See the light of day again
During these three months, under Jiang Shuyu's protection, Yang Ruxuan figured out all the routes and was about to escape.
This day happened to be the day Jiang Shuyu was due to give birth.
“Ahhhh!”
"Shuyu, you're going to give birth!"
Yang Ruxuan hurriedly took her back, but Jiang Shuyu pushed her away: "No, all these days of hard work can't be wasted. Go up by yourself. I'm giving birth right now, so I can divert their attention!"
Jiang Shuyu: "Today is a great day, you listen to me!"
Yang Ruxuan: “…”
Maybe as Jiang Shuyu said, today is the day she gives birth, all eyes will be focused on her, and everyone will forget about Yang Ruxuan, so today is the best day to escape, she can go out!
"Okay, I will definitely come back to save you!"
Seeing this, Jiang Shuyu immediately turned around and shouted to Aunt Zeng: "Auntie, save me, I'm in so much pain!"
Aunt Zeng didn't have time to care about the missing Yang Ruxuan, and immediately took people to deal with the production matters. Han Tong, who was standing aside, glanced at the corner of clothes not far away. Is that Yang Ruxuan?
What are they planning these days?
Is he planning to escape?
Just as she was thinking, Jiang Shuyu's voice suddenly grew louder, each one louder than the last. She was in labor, in agony, sweating profusely, lying on the operating table, surrounded by indifferent doctors and nurses, wearing masks and methodically performing the operation, completely disregarding her feelings.
Before she lost consciousness, she seemed to hear a woman's shrill cry not far away. It shouldn't be Yang Ruxuan, right?
She should have escaped long ago...
I hope Yang Ruxuan can bring the news to her parents and tell them to find someone to rescue her.
She was thinking in a daze, and finally fainted on the operating table. When she opened her eyes again, it was already the next day. She returned to the dark and narrow room, and there was no sound of a baby crying.
Her belly was flat, and she was finally free of the burden. The child tormented her day and night, and she couldn't sleep well. But why did she always feel a sense of loss and regret?
Perhaps it was because of the mother's feelings, after ten months of pregnancy and one day of birth, she had never even seen the child's face, heard the child's voice, and even did not know the child's gender. She (he) was quietly sent to a strange place.
What's the difference between her and a life of such futile efforts? They're both just pets kept in cages.
With a "swish", the door was opened.
It was Aunt Zeng. There was a male cultivator standing next to her. The male cultivator had a serious and unfriendly look on his face, as if he was looking for trouble. She had a bad feeling in her heart.
"Jiang Shuyu? What's your relationship with Yang Ruxuan? You've been very close lately. Has she mentioned anything about her life outside to you?"
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Shuyu's face changed and became even paler: "What? What's wrong? What happened?"
Considering that she was still pregnant, the other party didn't say anything, just asked the question and left.
It was Aunt Zeng who helped her up, comforted her, and finally revealed: "Shuyu, Ruxuan escaped and was caught. She has been taken to the solitary confinement room. It's... even more cruel..."
Even Aunt Zeng couldn't bear to watch it anymore. She didn't want to mention the situation in the solitary confinement room, but just said these more cruel words. Jiang Shuyu could also foresee the situation over there...
Jiang Shuyu burst into tears, grabbed Aunt Zeng's hand, and collapsed: "Why don't you let her die? Why are you torturing her like this!"
Aunt Zeng turned her face away and wiped her tears: "Silly child, a woman's womb is so precious. They will not give up your womb. You can give birth to more than a dozen children in your lifetime."
"Kill one person and you'll kill a dozen. Kill two and you'll kill over thirty children. Do you think they'll kill women? No, they'll just use all their might to exploit you and force you."
Finally, Aunt Zeng cleaned up the mess on the bed, opened the lunch box for her, and fed her: "Here, the only hope is to survive well. Don't even think about anything else, and don't do anything else."
Aunt Zeng’s only warning was also her only reminder.
Jiang Shuyu met Aunt Zeng's cloudy and cold eyes, her heart filled with regret and guilt. If only she hadn't been allowed to go then...
Unfortunately, there is no if. A few days later, she was able to get out of bed and walk around. She saw Han Tong with a big belly, chatting and laughing with Aunt Zeng. She looked at Chen Hong, who had just become pregnant, looking at the delicious food on the long table with surprise. She looked at Shi Xiaoxiao who came back from the solitary confinement room, being dragged back, and her belly had grown bigger again.
