Chapter 583: Worse Than Death
Chapter 583: Worse Than Death
Those words from Lei Jiang were spoken to Tang Siluo, but they were no less meant for himself. He was no longer the Lei Jiang he had been before the apocalypse, nor even the Lei Jiang from the very beginning of it. Survival had forced him, step by step, to lower his bottom line until in the end he had no morals left to speak of.
Before the apocalypse, he would never have done something like this—offering up a woman to curry favor with a superior. But after the apocalypse, in order to survive, Lei Jiang had no problem doing exactly that.
More than that, he could sink even lower.
As he spoke, Lei Jiang reached one hand between Tang Siluo’s legs and grabbed her there. Looking at the shattered expression on Tang Siluo’s face, he spoke in a voice full of menace:
“Remember this, Tang Siluo. In my hands, you’ll never rise again. Forever and ever, you’ll only ever be my outlet. But right now, this is a chance. Chen Chaofa is still very taken with you. He likes you a lot. Just think—if you use your body to win his favor, then maybe, just maybe, one day he’ll even kill me for your sake.”
Tang Siluo struggled, but the cold had frozen her blood nearly solid. She no longer even had the strength to scream. Under Lei Jiang’s double assault, physical and psychological, Tang Siluo lost all ability to resist. She became like a corpse, no longer struggling, letting Lei Jiang drag her back in through the window and throw her onto the floor.
She thought that perhaps Lei Jiang was right. In Lei Jiang’s hands, she would never have any chance to turn things around. But perhaps with another man, she might still be able to bring Lei Jiang down.
So Tang Siluo became like a puppet. Lei Jiang changed her into gorgeous clothes, styled her hair into an exquisite coiffure, and sent her to Chen Chaofa’s bed. She fell from being the pure and sheltered daughter of an elite family into a woman who used her body to please men in order to achieve certain ends.
In the past, she had actually despised this kind of thing.
Back then, how deeply she had scorned An Ran, believing An Ran was exactly that kind of woman—a woman who survived by sleeping with men in exchange for a chance to live. But now?
Tang Siluo despised herself beyond measure. She herself had become that kind of woman. Only when she lay beneath Chen Chaofa did she finally understand, in all its depth, what kind of helplessness and compromise this really was.
Worse than death, yet still unwilling to die—so in the end, one could only live in disgrace, enduring humiliation to survive, suffering endless shame, dignity utterly lost.
Just as Tang Siluo rolled into bed with Chen Chaofa, at the same time, Fatty in Hexi was hurrying to accelerate food production before the weather worsened.
If they did not seize the time now, then as things continued, even stepping out the door would become extraordinarily difficult for humans. Those burdens who were not wood-type ability users would likely starve to death in the villas. So Fatty had to stockpile more food for every single person.
But the number of people coming to stir up trouble had also increased compared with the previous few days. After Peng Yu, there would now be one or two groups every day, coming under all sorts of names and excuses, all trying to investigate and obtain the wood-type and water-type ability users in Fatty’s hands.
With the weather turning harsh, wood-type ability users who could produce firewood and water-type ability users who could provide clean drinking water were gradually becoming even more precious. They had always been scarce talent in the apocalypse. Now, they were practically treasures beyond compare.
Whenever those troublemakers showed up, Fatty would not even meet them. He handed all of them over to An Ran. And An Ran would selectively devour some of them—specifically the ones who showed no sympathy at all for the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, or the pregnant, and who made it clear from the moment they appeared that they intended to seize everything by force. Every one of those people was eaten.