The System Is One Year Ahead Of Schedule, But It’S Not The End Of The World Yet!

Chapter 96: Weirdos! (5000 words)

"Hong Xingyu, Hong Xingyuan, Hong Xingsheng, these three brothers are interesting. They've gathered the trifecta of vices: gambling, drugs, and prostitution."

It was a dark and stormy night in the city.

Unbeknownst to anyone, the dark clouds above the city began to gather, and as the drizzling rain fell, the number of pedestrians on the streets gradually dwindled.

By this time, it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening.

When Chen Mo emerged from the central area of the city, he could still see many people on the streets. However, as he walked towards the outskirts, the number of pedestrians decreased.

It wasn't until he arrived in the eastern district of the city that the streets became less crowded, but some entertainment establishments were still in operation.

Inside, there were quite a few customers spending money.

Based on Chen Mo's understanding of the situation here, the entertainment industry in this area was controlled by three conglomerates.

They were the Du Yuan Group of the Qing Society, the Zhao Group of the Yellow Robe Society, and the Hong Yun Group of the Hong family.

These three conglomerates almost monopolized the entire entertainment industry in this area.

In order to compete for customers, they had engaged in multiple business competitions.

In addition, the three conglomerates also had collaborations on some construction projects. If one party encountered any problems, the other two would immediately step in to take over.

The competition was quite fierce.

However, since this was the outskirts of the city, the higher-ups didn't pay too much attention. The people under their command were capable, and they could handle things back and forth. There was no need to worry too much.

If the upper echelons of any conglomerate were to intervene and disrupt the balance, it would not be good. A small disturbance could easily turn into a big problem.

So everyone just accepted the status quo.

But after tonight, things would be different.

In the office of a bar owner in the eastern district.

There was a man with a cigar in his mouth, holding a disheveled woman in his arms. His hands were constantly moving, and he looked at the young girl kneeling in front of him with tears streaming down her face, saying, "Little girl, as the saying goes, debts must be repaid. Since you can't pay back the money, I'll have to take your body as collateral. Tell me, how can I recover my losses?"

"I will repay it, but your interest rates are too high. I only borrowed ten thousand from you, and now, after just one month, it has become over twenty thousand. It was already difficult for me to come up with ten thousand, and now I have to repay twelve thousand. I didn't borrow that much in the first place. Please, give me some more time." The young girl named Xiao Yao pleaded.

"More time? Fine, we can calculate the interest according to the old contract, but you must repay it once a month, and each repayment must be no less than ten thousand. By the time another month passes, your interest will increase by twelve thousand, and can you afford that?" The man sneered.

The woman in his arms straightened her clothes and said, "Xiao Yao, we're all classmates. How could I harm you? What's the use of guarding that layer of purity? It's already this era, yet you're still so naive.

If you're willing to sell your virginity, you can clear your debt in an instant. Our boss can even continue to introduce you to this line of work, and you can earn even more. In the future, you won't need to borrow money to buy things. You can buy whatever you want, earn money by yourself, and spend it on yourself. Isn't that much more enjoyable?"

Hearing the woman's words, the young girl named Xiao Yao clearly couldn't accept it.

She always felt that if she took that first step, she wouldn't be able to turn back.

"It's okay, we won't force you into prostitution. It's all up to your own choice. Take your time to consider. Every day that passes, your interest will increase by 400 yuan. We can afford to wait, but we're afraid you can't. If you agree now, you can clear all your debts after today. If you wait a few more days and even if you're willing to sell, if there's no buyer, you won't be able to sell at this price."

The boss put down his cigar, picked up the tea cup next to him filled with goji berries, took a sip, and smiled lightly.

"But... but I already have a boyfriend. I can't do this." Xiao Yao hesitated and struggled, but ultimately shook her head.

"You foolish girl, what kind of useless guy can't even help you repay twelve thousand? Such a person, you still treat him like a treasure? Men like Hong Zong are the reliable men you should be looking for. Even if you only become a mistress to someone like him, we can still live a hundred times better than the girlfriends of those losers. Wake up, will you?"

"No, he has already helped me a lot. Eighty percent of this ten thousand was obtained by him. But he's just a student, he can't come up with that much money. He's been very good to me, and I don't want to hurt him." Xiao Yao cried and shook her head.

Hearing her words, Hong Xingyuan immediately showed a smile. "I didn't expect there to be such a loyal girl in this era. Quite interesting."

At this moment, the woman next to Xiao Yao immediately laughed and said, "You're so loyal to your boyfriend, but do you know if he's equally loyal to you? Silly girl, you're young and inexperienced. You place too much importance on so-called love. When you've suffered enough in life, you'll know that even the most wonderful boyfriend can't provide you with a comfortable life.

"No, I can't betray him," Xiao Yao bit her lip and insisted.

"Xiao Hong, since she is so devoted, you shouldn't force her anymore," Hong Xingyuan smiled and said to the woman named Xiao Hong.

"Alright then, since you are so loyal, we won't force you. Just repay the money, and we'll be even," Xiao Hong looked down at Xiao Yao, who was kneeling on the ground.