However, that look was like a poisonous snake that had been dormant for a long time, full of hatred and unwillingness. His eyes were bloodshot and full of disgust towards this cage.
She was dragged away, her ankles and arms were covered in blood, and blood was dripping and winding all over the ground, like bloody snakes, spitting out their tongues and attacking the enemy.
"Oh! Isn't that Xiaoxiao? What happened to her?" Chen Hong had just come out and didn't know the details, so she asked Jiang Shuyu, but Jiang Shuyu didn't answer.
Han Tong, on the other hand, smiled and said, "She deliberately killed the child and was taken to the solitary confinement room. Now that she's pregnant, she's naturally back. Looking at her condition, the tendons in her hands and feet have been cut, so I don't think she can cause any trouble."
"What? Even the smallest tendons in her hands and feet were cut? How painful would that be? I told you this girl has a temper as stubborn as a rock."
Chen Hong bit her lip. Ever since she knew she was being held here to keep giving birth, she had resisted. But after she became pregnant, she found that she could eat, drink, play and have fun every day without being tortured by a man.
She felt that this kind of life was pretty good. After all, she had given birth to a son and a daughter, which was even more valuable.
So she wouldn't confront the problem like Shi Xiaoxiao did, she just wanted to give birth to the child safely. What happened afterwards was just like what Aunt Zeng said, if you live well, you will eventually get out.
Chen Hong touched her belly and felt a wave of response. She smiled with her eyes curved: "What a great kid!"
"Hey, Sister Han Tong, your baby is about to be born, right?" Chen Hong still remembered Han Tong. She had a pleasing round face, was very cute, and spoke very directly. But now she smiled at everyone she met. She was a little uncomfortable with this and always felt that she was scheming something.
Han Tong touched her belly and smiled, "Yes, my first baby is about to be born."
Jiang Shuyu glanced at her belly, then at her smiling face, and frowned. When she was with Yang Ruxuan before, Han Tong often looked at the two of them. Could it be that Han Tong had told on them?
"Sister Shuyu? What's wrong?" Han Tong touched her belly and smiled brightly. "Is there any problem?"
Jiang Shuyu: "It's okay..."
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After more than ten days, the male cultivators relaxed their supervision of Shi Xiaoxiao. Except for Aunt Zeng and the others who were willing to go in and help the pregnant woman take care of her body, other women were unwilling to go in.
Jiang Shuyu begged Aunt Zeng to go in and take care of Shi Xiaoxiao. After going in, she found that her hair had been cut and her hairstyle looked like a wolfdog. Then she realized that she had tried almost every possible way to cut her hair, including cutting it with scissors, grinding it with stones, and biting it with her teeth.
In the end, her face was scratched during the struggle, and there are still several crisscrossing scars on it, which looks bloody and scary.
She became skinny. She certainly didn't eat as well as the pregnant women outside in the solitary confinement room. Pregnant women who came out of the small dark room absorbed nutrition every day and quickly regained their plump figure.
However, she was still so thin after more than ten days, her bones were almost protruding, and she was lying on the bed in a spread-eagle position, not caring about anything.
Now Aunt Zeng undressed her and wiped her. She did not resist. She was completely naked, with a dull look in her eyes. It was completely unclear what she was thinking.
"It's good that you've come to terms with it, it's good that you've come to terms with it." Aunt Zeng wiped her body and touched her forehead with her skinny hand. "Child, don't be so stubborn. Go and give in. The monks have elixirs that will definitely heal your hands and feet. Then you can be like a normal person again."
As a result, Shi Xiaoxiao moved her mouth when she heard that. Aunt Zeng thought she was going to say something, but then she saw her spit on Aunt Zeng's face.
Jiang Shuyu: “…”
"Why do you, little girl, bully me, an old woman? Why don't you bully those monks? What does it have to do with me? I'm too lazy to serve you!" Aunt Zeng was angry. She threw down the towel, got up and left, pulling Jiang Shuyu with her.
Shi Xiaoxiao stiffened her neck and said, "I'm not a bully! I've bullied many of those high-ranking monks! When they bully me, I bite their hands and arms with my teeth. I wish I could drink their blood and eat their flesh. I've been pretty good to you, just spitting in your face."
