"What a goddamn atrocity!" Elijah eximed before reaching into the iron cage and pping Finn across the face.


    "Smack!" The sharp sound echoed in the basement, interrupting Finn''s mechanical repetition.


    Finn was stunned for a moment, then his body started to struggle as he eximed excitedly, "No, don''t save me, kill me, kill me! They are all demons, devils! Kill me, give me relief..."


    "..."


    "Brother, don''t waste your effort. This young man is scared out of his wits!"


    "Scared?" Elijah heard the voice without panicking.


    He first punched Finn, knocking him out, and then strolled over to the iron cage from which the voice hade.


    Inside was a man in the same condition as Finn, only he looked more disheveled, with a beard and messy hair.


    His clothes were filthy and torn, his legs scraped clean down to the bone, with the remaining flesh grotesquely growing back.


    "That''s right, everyone here has been suppressed by a Mind Stun ability, and on top of that... you''ve seen our situation. Few can withstand it. Most either go mad or be idiots!"


    "Then why are you okay?"


    "Me? How should I say, maybe I have a stronger will, or perhaps it has something to do with my ability!" The man grinned, revealing uneven teeth, clearly beaten out.


    "So... are all the people here ability users?" Elijah pointed to the cages.


    "Yes, not just us, but even the zombies across from us are mutated! You seem to have guessed it?"


    "I have some suspicions, but I still want to hear you say it."


    "Alright, I can tell you, but first, let me ask you a question. Have you drunk the water or eaten any food here?"


    "I only ate a vacuum-packed piece of bread. I''m very sure it was fine. As for other things, I didn''t touch any of it!" Elijah recalled and answered.


    "You''re quite cautious. I advise you not to dig into this. While you still can, get out of here quickly!"


    "Thanks for the advice, but I still want to hear your story." Elijah remained indifferent.


    "Alright, fine!" The man didn''t mind and continued, "Actually, it''s a simple story! After the zombie virus outbreak, a man got trapped. Zombies were everywhere, he couldn''t get out, and there was no food. When he was desperate and starving, he had an evil thought."


    "Eat zombies?"


    "Yes. Since zombies can eat people, why can''t he eat zombies? If the meat is cooked at high temperatures, it might kill the zombie virus inside. Faced with death, he decided to gamble on it!"


    "He survived, heh, not only did he survive, he even benefited from it, awakening a mysterious ability!" The man sneered in the dimly lit underground garage.


    "Later, he not only ate the meat himself but also recruited neers, secretly feeding them zombie meat, and then selected those who awakened... Those who couldn''t handle the zombie meat and got infected turned into zombies, bing useful tools to continue feeding new recruits. Those who survived the awakening naturally became his own people.


    If anyone disobeyed, they would be killed or locked up like you. During this time, they discovered that the meat of mutated zombies and awakened individuals was even more effective, so they started breeding mutated zombies. When they obtained the ability to regenerate flesh, you dissenters became human mushrooms, harvested bit by bit!" Elijah squinted his eyes andid out his hypothesis.


    "That''s mostly urate, but there''s one thing you got wrong!" The disheveled man looked at Elijah with admiration.


    "What is it?"


    "That manter stopped eating zombie meat. He used his ability to escape and joined a settlement!"


    "And that settlement became the current YLK Group?"


    "Exactly, the leader of this group is a pervert who likes to y with zombies and has the ability to read minds. He read the man''s thoughts about eating zombie meat and secretly experimented with it..."


    "Is the leader of this group named Matthew?" Elijah interrupted.


    "Yes!"


    "Indeed, it''s utterly depraved..." Everything clicked into ce for Elijah. He finally understood the true meaning behind Matthew''s "Lost Morals."


    The zombie prostitution ring was just a cover, hiding an even more grotesque human meat trade!


    Elijah looked at the man before him. Knowing so much and in such detail was unusual, and a suspicion arose in his mind.


    "You know all this... actually, you are that man, right?"


    "Heh! Heh!" The man let out a creepyugh, neither admitting nor denying it.


    "Why are you locked up here?"


    "Back then, I had no choice but to eat the meat myself. But Matthew wanted everyone to eat it, especially those clueless neers... I couldn''t do something so heartless, so I wanted to leave!"


    "I see!" Elijah nodded. It was obvious Matthew wouldn''t let him go.


    If Elijah were Matthew, he wouldn''t let anyone who knew about this leave either!


    It wasn''t a matter of morals; once this secret got out, it would cause trouble.


    Not to mention, someone could imitate his methods and create a second YLK Group, which would be a great loss.


    "Since you understand the danger here, you should leave while you still can, otherwise..." The man tried to persuade Elijah again.


    "Don''t you want to escape from here?"


    Although Elijah didn''t have a good impression of the man for eating zombie meat, he respected him for refusing to join Matthew''s depravity and for twice advising him to escape.


    Elijah was willing to lend him a hand.


    The man stared at Elijah nkly for a moment before replying gloomily, "Matthew... his power is too terrifying. We''re no match for him. If you don''t leave now, you won''t be able to leaveter!"


    "Really? How terrifying? I''d like to see for myself!" Elijah said calmly.


    The man shook his head and looked at the nearby cages. "There are some here who thought like you, but the result... heh! Heh! You can see for yourself!" Stay connected through m-v l|e''-NovelBin


    "I... am a bit different from you all," Elijah said without further exnation. "Let''s wait and see."


    Elijah had unraveled the secrets here.


    The next step was to find an opportunity to contact the higher-ups of the YLK Group and Matthew!


    They were all scum who deserved to die!


    He needed to distinguish clearly; if he acted rashly and let a few henchmen escape, it wouldn''t matter much.


    But if the higher-ups or Matthew escaped, a new YLK Group could emerge at any time.


    Not only would that be a wasted effort, but it could also create a hidden enemy for himself.