Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 1175 - 1180 Sinfulness

Chapter 1175: Chapter 1180 Sinfulness

Yang Yi followed upstairs, and then he saw the most infuriating crime scene he had ever witnessed in his life.

One room on the second floor was a storeroom, inside which were several extremely professional cold storage cabinets, the kind used to preserve human organs. In one open cabinet was a pair of kidneys.

"The organs come from the same person. Here we have a pair of kidneys, a liver, lungs, and corneas..."

Yang Yi raised his hand, interrupting Danny, then he said in a low voice, "I get it. If all these organs come from one person, then this person must already be dead. Also, since the person is dead, none of the organs would be wasted."

Organ transplantation, regardless of the organ, always qualifies as a major surgery. Ordinary clinics cannot perform such surgery, and even the mere act of extracting organs cannot be carried out casually by just any doctor.

Furthermore, short-term organ preservation truly requires very specific conditions, which not all places can meet.

Of course, conducting a major operation like organ transplantation has one crucial prerequisite: the compatibility between the donor and the recipient.

Yang Yi suddenly asked, "No heart?"

"That’s right, no heart. Hearts are extracted on-site and used immediately. The other organs are treated as leftover resources, except for the corneas. And kidneys are relatively easier to match with recipients. But at the end of the day, these organs are still treated as leftovers."

It’s obvious that a person without a heart will die—that goes without saying. So for heart transplants, the donor must have died very recently or be a vegetative patient who passes away in the hospital, allowing the transplant procedure to occur immediately afterward.

But the organs in Shahed’s possession clearly weren’t voluntarily donated by anyone.

In every country, organ donation and transplantation procedures are strictly regulated. Moreover, the imbalance between the number of organ donors and the recipients drives the global black-market trade in this field.

Those involved in black-market organ trading are definitely not ordinary people.

Especially heart transplants—these are not like those brainless patients willing to sell a kidney just to buy a smartphone. A person has two kidneys and can live with one, but losing a heart guarantees death.

Therefore, there are plenty of people dealing in corneas and kidney trading on the black market. But heart deals are incredibly rare because every heart transaction inevitably costs a life.

Now that Yang Yi knows Shahed is involved in human organ trading, he must reevaluate Shahed entirely. Moreover, Yang Yi needs to figure out Shahed’s position within this trade network.

Generally speaking, black-market organ trading involves three indispensable stages.

The first is wealthy individuals who need organ transplants.

Ordinary people relying solely on legitimate donation channels basically just wait for death. But wealthy individuals are different. In this world, being rich can buy a lot of things. While it may not buy life itself, it can procure organs, which is essentially a way of buying life.

A rich person needing a heart transplant might pay a high price on the black market to acquire a heart. Someone would need to reach out to this wealthy individual, obtain crucial transplant information like their blood type, and then find a suitable donor. This is one critical chain in the process.

The second chain involves the hospital or doctors. This is the stage with the highest technical requirements. Since not every doctor can perform organ transplant surgeries, reliable doctors, well-equipped operating theaters, and excellent post-operative recovery conditions are necessary resources controlled by key players in this market.

The third chain is the organ donor.

Even if offered vast sums of money, few people would willingly die for it. Hence, locating donors and obtaining matched organs represents the lowest technical threshold but the highest risk within the black market.

Now, there’s no doubt that Shahed occupies the organ supplier role, which is the lowest tier and bloodiest part of the hierarchy. For Shahed, the concept of ’organ donors’ doesn’t exist—just dead bodies.

If Shahed only provides organs, his threat level isn’t particularly high. But if he controls all three major stages of organ trading, his power becomes formidable.

How profitable is organ trading?

Organs can essentially be considered priceless. A wealthy individual paying £100,000 for a kidney on the black market is normal. A millionaire offering £1 million for a kidney is also standard. But for a heart, a billionaire might pay £1 million—or, in an urgent situation, where they have endless money—a staggering £10 million.

There aren’t many wealthy people needing organ transplants, so the market size is limited, but the prices are boundless.

Finding out Shahed’s rank within the organ black-market hierarchy is just a matter of asking.

Yang Yi exhaled softly and said, "Do we have someone alive to interrogate?"

Danny immediately gestured, speaking in a low voice, "He’s speaking Arabic. Can’t interrogate him properly."

A man was dragged forward, and Brian stepped up, addressing him in Arabic, "Talk. I’ll let you die painlessly. But if you refuse to share what you know, I’ll carve out your organs one by one right here."

After finishing, Brian extended his hand toward Yang Yi and said, "Borrow your knife."

Yang Yi drew his knife, and the North African man kneeling on the ground cried out in terror, "I don’t know! I know nothing!"

Brian reached for Yang Yi’s knife, and Yang Yi knew this wasn’t the time for mere intimidation. He quickly withdrew the knife and said, "Disgusting. Use another one..."

Ah Ming immediately handed over a small knife—not a surgical blade—and blandly said, "Use mine. You can toss it afterward."

Brian took the knife, then jabbed and gouged. An eyeball dropped to the floor.

"Twice today I’ve witnessed things that have shattered my moral threshold. So yes, I’m fully capable of hollowing you out. Now tell me everything you know."

The man screamed in agony and immediately yelled, "I’ll tell you anything you want to know!"

"Where is Shahed?"

"He left twenty minutes ago."

"Were these organs extracted here or elsewhere?"

"Elsewhere, but I truly don’t know where! My job is to watch over this place and handle the delivery of sold organs."

"How often do you sell organs?"

"It’s not fixed. Some organs are transplanted immediately on-site. Most of what I manage here are... leftover organs. Sometimes we make sales, but many exceed the time limit and require discard processing. There’s an incinerator in the back to burn them..."

"What happens to the bodies after the organs are harvested?"

"I don’t know. That’s not part of my responsibilities..."