Little Bosses and Little Monsters

There seemed to be no movement in the lake suddenly, and Shu Jing's eyesight was not enough in the stormy night, but he was not in a hurry, Tian Wang stood behind him, against his back, and the heat from his body There is a firm presence in the clammy air.

Shu Jing held Tianwang's hand holding the umbrella: "Where are they?"

Tian Wang didn't respond to him right away, it seemed that he was surprised for a moment by Shu Jing's concern, but soon he returned to normal.

"Xu Ran caught her, I can't find Houqing."

Shu Jing was not worried about Hou Qing's safety, he was relieved when he heard the news about Xu Ran and the woman who committed suicide.

The sound of the water suddenly became more intense, the sound of rain falling and the noise of the lake hitting their eardrums.

In the blurred vision, a huge black shadow appeared on the shore, one person pushed the other up, and then lay there motionless.

Shu Jing and Tian Wang rushed over, dragged the semi-conscious woman aside, and then dragged Xu Ran ashore.

Xu Ran's chest kept rising and falling, and he collapsed to the ground due to exhaustion.

Shu Jing pressed the woman's left chest, but fortunately everything happened very quickly, the woman let out a dry retch, lay down on the ground and coughed.

Before they could say anything, there was another sound of breaking water. Hou Qing stretched the bank and turned over. His clothes were in a mess and there were some water plants hanging on them. The most striking thing was his right hand, which was strangling another man's neck. superior.

It can't be called a person, it can be seen the appearance of a woman, but apart from the half face they have seen on the water during the day, the other half of the face covered by long hair has been festered, from the bottom The skin from the eyelids to the mandible is completely opened, and the pink tissue is exposed to the air.

There are no eyeballs in her eye sockets, and there are gray mucous membranes attached to her eyes. Both hands are vainly pulling Hou Qing's right hand, which is clasped around her neck, while her lower body, which is still submerged in the water, is violently churning the lake surface. As for the fish tail with missing scales, they could all see clearly.

There is a big gap with the mermaid in mythology. The monster in front of me has nothing to do with the word beauty. Compared with the slender and graceful fish tail in the legend, her lower body is more inclined to the oblate eel , the structure of the tail fin is very short, and the length is only about the same as the upper body. This proportion causes her upper body to shake when she wags her tail. Aside from her hideous appearance, this behavior makes her look a little funny.

The fishwife screamed all the time, but I don't know if it was due to the pressure on Hou Qing's throat, or her voice was originally like this, the voice was rough and sharp, the voice was not high, but it was harsh.

As soon as Hou Qing came ashore, he began to complain: "What the hell, the bottom is fried, I wanted to find out the situation quietly first, but my good guy, the cold fish tail slapped me on the face, and I didn't care about it." Look up, grab one at random and come up.”

He turned his face and saw the woman curled up on the ground, "Oh Yo".

"This is really lively, so can't wait to feed the fish?"

The woman probably hasn't fully realized that she was rescued by someone until now. Of course, under normal circumstances, there will be absolutely no one by Fengzi Lake during this time period, let alone the frequent drowning incidents recently.

Her thin body curled up into a shrimp, and her hoarse cough seemed to cough up her entire lungs. The thin clothes were soaked, and they were tightly attached to her body, but there was nothing graceful about it. The protruding butterfly bones and spine The joints made her look like an anorexic with nowhere to hide, suddenly revealing all her secrets under strong light.

At this moment of tossing, the four men were already drenched, Shu Jing didn't care about the rain, and signaled Tian Wang not to follow behind her step by step, trying to cover the last bit of dry clothes.

Tian Wang put away the umbrella, and took off his coat to put it on Shu Jing, but in the blink of an eye, Shu Jing put it on the woman, and Tian Wang stared at the woman angrily.

But Shu Jing didn't pay attention to him, and helped the woman cover her body, and waited for her to calm down before asking, "What's your name?"

name……

It seemed to be something she had owned a long time ago.

The woman laughed hoarsely: "My name is Lin Xiao."

It was a name that had long since disappeared from her life, and no one had called her that since she was trapped in this village.

But today she pulled those two characters out of the dusty corner, washed away the covered soil with water that almost took her life away, as if she took off her rotten and dry flesh, and offered that bone in the charred place. Exposure to the sun.

Her name was Lin Xiao, and she was never "Tingting" as that man said.

Shu Jing looked at her muddy and distressed face, and didn't make any judgments about the tears that burst into her eyes the moment she said her name.

"Lin Xiao, is there anything we can do for you?"

There may be many stories about her, but now is definitely not a suitable moment to listen to them. Those pasts that can be passed on by word of mouth, astonishment or sympathy, in such a scene of extreme embarrassment, will only become indifference towards her. blade.

Xu Ran stretched his legs indistinctly, panting like a dog, and continued weakly: "Yes, just say what you have to do, and commit suicide for nothing, just let the person you hate see the joke , you are dead, can you have a little influence on them? Only by revealing the truth to the world can the people who deserve it be punished."

Lin Xiao smiled wryly. In the past ten years, she has relied on such beliefs to persevere. She counted the seconds to live and endured all kinds of abuse because she firmly believed that the light of justice would one day shine into this mountain village .

With this belief, after the women with the same fate around her gave up in despair one by one, after she witnessed the demise of little lives, she still persisted, and did not follow those women, either going crazy or sinking earlier. into the bottom of the lake.

