Chapter 304: No Need to Ask
Chapter 304: No Need to Ask
An Ran finally understands, so she takes a deep breath, feeling a little annoyed, but when she thinks of Little Mint, she endures it and doesn’t make trouble with Zhan Lian. She lowers her eyes, rubs her palms together, and hesitates for a long time before she says: "I want to find a doctor or a pregnancy test strip, because I’m afraid that Little Mint, the little girl, is pregnant."
She tilts her head, and as she speaks, she doesn’t know how to explain to Zhan Lian. Little Mint is only 13 years old. It’s unbelievable that a girl of that age is associated with the word "pregnancy."
After all, Zhan Lian hasn’t come all the way from Xiangcheng with her, so he wouldn’t know what happened to Little Mint.
But Zhan Lian listens without any reaction. He listens to An Ran’s intermittent words calmly and nods, "Go back and rest first. Don’t worry. I will take you to the hospital tomorrow."
An Ran raises her head, looks at Zhan Lian, and asks, "Don’t you even want to ask why?"
"No need to ask."
There are many such things that happen in the apocalypse.
Especially in Tiesi Village, most of the orphans and widows in District 3 under Tang Siluo have been violated by men. The worst cases have been raped, and those who are luckier have ended up dependent on some man. And that’s just the current situation in District 3.
As for the women in the survivor teams, Tang Siluo can’t control them. They are the ones who have it the worst.
It has to be acknowledged that women in the apocalypse are indeed a vulnerable group.
But in Zhan Lian’s view, women’s weakness isn’t just in their physical strength—but their submissiveness is the fundamental reason.
He has gone from the Northwest to Xiangcheng, and then from Xiangcheng to Tiesi Village. He has seen countless bullied women. At the beginning, Zhan Lian tried to rescue them, but many of the women, after he rescued them from one survivor team, turned around and ran to another team to continue being bullied.
Some even fantasized about being dependent on him.
Take the team of survivors in the park in Xiangcheng, for example. When Zhan Lian rushed in, he saw five women in the room and several men beating them. He killed those men.
What next? Afterwards, the five women are very grateful, but none of them dare to run away from the park.
They complain that their lives are miserable and the world is unfair, but they never think about becoming independent, standing up, or going out to kill zombies.
Later, Zhan Lian stops saving them. If his saving only makes these women become another man’s plaything, then there’s no point in saving them.
Then he looks at An Ran. From the first moment Zhan Lian saw An Ran, he knew that his ex-wife lived a different life from other women in the apocalypse. The way An Ran attacked him just now wasn’t successful, but it was very skillful and trained. It’s a standard military method. It seems that Yun Tao, a veteran, has taught her, and she has clearly learned how to strike from behind.
Such a woman is worthy of Zhan Lian’s respect.
She protects his home for him and prevents him from being left alone and helpless in this hellish apocalypse.
Zhan Lian doesn’t say anything extra and sends An Ran back to her room.
An Ran opens her mouth and wants to ask Zhan Lian where he’s going to sleep tonight, but Zhan Lian turns and leaves. An Ran has to give up, goes back to her room to check on Doll, lays back on the bed, adjusts the blanket for Little Mint’s bed, and goes to sleep herself.