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Gu Ran could tell from their accents where they were from that they all spoke Mandarin. Moreover, seeing them drinking energy drinks and making phone calls all night long, they didn't seem to be coerced, but rather actively engaged in fraudulent activities.
Gu Ran then understood: they weren't the kind of people who were tricked into coming to northern Myanmar; they were the ones who came to northern Myanmar to commit fraud.
This place is quite large; there are nearly three hundred people on just this one floor.
Gu Ran stayed for a while, but the air here was too polluted, so he went up to the next floor.
There were very few people on the third floor. It looked like the management area, with many small rooms that, from the outside, looked like manager's offices.
There was no one in the manager's office, so Gu Ran randomly found a room and looked through the files inside, which detailed how they lured people to northern Myanmar.
The first step is to play the role of a caring older sister, talking about feelings with people and luring them to border areas such as Thailand, India, Bangladesh, and northern Myanmar.
Then they would knock the people unconscious or trick them into going to northern Myanmar.
Once you arrive in northern Myanmar, you no longer belong to yourself, but to them.
Whether you are male or female, the moment you land, they will ask you to call home and demand a ransom.
They will say that as long as your family pays a ransom of 50,000, they will release you immediately.
After receiving the 50,000 ransom, they will ask for 100,000, then 200,000, 300,000, 500,000...
You will proceed to the next step once your family can no longer provide the funds.
If you are a girl and you are beautiful... then your fate is to be forced into prostitution, or to be sold to wealthy merchants in Southeast Asia or West Asia, and to be played with for the rest of your life.
If you are a girl and not pretty, you might be taken by criminals to be a surrogate mother.
It's important to note that surrogacy here doesn't require your own eggs; you only need to receive a fertilized egg. In other words, the child isn't actually related to you by blood, since you're not considered attractive and are merely a means of reproduction.
When you've had many surrogates and your body is failing, you'll enter the next stage—selling your organs.
The heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys... even every inch of skin on the body has a price tag.
Of course, if you don't become a surrogate mother, you might be treated like a dog.
Some perverts enjoy watching women fight, so being kept by a dog is like being a dog-fighting dog.
After reading the details about dogfighting, Gu Ran felt a chill run down his spine. In this crime paradise, people would be completely drained of their value before they would die.
If you are a man, it will be the same. If your family refuses to pay the ransom, you will be forced into fraud, also known as "dog pushing".
If you fail to meet your performance targets within two months, you will enter the next stage and become a blood slave.
It means that people will keep drawing blood from you, and the blood plasma will be sold to other places.
While you are selling your blood, your organ information is being matched. Once a match is found, you will reach the end of your life. Hopefully, you can be reborn into a better family in your next life and not have to come to northern Myanmar again.
After reviewing these documents, Gu Ran realized that among the people below, some were not only actively involved in the fraud, but also genuinely deceived into becoming fraudsters themselves.
Just then, the noise of a helicopter rotor came from outside. Gu Ran left the room and leaned against the window to look out.
A helicopter, carrying a huge container, is slowly descending.
Those around seemed unfazed by the scene. Once the container was safely placed on the grass, they removed the hooks and left.
A group of heavily armed men immediately appeared around the container. One of them opened the container and said in Chinese to let the people inside slowly come out.
Then, more than thirty people slowly walked out of the container.
"Why are there only men here? Where are the women?" The person who opened the door was holding an AK and wearing a red hat; he seemed to be the boss here.
"I asked around, and the woman is coming soon in the next few shifts," one of the soldiers said.
“They always get to play with those women first before it’s our turn. It’s so unlucky,” said the leader of the red-hatted gang.
"Or, boss, why don't you apply for a transfer?" the soldier chuckled.
"No, no, I'm not qualified enough, I haven't earned their trust, I can't go out." The leader in the red hat shook his head, then had someone count the number of people.
The people who came out of the shipping container lined up in rows of five.
"Report: The document lists thirty-one records, but there are only thirty."
"Where's the other person?" the leader in the red hat asked.
No one answered.
The leader in the red hat sneered, took out a whip from his waist, and lashed it at the nearest man in the front row.
The man didn't dare to dodge and took a lash anyway. It seems he was afraid of being beaten before and knew that hiding would only result in more violence.
“Report…” the man who had been whipped said tremblingly, “There is another person in the container, who seems to have fainted and hasn’t come out.”
"Why didn't you just say so earlier? How pathetic! You only speak up when someone hits you!" The red-hatted leader gave the man a disdainful look and then ordered two of his men to drag the man out.
A short while later, the two men dragged out a thin man.
"Hey, it's been a long time since I've seen such a young and handsome lad." The leader in the red hat stepped forward and kicked the man's butt. Finding that the man didn't react, he reached down to check and found that his breathing was very weak and his skin was a little hot.
"Send him to the doctor and get a tissue match done as soon as possible. We can still sell his organs before he dies," said the leader in the red hat.
So the young man was dragged away.
Then, the man who had just been whipped spoke up: "Report, he only has a fever. He should survive with some antibiotics. Besides, organ transplants cannot be performed when there is inflammation."
The leader in the red hat was stunned. He hadn't expected anyone to dare to defy him. Without saying a word, he lashed the man out with his whip again: "Did I tell you to speak? You're just spouting nonsense. Are you a doctor?"
The man didn't flinch, and took another lash to the face, saying, "That's right, I'm a doctor."
"Ha, you're quite proud of yourself." The leader in the red hat grabbed the man by the neck. "So what if you're a doctor? Think you're so great? Here, you're just a dog!"
"Yes, yes, yes... I'm a dog," the man said fearfully.
