Not far from the gathering place.

Li Youmi hid behind a large rock, her hands supporting her knees, bending over and panting heavily.

She was really exhausted after running that far in one go.

He was already physically weak.

The gunfire inside the settlement gradually subsided.

She knew that the settlement had fallen.

In a post-apocalyptic world, this is a common occurrence.

Wars frequently broke out between settlements over the plunder of resources.

If it is just a simple war between settlements, it usually breaks out quickly and ends quickly, and there will not be too much tragedy.

Because everyone's supplies were scarce, they also lacked advanced weapons and equipment, so the fighting tended to be more about brutal hand-to-hand combat and melee weapons.

In communities like Li Youmi's, there are many guns, and they are rarely harassed by other communities.

But the group of people who appeared today were clearly not from an ordinary gathering place.

More likely, they were a gang of professional robbers.

Li Youmi clenched her fist, gritted her teeth, and vowed to make these people pay the price.

Although her hands are small and her body is weak, this world is not about who is stronger, is it?

Despite her young age, she had learned a great deal, and at that moment she thought of 100 ways to get revenge.

Of course, not now.

She doesn't have the capital yet.

She stood there catching her breath for a while, and as her body gradually calmed down, she was about to leave.

Suddenly, a rope was put around her neck.

She felt a tightness around her neck, and then she was dragged out.

"Hahaha, the boss told us to patrol the perimeter to prevent any from escaping, and sure enough, we caught one."

Li Youmi lay on the ground, clutching the rope around her neck with both hands, trying to ease the pain.

Looking up, I saw two men, one tall and one short.

They dragged Li Youmi to their side, and the tall man among them grabbed Li Youmi's hands and easily lifted her up.

"It's so small and light, I doubt it will fetch a good price."

"Never mind that, let's bring them into the settlement first."

Li Youmi tried to struggle and resist, kicking wildly with her feet.

The result was a heavy blow.

It hit her hard in the stomach, and the pain made her faint immediately.

When she woke up, it was already evening.

A bonfire blazed in the center of the gathering place.

The bandits gathered around the campfire, chatting and laughing, forcing the prisoners to perform various actions to amuse themselves.

With her hands tied behind her back, Li Youmi looked around at the scene, which felt both strange and familiar.

Before this, this was a place where she learned about various subjects and chatted and laughed with her mother.

Now, this place has been occupied by those robbers.

"Oh dear, the little mouse has woken up."

The one speaking was the tall man who had put a rope around her neck during the day.

When Li Youmi saw the tall man approaching, fear flashed in her eyes.

"What, what are you going to do?" Li Youmi asked in a panic.

The tall man chuckled and said, "It's all because of catching you that I didn't get any of the women in the settlement. I'm in a bad mood now, so I'll just let you vent your anger on me."

As the tall man spoke, he unzipped his pants in front of Li Youmi.

Li Youmi didn't quite understand the meaning of the tall man's last sentence, but judging from his actions, she realized what he wanted to do.

"Don't come any closer!"

Li Youmi tried to push the tall man away, but her hands were tied behind her back and her feet were also bound.

Her struggles and resistance only caused her to trip and fall on the spot.

The tall man laughed loudly at her disheveled appearance: "Hahaha, this is hilarious! You're already a slave, so don't struggle or resist. If you just obey, you might have an easier life."

The tall man reached out and grabbed Li Youmi. Unable to resist, Li Youmi stubbornly opened her mouth and bit the tall man's arm hard.

"ah!"

The tall man winced in pain and shook off Li Youmi.

"You dare bite me!"

The tall man angrily kicked Li Youmi in the chest again.

Li Youmi immediately vomited blood and felt tightness in her chest, unable to breathe.

The tall man didn't let her go, kicking her repeatedly.

"Go ahead and bite, go ahead and bite!"

The tall man's commotion alerted the people around the campfire.

Many people laughed and said, "You must be really hungry to go after even little girls. You deserve it, hahaha."

A one-eyed man with a prosthetic eye that glowed red said, "Don't kill him. Leave him alive, otherwise he'll be worthless..."

These were the last words Li Youmi heard while she was conscious. At that moment, she fainted again from the pain.

When she woke up again, she had already been sold to the slave market by the bandits.

Her slave owner was a man with a mechanical arm.

Several people with the same tragic fate as Li Youmi are tied to pillars in the market every day, for buyers to choose from.

Watching their companions being bought one by one, the slave owners took in batches of new slaves.

Each time, only Li Youmi is left; no one buys her.

The buyers would just shake their heads and walk past her every time they saw her.

Because she was too thin and small, no one would buy a thin and small girl.

Because she was repeatedly rejected, her slave owner gradually developed resentment towards her.

The slave owner would often use that mechanical arm to grab the whip and lash her hard.

"Why are you so skinny and small? We can't sell you at all. Can't you grow a little bigger!"

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