Chapter 481: Infernal Ordeal
by xennovelChapter 481: The Human Inferno (Update 4)
Under the soothing influence of Xiao Yu’s Psychological Expert,
the victim, Shi Yanwan, began to regain her sanity.
During the process, Xiao Yu also examined the scars on Shi Yanwan’s body.
Indeed, these marks were all left by tearing and biting.
Human teeth marks!
Imagine someone pouncing on you like a demon, devouring your flesh and blood.
What kind of experience would that be?
“After you were kidnapped and imprisoned in that underground chamber, what exactly happened—and how did you manage to escape?”
Xiao Yu’s voice remained as gentle as ever. “Could you tell me about it?”
“…”
After a long silence, Shi Yanwan, her voice hoarse, muttered, “That day…”
That day, she had finished her night shift just as usual.
Just as she was about to enter the gate of her residential compound, someone approached her and sprayed a mysterious substance labeled ‘457’ directly onto her face…
When she awoke again, Shi Yanwan found herself lying on a cold, hard floor.
Sitting up, she noticed several young people lying around her.
Terrified, she tried to run but soon discovered she was trapped inside a cell.
The cell was enormous, spanning around a hundred square meters.
It had three walls, one iron railing, and even a toilet.
Soon, the others woke up too—four women and six men.
Everyone cowered in fear, as if the very environment was ready to swallow them whole in endless darkness.
Shi Yanwan’s legs grew weak, as though demonic laughter echoed all around her…
The first day passed without incident.
No matter how hard everyone tried, they couldn’t escape the locked cell.
On the second day, hell descended…
A cold, eerie voice suddenly emerged from the cell’s ventilation.
“This is a game—a game for ten people. Surviving is your reward!”
“Game on. Round One: Kill one of your own to earn food and water!”
Then the voice fell silent.
Some shouted curses, others screamed and pleaded…
but no one was heard.
One day passed.
Everyone was starving and parched, yet no one resorted to murder.
Two days went by.
The ten youths were exhausted and terrified.
On the third day… finally, someone couldn’t take it any longer.
When their lives were threatened,
the pure drive to survive emerged.
The grim darkness of humanity—its brutality, selfishness, cold-blooded cruelty—surfaced!
Several men killed a woman!
At that moment, Shi Yanwan was nearly driven mad by fear, her mind going completely blank.
Everything around her became terrifying.
She just wanted to leave that nightmare.
But she was utterly powerless…
On the fourth day,
a man wrapped entirely in black cloth, his eyes the only visible feature, delivered food and water.
From outside the iron railing, he tossed them to the nine surviving youths.
Shi Yanwan and the others rushed to the railing, pleading for their release.
But the man in black ignored them and walked away…
On the fifth day,
that eerie, cold voice echoed once more in the cell.
“Round Two: Consume the corpse of the person you killed.”
Everyone was stunned!
Eat human flesh?
Who in their right mind could commit such an act?
But…
On the sixth day,
on the seventh day,
and on the eighth day…
with no food or water left,
one desperate soul lunged at the female corpse…
On the ninth day,
desperate to survive and unwilling to die, Shi Yanwan approached the half-eaten female corpse!
On the tenth day,
the man in black reappeared.
He ordered the nine youths to toss the largely devoured female corpse out of the cell and cram it into a bag.
Then he provided them with more food and water.
On the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth days…
“Round Three begins: All the men must force themselves upon every woman.”
The three women in the cell were horrified.
No matter how much they screamed and begged for mercy,
the six men pounced on the cornered women…
In the dim light of the cell, it truly became a scene from hell.
It was as if the tears of vengeance welled silently in the corners of the women’s eyes…
On the sixteenth day,
the man in black brought food again.
The cell was filled with a suffocating stench.
On the seventeenth day,
“Round Four: Kill one man.”
One man died.
No matter how he struggled, it was in vain.
He alone stood no chance against the other eight…
especially with those three women turning into vengeful specters…
On the nineteenth day,
“Round Five… Consume the corpse!”
On the twenty-second day,
“Round Six… Kill the shortest man.”
On the twenty-fourth day,
“Round Seven… Consume the corpse!”
On the…
…
Shi Yanwan eventually lost all track of time.
Living in constant fear, she became nothing more than a puppet whose only aim was to survive…
The dim, oppressive cell had long morphed into an inferno.
The heavy stench of death oozed like cold, dark blood from decaying corpses…
On this day,
only five people remained within the cell.
The man in black appeared once more and injected them with a mysterious drug.
Soon, they began hallucinating, transforming into a band of lunatics…
Shi Yanwan’s own personal inferno had begun.
“Round Thirteen… Consume the tallest woman.”
Four zombie-like figures lunged at the screaming, wailing Shi Yanwan.
It dragged on for what felt like an eternity.
Shi Yanwan was reduced to a bloody, mangled mess, her once horrifying face now marked by a pair of ferocious, icy eyes.
She was lucky to have survived.
After Round Thirteen ended, the man in black reappeared and administered healing medicine to her.
And from that day on,
the remaining five became utterly compliant.
The ‘Round Fourteen’ of the game never materialized.
But…
During these 3.9 days of captivity,
the other four were periodically taken away by the man in black.
Shi Yanwan caught snippets of hushed conversation when they returned.
They spoke of beatings, rape, torture…
and lost count of the days that had passed.
“Round Fourteen… Kill one man.”
“Round Fifteen…”
Time slowly dragged on.
Until finally,
only two people remained in the cell,
a man and a woman.
“Final Round… Only the survivors will earn freedom!”
Without a moment’s hesitation, Shi Yanwan lunged at the man.
Clutching a rib that had been hidden away for who knew how long,
and taken from someone’s corpse,
she plunged it into his lower abdomen.
Stab after stab after stab…