The man in the red hat was pleased to see him back down, so he arranged for people to take these men away and begin the first step: getting money from their families.
Gu Ran watched from a distance and noticed that although the person who was beaten was scared, his eyes were actually very calm.
Judging from the muscles on his body, he is probably no ordinary person.
This person was different from the others. When others entered this place, they all lowered their heads, not daring to look around or say anything. But this person dared to talk back and observed the surrounding terrain.
Chapter 325 Cave Exploration
Criminal activities in northern Myanmar began in the 1990s, targeting developed regions such as the Four Asian Tigers. This was because people in these developed areas were wealthy, and as their citizens became richer, they would travel to various parts of northern Myanmar, where they could easily fall into traps.
But back then, the internet wasn't as developed as it is now, and information didn't circulate as quickly, so even if someone went missing, it wouldn't become widely known.
Later, the Four Asian Tigers encountered a bottleneck in their development, and since the Four Asian Tigers only had such a small area, news of someone suffering a few times would quickly spread to the streets. So they stopped going to northern Myanmar.
Thus, criminal activities in northern Myanmar began to target the increasingly powerful Chinese population, because some wealthy Chinese would travel extensively, while those without money would come to Myanmar to make money...
Therefore, many of the people in this town came here voluntarily.
This small town, nestled deep in the jungles of northern Myanmar, is filled with surveillance cameras, even hidden in public restrooms.
If Gu Ran hadn't been cautious and observed more closely, he would have been discovered just now when he deactivated his invisibility in the restroom.
He returned to the office where the fraudster had previously worked. He had checked the place and there were no cameras, but just to be safe, he still activated the ninjutsu Lightning Release: Purple Lightning while invisible!
Purple Lightning can unleash lightning attacks in all directions, and even hidden cameras will explode due to current overload.
After confirming that there were no cameras in the room, he used the Shadow Clone Technique to create nine shadow clones, intending to send them to scout out the terrain in various locations.
Because this place is so large, shadow clones can also be used to investigate while remaining invisible. The only drawback is that shadow clones cannot use the Byakugan or the Sharingan, so they can only be used to scout the terrain and cannot be used for interrogation.
Gu Ran's true form flew out of the town and arrived at the mountain where Zhang Ronghua had entered.
The entrance to the mountain was very hidden. Gu Ran rolled his eyes at it for a long time before finally finding a hidden door. The door was covered with unknown climbing plants, but upon closer inspection, he realized they were plastic plants, specially designed to conceal their presence.
Hiding bases in the mountains is a very clever tactic, as it avoids detection by satellites. Many countries hide important secret military facilities in the mountains.
The same applies to the Secret Service; the hilltop campus of Kassel College looks like a school from the outside, but there's actually a secret hidden beneath the ice cellar.
The base's entrance door is an automatic door that slides left and right and requires a key to open.
Gu Ran could certainly force his way in, but he couldn't afford to alert the enemy.
We need to know what's inside before we can take action.
Fortunately, the mountain wasn't very deep, and Gu Ran could use his white eye's perspective to observe. Behind the door, he could see a passageway leading directly to the inner area, which contained multiple spaces divided into different functional zones.
There were surveillance cameras and other security mechanisms around the passageway, but Gu Ran wasn't sure what they were.
After observing for a while, he roughly memorized the layout of the buildings inside and also saw some specific details.
There was a room with many human specimens, indicating that someone was conducting human experiments there.
There were also many instruments, the purpose of which was unknown. Scattered around were seven or eight large petri dishes, and the things inside were neither human nor ghost, motionless in the nutrient solution.
Gu Ran couldn't tell whether these things were alive or dead.
Aside from these things, there aren't many people in this mountain. If I counted carefully, there were only twenty people, including Zhang Ronghua.
Just then, someone walked out of the passageway. It was a woman wearing a white coat. She looked somewhat languid, but her eyes were bright and piercing, with golden light shining in her pupils.
It's the Golden Eyes.
These golden eyes that cannot be extinguished on their own are most likely the result of using a gene serum containing dragon blood, or, like Chu Zihang, using a secret technique of explosive blood.
The woman opened the passage from the inside with her keycard, and Gu Ran could see her clearly. She was a woman with a very intellectual air, about twenty-eight to thirty-two years old, 1.65 meters tall, with a good figure and a slender build.
The moment the door opened, a rat suddenly darted out from beside it and jumped into the passageway. The woman glanced at it slightly, and before the rat had run five meters away, it suddenly activated some unknown mechanism, causing a high-voltage current to surge through the passageway and instantly electrocute the rat.
"Tell everyone not to litter food wrappers inside, or rats will get in again." The woman shook her head and continued walking.
The door to the passage closed automatically after she took one step.
It seems there are mechanisms in the passageway, and quite a few at that.
The woman walked straight to the entrance of the sinful town, and the guards did not stop her. Instead, they warmly welcomed her in, while someone immediately went to report.
Gu Ran realized that this woman's identity was not simple, so he immediately sent his shadow clone to follow her and see who she really was.
Meanwhile, the main body continued to keep an eye on the research institute in the mountain, considering how to infiltrate it.
……
Gu Ran's shadow clones disappeared into various places, observing every corner of the town.
They found out a lot of details.
This city has quite a few entertainment facilities. In addition to prostitution, gambling, and drugs, there are also KTVs, bars, saunas, cinemas, hot pot restaurants, bubble tea shops... and even a library.
The library's collection is also quite interesting. The first floor is filled with self-help books like "Wolf Totem" and "Wolf Culture," while the second floor has various medical journals and papers, mostly about anatomy and organology.