Chapter 2017: Scrutiny

The people at the entrance were manning guns, checking passes one by one; if you didn't have a pass, not only would they not let you in, they would take you away directly.

"Huaxia person?" A man holding a gun looked at the pass Chen Yu handed over; he didn't take it, but instead looked at Chen Yu with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Yes, is there a problem?" Chen Yu asked.

"No problem, Huaxia people are rarely seen here." The man sneered, took the pass from Chen Yu's hand, flipped through it carefully, and after confirming there were no issues, tossed the item in his hand to Chen Yu: "Go on in."

When Xueli's pass was checked, it was relatively much simpler; the man checked it once and let her in.

"This is a bit strange," Chen Yu said. "The City Lord here is a Huaxia person; logically speaking, the Huaxia people here should receive preferential treatment. Why are they so wary of me instead?"

"I heard that the City Lord here was originally supposed to be a foreigner, and here in the Western World, their people are very xenophobic," Xueli said. "After the current City Lord arrived, he defeated the previous City Lord and then ruled this place."

"At the time, quite a few people were unconvinced and expressed that they wanted to challenge the City Lord for his position, but since the City Lord is a Level 5 Powerhouse, these people were defeated without exception, and he also killed a group of people with bloody methods; since then, things have been considered settled."

"Understood. These people are dissatisfied that the ruler is an Easterner, but they are powerless to resist, so they are very exclusionary toward Easterners, right?" Chen Yu said.

"Right, that's exactly it," Xueli nodded and said. "So when they see your Eastern face, their first reaction is whether you are a Huaxia person; if you are, they will interrogate you strictly. This is a form of invisible resistance."

"These people are really boring enough," Chen Yu smiled slightly and said. "The one ruling them is the City Lord; if they had even a shred of backbone, they would rise up and resist, instead of venting their anger on innocent passersby."

"Uh... actually, I think you don't seem that helpless either," Xueli said cautiously. "You came here, and you do indeed have a purpose."

"Haha, don't expose me," Chen Yu said with a straight face.

The two chatted as they walked, and soon they arrived at the auction house, and by this time the auction had already begun.

Upon coming into contact with the auction here, Chen Yu could not help but be slightly startled.

What was being auctioned in this place was not just rare treasures, but all sorts of miscellaneous things.

What shocked Chen Yu was that this place actually had live people having their organs harvested.

A black man was seen tied to the stage, his various physical indicators all marked out, and what they were auctioning was that black man's vital heart.

The starting price was five million, and after several rounds of bidding, this heart was bought by a buyer.

And after the organ was bought, someone took out a knife on the spot, familiarly inserted the knife into this person's heart area, and with a few practiced movements, took the heart out.

Someone on the side held a freezer, packed the heart inside it, and then carried it away from here.

The entire process was very bloody; Chen Yu couldn't help but knit his brows tightly.

"What are they auctioning the heart for? Shouldn't it need a successful match to be transplanted?" Xueli couldn't help but ask.

"Perhaps, they aren't using it for transplanting." Chen Yu looked at the buyer who had auctioned the heart; he was a white-haired, elderly man, and he left satisfied, carrying the organ in his hand.

And his hand was slightly trembling; this was not an illness, but a kind of autonomous physical rejection reaction.

"What do you mean?" Xueli was slightly stunned, not understanding what Chen Yu meant.

"He is using it to eat." Chen Yu's brows were slightly locked, his expression changing slightly.

"Eat?" A look of shock appeared on Xueli's face; she looked at the old man, and saw that the old man had a kind expression, looking just like a benevolent and amiable old man.

She couldn't connect this old man with that Heart-Eating Demon no matter what; after all, judging solely by his appearance, this old man looked just like a ninja.

"Right, do you feel it's very incredible?" Chen Yu said. "Judging from his appearance, doesn't this old man look just like a ninja?"

"Yes, I can't connect him with the legendary Heart-Eating Demon no matter what." Xueli slowly shook her head; she was truly a bit shocked.

"One cannot judge a person by their Appearance, especially the human heart, which is separated by the belly; you never know what kind of malicious heart is wrapped under that belly," Chen Yu said.

"How did you see it?" Xueli steadied herself and asked.

Chen Yu had just arrived here and didn't know that old man; how did he see at a glance that this old man was a Heart-Eating Demon?

"Look at his hand, is it trembling a bit?" Chen Yu pointed to the old man who had already walked to the back.

"I noticed that, but what does that prove?" Xueli still asked with a look of confusion.

"People who eat human flesh often will have trembling hands," Chen Yu said. "Don't look at this guy's charitable appearance; he is an unforgivable Heart-Eating Demon."

Xueli looked at the old man, then sighed slightly: "Hell is empty, the demons are actually all in the human world."

"Have you ever thought that, actually, the human world we are in is the true Hell? And those wandering in the human world are the true evil ghosts?"

Xueli was shocked; a world like Hell suddenly appeared before her eyes, filled everywhere with slaughter and death.

And this place was not Hell, but the human world she was in; everything before her eyes gave one an inexplicable terror.

She suddenly raised her head and took a few steps back, sweat pouring down her forehead; everything happening before her eyes made her feel very terrified.

"Is this... the true appearance of the human world?" Xueli murmured.

"Whether the human world is like this depends on people," Chen Yu said. "Deep in everyone's heart, there exists a Demon."

"If this Demon breaks free from your good intentions, then he will turn into a devil; if everyone cannot control this Demon deep in their hearts, then this world will turn into Hell."

"Tell me, is the world we are in Hell, or the human world?"

Chen Yu's words gave Xueli much food for thought; she raised her head: "Don't worry, the world we are in must be Heaven."

"I dare not hope for Heaven," Chen Yu said with a smile. "Just pray that it is like the human world."

Next, it was the second auction item.

And this time, what was being auctioned was a young girl; this girl was of mixed heritage, and her eyes were very beautiful.

She stood on the stage, naked, being forced by people to walk back and forth on the stage, and her eyes were filled with helplessness; she was shedding tears as she walked back and forth on the stage.

The starting price, ten million US dollars.