The True Thousand Gold Possessions of the Myriad Realms Trading System

But they were driven back before they had gone very far.

Those men, with chins held high like heroes, looked down on us: "This is not a place for women like you!"

"What can you women do besides cause trouble? Get out of here and don't interfere with our work."

Mei Jie and her group of women repeatedly showed off their abilities, claiming they were capable, but in the end, their arguments were all in vain.

They were driven back.

After catching up some distance, the men started working again.

Sister Mei led everyone around to look around, thinking about how to prove with practical actions that women could also do rough and heavy work.

Before they could even find a place to get started, they noticed that the men around them were staring at them for a long time, their eyes gleaming with a green light, which made them feel extremely uncomfortable.

Zhao Jinxin, being timid, clung to Zhao Jinyue's arm and whispered, "It's like they're spying on us, so scary..."

Upon hearing this, Sister Mei's heart sank, and she finally understood what her unpleasant feelings were.

She looked up and surveyed her surroundings, noticing that in the moonlight and the campfires spaced apart, the men's eyes resembled those of wolves.

Sister Mei didn't dare linger and immediately told everyone to go back.

Many of the girls felt they hadn't yet demonstrated their strength in doing heavy work and were reluctant to leave. When Sister Mei asked them to go back, they kept grumbling, "Why go back so soon? We should show everyone tonight that we can do anything."

"That's right, they should stay and keep working. I'd rather work myself to death than be chosen as a concubine to serve men!"

Mei-jie was a little flustered and afraid of being overheard, so she didn't say much. When they reached a clearing that had been dug up, she whispered to the people around her, "From today onwards, be more vigilant when you go back to sleep. Try to do things with your sisters and don't go alone. If a man says he needs you to go somewhere, don't agree."

She did this, first talking to one group of people, then moving on to another, and finally notifying everyone when she returned to the subway station entrance.

As she had predicted, everyone felt somewhat panicked after hearing her words.

Some people even came up to her and said, "Sister Mei, it shouldn't have come to this, right? You're all educated modern people, how could you do something so immoral?"

"When order collapses, who can predict how ugly humanity can become?" Sister Mei said, her face filled with indescribable sorrow.

The group returned to the subway station, where they should have gone to sleep, but many of them suffered from insomnia due to their worries.

Zhao Jinxin also had insomnia. She wanted to talk to Zhao Jinyue to ease her tension and fear, but she saw Zhao Jinyue staring blankly in one direction, lost in thought. So she asked, "Jinyue, what are you thinking about?"

Zhao Jinyue came back to her senses: "I'm wondering when this disaster will probably end."

Hearing this, Zhao Jinxin's tears streamed down her face. "This kind of disaster is too terrifying. I used to read novels about it with great interest, but now that I'm in such an environment myself, I don't know how horrible and hopeless it is." She hugged Zhao Jinyue while crying.

"Jinyue, why is our life so miserable? We were abandoned at birth, and after finally growing up, we were supposed to take the college entrance exam to change our fate and support ourselves, but then the apocalypse struck. Were we born with sin, which is why we have to live such a tragic life?"

These words brought tears to Zhao Jinyue's eyes. She hugged Zhao Jinxin back without saying a word, only sobbing.

She and Zhao Jinxin were close because they shared the same wish: to change their destiny through education, become their own masters, and see the vastness and beauty of the world.

But now it seems that the wish will never be fulfilled.

The gaze she had just received outside the subway had truly terrified her.

It was past 5 a.m., and the people who had worked the night shift were about to get off work.

Zhao Jinxin, who had just closed her eyes and was still half asleep, was woken up. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the person who came in, muttering, "What do you want?"

"Would you be willing to dedicate yourself to our base?" a well-dressed and made-up woman asked with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jinxin snapped to her senses and became completely sober. She looked intently at the face in front of her and remembered that this was the woman who had said she had high ideological awareness and was willing to sacrifice her body for the base. She panicked even more and shook her head repeatedly: "I don't agree, I don't agree. I'm willing to work, I'm willing to go out and fight."

The woman, named Fu Haixin, frowned upon hearing Zhao Jinxin's words: "How can your moral awareness be so low? The men at the base protected you from being killed and prevented you from starving to death. How can you be so ungrateful?"

“I also have work to do,” Zhao Jinxin immediately shouted.

She and the others dug up a lot of supplies, but they were never full.

Having come from an orphanage, she is very sensitive to food and knows very well that the food she digs up every day can feed ten people, but in reality, she can only eat until she is about 60% full each day.

She didn't complain about it, simply thinking that the extra food she dug out was for her own protection.

But her lack of complaints doesn't mean that those above can ignore the value she created.

Fu Haixin's face was gloomy and she was very angry. Since the people she had just called out were like Zhao Jinxin, she simply picked up a megaphone and began to brainwash all her female comrades. The central message was just a few sentences repeated over and over:

"If it weren't for heroes like Brother Li protecting you, you would have died long ago, either killed or starved to death. Brother Li and the others were injured many times while saving you, but how have you repaid them? You wouldn't even go and take care of them. You are all heartless ingrates, ungrateful wretches!"

Immediately, a group of women who shared her views and those who had been persuaded by her echoed her sentiments.

Zhao Jinxin, Sister Mei, and the others looked very grim upon hearing these voices.

Zhao Jinxin was young, and she was mostly afraid.

Sister Mei is experienced and thoughtful. She knew they would make trouble soon, and besides being afraid, she was also very anxious.

Time is of the essence. Can she lead everyone to escape?

Li Zhenzhen, a woman who disagreed with Fu Haixin's faction, stood up against them:

“We have been working hard, and I believe that our efforts deserve this kind of protection. If you are still not satisfied, we are willing to go out and fight. When Brother Li invited us to join, he said that everything was free. And now, I also hope to be free. Whether we are willing or not is up to us. And you cannot force us with various reasons.”

It immediately garnered widespread support from women, and its momentum far surpassed that of Fu Haixin's faction.

That makes sense. When it comes to living with dignity, everyone is willing to put in the effort, not just their body.

Fu Haixin's face looked very pale.

It's almost time to get off work. Brother Li and the others had agreed beforehand that everything would be arranged after get off work.

But now, the things she wanted to arrange have made absolutely no progress.