Chapter 56: Xue Yu, Show Me Your Cruelest Side p2
After getting into the car and driving for a while, Xue Yu heard Guan Xun’s voice. Guan Xun seemed to be talking to Zhou Siyan. His voice was very low, and Xue Yu couldn’t hear what he was saying.
The car continued to drive. It gradually became quiet all around, and the bustling cries of the street vendors faded into the distance.
Xue Yu couldn’t see anything and was always being held down by two soldiers.
She relied on sound and feeling to identify information. She sensed that they had gotten out of the car, stepped on a metal ladder, and entered another vehicle.
Someone was fastening her seatbelt and holding her hand to make her sit properly.
Hearing the sound of the wind, Xue Yu vaguely recognized that they had probably transferred to a helicopter.
She asked, “Where is this? Is it a helicopter?”
Mo Li’s voice appeared in her ear. “Yes.”
The helicopter flew on. Xue Yu leaned against the seat, sleeping and waking, waking and sleeping. During this time, someone fed her bread and water.
After about five or six hours, the helicopter landed. The deputy director asked Xue Yu, “Do you want to go to the bathroom?”
Xue Yu had been holding it in for a long time. “Yes!”
She was led out of the cabin by a slightly cool hand. Xue Yu could tell that it was Zhou Siyan’s hand. She asked in a low voice, “Zhou Siyan, is that you?”
“Yes,” it was indeed Zhou Siyan’s voice.
After walking for more than ten minutes, the black bag on Xue Yu’s head was taken off. She was not used to the light and squinted.
Zhou Siyan said beside her, “I’ll take you to the bathroom.”
As Xue Yu walked, she asked, “Can I escape? I really want to run. It’s so uncomfortable to be handcuffed like this. If I run far away, they won’t go around trying to catch me, right?”
Zhou Siyan: “You don’t want the child?”
Xue Yu smiled. “You can take her. I’ll come back to find you after I’ve accomplished something great.”
Zhou Siyan: “Don’t run around. Your bounty is 50,000 now. If you run around, someone might come and catch you for the bounty.”
“Then when I get back to the White Tower, will I be shot?” Xue Yu was a little worried.
Zhou Siyan: “I asked Yan Wantang. It’s not that serious.”
Xue Yu looked around and found that this was the Yaga Safe Zone, the gathering place for wanderers.
When they reached the public bathroom, it was surprisingly clean.
Zhou Siyan also went into the women’s bathroom with her, his face unchanged. An auntie came up and was about to slap him. “This is the women’s bathroom! What are you doing in here!”
Zhou Siyan was very thick-skinned. “I’m a woman.”
He then pointed to Xue Yu. “I’m her little aunt.”
In the end, Zhou Siyan was still kicked out by the auntie.
Xue Yu’s two hands were handcuffed. She struggled to unbuckle her belt and took a long time to finish using the bathroom.
After washing her hands, she walked out.
Zhou Siyan was outside. He came over and helped her tidy up her crooked clothes and pants. He took off his leather gloves, unbuckled her wrongly buckled belt, pulled her pants up hard, and then buckled the belt again.
Xue Yu gasped. “Little Zhou, you pulled it too hard. It’s a little tight.”
Zhou Siyan reached down and continued to tidy her up, pulling down the taut fabric. “Is it still tight?”
Xue Yu blinked. “It’s not tight anymore, but your hand seems to be in the wrong place.”
Zhou Siyan pulled his hand back, his face still calm. “It’s not in the wrong place. You’re overthinking it.”
The two of them returned to the helicopter again. The deputy director’s sinister gaze shifted back and forth between Xue Yu and Zhou Siyan.
Zhou Siyan’s face was unchanged. He calmly sat down in his seat.
The helicopter flew for a day and a night and finally returned to the White Tower.
Xue Yu was taken to the detention room of the Affairs Department of the Manster Building in front of everyone and was locked in a square cell alone.
Zhou Siyan told her not to worry for now and to stay for two days. He would find a way.
The Affairs Department was Yan Wantang’s territory. Yan Wantang came to interrogate Xue Yu that night.
She was wearing a blue shirt, the hem of which was tucked into her pants, and her belt was neatly buckled. She was wearing a pair of long leather boots and holding a piece of paper and a pen in her hand. She sat down in front of Xue Yu, separated by the iron bars.
“Speak. Why did you kill your teammate and then run away with the Abominations?”
