"Please, Zhou Ge, be kind. Look at our years of friendship and charge me the normal interest rate. I just happen to have 18,000 Silver Cannon on me."

The woman lifted her beautiful legs slightly, leaned close to Zhou Kui's ear, and in a tone carrying a hint of seduction, she whispered softly, "If it really doesn't work... Zhou Ge, I'll come and thank you in person today. I'll treat you to a drink. How about that?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Kui felt somewhat silent, his palms growing hot, producing a few beads of sweat.

The gang members were fundamentally a bunch of aimless punks, caring about nothing beyond money, except for the desires in their pants.

To say they're not tempted by the "delicacy" offered to them is utter nonsense.

But...

Zhou Kui cautiously turned his head to glance at Qian Sanjin behind him.

The gang leader wasn't even looking at him, silently playing with the wooden box in his hand, never once voicing his opinion.

But his faintly cold gaze implicitly expressed his attitude.

It was an eye signaling, "Subordinates are absolutely not allowed to make decisions on their own."

"Gulp..."

Zhou Kui swallowed hard, daring not to entertain any more wild thoughts.

"Sorry, Xiao Li, I might open a backdoor for you usually, but this time... it's really not possible."

He whispered in the same manner to the woman, "After this is over, let's get two better mechanical silicone legs for you. I'll personally choose them for you..."

"..."

"Eh...?"

The woman froze.

She saw the man in front of her take two steps back, then reach out and make a slashing motion across her waist—

"Slash~"

Accompanied by the sound of flesh being separated, the woman suddenly felt a strong sense of disbalance.

Her view dropped sharply, and her body fell backward.

Then, she saw a pair of beautiful legs, a pair that had been cut off from the root.

These were the woman's own legs.

The cut on the end was very smooth, with traces of burns.

The woman widened her eyes, but before she could even say a word, she fainted directly.

"Sorry."

Zhou Kui put away the Mantis Blade, murmured an apology, and then signaled for his men to lift the legless woman to the corner.

Even facing an old lover, this gang cadre still wielded the blade as dictated by rules, cleanly and swiftly cutting off the woman's legs.

His only mercy was activating the heating function on the Mantis Blade when he made the move, using high temperatures to scorch the woman's blood vessels at the wound, stopping the bleeding for her.

"Bookkeeping, next."

Zhou Kui handed the leg over to Qian Sanjin without expression, then looked toward the others.

And just then, Yun You finally saw the true nature of this group of people.

"1,000% annual interest rate? What kind of joke is that? Even loan sharks aren't this ruthless, right?"

Yun You felt it was a bit absurd.

A tenfold annual interest rate, that's conservatively speaking, robbery.

She initially thought the Insect Gang might be somewhat normal.

But now it appears that this underground gang is still far too extreme...

Moreover, she did not understand why the gang leader Qian Sanjin was so obsessed with collecting other people's limbs.

"Does this guy have some special fetish? Like necrophilia or something?"

Yun You felt a cold shiver down her spine.

Luckily, she borrowed only 4000 Bucks, and only for one month.

Even if the annual interest rate was 1000%, theoretically she only needed to pay more than 3000 Silver Cannon, relatively speaking, much better than others who ended up with tens of times the interest.

But to be honest, the little girl really didn't want to suffer a loss.

Even though she held a full 200,000 Silver Cannon in her hand, that was the gold she had painstakingly blown out of her teacher's hands, not a windfall!

Yun You didn't want to spend this unjust money.

Therefore, from this moment, Yun You was no longer content being a mere passive observer but began thinking, contemplating her next plan...

The debt-collection segment in the bar was still ongoing.

...

Under Zhou Kui's duress, people stepped forward one by one, anxiously facing fate.

This gang member was like a ruthless bill-counting machine, unfazed by people pleading or crying, merely checking debts and swinging the Mantis Blade.

But he didn't cut down just anyone...

As long as someone could pay their debt, Zhou Kui would sheathe the blade.

However, after observing carefully, Yun You noticed that this guy seemed to "look at the person before adjusting the dish," with no standard interest rate.

For example, when facing a nondescript, even scar-covered old man, Zhou Kui only demanded a 40% interest.

Though this rate was still shockingly high, it was within the old man's capacity.

The old man reluctantly handed over the money, and Zhou Kui let him go.

But when facing another man with beautiful eyes, Zhou Kui immediately raised the interest rate to 900%, then nonchalantly extracted those blue eyes.

So Yun You felt that, rather than wanting money, the Insect Gang's true purpose seemed more akin to collecting body parts.

Accurately speaking, collecting the body parts they found attractive.

Yun You looked at Qian Sanjin.

At his feet, a pair of legs, a hand, a pair of ears... along with a pair of eyes and half a torso had been collected.

"But what are they collecting these things for?"

Yun You felt something was amiss.

In Nest City, there were twisted scientists who enjoyed using living people for experiments, employing biotechnology to transform humans into machines.

But those scientists stole whole human bodies, not the dismembered pieces under Qian Sanjin's feet...

"It feels like they're assembling a Dark Mage or something..."

Yun You was reminded of an old card game, where one play required collecting five pieces of the champion's body... Once the body pieces were assembled, the champion would win the resurrection battle and instantly obliterate the opponent.

"Could the Insect Gang have their own Exodia?"

The little girl wildly thought, her mind drifting loosely somewhere.

Just then, Zhou Kui, flipping through the ledger, suddenly looked up and towards Yun You.

"That little lady, yes, talking to you."

He beckoned Yun You over, speaking coldly, "Your name is Yun You, right?"

"Come here, it's your turn."

Yun You was slightly taken aback.

She thought for a moment, then lowered her head, acting harmlessly, and cautiously approached Zhou Kui.

"Uncle... Uncle..."

She clutched her sleeves timidly and in a grieving tone asked, "Can you ask for a little less interest... I... can't gather that much money right now..."

"No."

Though Zhou Kui still adamantly expressed refusal, Yun You's pitiful act instinctively made him drop his guard.

Consequently, he overlooked the knife Yun You hid in her pocket.

"You... borrowed 4000 Silver Cannon, for one month."

"And the gang set your interest standard at..."

Zhou Kui flipped through the ledger, saying lightly, "Annual interest rate, 10,000%."

"Calculating the total interest, it's 33,333 Silver Cannon, let's round it off to 30,000."

"So, the amount you now need to pay back is 34,000 Silver Cannon."

"Cash or bank card, pick one."

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