The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 358 - 362: After the Female Lead is Kidnapped (6)

Chapter 358: Chapter 362: After the Female Lead is Kidnapped (6)

The mud house was guarded outside by the two most robust peasant women in the village.

Inside, Su Li and Su Yuan were no longer tied up like they were at the beginning.

A bowl of half-dried rice was also placed in front of them.

The people outside were still shouting into the house, "Tonight is your lucky night, eat up... lest those wild boys go too hard, and you can’t take it..."

Then there were the crude jokes between the two women on guard outside.

Su Yuan’s face flushed red, whether from shame or anger.

The village lads, having seldom seen women, let alone such beautiful ones, would undoubtedly be like unleashed wild beasts once things got started, with no restraint.

It was questionable if the two delicate-skinned girls inside could endure.

The two village women outside were still betting, "Do you think Skinny is tougher, or the other one?"

"Those eyes of theirs, they’re like hooks; don’t bring home calamity... Wasting your money, Skinny’s mother, you’ll go mad..."

"Men, they all like something a little saucy... These two seem quite docile, easier to watch over than those in the past who fought tooth and nail..."

...

The words of the people outside, every sentence, every word blew into the ears of the two women inside.

Su Yuan nervously paced back and forth, staring intently at the half-dried rice in front of her as if she were facing her worst enemy.

But she dared not make any superfluous movements of venting.

The flesh on her body was still sore.

"What do we do? We’re not really going to become wives to those kinds of men, to be raped?" Su Yuan whispered to Su Li while leaning close to her ear.

Su Li: "You look like you’re about to have low blood sugar, why not eat something first?"

Su Yuan shook her head in terror, "No, no, no, how can you be so cruel?"

Su Li: "..." Huh? What did she say?

Su Yuan accused, "Are you just wanting me to do as those women outside said, to eat more, so that’s why you..."

Su Li, so annoyed she wanted to ignore her, had once tried to be kinder by speaking out.

She was wrong...

Su Yuan persistently continued in a low voice, "Otherwise, why don’t you eat and only want me to?"

Su Li: "I don’t eat because I don’t need to, whether you eat or not is up to you..."

Talking to someone so foolish made her feel like her own intelligence was being dragged down.

Apart from one bowl of watery gruel, Su Li hadn’t eaten for several days either.

However, unlike Su Yuan, who appeared on the verge of fainting, Su Li had her body washed by the incoming Spiritual Energy while exercising Insect Control.

Even if she went several more days without eating, she had no problems at all.

She just didn’t know how Su Yuan, who had no strength left in her body, was going to escape.

Su Li knocked on the window sealed with an iron bar, and the door outside opened.

Upon seeing the woman who entered, Su Yuan immediately became hushed and hid behind Su Li.

"Have you finished eating?"

Before her eyes could look inside, and without knowing how Su Li did it, the woman in front of her suddenly collapsed to the ground.

The sound of her sturdy body hitting the ground alerted the other woman outside, who rushed in hurriedly.

The next second, she followed in the footsteps of the first.

No one saw the shiny black beetle scurry away from under the feet of the two village women.

Su Yuan nearly let out a shrill scream but was silenced by the stern look from Su Li, promptly covering her own mouth.

Trembling, she pointed to Su Li with a mournful expression, "Did you, did you kill them?"

"I, I... I need to call the police..."

Su Li crossed his arms. "Which of your eyes saw me touch them? If you read so little, then speak less—it might reveal your low IQ."

Su Li was just short of calling the other person an idiot.

The door was wide open, and the movements inside didn’t seem to have caught the attention of anyone outside.

Su Yuan was taken aback and, without saying goodbye to Su Li, she hung her head and rushed outside with a sickle she picked up from the corner of the wall.

By the time Su Li stepped out the door, Su Yuan’s figure was nowhere to be seen.

Ignoring her, Su Li walked through the shadows and quickly approached the only passage between the mountain and the outside world—a small suspension bridge. Looking back, he saw flames raging in the distant village.

They had discovered that the women who were locked up were gone.

Following closely behind, Su Yuan’s disheveled figure became clearer and clearer.

Su Li raised his eyebrows in surprise.

He hadn’t expected such explosive power from this girl, who was obviously exhausted and once needed support to even walk. Now, she was running like a rabbit.

A lanky man was hot on her heels.

It was the man with the fairly handsome face.

It looked like it would only take a few steps for that man to catch up to Su Yuan.

Su Yuan was about to despair when she suddenly saw another woman who had suffered the same fate as her.

She opened her mouth to shout for help, but she didn’t expect the other woman to turn around and run forward quickly.

Showing no intention of helping her at all.

Su Li stepped onto the suspension bridge, and before he could reach the other side, the bridge began to shake violently.

Turning around, he saw the ropes at the other end had snapped, and the entire bridge was rapidly falling down.

The previously lagging Su Yuan, with a sickle in hand, slashed the ropes of the bridge.

Now, her body was held tightly in the arms of the man who had caught up to her, and she looked on despairingly yet relievedly at the falling bridge... and the woman falling with it...

"Found it... but the other woman fell down..."

"I don’t care, I’ve lost my wife, give this one to me..."

"No, I paid for her."

"I paid too..."

...

The noise above slowly faded away.

Su Li’s body plummeted quickly but just before touching the ground, when he was about to be smashed into a pulp...

"Buzz, buzz..." Thousands of bees, layer upon layer, cushioned beneath Su Li and lifted him up.

Under the cover of night, no one saw this unbelievable scene.

Across the mountain, Su Li stood where the suspension bridge had broken, smiled at the village not far away, and then turned to leave.

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In the small town closest to the mountain, at the police station.

Anonymous calls kept coming, one after another.

Wang Jichou was so agitated that he was nearly pulling his hair out.

He stepped forward, hung up the phone directly, and walked out holding his thermos as if nothing had happened.

Although he appeared calm, he had cursed the people on the mountain over and over again in his mind.

He had repeatedly warned them to be careful, to be cautious...

He didn’t know how the village chief had handled things, allowing someone to figure out the situation in the village and run down to report it.

If the person had shown his face directly, he could have caught him and sent him back.

But that person was too cunning, calling the police and writing anonymous letters while remaining impossible to find.

He temporarily suppressed the situation, but if someone actually managed to escape this place and report to other jurisdictions, his reach couldn’t extend that far.

Oh, what a headache...