A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 187 Are You Innocent Or Stupid

The Dark Area, was the biggest black market in the Jingshi City.

Emily, Debby and Tina were soon brought to the Dark Area, where people looked at them as if they were commodities.

The ringleader of the delinquents was a podgy, middle-aged man with beady eyes called Von. He laid his salacious eyes on Emily, and was very satisfied with her. "Good. Leave them here and go get your money,"

he told Lay. Lay grinned from ear to ear. He looked more hideous as the scars on his face stretched out. He said,"Von, I hope you don't forget what we've agreed upon."

"Of course I won't," Von smiled back and said,"It's just a piece of cake." Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

Satisfied, Lay nodded, and shook Von's stubby hands. He said,"Hope we can continue to cooperate like this."

Meanwhile, Emily, Debby and Tina tried to maintain vigilance, even though they were scared out of their wits.

Von pointed at Emily and Debby and demanded,"Send this woman to Room A, and that woman to Room B...as for the last woman..."

By then, Tina's once beautiful face had swollen up like an apple. The glow of her captivating beauty had now dimmed. Von frowned at her and thought, 'So this is the one Lay wants to take revenge on.'

However, considering the fact that Lay had given him a very beautiful woman (Emily), the least he could do was hold up his end of the bargain.

"Send the last woman to our buddy Seven," Von said coldly, sounding like he was assigning an important task.

"Yes, sir." Upon hearing Seven's name, Von's subordinates went silent. They silently nodded to show compliance, and then dragged Tina away, disregarding her violent struggling.

Soon after, Emily and Debby were also taken to their rooms.

When Emily stepped into Room A, she discovered that the room was actually a small warehouse, which roomed several beautiful young girls.

They were all sitting in the corner, shivering like little cubs. Most of them were sobbing.

'These girls... are all being held hostage here like me?' Emily thought.

"Um..." Emily wanted to say something, but her mouth was tightly secured by a tape and her hands were tied behind her back.

One girl, who noticed Emily struggling, walked over to her carefully and untied the string and removed the tape from her face.

"... Thank you," Emily said. She glanced at the other girls and asked,"They've kidnapped so many girls. What do they want to do?"

Before the girl that helped her replied, another girl said,"Are you innocent or just plain stupid? What else would they do after kidnapping so many women? Obviously, we are going to be sold as pets to those rich men."

They even couldn't be compared to prostitutes, because the latter could still choose their customers, but they, couldn't. They were more like commodities, unable to choose who they would get sold to.

If by some stroke of good luck they met a nice owner, they could lead a well-off life. However, if they met with someone who had strange sexual fetishes, they would lead a life worse than death.

These girls knew clearly what they were going to face, but they could not do anything to change their fates.

Stunned by what she said, Emily became silent. After a while, she murmured,"... This is illegal."

The girl who was talking to Emily was called Penny. Having heard what Emily had said, she sneered,"I understand that you're new here, but there are many illegal cases happening everywhere in the world. What we are suffering is not something new."

Penny slowly walked towards Emily and looked her up and down. She soon concluded that Emily had an elegant temperament, like a young lady of a big noble family, different from everyone there.

In truth, Emily's temperament was moulded by Jacob. He enabled Emily to lead a rich life, and he also tried to protect her from all the bad things in the world. But today Emily still saw the dark side of the world she had been living in.

Envious, Penny sneered and said coldly,"I guess you've lead a rich life, right? No wonder you are so innocent. But no matter how rich you are and how high your rank is in the outside world, here you are no different from all those girls: sordid toys of those rich men."

Penny felt satisfied after she had said her piece. 'No matter how noble she is in the outside world, this woman will soon have to learn the ways of our dirty world.'

Emily was surprised by Penny's zeal. 'I didn't offend her. Why is she being so hostile to me?'

"Don't mind what she said. She's always like that," said the girl who untied Emily, as she gently yanked Emily's coat-tail.

Emily didn't reply to Penny, because now she was starting to get worried about her mother, so she didn't have the energy to quarrel with others. However, as soon as she thought about her mother, she remembered how Debby looked at Tina.

Of course, Tina didn't notice it, but Emily remembered Debby's expression quite clearly. Debby looked at Tina in a way that a mother would look at her child... Moreover, Debby never looked at Emily in that way.

Suddenly, it occurred to Emily, 'Is she really Tina's mother?' Soon, her questions were leading to more questions rather than answers, so she quickly dismissed her thoughts.

Now was not the time to think about such questions. If, and after she was rescued, she could go and find out the truth for herself.

Emily looked around and asked,"How long have you been locked up in here?"

The girl replied,"About three or four days. I heard that tomorrow we'll put on the stage."

"On the stage?" asked Emily.

"In other words... auction."

Benumbed with fear, Emily bit her lower lip gently and asked,"Have you tried to escape?"

"No. There are so many people guarding this place. We have no chance to escape. We can only wait for someone to rescue us. But I guess no one would come to rescue me," Katherine, the girl that helped Emily, smiled bitterly. Her family only wanted boys. They tried to sell her to a rich old man so they could get a huge bride price, but Katherine didn't want to be sold to him, so she ran away from her family.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire - unfortunately, she was caught by the human traders. Now she wondered whether her life would have been much better if she had married that old man.

"No. Someone will come and rescue you," Emily comforted her as she held her hands. She continued,"And my boyfriend is going to come and rescue me too."

'Jacob's so powerful. Every time when I'm faced with danger, he shows up out of nowhere like a guardian angel. I believe that he will find me.

But in the meantime, I can't wait for death, doing nothing.'

Before long, Emily stood up and looked around the warehouse. After a while she found out that apart from the door, there was also a window for air ventilation. Those were the only two possible ways of going out.

"Hey, maybe we can escape," said Emily. As expected, the door and the window was locked. However, while, the door was locked from the outside, the window was locked from the inside.

Emily walked over and stood on her toes to look over the window, only to find complete darkness. Although, she couldn't see anything, she soon realized that they were locked in an underground basement.