Chapter 56: Qi Shuihan After Gaining His Freedom (Part 1)

The setting sun cast its last rays upon the tall buildings, their shadows lying obliquely on the street. A tall backpacker moved among the shadows. His head, clad in a fisherman's hat, cautiously observed the corners not touched by the light.

The backpacker's forward stride suddenly wobbled, and he braced his head against his hand to steady himself.

He closed his eyes, rummaged through his backpack, and with trembling hands pulled out a small glass jar from his pocket. The jar fell out of the bag, shattered with a crash, and colorful candies bounced everywhere.

The backpacker squatted down and grabbed a few candies to eat.

As her dizziness subsided, she continued searching for candies, unknowingly entering an area where the light did not reach.

In the shadows behind him, the gaunt zombie slowly rose and approached the fresh meat that had been delivered to his door—a backpacker squatting on the ground, struggling with a candy bean stuck in a crack in the ground.

The two are only one step apart.

Gunshots rang out in the air.

The zombie's head exploded instantly. Brain matter splattered onto the person who was crouching down.

The person who had been hunched over, digging into the ground, raised a pair of fox-like eyes. The sharp, silvery light at their fingertips slowly receded.

Behind me, several pairs of footsteps approached.

"Wow, that was close!" The girl's voice sounded somewhat innocent. "Why didn't she move?"

The girl tried to step forward but was stopped by someone.

"Hey! Are you alright?" The middle-aged man poked him with the barrel of his gun.

Qi Shuihan slumped to the side, her fisherman's hat slipping off, her silky black hair cascading down, shimmering slightly. Her pale face, still shaken, made her striking features appear even more captivating. Her delicate, petal-pink lips murmured repeatedly, "I almost died. I almost died."

Wow, this lady is so pretty.

The girl was short and thin, like a sixth-grade student. She whispered to the man, "Could she be some big shot's kept canary?"

The middle-aged man was speechless: "I'll confiscate your novel when we get back."

"No, Uncle!" The girl cried, her face contorted with distress, but her eyes darted to the pretty older woman before her expression immediately changed. "Ah! The canary has fainted."

...

The construction site building belongs to the territory of a certain survivor organization.

A concrete-walled partitioned room deep inside the fifth floor.

Qi Shuihan sat on the floor, clutching a stale piece of bread in her left hand and a water bottle in her right. Both of these items were pieces of money the girl had saved up with her uncle.

It tastes awful.

I miss someone's fresh and varied bread.

My stomach rumbled.

I swallowed it with reluctance.

Its fox-like eyes quickly scanned its surroundings, a look of disdain in them.

After a whole day of pretending, I arrived at this poor and run-down place.

Someone came in.

"Sister, are you still hungry?" The girl leaned closer. Her bright, sparkling eyes seemed to linger on her.

Qi Shuihan then thought of an old friend, whose occasional silly behavior was exactly the same as his.

"Is your organization all this poor?"

The girl stared in disbelief.

Qi Shuihan shook the object in his hand.

The girl realized what was happening and, unbeknownst to anyone, imagined a pampered canary swallowing pig feed with tears in its eyes and feeling wronged.

"I'm sorry to have troubled you, sister." The girl suddenly leaned closer and whispered mysteriously, "The organization isn't actually poor; it has a lot of resources. But they're all controlled by the boss, and she gets to enjoy them all by herself. We outsiders are already lucky to have food and drink."

"Big Sister?" The fox-like eyes were unfathomable.

"Where does your boss live?"

The girl's eyes widened: "Sister, don't walk right into my trap!"

The fox's interest deepened. "Is she that scary?"

"Of course. She's a complete lecher. Everyone in our organization, regardless of gender, with any good looks has been taken by her."

cluck cluck~

Qi Shuihan smiled and patted her rumbling stomach.

...

Inside a concrete room, two women got into an argument.

A tall, slender woman exuding an elite aura suddenly pushed someone.

The round-faced, pretty schoolgirl fell to the ground without any resistance.

The elite woman crossed her arms and looked down at me condescendingly: "Don't think I don't know why you're following me. How dare you try to control me!"

The schoolgirl lowered her head, hiding her face, and breathed out a breath through her strands of hair. Her soft voice sounded pitiful.

“I didn’t mean to control you, I just love you too much. You said you would only have me. Seeing you with them every day makes my heart ache.”

"Oh? You love me that much?" The elite woman gave a mocking smile and knelt down on one knee. "Bell like a puppy to make your master happy. Maybe then I'll let you two off the hook."

The female student visibly froze.

The woman, with an air of detached amusement, deliberately stood up and turned her head.

"Woof!"

She turned her head and looked down at him disdainfully.

"Woof!" "Woof! Woof!"

The female student not only barked like a dog, but also wiggled her buttocks twice in a fawning pose like a dog wagging its tail.

The elite woman threw her head back and laughed heartily. After she finished laughing, she ignored the people on the ground and turned to leave.

The schoolgirl resumed a normal sitting posture, raised both hands, her nails were worn flat, and one of her nails was even broken.

One can imagine how furious she must have been when she tried to please people like a dog.

But what good is anger and hatred?

"Do you need any help?"

A woman's voice came from behind.

The schoolgirl hid her hand and looked back.

A tall and graceful woman.

The woman stepped out of the darkness, revealing a face that momentarily dazed her, especially those alluring fox-like eyes that held her gaze captive.

The next moment, his experienced eyes were suddenly filled with intense hostility.

"Who are you?" The schoolgirl stood up, her expression stern as if she were sizing up an enemy. "I've never seen you before. Are you new here?"

Qi Shuihan smiled and stared at the student's fingertips. "Is your hand alright?"

As he spoke, he stepped forward to take the other person's hand, but was refused.

