Chapter 488: The Scavenger’s Game

Chapter 488: The Scavenger Boss (Update 1)

“Murder Game in a Sealed Room?”

Seated at his computer desk, Xiao Yu was reviewing an international investigation report on a past case.

The incident had taken place six years ago.

There were ten victims in total.

Nine were brutally murdered.

Only one managed to survive by a stroke of luck!

The murderer was a disturbingly psychopathic and ruthless young man.

He had spent three long years meticulously planning this murder game.

Among the ten victims were his classmate, a former lover, a past rival in love, his current partner, and even his partner’s lover…

Using deception, he lured all ten victims into the basement of a manor estate.

This basement had long been converted into a specialized underground dungeon.

There, a three-month-long, brutal, perverse, and nauseating murder game unfolded.

The first victim was killed and dismembered by the other nine.

The second victim was gang raped to death and then dismembered.

The third victim was literally eaten alive.

The fourth victim…

After three months, the final winner of the game – the sole survivor – emerged.

He survived every injury, claimed a million-dollar reward, and was even released by the murderer.

However…

Only two months later, the lone survivor committed suicide!

Six months later, the police located the murderer.

By that time, however, the murderer had already taken his own life.

At his home, the police recovered the complete video footage of the murder game.

Thus, the case was finally laid to rest…

Xiao Yu’s gaze drifted away from the monitor.

According to authoritative investigations,

in 90% of murder cases worldwide, the victims

are killed by someone they know.

In other words,

if one day you are murdered,

there’s a 90% chance that your killer is a family member, lover, friend, colleague, or acquaintance.

Did you really think there was only one werewolf in a Werewolf Game?

Then before the werewolf is caught,

who killed those who died?

As the saying goes,

even seemingly ordinary people can become terrifying when they commit monstrous acts!

After reading the international murder game investigation report,

and comparing it to the present case,

Xiao Yu noticed several common factors.

First, the murderer used threats of death to force the victims into turning on each other.

Second, he compelled the victims into cannibalism.

Third, he forced the victims to endure gang rape.

Fourth, the underground dungeon.

Fifth, the solitary survivor.

Sixth, the murderer concealed his true identity from the victims.

Seventh…

Considering these similarities, it was clear that the organizer of this murder game

was very likely emulating the international case!

But there were major differences.

In the international case, there was only one murderer.

His motives ranged from perversion to vengeance to hatred…

In the current case, however, there are at least two, if not more, murderers.

Their motives remain unknown!

However…

Thanks to the relentless efforts of National Security and the police, and the incentive of a reward,

two eyewitnesses have come forward!

……

Inside an office,

Xiao Yu looked calmly at the old man before him.

The old man was a scavenger.

In a prosperous nation, you’d think scavenging was a thing of the past, right?

But yes, many still do.

Mostly, they are elderly.

There was once a joke about a son

who, hoping to improve his father’s living conditions,

bought him a villa.

A year later,

the villa was piled high with trash—even its yard was cluttered with garbage…

The son asked, “Was I unfilial to you?”

The old man replied, “I’m filial enough.”

Then the son asked, “Are we short on money?”

The old man answered, “We’re not poor.”

The son then asked, “But I never gave you any living expenses?”

The old man replied, “I did—plenty.”

The son pressed, “Then why do you still scavenge for trash?”

The old man said, “Seeing trash just makes me want to pick it up!”

It’s not about lacking money—it’s an obsession with scavenging.

If you scold him, he only gets angrier and continues to pick up trash.

What can you do?

It’s a no-win situation!

Investigations by the police and National Security confirmed that the old man was exactly that type.

“Boss, two months ago one night, did you see someone tying a young man to a car?”

Xiao Yu asked with a smile, “How do you remember it so clearly?”

It wasn’t that he doubted the eyewitness,

but…

due to his advanced age and declining physical abilities,

his memory was usually unreliable.

Once you hit a certain age, dementia becomes a real risk…

“I remember it vividly,” the old man asserted.

He nodded and added, “I remember clearly because that night I found a wallet!”

Xiao Yu: (￣□￣)

No, boss—you can’t just announce in front of me that you found a wallet.

Do you not consider me an outsider?

“Don’t look at me like that,” the old man replied defensively.

He continued sternly, “I’m an honest man. When I find a wallet, I turn it in at the police station… though it didn’t seem to hold much cash!”

Xiao Yu was speechless.

Was he trying to cover something up?

Not only does he not see me as an outsider, he treats me like a fool!

“Really?”

Amused yet exasperated, Xiao Yu didn’t dwell on it and said, “Can you tell me what happened that night?”

“The reward is real, right?”

The old man’s expression turned very serious.

“It’s true!” Xiao Yu nodded, holding back a laugh.

Old men often have a petulant obsession with money, unwilling to spend it—it’s normal.

“That night…”

The old man began recalling the events of that night.

He had been scavenging that evening.

He loved collecting cardboard and rummaging through trash bins.

While digging through a bin, he unexpectedly discovered a wallet and felt elated.

At that moment, a blood-curdling scream rang out from nearby.

Startled, he looked over.

He saw a white minivan (a commercial vehicle).

Beside it, a man clutched another man tightly.

Both were young, as the old man could tell.

However, due to the distance and his poor eyesight,

he only saw one young man struggle for a moment before passing out,

while the other hoisted the unconscious man into the van.

The minivan sped off in no time…

A man holding another man?

Xiao Yu smirked.

The key detail was that the other man quickly lost consciousness.

Could it have been drugs?

Normally, it takes time for one person to knock another out.

Only drugs can render someone unconscious so fast.

Xiao Yu and the old man then proceeded to the crime scene.

It was on a remote street outside an old neighborhood.

There was a Tianyan Surveillance Camera, but it was too distant.

Even though there was surveillance two months before the crime, no footage was captured.

Xiao Yu came here not to investigate the scene,

but to… indulge in his own fantasies…

he was in search of that ‘underground dungeon.’

Wasn’t the other party supposed to have driven here?

How could an ‘underground dungeon’ be this close?

Who said you have to drive far?

It might have been used to transport the victims!

Option one: Carrying an unconscious person on your back.

Option two: Driving off with an unconscious person.

Which method would you choose for convenience?