After lunch, the two boys went to school, and Wu Ma was cleaning up the dishes, leaving Zhang Fan and Hou Wu to chat.
"Brother, are you really going to work for Prince Reinhardt?" Hou Wu thought for a long time, but still couldn't help but ask this question.
"Yes, we discussed it last night, and my work arrangements have been finalized. Tonight, you'll come with me to check out the place."
"Brother, there's something I'm hesitant to say, but I don't know whether I should or shouldn't." Hou Wu hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped himself.
"Speak up. If you consider me your elder brother, just say what you have to say."
"Brother, actually I think..." Hou Wu mustered his courage, "This Prince Reinhardt is not a good person."
"Oh? Why do you say that?" Zhang Fan looked at Hou Wu with interest, waiting for him to continue.
“Many of the properties in the slums outside belong to Prince Reinhard. Although the owners aren’t Prince Reinhard’s men, they pay ‘protection money’ to the prince’s people every month.” Hou Wu’s mood was somewhat downcast. “I lived there for a long time, so I know very well that the things that make big money in that place are all shady businesses.”
"For example?" Zhang Fan asked calmly.
“They’re involved in everything there—gambling, prostitution, drugs—and people die every day, but nobody cares. The bodies are thrown into the trash can like garbage. At night, it’s a paradise for devils. I never let Xiao Liu and the others go out at night.”
"Brother, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart," Hou Wu said somewhat excitedly, "If someone like Reinhardt inherits the throne, the ordinary people of Ryan will not have a good life."
“I understand.” Zhang Fan smiled. “Monkey, you’re worried that I’ll become an accomplice to evil and a lackey of Reinhardt.”
"Big brother, I know you're not a bad person, I..." Hou Wu blushed and hurriedly explained.
“I understand, you don’t need to explain.” Zhang Fan patted Hou Wu on the shoulder. “This proves I didn’t misjudge you. Don’t you want to know what kind of ‘place’ I work at?”
"Wherever Big Brother goes, the monkey will naturally follow."
“It’s the slums outside Helenburg.” Zhang Fan wiped his mouth with a tissue. “Hey, I suggested it myself. From now on, the slums outside Helenburg will be under the protection of you and me, brothers.”
"Big brother." Hou Wu stared at him in a panic, "The slums have their own rules. The people there won't listen to anyone. Even if Prince Reinhardt's men come, they'll just collect a fee and won't be able to manage the people and things inside."
“I know,” Zhang Fan licked his lips, “but I’ll make them behave tonight.”
That evening, a black sedan stopped in front of the villa. Two men in black got out of the car, carried two heavy wooden crates from the trunk into the living room, placed them there, and drove away without saying a word.
Aunt Wu went upstairs to find Zhang Fan with some trepidation: "Sir, someone brought in two boxes of things. They said they were given to me by Prince Reinhard, so I didn't stop them."
"Looks like what I asked for has arrived." Zhang Fan jumped out of bed and slid down the stair railing to the first floor. "Monkey, it's time to go."
"Where to?" Hou Wu knew they were going to the slums, but the slums were so big that he didn't know which part to go to.
“This…” Zhang Fan pried open the lid of the wooden crate, took out a Desert Eagle, loaded it, and aimed it. He was quite satisfied. “Which place do you think is the darkest and most hidden from the light? Let’s go there first!”
"Do you know how to use it?" Zhang Fan tossed a submachine gun that looked like an AK47 to Hou Wu. "Go change into a looser trench coat, otherwise the stuff won't be able to be hidden."
"I know how to use it." Hou Wu stared wide-eyed as Zhang Fan continued to take things out of the wooden box. "Big brother, what are you doing?"
"Of course, we need to make them obey," Zhang Fan said earnestly.
As dusk settles, the city lights begin to twinkle.
Time is reversed in the slums; most people sleep during the day, and it is at night that they truly wake up.
What comes to mind as the darkest place in a slum?
casino?
A drug den?
A place where prostitution takes place?
Or perhaps it's a place where gangs clash?
Before coming, Zhang Fan thought there would only be a few places, but when Hou Wu led him to the darkest part of the slums...
"Monkey, are you sure you didn't lead us to the wrong place?" Even though Zhang Fan was somewhat prepared, his jaw still dropped in shock. "This is the darkest, most shady place in the slums that you think you've taken us to?"
"Yes, it's hell inside." Hou Wu's face looked somewhat pale. "No, it should be said that it's a place even more terrifying than hell. If it weren't for my elder brother being here, I wouldn't have had the courage to go any closer..."
“This…” Zhang Fan didn’t think Hou Wu was a cowardly person, but seeing that his body was really trembling, he was genuinely scared and terrified.
Zhang Fan turned his head and looked at the sign in front of him with a conflicted expression:
"St. Anne's Orphanage".
Is this place really that scary?
“I was once hired to repair the roof here,” Hou Wu said, his face contorted with pain. “What I saw here often gave me nightmares. I was also ashamed of my own incompetence. I couldn’t do anything, I did nothing…”
"Take your time, I'm here!" Zhang Fan patted his chest and looked Hou Wu straight in the eye. "Don't be afraid! You and I are unstoppable, even if Reinhardt were standing in there, I'd shoot him dead, you believe me?"
Looking into Zhang Fan's resolute eyes, Hou Wu seemed to draw great strength from them and began to recount in detail what he had seen inside.
Zhang Fan remained silent, listening quietly as Hou Wu finished speaking. His face turned grim and menacing, and a murderous aura filled his brows.
"Let's go." Zhang Fan said only one word before leading the way into the orphanage.
Saint Anne's Orphanage is the only orphanage in the slums, founded by an elderly nun named Saint Anne. In addition to this elderly nun, the orphanage has five elderly priests and five other elderly nuns, who care for about one hundred orphans.
People die in the slums every day, and many children become orphans as a result. If they are not taken in by orphanages, they will die.
Orphans enter the orphanage to live and grow up. Some are adopted and go. The number of orphans in the orphanage has remained at around one hundred.
From this perspective, are these clergy members doing good deeds?
Zhang Fan walked into the orphanage. The children were already asleep, and light was shining through the window of one of the rooms.
Looking through the window, you can see a kind-faced old nun in a black robe bathing a little girl in a large basin.
The old nun smiled warmly as she lovingly wiped the little girl's body, while the little girl played happily in the large basin of water.
What a beautiful scene of harmony and family bliss between the young and old.
Bang!
The door to the room was suddenly kicked open, startling the old nun.
Who are you?
"Does she have one?" The person who barged in ignored the old nun and asked another man with a buzz cut.
"Mm." The man with the buzz cut nodded.
"Take the child away first, so the child doesn't see anything."
"What are you trying to do? This is God's place!"
The man with the buzz cut didn't bother with the old nun. He pushed her aside and picked up the little girl from the basin, saying, "Zhuzhu, let's go. Brother Monkey will take you to buy candy."
"How could you demons..."
Bang!
Brain matter splattered, blood stained the basin red, the old nun's eyes widened, she never imagined she would die like this, her hands outstretched in the air as if trying to grasp something, but ultimately grasping nothing...
The man blew away the residual heat from the muzzle of the Desert Eagle.
“We are indeed demons, so tonight we will take you back to hell.”
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