Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 359 Greed and Violence
The woman quickly reached for the pocket pistol in another secret pocket. Her movements paused for a moment and she looked at Ke Lan with horror.
"Do you need help?" Asano Akira, who was sitting in the next bunk, asked softly, holding his "guide stick".
"No need." Ke Lan replied. When he saw the woman was about to scream, he first raised his leg and kneed her hard on her shrunken abdomen, turning her scream that had already reached her throat into a muffled groan. Then, Ke Lan suddenly turned over and pressed her onto the shelf.
Although this woman is extremely ferocious, her body is still very weak after being tortured by radiation sickness for several months. This is an indisputable fact. Not to mention a relic hunter like Ke Lan who has received professional combat training, even an ordinary adult man can easily subdue her.
Ignoring the woman's scratching hands, Ke Lan clamped her neck with one hand and covered her mouth tightly with the other hand to prevent her from making any sound.
The sound of the woman's struggle naturally attracted some people's attention, but when they looked over and found that it was a man pressing on a woman, they just sneered a few times. No one tried to stop it, and no one reported it to the "priest" - some people turned away with disdain, while others stared at Ke Lan and the woman he was pressing on with interest, as if waiting for the next plot.
This kind of thing is actually very common in the sick village. Among the onlookers, there were even two people who had used violence to coerce this young woman not long ago - these people are usually mildly ill patients, and the radiation sickness has not caused serious damage to their body functions. And at this age of early twenties, they are full of energy and have nowhere to vent.
The timid ones might still be afraid of the "priest's" warning, and even if they couldn't hold it back, they would just solve it with their hands at most; as for the brave ones, they chose to put their desires into action directly - the woman sleeping on the upper bunk of Ke Lan was not beautiful, but at least she was young and her symptoms were relatively mild. Compared to the woman with festering all over her body and disgusting smelly pus flowing from her vagina, she naturally became the first choice .
Ke Lan also noticed those malicious looks. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly. He still underestimated the greed of this woman... Bullying the weak and fearing the strong, this might be the common trait of most people living in the sick village. If he had shown a more assertive attitude from the beginning, perhaps there wouldn't be such a big fuss.
"You don't want to die like this, do you?" Ke Lan leaned close to the other person's ear and asked in a low voice.
"Wuwu... um... um..." The woman struggled hard, making unclear sounds in her throat.
"If you don't want to die, don't move, or I'll strangle you to death now." Ke Lan continued, slightly relaxing the hand that was clamped around her throat.
The other party's struggle stopped immediately. Ke Lan looked at her for two seconds before releasing his hand that was around her neck.
Her face turned purple and her nostrils flared violently as she tried desperately to draw air into her lungs.
"As long as you don't make any sound, I won't kill you. If you dare to shout, I can break your neck in less than a second. If you understand, just blink twice." Ke Lan said to her.
The woman blinked twice.
Ke Lan released the hand that was covering the other person's mouth, and in order to prevent the woman from changing her mind at the last minute, Ke Lan's other hand went around her shoulder and gently placed it on the back of her neck.
From other people's perspective, this action was very ambiguous, as if Ke Lan was gently holding the woman in his arms, but only the two parties involved knew that the seemingly ambiguous action was actually full of murderous intent - as long as Ke Lan's fingers exerted a little force, without moving more than one centimeter, he could crush the woman's cervical vertebrae.
The young woman did not fight back. She gasped for breath for more than half a minute before her breathing calmed down a little.
She raised her eyes and glanced at Ke Lan cautiously, her eyes full of horror and fear.
"Please... don't, don't kill me..." she whispered.
"As long as you listen to me, I won't kill you. I'm different from those 'second-generation people' you mentioned. I have no interest in killing people." Ke Lan said - at this moment, he noticed that several eyes that were looking in this direction had moved away with lack of interest: in the eyes of those people, Ke Lan had obviously suppressed this woman, but in the end he gave up for some reason and instead whispered to her "intimately". This kind of plot was not what these audiences wanted to see.
Especially those guys with violent personalities, they even hoped that Ke Lan would strangle this woman to death... It would be even better if he could tear her head off her neck - as for what would happen if the "priest" found out, that was not their concern.
Anyway, they were not the ones who killed anyone. The most serious mistake they made was that they did not report it in time. There were at least dozens of people around who heard the noise. Even if they were to be punished, it would not necessarily be on them.
If he could see the "priest's" men executing this new guy, it would be the most refreshing thing for him that day - those who committed serious crimes would be sent to the residence of the "great god", and before that, they would be brutally tortured and killed by the "priest's" closest men, those "second-generation people" with severely deformed bodies.
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Ke Lan naturally had no idea what was going on in these people's heads, but since they were no longer paying attention to this side, it was a good thing for him - they were here to look for someone, so naturally the less trouble they could cause, the better.
"I... I will be obedient. You can ask me to do anything... I will do anything!" the woman said hurriedly, but from her tone it could be heard that she seemed to have misunderstood something.
"I have something to ask you." Ke Lan held down the woman's hand that was stretched toward her waist and said, "I don't want to do that kind of thing with you. I just want to ask about someone."
Although this woman had only been in the sick village for three months and did not know much about what was going on here, based on the information obtained by the Security Bureau agents from interrogating the attendant, it was confirmed that Marshall had been sent to the sick village not long ago.
Mann was even planning to send people to the sick village to find Marshall and bring him back to the ground, but now it was Ke Lan and his team who were doing it.