Finally, an accident happened at Qiangzi's house, which attracted reporters and the police. She thought that her chance of being rescued had come.

But her "husband" saw through the light of hope in her eyes. On that day, her hands and feet were tied, her mouth was wrapped with tape, and she was tied up in the room. She could only see those outsiders from the village understanding through the gaps in the windows. After looking at the truth they thought they had, they walked past her.

The last flame was extinguished.

Lin Xiao knew that there would be no more hope, she would never have a chance from the beginning to the end, so what if she escaped like Yang Yueping, their weak bodies could not run far, and the villagers only needed a The trumped-up cases and their fake smiles can fool the outsiders and watch them being dragged back to hell.

From that day on, Lin Xiao became a walking dead. She no longer fantasized about returning to a normal life, returning to her family. The dreams that supported her in the past were like fish salvaged from Fengzi Lake, dried up forcefully. died.

The appearance of Shu Jing and others was an accident, but it was not beautiful, only endless embarrassment.Seeing those four fresh and beautiful beings, Lin Xiao finally realized so deeply that even if she returned to the human world, she would already be far from a normal person. After living in purgatory for these ten years, he went deep into the bone marrow and followed her like a shadow.

Gradually, Lin Xiao seemed to regain some strength, she struggled to sit up, and then suddenly saw clearly the monster dragged by Hou Qing's hand, she uttered a short scream, and soon fell silent under Shu Jing's gesture .

"This is, what is this...?!"

Hou Qing sneered: "The woman who died in this village may be your companion."

The fishwife was still struggling to twist her body, she seemed tireless.Hou Qing suddenly lost his patience, but he was concerned about the fragile and poor woman in front of him before making a move. She didn't seem to be able to bear any more, and finally Hou Qing thoughtfully pushed the fishwife back into the water, with his back to Lin On Xiao's face, the blood-red lines blurred by the night gradually darkened until it turned into a carbon color, but the red light in his eyes instantly became hot, as if he had absorbed some kind of energy.

This process happened very quickly, and when he retracted his right hand again, there was no other movement on the lake except for the ripples left by the rain.This time when he turned his head, even the strangeness on his face was gone.

"Don't worry, we found some corpses in the lake, so let's check it out." Shu Jing patiently explained, his comforting voice seemed to come from far away, Lin Xiao's expression was in a trance for a moment, and he felt something in his heart Itching, the memory just now was blurred again in an instant.

Her mental state has been very bad, the night is so dark, and it is still raining, she really can't be sure whether the scary figure she saw is alive, and she can't see clearly the lower body of the figure soaked in the water.

"Corpse..." Lin Xiao lowered his eyes: "Of course I know that there are many corpses in this lake, and I watched them throw some of them down."

Shu Jing and others understood the whole story from Lin Xiao's intermittent crying. She was kidnapped and sold here ten years ago, and she has never been able to step out of Banqiao Village since then. Basically, this is how people in Banqiao Village seem to have a close connection with a human trafficking organization. They have been cooperating for decades. They even buy not only women, but some villagers who have no offspring will also buy and sell with the organization. toddler.

The girls sold here are basically between the ages of twelve and 20, but few of them live past the age of 30, because they are either crazy or committed suicide.Banqiao Village's attitude towards women has not changed with different age groups. They can kill those baby girls wantonly, and they don't treat these women who have been traded for money as human beings. They are just toys that can be measured by material things. , The servant has reproduced the tool, and the ultimate mission is to give birth to a son.Lin Xiao never gave birth to a child. When she was pregnant, she had a miscarriage due to some accidents and lost a girl. At that time, her "husband" was glad that the child was not born smoothly, but the unacceptable consequences followed. In the end, Lin Xiao lost her fertility and could no longer conceive.

Those in Lin Xiao's situation are usually "abandoned", but it may be because Lin Xiao is still a little bit pretty, or her "husband" is still a bit unbearable, or it may be because he doesn't have enough money to buy it again. A new "wife", anyway, he kept Lin Xiao, and since then Lin Xiao has lived in the accusations of the other party.Lin Xiao couldn't tell whether it was more difficult to live like this, or it was more painful to give birth to her daughter and watch her die.

All the dead people, whether they committed suicide or were man-made, were thrown into the lake by Banqiao Village for disposal.

Xu Ran was horrified by all this. He had gained so much kindness since he was a child that it was difficult for him to accept that there were such insane things in this world.

Even Tian Wang was not in the mood to stare at Lin Xiao anymore - yes, he still cared about the clothes that Shu Jing put on the other party himself, he curled his lips after hearing this.

Have humans evolved?I don't think it's that perverted yet.

The rain washed away the mud on the shore and the silent five people, but it couldn't wash away the painful breathing at this moment.

After a while, Hou Qing's indistinct voice sounded amid the sound of rain: "There are too many 'corpses' in the lake. I'll leave them here to deal with them. There is one person, maybe you should go and have a look."

Yes, they all thought of the "son" locked in the grocery store in the village chief's house.

Lin Xiao couldn't care less about how Hou Qing stayed here alone, how to deal with so many corpses, and the reason for disposing of the corpses. She was taken away by three other people, and the only umbrella in the team was propped on top of her head. , although it didn't help, the clothes all over her body were already soaked, and the mountain breeze with the rain was biting to the bone, but she walked on this dirt road with a knife in the village, and for the first time she felt that she had taken a step. the power of.