Journey to the West: Man in heaven, working nine to five

#2093 - The cruel butler

In a short while, they arrived at the gate of the backyard of the Prefect's residence. The gate was tightly closed, with shouts and children's cries constantly coming from inside.

Tang Sanzang and the others approached the gate and peered inside through the cracks. The scene inside filled them with horror.

A group of people were busily working in the backyard, with the steward who had greeted them earlier shouting and directing them.

On a nearby pillar, a group of children were tied up. Some of them were crying and screaming, while others were too scared to move.

On the ground were the bodies of several children. The sight of these dead children was so tragic that people couldn't bear to look at them.

The heads of the dead children had been smashed. Their heads were like cracked watermelons, with blood constantly flowing out, staining a large area of the ground red.

"The amount is not enough, bring another one over."

The steward ordered his subordinates.

Hearing the order, two burly men, dressed as servants, dragged over a bound child.

The child was clearly terrified, with a blank look in his eyes, as if he had forgotten how to cry or be afraid.

"Bring the hammer."

The steward stretched out his hand, and a servant handed him a hammer covered in blood.

The steward tapped the hammer in his hand, then cracked a smile. In the midst of his smile, he suddenly swung the hammer.

The raised hammer smashed down on the child's head. His skilled technique showed that this was not the first time he had done such a thing. Who knows how many children had died at his hands.

The steward ordered his subordinates.

The servants immediately used the tools they had prepared to extract the child's brain marrow through the bloody hole.

After the brain marrow was extracted, the child's body was thrown aside, the bloody hole in his head still oozing blood.

"That damned bastard."

"They are actually extracting children's brain marrow."

"I have never seen such a vicious person."

Witnessing the scene of the steward and his men killing children and extracting their brain marrow, Tang Sanzang and the others outside could no longer suppress the anger in their hearts.

Sun Wukong jumped up and kicked the backyard gate to pieces. Chu Hao, Tang Sanzang, and the others quickly walked in.

"You... how did you get here?"

The steward and his men were stunned by the sound of the gate being kicked down. After reacting, the steward saw Tang Sanzang and the others and immediately questioned them.

"You villainous bastard, you dare to question us?"

Tang Sanzang glared, his eyes revealing boundless killing intent as he looked at the steward.

"You dare to intrude into the Prefect's residence, what is your crime? Take them down!"

Seeing that he couldn't intimidate Tang Sanzang and the others, the steward immediately ordered the servants.

Hearing the order, the servants immediately grabbed sticks and clubs from the side and charged towards Tang Sanzang and the others, each with a fierce expression.

"You scum, today, your old Pig will settle accounts with you!"

Seeing the servants coming, Zhu Bajie rushed forward first.

Dealing with these servants, Zhu Bajie didn't need any weapons at all. These servants were also blood-stained murderers, so Zhu Bajie naturally wouldn't be polite.

Zhu Bajie rushed over and punched the two approaching servants.

The force of this punch was enough to shatter even a rock, let alone a head. The fate of the two servants was predictable. Their heads exploded under Zhu Bajie's punch.

Seeing Zhu Bajie so brave, the remaining servants were terrified and wanted to run away.

But how could Zhu Bajie let them escape? In a flash, he caught up with three of them again and struck them with two heavy palms.

Under the two palms, the bones of the two guys were shattered, and a hollow indentation appeared in their bodies, and they died instantly.

"Spare us, please let us go."

"Don't kill us, we are just following orders."

"Please, elders, have mercy."

The remaining three or four servants were completely terrified and didn't even have the courage to run away, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing like pounding garlic, begging for mercy.

"You... what are you going to do?"

Seeing that seven or eight servants had turned into this state in the blink of an eye, the steward was also frightened, and his speech was slurred.

"What are we going to do? We are going to make you suffer retribution."

"You cruel murderer, you venomous scum!"

"If I don't beat you into meat paste today, I won't be able to quell the anger in my heart."

Tang Sanzang and the others looked at the steward, the anger in their eyes almost bursting out. The four of them each displayed their fists and feet, rushed over, and beat the steward mercilessly.

Not to mention that this steward was just a mortal, even a Da Luo Golden Immortal couldn't withstand the full force of Tang Sanzang and the other three's beating.

The steward let out a pig-slaughtering scream, accompanied by a series of bone-cracking sounds.

"Stop hitting him first, he is not the mastermind. Let's ask him clearly first."

Chu Hao said to Tang Sanzang and the others, telling them to stop temporarily.

Fortunately, Chu Hao spoke early, so the steward was able to keep a breath. His whole body was almost unrecognizable, and about sixty percent of his bones were broken.

"Spare me, spare me..."

The steward was still begging for mercy, but he was too injured and didn't have the strength to make a sound.

"Why did you kill these children and take their brain marrow?"

Chu Hao asked the steward.

"Quickly confess, otherwise, I will immediately smash ninety-nine eighty-one holes in your head."

Zhu Bajie took the hammer that the steward used from the side and waved it in front of the steward, making a gesture to smash his head.

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything truthfully. This is all what the Prefect ordered me to do, I'm just following orders."

At this time, in order to save his life, the steward naturally wouldn't hide anything and told the truth.

"It really is the Prefect!"

In fact, Tang Sanzang and the others had already deduced that without the Prefect's order, how dare a steward do such a cruel thing in the inner courtyard of the Prefect's residence.

Now it can be confirmed that the guy who was falsely accused of being a thief was telling the truth. These children were not adopted orphans, but children of the common people whom they had snatched through illegal means.

The Prefect usually pretends to be fair and honest, but secretly does such vicious and cruel things.

"But why would the Prefect kill children and take their brain marrow?"

This made Tang Sanzang and the others feel puzzled. What could the children's brain marrow be used for? It can't be eaten.

"That's because the Prefect is not a real man. He is a eunuch. He wants to use the children's brain marrow as medicine to make himself a man again."

The steward said to Tang Sanzang and the others.