"So you compromise like this? Tsk tsk, I'm so disappointed." Stone Spider clapped his hands, his face full of regret. He shook his head and raised his voice and shouted back.
"Hey, brothers, stop, just stop for now."
“…What the hell!” A disappointed curse sounded, followed by the sound of a door being pushed open. Bai Shi, naked with only torn clothes on her body, rushed into the video and fell heavily into Chonglou’s arms, trembling and sobbing.
Amid Bai Shi's heart-wrenching cries, Chonglou paused for a long time before slowly raising his hands to hug Bai Shi and gently patting her shoulders.
Bai Su cried until she almost died, but it had no effect on Shi Zhuzi and the others. They discussed as if nothing had happened, "Boss Shi is really good. I didn't expect that keeping this woman would be really useful."
"As a man, you certainly don't like others touching your things, let alone women." Stone Spider's voice sounded coldly, "Even if it was in the past, you can't bear to see your woman sleeping with another man."
The words were echoed by a crowd of people.
"Take good care of that old man as well." Stone Spider didn't laugh. "This old bastard, all the suffering we've endured is because of him. Check his body thoroughly and use all the medicine you can. Be careful when you're having fun, don't cripple him all at once."
"I know, I know, I know my limits." A charming voice responded immediately, with a tone full of pity, "Old people are tasteless, I won't do anything to him."
"If you have the guts, go and have sex with the younger ones!" Someone soon started to make a fuss.
"Well... I'm old and tasteless." She was less charming.
"If you don't have the guts, then you don't have the guts. Why are you still trying to be brave?" His bravery was quickly shattered. "What? Are you tired of that little bastard? You're thinking about him again. There's no little boy here to cause trouble for you. If you have the guts, you should leave early. What's the point of bragging about what you did all day long..."
Bai Mi, who had been crying so hard that she was out of breath, stopped crying to catch her breath, but she happened to hear these words and burst into tears again.
She had always known that the planet she was on was an interstellar base for serious criminals, and that the people imprisoned there were the most brutal people in the world, but she had never known so clearly what kind of people she was facing.
Bai Su completely collapsed and just held on to Chong Lou tightly.
Chonglou gently pulled her hand away, looked at the impatient Stone Spider, and lowered his head to look at his feet. "Do you want to set up the operating room here?"
"I thought you were going to comfort the beautiful lady." Stone Spider sneered.
Amidst the sneers, the screen went black and Zhu Jin's eyes were filled with darkness.
After a while, Zhu Jin let out a sigh of relief.
Zhu Jin was just about to sit up when his eyes suddenly lit up again. The video started again, and Stone Spider's satisfied voice sounded immediately.
“…He’s only been here for two years. He’s in good health and hasn’t contracted any disease. He’ll be enough to keep you busy for a few days.” The naked man, who was not sure whether he was a human or a corpse, was commented on by the stone spider and was very satisfied.
"Who should start first?" Chonglou, who had returned to his doctor's attire, asked directly without saying much.
"Good, straightforward." Stone Spider was not surprised by his impoliteness. "Someone will push it in, just focus on the operation."
In the darkness of the night, Zhu Jin watched Chonglou's surgery in a daze, watching the naked man slowly disappear on the operating table.
The screen went dark again and daylight came.
Zhu Jin lay straight on the bed, his eyes bloodshot and swollen.
She checked her phone carefully, but there was no trace of the video that had been played from late at night to dawn, as if Zhu Jin had a nightmare.
On the first day of school, Zhu Jin was unable to arrive at school on time.
The people who hacked her phone asked her to go to the main hospital to see a patient at the beginning of the class. If she did not show up, the video would be released immediately.
Zhu Jin could never have imagined that there would come a day when she would be threatened like this.
Zhu Jin contacted Fuling, told her that her phone had been hacked, and asked her to see if she could find any clues left behind.
On the way to the general hospital, Zhu Jin contacted Chonglou. Chonglou, who had just packed up to send her to school, was very proud when he received her call.
"I'll come find you right away. It's rare that you contact me so early in the morning..." The complacent words disappeared because of Zhu Jin's eyes, "What's wrong?"
Zhu Jin looked at Chonglou and shook his head. "I was threatened with your video. They said they would release it if you didn't cooperate. It should be from the time when you disappeared half a year ago. You should have known about their existence. Have you thought about how to deal with it?"
"What video?" Chonglou's eyes quickly turned red and he stared at Zhu Jin.
"I wonder how many videos of your surgery that person has." Zhu Jin raised his hand and stroked Chonglou's face in the air. "No matter how you hide it, I will always see it. You have revealed some of it before... So... don't be too anxious."
Chonglou clenched his teeth and controlled his expression. How could he not be anxious? He couldn't even say anything to Zhu Jin, let alone let Zhu Jin see the video.
