21 Such an Inhumane Person

Before Li Qiang could see his surroundings clearly, he was kicked to the ground.

Then, a dirty boot stepped on his face.

Li Qiang was dumbfounded.

Li Qiang's father's voice came from the room.

"Son, these people are unreasonable!"

"Teach them a lesson!"

However, just as he finished speaking, there was a muffled sound, followed by Mr. Li's painful whimpers.

It was obvious that they had been beaten.

Li Qiang's eyes were wide with fear as he tried to look around his house.

He saw three men who wore hostile expressions on their faces. They were staring at him with sinister smiles on their faces.

Meanwhile, Li Qiang's father was curled up on the ground in pain. His mother was hiding in a corner with his little sister in her arms. There were tears all over her face.

"Who are you? There must be a mistake."

"My family have been honest and well-behaved civilians all their life. They can't possibly have borrowed money from you."

Li Qiang still had one last bit of hope.

However, the next moment, the man who was stepping on him squatted down and showed him an IOU.

"Kid, take a look at this. This is the IOU. There's nothing more that needs to be said."

"When your father borrowed the money, he said that he wanted to borrow the money to pay for his son's schooling."

"You still want to deny it?"

Li Qiang finally understood.

It turned out that the money that his father gave him had been borrowed from loan sharks!

Immediately, a wave of fury crashed through him.

But his anger was not directed at the loan sharks. He was angry at his father!

"By doing this, he is deliberately dragging me down!" he thought in resentment.

Before he could react, Li Qiang's father caught his breath and spoke again.

"At that time, we agreed that I'd borrow 200,000 yuan from you for a year with 30% interest."

"It's only been two days and you're already asking for money. You even want 140,000 yuan!"

"You're bullying honest people like us!"

Hearing this, the loan sharks actually laughed out loud, as if they had heard a huge joke.

"Old man, don't spout nonsense. I said I wanted 138,000 yuan, not 140,000 yuan."

"The Black Dragon Gang takes our contractual obligations very seriously. We will collect the exact amount listed on the IOU."

As he spoke, that person even pointed at the words on the IOU in front of Li Qiang and read it out loud.

"Today, I borrowed 200,000 yuan from Liu Yong. The daily interest is 30%."

"On the first day, the amount rose to 260,000. On the second day, it rose to 338,000 yuan."

"I'm asking you for 138,000 yuan of interest now. Is there a problem?"

Hearing this, Li Qiang was shocked.

The word "daily" in front of the interest was so small that nobody could see it clearly.

However, at the same time, he did not dare to retort to these loan sharks.

This was because Li Qiang heard the other party claim that they were from the Black Dragon Gang.

The Black Dragon Gang was a powerful and illegal Awakened organization.

If he were to fight these people head-on, he would die even if he had a few lives.

Seeing that Li Qiang was silent, Liu Yong of the Black Dragon Gang laughed out loud.

"Kid, I won't bully your family," he said.

"As long as you're willing to dig for ores in the mystic mine for five years, this debt will be completely written off."

"How's that?"

Li Qiang trembled when he heard that.

Digging for energy ores in the mystic mines?

This was no different from asking him to risk his life for his job.

He had heard of such things many times.

Danger lurked everywhere in the Mystic Realm. Miners lost their lives every day.

Although powerful people were guarding the mine most of the time, if there was an emergency, these experts would abandon the miners without hesitation and flee.

In their eyes, miners were expendable.

If they died, the Black Dragon Gang simply needed to recruit new ones.

Naturally, Li Qiang was unwilling to get himself killed out there. However, he did not dare to fight back against the Black Dragon Gang.

Li Qiang's father knew when he saw Li Qiang's expression.

These people were much stronger than his son, who had an intermediate class. Li Qiang was no match for them at all.

Suddenly, Mr. Li seemed to have made up his mind. He rushed in front of Liu Yong and knelt.

"Sir, I'm begging you."

"My son is still young. Let him go."

"Take me with you! I'll go to the mines and work, all right?" he pleaded.

With that, Mr. Li pressed his forehead to the ground hard several times. In a short while, the skin on his forehead was broken, staining the ground red with his blood.

Li Qiang was stunned to see that. Mrs. Li also ran over crying and held onto Liu Yong's leg, begging desperately.

"If you think this isn't enough, I'll go too. The two of us will go in exchange for our son."

"Please let my son go!"

They lived their lives for and pinned their hopes on their children.

The elderly couple was willing to do anything so long as their children survived.

However, such a plea did not affect the members of the Black Dragon Gang at all.

Liu Yong kicked Mrs. Li away and sneered in disdain.

"You want to exchange for your son with only you two?"

"Aren't you aware of the kind of people you are?"

"Your son has an intermediate class. His chances of survival in the mine are much higher than yours."

"If we take the two of you away and you die in the mine on the first day, who will pay us for the money that we have lost?"

Seeing that Liu Yong was unwilling to agree, Mr. Li and Mrs. Li wanted to say something else.

Suddenly, Li Qiang raised his right arm with great difficulty.

Initially, Liu Yong thought that Li Qiang wanted to resist and was already prepared to teach him a lesson.

Unexpectedly, Li Qiang raised his hand and pointed at his trembling sister in the corner.

"Take her away too! Three people in exchange for one should be enough!" he yelled.

"Although she's young, she's very valuable."

"You can… You can make her a child bride, or anything else you want!"

"Don't take me away. I'm not going to the mines!"

Hearing this, Mr. Li and Mrs. Li looked at their son in disbelief.

At this moment, their son felt foreign and unfamiliar to them.

They were heartbroken.

Not to mention Mr. Li and Mrs. Li, even the people from the Black Dragon Gang could not stand it anymore. They had never witnessed something like this before.

This man could betray his parents and little sister just so that he would survive. He was utterly inhumane!

However, Liu Yong rolled his eyes and sneered.

"I'm sorry, this child is too young. She's only worth 20,000 yuan at most!"

"Including your parents, the three of them are barely worth 300,000 yuan!"

"It's still not enough to repay your debt!"

At this moment, Li Qiang scrunched his face as though he was deep in thought. After a long time, someone came to mind.

"I-I still have classmates!" he blurted.

"There's a student in our school who has awakened a special class! You can take him away!"

A special class!

Hearing this, Liu Yong and the others were inwardly startled.

That was a good thing!

Every special class had unique abilities that the majority of the population did not have. As long as they could control that student, he might be able to earn a lot of money for them in the future!

Even if it was a completely useless class, they could still abduct that student and sell him to wealthy people who had perverse collection needs.

After all, rare things were precious!

However, Liu Yong was still wary and did not agree immediately.

Instead, he asked warily, "Kid, are you trying to play tricks on us?"

"I know you're from Sunrise High School. Are you trying to trick me into going to your school?"

When Li Qiang heard this, not only was he not afraid, he even felt that there was a chance of them agreeing to his suggestion.

He immediately said, "As long as you let me off. I'll go."

"You guys don't have to go!"

"I-I have a good relationship with him. He won't be guarded against me!"

"I'll bring him out of the school!"

Although these words were not very convincing, Liu Yong was still tempted by the massive benefits they would reap.

"All right, I'll give you a chance."

"As long as you bring him to me, your debt will be written off."

"But if you dare to play any tricks…"

"Then you'd better pray that you can study at Sunrise High School for the rest of your life and won't have to leave the school," Liu Yong threatened.