She hadn't had a proper meal in a long time. Since arriving here, she'd only had a simple wild vegetable bun every day, enough to keep her from starving.
The woman quickly finished the bowl of noodles and drank the soup, but she still felt a little unsatisfied.
"Now you can tell me what happened..." Before Wenxi could finish her question, she heard the sounds of fighting and a woman crying coming from the next house. This made her even more confused. What kind of place was this?
The woman said with a bitter smile, "I was abducted here. There are many other women like me who have been abducted, people who refuse to live honestly. They beat them like this until they submit. Even if they kill someone, it doesn't matter. They just abduct another one. I was abducted not long ago. They made me have a child, but I didn't want to, and then this is how their whole family treated me..."
The woman then buried her face in her arms on the kang table and began to cry. “I was also a sent-down youth, and I’m an educated person. But because of one careless mistake, I’ve ended up like this. My life, my future, has been completely ruined by these despicable human traffickers…”
Wen Xi sighed almost imperceptibly, but since the matter wasn't resolved yet, she didn't say anything too optimistic and could only wait until it was settled.
The noise from next door continued. Wenxi couldn't bear to see her female comrade being treated like this, so she grabbed a baseball bat and went outside. With the help of the system, she quietly climbed over the wall and went to the back of the man who was lecturing someone in the yard. With a 'bang,' she hit him with the bat, and the man fell to the ground.
After that, Wenxi stood in the darkness. Soon, when the people in the house saw that there was no sound, they all ran out to check. Then, as soon as one person came, Wenxi would make a 'bang' sound.
Although the system could render them unconscious, Wenxi felt it would be more satisfying to teach such wicked people a lesson personally.
Once no one else came out of the house, Wenxi tied them all together and threw them in the yard before helping the woman, who was barely breathing, to her feet.
Although she wasn't her target, Wenxi still felt compassion for her. However, instead of giving her the life-saving pill, Wenxi fed her something else.
Once the woman's condition had gradually improved, Wenxi helped her to the woman's house next door.
The three women sat around the kang table. The second woman looked at Wenxi curiously. "Girl, how did you get in? This village is very strictly controlled. Outsiders can't get in, and insiders can't get out. So none of us who were trafficked can escape. I tried to run away today, but I was caught and brought back. Then they beat me to death. If it weren't for you, I might be dead today... My family is definitely still looking for me. I don't want to die. My family is definitely still looking for me..."
"And that person, I dream of going back to deal with her, because she's the one who betrayed me and led me here..."
"Actually, I was also kidnapped by them, but I used their sleeping pills to knock them out, so I ran away. I was planning to escape, but I heard noises here, so I came over. Luckily I came here, otherwise, if I had run away without knowing anything, I would definitely have been caught and punished." Wen Xi patted her chest, looking very scared.
The second woman said that outsiders couldn't get in, but she came anyway. They might think she was part of a human trafficking gang, so they can only assume she was abducted.
Later, through inquiries, Wenxi learned that the first woman was named Zhai Xueyan, a sent-down youth who had been sent to the countryside the previous year. Not long after arriving, she was abducted by human traffickers on her way to town to buy things.
The second woman was named Gao Jingwen. Before her marriage, she was betrayed by her own sister and sold to human traffickers. It seems that she was the loser in the two women fighting over one man.
"We can't leave the village at all now. How can we escape?" Gao Jingwen asked worriedly. She had tried many times, but it was impossible to escape.
I almost died today...
Wen Xi turned her head and glanced at the pitch-black night outside, then said coldly, "We outsiders can't get out, but these human traffickers can, right?"
“Yes, their own people can come and go freely,” Gao Jingwen said.
She had been there longer and knew more than Zhai Xueyan, who had just arrived. She knew that they couldn't escape on their own, because the entire village was under their surveillance. Outsiders couldn't get in and therefore wouldn't know what was going on inside.
Wenxi didn't say that she definitely had a way to get out, but said, "If we all unite and brainstorm, we will definitely be able to think of a way to leave here."
Wenxi came to the courtyard and looked at the family of three she had left together. Since she couldn't leave the village openly, she would let the villagers leave. That should work, right?
Knowing that women usually take the lead in lowering everyone's guard while men play a supporting role, Wenxi gave the middle-aged woman a hallucinogenic drug, then quickly wrote several complaint letters and instructed the system to send the letters to the appropriate places.
If no one is going to handle this matter, it means that those people are colluding with human traffickers, and then we'll have to think of other solutions.
Wenxi drugged the remaining middle-aged and young men and then put them in the warehouse, otherwise everything would be exposed by tomorrow morning.
Afterwards, she went next door and brought the whole family into the warehouse as well, covering them with blankets so they wouldn't know when they woke up because she hadn't taken care of them. She wanted them to see all the good stuff in the system warehouse.
After finishing her business, Wen Xi went inside and said to Zhai Xueyan and Gao Jingwen, "To avoid arousing their suspicion, I have to go back. Don't go out during the day, and don't go out no matter who looks for you. See you tonight."
The sudden disappearance of two families will definitely attract attention, so it's best for them to stay home and avoid going out. That way, they can manage for a while longer.
After Wenxi came out, she found a corner and slipped into the system kitchen. If the villagers saw her unfamiliar face, they would definitely arrest her, so she couldn't appear openly during the day, and even if she did, she couldn't appear in her own image.
Afterwards, Wenxi went to the system warehouse to check her belongings. After the village was rectified, only the elderly, weak, sick and disabled remained. She couldn't let them starve to death. It's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. She had to help them find a way to support themselves.
No one knows how much time has passed, but Wenxi took the 'Rejuvenating Pill' and transformed herself into a woman from Gao Jingwen's family. Then she openly wandered around the village.
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