Chapter 2349

Ye Chen and Lang Hongjun were threatened with guns by the other party and were directly taken into one of the brick rooms.

Inside this brick room, there was no furniture at all, only a well-lit sunken staircase.

The two were taken underground by a group of armed bandits with live ammunition, and this place originally had another world hidden within.

The entire underground section was divided into two areas by a corridor; on the left was a prison cell with iron-barred doors, holding seven or eight people, while on the right was tightly covered by a white cloth curtain nearly ten meters long, making it impossible to see what lay behind.

However, the entire underground area was filled with the strong, even irritating smell of disinfectant, and besides that, the sounds of a ventilator and a heart monitor running could be heard.

Ye Chen immediately realized this must be a makeshift operating room.

Moreover, Ye Chen could feel that behind the white cloth curtain, there were two extremely weak patients in deep coma.

At this moment, a middle-aged man with yellowish skin, about fifty years old, came down from the other end of the corridor, walked quickly through it to face everyone, first glanced at Lang Hongjun, then turned to Ye Chen beside him, and asked the young man: "Ah Liang, has this person's identity been verified?"

"Verified." The young man called Ah Liang quickly replied with an eager smile: "Uncle Ma, this kid is just a unlucky bastard who fled from within the country, happened to sit next to this Lang Hongjun on the plane, they chatted all the way, got along well, so he planned to follow Lang Hongjun to Mexico to work as a sailor, and then ended up here."

Uncle Ma nodded slightly, sized up Ye Chen from head to toe, and said with a smile: "You'd better not say, this kid looks strong and healthy, and young too—if he finds a suitable match, he'll definitely fetch a good price."

Saying that, he told Ah Liang: "Let Hadik come down to take a look."

"Okay, Uncle Ma, please wait a moment." Ah Liang responded quickly, then ran off outside.

At this moment, Ye Chen looked at Uncle Ma and pretended to be nervous as he asked: "Who exactly are you? Why did you bring us here?"

Uncle Ma grinned, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, looked at Ye Chen like prey, and said: "Old man heard a saying—some things are better not known too early; knowing too early only brings you trouble, no other use. Just sleep and eat soundly here; what exactly will be done to you, you'll find out in a few days."

After saying that, he turned to Lang Hongjun, smiling: "Your name is Lang Hongjun, right? From now on I'll call you Xiao Lang—sounds more intimate."

Lang Hongjun nervously asked: "You... you are who?"

Uncle Ma smiled: "My surname is Ma, my Chinese name is Ma Kui. The place you're staying now happens to be under my jurisdiction, so you also happen to be under my jurisdiction."

Just then, Ah Liang returned with a dark-skinned Indian man wearing glasses and a white coat, looking like a doctor.

The Indian man stepped forward to face the group and asked in English: "Who is the donor for the day-after-tomorrow surgery?"

Ah Liang beside him quickly pointed at Lang Hongjun and said: "It's him."

The Indian carefully examined Lang Hongjun, nodded, and said: "His condition looks good; for these two days he must maintain a low-sugar diet, eat small meals frequently, and additionally must not take any medication."

Lang Hongjun's face turned deathly pale as he blurted: "What exactly do you want to do?! Are you going to cut out one of my kidneys?!"

Ah Liang gave a hehe smile, coldly saying: "I'd actually love to cut out one of your kidneys, but so far I haven't found a patient whose tissue matches yours successfully; otherwise, we could make two or even three times the profit from one surgery."

Hearing this, Lang Hongjun became even more nervous and quickly asked: "What exactly do you want to do?!"

The Indian doctor looked at Lang Hongjun and said: "For the surgery the day after tomorrow, many things are better not known too early."

Uncle Ma then said to Ah Liang: "Oh right, there's something I haven't had time to tell you yet—a Canadian uremia patient has already matched successfully with Xiao Lang, and they're willing to pay 200,000 USD for one kidney. I quoted him 600,000 USD for two kidneys. For uremia patients, a double kidney transplant opportunity is extremely rare."

Upon hearing this, Ah Liang's face lit up with joy as he blurted: "Did he agree?"

Uncle Ma chuckled: "He said he needs to think about it, but I'm certain he'll agree. If he does, we'll do the surgery together the day after tomorrow."

The Indian doctor Hadik blurted: "Mr. Ma, I originally had three surgeries scheduled the day after tomorrow, and after finishing I still need to return to the US. If we add a double kidney transplant, it might run into the late night..."

Uncle Ma smiled: "No problem, Doctor Hadik—just bear with it a little longer. I'll give you an extra five thousand USD in surgery fees, and after the surgery ends, I'll have Ah Liang take you to the airport."

Hadik heard this, his round, even slightly protruding eyeballs rolled a few times, then he shook his head and said: "Since Mr. Ma has said all this, then I'll just endure a bit more and do one more surgery."

At this moment, Lang Hongjun had vaguely understood the other party's scheme. Originally unaware what they wanted to take from him the day after tomorrow, now they claimed they wanted to perform a double kidney transplant on a matched recipient—if they really took both his kidneys, wouldn't he die?

Thinking this, he trembled with fear and exclaimed: "You're doing such heaven-defying, conscience-less things—aren't you afraid of getting caught?!"

Ah Liang laughed: "What heaven-defying conscience? Killing you is what's conscience-less? You don't know—killing you could at least save two people, maybe even let another see the light again. People say saving one life beats building a seven-story pagoda; we kill one, save two—two minus one equals one—this damn well equals saving a life out of nowhere! Infinite merit, I'm telling you!"

Lang Hongjun trembled all over and blurted: "What exactly do you want to do to me?! "

Ah Liang looked toward Uncle Ma and asked: "Uncle Ma, should we tell him this?"

Uncle Ma looked at Lang Hongjun, gave a cruel smile, and said: "Don't blame me for not telling you—there's a heart disease patient whose tissue matched yours successfully; he's coming to Mexico the day after tomorrow for surgery, planning to take your heart. If the Canadian client also agrees, he'll come too to take both your kidneys. Also, since corneal transplants don't require matching, we might find a patient needing corneal transplant between tonight and tomorrow."

Lang Hongjun was so terrified he went limp on the ground, feeling as if struck by five thunderbolts, not knowing what to do.

At this moment, Ah Liang looked at him, smirking and raising his eyebrows: "Old brother, look at what I said—you're actually very useful!"

Lang Hongjun instantly collapsed, fell to his knees with a thud, and cried while begging: "I beg you, let me go—I have elderly parents and young children waiting for me to support them. If you kill me, my old mother, wife, and child will all be finished..."

Ah Liang laughed: "We went through all that trouble to trick you here—how could we possibly let you go?"

Saying that, he turned his face to Ye Chen and said: "Oh dear, you're also interesting—how should I put it? Oh right, 'If heaven has a way, you don't take it; if hell has no door, you break in.' You say your luck—damn, no one could match it! Hahahaha!"

Ye Chen, however, was not afraid at all this time. He looked at Ah Liang and curiously asked: "What do you plan to do with me?"