Xue Yu’s two hands were always handcuffed. She sat on a metal chair, her butt cold. “That’s not it, sir. It was Squid Man who wanted to kill me. I was acting in self-defense.”
Yan Wantang: “Oh, then what about you digging a tunnel with the Abominations all the way to the moat?”
Xue Yu: “After I had a conflict with Squid Man, he blew up the mine with a grenade, and I couldn’t get out. I had no choice but to dig a tunnel to escape.”
“Who knew that the mine was so close to the moat? As soon as I dug, I dug through, and then water rushed in. I had no choice but to swim into the moat.”
“After that, I was washed away by the water all the way to the South Continent. That’s the whole process.”
Yan Wantang spun the pen in her fingers and wrote a few words on the interrogation sheet.
“Not honest, Xue Yu.”
“You said you were washed all the way to the South Continent by the water, but we found your abandoned equipment on Buliye Mountain to the north of the White Tower. What’s going on?”
Xue Yu could no longer resist this interrogation.
And there was no need. Her spiritual power was nothing in front of Yan Wantang.
Yan Wantang was just playing with her now. If Yan Wantang wanted her to tell the truth, it would be a piece of cake.
Xue Yu simply changed her route and cried her eyes out. “Sis, I was wrong, sis! Please give me another chance, sis! I’m mentally retarded! I don’t know anything!”
Yan Wantang finally smiled and threw the cap of her pen through the bars, hitting Xue Yu on the forehead. “Are you willing to atone for your crimes?”
Xue Yu nodded vigorously. “I am, sis! I’ll do whatever you want.”
Yan Wantang stood up. “It’s very simple. As long as you accept the mission I arrange for you, complete the mission, and accumulate enough points, your crimes can be offset.”
Xue Yu asked, “What mission?”
Yan Wantang picked up a tablet and showed her the screen. “Go and kill another batch of Abominations. This time, it’s not ant-men, but a group of mantis-men. If you kill them, you will improve.”
She tapped on the screen with her pen and showed Xue Yu a picture of the mantis-men, her eyes meaningful.
Xue Yu looked at the picture of the mantis-men and could confirm that whether it was the mantis-men or the ant-men, they were all real workers.
The White Tower wanted her to kill people to reduce the population pressure.
“Don’t you be useless when you’re given a chance, you good-for-nothing Xue.”
Yan Wantang reached in and rubbed her head. “Just do what you did with the ant-men last time. Good luck.”
With that, Yan Wantang left.
Xue Yu sat in the detention room, pondering Yan Wantang’s words.
From the looks of it, Yan Wantang definitely knew that the ant-men and the mantis-men were ordinary people.
Did this person mean for her to really go and kill the mantis-men?
Or was she secretly encouraging her to save the mantis-men like last time?
Xue Yu couldn’t figure it out.
At that moment, there was a noise at the door. Xue Yu looked over and saw a cleaner cleaning.
She was very surprised. This cleaner was actually Wenying.
“Sister Wenying, what are you doing here?” Xue Yu held onto the iron bars with both hands and waved at her.
Wenying walked over, took off her hat, and made a shushing gesture to Xue Yu. “Keep it down.”
Xue Yu nodded. “Sister Wenying, why are you back? Aren’t you afraid of dying?”
Wenying said, “I gave Yan Wantang some money and asked her to buy me a position. She took the money and arranged for me to be a cleaner here.”
Xue Yu almost couldn’t catch her breath. She had worked so hard to save them, and Wenying had turned around and gone back to work in the White Tower.
“No way, Sister Wenying! Why did you come back! The White Tower will definitely find another chance to kill people to reduce the population. Aren’t you just asking for death by coming back?”
Wenying held Xue Yu’s hand, her eyes red. “Xue Yu, I’m sorry. I’ve disappointed you.”
She sobbed. “But Xue Yu, I can’t adapt to life outside. The White Tower is the best. Even if the White Tower wants to kill me, I can’t leave.”
“How can this be?” Xue Yu was disappointed.
Wenying said with a sob, “Xue Yu, I’m almost seventy years old. But look at my face. Do I look like I’m only thirty?”
“The White Tower protects everyone and nourishes everyone. The lifespan of the people living in the White Tower is getting longer and longer. There are no diseases, no viruses, not even a cold.”
“I’ve had countless boyfriends before. We fooled around, but I’ve never been infected with any venereal disease.”
“There’s no crime here. I won’t be robbed or harassed when I walk on the street.”
She paused and thought for a long time before continuing, “Living in the White Tower is a blessing. The White Tower is an ivory tower. I can’t leave. The second day I was on the run, I got a fever.”
