Name: Jiang Zheyu

Gender: Female

Current Spiritual Power Value: S+ (1288/3000)

Points: 512

Jiang Zheyu’s Spiritual Power Level had finally broken through S-rank to become S+!

She felt a faint jolt in her mind, and her entire being felt invigorated. Even the ache in her legs from standing so long had vanished!

She had purified the entire circle of people around her and had even secretly purified those in the second circle by "accidentally" brushing her fingers against theirs.

It wasn’t just Jiang Zheyu who felt her mind clear and refreshed. The Beastmen she had purified around her felt it too.

It was a comfort that spread from the inside out.

The young man next to her was a little confused. ’The cage hasn’t changed,’ he thought. ’There are still just as many people. How come I feel so much better after just closing my eyes for a bit?’

The other Beastmen nearby felt the same way, but none of them voiced it.

Jiang Zheyu had wanted to continue purifying their Beastification Values.

But then, a sound came from the cell’s entrance.

After a loud rattling of locks, more than a dozen Beastmen streamed in from outside. Jiang Zheyu immediately abandoned any thought of further purification.

These Beastmen first sat down on the sofas outside.

"Come on, we’re drawing lots, same as before," the Beastman from yesterday said, holding out a tube of lots. "You’ll pick your people in the order you draw. Once you have enough, you can go."

The dozen or so Beastmen each went up and drew a lot.

Jiang Zheyu stealthily probed them with her spiritual power. As soon as she determined their Spiritual Power Levels, she quickly retracted it.

The Beastmen outside generally had S+ Spiritual Power Levels. There were even a few at S++, and it was from them that she quickly withdrew her spiritual power, not daring to probe any further.

Still, most of the Beastmen outside had the same Spiritual Power Level as her.

However, even among those with the same Spiritual Power Level, Jiang Zheyu’s spiritual power was slightly stronger.

’Should I try to get picked for one of those departments? I don’t even know if anyone will choose me. Or should I stay here, try to control the two S+ guards, and wait for a chance to escape? It’s a dilemma.’

The first man who walked in was a mountain of muscle, with a scar cutting across his brow. He looked like a gangster.

Jiang Zheyu: ...

’Then again, they practically are gangsters, aren’t they? They’ve kidnapped so many innocent Beastmen!’

"I’m from the Erotica Department," the man stated, his words clipped and direct.

The next second, Beastmen throughout the cells shot their hands into the air, all shouting at the top of their lungs.

"Sir, look at me! Look at me!"

"Sir, pick me! Pick me! I’ve got an eight-pack, I’m perfect for the Erotica Department!"

"Please, sir! Pick me! Pick me!"

...

Jiang Zheyu was jostled about as the Beastmen around her frantically waved their raised hands, their voices raw and desperate as they tried to be heard.

Even the young Beastman beside her was waving his arms and shouting with all his might, his fair, rosy-cheeked face twisted with extreme anxiety.

Jiang Zheyu’s ears were ringing, and a sense of confusion washed over her.

’Wait, the Erotica Department obviously isn’t a good place to be. It sounds like it’s for... that kind of stuff. Why are so many Beastmen desperate to join?’

"Hey, is the pay good in that department or something? Why is everyone so frantic?" Jiang Zheyu asked the young man beside her, completely baffled.

Beads of sweat had formed on the young man’s forehead from the exertion and the crush of the crowd. Hearing her, he answered quickly, "Did you see the Beastmen who came in? There are only eighteen of them, and each one will only pick five people. That means only ninety people will be chosen! There are over a hundred of us here. Anyone who isn’t picked will be sent to the ’selling room.’"

"’The selling room?’" Jiang Zheyu asked, a bad feeling creeping over her.

"It’s where they buy and sell organs. We won’t even have a chance to live," the young Beastman said, his face pale. "Before, lots of departments would come to choose. Only one or two would be left behind. I don’t know why so few showed up today. This time, dozens of people will be sent to the selling room."

The young Beastman went back to waving his arms and shouting.

’A chill ran down Jiang Zheyu’s spine. So that’s it. It wasn’t that they wanted to join these departments... they just didn’t want to die!’

’Getting into any department meant you could at least survive. But if you weren’t chosen, you didn’t even have a chance to live.’

"AAAAAH! LOOK AT ME! BOSS, LOOK AT ME!" Jiang Zheyu frantically joined the waving, shouting crowd.

’My image? Who cares. This isn’t my real face anyway, so it doesn’t matter.’

’This is about survival!’

’Just focus on surviving for now!’

’This is terrifying. Are the lives of Beast Slaves really this worthless?’

Jiang Zheyu screamed until her throat felt like it was on fire. The waving arms in front of her completely blocked her from view. In that moment, her conviction that Si Yu’s crimes were unforgivable only deepened.

She cursed Si Yu and his entire family line, eighteen generations back.

Soon, the leader of the Erotica Department had chosen his five people. They were all tall, well-built Beastmen.

The next Beastman walked in.

"I’m from the Group Livestreaming Department," the Beastman announced casually, his eyes already scanning the prisoners.

The surrounding Beastmen were still fervently selling themselves.

Trapped in the crowd, Jiang Zheyu could feel the body heat of the Beastmen around her rising, along with her own. Her forehead was soon slick with sweat, and she felt suffocated, starved for air.

She realized the Beastmen closest to the front were the most likely to be chosen, so those in the back kept pushing forward. Jiang Zheyu was forced to press forward with them, but there was nowhere left to go!

Only when a layer of people from the front was picked did those behind have a chance to push forward.

The third Beastman...

The fourth Beastman...

...

The fifteenth Beastman...

The seventeenth Beastman...

Finally, with the seventeenth Beastman—the one from the Pet Abuse Department—the young man beside her was chosen.

Jiang Zheyu saw his eyes turn red as if he was about to cry.

He was crying and laughing at the same time, despite having been chosen.

It was a relief not to have to die, of course. But the "Pet Abuse Department" meant that Beastmen were forced into their ordinary animal forms to be tortured for the viewing pleasure of others.

It was an existence of extreme pain. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Jiang Zheyu only found this out by asking another Beastman. It meant that cute calico cat was going to be tortured.

Her heart plummeted.

The calico cat had been so kind, always answering her questions at night.

’Jiang Zheyu was heartbroken, but right now, she was more terrified of her own impending doom.’

’She only had S+ Spiritual Power. There weren’t just others at her level here—there were some with even higher Spiritual Power Levels.’

The last Beastman walked in.

The leader from the eighteenth department.