Because they were carrying out a secret task, the policemen were all in plain clothes, in order not to wake a sleeping dog. Huang Yu led the way ahead.
Baden Street was a busy area. It was crowded with traffic by day and full of bright lights and delicious nectar. Rents in “Handshake Buildings” were very low, but there were always someone running irregular roadside stands. The plenty of cheap rental housing were indeed cheap, but were frequently broken into by thieves at the same time. Sometimes the thief would pass stool in the roomer’s bedroom or soak the TV set in the sink if he found no money in the house.
The street girls standing outside saw a group of men coming. They came over one after another, eyeing the group up. But among them there was an elderly street girl who suddenly found a policeman who had once arrested her, so she cried loudly, “Here come the cops!”
The street girls fled in every direction momentarily.
By her vague memories Jiang Youyou managed to get to the downstairs of the building. The watermelon stand of the old time was now nowhere to be found, and a small stall selling spicy hot pot took its place. In the dark, the words “One Yuan for One String” on the signboard loomed.
It was late at night. Someone went downstairs with a big bowl to buy the spicy hot pot, exhaling white vapor with his breath. He couldn’t help wondering when he saw the group of people coming.
Huang Yu saw the man buying spicy hot pot making a phone call.
She gave the man a swift kick and the phone in the man’s hand fell down to the ground, the bowl of spicy hot pot also poured onto the ground, in which you could see potato noodles, sea kelp and enokitake mushrooms. The steaming-hot red pigswill spread over like blood.
Because Jiang Youyou said, “I know that man. He was going to inform the people upstairs.”
They knocked at the door, the people inside wouldn’t open it.
They knock again, the door was slit open. A woman’s voice came out. “It was so late at night, didn’t you bring your key with you?”
The policemen broke into the room.
It was already winter, but the clothes people in the room wore were very thin. They were lying shivering on some cotton quilts, which were shoddy goods and gave off a strong smell of chemical fiber that makes people vomit.
A man with only one ear rushed over with a knife but stopped immediately, the knife fell to the ground without giving out any sound because it fell down to the quilt.
For Huang Yu had put her handgun to his forehead.
Jiang Youyou knew the place very well. It she hadn’t run away at the beginning, she would end up in the same way as these people-monitored wherever you went. Or as An Hua, died and abandoned in the street without anyone’s care.
“Where’re the other people? Take us to them at once.” Huang Yu said sharply.
The man with one ear cast a look at Jiang Youyou but didn’t recognize her at the first glance. Then he remembered her at the second look. If someone cut your ear you would recognize her immediately. And the reason why “One Ear” had to take a second look was that Jiang Youyou had changed a great deal: the figure, the hairdo, the dress, and the temperament. After he recognized Jiang Youyou, he suddenly pounced on her and pinched her neck, shouting, “Give me back my ears.”
Several policemen rushed to him and pulled him away. They gave him two slaps in the face, “One Ear” became obedient.
Another den of the gang was just upstairs, with somewhat better conditions. At least they had bunk beds. In this room they caught another dozen of people.
There were another two girls in the small dark room. Jiang Youyou bit her lower lip tightly. The room was where she was locked up and where she managed to escape.
The railings of the balcony had been reinforced, therefore no one could escape easily from here any longer.
The two girls in the small dark room had been passing their piss and stools on themselves. Their eyes were glassy and their smiles were silly. The 120 ambulance took them directly to the hospital, because the wounds on their bellies had become rotten, their legs were swollen as thick as a radish. The sunken flesh on the legs wouldn’t bounce when touched, like the flesh of a dead body.
When questioning “One Ear”, he held his head high and wore an expression of dying-rather-than-confessing.
But finally he had to confess because Huang Yu told him that someone confessed that a girl named Ah Hua was murdered by him. He shook his head desperately, “No, no, not me. Jiang Jun killed her all by himself.
Later Jiang Youyou got to know that because of her escape, An Hua’s position in this terrible MLM gang has plummeted. At last on one day, she also made up her mind to escape. She pretended to go shopping in the super market. Once out, she legged it as fast as possible but was caught in the end. In that period there were so many people in the gang were trying to run away, and An Hua was caught as a warning example to others. So was straightly beaten to death and abandoned in the street. All those who had the intention to escape were forced to be witness to the tragic event and all shivered with fear like winter mice.
The human life, sometimes was worth tens of millions dollars, while sometimes not worth a damn. The man who fished for the body out of the river saw only the body but not a living person. So at this time the living person wouldn’t be worth a damn.
“Tell us Jiang Jun’s address, and I can plead with the judge for you.” Huang Yu’s indubitable tone sent “One Ear” a shudder down his spine.
Jiang Jun didn’t expect the little escaped woman would come back to his room, followed by a group of police.
On seeing Jiang Youyou, Jiang Jun felt the scar on his belly aching faintly, as if to be splitting. The moment he was handcuffed, there was an indescribable expression on Jiang Youyou’s face, with the pleasure of revenge, and something else. What on earth it was, no one could tell.
Because his multi-level marketing group utilized severe means that were too backward and too tough so that little money could be made. Many a gangster had gone to Guangxi. There was a new saying: “If someone asks you to work in Guangxi, telling you that you can make a lot of money, it is 70% possible he is fooling you into pyramid selling; if he says you should take a bus to Liu Zhou of Guangxi, it is 90% possible he is fooling you into pyramid selling; if he tells you to go to Gui Gang of Guangxi, the possibility of pyramid selling is 100%!” Now they were using a new method of pyramid selling which emphasized on brainwashing instead of control of personal freedom. What was more, they recruited only highly educated and qualified personnel, it was naturally why they made more money.
Jiang Jun wanted to find a part-time job because he was in great need of money. Introduced by one of his acquaintances, he became a security guard in the Oriental Angel party. Because he had rendered several meritorious service, he was promoted as Li Dadong’s bodyguard. He was brave and battlewise and became trusted with more important positions, thus earned a lot money and got to know more and more secrecy.
Huang Yu knew he had a lot of confidential information of the club, but the information they could dig up from him was very limited, except for some evildoing in pyramid selling, which he made a full confession.
Whereas he would shut up like a clam when asked about the club. “I don’t know.” “I don’t know.” “I don’t know.”…
To handle those who always said “don’t know”, there were naturally some means to deal with. Extraordinary means should be employed to extraordinary person.
To Jiang Jun, Huang Yu adopted some extraordinary means because some important people were involved in Jiang Jun’s case.
What Huang Yu didn’t understand was that previously they had encountered so many difficulties in the task of destroying the Oriental Angel club, which they were going to do long ago, for too many people were involved. But this time someone from the top actually took the lead to carry out the secret task, it was rare indeed. And that was why the action ended so smoothly and there were strong support from the media. Then there were several other similar dens destroyed one after another. These could be regarded as some good things they did at long last.