The schoolgirl coldly warned, "Leave here right now. Otherwise, you'll regret it."

She glanced at Qi Shuihan's face, then turned away, the shadows obscuring her round face. She had to get rid of this competitor; she absolutely couldn't let her older sister see this woman.

The student hurriedly discussed countermeasures with her companions, only to find the mysterious woman sitting intimately with the leader of the survivor organization the very next day. The tall, slender, elite woman wore an infatuated expression and treated the mysterious woman with extreme caution.

Late that night.

She arranged to meet with the mysterious woman.

The woman was draped in soft gauze, and in the moonlight, her shapely figure was revealed, arousing all sorts of fantasies.

What an idiot, daring to go to the appointment alone.

The student remembered that this mysterious woman named Qi Shuihan came from the boss's room.

A sharp gaze concealed a complex mix of emotions. They observed their companions' hiding place without changing their expressions; once the woman entered their vicinity, they would—

"Do you want my help?" Qi Shuihan asked first.

The student was stunned for a moment, then realized what was going on. Trying to use her favor to plead with the boss to give us "abandoned wives" a chance to eat? So she really is someone's kept canary. Tonight's prey is pitying others.

"Okay. Do me a favor. Get out of here right now and never show your face to us again."

The female student planned to give the woman one last warning: if she didn't listen, she shouldn't blame them for going all out.

The woman smiled. Under such moonlight, her smile was truly beautiful, like Chang'e descending to earth.

The fox-like eyes lifted, tinged with the coldness of moonlight. "You bunch of worthless nobodys, you think you can warn me?"

The student was startled. Her companions, who had already sensed something was wrong, rushed out of the encirclement of the woman, armed with sticks and knives.

Qi Shuihan held her shawl in her hands, her figure slender and beautiful.

A night breeze suddenly arose, and the white veil fluttered and flew into the sky.

A silvery crescent moon streaked across the sky.

All the weapons around him were cut in half at the waist, clattering and falling to the ground.

The white veil fell down again, draping her over her shoulders.

Qi Shuihan tightened her grip on the white veil, stepped forward, and the silver spikes on her fingers instantly extended, stabbing towards the schoolgirl.

"Don't hurt my sister!"

A boy ran out from the shadows, grabbed the schoolgirl around the waist, and then turned around to block her path.

A metal spike pierced the boy's forehead.

"Xiao Hao!" the female student exclaimed, pulling the boy behind her.

Her fox-like eyes lit up with amusement as she withdrew her fingertips. "So, you were willing to submit to another man for him."

The two siblings huddled together, looking at Qi Shuihan with fear.

Qi Shuihan: "Okay. I promise to help you."

She lightly tossed her white veil and walked back the way she came.

The schoolgirl asked in a panic, "What are you going to do?"

He turned around and smiled with fox-like eyes.

"To help you have enough supplies to survive."

The student's eyes trembled, and as if realizing something, her face suddenly turned pale.

"don't want!"

The woman in front of me, her white veil swaying, glided swiftly out of sight like a snake.

The female student chased after him, not caring about her younger brother's safe return.

He ran to his eldest sister's private room with practiced ease. His trusted subordinates, who had been guarding the door, calmly leaned against the wall, as if the woman had never been there.

"You all go in quickly and check if my older sister is alright."

The guard remained motionless.

The schoolgirl touched it hesitantly.

The grown man collapsed with a thud, his eyes wide open in death.

She cried out "Ah!" and jumped away.

Looking at the tightly closed door, my heart pounded like a drum. With a determined gaze, I pushed open the door and entered the room, as if facing certain death.

Near the bedroom, with its door wide open, dim lighting was on.

Move closer to the bed.

The elite woman lying on the bed was neatly dressed, her eyes peacefully closed, as if she were sleeping.

The female student had been with women for a long time and knew that the other woman had to change into sexy clothes before going to bed. She felt inexplicably relieved that they hadn't ended up together.

"Big sister. Big sister," the student called out cautiously.

The elite woman didn't flinch. Her heart leaped again.

I pressed him onto the bed and checked his breath with my fingers. He was still breathing.

"Oh my, it seems you really care about her."

The woman appeared out of nowhere behind him.

The schoolgirl tightened her grip on the thin blanket.

A strange breath tickled my ear. "When I first saw you, I thought you were King Goujian of Yue."

Whoosh!

A fruit knife flashed and sliced ​​through the air.

Qi Shuihan tilted her head back and stepped back. The light illuminated the bloodstains on her cheekbones.

The schoolgirl gained the upper hand for the first time, brandishing a knife and blocking the bed with a stern expression.

"Don't come any closer to us!"

—Don't come any closer to us, or I'll use my system's special ability to instantly kill you.

In the dim light, a figure overlapped with a female student.

A cold glint appeared in his fox-like eyes. He felt a mixture of annoyance and disgust. And then, just then, he thought of an old friend.

"You really like her? Just like you said when I first met you, that you love her too much?" The tone was laced with sneer.

The female student said solemnly, "Yes. I've fallen in love with her."

Falling in love?

Her mind raced as she recalled every little thing Li Nai had done for Missy, and she noticed a subtle difference in their attitudes.

"I think you need a psychiatrist."

Who could she tell? She didn't know; all she knew was that her palms were itchy.

His fox-like eyes darted around, gazing intently at the two female students.

I really want to kill that bitch in front of me.

Raise your sharp palm.

The student girl's fruit knife trembled as she forced herself to maintain her dwindling bravado, watching intently as the other person made their next move.

A silent standoff ensued.

Lower that cruel and merciless hand.

She heard Qi Shuihan's whispered words, as light as a feather.

"Ridiculous. I won't lose control because of you."

He turned around and left the room.

Clang! The fruit knife fell to the ground.

The female student lay weakly on the bed.