"No, Boss, I haven’t hidden anything, really..." Di Qizhang struggled.
Her slender figure was no match for Boss Shen, and she was quickly kicked to the ground, where he found a crumpled piece of paper on her.
When he spread the paper, the handwriting was so sloppily scribbled that it was ugly, yet the aning was crystal clear—it was undoubtedly a denunciation letter.
"You little traitor! I feed you well every month, and you dare to report that my goods co from dubious sources? You say I’m skimming your wages?
"I’ll make you write, make you write! Will you write now? Will you?!"
Shen He was fuming with rage, punching and kicking Di Qizhang to the ground, slapping her repeatedly.
"Boss, stop hitting , please, Boss... I know I was wrong, I won’t dare to do it again, rcy, Boss, rcy!"
Di Qizhang was hit so hard she rolled on the ground, her cheeks swelling, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth, cries of pain filling the air, incessant screams.
Xu Shu’s face was beaming with a smile as he stopped Shen He, "Boss Shen, it’s just a helper, why lose your temper."
Shen He paused for a mont, realizing that Xu Shu was incredibly strong and he couldn’t move, so he had no choice but to stop.
In the end, he still nervously said, "Sir, don’t listen to her nonsense. My goods, Shen He’s goods, co from the cleanest sources, with the fairest prices."
Xu Shu nodded, "No problem, let’s take a look first."
"Okay."
Shen He took out the keys and unlocked the heavy iron door.
Creak~
The room was dimly lit and, amidst an ear-grating friction sound, a fetid stench mixed with the sour sll of pickled cabbage burst forth aggressively.
Xu Shu frowned.
However, Boss Shen was all smiles, pulling the switch next to the door on his own, illuminating the light bulbs hung from the ceiling with wires he had installed.
Under the warm, orange glow, the room was cluttered with large and small wine jars, the large ones a ter high and the smaller ones several dozen centiters, all sealed with clay.
Inside the glass jars stacked at the sealed windows, in pairs, the vertical eyes reflected a yellowish light from the lamp, looking eerie and sinister.
What was inside those glass jars were grotesquely deford fetuses.
Human fetuses!
Upon closer inspection, they looked underdeveloped, with disproportionately large heads and small bodies, their two little feet not yet separated, rged together like the tail of a snake, their eyes had transford into the vertical slits of a serpent, their figures twisted.
They looked just like snakes that had been stuffed into the jars.
"Is this the Elevation Pill?" Xu Shu asked hoarsely, covering his nose.
Although he had seen many things big and small, and had heard about folk customs like the "Luck Changing Bead", suddenly seeing such a horrifying scene still directly caused discomfort, an instinctual physical revulsion.
If it hadn’t been Xu Shu—who was worldly-wise—another person seeing this for the first ti would probably vomit for three days straight.
The people from Xinglong Manor actually used these things to feed and strengthen their snake monsters—truly twisted!
Compared to them, Jin Baoshan, who rely forced won into prostitution, was as pure as an unwed maiden... Xu Shu thought with an inner sneer.
Boss Shen, clearly accustod to it, boasted, "Sir, what’s this? It’s just defective goods, the pri stuff is right here!"
He laughed as he patted open the ter-high jar to his right.
Gulp.
With a light sound, as if sothing had surfaced.
Xu Shu glanced at it and saw a small human face erge from the darkness of the jar, opening its mouth towards Xu Shu, emitting a hoarse and bizarre cry, "Wah~"
Xu Shu’s pupils shrank, his facial expression slowly freezing, as he asked in disbelief, "Is this, alive?"
His voice grew hoarse, making it hard for Boss Shen to hear clearly, who thought he was asking about the price and answered, "Look sir, this is a treasure among Elevation Pills, just turned four years old, the best age, it would cost at least a million outside, but for you, this price!"
He held up two fingers, aning seven hundred thousand.
Xu Shu did not respond but looked at the other jars and jars, large and small; after thinking for a while, he said, "I see, so the dead fetuses are put into the transparent glass jars, but you put the living children into these clay-sealed jars?"
Boss Shen proudly declared, "Not necessarily, it depends on how well they were raised from the start, and how much blessing the Snake Mother granted. If the blessing is insufficient and the quality is poor, they can’t be used for Elevation Pill. Such ones, the people of Snake Spirit Villa wouldn’t give a second glance."
"Huh, so that’s how it is."
Xu Shu exhaled deeply.
He finally understood why the two pregnant won he had seen by the roadside carried a faint scent of "corrosion"; they worshipped at the Snake Mother Temple, where they got tainted with the scent of pollution, which, once accumulated to a certain degree, would trigger mutations.
This, much like the strange disease his adoptive father, Zhou Junjie, once had, was sowhat similar: both were the effects of ordinary people’s long-term exposure to pollution on their bodies.
The difference was, his father was like being exposed to toxic gases over a long period, impacting his own health and lifespan.
But here, the ’Snake Mother’ contaminated the fetuses inside the pregnant won, causing them to mutate to a certain extent, but not fully.
—If Xu Shu had witnessed this scene directly, it would have been hard for him to understand to this extent, and he would need to inquire what exactly that "blessing" was.
But now, he was on a quest.
Under the "Heavenly Eye mode" of the Tai Chu Scroll, anything Xu Shu could see with his own eyes and personally touch, none could escape detection!
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