Chen Jiaojiao harbored resentment in her heart, but dared not turn against the man. She pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Brother Qiu, not today. My sister is too weak. Let her recover for two days. After she has served the boss the day after tomorrow, I will definitely invite you to come and play in person."
"Forget it, forget it. She's all skin and bones, I'd find her uncomfortable, no fun at all." The man replied with a sour tone after hearing Chen Jiaojiao's words.
Li Ke's current condition does look bad, but even so, compared to the other women here, she is still quite clean and beautiful. At least her chaste and virtuous spirit is quite infuriating.
Chen Jiaojiao laughed and said, "Brother Qiu, look at what you're saying. It's not easy to gain some weight these days. If you can find a fat guy, I'll take care of you for a month for free."
The man fanned himself with his hand and complained, "It's so hot these days, it's unbearable. I wish the temperature would come down soon. I'm not talking to you anymore. You're not going to make any money today. I'm going to find something else to have fun with."
"Brother Qiu, you must come then! My sister and I will take special care of you." Chen Jiaojiao hugged the man's arm and escorted him to the outside of the house.
Qiu Ge impatiently pushed Chen Jiaojiao away: "Don't stick to me, it's too hot. You should try to calm down your stubborn sister. If she's still so ungrateful, our boss won't let her freeload here."
Li Ke leaned against a wooden stake inside the brick house, coldly watching everything that was happening before his eyes.
The once sweet and charming Chen Jiaojiao has now become extremely thin, with a sallow complexion and several ugly scars on her face where the skin has turned outwards. Her voice has also been ruined. It can be said that she is in a very miserable state.
Looking at Chen Jiaojiao, who had completely lost her former pampered, cute, and lively temperament, Li Ke coldly asked, "Is there any point in you living like this?"
"It's better than dying and being eaten alive, leaving not even bones behind. Besides, you're not much better off than me now." Chen Jiaojiao's smile faded, and she said numbly.
As she said this, she stared at Li Ke's face for a long time. Compared to before, Li Ke's appearance has really declined a lot.
Her skin was yellow and rough, with sunburned red spots and dried scabs, but when Chen Jiaojiao looked at Li Ke like this, a trace of jealousy and resentment still rose in her heart.
Li Ke and she are half-sisters. If their mother was extremely beautiful, then Li Ke is an enhanced version of her mother's genes. Her beauty clearly comes from her mother, but she is more beautiful and more striking than her mother, and they are completely different styles.
Chen Jiaojiao was beautiful before, but her beauty was only average. People praised her more for being cute, lively, and pretty.
She was pampered from a young age and had a very good life. Her classmates and friends were all wealthy people. In this circle, as long as you have a little bit of background, you can make yourself look very beautiful.
But Li Ke was different. She grew up like a weed, but became more and more beautiful. It was hard for Chen Jiaojiao not to be jealous of her.
Just like Li Ke now, she is so thin that she is just skin and bones, but people can still spot her at a glance because her face, even without flesh, is still very beautiful because of her excellent bone structure.
Moreover, this is in a place like theirs, where there hasn't been a fresh and presentable woman in a long time.
Chen Jiaojiao still looked down on Li Ke. Despite possessing the most powerful weapon, he had ended up in such a sorry state. It was a waste of his good looks to be on someone like Li Ke.
"Sister, we've already come to this point, why do you have to be so confrontational with me? You're just too stubborn. If you had been a little more lenient back then, you wouldn't have suffered so much." Regardless of what she was thinking, Chen Jiaojiao continued to persuade Li Ke.
"Soften up?" Li Ke sneered inwardly. What kind of soften up? Let them sell him off like that, crushing all his dignity and integrity for a bite to eat?
The Li Ke of the past couldn't do it, and the Li Ke of today still can't do it.
Seeing Li Ke remain silent again, Chen Jiaojiao knew her stubborn nature persisted. She sighed, sat down beside Li Ke, and continued to persuade her, "Sister, your physical strength is ruined, and you've broken a leg. Where can you go? Nowhere in this world will accept ordinary people like us. If you stay with me, at least we can rely on each other. If you go elsewhere, the people you encounter might be even worse than those around us now. Don't you understand how difficult it is to survive and have enough to eat?"
A faint anger welled up in Li Ke's numb heart. Understanding? She understood all too well. Wasn't her initial understanding given to her by the person in front of her and her dear family?
If it were during the first two years of the apocalypse, Li Ke might have had some spirit to argue and debate with Chen Jiaojiao. But now, if it weren't for her physical weakness, she would immediately send her to see her ancestor.
Two weeks ago, Li Ke escaped from the Bincheng base with great difficulty. He walked and stopped along the way until he arrived at this desolate suburb. Under the high temperature, apart from some abandoned houses, there was no sign of life.
Li Ke was injected with softening agent number three, a new type of medicine used to deal with large beasts. However, the first injection was given to her by her former comrade.
Years of wilderness survival experience have given Li Ke exceptional sensory abilities. At the moment danger approached, she dodged in time, and the needle missed her lumbar spine, landing instead in the back of her knee.
Despite having teammates who had risked their lives alongside her, she still let her guard down.
Her once excellent physical abilities were quickly destroyed. Not wanting to become someone else's plaything, Li Ke had no intention of revenge. Her first thought was to escape as soon as possible while she still had some remaining strength and speed.
She pretended to comply and was taken back to the Bincheng base by her teammates. She knew they wouldn't kill her for the time being; they wanted to offer her up to some high-ranking members of the base.
Taking advantage of their momentary lapse in attention, thinking she had come to her senses, she stole a motorcycle from the base. With only seven or eight days' worth of rations in her backpack, she sped away from the base at midday when everyone was holed up indoors and didn't want to move.
She knew she might die out there, but for her, that wasn't the worst possible outcome.
The motorcycle broke down by noon the next day. The tire slipping was a minor issue; the main problem was that it ran out of gas. Li Ke decisively abandoned it and started walking.
The sun hung high overhead, its intense heat scorching the surrounding air, and the sweltering weather intensified the challenge for humanity's remaining existence.
Having run out of food and water, and having walked for two nights, Li Ke was tormented by hunger and thirst. As the sun rose, Li Ke, whose consciousness was somewhat blurred, arrived at this abandoned city outskirts.
The medication seemed to be softening her bones, and the erosion of lethargy deepened day by day, but her tenacious vitality kept her moving forward.
When Li Ke saw the small pond covered by a sunshade in the middle of the village, her extremely empty body immediately burst forth with strength, pushing her quickly to the edge of the pond to drink thirstily.
Before she could even finish drinking her water, someone rushed over, grabbed her hair, and pulled her up.
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