Three days later.
Pei Xiqing's body has fully recovered. He can get out of bed and walk around freely. The pain in his chest has also disappeared.
She carried a kettle and watered the trees that were almost dead in the yard at the door.
Xiaobai kept rubbing against her feet and almost tripped her several times.
Pei Xiqing couldn't help but grab Xiao Bai's ears and pull them up slightly: "Stop making trouble, or you'll destroy these trees I saved with great difficulty."
Xiaobai whimpered twice in grievance.
Pei Xiqing slapped him away and said, "Let's go. If you don't behave, you'll be finished when Brother Duan comes back and sees that you've bitten these trees."
Upon hearing Duan Xiaolin's name, Xiaobai immediately sat up very straight and didn't dare to move anymore.
Pei Xiqing pushed it away angrily: "Now you don't listen to me, but listen to him. Did he really teach you a lesson? You are such a hopeless guy!"
Xiaobai rubbed her palm.
"He really has you hooked, right? He can even train a dog like this. What a terrifying man."
The next second, Xiaobai started wagging his tail excitedly again.
"Strictly speaking, Xiaobai is no longer a dog."
A voice suddenly sounded behind him.
Pei Xiqing was startled and turned around to look over, "Brother Duan, why are you walking without making any sound?"
"You didn't notice."
"Haha..." Pei Xiqing laughed dryly. Seeing that he was holding a piece of fresh meat, she asked, "Did someone in the village give it to you?"
She is still recovering from her injuries these days, and the villagers here often send her things, including fresh meat, vegetables and fruits every day.
"Buy it."
"Um?"
Duan Xiaolin would not take the villagers' things for free. He had just personally paid for everything he had bought since he came here.
Pei Xiqing asked: "So what are we going to eat today?"
"I'm not eating at home today." He asked, "Didn't you say a few days ago that you wanted to go to the village for a banquet?"
"Today?!" Pei Xiqing's eyes lit up and she moved closer to the man. "Can I finally go out?"
"Yeah, today."
"Very good!"
Pei Xiqing was so happy that she almost jumped up.
"I'm almost suffocating."
Duan Xiaolin didn't allow her to go out these days. She had to take medicine and do checkups every day. She didn't know how many times he had stripped her clothes.
In the past, she stayed in one place and really didn't want to go out. She stayed at home as much as she could. But now that she was in this village, she was so curious and wanted to go out and see the world.
Before, going out meant danger, and seeing ruins everywhere, but it’s completely different here, and it makes people have a very strong yearning for it.
"When exactly? What time?"
"It's still early. It doesn't start until 7pm. We can just leave at 6:30."
Duan Xiaolin grabbed her wrist and said, "You look so happy. I'll take you out more often in the future. This place is perfect for you."
"Yeah." Pei Xiqing nodded vigorously. "However, Brother Duan, it's amazing that you stumbled upon such a great place. I can't believe there are such places in the world."
The air here is so fresh, it feels like being away from the city and isolated from all the smoky countryside.
She could still recall that when she was filming a movie, she had been to a similar rural town with rape flowers and crops all over the ground.
Duan Xiaolin asked: "Do you like it?"
"Of course, who wouldn't like to find a place like this in the end of the world?"
There was a hint of deep meaning in his eyes, "As long as you like it."
Pei Xiqing didn't notice anything was wrong and was immersed in the excitement of going out.
Then the man asked, "If we settled here forever, would you be willing?"
"Let me go out and take a look. There's no rush. Besides, these are all indigenous people from the village. I don't think it would be nice to disturb them rashly."
The villagers had already taken her in to recuperate, and had been very kind to them during this period. If she stayed there without their consent, she would probably cause them trouble.
Duan Xiaolin said decisively: "It's not a bother. If you are willing, they will accept us."
"Let me take a look." Pei Xiqing didn't think too deeply about it. "How many people are there in the village?"
"About ten people."
"They have helped us a lot these days. I have to prepare some gifts for them." Pei Xiqing thought for a moment, made a decision, nodded, and was about to go inside.
The man said with a smile, "Give them gifts but not me?"
Pei Xiqing stood on tiptoe, kissed the man on the corner of his lips, and said perfunctorily, "Send, send, send."
Duan Xiaolin looked at her and Xiaobai's backs as they walked into the house one after another. He touched the place where she had kissed with his fingertips and chuckled softly with his head down.
The next second, Ying suddenly appeared beside him, his mask cold and his tone emotionless: "Brother Duan, he spoke."
The man's narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and the gentleness in his eyes disappeared.
…
In the dimly lit space filled with a strong smell of blood, there were layers of blood-stained stairs leading to what seemed like an endless hell.
All greed, human nature, darkness... are hidden in this undercurrent space.
Every time I go down a step, I can feel the biting cold.
Duan Xiaolin and Ying slowly stepped into this dark and damp place.
Water dungeon and water torture are only elementary.
The interrogation methods being used will never be accepted by anyone.
This did not affect Franlon's enforcement of the law and his desire for answers.
The bottom layer.
Not a single ray of light can get through here.
The man, his body wrapped in countless chains, was tied to a cross with his head hanging down. If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of his chest, one would have thought he was dead.
Hearing the noise, he slowly opened his eyes, and every movement was extremely difficult.
What caught my eye was a pair of leather boots that were well-made. One could tell at a glance that only high-ranking officials in the world could have them tailor-made.
At the end of the day, countless people were displaced and had difficulty in getting enough food and clothing. They probably never imagined that in the base, some people were still enjoying themselves while others were crawling under their feet.
Xiao Yue is already blind in one eye.
The movement of raising his head seemed to tear all the tendons and veins in his body again.
The voice came out with great difficulty, hoarse and unpleasant, like a dead tree being scratched, "...you are here."
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