After the woman finally calmed down, Zhou Xinran went over to her and asked, "Do you have anywhere to go in the future?"
The woman nodded. "Yes, brother. If you walk a day or two further from our village, you'll reach the protection base. Several of the women here are going there."
"Who would have thought that we'd be caught by those beasts halfway there and taken to the village? The men in my family were all killed too. Those inhuman bastards..."
Ding Xue said through gritted teeth.
Zhou Xinran was relieved to learn that these women knew the location of the protected area.
If they had nowhere to go, he really didn't know what to do with them. Just leaving them here to fend for themselves didn't feel right.
Although this wasn't the place he wanted to come to, he never imagined he would save so many people.
But having already saved the person, he still felt some responsibility.
"Okay, there are still some vehicles outside the village, they've all been repaired."
Zhou Xinran pointed to the cement open space for Ding Xue to see. Ding Xue nodded. That was where the village used to dry rice. She knew it.
"We'll stay here tonight and set off early tomorrow morning. If you're worried about the dangers on the road, you can follow our vehicle."
"Do you know where we live?" Zhou Xinran asked.
"I know." Ding Xue saw them enter the village elder's bastard's house and knock out the villagers' family members who were his accomplices.
These people have helped those scoundrels in the village a lot.
The women who cook at the village entrance are different from these people. Their sons and husbands, like their fathers, were unwilling to do anything immoral and were killed by other villagers.
The aunties hated those beasts in the village so much that they were finally getting justice and sending them to hell.
Seeing the mangled corpses at the village entrance, everyone both cried and laughed, crying for their dead relatives and laughing that they could finally avenge their great wrongs.
She, along with several girls who still had the strength to stand up, and the aunties who were cooking, found a rope and worked together to tie up the man who had been knocked unconscious in front of the village chief's door.
They couldn't bring themselves to kill, but they always needed to beat someone up to vent their anger.
Let's just leave these people tied up and let them fend for themselves.
"Tomorrow, find someone who knows the conservation base to give me directions. We'll take you there before you leave. Don't worry about encountering dangers on the way."
"We're quite capable; protecting you through this shouldn't be a problem."
Zhou Xinran patted his chest and assured him.
Ding Xue was speechless; she had truly met a kind person.
She tried to kneel down to Zhou Xinran again, but Zhou Xinran held her arm tightly and wouldn't let her.
"Thank you, thank you all. Good people will surely be rewarded, good people will surely be rewarded..."
Ding Xue spoke incoherently, tears streaming down her face.
The older women and young women in the distance also bowed to them with tears in their eyes.
In this world, women's living conditions are probably even more difficult, Zhou Xinran thought with deep emotion.
Tell Ding Xue to go back and prepare what she needs to take for the trip tomorrow morning.
Many of the girls in the barns are too weak to walk; hopefully, a night's rest will help them regain some strength.
Ding Xue asked several able-bodied women to move all the stored grain from the village's cellars.
She led a few girls who could drive and walk towards the threshing ground.
There were about twenty girls who survived at the barn, but the rest were all tortured to death, their bodies stiffened.
Including the six aunties who cook, there are almost thirty people in total.
Of these girls who can walk, only three can drive. Ding Xue only learned to drive the family's pickup truck with her father during the holidays. If you include her, there are four drivers.
Fortunately, there were three vans here, and Ding Xue's family's pickup truck was also parked here. If they squeezed in, all thirty people could sit down.
The car had keys in the ignition, and Ding Xue figured that the people who saved them must have somehow made duplicates for them; these people were truly resourceful.
The group drove the car back to the village. Ding Xue was not very skilled at driving the family car, but she could barely manage to drive in a straight line. She cried all the way as she drove.
Now she is all alone, and all she has left to remember and cherish is this car.
The next morning, Ding Xue loaded the grain and mutated beast jerky she had found in the village the day before into the back of the pickup truck.
After a night's rest, the girls who survived in the barn, though still weak, were able to get out of bed and walk.
The women made a lot of dry food biscuits overnight, intending to take them with them on the road.
At the villa, Shen You'an and Peng Yu, who were on night duty, heard a knock on the door early in the morning and went to open it.
Ding Xue brought a few people over to deliver breakfast to them.
They were too embarrassed to go inside, so they left a large pot of stew and a winnowing basket for steamed buns at the door and left.
Peng Yu carried the pot, and Shen Youan held the steamed buns. As soon as the two entered the house, they saw Zhou Xinran yawning as he came out.
"What is this? It smells delicious!"
"It was breakfast brought to us by the villagers." Peng Yu put the pot on the table.
Zhou Xinran went over and lifted the pot lid. Inside was stewed meat with potatoes and mushrooms, and there were some roasted sweet potatoes under the winnowing basket that held steamed buns.
The food was still steaming hot. Zhou Xinran broke off a piece of soft steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth.
"It's delicious, you should try some too."
The steamed bun was as big as Zhou Xinran's face. He broke off another piece and handed the remaining half of the bun to Shen Youan and Peng Yu.
The two took the remaining steamed buns and shared them.
"Steamed buns are so delicious. I never thought I would find them delicious one day."
Zhou Ershao's family was wealthy from a young age, and every meal was exquisitely prepared. Before the apocalypse, he had rarely even seen a whole steamed bun like this.
"Let Yao Yao learn how to steam buns too. Drinking dumpling soup all the time doesn't fill you up and makes you go to the toilet all the time."
The two people standing nearby, with steamed buns stuffed in their mouths, nodded in agreement.
The food delivered was barely enough for ten people to eat in the morning. It was enough for ordinary people to be full, but for the few people with superpowers, their stomachs were bottomless pits, and they were never full.
After breakfast, as soon as the villa gate was opened, three minivans and a pickup truck were parked not far away.
There were more than twenty young women and aunties standing around the car, supporting each other.
When they came out, everyone crowded around to thank them, making everyone feel quite uncomfortable.
Lin Xuan stood at the back, coldly watching Zhang Xiaoqi in the crowd.
She was being helped up and looked terrible.
He was wearing ill-fitting clothes, and his slashed face had been simply washed, but because there was no medication, the wounds had become inflamed and suppurated, turning red and swollen, looking extremely gruesome.
She tried her best to smile, attempting to support her weakened body as she approached her glamorous saviors.
However, she had difficulty even standing, let alone getting close.
After thanking them, Zhou Xinran asked them to get in the car and led the way.
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