Cheng Xiaoxiao’s speculation was on point. The harlot was one of the members of the restaurants in the brothel street. Coincidentally, she was from Jin Xiu Square, the restaurant where Cheng Xiaoxiao had spent the longest time standing in front of the door.

By the way, the ghost harlot had told her her name—Manley.

Manley had worked in Jin Xiu Square for years. Albeit her young age, she was one of the experienced staff in the restaurant compared with other harlots.

Every month, new girls would be hired by the restaurant. “Old” harlots like Manley could only rely on returning customers to sustain their business. The arrival of the new girls would dwindle Manley’s business significantly.

At that time, Manley was very anxious, but she didn’t know what to do to improve the situation.

Until one day before the opening hour, Manley was called into the room by the pimp. As soon as she entered the door, she was put in a sack. From then on, Manley began a long and dark life.

The more Cheng Xiaoxiao listened, the more shocked she became. Goosebumps were all over her body. She wanted Manley to stop so that she could catch her breath for a while, but she could not help but want to continue listening to her story.

“They brought me to a sealed room, and then forced me to drink a big bowl of colorless and odorless liquid like water. I was dizzy the whole day.”

Manley obviously did not want to recall those painful days. Tears pooled up in her big sparkly eyes.

“I wouldn’t have minded if I had been unconscious all the time, but no. Those people would torture me with all kinds of instruments every day. Not only me, but also them…”

“Wait, t-them?!”

Cheng Xiaoxiao rubbed the goosebumps on her arms and asked in confusion.

“Yes, them. I was not the only one in that room. There were also many harlots who dressed like me. Some of them were the new girls I met in Jin Xiu Square,” Manley nodded at Cheng Xiaoxiao and explained.

“They also locked the new girls up? I thought…”

Cheng Xiaoxiao wanted to say that she thought the pimps would only send away old harlots like Manley, who was not popular among the customers. On second thought, she might hurt her feelings by saying so, so Cheng Xiaoxiao stopped speaking halfway.

Despite that, Manley knew what Cheng Xiaoxiao was going to say and shook her head indifferently.

“I saw the madam scolded those new girls a few days ago. Madam said that these new girls did not understand the rules of the restaurant and were stubborn. I figured that they were disobedient, so they…”

At this point, Manley frowned again, seemingly unable to continue speaking.

After she calmed down for a while, she cleared her throat and continued,

“I only found out about this after I regained consciousness from the serious beating. As for the rest, I saw them after I died.”

“Is there anything else?”

Just these things made it hard for Cheng Xiaoxiao to digest and accept. The dark room, the endless abuse…

Just listening to Manley’s description, Cheng Xiaoxiao felt that she could not imagine that kind of life. Unexpectedly, Manley’s story was not over yet.

“One day, I was beaten until I stopped breathing. After the chaos, I found that I had become a ghost.”

Manley took a deep breath and tried her best to hold back the tears in her eyes.

“Only after I became a ghost did I know that they would wrap us up layer by layer with cloths every time they beat us up. Then, these clothes would be put into a wooden barrel.”

“What? Cloth and wooden barrels? What kind of strange abuse method is this?”

Cheng Xiaoxiao found it hard to understand. All she could think of at the moment was that these were the perverted torture methods of those sadists.

“They seem to want to preserve the blood and sweat that flowed out of our bodies. Not long after I died, they changed their ways.”

Manley tried her best to recall. She had been rubbing her hands continuously, trying to comfort herself and calm down.

“I saw them use utensils to collect the blood and sweat from the other women.”

Manley had been holding back her tears, but her voice was already shaking.

“However, I don’t know what they want to do with those blood and sweat. I didn’t want to stay in that room anymore, so I drifted out.”

Manley knew that only by telling Cheng Xiaoxiao everything she knew could Cheng Xiaoxiao help her faster.

Therefore, even though she was very reluctant to recall those memories, she told Cheng Xiaoxiao everything in detail.

“Can you help me save the girls? There are still many harlots who have not been tortured to death, but they will not live for long, so we must hurry up.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao had already gasped several times. She was standing in front of Manley at first. As she received more and more information from Manley, Cheng Xiaoxiao had already paced the end of the alley several times.

When she heard Manley’s request, Cheng Xiaoxiao immediately stopped. She stood there and quickly turned around to seriously promise Manley, “Yes! Let’s save them! I will definitely help you save them. Not only do we have to save them, but we will also go now!”

Cheng Xiaoxiao was not only feeling the rage burning inside her, but more importantly, she also wanted to save those harlots.

Cheng Xiaoxiao did not make this decision out of impulsion. She knew that the people who captured so many harlots must be someone extraordinary, and she was just a weak woman who could rely on the jade pendant to collect ghosts.

