"Brother! Are we really not keeping those two women?"
"The situation is tense! We can't keep them! Each of us takes one, and we bury them after we've had our fill! Just don't mess anything up!"
"Heh heh! Deal!"
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When Song Ning woke up, she happened to hear unfamiliar conversations from outside, followed by the sound of a lock being opened.
And in front of her was a magnified, unfamiliar face.
A girl of seventeen or eighteen, her face covered in bloodstains, was shaking her shoulder with a look of panic.
"Sister! You're awake! We... we're going to die! They're going to kill us!"
Song Ning glanced at the girl, then quickly surveyed her surroundings—
Peeling earthen walls, a worn oil lamp casting a soybean-sized halo of light, illuminating a small, damp, and dilapidated space.
For a moment, she was blank. Where was this?
She had been in a car accident. She was supposed to be going on a blind date—
My phone!
Where was her phone?!
She quickly sat up and frantically searched beside her, but felt nothing but straw.
A sharp pain shot through her head. She clutched her head with both hands, almost fainting...
"Sister! Don't, don't faint! Those two were sold off too! It's just us two left! I'm scared..." The girl's voice was already choked with sobs.
But before she could finish speaking, the wooden door in the corner creaked open.
The girl jumped up in fright and huddled with Song Ning in the corner of the wall.
Two men with lewd expressions appeared at the doorway, one with long bangs, the other with a little mustache.
The moment they saw Song Ning, both men seemed to freeze—
"Yo! This chick actually woke up! She was almost dead this afternoon!" said the man with the little mustache.
"Brother, what do we do now..." said the man with long bangs, rubbing his hands.
The man with the little mustache grinned sinisterly, "What are you waiting for! Let's get down to business first!"
"Alright!" The man with long bangs grabbed the girl beside him and dragged her out.
"Let go—let go of me—spare me!" The screams and cries faded into the distance...
The man with the little mustache squatted in front of Song Ning, his lecherous gaze sweeping over her face several times.
"Tsk! Such a waste of a pretty face, too bad she's sickly! Oh well, it'll be satisfying for me, not a complete waste!"
Song Ning's headache had just subsided when the man with the little mustache lecherously pulled her up with a grin.
She didn't resist. Using the upward momentum, she bent her knees and fiercely drove them into the man with the little mustache's crotch—
The man with the little mustache was completely unprepared. He never expected this sickly girl, who had been burning with fever all the way and was on the verge of death, to dare to do this!
Accompanied by a hoarse, almost distorted scream, the man with the little mustache let go and rolled on the ground, clutching his crotch.
Song Ning didn't hesitate. Her feet moved like the wind, and she repeatedly kicked the man with the little mustache's vital spots, not missing a single blow.
At first, screams could still be heard, but as she continued kicking, the sounds gradually subsided.
Song Ning, not taking any chances, delivered another hard kick to his crotch.
The man with the little mustache could no longer make any sound. His body just convulsed violently, curling into a ball, like a hedgehog without quills.
Seeing that he would be incapacitated for a while, Song Ning hurriedly pulled open the wooden door.
It was pitch black outside the door, with only faint, scattered lights visible in the distance.
Without much deliberation, she headed towards the faint crying sounds—
In a nearby earthen house, the door was wide open. Beside the oil lamp, the man with long bangs had already stripped off the girl's outer clothes, while continuously slapping her face...
"Cry! I'll make you cry! The more you cry, the more excited I get!"
Song Ning pulled out the thickest piece of firewood from the pile outside and, without hesitation, rushed over, smashing it down on the back of the man with long bangs' head.
With just one blow, the man with long bangs fell silent and collapsed limply onto the ground.
Song Ning, not taking any chances, went forward and delivered two more hard blows before dropping the firewood stick and pulling the girl out from under the man with long bangs.
The girl's eyes were vacant. Her already injured cheek was now a bloody mess, a horrific sight.
Song Ning gently patted her shoulder while warily looking around, and said in a low voice:
"We need to find a way to escape as soon as possible!"
The girl looked up, sobbing, "Sister! I, I'll listen to you!"
Song Ning nudged the man with long bangs on the ground with her foot; there was no reaction.
She reached into his back pocket and found a flashlight, then pocketed the box of matches by the oil lamp and pulled the girl out the door.
This was a village located deep in the mountains.
According to the memories Song Ning had just received, they had been led by those human traffickers for at least six days into the deep mountains.
Yes, Song Ning had sorted out her memories.
She had been running a private hospital and was an "Outstanding Youth," but she had a car accident on her way to a blind date, and then woke up in the body of a girl with the same name from the 1970s...
This girl's background—
Simply put, her parents were dead, her elder brother was foolish, her uncle and aunt were abusive, her cousins bullied her, and she endured everything like an ox or a horse...
Her grandfather, the only one who loved her, had arranged a marriage for her, saying that when she turned eighteen, the other party would come to the village to marry her.
But her grandfather had passed away, and she was now twenty, yet the person never showed up.
Her aunt mocked her for daydreaming and wanted her to become the second wife of the town mayor's forty-something-year-old idiot brother, in exchange for a bride price to marry off her cousin.
That idiot had been foolish since birth and would expose himself to any woman he saw. The town mayor had previously arranged a wife for him, but within a year, she went mad, reportedly driven mad by the abuse.
She didn't want to repeat that woman's fate. She mustered all the courage she had in her life and escaped the day before the wedding.
Clutching the address her grandfather had left her, she wanted to find her "marriage partner." This was her only way out, and the only hope she had lived for all these years!
Unfortunately, the moment she stepped onto the train, she was targeted by human traffickers!
With no experience of going out, she and six other abducted girls were taken into the deep mountains by this group of traffickers.
Frightened and shocked, she fell ill with a persistent high fever, which led to her losing her life in a daze, and her soul being replaced by Song Ning.
The other girls had all been "dealt with" along the way. Only she, the sickly one, and this girl named Lan Ying, whose face was injured, were left as "unsold goods" and had to be "disposed of"!
Song Ning didn't have time to think further. The current situation was not optimistic; she had to save her life first before thinking about anything else...
She pulled Lan Ying and carefully skirted around the house, running towards the interior of the village.
Time was running out for them.
Weaving through the village paths, Song Ning chose a courtyard wall and climbed over it.
Inside this courtyard was the largest earthen house in the area.
She quietly crept to the pigsty, struck a match, and looked. There were three large and one small pig crammed together, sleeping.
Looking further to the side, the chicken coop was right next to it. At least a dozen chickens were densely packed in the chicken cage.
Alright! This is the place!
Song Ning casually pulled a stick of firewood from the nearby woodpile and said softly to the three sleeping pigs:
"Brother pigs! Excuse me!"
With that, she swung the stick down fiercely a few times. The three pigs jolted awake from their sleep, screaming and charging wildly—
After crashing into the wall a few times, without Song Ning's guidance, they rushed out of the pigsty and even broke down the adjacent chicken coop.
The hens and roosters in the chicken coop were all startled and took flight, flapping and crowing...
The pigs ran around the courtyard, then, in a panic, rushed out the courtyard gate, causing the dogs in the opposite courtyard to bark furiously...
The previously silent mountain village suddenly became lively.
Lan Ying was crouching by the wall. Song Ning pulled her up and they ran back.
As Song Ning ran, she struck a match and threw it onto the haystack she had spotted earlier. The dry grass quickly ignited.
However, they hadn't run far when a tall, dark figure lunged at them—
"Damn woman! Trying to run? No way!"
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