"What’s The Matriarch anyway?" Yang Yu sneered disdainfully, "If you knew how he begged for mercy and tried to buy his life on the cruise ship, you’d understand that he’s just a paper tiger. If it weren’t for my concern about making enemies throughout the Southern Ocean, I would have ended him with a dagger right then and there!"
"You’re just bragging!" Although Oda Sakura regarded Yang Yu as strong, she still felt there was an exaggeration in his story.
After all, The Matriarch was considered the supreme ruler of the Southern Ocean. How could Yang Yu have caused him such distress?
"Believe it or not, it’s up to you!" Yang Yu shrugged indifferently, "If he knew I was here, he definitely wouldn’t be able to sleep at night, haha!"
After breakfast, Yang Yu arrived at the hotel entrance, where the taxi driver Mamba was already waiting for them.
Mamba was sitting next to a young Southern Ocean woman, not bad-looking, but with darker skin typical of seaside girls.
"Mr. Yang, this is my sister, Yiyan," Mamba introduced his sister, and Yiyan turned around to greet them, "Hello Mr. Yang, Miss Ye, and this is..."
"She’s also my friend, a Japanese, with the surname Oda." Yang Yu introduced Oda Sakura, and both Mamba and Yiyan greeted her, "Miss Oda, hello."
"Let’s go," Yang Yu smiled, "Take us out for some fun. Just make sure we get back to the hotel by eleven tonight."
"Okay, Mr. Yang," Mamba started the car, "Let’s go to our first stop, the Strange Hall of the Southern Ocean!"
"Strange Hall of the Southern Ocean?" Oda Sakura was curious, "I’ve never heard of such a tourist spot in the Southern Ocean."
"That’s right," Mamba said, "Mr. Yang messaged last night saying ordinary spots aren’t fun. He wants to go to some thrilling places not listed online, so I chose this Strange Hall."
"The hall features performances by various bizarre animals and all sorts of strange people," Mamba explained. "Like a chicken with four legs, a man sealed in a jar..."
Oda Sakura’s face immediately turned pale, but she understood Yang Yu’s purpose and said nothing more.
Yang Yu visited such places mostly to check if there were any "piglet" transactions; if there were, one might find missing people.
The fates of the missing were mostly grim: black market organs, tool for earning money in brothels, or performers in these Strange Halls.
Yang Yu looking for clues in such places was absolutely the right direction.
Shortly, the car reached a company building in the city center. When Mamba entered the underground garage, he spoke a few words in the local language with the guard at the entrance, then turned to Yang Yu and said, "Mr. Yang, tickets are one hundred US Dollars each. Yiyan and I won’t go in; just give me three hundred US Dollars to buy the gate access cards."
"Let’s all go in together, we won’t mind the extra two hundred," Yang Yu smiled as he took out five hundred US Dollars. "If we encounter any misunderstandings inside with the locals, it’ll be good for you to be there to translate for us."
"Okay," Mamba no longer refused and handed the guard five hundred US Dollars.
The guard gave them five gate access cards, and Mamba then drove the car into the underground parking garage.
After getting out of the car, led by Mamba, they approached a wall in the underground garage, "Mr. Yang, swipe the card on that sensor. One person at a time, you go in first."
"Alright," Yang Yu swiped his card, and the wall actually moved to the sides, revealing a small door just big enough for an adult to enter.
After Yang Yu entered, the small door on the wall closed again.
The other four each swiped their cards to enter through the small door, with Oda Sakura being the last one to come in.
Looking at the bustling scene inside, Oda Sakura was extremely shocked.
She hadn’t expected that beneath a normal company building, there would be such a large-scale Strange Hall hidden away!
The venue was designed in a circular layout, and at a glance, it was densely packed with people, with at least tens of thousands of visitors!
One hundred US dollars per visitor, the performance at this Strange Hall was generating millions of dollars in revenue—it was truly a gold mine!
A male waiter came over and greeted them in English, "Respected guests, the show is about to start, please take your seats quickly. You can sit in any seat that is unoccupied."
"Okay," Yang Yu nodded, and the five of them took the nearest empty seats.
Sitting next to them was a young couple from Europe, and the young woman said to her boyfriend, "Simon, I heard they have four-legged chickens here!"
Before her boyfriend could respond, someone immediately said, "Four-legged chickens are outdated now. We came here today to see a person with four hands and four legs."
The woman covered her mouth, exclaimed in surprise, "A person with four hands and four legs? No way! Is there really such a monster?"
"You’ll see for yourself soon," the person replied. "I’m telling you, it gives me goosebumps all over, but I just couldn’t help coming to see it again."
Listening to their conversation, Yang Yu immediately thought of Cassidy and the Kesdel Company laboratory she had mentioned.
If such creatures really existed, they were definitely created by that evil company.
He simply could not understand why the owner of that company would want to research such anti-human things. What exactly did that owner want to do?
So far, Yang Yu did not know that the owner of Kesdel Company was Mrs. Ryde, the leader of Angel’s Wings, Eliza.
If he had known, he would have killed her without hesitation.
Such anti-human research should not exist in this world at all. Whoever is behind it is an enemy of all mankind and deserves to be condemned by everyone!
As a child, Yang Yu had watched an anime called "Fullmetal Alchemist," which featured a scene where alchemy was used to fuse a little girl with her pet dog, creating a talking dog monster with a girl’s voice.
That scene had always been a dark shadow from Yang Yu’s childhood, and he thought it was only in comics that such crazed individuals existed.
But he never really thought that someone would actually do it!
A beautiful hostess walked up to the stage and smiled as she greeted the audience in English, "Hello, visitors. Our Strange Hall’s morning show will begin shortly, please remain quiet and watch respectfully."
"Also, no photography is allowed here. If anyone pulls out a phone, don’t blame us for being rude."
While the hostess spoke, several pictures of severed hands holding phones appeared on the screen behind her: "This is our bottom line. Anyone caught taking photos will end up . We hope everyone takes this as a warning. If this frightens anyone, we truly apologize."
"Without further ado, the show now begins."