She shook her head, holding her neck, tears streaming down her face.
“It was so uncomfortable. My throat hurt, my head hurt, everything hurt. Being sick is so uncomfortable, so I came back. I can’t leave the White Tower.”
“The White Tower is so good, but there are too many people, so it’s understandable that they choose to kill some.”
“I was saved by you this time. I’m very grateful to you. But if you hadn’t saved me that night and had killed me instead, I wouldn’t have blamed you, and I wouldn’t have hated the White Tower.”
Xue Yu listened to her dense words and couldn’t say anything more.
She understood everyone’s choice. The White Tower and the people here had a mutually beneficial relationship.
The White Tower gave everyone a painless and disaster-free body, which led to an increasing population burden.
Many of the measures taken by the White Tower were to drive people away—a high-intensity work system, collective sterilization, and no unemployed vagrants. All the measures were to drive people away.
But everyone was still unwilling to leave and would risk their lives to stay in the White Tower.
This was a utopia without pain or crime, and also a slaughterhouse where blood secretly flowed into the land.
After Wenying left, Xue Yu lay on the single bed, motionless.
A long time later, she heard footsteps again. The iron bars were opened, and Feng Qizhou, in a white lab coat, came in.
Xue Yu sat up in surprise. “Can you just come in like this?”
Feng Qizhou: “The people from the Affairs Department asked me to come and give you psychological counseling.”
Xue Yu: “I don’t have any psychological problems!”
Feng Qizhou touched her haggard face. “Poor little thing. How did you end up like this? Where have you been on the run?”
“I drifted to the sea and even found an island,” Xue Yu excitedly told him about her experience.
Feng Qizhou kissed her on the face, lifted his white lab coat, and pressed her face into his chest. “Let me give you some nourishment. I just took a lactation-inducing drug. There’s plenty.”
Xue Yu couldn’t resist and obediently ate.
After replenishing her energy, Feng Qizhou told Xue Yu that Youke’en had committed suicide. Fortunately, he had been saved and was now lying in a hospital bed.
Xue Yu was surprised and stunned. “Why did he commit suicide?”
Feng Qizhou sighed. “After he found out that you were wanted, he went to ask Yan Wantang. Yan Wantang was just spouting nonsense and said that you had already been executed.”
“Youke’en thought it was true. In addition, you had run too far, and the spiritual link with him was broken. He thought you were really dead, so he committed suicide.”
Xue Yu was speechless for a moment. “Is this person sick!”
“I think so too. He’s especially funny. He even came and played with the children for a long time before he committed suicide, as if he were saying goodbye.”
A mocking smile appeared on Feng Qizhou’s handsome face. “He gave each of the children a gift and then shot himself in the head that night.”
“He didn’t die even after being shot like that?” Xue Yu’s blood ran cold.
Feng Qizhou: “He couldn’t die. I performed the surgery on him and took the bullet out of his brain.”
Xue Yu gave a thumbs up. “No wonder you all want to stay in the White Tower. This constitution is really amazing!”
After saying this, Feng Qizhou touched the handcuffs on her hands. “Who put these on you?”
“Zhou Siyan.”
A smile appeared on Feng Qizhou’s lips. “Little one, that’s not how you play with these. These things should be used to handcuff me. That would be more fun.”
Xue Yu was taken to a closed psychological treatment room by Feng Qizhou.
Feng Qizhou unlocked her handcuffs, handcuffed his own hands, and knelt in front of her, pulling up his suit pants. “Come on. Vent your anger.”
“What on earth are you doing?” Xue Yu didn’t understand at all.
Feng Qizhou: “The higher-ups think that you couldn’t bring yourself to kill those ant-men because your psychological quality is not good enough. And your spirit body is the only seahorse in the White Tower. This is very rare. The higher-ups are reluctant to kill you, so they asked me to come and improve your psychological quality.”
Xue Yu looked at the various tools in the psychological room—guns, electric batons, and even whips.
“What should I do?”
Feng Qizhou: “Simply put, you have to be ruthless enough and have no mercy. Come on. Treat me like a dog and show me your cruelest side.”
“Why don’t you find someone else? I can’t bring myself to do it to you,” Xue Yu squatted in front of him.
“Someone else might fight back. But I won’t. I won’t hurt you, Xue Yu,” Feng Qizhou lowered his head and leaned on her shoulder. “No matter what you do to me, I won’t hurt you.”