Chapter 479: Pressure Cooker Hands (2/2)

Xiaotao and I exchanged a meaningful look. ”So this involves a criminal gang.”

”What’s the company called?” I added.

”D-Di Jiang!” Cold sweat dotted the bodyguard’s forehead.

“Does this company really exist?” I whispered to Xiaotao.

Shaking her head, she hammered the table with her fist and roared, ”I want the truth!”

The bodyguard shivered, ”That's what it’s called.”

”What’s the company’s address?” I asked.

”I don't know. The boss doesn’t allow us to go there,” he replied. “We’re given a monthly salary, and we’re only called to work when the club has activities. Besides that, there’s nothing else that needs to be done.”

”How much does he pay for you to willingly be part of something so unconscionable?” sneered Xiaotao.

”It's not about the money.” A strange gleam flashed in his eyes. ”We agree with the boss's practice!”

”What?!” At this point, Xiaotao could no longer remain composed.

”Cannibalism!” The bodyguard smacked his lips, ”My first taste of a human being was a girl's hand. Because we had eaten other weird things, I wasn’t opposed to it at all. The hand had been steamed in a pressure cooker, then it was deep-fried in oil. It came out crispy and had a mouth-watering fragrance. When I bit into the bone, the juices from the bone marrow squirted onto my tongue. I had never eaten anything so delicious. I even saw her photo. She was a beautiful girl. Although she smelled delectable, I was still a little sad. But the boss said that real love for something is to eat it and make it a part of myself…”

”Stop it!” Xiaotao slammed the table, her brows tightly knitted.

Noticing the tattoo on his wrist, I asked, ”What did you do before this?”

”No one wants to hire a guy who’s been to jail, but the boss took me in.”

Thus, he recounted the selection process. After being released from prison, he committed little petty thefts here and there due to his inability to find a job. Eventually, one of the gang bosses found him and asked if he was interested in working as a bodyguard.

Naturally, he agreed immediately. Without so much as an interview, he was hired. All he did was make a phone call before he was sent a debit card. Despite doing nothing, he received a monthly salary of 7,000 yuan without fail.

Three months later, he received a phone call about the pre-job training at an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts. He was surprised to find that the rest of the employees were much like himself: ex-prisoners. When the boss appeared, he gave a confusing speech which could be summed up in one sentence: “Different roads lead to different destinations so I hope everyone has similar interests.”

At the end of his speech, each employee was served a plate of pangolin. As formerly incarcerated men, who cared about protecting animals? Hence, they happily dug into their food.

The second session of their pre-job training was held a week later. The boss repeated the same perplexing speech and then invited them to a big meal. This time, they ate raw monkey brains. The monkeys were placed under a hole in the table, their fur removed, skin opened and hot oil poured onto their brains. Then, the bodyguards dug into the brains with their spoons and relished a live monkey in groups of three.

Throughout the entire ordeal, the monkeys screamed miserably, prompting protests from several of them. However, the boss threw his head back in laughter, courteously inviting the protestors to leave, at the risk of losing their jobs of course.

With the boss’s mysterious ways, these men had long grown suspicious and several walked away at this point.

Then came the third session of their pre-job training. This time, it was something no one had ever seen–a huge golden-fried, pupa-shaped thing. Smiling, the boss introduced it as the Golden Grain Meal, that is, a girl's excrement!