Marry my elder sister? Fine! I'll give you the letter of annulment and marry someone else.

There was no light in their eyes, and their faces were even grayer than those of old women.

"We have already lost our virginity. How can we still live in this world? Girl, you are a good person. Please leave us alone and let us fend for ourselves here."

Song Zhi frowned and after a long silence, he suddenly said, "Why do you want to impose their mistakes on yourself?"

"Huh?" The women looked puzzled.

Song Zhi frowned and said seriously, "They are the ones who did something wrong, not you. You are the victims, so why should you bear the consequences of their evil deeds?"

The tinderbox dimmed, but Song Zhi's voice still resounded clearly throughout the dungeon.

"Why do you have no face to live in this world? You haven't wronged anyone, but they are the ones who wronged you. What is chastity? Chastity is self-love in the heart, not being forced to lose your physical innocence. This world should have changed long ago."

"Why should women be expected to remain chaste and chaste while men can have three wives and four concubines? Men and women should be equal."

In the darkness, Song Zhi's words were firm and powerful.

More than a dozen women breathed heavier, their hearts beating hard in their chests.

Although it was still pitch black all around, they felt as if a beam of light shone into their souls, washing away all their unbearableness.

This was a path they had never thought of.

Yes, why should they be trapped in such thoughts? They are sincere in their hearts, it is not her fault.

"But even if we go out, is there really a place for us to stay?"

Not to mention losing their virginity, even if a girl simply loses her reputation, she will not be able to get married and will be criticized by thousands of people, not to mention their current situation.

Song Zhi affirmed: "Yes."

She is trying hard to change the world. Even though it is difficult, she has never stopped, and the results are already obvious.

"Or, you can trust me for once."

Song Zhi's voice was full of temptation.

No one wants to die, and these women are no exception. Otherwise, if they had been imprisoned here for so long, they would have committed suicide long ago.

Only by living can everything be possible.

"Okay, we believe you, we want to live."

In one sentence, they showed their full courage.

Song Zhi smiled. Although the women could not see Song Zhi's smile, they could hear that Song Zhi's tone became softer.

"Then let's go out and get something to eat."

Song Zhi came to the entrance and asked the female soldiers to bring in some clean clothes. After they changed, he helped them slowly walk out of the dark cellar.

Seeing the sunlight again, they all closed their eyes and stood there for a long time before getting used to the light.

When they opened their eyes again, tears were in everyone's eyes, and they reached out to catch the sunlight scattered on their fingertips.

"We thought we would never see such good weather again in our lifetime."

A breeze blew by, and a warm feeling covered everyone. They turned green like withered leaves, and finally a smile appeared on their faces.

Their movements were weak and slow, but the female soldiers did not rush them. Instead, they patiently helped them to the room to bathe and eat.

Song Zhi brought Xie Ting and Meng Qi to find Xin Wanyun. Xin Wanyun's face was full of grief, "This city has almost become a deserted city."

The cleanup of the streets is still going on, but too few people have been rescued, only about 1,800 in total.

"Those bandits don't care about the lives of ordinary people in order to reduce food consumption."

Meng Qi was furious. He had just gone around to search and found that if they took out the food stored by Zhang Yi and his men, they could easily save 10,000 or 20,000 people.

But these people are selfish. Every day they are either stealing other people's food or on their way to steal other people's food. How could they care about the lives of others?

"Killing them directly would be too easy for them."

Xie Ting gritted his teeth.

From the information Xin Wanyun collected from the rescued people, we can probably piece together the whole picture of what happened.

At the beginning, Moyuan City became turbulent due to the influx of a large number of refugees, but it was still within controllable range at that time.

But the mayor of Moyuan City was really a good man. As he continued to take in refugees, the balance that could have been maintained was broken, and the whole city finally fell into chaos.

The people inside began to snatch food and fight to the death.

It was also at this time that the city lord finally realized that Moyuan City’s carrying capacity was limited and that outsiders could no longer be allowed in.

So he ordered the city gates to be closed and no one from outside was allowed to come in, and he also sent soldiers to suppress those inside.

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers at that time still had some prestige, so although everyone was fighting fiercely, they still maintained superficial peace under strong pressure.

But the problem lies with Zhang Yi and his gang of bandits.

Originally this group of bandits numbered more than 2,000 people. They lied to the city lord and said they were imperial troops who had brought food to support them. The city lord did not suspect anything and let them in.

But they had no food.

In order to justify themselves, they said that they were just the advance team and the troops actually escorting the food and fodder were still behind.

After entering the city, they pretended to obey the city lord's orders on the surface, but secretly began to burn, kill, loot and commit all kinds of evil. Because of their secret instigation, the city once again returned to a tense atmosphere.

This time, even the soldiers and officers couldn’t suppress it.

People began to scramble for food inhumanely, and even began to spontaneously form large and small forces. Every day, a large number of people died fighting for food.

But even so, people continued to rush forward to die.

It didn't take long before everyone turned their attention to the city lord who had always loved his people like his own children.

They felt that was the place with the most food in the whole city.

Under the instigation of Zhang Yi and others, the people quickly broke in.

But no matter how hard they looked, they couldn't find any extra food. They were surprised to find that even the city lord himself ate tree bark.

This kind-hearted city lord had already donated the food in his house to those who were about to starve to death.

Everyone was immediately ashamed. The city lord was a good one!

But the situation is indeed getting more serious day by day.

Seeing that they could not get any benefits from the city lord, Zhang Yi and others simply killed the city lord when no one was paying attention and took his place. They used the city lord's mansion as their base and began to secretly collect food and beauties.

With the killing day after day, the number of people in Mo Yuan City is decreasing.

As the famine broke out, more refugees died on the road before they could reach Moyuan City, so the number of people in the city was not replenished.

Even Zhang Yi and others who had been hiding their strength in the dark lost a lot of people.