The Shelter in the Villa District
"Bro! Don't tell him! If this devil finds our shelter, everyone inside is dead!" The silver-haired girl beside him screamed in a trembling voice.
Xiao Yi said nothing, lashing the whip viciously across the silver-haired girl's body.
Pa! Pa! Pa! The sting of the salt-coated iron whip on flesh was pure bliss for Xiao Yi.
"Ah!!!!!" The silver-haired girl unleashed a heart-wrenching wail.
She endured unspeakable agony, both mental and physical.
But the girl had surprising backbone. Gritting her teeth, she snarled through clenched jaws: "Kill me! Even if you torture us to death, we won't tell you shit!!"
Xiao Yi grinned, turning to Ma Chenbin, who had pissed himself yet again. "Is this beauty telling the truth, oh great leader of the human survivors?"
Ma Chenbin's eyes bulged in terror as he stared at Xiao Yi, croaking hoarsely: "I'll talk! I'll tell you everything! Just don't hit me!"
"Bro!! What the hell are you saying?! If you let this demon know about our shelter, Mom and Dad are in danger!! This monster won't spare anyone! Are you insane?!"
The silver-haired girl bellowed furiously at Ma Chenbin: "You trying to get Mom, Dad, and everyone killed?!"
Xiao Yi grinned wider, snatching a branding iron from the nearby brazier and pressing it lightly against the girl's snow-white skin.
Sizzle~~~~ Her piercing scream ripped through the air, instantly filling it with the aroma of roasting meat.
Who would've thought this punk-looking girl had such a strong sense of justice.
"You two siblings? Blood-related?" Xiao Yi sauntered over to Ma Chenbin, grabbing another branding iron and eyeing the quivering man up and down, hunting for the perfect spot.
His gaze finally locked on the most vital spot any man possessed.
A chill ran through Ma Chenbin at that stare. He screamed desperately: "Yes!! Yes!! I'll confess everything! I'll spill it all!! We're blood siblings!! My little sister's Ma Beili!! My dad's Ma Gang!!"
Fearing even a second's delay would earn him the same treatment, Ma Chenbin blurted it all out like spilling beans: "Please don't press that thing on me! I'll tell you everything! Everything!"
"Ma Gang?" Xiao Yi furrowed his brow slightly. This name rings a bell, he muttered to himself, drawing a blank for the moment.
"Jiang City Police Bureau!" Ma Chenbin blurted in frantic reminder.
Then it clicked for Xiao Yi.
"Heh heh! Kid, you've got some pull! No wonder you've got all these guns, ammo, and goons." Xiao Yi slapped Ma Chenbin's ashen face. "Now spill on this shelter of yours!"
"Our shelter's in Bai He New City! Few hundred survivors left—mostly original residents, plus a handful from our Crown Prince Gang." Ma Chenbin laid it all out.
"Bai He New City?" Xiao Yi's eyes gleamed. "Jiang City's one and only golf villa district?"
He had a vague memory of Jiang City's Bai He New City Villa District.
What made it a golf villa district?
Vast sprawling grounds! Lush greenery, mountains, rivers—scenery straight out of a resort.
Villas clocking in at over 400 square meters each, dripping with opulent design!
Security tighter than a drum!
No outsider got in without clearance.
And that was just the start—high outer walls ringed the whole place, but every single villa had its own private fence!
Like a bunch of personal estates!
Prices? Outrageously steep!
Over 90,000 RMB per square meter!
Starting bid!
Put it this way: even the shittiest, cheapest villa here ran over 40 million!
Xiao Yi had crunched the numbers once. An average wage slave? They'd have to slave away nonstop—no eating, no spending—for 400 to 500 years to afford the cheapest one!
Of course, with Ma Chenbin's pedigree, snagging a prime villa was a breeze.
So the folks living here? All filthy rich or connected nobility!
Regular schmucks couldn't touch it!
"Yeah... Folks call it Jiang City's sole golf villa district... Sparse residents, ironclad security, individual fences per house, and all the drinking water's specially purified. When doomsday hit, Bai He New City turned into a goddamn paradise." Ma Chenbin spilled every detail, terrified of pissing off Xiao Yi and earning a few hot brands of his own.