Cheng Xiaoxiao couldn’t do it, but it didn’t mean that Chu Yunshen couldn’t!

She was not dumb enough to barge into the sadists’ place on her own.

But she could go ahead and spy on the situation first, right?

Cheng Xiaoxiao had already thought of her plan well. Tonight, she would go to the place which Manley mentioned and check the perimeters and situation first. It would do no harm to know your enemies and their capabilities first.

After that, she would take Manley with her and quickly go back to inform Chu Yunshen. If they acted quick enough, they would be able to arrest those sadists tonight. This efficiency was so fast and effective!

Also, Manley’s statement reminded Cheng Xiaoxiao of something that she wanted to know.

“Manley, have you been very quiet when you were locked up?”

Cheng Xiaoxiao was just a little skeptical and wasn’t sure about her speculation because Manley said that they were unconscious most of the time.

“No, we would scream and shout when we were beaten up hard, which was when we were conscious,”

Manley answered earnestly although she did not understand why Cheng Xiaoxiao asked her this.

This time, Cheng Xiaoxiao was sure that the place where Manley was locked up was very close to the yard of the supplier that He Lulu had mentioned before.

It seemed that there was an unexpected harvest!

This was probably the only thing that Cheng Xiaoxiao felt happy about tonight. It was also the only part of Manley’s statement that made her feel gratified.

Cheng Xiaoxiao still remembered what He Lulu had said in the warehouse. She had carefully memorized the detail although He Lulu had only mentioned it briefly.

He Lulu had told Chu Yunshen that he had heard women crying and screaming when he was at the supplier’s courtyard.

After hearing Manley’s words, Cheng Xiaoxiao had a bold idea.

Could it be that the supplier who sold the powder lived near the sadistic killer?

She could kill two birds with one stone this time!

At the thought of this, Cheng Xiaoxiao did not want to waste any more time. She hurriedly urged Manley to lead the way, while she followed close behind, hoping that they would arrive at the place Manley mentioned as soon as possible.

Manley was equally anxious. She had passed away for some time now and couldn’t do anything but cry in the alley all day long. She wasn’t clear about what was going on in the room, let alone the latest situation of those harlots.

It was not that Manley had not thought of staying in the room. It was just that the atmosphere in the room had always been very oppressive, and there was nothing she could do but watch those girls in misery.

Moreover, she would become even more delirious when she stayed there for a long time, and her ghost power was extremely unstable. Sometimes, she would even go berserk with hatred and release a large amount of ghost aura in the room, causing the harlots to feel worse than they already were.

Because of this, Manley did not want to stay there for long. Only then did she begin her wandering ghost life. Until today, she finally met Cheng Xiaoxiao who could help her.

Cheng Xiaoxiao listened to Manley illustrating the situation while rushing to the aforementioned room. Cheng Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but feel gratified and glad.

If she hadn’t sneaked out tonight and followed the two men to the brothel street, she wouldn’t have met Manley and known about the new progress of Datura powder ahead of Chu Yunshen.

“This is it.”

Manley walked into the other alley in the brothel street and went on for a long while before stopping at the door of a courtyard.

The door was narrow and small, which did not seem to match the spacious courtyard.

Was this the back door?

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at the old wooden door and looked around the courtyard and its surrounding.

Sure enough, she had come to a different world. Cheng Xiaoxiao had been silently memorizing their route as Manley took her into another alley.

This alley was right next to the wall of the shop opposite the shop with the notice, and it was parallel to the alley where she met Manley.

However, the alley that Cheng Xiaoxiao and Mary walked into was deeper and narrower. Cheng Xiaoxiao remembered that they took three turns before arriving at this courtyard.

Alright, when she got back, she must tell Chu Yunshen about the three turns and ask if He Lulu had also walked this path.

Cheng Xiaoxiao continued to look around while thinking about her plan.

It was not until Manley called out to her a few times and finally floated to her to call her did Cheng Xiaoxiao come to her senses.

“Huh? What’s wrong?”

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at Manley in front of her in confusion.

“What? Say something. Why are you only mouthing words?” Cheng Xiaoxiao did not understand what Manley meant. Manley did not speak at all. She only winked at her as if her eyes had cramped and she silently said something.

“Be… hind?”

Cheng Xiaoxiao tried hard to mimic the shape of her mouth and finally understood what she meant.

As she looked back, she wanted to grunt in annoyance. However, before she could say anything, she screamed instead.

“Ah!”

After Cheng Xiaoxiao turned back, she opened her eyes wide in bewilderment. A man with an ambiguous smile suddenly appeared at the empty entrance of the courtyard.