your spine and pelvis shatter inch by inch, you'll be like a pile of mud curled up in a corner of the lair. You'll be soaked in your own excrement while others step on you."
Chen Hao's eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.
If it weren't for his optic nerves, his eyeballs would have popped out of their sockets.
"I'll talk!"
He wailed like a ghost and howled like a wolf. "Ask away! What do you want to know? Ask away!"
Meng Chao did not stop because he cried and begged for mercy.
His fingers, which were like steel pincers, continued digging into Chen Hao's shoulder blade inch by inch.
Meng Chao could hear cracking sounds coming from Chen Hao's shoulder blade. Countless fine cracks appeared on his bones.
"Who's the boss? Where is he?" Meng Chao asked.
"I don't know! No, no, no! I'm not lying to you! I really don't know! I've been contacting him through emails all this time!"
Chen Hao was in so much pain that he nearly went into shock, but he did not dare to really faint. He spoke quickly. "Two months … No, three months ago, I suddenly received an email from the boss. He said that he prepared a 'gift' for me in the storage cabinet in Black Bone's black market. As long as I helped him do something small, I would just have to investigate a few wanted criminals who were suspected to be hiding in the lair. If possible, I would contact them. Also, I would look for some rollerbladers and send them some resources. These are all things I'm good at.
"I went to the black market and found the storage cabinet he mentioned in his email. It was filled with a bag full of high-purity crystals. They're the hard currency in the lair.
"With money, everything is easy. I helped him search for a group of wanted criminals and lost people who had been hiding in the lair for years, but I only told the boss about their aliases, the places they often went to, and their accounts in the deep web forums. I didn't need to follow up on the rest.
"When he saw that I was good at my job, the boss asked me to look for a few subordinates to distribute a batch of goods. They were the Deification Capsules, but I didn't need to do it personally. In the past, I had plenty of friends through my channels, and I could do it with just one word.
"Over the past few days, the boss asked me to prepare a few developing grounds in the lair to help him receive a batch of people who escaped from the outside world. He also asked me to send the resources they brought in to the boss in exchange for the Deification Capsules, weapons, and ammunition.
"There are a few people who have a really high tolerance for the Deification Capsules and aren't easily killed by the side effects. The boss asked me to send them into the lair, and someone will naturally take care of them.
"In any case, I'm just an insignificant lackey. I've never even seen the boss before. I've always been controlled by him remotely, so I don't know anything. No, no, no! I know! Don't kill me! I've told you everything! Don't kill me!"
Chen Hao was so terrified that he started speaking incoherently.
"Where did you send the raw materials we stole and the robbers who have a really high tolerance for the Deification Capsules?" Meng Chao tossed out his next question.
Kacha!
Before Chen Hao could answer, a faint cracking sound came from his shoulder blade.
A sharp broken bone pierced through the flesh and poked out.
Meng Chao still did not stop.
It was as if he really wanted to crush all the bones in Chen Hao's body before he heard all the answers.
Chen Hao was scared out of his wits. He spoke twice as fast as before. "They're everywhere. They're either sent to busy cities with a lot of people or to alleys that go straight and have practically no place to hide. Every time, they're sent there by rollerbladers, and the people who receive them are a group of rollerbladers I don't know. I suspect that they're going to change hands a few more times. No one knows where the items and people end up!"
This was a very normal and effective anti-tracking method.
Meng Chao did not suspect that Chen Hao was lying.
But he still crushed Chen Hao's second shoulder blade. Then, he asked, "Do you know if the boss has any lackeys like you under him?"
"I don't know. No, no, no. I know."
Chen Hao hesitated for a moment before he said, "The boss doesn't let us ask about his true identity, and he doesn't like us asking about each other, but I think that he must have found a lackey who doesn't know me in the lair.
"Because I know someone who's in a similar situation as me. He's not loved by his uncle, but over the past few months, he suddenly became extravagant. I ran into him a few times in the gambling centers and black markets, and he was eager to come up and talk to me. He seemed to want to ask me whether I was working for the boss.
"That guy was too ostentatious, so he definitely wouldn't live for long. And just as I expected, before long, he vanished from the world. I wonder if he was murdered for his money or if he angered the boss, so he was killed.
"In any case, I heard that there have been a lot of wanted criminals and lost people who have been lurking around for years. They're getting restless, and I'm not the one who contacted them.
"It's the same for the robbers. I saw the news online. Over the past few days, there have been hundreds of robberies in Dragon City. But I've only handled around one hundred robbers. That's definitely not all of them. "
Meng Chao thought about it for a while before he asked, "What about the latest batch of raw materials? You shouldn't have sent them out yet. Where did the boss ask you to send them?"
"I don't know. No, no, no. I don't know for the time being."
Chen Hao's face turned pale, and he sounded like he was about to cry. "The boss asked me to confirm that it's safe before I send him a message, and he'll tell me the delivery address."
"You didn't tell the boss that there's something wrong with the two robbers who came late?" Meng Chao asked.
"No, I didn't have time. I hired nine rollerbladers and only had them bring some smoke bombs to wander around the streets. I told them to detonate them at a certain time and hide in the dark to observe," Chen Hao said with a quivering voice.
"If there's anything wrong with the people behind them or around the smoke bombs or if someone makes them uncomfortable, they're to immediately notify me. But right after one of them notified me, you rushed down."
"Did you think of this method yourself, or did the boss teach you?" Meng Chao asked.
"The boss taught me," Chen Hao said.
"Then, this' boss' might already know that we entered the lair and captured you. You're useless now."
"No! It's not like that!"
Chen Hao quickly screamed. "The boss taught me the method, but I was the one who planned the routes for the nine rollerbladers, because I'm more familiar with the environment in the lair. I know where it's easier for me to shake off my pursuers and find them. The boss didn't ask me about the routes, so he doesn't know what's going on here!"
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and observed Chen Hao's microexpressions.
Then, he turned his head around and discussed a little with Zhou Chong.
Then, he returned Chen Hao's communicator and said, "Send a message to the boss. Tell him that the last batch of robbers and raw materials are safe. Ask him where he wants to send them."
Chen Hao tapped on the communicator with a trembling hand.
Meng Chao was still holding his shoulder blade, and it brought him great pain.
Almost at the instant he sent the message, he received a reply from the boss.
There were only three words in the reply.
"Leprosy Village?"
Meng Chao looked at the ancient and strange name and was a little stunned. "There's such a place in the lair?"
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