Zhen Mingku walked out from behind a warehouse on the bank of the river, and looked at the direction in which the man in black had disappeared, his brows furrowed deeply.

He tiptoed aboard the boat, and by the moonlight, he could vaguely see the scene on the deck of the ship.

On the deck of a large transport ship, there are more than a dozen people lying horizontally.

None of the limbs were intact, either their hands and feet were cut off, or their heads were severed, and the blood was black in the moonlight......

Death is as silent as it is terrifying.

The moonlight was hazy, the river breeze was light, and there was no one else on the riverbank, which showed that in the sphere of influence of the Salt Gang, few people dared to approach easily.

Zhen Mingku took out the super-generation mobile phone from his arms, unlocked the screen lock, and opened an app called "Sonar Infrared Detection" inside.

A colorful picture is displayed on the screen, vaguely showing the terrain within a radius of 100 meters.

There are more than a dozen still red dots on it, ranging in color from dark to light, and some of the red circles slowly change from dark red to pale red, until they completely change to light blue similar to the background of the illustration, representing the gradual disappearance of life.

The ultra-modern mobile phone is equipped with a military-grade infrared temperature sensor, which can show the temperature difference within a radius of 100 meters in different colors, with dark red dots indicating high temperatures, light blue indicating constant temperatures around them, and dark blue indicating low temperatures.

In addition to the dozen or so pale red dots scattered around the screen, there are also a dozen small crimson dots clustered together.

Other than that, there is no sign of any living thing.

Having grasped the approximate location of all the living creatures on the ship, Zhen Mingku put the mobile phone back in his arms, slowly rolled up his sleeves, revealing a black box-like gadget on his arm, and holding a button-like mechanism on the black box with the other hand, step by step, cautiously walked towards the door of the cabin.

In the ship's cabin, the corpses of those who had just died lay on the ground, blood splattered everywhere.

Stepping on the thick blood under his feet, Zhen Mingku walked to Pei Qianyu, who was like a puddle of mud, squatted down, and groped around with him for a while, except for a few hanging ornaments and a few ingots of broken silver, there was nothing else.

He searched around again, but found nothing, turned around and slowly descended the stairs into the cabin on the lowest floor of the ship.

The cabin on the lowest level was damp and dark, with a pungent musty smell, and the moonlight shone through the only small window in the cabin, and the entire layout of the cabin could be roughly seen.

More than a dozen sacks were stacked in a corner of the cabin, and from the sacks came a faint woman's cry for help.

After making sure that there were no other living creatures around except for the people in these sacks, Zhen Mingku put down the hidden weapon on his arm and walked in front of the dozen sacks.

He cut open the seal of the sack, revealing a dozen young women with uncovered faces and panicked faces.

At this time, a faint man's voice suddenly sounded from the side: "If you think about them, it's best not to untie them." ”

Zhen Mingku, reflexively rolled up his sleeves, turned around and rolled to the side, lay on the ground, and aimed the hidden weapon on his arm in the direction from which the voice came.

The other party in the shadows did not take the next step, and from his voice, it could be heard that he was very weak and weak at this time, not like a threatening person.

He stood up, cautiously walked up to the man, took out his mobile phone, and then the light of the mobile phone screen, a man who was tied like a dumpling, covered in bruises, and dying.

Looking at the appearance of this person, he is less than thirty years old, about the same age as him, with a square face of Chinese characters, sword eyebrows upside down, resolute and sharp eyes, although he was beaten all over his body, he still has a strong appearance, quite a tough guy's arrogance.

Zhen Mingku took out a dagger from his waist, which was the only dagger he had made with the tungsten alloy he had refined two days ago, and with a light cut, the rope tied to this person's body broke in response.

The man obviously didn't expect Zhen Mingku to let him go without even asking, glanced at the dagger in his hand, raised his head and asked with a surprised face: "Brother, why did you release the tie for me without even asking?" ”

Zhen Mingku stuffed the dagger back into his waist and said, "The one who is against the Salt Gang is my friend, and I see that you may not be able to do anything to me now." ”

The man laughed weakly, struggled to get up, perhaps because he had been tied up for too long, his blood and qi were blocked, he fell twice, refused Zhen's hard support, stood up and leaned against the wall of the cabin, gasping for air.

