Swinging her bare feet on a high tree branch, she gnawed on the roasted chicken Xiao Du had grilled for her, boredly looking up at the sky.
I don't know how many people Comrade Zhou from the Procurement Department will bring today, and whether that Comrade Xiao Zhao will be here again, that waist, that butt...
"Help... help... ugh... let go..."
"Slap~"
"Shut up, you bitch. Not many people come to this place. Hehe~ Relying on others to save you is less realistic than begging me to hurry up later, hehehe..."
Just as Su Jiaojiao brought the chicken leg to her mouth, she heard a woman's cry for help and a man's lewd words coming from deep within the small woods, causing her to frown.
The killing intent in her heart at this moment could not be suppressed no matter how hard she tried.
Su Jiaojiao lightly jumped down from the tree fork. As her toes touched the ground... with a light touch, she activated her Spiritual Power and swiftly swept towards the source of the sound.
Upon getting closer, she discovered a bare-chested, dark-faced strong man pressing down on a female comrade, ignoring her cries and struggles, burying his head to tear at her clothes.
This immediately brought to mind the cries day and night, those pairs of desperate eyes, which eventually became those dried corpses...
This almost made Su Jiaojiao's eyes turn red with anger.
She bent over, picked up a small stone from the ground, flicked it with her fingertip, and accurately struck the sleeping point of the bare-chested, dark-faced man.
The woman who had been struggling found that the strange man's entire weight pressing on her suddenly stopped moving.
When she slapped him and he didn't move, her crying shifted from panic to hesitation.
Slowly, she laboriously pushed the man off her, haphazardly wiped the tears from her face, quickly straightened her messy clothes, and her head rapidly scanned the Surroundings in a panic.
Looking at the man lying beside her who had almost ruined her entire life, now motionless on the ground.
Hatingly, she picked up a large stone nearby and raised it high. If she smashed it down heavily, even if his Head didn't crack open, it would keep him from waking up for a lifetime.
But she sadly discovered that she couldn't bring herself to do it, because she couldn't get past the barrier in her heart.
The hatred in her heart and the self-loathing for her own cowardice made the lips of this woman, who was only in her early twenties, tremble, and tears streamed down her face.
She could only throw the stone in her hand aside and run away with a tearful face.
Before the woman left, Su Jiaojiao was already hiding behind the Bushes, not intending to come out, and didn't even spare a glance for the fleeing woman.
She just coldly watched the man lying unconscious on the ground.
If that woman had truly intended to smash this man to death with that stone, Su Jiaojiao wouldn't have intervened; she would have only helped clean up afterward.
After the woman ran far away, Su Jiaojiao walked out from behind the Bushes, holding that God-Beating Whip in her hand.
Before even getting close, she lashed out the whip towards the dark-faced man. The whip, which wasn't long, seemed to grow as Su Jiaojiao swung it, meeting the wind...
With a "Slap~," it struck his chest.
Although this strike left no visible mark, it caused the man, who was in a coma, to sit up abruptly as if facing death. He immediately arched his back, mouth wide open... but couldn't make a sound, clutching his chest tightly and rolling on the ground.
"Slap~" He received another lash on his back.
He roared silently, twisting his body so his back was pressed underneath. He writhed on the ground like a maggot due to the pain.
"Do you want to beg for mercy?" Su Jiaojiao stared at him and spoke coldly.
The bare-chested, dark-faced man heard someone speak. He laboriously turned his Head to look in the direction of the voice. He saw a small Yatou not far away, yet he didn't feel the slightest bit less fear towards her because of her small size.
But after regaining his senses and hearing what she said, a flicker of surprise crossed his eyes. He nodded repeatedly on the ground, hoping Su Jiaojiao would spare him, but the malice in his eyes couldn't be hidden.
"Heh~" A sneer escaped Su Jiaojiao's lips.
Truly not well-behaved!
"Instead of begging me to let you go, it would be more realistic to beg me to hurry up later," Su Jiaojiao repeated exactly what the man had said to the woman earlier back to him.
I wonder if killing people like this incurs karmic retribution!
Next, the only sound remaining in the area was the "slap, slap~" of the whip.
The man went from having vicious eyes at the beginning, to begging, and then to fear.
Su Jiaojiao showed no mercy whatsoever.
She stopped only when she felt his soul was about to dissipate. Killing him, regardless of whether it incurred karmic retribution, wasn't worth risking anything for people like him.
She formed a hand seal and injected a stream of Spiritual Power into his Head, scrambling his intellect. Isn't this also quite good? Letting him be an idiot for a lifetime.
When Su Jiaojiao returned to the crossroads, two military trucks were already parked there.
Uncle Zhou from the Procurement Department—everyone called him Zhou Pangzi—was occasionally sticking his large Head out to look around, and three or four people stood by the front and rear of the trucks, vigilantly observing the Surroundings.
Mm~ Comrade Zhao was there too.
Heh~ My originally bad mood improved quite a bit!
"Hey, Lao Su~ Trading with them isn't the first or second time. Why is it taking so long this time? Are they reliable or not?" Zhou Pangzi subconsciously kicked the Da Tuanjie at his feet, confirming it was still there before feeling relieved.
Su Fu didn't say anything upon hearing this; he was also feeling anxious, worried only about his daughter's safety.
It wasn't until he saw his daughter walking leisurely towards them, chewing on a foxtail grass and waving an unknown weed in her hand. If she were a man, she would perfectly fit the description of a loafer.
Su Fu's originally anxious heart immediately turned to anger. So, we were worried sick here for half a day, and this little brat was just out patrolling the mountain?
"Can't get angry, can't get angry! She's my own flesh and blood." Su Fu secretly brainwashed himself to suppress the anger in his heart.
Seeing that he had been muttering to himself without paying attention to him, Zhou Pangzi followed his Line of sight to look over.
Because Zhou Pangzi was a bit nearsighted, he could only see a figure approaching, which somewhat resembled Lao Su's daughter. Uncertain, he nudged Su Fu with his elbow and Asked, "Lao Su~ What are you mumbling to yourself about? Isn't that your daughter?"
"She might not be now." Su Fu turned his Head, gave Zhou Pangzi a deep look, then opened the car door, got out, and strode towards Su Jiaojiao.
"What?" Zhou Pangzi looked completely bewildered. But that didn't stop him from opening his door, getting out, and chasing after Su Fu.
Due to the weight issue, the entire military truck shook slightly the moment he jumped out.
"Where have you been? I thought something happened to you." Although Su Fu complained with his mouth, his eyes scanned Su Jiaojiao from head to toe. Only after confirming she was unharmed did his heart settle back down.
"With all this stuff, didn't I have to check the Surroundings to see if we had tails?" Su Jiaojiao gave her father a look that implied, 'You know.'
Zhou Pangzi, carrying a Bianzhi Dai, panted as he ran over, followed by three other people.
Mm! Su Jiaojiao knew they were the laborers for this trip.
"Hello, Comrade Xiao Su, we meet again. Thank you for finding the supplies. For helping us improve our meals."
He understood the rules; don't ask what shouldn't be asked. It was truly too difficult to get anything oily to eat now.
"Uncle Zhou, you are too Polite. Serving the people. Come, I'll take you there." With that, Su Jiaojiao led the group deeper into the woods.