The young woman froze, while Seventh Brother beside her let out a sarcastic sneer. Even the two men who had just been woken up on the other side showed their disdain for him!
The woman stared blankly at her man's retreating figure, while several men gradually pulled her further away...
Qin Qing had already fallen asleep, but a noisy sound came from her ear. She reluctantly opened her eyes and looked at the sound coming from a distance. Perhaps because it was too far away, she couldn't hear it very clearly, but some muffled vulgarities still reached her ears.
As if she had thought of something, her face flushed slightly. Although she was already thirty-eight years old, even as a modern person, she felt that being in the dense forest in the wild was quite exciting.
She simply covered her ears; she didn't want to eavesdrop!
But as the voice became clearer, she finally realized something was wrong. Why did it sound like... it wasn't the same person?
Thinking it over, she sat up, her gaze fixed on the dim firelight in the distance, her expression gradually becoming serious…
After thinking it over, Qin Qing still couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart, so she quickly got up and ran towards another patch of firelight!
A few minutes later, she finally arrived at the tree, but what she saw made her heart tremble with fear. Three men were pulling at a woman, and as the woman was almost naked, the three men laughed even more wildly.
"Why are you still hiding it? Why don't you spend some time with us? Maybe when we get to the capital, we can find your husband a better way to make a living!"
After saying that, the man grinned wickedly, and the other three echoed him, their eyes fixed on the woman's bare arms.
The young woman's clothes were disheveled, and she looked extremely embarrassed. Her face was full of humiliation. She wanted to shout, but she knew it would be useless. She could only lean against the big tree and keep dodging.
The three men said some more explicit things, which made Qin Qing's head twitch. Just as one of them was about to force himself on her, the woman began to struggle frantically. Qin Qing couldn't help but pick up a stone and throw it away with all her might!
"Bang! Ah!"
With a scream, the man's calf was slashed by a sharp pebble, and blood flowed down his leg, a gruesome sight even in the dim moonlight...
"Smack!"
"You bitch! You dare to scratch me? You think you're so great?!"
The man seemed to think that the young woman's frantic struggle had injured him, and in a fit of rage, he slapped her across the face, the crisp sound echoing through the silent forest!
The slap seemed to daze the woman; her already frail body fell to the ground, the burning pain on her face causing her body, which had barely eaten for two days, to completely lose its strength…
The woman lay weakly against a tree, her delicate oval face appearing particularly pitiful in the moonlight, her skin unusually pale. However, this scene only aroused the lust of the men, and the other two men's eyes lit up at the sight!
Seeing that they were about to pounce on her again, the young woman closed her eyes in despair, seemingly having lost the will to live.
"Ah!! Ah!!"
The next second, two more pitiful howls came from the dense forest. Two men clutched their foreheads and stomachs, their faces extremely pale, and instinctively looked around warily.
"Who! Who attacked me?"
The first man also realized at that moment that he might have been attacked by someone, so the group quickly became alert.
The surroundings remained silent, and one of them couldn't help but whisper.
"Could it be that Old Ma has woken up? Is he playing tricks on us to scare us?"
The words were immediately rejected by the other two, with the man called Seven Brother even mockingly retorting.
"That good-for-nothing? Don't be naive. He doesn't have the guts. Once he gets to the capital, he'll still need us to do his bidding!"
The other two, upon hearing this, also felt it made sense. If it wasn't Old Ma, then who else could it be?
"Could it be...that thing?"
A timid and fearful voice came from one of them, making the two who were already trembling with fear even more panicked, and they couldn't help but curse.
"Shut up! What nonsense are you talking about! Don't scare yourself! It's late, and we have to travel tomorrow. Go back to sleep now!"
After saying that, Seventh Brother turned and left first, his steps hurried and flustered, with the other two following closely behind, completely disregarding the life or death of the woman on the ground…
A moment later, the young woman lay dying under the tree. In her hazy vision, she seemed to see a figure appear beside her…
Is she a ghost? Whatever! No one would care if someone like her died.
After this thought crossed her mind, the young woman gave a bitter smile before falling into a coma.
Qin Qing looked at the woman in front of her, feeling a slight sense of familiarity but unable to recall where she had seen her before. She then crouched down, first examining the woman's eyelids, then her lips, and finally placing her hand on her stomach and gently pressing…
Dehydration, hypoglycemia, fainting after extreme stress, anemia, coupled with malnutrition…
The more he looked at her, the more her brows furrowed, and the more disgusted he felt towards those people. The fact that the woman in front of him could still struggle so frantically just now, even in her current state, showed that she was filled with fear.
Then, she gave the woman some water, and then made some oatmeal porridge with sugar before feeding it to her…
A cold wind blew, adding to the already eerie atmosphere of the forest and making it feel even colder. Seeing this, Qin Qing covered her with his coat.
Seemingly regaining some strength, the young woman, who had been on the verge of death, slowly opened her eyes, only to see the departing figure of the man, in light blue…
After a long while, the sky gradually brightened, and the dazzling sunlight made the woman wearily open her eyes. Only then did she realize her situation. Looking at the coat she was wearing, she was stunned.
"Wife?! Where are you?"
The woman looked up at the sound and saw her husband, Old Ma, looking anxious and worried from afar…
Worried? Ha!
These two words seemed utterly inadequate at this moment. The commotion last night, and even her terrified cries afterward, hadn't woken him up. What was the man's anxiety about now?
After calling out a few more times, Old Ma finally spotted the motionless figure under a large tree. He looked delighted and was about to walk over when he noticed the emptiness and a hint of resentment in the young woman's face…
At that moment, he froze, unsure of what to say. He could only awkwardly walk over, his face full of concern and his gaze evasive.
"Xiujuan, what are you doing here! Everyone's about to leave, and they're all waiting for you!"
Seeing his expression, the young woman understood everything and finally gave up completely…
A moment later, she tugged at the corner of her mouth, but the movement aggravated the swollen facial muscles from the previous night, causing a slight stinging pain, though it paled in comparison to the desolation in her heart!
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