Chapter 189 All Their Hopes Were Broken Thoroughly

Not only Emily, but also Katherine and the girls waiting outside were all shocked. They couldn't figured
out what happened even after quite a while.

Unfortunately it was too late!

By then the guard had already rushed into the room. When the guard looked around the empty room
and found the window open wide, he cursed,"Damn it! How dare you try to run away!"

He blew his whistle to signal the others.

Gripped with crippling fear, Emily stood up and screamed at the girls outside,"Run! Run! Run away
quickly!"

"Pah" Before Emily knew it, the guard delivered an open-handed smack to her face, causing her to let
out a startled little gasp of pain. She clutched her stinging face and found blood trickling down from the
corner of her mouth.

Katherine tried to stop the guard, but he kicked her in the abdomen so hard that she staggered
backwards and fell to the ground, writhing in pain.

At last, only Penny was left standing. The guard looked at her sullenly. Penny was so afraid that she
stepped back subconsciously and waved her hands to surrender. "I didn't try to run away. I was the one
who informed you. They'd have escaped if it weren't for me," said Penny.

Pleased, the guard didn't hit Penny, instead he locked her with Emily and Katherine in another
enclosed room for Von to deal with later.

The girls who got out through the window, unfortunately, were all besieged by the men in Dark Area just
minutes after. Soon after, they were all sent back to Dark Area.



They felt extremely regretful. If they had escaped as soon as they got out from the window, just as
Emily had told them, instead of waiting by the window, they would have been long gone for this
terrifying place. Now, all their hopes were crushed thoroughly.

In the room.

"Did you think you were doing something great and noble?" said Penny as she looked down at Emily
with condescension. She continued,"I hate those who think of themselves as the Holy Mother. Do you
think you can save all of us? Do you think that everyone wants to get out of here?"

Penny had a different perspective from the rest of the girls. She knew that she had a beautiful face, so
she wanted to capitalize on it. She didn't want to spend the rest of her life living in squalor anymore. In
her opinion, being in the Dark Area meant that she could have a chance to change her life.

Those who made deals in the Dark Area were either in possession of a good fortune or a high status.
Penny wanted to snatch that rare opportunity at a better life.

However, this woman, Emily, was trying to take away her dreams from her! She couldn't just sit back
and watch it happen!

"How does it feel to see your only hope ruined right before your eyes? It's such a pity that you almost
got away. All those girls who got out from the window are so pitifully stupid, for waiting outside and not
taking the chance to run away when the opportunity had presented itself," Penny sneered
remorselessly.

All of them fell in silence.

Emily didn't feel the need to respond to Penny's hateful comments. Penny's very existence irritated her,
so she pursed her lips and kept to herself. It was hard to judge how horrible a person could be based
on the outset.



Some people could never appreciate help even at the face of imminent doom. Instead, they would
selfishly try to drag those who reached out to help them down with them. Those people were beyond
help.

Meanwhile, Von rushed immediately to Dark Area when he was informed that the girls had nearly
escaped.

Von was so angry that his podgy face contorted in fury. Von's subordinates were gloating over Emily's
failure to escape. They hoped wishfully. "Perhaps boss will leave the girl who wanted to help all the
other women, to us, as compensation for a job well done..." "Wow! That's sounds very exciting!"

"Put this girl in solitary confinement! And keep a close eye on her!" asserted Von. Von's greed for
money was boundless. It's the only thing he loved more, apart from himself. He knew very well the kind
of money he could make by selling a beautiful girl like Emily to the wealthy, thirst-driven degenerates in
the black market. "Go and get some medicine for her face. Be sure not to leave any scars. If she tries
to resist, drug her," said Von.

Nevertheless, his subordinates were disappointed. Fortunately for Von, they were not blinded by lust,
so they followed every order their boss had given them and locked Emily in a room all by herself.

Penny felt discontented at the fact that Emily did not get any punishment. "She will definitely try to
escape again. You need to teach this bitch a lesson!" she argued.

