Chapter 312: Arrest! 'Creator's Game!

Chapter 312: Chapter 173: Arrest! ‘Creator’s Game!

“However, based on its overall appearance, it seems to be a knockoff of a Desert Eagle. The bullets inside are crude, and there’s a risk of the chamber exploding.”

“Is this what you seized from the monkey?”

Xu Huo nodded.

Zhou Hou had a gun.

The gun wasn’t for him to use, but for the monkey. The monkey wasn’t blind; its eyes were perfectly fine. It’s unclear how he trained it, but the monkey could actually aim and fire.

Of course, Xu Huo wasn’t curious about this.

He looked up at Li Jianye.

“Have you heard anything about a place called ‘Celestial Kingdom’?”

“Celestial Kingdom?”

Zhang Liang paused, thought for a moment, then shook his head.

“Never heard of it. The Special Fifth Bureau hasn’t found anything related to it.”

“Zhou Hou and the others escaped from ‘Celestial Kingdom’,” Xu Huo said.

“Where is it located?”

“They don’t know. Everyone there was blind. They have no idea if the place is on an island, along the coast, or on a mountaintop.”

A troubled expression appeared on Zhang Liang’s face.

Celestial Kingdom…

‘The name of a villa?’

‘I hope so.’

Just as the two were pondering where this place could be and who it was providing services for…

The next second, Li Jianye’s voice rang out.

“He can’t swim anymore.”

Li Jianye suddenly spoke, his gaze falling on Zhou Hou. The two men behind him instinctively looked over.

They saw Zhou Hou’s speed slowing, until he was panting heavily, a look of utter exhaustion washing over him.

Xu Huo paused, then jumped into the sea.

“I’ll go get him!”

…

…

January 5th.

8:00 AM.

Jiangsan City, at the Criminal Investigation Division.

“You’re saying… she’s a prostitute?”

In the courtyard of the Municipal Bureau, Chu Linhai and Li Jianye stared at one of the… things, their faces a mask of stunned silence, their eyes glazed.

“Based on the bodily fluids and footprints from the scene, it was her.”

“Yes, we also conducted a physical examination and found several sexually transmitted diseases. Unsurprisingly, she is the prostitute involved in this case.”

Xu Huo slowly nodded.

Now, it wasn’t just Chu Linhai. Even Zhang Liang and Zhao Gang from the Special Fifth Bureau couldn’t stop the corners of their eyes from twitching.

What were they seeing?

A gorilla.

Or rather… a baboon?

No, to be more precise, a woman who had undergone atavism.

This woman was covered in long, baboon-like hair, and her face was deformed. Combined with the hair, she looked no different from a baboon.

She was currently being loaded into a police car by officers, ready to be taken to the hospital for treatment.

*PLINK.*

A cigarette butt fell to the ground.

Li Jianye snapped back to his senses and quickly picked the cigarette up.

“People actually paid for *her*!?”

This wasn’t about lookism.

But, on the surface, there was no difference between the woman and a baboon. The biggest differences were that she had to wear clothes and her eyes were black.

This was also why Wang Chao had thought the criminal gang included a baboon or a gorilla.

As for…

‘Would someone really be into a baboon?’

Case in point.

In Xu Huo’s past life, back in 2012, a small nation with a tropical rainforest announced a case.

The case was one of prostitution, and its announcement caused a huge uproar that shocked everyone.

Why would a prostitution case cause such a stir?

Because the victim’s name was Boni.

It had another name.

In biology, it was known as a red-haired baboon.

That’s right, the one being sold for sex was a red-haired baboon named Boni. It had been captured, had its hair shaved off day after day, was caked in heavy makeup, and then dressed in stockings and other items to be prostituted.

And how were sales?

It was a top seller!

It attracted crowds of people, who claimed it felt better than being with their own kind.

Sometimes, you just never know where the line is for human kinks. Even lizards and motorcycle exhaust pipes have their fans.

“My head’s a mess. I need to calm down.”

Zhang Liang was flabbergasted. He took a deep breath to calm himself.

“Boss, I’ve been severely mentally traumatized…”

Zhao Gang’s face was a mask of pain. He suddenly felt that a hail of bullets seemed gentler in comparison to this.

“I really need to file for worker’s comp…”

“Cut it out.”

Xu Huo checked the time, then turned and walked towards the interrogation room.

“Zhou Hou is in the interrogation room.”

With that, he walked ahead. Li Jianye and Zhang Liang hurried to follow.

Inside the interrogation room.

Several police officers stood in the corner without saying a word.

Zhou Hou was seated at the interrogation table. He stared up at the ceiling, as if he was seeing something, yet seeing nothing at all.

The atmosphere was dead silent, without a single sound, until…

CREAK…

The iron door swung open.

Xu Huo appeared and took a seat on a chair.

CLICK.

Li Jianye uncapped the pen for taking notes.

“Start talking. Where is Celestial Kingdom?”

Xu Huo asked, as was routine.

Zhou Hou didn’t speak. His eyes were open, but it was as if he were asleep.

Seeing this, Xu Huo spoke again. “You should know perfectly well that even if you really made it there, you’d just be going to your death.”

“But the police can catch them and send them to the execution grounds.”

“If you don’t cooperate, you’re just covering for them. You need to understand that.”

After he said this, the other man still didn’t speak.

Xu Huo wasn’t in a hurry.

A moment later…

“I don’t know.”

“The place where those people are is called Celestial Kingdom. I don’t know where it is, but it’s very, very big…”

Zhou Hou said.

“Did they speak the Eastern Country’s language or a Western language?”

“Both. They spoke both.”

“Did you ever see the abducted children? Why did they abduct them?”

Xu Huo slowly asked.

Hearing this, Zhou Hou paused, a sinister smile spreading across his face.

“I never saw them. I only know that they wanted to extract some kind of substance from the children.”