When it came to repaying the money, Xiao Yao had nothing to say. It wasn't that she didn't want to repay, but she simply couldn't afford it.

Ten thousand and two thousand yuan was a huge sum for students like them.

At this moment, she hated herself for not being able to see through the woman in front of her. She had mistaken her for a good person and had gradually become consumed by vanity after enjoying a high-consumption lifestyle with her. She couldn't turn back.

But it had to be said that Xiao Hong was quite capable. She deliberately approached girls who had good looks but came from less fortunate backgrounds. She befriended them and started spending money on them for high-consumption activities. Gradually, she cultivated their vanity. When they were already elevated to princess-like figures in front of their classmates, she pretended to encounter temporary difficulties and asked these girls to return the luxury items she had previously bought, claiming that she needed them as collateral. She promised to continue the high-consumption activities once her finances improved.

In order to maintain a steady stream of income, these girls willingly returned the items to Xiao Hong. Without the luxury items to adorn themselves and the luxurious lifestyle they were used to, they suddenly found themselves in a mundane and empty life. They also had to endure the gossip and comments from their classmates about why they suddenly started wearing cheap clothes and why they no longer had luxury items.

Feeling the change in their classmates' eyes from envy and admiration to disdain and suspicion, they couldn't bear it.

So Xiao Hong appeared again as a conscientious consumer loan provider, luring them into taking out loans for consumption.

In this way, one by one, young and beautiful girls were easily trapped by Xiao Hong and brought into Hong Letian's dance hall to act as high-quality princesses, enhancing the quality of the dance hall and driving consumption.

This was just the tip of the iceberg of their actions.

Xiao Yao, who had initially been determined not to betray her boyfriend, gradually began to break down under the relentless assault of interest and money. When she learned that they would go after her boyfriend for the debt, she finally cried and gritted her teeth, saying, "Don't bother him. As long as you promise not to let him know about this, I agree."

Although it wasn't easy to lure these young girls into the trap, each one lured in became a long-term star princess, bringing great profits to the dance hall. The investment in setting the trap and the time spent were worth it.

Seeing another girl with good looks and figure fall into the trap, Hong Xingyuan was clearly satisfied.

"Before you entertain the guests, spend the night with me first. I'll help you develop properly so that the guests can have a good time."

"Don't worry, the boss will keep that part of you. After all, it's very valuable. As for other places, let the boss help you develop properly," Xiao Hong smiled.

"Alright, Xiao Hong, take her to my room first. Remember to clean her up properly, and you too. It's been a while since I've pampered you. Stay tonight as well."

"Okay, boss, we'll wait for you in the room," Xiao Hong said, blowing a kiss to Hong Xingyuan.

Only Xiao Yao, with a blank face and tear stains, was led out of the room by Xiao Hong like a zombie.

"I need to replenish with some raw eggs. Drinking wolfberries alone is not enough."

As he watched Xiao Yao leave, her exquisite figure already stirring up desire in Hong Xingyuan.

But recently, he felt like he had gone too far and that his alter ego wasn't at its peak intensity.

Just as he took another sip of wolfberry water, preparing to replenish himself, suddenly, a figure appeared in the empty room.

"You...!"

Before he could finish his sentence, a cold light flashed and disappeared in an instant. The room door also automatically closed with an anomaly.

As the door closed, the head that was just connected to Hong Xingyuan's neck suddenly tilted and then rolled to the ground.

On the ground, Hong Xingyuan's wide-open eyes were filled with an incredulous expression.

As the head fell to the ground, a fountain of blood sprayed out from the incision, splattering the entire room with red.

The goji berry water on the table also turned into a cup of red tea.

After leaving, Chen Mo glanced at Xiao Yao and Xiao Hong, who hadn't gone far.

Everyone has their own fate, and he didn't bother to intervene, directly turning invisible and leaving.

Anyway, Hong Xingyuan was already dead, and soon his own industry would be swallowed up by the Qing Society and the Yellow Robe Society. The people they had originally deceived and cheated in their loan scams would naturally disperse.

As for what Xiao Yao and Xiao Hong, who had become accustomed to high consumption, would do in the future, that was not something Chen Mo cared about.

Leaving the Hong Le Tian nightclub, Chen Mo immediately turned and headed to the next location.

There were a total of three leaders responsible for the Hong family's branch in this area.

Solving one was not enough.

As Chen Mo arrived at the next area, it was located underground in a billiards room.

Upon entering the basement, one could see a huge underground gambling arena.

This kind of illegal black industry, currently in the Magic City, only the Hong family was secretly involved in.

It's not that the Qing Society's Du Yuan Group and the Yellow Robe Society's Zhao Group, the former two of the Magic City's underground three giants, were particularly innocent.

It's just that their development indicators and goals were different, so their internal policies were different as well.

The Hong family was closely related to the Tang family, and they basically engaged in any money-making industry without caring about the consequences, because they were the facade of the Tang family.

Although the Tang family's surname was Tang, they were actually the legitimate bloodline of the Hong family.

Just like the Cao family and the Xiahou family during the Three Kingdoms period, because the surname was changed midway in one bloodline, they became the two surnames they are now.

