Chapter 17: Club (1/2)

Decapitating Devils Club.

This resounding name made Bai Yan recall his eerie memories of sharing a bed with a ghost’s head from the night before, leading his color to change into a slightly less healthy one. The other two also suspected that something dangerous was about to happen and cautiously kept out an eye.

With just its name, it already conveyed to the three people that this club was not good news.

As they slowly walked past the long hall, the master and the unnamed person both entered a room with the three following suit.

There were many members of the club. When they saw three new faces, they all stopped talking and stared at them. A scholarly-looking man immediately stood up and asked politely, “Boss Gu and Boss Wang, who are these three individuals behind you?”

“These are my driver, my bodyguard, and my butler.” Their master said with a courteous smile, “These three are also very interested in this matter, and I guarantee you that we can trust them.”

“Since Boss Gu gave us his guarantee, I won’t say anything else.” The scholarly-looking man glanced at their name tags and secretly took note of their names.

After their master finally took his seat, the other members of the club began to excitedly share their newly acquired resources with him.

“Don’t you simply buy beheading videos from the dark web? That kind of thing could be bought with money. How could that be more interesting than Boss Gu’s book? This was carefully organized by Old Gu himself!”

“Oh, you’ll know it when you see it. It will definitely be a better surprise for you all, more than Old Gu’s book! Whoever still disagrees after seeing it can cut my head off tonight!” The fierce-looking man trembled with fury, clearly disgruntled by the praise the master was getting. “Enough of this talking. You there, whoever is new, come and help me with this video!”

The man suddenly pointed at Bai Yan, and in turn, Bai Yan looked at his master for approval. When he nodded slightly, Bai Yan stepped forward to receive the disc and put it into the disk player.

After a moment, the screen in front suddenly radiated a faint fluorescent light. Everyone couldn’t take their eyes off of it and watched it attentively, patiently waiting for the ‘surprise’ Boss Zhao was avidly boasting about.

“Save…Save me!”

“Please, uncle, please let me go!”

At the beginning of the film, there was a scene of a girl kneeling and desperately begging for mercy.

To be honest, this short film’s quality was substandard at best, and the filming techniques were only ordinary, but everyone was silently waiting to see the ‘surprise,’ so for the time being, no one dared ridicule the third-rate quality of the film.

The girl’s feet appeared to be tied up and in the middle of the moving picture was the girl ceaselessly kowtowing.

When they all saw this, the older members of the club started to yawn out of sheer boredom. They have all seen decapitating videos like these thousands of times before, but they still gave off the same expression to prevent Boss Zhao from flying into a rage out of humiliation.

However, when the film was halfway through, the impatience on their faces disappeared and morphed into absolute disbelief and excitement.

“Uncle, please forgive me! I am willing to work like an ox(1) for you…ah!”

In the film, the girl was mercilessly slaughtered and chopped in half by an ax, her lifeless head rolling off to the floor with its eyes still wide from horror.

However, the members were not focused on the girl’s head rolling on the ground before them. No, they were all focused on the hand carrying the ax that had a long scar on it.

Seeing this minute detail, they all couldn’t help but cast a side glance in Boss Zhao’s direction, secretly peeping at his right hand.

Upon closer inspection, the scar on Boss Zhao’s right hand was exactly like the one the executioner had.

Many of the club members all muttered anxiously in their hearts after watching the full video. Miss Liu dressed in the sultry red dress had something to say. Hardly covering the amazement plastered on her face, she loudly exclaimed, “Oh, I didn’t expect that you, Old Zhao, to do the job yourself and videotape it! He is indeed the first one to be more amazing than Boss Gu!”

“Exactly.”

“Compared to Boss Gu’s book, Boss Zhao’s short film is better!”

When everyone found out that Boss Zhao executed the scene himself, one by one, the club members changed their opinions and turned to compliment Boss Zhao’s video, making Boss Zhao extremely pleased with himself.

However, as an adept butler, Bai Yan had always been paying close attention to any changes in the master’s expression.

He found that after everyone had indifferently tossed aside the master’s book, the master’s face drooped down, obviously unhappy about having his spotlight taken.

As the master dwelled on his dreary mood, he began to find some faults in his three servants.

When everyone was surrounding Boss Zhao and showering him with praise, the master gloomily asked his servants, “What did you think of Boss Zhao’s video?”

“I…I think it’s so-so…” Liu Kui felt annoyed yet frightened when the master abruptly asked him a question. In his eyes, the members of this club were all perverted homicidal maniacs. All of them should quietly go to prison and swallow bullets, but now, since he was surrounded by a group of murderers, he had to answer against his convictions. He was truly afraid that if he said something wrong, these decapitating devils would seal his lips and ruthlessly chop him up, like some kind of animal.