Only then did Zhen Mingku find that his legs had been pierced by sharp weapons with two large holes, which had become infected and inflamed, and emitted a foul smell.

It's rare that he can still talk to him with a smile on his face.

The other looked at him and asked, "What do you call my brother?" ”

"My surname is Zhen." Zhen Ming saw that the other party did not report his name, he did not know the details of the other party, and he did not report his name.

Perhaps sensing Zhen's bitter vigilance, the other party had a hint of apology on his face: "Brother Zhen, I'm sorry, I am a deserter who was pursued by the government, and I dare not report my name lightly, so as not to affect you, brother, I did not mean to be slight, and the grace of saving my life will be rewarded in the future." ”

Zhen Mingbitter said: "No need, it's just a matter of raising your hands." ”

The man asked, "Isn't my brother here looking for someone?" ”

Zhen Ming shook his head bitterly: "I want to find a deed of sale." "That brother is in the wrong place." The man said weakly, "This is the warehouse of the Yanbang Luohe rudder, except for the women who have been captured from all over the world, there is nothing else, I think my brother is also a kind-hearted person, otherwise I wouldn't want to release these women I don't know just now, but brother, if you don't have a way to properly settle them, it's better not to touch them, otherwise not only will you not be able to help them, but you will harm them." ”

Zhen Ming said bitterly: "Why is this? ”

The man seemed to hear a mentally retarded question, and said, "Could it be that the brothers didn't even know the details of the Salt Gang, so they dared to come to their lair to make trouble?" If you are recognized by the people of the Salt Gang, no matter how great your ability is, I am afraid that it will be difficult to defeat them. ”

Zhen Ming nodded bitterly and said, "I don't know much about the salt gang, but I'm not stupid enough to let the other party know who I am." ”

"But you didn't even cover your face."

"They can't see what I look like anymore."

The man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly, and said in a deep voice: "These beasts are indeed innocent, even if you don't kill them, brother, I will definitely come back and kill them all in the future!" ”

"I didn't kill people...... Zhen Ming paused bitterly, "To be honest, I'm enduring nausea now, and I'm going to vomit after a while." ”

The man didn't take Zhen Mingku's words seriously, and didn't seem to believe that anyone would vomit because of a few dead people, and pointed to the women who looked at them with a frightened face and said: "These women are all scavenged from all over the country by the Salt Gang, and are ready to be sent to the major brothels in Luoyang to sell them at a high price, so there will be no danger for them to stay here for the time being, but if they escape, firstly, most of them are young ladies who usually do not leave the boudoir, and secondly, they have no skills, except for selling their appearance, they have no other ability to survive, Even if you escape from the clutches of the Salt Gang, you will be caught by those ruffians in Luoyang and sold to a low-class brothel, and the end will be even more bleak. ”

Zhen Ming was silent for a while.

The man sighed: "Actually, there is no way to do it, if there is chaos today, poor and weak women like them are already lucky to be able to live in peace, even if you want to help, you may not be able to help, without the Salt Gang, there will be other gangs involved, they can't escape the fate of being sold into the Qinglou after all." ”

"Are you going to leave them alone?"

"Why don't you ask them if they'd like to go with you?"

Zhen Mingku, half-convinced, walked up to one of the women and untied the strip of cloth from her mouth.

Sure enough, as the man said, when Zhen Ming asked them if they would like to go with him, they all shook their heads.

When the man saw that he could not bear it, he had to say, "If my brothers really can't bear it, there is a way to save them." ”

Zhen Mingku hurriedly asked, "What way?" ”

"Buy them at a high price, marry them as concubines, let them be your women, and you feed them."

Zhen Mingku was taken aback, and his voice raised an octave: "You're kidding." ”

"Li never jokes."