The basement was very quiet at the moment, with only the sound of breathing rising and falling. If you listened carefully, it seemed that there were four or five other people besides her and Xiang Xia.
"Oh no, could we have run into human traffickers?" Xiang Wan thought of what Madam Liu had said earlier, and recalled the cases of abduction of young girls she had seen in modern times. She understood everything.
These human traffickers deceive young girls under various pretexts. Once they fall into their hands, they are sold to remote mountainous areas where they have no one to turn to for help. Even going to jail is not as terrible as this.
In this age of advanced technology, nine out of ten trafficked girls are never found again, let alone in this era with its inconvenient transportation.
Human traffickers are inhumane. If they are caught and forced to escape, having their tongues cut out or legs broken is the least of their worries. The worst fate is being sold to remote mountains and forests to be someone's plaything. They can't escape and are forced to bear children for them, spending their entire lives as breeding machines.
Xiang Wan searched the basement room thoroughly, hoping to find one or two conscious people so she could find a way to escape. However, she was destined to fight alone; everyone else was completely unconscious. Judging from the lady's words, they might not wake up even by the time they left the city by tomorrow morning.
She sat down next to Xiang Xia, holding her hands tightly in her arms, as if that could dispel the fear in her heart. Thinking of Qin Rong, who had caused all this, a chill gradually rose from her back. She quickly put these thoughts aside, not daring to think any further, fearing that her soul would be devoured by the original owner's resentment, and then she would probably really die here.
"007, is there any way to help us escape?" Xiang Wan trembled all over as she contacted the system in her mind, hoping it would be of some use.
007 remained silent for a while before answering, "Go to Fulaixuan Restaurant after you leave; there's a chance there."
"What turning point? Can it save our lives?"
"Host's permissions are too low; no further information is granted. The words you just spoke were a free gift from this system. This system is now going into hibernation. Take care, host!"
"007, 007, come out here and explain yourself before you go to sleep."
No matter how Xiang Wan called out, the system seemed unresponsive. Xiang Wan's heart sank to the bottom. She remembered being inexplicably brought to this world, being forced to complete tasks for no reason, and being corroded by resentment. She also thought of her peaceful life in the modern world, and now she was trapped here, with no one knowing and no one coming to rescue her. A sense of despair and fear gradually rose in her heart.
The darkness enveloped her, fear surrounded her, she trembled all over, growing increasingly frightened, blood rushed to her cheeks, and her body began to heat up.
She was unwilling to accept it. Why should someone like Qin Rong become the protagonist of this world, while she, having done nothing, was reduced to cannon fodder? Why should she and her two daughters become Qin Rong's stepping stones, the targets of her revenge? They hadn't done anything wrong, yet fate was playing such a cruel trick on them. Why? If this was their fate, then so be it. She refused to believe she couldn't defy destiny.
As fear gradually overwhelmed reason, a sense of resentment surged from the depths of her mind, instantly jolting Xiang Wan back to her senses.
She considered her current situation; it wasn't the worst yet, and she shouldn't have given up so easily. After much thought, she concluded that the original owner's resentment had affected her soul, leading to her irrational behavior.
Now that she understood, reason prevailed, and she decided she couldn't just sit and wait to die; she had to find a way to escape. The system had already given her a hint, so it shouldn't be wrong. Now she needed to conserve her strength and wait for the right opportunity.
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