Chapter 97: Digging a Huge Pit for the Male Lead, Han Guoqiang

One of the burly men lunged first.

He raised the iron rod in his hand and brought it crashing down toward her with savage force.

Lin Xiaodou twisted aside at once, narrowly avoiding the blow.

Her left hand caught the rod, and her right fist struck hard at the man’s chest.

With a thunderous impact, he was sent flying, slamming into the wall and leaving a huge hole in it.

The whole thing happened so fast it was almost unbelievable.

Everyone else there stared at Lin Xiaodou in stunned silence.

They had thought she was just a weak, delicate pretty boy, but it turned out she had real skill.

“Brothers, all of us together!”

At the leader’s command, everyone rushed forward.

Lin Xiaodou unleashed a spinning kick.

One kick, one man.

She sent them all flying with ruthless efficiency.

This time she had only used half her strength, but it was still enough to be lethal.

Every one of them had broken ribs, was coughing up blood, and lay unable to rise.

They writhed on the ground with their last breath, clinging to life by a thread.

Lin Xiaodou picked up an iron rod from the floor.

Under the terrified eyes of the crowd,

one after another, she crippled them all beyond redemption.

Screams tore through the cellar.

Some of the scum could not endure it and died on the spot.

Others passed out cold.

Inside the little room, the women who had been hiding there felt despair give way to ecstatic joy.

They had heard everything that had happened just now.

Someone had come looking for trouble.

Whether she had come to rescue them or not,

killing those beasts had already avenged them.

Soon, the commotion in the cellar drew the attention of those above.

Apart from the burly man guarding the front gate, every other thug rushed down.

When they saw their brothers sprawled across the floor, everyone flew into a rage.

They surged forward together, ready to seize Lin Xiaodou.

And then... there was no then.

They all ended up on the floor like the ones before them, their fate unknown.

Lin Xiaodou found the key and released all ten-odd women from the little room.

They all looked quite young, around twenty years old.

“Thank you... thank you... comrade...”

After thanking Lin Xiaodou again and again, they still could not believe they had truly been let out.

Only when they saw the burly men strewn across the room did one woman finally break down, covering her face and crying her heart out.

It was as though a switch had been flipped.

One person cried, and the others seemed infected by it, all of them collapsing into helpless sobs.

They wept with such force, shaking with anguish, as if they meant to pour out every last bit of suffering they had endured.

Lin Xiaodou did not interrupt them. She went upstairs at once and dragged down the guard at the courtyard gate, the burly man called Meng Ge.

Seeing his blood-soaked brothers lying on the ground, and then the women crying their hearts out, there was nothing Meng Ge did not understand.

He dropped to his knees with a thud and began begging Lin Xiaodou for mercy.

“Big brother, please spare me. I haven’t done anything wicked.

I’ve got two children at home and an old mother bedridden with illness. I only came here to earn a living and support my family. Please, let me go!!”

Lin Xiaodou did not believe a word of it.

Could a man who worked with a gang drenched in blood and evil have clean hands?

Sure enough, no sooner had he finished begging than a woman rushed over from the side.

Her hair was disheveled, her eyes fixed on him with searing hatred as she shouted,

“You liar! It was you who forced me back then! And you still say you did nothing wrong? You’re nothing but a beast worse than pigs and dogs!”

Meng Ge’s face turned white. He was just about to scramble up and run when Lin Xiaodou kicked him straight in the pit of the stomach.

He was knocked flat at once, and no matter how he struggled, he could not get back up.

Lin Xiaodou picked up an iron rod from the ground and looked at the woman.

“Want revenge? The chance is right in front of you.”

“Yes!”

Without the slightest hesitation, the woman took the rod from her hands.

Then she swung it down on Meng Ge’s head.

He let out a scream as blood gushed from his skull.

Before he could even recover, the iron rod came crashing down again.

The woman had gone mad, beating him with all her strength.

Meng Ge clutched his head and howled, his body soon spattered everywhere with blood.

The other women seemed to find a way to vent their rage as well. One after another, they picked up iron rods from the floor and went to beat the men who had once tormented them.

Whether dead or not, they all received a vicious pounding.

In an instant, the cellar was filled with the sound of iron rods battering flesh and bone.

Twenty minutes later.

Only Meng Ge still had a last breath left; everyone else was dead beyond doubt.

Seeing the bodies on the floor no longer move, the women who had been lost in frenzy suddenly came back to themselves.

Looking at the corpses strewn everywhere, all of them were filled with panic.

They... they had killed people!

At that moment, Lin Xiaodou stepped forward.

“Don’t be afraid. I killed these people. If anyone asks later, just put it all on me.”

After all, she wore a human-skin mask, and no one would know who she was.

Besides, these people had only died because she had struck them with lethal force.

Hearing this, the women exchanged glances, and in the end none of them said anything.

Seeing how torn and ragged their clothes were, Lin Xiaodou brought over a large sack.

“I went upstairs just now and found some clean clothes for you. Come pick one and change into it.”

In truth, there were no clothes upstairs at all.

These were clothes Lin Xiaodou had taken from her own storage space.

They were simple black and gray styles that suited the era.

The women kept their heads lowered and obediently did as they were told, not making the slightest sound.

Once they had changed and tidied their hair, Lin Xiaodou said, “Let’s go. I’ll take you out.”

Yet after she had walked a few steps forward, she found that the group had not followed.

Turning around, she saw that all eleven women were kneeling neatly on the ground.

Lin Xiaodou was surprised.

“You...”

Bang. Bang. Bang.

They bowed three times to her.

The gentle woman at the front, tears glistening in her eyes, said,

“Comrade benefactor, thank you for saving us.

Please leave quickly. We’ll go report this to the public security ourselves, and we will never drag you into it!”

At those words, warmth stirred in Lin Xiaodou’s heart.

Rescuing them had been no more than a passing act; she had never expected anything in return.

“Get up, all of you. Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.”

After helping them to their feet, she had everyone search the corpses.

In all, they found more than three hundred yuan, along with a dozen or so vouchers.

“These dollars are for all of us who saw them. Let’s split them evenly. Consider it our way of keeping each other’s secrets.”

Since they were so sensible, she did not mind giving them something.

The women all shook their heads in unison and refused to take the money.

“Comrade benefactor, you saved us. All of this money should be yours. We can’t take it.”

“It’s fine. I have plenty of money.”

Without another word, Lin Xiaodou stuffed thirty yuan and one voucher into each woman’s hands.

“Let’s go. We should leave now. If we wait too long, someone else may come.”

Earlier, Lin Xiaodou had questioned Meng Ge, who still had a single breath left, and learned that some members of the gang had not yet returned from outside.

Among them was the gang’s boss.

Before leaving, Lin Xiaodou had Meng Ge pass on a message for her:

“Tell your boss that if he wants revenge, he can go to Blackstone Village and look for Han Guoqiang.

He’s my boss. Big as a tower, and much stronger than I am. You definitely won’t beat him!”

Lin Xiaodou had dug a huge pit for the male lead, Han Guoqiang.

She was already looking forward to seeing how he would clean this up later...