"We've been raised in a patriarchal society, and many girls have been taught to obey their fathers, husbands, and sons since childhood. Did you notice how few women were employed in some lucrative industries before the apocalypse?"
"Take the most basic haircut. It's clear that women have just as many hairstyle needs as men. On the contrary, many men go to the barber shop just to get their hair cut short. The main consumers of haircuts and dyeing services that make money are mostly women. But there are very few female stylists."
"I mean. Women are ostracized, not just by men, but by society as a whole."
She turned around and saw Xie Pu Rou listening attentively, so she continued speaking.
"Many times, even if men don't do anything, the voices of women can drown them out. This is a patriarchal society..."
Xie Purou herself grew up in such an environment, how could she not understand?
Not wanting to hear Yue Xiwen continue, she took a step forward and approached Yue Xiwen: "Are you willing to be discriminated against because of your gender? Are you willing to be suppressed from birth?"
"Of course I don't want to, but my power is too small..." Yue Xiwen lowered her head sadly. Didn't she also want to change?
How can an ant shake a tree?
Before, we didn’t even have enough to eat and had no energy to think about fighting or openly or secretly. All we thought about was how to survive.
Even before meeting today, she had not yet recovered from the truce with the mutant beasts, and all she thought about every day was how to gain more living territory for humans.
Xie Purou placed her hands on Yue Xiwen's head, forcing her to look him in the eye. Her gaze was firm and powerful, and her mouth opened and closed, uttering two words: "I'm here."
Since we've come to this world, we can't just do nothing. What's the point of just waving our sleeves and leaving?
Anyway, this is the last world, so she has to do something spectacular in this final period of time before leaving.
Yue Xiwen met her eyes. Xie Purou smiled wantonly and ostentatiously, as if she was a demon who was plotting to usurp the throne and was determined to get that high position. His deep pupils seemed to suck her in at once.
Xie Purou said, "I need you."
"Okay." Yue Xiwen held the hand she extended.
Yue Xiwen sent a message to her mother in advance, saying that she would go home today.
After making the fruit puree, the two of them walked slowly on the road to the B&B.
There was no wind, rain, or hail in the guesthouse. Breathing in the rare dry air, Yue Xiwen, who had spent some time battling mutant beasts in the humid environment, felt a sense of unreality and dreaminess.
When they arrived at Yue Xiwen’s mother’s house in the B&B, the three little ones were very happy to see their two mothers come back together.
When Xie Purou took out the small gifts she had prepared for them, the three good babies happily ate the fruit puree.
After dinner, Yue Xiwen's mother took them both aside and said earnestly, "Chinese New Year is almost here in the blink of an eye. I know you're all busy, but I still want to ask if you have time to come home for dinner."
After hearing this, the two of them exchanged confused looks and had forgotten when the Chinese New Year was.
Yue Xiwen's mother sighed and added, "Next month, it's Chinese New Year."
Xie Purou answered quickly: "Yes, I have time, of course." After spending some time together, Yue Xiwen's mother was no stranger to her. Not to say that their relationship was very good, but she also gained some "motherly" warmth from her mother.
Of course, she could take some time out during the New Year to have a meal with the elderly and children. Even if she didn't eat here, she would go back to the yard and eat alone in front of the flowers, plants and animals in the yard.
"What about Wenwen?" Yue Xiwen's mother waited for Yue Xiwen's answer with concern.
Xie Purou answered again: "She replied too."
Yue Xiwen glanced at her, smiled helplessly, and gave her mother a final answer: "I will go back too."
The little guy is lying all over the room. Xie Purou didn’t think so before, but now she feels that the room is still too small no matter how she looks at it.
I think there is no villa in the B&B yet. I'll have to wait and see when it is built next time.
Yue Xiwen's mother kept them chatting for a while before they left the house.
The two of them were walking alone on the street. Without waiting for Yue Xiwen to speak, Xie Pu Rou asked first.
"Is the First Base bad?"
Yue Xiwen was puzzled by the question: "It's okay."
Xie Purou: "I just mentioned going home for the New Year dinner, why did you react so uncertainly?"
"You know what's happening in the system. You have to report even the slightest thing to your superiors. If it weren't for you, how could I have been so free to leave the central base whenever I wanted?"
"Then just go home for dinner because of me." Xie Pu Rou said indifferently.
"The higher-ups value you very much. They once questioned me and asked me to indirectly probe into your capabilities."
This question was easy to answer. Xie Purou was now a little arrogant: "I can do anything within my scope."
Now that the sub-base has been lit up, she doesn't have to hide it anymore.
"Oh, by the way, I've always wanted to ask you, did those mutant beasts retreat because of the hail?"
Yue Xiwen recalled the unusual movements of the mutant beasts and always felt that everything seemed so normal, yet she was keenly aware of something unusual.
He frowned and said, "I can't explain it, but I just feel that the mutant beasts' sudden retreat is very unusual."
The mutant beasts attacked the base continuously. Even though there were so many mutant beast corpses lying on the ground, the mutant beasts behind still wanted to attack wave after wave.
"It was a very strange feeling. I don't know if my description is accurate, so I just said it casually."
"I feel like those mutants are coming for the base, but they're not coming to eat the people there. It's like... it's like the base is the last Noah's Ark for these mutants. If they can't get on this ark, they'll be extinct."
The more Yue Xiwen spoke, the more she felt that her ideas were astonishing. Standing in a place with few people, she carefully recalled the details of the battle.
The mutant beasts fought with all their might, even resorting to round-the-clock warfare in an attempt to exhaust the energy of the humans and thus occupy the "safe zone" of the base.
Xie Pu Rou also recalled it, but after all, she had not been to the battlefield, so she did not know the specific details and did not have the practical experience that Yue Xiwen had experienced firsthand.
"If they're attacking simply because of the hailstorm, then logically, mutant animals should be more sensitive to incoming danger. If they're causing trouble for us because of the cold wave, that makes sense too..."
Xie Pu Rou pondered for a moment, then disappeared with Yue Xiwen. When she reappeared, she was in the yard of the B&B.
With a wave of the hand, a projection screen appeared out of thin air.
This was the movement of the mutant beasts that she asked M80 to pay attention to, the same group of mutant beasts that were fighting at the north gate of the first base.
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