In general, their ancestors were actually surnamed Tang, but later, for various reasons, a part of them became part of the Hong family and changed their surname to Hong, successfully inheriting the Hong family.

Since then, the Tang and Hong families have started to develop in the light and the dark, respectively.

The development in the light had to follow the rules everywhere, which naturally slowed down their development, but the Tang family still became one of the top ten industries in the Magic City.

The Hong family had been developing in the dark, not needing to follow so many rules, and they naturally expanded their group rapidly based on how advantageous it was.

However, the Qing Society had established a firmer foothold in the Magic City earlier and had deeper roots, so even if the Hong family developed crazily, they couldn't surpass them.

Because of this, the Hong family had fewer scruples when it came to engaging in some black industries.

But the Qing Society, because it had become a one-man show by Du Renyuan, who had ambitious goals and didn't want the Du Yuan Group to just be a top group in the Magic City, aimed to go global and international.

Naturally, they would gradually steer all the group's projects in a legitimate direction to avoid negative news that would affect the group's plan to establish a reputation abroad.

As for the Yellow Robe Society, since Zhao Tianhao's death and Zhao Yue taking over, it was the same. Don't be fooled by Zhao Yue's retreat from the frontlines; she actually controlled the development direction of the Yellow Robe Society throughout. She and Du Renyuan were similar, both having grand ambitions. She also wanted to make the Zhao Group bigger and stronger, taking into account the related influences.

Many black industries were also shut down under her instructions.

However, although their leader had such ambitions, there would always be people unable to resist the temptation of profitable projects.

But as long as the group's managers were ruthless enough, the people under them would gradually dare not do such things.

Now, the industries within the Du Yuan Group and the Zhao Group were basically clean.

Only a few scattered places were temporarily overlooked by Du Renyuan and Zhao Yue because these not-so-clean places had some good leads that were connected to the actions of the forces in the Imperial Capital, allowing them to follow the trail.

Entering the Hong family's secret underground gambling arena.

Chen Mo walked directly and quickly to the boss's office.

This manager, Hong Fenjia, seemed to be very content and detached.

When Chen Mo put on his X-ray glasses, he saw that Hong Fenjia was actually knocking on a wooden fish and reciting scriptures.

This really confused Chen Mo.

"Boss, Liu Anmin has already owed us five million. He wants to borrow more money to recover his losses. Should we lend him more?"

A voice suddenly came from the intercom on the altar in front of Hong Xingyu.

"As the saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Since Mr. Liu wants us to give him a chance for relief, how can we turn a blind eye? Let's lend him another one million."

"Yes."

"Boss, Miss Yang just lost the two million she withdrew. How should we handle it?"

"The Buddha said that everything has a cause and effect, and debts must be repaid. Since she has debts, send her to my elder brother's place and let her repay the debt by serving customers. When she has repaid enough, she can be released."

"Understood."

Because of the loud chanting of the Buddhist scriptures around him and the conversation with his subordinates, even though the door of the room he was in had been opened and closed once, he didn't notice at all.

After finishing his words, he began to recite his own scriptures again.

"Running a gambling den outside while knocking on a wooden fish inside. Your way of worship is quite creative."

Seeing Hong Xingyu reciting Buddhist scriptures with such devotion, Chen Mo couldn't help but laugh.

He had seen strange people before, but this was the first time he had seen someone like this.

Immersed in his recitation, Hong Xingyu was surprised when he heard the voice behind him.

"Who are you?"

"I am the Buddha. I see that you respect him so much and never leave his side, so he sent me to take you to the Western Paradise to see him," Chen Mo said coldly with a sneer.

As soon as Chen Mo finished speaking, Hong Xingyu immediately realized that something was wrong. He threw the wooden stick in his hand and reached into his pocket, apparently trying to take something out.

However, it was a pity that he was destined not to be able to take out his hand. Chen Mo was much faster than him.

With a flash of cold light, Chen Mo's figure disappeared from the room.

After the door of the room opened and closed again, the headless body of Hong Xingyu suddenly sprayed a splash of blood, splattering on the nearby cushions, wooden fish, altar, and Buddha statue.

This made the already dimly lit room, illuminated only by candlelight, even more eerie.

But compared to his strange behavior of reciting Buddhist scriptures that had nothing to do with reality, it was still lacking in meaning.

As Chen Mo left Hong Xingyu's room, he saw a young woman being carried away by several big men through a special elevator passage.

Presumably, this woman was the so-called Miss Yang from the intercom just now.

Looking at her struggling appearance and the numbness of some people nearby who had lost, as well as the ecstasy of those who had won, Chen Mo finally understood the saying that gambling addicts don't end well.

Ignoring these people, Chen Mo went directly to his final destination.

The industry managed by Hong Xingyu was the most powerful among the three brothers.

However, unlike his two brothers, he didn't have a fixed place of business.

His operations were more scattered.

Dealing with him was much simpler than dealing with his two brothers because he rarely stayed in his own controlled industry, so there weren't as many security forces.

Just go directly to his house and find him.

(End of this chapter)