Aunt Zhang was fanning her chubby son by the window with a large palm-leaf fan, sighing with a worried expression, "You make it sound so easy. We emptied our savings and borrowed a lot of money to buy you this wife."
"We don't have the money to buy a new one!"
The chubby son shrugged impatiently. "Then let's sell this one, or swap her with someone in the village. Anyway, other people's wives are probably tired of her too. Maybe swapping her will make her pregnant."
"Besides, it's not easy to find human traffickers these days! There are still several families in the village who haven't found wives yet. You can see that everyone is keeping a close eye on their wives, afraid that someone might desperately try to snatch them away!" Aunt Zhang sighed.
Zhuangzhuang couldn't stand it anymore. He perched on Lu Sheng's shoulder, shaking his head and meowing in anguish, "You beast! This is a living, breathing person! How can you trade him like livestock!"
A vibrant female college student was treated like a commodity to be bought and sold at will on this shabby and dirty bed.
These beasts imprisoned and tortured girls who had bright futures, utterly shattering their dignity as human beings.
"Mom, hurry up and go out, don't delay me from doing my work," the chubby son urged anxiously.
A cold glint flashed in Lu Sheng's eyes as he pointed his finger at the crack in the window.
A ball of air shot out of his hand and flew straight toward the fat son's lumbar vertebrae.
Sizzle.
The fat son, who was about to assault the girl beneath him, suddenly froze, his face contorted in pain.
"Mom! Come help me! I...I can't move!"
With a heart-wrenching scream, the fat son clutched his lower back and tumbled off the bed onto the hard floor.
While Aunt Zhang and her son were busy and sweating profusely, Lu Sheng struck the fat son's cervical spine with an air blast.
You wanted a son? Well, now you're paralyzed from the neck down, let's see how you'll have a son then!
Such inhuman, uncivilized beasts should not exist in the world.
But dying like that would be too easy for him. Lu Sheng wanted him to suffer to the point of being helpless and unable to call for help!
Zhuangzhuang couldn't help but pat the cat's paw. "As expected of you, Lu Sheng, your moves are steady, accurate, and ruthless. But why didn't you cripple that old lady too? That old woman isn't a good person either."
Lu Sheng sneered, "Wouldn't it be too good for her to be disabled? She cherishes her son so much, let her spend her whole life taking care of him, cleaning up his excrement and serving him like a paralyzed man. Let's see how long she can last."
The fat son collapsed on the ground, screaming like a pig being slaughtered. Aunt Zhang was anxious and heartbroken. She tried to lift her son up, but she couldn't lift him at all.
In the end, he could only run to his neighbor's house in a panic, crying and shouting for help.
It took several adults a great deal of effort to use three layers of bed sheets as a makeshift stretcher to hurriedly carry the fat son to the village barefoot doctor's house.
[System Notification: The host has gained 2 activity points in Xu Family Village]
Wow, so it turns out you can get activity points not only by fighting zombies, but also by fighting people?
Only the naked young woman remained in the room, lying on the bed, empty and numb.
Suddenly, her eyes flickered, and she slowly looked out the window in Lu Sheng's direction. With difficulty, she uttered two words from her chapped lips: "Thank you."
"You can see me?" Lu Sheng was a little surprised, and simply went into the room.
The young woman on the bed trembled, revealing a bitter smile that was more like a grimace. "My superpower is thermal imaging. I can see anything that has body temperature. Although I can't see your face, I know where you are."
Lu Sheng: "..."
Nobody ever told her that she could still be detected by thermal imaging even when she was invisible!
"They might be back in an hour. You should leave quickly. This village is full of devils. The farther you go, the better!" The girl raised her voice with all her might, urging Lu Sheng to leave as soon as possible.
Lu Sheng looked her over and saw that the girl's hands and feet had been broken, probably to prevent her from escaping.
You get activity points for hitting someone, but what about helping others?
"Here, take these. The rest of the journey is up to you."
Lu Sheng took out a bottle of potent healing potion and poured it down the girl's throat. He then took out a set of casual sportswear, UV-protective clothing, and an emergency supplies kit from his spatial storage.
The supply package contained a seven-day supply of compressed biscuits and two bottles of purified water, which should be enough for her to leave Xujia Village if she used them sparingly.
The girl has thermal imaging abilities; if I'm careful, I should be able to escape under the cover of night.
The girl was forced to drink the potion and was astonished to find that all the injuries on her body were miraculously and rapidly healing! Even her limbs, which had been broken for almost a year, were gradually regaining strength!
[System Notification: The host has gained 2 activity points in Xu Family Village]
Sure enough, you can earn activity points as long as you participate in activities with real content in Xujia Village!
Her logistics system looks promising!
"I...I have nowhere to go, can I come with you?" The girl hesitated for a moment after changing her clothes, then suddenly looked at Lu Sheng eagerly.
She was abducted before the apocalypse and sold to Xu Family Village after changing hands several times. Now she has no contact with her relatives and nowhere in the world can she find a safe haven.
[System notification: Recruiting new members will earn double activity points.]
Lu Sheng: "..."
The system is teaching her how to do things again.
Okay, okay, she can take it!
"You can follow me, but my base isn't easy either. You have to work to get the supplies you need to live."
Lu Sheng laid out the unpleasant truth upfront: this thermal imaging ability is pretty good, it seems to be a little bit stronger than Zhuangzhuang's radar. He wondered if it could be replicated after the base was upgraded.
I'm a little reluctant to use the remaining ability copy card.
The girl nodded eagerly, "Sure! I'll do anything! I've endured over a year in this godforsaken place, I can suffer any hardship!"
Lu Sheng was quite satisfied with her performance.
There was no complaining or suicidal thoughts; he seized every opportunity to start a new life. This was the kind of resilient character that Lu Sheng admired.
"After a while, you become numb, and you have no other emotions besides hatred." Guessing Lu Sheng's thoughts, the girl explained with a wry smile.
Her fate had already hit rock bottom; how much worse could it get? Now, all she wanted to do was try to live.
Lu Sheng brought the girl back to the village committee. Thanks to his thermal imaging ability, he was not discovered by anyone along the way.
The girl's name was Zhang Wei, and she was a college student from a small third-tier city. During her sophomore summer vacation, she traveled a long distance to meet her online boyfriend, only to be sold to human traffickers the very next day.
Lu Sheng and his companions also learned from Zhang Wei that almost every family in Xujia Village had bought a wife!
"Holy crap, has this village gone mad?! This is a society governed by the rule of law! How dare they be so audacious?" Zhang Xiaojuan was dumbfounded.
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