Jiang Shuyu listened for a while, glanced at Aunt Zeng, and then Aunt Zeng glared at her and angrily shook her hand away: "You are being bullied here, I don't care about you!"
"It's better for her to leave. I don't want her to be here. If she leaves, we can talk properly."
Jiang Shuyu sat down next to the bed, covered her mouth, and whispered, "Do you have something to say to me?"
Shi Xiaoxiao glanced at her and sighed: "It's not that I have something to say to you, it's Yang Ruxuan who asked me to bring you some words."
"Ruxuan?!" Jiang Shuyu's face was distorted. He stared at Shi Xiaoxiao anxiously, his hands clenched tightly, his eyes red. "Is she okay now? She must be having a hard time in the confinement room. It's all my fault. If only I had persuaded her to stay."
Shi Xiaoxiao snorted, "What do you think of us? Do you think that if you persuade us to stay, we'll live well? I'm telling you, Yang Ruxuan and I won't regret it! We're going to resist, with our bodies and our spirits!"
She glanced at the evil creature in her belly with disdain: "You cut the tendons in my hands and feet, and you think I will surrender? I tell you it's impossible! Even if I get pregnant, even if I give birth to a child, I will not recognize him! He is a disgusting thing, crawling out of my body, eating my flesh, drinking my blood, a parasite!"
"Forget it, I know you don't want to hear these words! I'll just tell you, Yang Ruxuan said to be careful of Han Tong. At that time, she was about to go out and saw Han Tong around, so she suspected that Han Tong had exposed her whereabouts!"
Jiang Shuyu was surprised to hear this, but she still didn't understand why Han Tong did this. Why? Was it right for everyone to suffer here?
Can't they live a normal life?
Her heart was broken, as if she had fallen into a vast expanse of ice and snow, and she was terribly cold from head to toe.
Seeing Jiang Shuyu's silent face, Shi Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes and smiled rarely: "I know that Han Tong and Yang Ruxuan had some friction before, but my intuition tells me that this was not done by Han Tong, and we will be able to get out in a few days!"
"Go out?" Jiang Shuyu pursed her lips, a little incredulous. "Are you saying that all of us escaped?"
Shi Xiaoxiao grinned, and the scars on her face also opened up: "It's not that everyone will escape, but that all of us will be rescued, and those male cultivators will die without a burial place!"
She smiled wickedly, her eyes slightly raised, as if she had calculated something: "He will die by my sword, under my skirt, at my feet. A messy death, just what I want."
"Don't look at me like that. Didn't Sister Chen Hong tell you? My intuition is always accurate and never wrong." Shi Xiaoxiao looked confident. "You'd better not do anything out of the ordinary these days. And don't confront Han Tong. That way, we can both survive."
Shi Xiaoxiao's face was full of certainty, which made Jiang Shuyu half-believing and half-doubting. However, she had avoided Shi Xiaoxiao these days because she didn't want to offend the pregnant woman who was due to give birth next month.
But unexpectedly, a month later, Yang Ruxuan became pregnant and gave birth.
When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. Yang Ruxuan always thought that it was Han Tong who leaked her whereabouts. Even though Shi Xiaoxiao and Jiang Shuyu tried to persuade her, she refused to believe it.
"Why are you speaking up for Han Tong? She's so close to Aunt Zeng now. Do you think she's doing the right thing? Instead of thinking about leaving, she's thinking about how to please the enemy?"
Taking care of both old and new grudges, Yang Ruxuan looked down upon Han Tong more and more. Because of her criminal record, Yang Ruxuan was placed under surveillance and could only come out once a week, so the two would not have many opportunities to meet.
They only met once a week, but they would argue with each other, and every time they would get red in the face and angry. The last time was when Han Tong had a miscarriage, her water broke, and she was about to give birth.
Han Tong screamed heartbreakingly: "Yang Ruxuan! You hurt me!"
Aunt Zeng pressed Yang Ruxuan to her bedside and apologized: "Xiaotong, don't be afraid! I pressed this girl over to apologize to you. You must give birth to this baby safely!"
