Chapter 66: Die Sooner Or Die Later, Everyone Dies
The old woman sat there, looking at Wei Jiao, and said:
“I have abused you.”
She had also taken her anger out on this young woman because of her son’s violence; moreover, she was the mother of two demons.
Wei Jiao’s eyes were filled with tears as she said, “That wasn’t your choice… You, you let me go! You let me go!”
“You are not wrong, mother-in-law, you haven’t had an easy time either.”
Wei Jiao said urgently, “You told them not to buy me, you saved food and dishes for me. When I had a severe miscarriage, you stayed by my side to take care of me. When they wanted… you told them I wasn’t feeling well.”
Those small kindnesses that had been shown, that faint sympathy that had been expressed.
At this moment, they all gathered like pearls.
“Mother-in-law, you tried your best to help me, I don’t blame you, I don’t blame you.”
Wei Jiao kept shaking her head, tears falling like broken pearls.
Ming Zhaoshuang and the others remained silent, but with a tacit understanding, they bypassed the old woman and returned to the adult male section.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s voice was cold:
“Continue.”
Except for those young women who had already gone mad, almost all of them had personally slain the demons who tormented them under their swords. After the sixty-seventh young woman put down her sword, only forty-four of Shuangyu Village’s one hundred and eighty-four adult males remained.
Seven young women had already lost their minds, but the remaining eight young women cowered in a corner, too afraid to speak.
Finally, one of the bolder young girls cried out, sobbing as she said:
“I don’t dare! I don’t dare to kill him… I’m sorry, I don’t dare!”
Shen Liqian squatted down and asked, “Then tell me, who bullied you, okay?”
The young woman stopped crying and, sniffling, observed the remaining forty-four men. Almost every man she looked at flinched subconsciously but dared not cry out, fearing they would have their tongues cut out.
“It was… it was that one… that one wearing yellow.”
The young woman reached out, her dirty, rough fingertip pointing to the man in the center who looked terrified.
Ming Chenxing directly sealed his throat with a sword.
“What about you? Is there anyone who doesn’t dare to kill? I’ll kill them for you!” Ming Zhaoshuang squatted down and softly asked the remaining seven young women.
“Ah!”
Suddenly, one young woman pushed Ming Zhaoshuang away and screamed, “Why did you kill my Erlang! Who said I wanted to kill my Erlang! Why did you break my Erlang’s hands and feet!”
The young woman’s long fingernails scratched a red mark on Ming Zhaoshuang’s face.
It didn’t hurt, but it made Ming Zhaoshuang feel an abnormal alarm.
When she saw that old woman, she had already guessed that the young women here might very well develop the same symptoms as her—being tamed, even falling in love with their abuser.
Although it was hard to imagine, this situation was not uncommon in real life.
When people’s lives are threatened, if the perpetrator allows the victim to survive, it is enough to generate extreme gratitude in the victim. With a little kindness, it is enough to tame the victim, or even to develop affection, and allow the perpetrator to control the victim completely.
It was obvious that the girl in front of her had experienced this.
However, dealing with this group of demons was extremely troublesome. After all, if the victims themselves did not pursue the matter, it was difficult for outsiders to interfere.
Ming Zhaoshuang frowned slightly. Seeing that Ming Chenxing’s sword had been placed on the girl’s shoulder, she sighed:
“Forget it, drag her to the back.”
Ming Zhaoshuang stood up again and asked, “Who is her Erlang?”
Finally, a person with broken hands and one broken foot was pushed out. The person looked dark-skinned, short and fat, and had a smell of urine between his legs.
Ming Zhaoshuang did not hesitate and immediately swung her sword down, a swift and deadly blow.
She said to the remaining group of young women behind her:
“I hope you understand clearly, we are only responsible for killing, not for forgiveness. Whether you have developed feelings for these demons or want to spend your lives with them is not my concern.”
“If you want revenge, I will help you wield your sword. If you have fallen in love with a demon, I will slay that demon as well!”
She finally said, “Now, is there anyone who wants to kill them themselves, or is afraid to kill them and wants me to act on their behalf?”
The remaining four young women, without exception, all asked Ming Zhaoshuang to help them kill the people who had bullied them, but two of them hesitated and were unwilling to identify them.
Ming Zhaoshuang raised her hand, and Ming Chenxing immediately dragged these two to the back as well.
“The remaining people here have not participated in any transactions, nor have they imprisoned or coerced any young women.”
Ming Zhaoshuang’s gaze swept over the remaining thirty-six adult males, her cold eyes slightly curved, seeming to hold a hint of a smile.
The remaining men immediately erupted, pointing at two of them and cursing.
“Zhang Dazhi hasn’t been killed yet! Immortal, you can’t spare him just because those two didn’t identify him! He also bought a young girl!”
“Zhang Youhe, Zhang Tianbao, and Zhang Youfu, these three haven’t been killed either! Aren’t they going to kill them even though they shared a woman!”
“Didn’t you say you would slay them all! Why haven’t these four been killed!”
The remaining men were all lazy and poor in the village, so poor they shone. Usually, spending a night at someone else’s wife’s house was like living in paradise; they couldn’t afford to buy a wife.
Seeing that Ming Zhaoshuang did not deal with the buyers for the two remaining girls, they became anxious and, coincidentally, began to expose their companions.
Why do they have wives when we don’t!
Why shouldn’t they die!
Fei Changxiu cut out their tongues and said angrily, “What are you yelling about! They are all going to die! Is there a difference!”
They were all born in a land of extreme evil, what’s the difference? These people don’t think they are innocent just because they didn’t force any young women, do they? That’s a joke, complicity is also a crime!
Dying sooner or later is still dying!
Ming Zhaoshuang said, “Senior Brother Fei, I’ll leave this to you. I’ll go to the children first.”
“Alright, I guarantee not a single one will be left!”
There were still thirty-four children left. They had not acted against them before, only confined them together. Now, after killing the adult males and the elderly, only these children remained.
Now, some of them looked on in fear, some in ignorance, and some with malice, as if looking at unforgivable demons.
By the way, they were the demons who destroyed their families.
Ming Zhaoshuang started laughing.
Shen Liqian, along with those young women, came before this group of children again and said, “These children you gave birth to, their life and death are your own decision.”
“If you let him live, he lives. If you let him die, he dies.”
As soon as these words were spoken, a child about eight or nine years old suddenly questioned:
“Why should a woman decide my life and death! Does she even know if she’s worthy!”
The child did not understand what had happened. He only knew that the person he called his mother had been less than a pig or dog at home before.
In his eyes, his mother wasn’t even an animal; she was the lowest, basest thing.
Why should such a thing decide his life and death?
