The man slapped Ning Xiangsi again, then turned to the other men in the room and said, “In my condition, I probably won’t be able to do anything for a few months. I was planning to treat her a bit better, but this damned woman doesn’t appreciate it.”
“I’ll rent her to you first to give you sons. If she doesn’t give you sons, she can at least warm your bed. She’s delicate and fair skinned. She must be from the city. You brothers are lucky.”
The men did not hesitate at all. They turned around, went back to get money, and handed it to him. He counted it and said with satisfaction, “You can use the heated brick bed too.”
After saying that, he strode out and closed the door behind him.
He limped into another room, cursing under his breath. Just as he lay down, a white silk sash flew in through the window and wrapped around his neck.
His eyes widened as he struggled. After only a few movements, he stopped breathing.
Tang Guo turned back to Ning Xiangsi’s side. Ning Xiangsi was screaming as the men approached her with strange smiles on their faces.
Just when Ning Xiangsi thought she could not escape, a white silk sash floated in and blocked the men’s path.
“Who is it?”
“It’s me.”
Tang Guo drifted in, smiling at them. “Do you remember me?”
“You…” One of the men reacted, his eyes widening. “The one from three years ago…”
“Yes, your memory is good. But tonight, I’ve come to claim your lives.”
As soon as the words fell, she flicked the white silk, wrapping it around a man’s neck and pulling hard. The other men tried to help untangle the silk, but they were helpless.
She smiled with great delight.
When they tried to run out to get knives, the white silk extended and wrapped around each of their necks. Their faces turned red, and their eyes rolled back.
Tang Guo casually untied the rope binding Ning Xiangsi and asked again, “Do you want to leave?”
“Of course I want to leave,” Ning Xiangsi answered without hesitation. After answering, she rushed to the men and slapped each of them twice before saying to Tang Guo, “Let’s go.”
Tang Guo let out a low laugh. She exerted force with her hand, and several cracking sounds were heard. The men instantly stopped breathing.
Ning Xiangsi, who had just stepped out the door, stiffened and turned around. Seeing the men collapsed on the ground, motionless, she stepped back a few paces and asked in disbelief, “How could you kill them all?”
“They’ve done so many evil things. They deserve death. Why can’t I kill them? They’re scourges. Killing one means one less. It spares those who come later from suffering.”
“Even if they’re scourges, you can’t just kill people. Once I get out, I’ll have a way to bring them to justice,” Ning Xiangsi argued, her face flushed.
Tang Guo ignored her. If rules truly could punish such people, would human trafficking still exist in this world?
In one of the worlds she had passed through before, there had been a county that had started out through trafficking.
Almost all the women in that county had once been trafficked.
Once a woman arrived there, there was basically no hope of escaping.
Vendors, ticket sellers, drivers and many other professions were all accomplices.
Who could control it?
For scum like this, it was best to kill them.
In any case, the social order of this world was chaotic, with gods, demons, and ghosts. She was a ghost, not human. She was not under the jurisdiction of the human world. Whatever she did depended on what she wanted in her heart.
Ning Xiangsi tried to reason with her, but she did not listen.
She did not need to abide by these rules that shackled the victims.
Tang Guo floated out and only said to Ning Xiangsi, “If you want to leave, then hurry.”
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