All eyes were now focused on Yang Ruxuan and Han Tong. Even Shi Xiaoxiao and Jiang Shuyu were not surprised. They were all on the same bus, so how could they not be worried?
So, at such a critical moment.
There's a fire! A huge fire!
"Hurry up and put out the fire! Hurry up and put out the fire! What's going on? Who set the fire?"
"Boom——"!
Not only the underground, but even the top is crumbling!
The entire underground space fell apart, the beams and rubble collapsed with a deafening sound, and not far away there was a flicker of flames. The raging fire, like a giant dragon, devoured the wooden boards, long tables, and gauze curtains, almost swallowing up the entire production room!
The flames burned fiercely!
With a sound of "Wow", the baby came out!
Everyone was extremely nervous. The monks behind him used water control techniques and made it rain, but they could not keep up with the speed of the fire!
Only Han Tong closed her eyes, a tear falling into her collar. Yang Ruxuan was closest to her and heard her voice: "Success..."
"What?" She didn't dare to ask, and had a vague guess in her heart. She looked around and found that Chen Hong, who was Han Tong's best friend, was not there!
Could it be that she was the one who started the fire?
Han Tong and Chen Hong! Always want to escape!
So Han Tong didn't tell her at all! She had been misunderstanding all along! Shi Xiaoxiao and Jiang Shuyu were right!
Yang Ruxuan was in a panic: "You! You!"
Han Tong shook her head and smiled weakly. "I'm so tired of arguing with you for so many days. My mouth is dry and my throat is hoarse. I wonder if we can continue arguing in the future..."
Jiang Shuyu looked at the flames getting closer and closer, hugged Shi Xiaoxiao in the wheelchair and shouted: "Be careful!!!"
Yang Ruxuan's face turned pale: "What are you going to do!"
Han Tong shook her head: "I don't want to do anything but destroy this place, this dark place... I've had enough!!!"
She pointed to the gap not far away: "You... go quickly!
"After you get out! Take care of Sister Chen Hong's child! She has sacrificed so much!!!"
Jiang Shuyu pushed Shi Xiaoxiao with one hand and Yang Ruxuan with the other and ran: "Let's go see what's going on ahead first, and then come back to save them!"
Yang Ruxuan could only nod and followed Jiang Shuyu to check the situation above. She found that they were underground, and the ground was shaking, tall buildings collapsed, and the ground collapsed!
The place they are now is not directly below the high-rise building. Directly below the high-rise building is the lounge and training room for the male cultivators. No wonder the male cultivators could not deal with the fire. It turned out that most of them died in the collapsed ground.
They were still in a position next to a tall building, so there was a glimmer of hope, but the main reason was that the fire was too big and it was difficult to climb up!
Han Tong's last glance was at Aunt Zeng. "I'm sorry, Aunt Zeng, I've been lying to you."
"I only thought about escaping and never followed your life path. I have been lying to you all these days. I know you treat me well, but I don't approve of your actions."
Aunt Zeng shook her head and looked at her gray-haired colleagues. They also looked frank: "Maybe we have been deceiving ourselves all these years, deceiving ourselves, wanting to live with a clear conscience. But in fact, hearing you little girls screaming in pain every day, I can't sleep all day and night. I know that we can't deceive ourselves."
"Maybe death will bring relief."
"I used to think I couldn't die. What would happen to my family? As long as I lived, there would be hope. But after I gave birth, I found out they wouldn't let me go home. They only gave me two choices: go to the mines or stay. I didn't want to go to a horrible place like the mines, so I had no choice but to stay."
"But I found that after surviving, I became like Aunt Zeng. We also had someone called Aunt Zeng before, and she was in charge of you and us just like me, instilling these great principles in us, telling us to let down our guard and have children properly."
"She told the truth before she died: her last name was not Zeng at all. She just couldn't let go of her past, so she changed it to Zeng."
"I'm not Aunt Zeng either." Her eyes were filled with tears as she held the hands of the medical staff around her. Their old hands were like old tree bark, but when they were held together, they were extremely warm.
She smiled at Han Tong on the bed, her face frank: "Zhang Yuzhen, my name is Zhang Yuzhen."
"An ordinary girl from the mountain village, just like you, was tricked into coming here to be used as a reproductive machine."
After hearing these words, Han Tong almost burst into tears: "Auntie... I know how good you are to me. I am asking you to accompany me..."