"Shut your mouth! I am the boss here, not you," Von interrupted her coldly with a stern expression, and
he continued,"I don't need you to tell me what to do. Don't forget who you are! How dare you try to tell
me how to run my own business!"

"You... But..." Penny grumbled angrily.



"Don't talk too much, or I'll teach you a lesson!" said Von. Von didn't want to waste his precious time on
Penny. In Von's view, even though Penny was the informer, she was just one of his commodities, just
like the other women. "Lock them in another room!" said Von.

Soon his subordinates came in and dragged Penny and Katherine. They locked the two of them with
the other girls.

All the girls looked at Penny with hateful eyes. A flash of anger and resentment shot through their
hearts, making them want to burn her to ashes.

They could have escaped from this horrible place scot-free, if Penny hadn't been such a treacherous
tattletale! It was all her fault!

"Why are you all looking at me like that?" asked Penny, feeling nervous when she noticed that all the
girls were glaring at her. She was starting to get a bad feeling in her gut.

Before she knew it, the girls rushed to her and held her down to the ground. They tugged her hair,
punched her ace and stomped on her body.

Penny was in so much pain that she wanted to cry out for help, but just as she opened her mouth, one
of the girls stuffed a smelly sock in her mouth, preventing her from making any kind of noise. Penny
had no where to run.

After the girls were done with Penny, the bruise that had begun as a purple stain above her eyebrow
had sunk into the socket itself. Purple welts were scattered across her face like a disease, making her
barely recognizable. With her clothes ripped to shred, she lay on the ground writhing in pain, blood
seeping beneath her skin and ribs fractured.

The degree of cruelty the girls had unleashed on Penny was quite significant.



Some would even say that their hate for Penny was justified, because of what she had done to them.
They were so close to success. They were just about to rid themselves of their binds. They were so
close to freedom!

They could have made it, if not for Penny! It was all her fault!

The most painful feeling in the world was not the lack of hope, but the feeling of having hope and then
watching helplessly as someone crushed and choked the life out of that hope.

Most of the girls were angry and aggrieved. No one looked at Penny after that because they were
afraid that if they looked at Penny again, they would end up killing her.

Desperate, the girls had reached the great yawning chasm of despair, where all hope had died. They
realized that they were not going to get another opportunity like that again, since they would be taken
to the auction tomorrow. What was there left to hope for?

Time passed and seconds slowly ticked away like eternity. Soon the time for the auction had
approached, and the girls were thrown into the pool for a bath. After they were dressed in skimpily
designed clothes, they were locked in their extravagantly decorated cages, and displayed for sale.

This was the usual tradition in Dark Area.

Von paid extra attention to the girls who were extraordinarily beautiful. Unfortunately, after last night,
Penny's disfigured appearance did not enable her to fall under that category anymore. Therefore,
despite her reluctance, Von gave Penny to his subordinates as a reward.

In the end, karma had worked its magic, as Penny ended up being a whore for the delinquents in Dark
Area instead of being a private plaything for a rich old man, as she would have wanted.



Just before the auction started, all the guests in Dark Area wore the custom-made silver masks to
conceal their true identity. At first, it began as a weird fetish for the wealthy, but gradually, the mask
became a mandatory requirement to protect the privacy and the image of all the participants of the
auction in Dark Area.

A mask could be a person's best disguise, but in there, the mask was the safest shield the guests could
avail, as no one could tell who they really were under the mask. It gave them the freedom and power to
participate in whatever heinous activities they wanted to, without any restrictions or rules.

Just before the auction started, all the guests in Dark Area wore the custom-made silver masks to
conceal their true identity. At first, it began as a weird fetish for the wealthy, but gradually, the mask
became a mandatory requirement to protect the privacy and the image of all the participants of the
auction in Dark Area.

A mask could be a person's best disguise, but in there, the mask was the safest shield the guests could
avail, aS no one could tell who they really were under the mask. It gave them the freedom and power to
participate in whatever heinous activities they wanted to, without any restrictions or rules.



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