"I contacted you to tell you this, not for any other reason, but because I felt that I had to tell you this, and I didn't want you to be caught off guard like I was." Zhu Jin looked at Chonglou with a complicated heart, "I'll go check out the situation at the hospital first, and I'll quickly avoid any situation and won't put myself in danger..."
"Don't go!" Chonglou interrupted her abruptly, "Don't go. Don't be threatened by anyone. Don't be threatened because of me. If you go today, the real threat will begin."
"I'm not afraid of the video being made public." Chonglou said firmly, staring at Zhu Jin, "I would rather make the video public."
"Zhonglou, that's not a joke." Zhu Jin said helplessly, "You know how much impact the public video will have."
"I know he's not joking, so I won't let you go." Chonglou was unmoved, "He threatened you today just as a joke. His ultimate target is me. You... are the biggest threat to me."
"Chonglou..." Zhu Jin's car had already arrived at the general hospital. He looked outside the car and wanted to persuade Chonglou, but he didn't want to listen anymore.
"Zhu Jin, the person who is threatening you is the craziest person in the world. As long as you take this step today, things will become irreversible." Chonglou looked straight at Zhu Jin, "If you insist on going, I will publicly announce our breakup on your way to the ward."
Break up...break up...
Zhu Jin looked at Chonglou quietly.
Chonglou looked at Zhu Jin with an unwavering gaze, "He's a lunatic, Zhu Jin, a complete lunatic."
"Zhu Jin, go home. I'll come to your house to find you."
"Okay." Zhu Jin opened his mouth and agreed in a hoarse voice.
Chonglou arrived home before Zhu Jin. As soon as the car door opened, Chonglou pulled Zhu Jin out of the car and took her back home without stopping.
"Zhu Jin, this is the first time I know that you can be so reckless." After entering the house, Chonglou spoke harsh words to Zhu Jin for the first time.
He always remembered what she said at the beginning, "If one day I can't help myself and your heart is still the same, we will be together, Chonglou."
He had been waiting for this day, waiting for the day when Zhu Jin would only have him in her heart and would be unable to extricate herself from him. He had imagined countless times how happy he would be if that day came, how he would seize the opportunity to propose to her, how he would successfully abduct Zhu Jin away, marry her, and be together for the rest of their lives.
But he never thought that this day would come.
He knew why Zhu Jin was so reckless. Such a reckless Zhu Jin appeared only for him because she only had him in her heart.
Zhu Jin was so reckless, he didn't look like the person he liked her at all, just like the man in front of her at this moment was no longer the person she liked before, but neither he nor she could let go.
She wanted to protect him, but he didn't want such protection. Faced with such protection, he would rather there was no intersection between them.
Zhu Jin didn't see Chonglou's extremely complicated and slightly distorted face. Looking at Chonglou's nervous and trembling hand, he finally couldn't help but grab it and explained, "I'm not reckless. I'm prepared. I put poison and drugs on my body. I'm fully prepared."
"Poison? A drug? And you're fully prepared?" Chonglou's voice was deafening. "How dare you say you're fully prepared? You won't even know how you died!"
"Is there something strange about that base? Does the transplant surgery require human organs?" Zhu Jin knew that he was being unreasonable, and he did not talk back when Chonglou scolded him. He just changed the subject and asked.
"..." Chonglou didn't expect Zhu Jin to ask a question suddenly. He was about to continue lecturing Zhu Jin, but the words he wanted to say were choked back and his face became stiff.
"Do you think I'm scary?" Chonglou didn't answer Zhu Jin's question, but asked in a hoarse voice.
"Yeah, it's scary." Zhu Jin nodded, "You are scary in the video, and everyone is scary."
"Zhu Jin..." Chonglou bit through the inner wall of his mouth, and his mouth was full of fishy taste.
"Open your mouth!" Zhu Jin quickly grabbed Chonglou's chin, and blood immediately flowed down the corner of his mouth. Zhu Jin raised his hand and wiped it with his sleeve, and cursed, "What? Do you want to bite off your tongue? If you want to bite your tongue off, you have to bite it now instead of earlier or later!"
"Do you want to blame yourself or do you want to be uneasy for the rest of your life? There is nothing a person can't do to survive..."
Zhu Jin looked at Chonglou and his voice became increasingly deep. "It's just to stay alive... People can do anything to stay alive. How many people in the world can face death calmly? Who would give up as long as there is a chance of survival?"
"Since you chose to go there, you should have thought about what you would encounter. Normally, kind people can make horrifying choices to save their lives, not to mention those people. What can't they do to survive?"
"No matter if it's you or them, what they did and what they chose is just human nature. Why hurt yourself?"
Chonglou bit too hard and blood kept flowing out. As Zhu Jin spoke, he wiped it with increasing force.
"Zhu Jin, do you know what you are saying?" Chonglou grabbed her hand and looked at her intently.
"I know what I'm talking about better than you!" Zhu Jin said gritting his teeth.
How could she not know how humble people are in the face of 'living'? How could she not know?
In order to live, people can lose everything, including themselves.