As soon as the words fell——
Jiang Shuyu pushed Shi Xiaoxiao's wheelchair back and said worriedly, "We can't get up there!"
Yang Ruxuan wiped her face and said, "The flames are too big!!!" She glanced at the women in the small dark room and said, "No, they haven't come out yet. Let's get them out!"
Jiang Shuyu: "Okay!"
The women in the small dark room came here almost at the same time. They were not pregnant and their movements were more agile. Saving one more person means more hope!
Zhang Yuzhen had the keys to all the dark rooms on her, and she threw them to them: "Go and save them."
Jiang Shuyu looked at the key in her hand. She thought it would take a fierce struggle to get the key, but she didn't expect it to be so easy.
"Okay!" She looked at Aunt Zeng deeply, always feeling that there was something different about her. With the cooperation of everyone, all the girls in the small dark room were rescued.
But there are always some who are unconscious or injured.
"Boom--" There was a deafening sound like thunder, and the basement collapsed. The monks didn't care about their lives and went their separate ways.
"You guys go away quickly, don't worry about me!" Han Tong pushed them away and fell on the delivery bed alone. Beside her were Zhang Yuzhen and other medical staff. Although they were called medical staff, they were actually victims before, just like Zhang Yuzhen and them.
Jiang Shuyu and Yang Ruxuan naturally wouldn't give up on them: "No, since everyone can survive, why can't everyone survive! Why do you want to stay down there? I won't give up on you. Even if I have to use my body as a ladder, I will let you go up!"
Yang Ruxuan looked at Han Tong deeply. They used to be from the same village. Because of family reasons, they had been at odds with each other since childhood, competing with each other for food, clothing and pocket money. But only now did she realize that she didn't hate Han Tong.
She was just jealous that she was too dazzling, as bright and passionate as the sun, and that the bright sunshine would burn her cold heart.
"Han Tong..."
"What are you doing! Go away!"
Han Tong shook off her hand and saw other girls trying to save themselves, using their clothes as ropes and climbing up one by one, racing against time, while Yang Ruxuan was dawdling.
Even Shi Xiaoxiao advised her: "If you don't leave now, everyone will die!"
Jiang Shuyu glanced at Han Tong and said, "Ruxuan, carry Xiaotong on your back and let's go together."
Yang Ruxuan nodded: "Okay!"
With the help of everyone, Jiang Shuyu carried Shi Xiaoxiao on his back, Yang Ruxuan carried Han Tong on her back, and the four of them escaped together, while Zhang Yuzhen behind them had already made preparations not to go out again.
They are old and can no longer go out. They are content to just see the blue sky and white clouds above their heads.
Why not go out?
Because I feel guilty...
How many girls have been killed and how many innocent lives have been sacrificed because of their self-deception?
When the last pillar, burning with flames, fell heavily to the ground with a dull sound, Han Tong suddenly turned around and stared at them rushing into the sea of fire one by one, calmly and without fear of death.
The flames burned their white hair and rough skin, blood and flesh, bones and hair, which became the best nutrients in the fire, burning more and more vigorously.
“Aunt Yuzhen!!!”
The sound resounded through the sky, carrying with it heart-wrenching pain!
Jiang Shuyu could also feel the flames burning in front of her, and the heat wave hitting her face made her constantly afraid. Looking at the people in front of her, she suddenly realized that everyone she knew was dying one by one...
She almost cried, unable to control herself. Chen Hong, Aunt Yuzhen... and those girls who died during childbirth, those girls who suffered in torture...
This was more painful than physical humiliation. It was mental torture and emotional grief. She grabbed Shi Xiaoxiao's legs, tears welling up in her eyes. Her heart seemed to be pressed down by huge stones. She cried out silently, her heart aching.
Upward is the door of life, downward is the door of death.
The surviving girls looked up at the sky, their eyes filled with despair and confusion.
The ruins, the broken walls, everything is so sad and lonely. I don't know where the future will go. Have they really left this cage?
Or is it just a dream?
Suddenly, petals fluttered in the air, floating past overhead, bringing with them a sweet and fragrant scent that was refreshing and real.
So soft, so alive, something you don't find in the basement.
Someone seemed to be speaking in my ear: "Jiang Shuyu, wake up."
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