Mu Momo was like a drowning person clutching at a straw. Her eyes were bloodshot, and her hands tightly grasped the door sill, refusing to let go.
Her fingernails had dug deep into it. Shi Tou found he couldn't drag her away. Looking back, he saw that she was still struggling.
Shi Tou was clearly a pampered child. He was covered in white, flabby fat, with so many chins that it was hard to count. But he was big and strong, and his actions were ruthless, especially when a woman dared to defy him.
With a gloomy expression, Shi Tou kicked Mu Momo hard in the waist.
A crisp cracking sound could be heard. Mu Momo couldn't help but cry out in pain. For a moment, she lost her strength, but she quickly reacted.
In that instant, several of her fingernails had come loose from the nail beds due to the excessive force. Scraping against the door sill, they were completely torn off.
Some of the fingernails were hanging half - off the nail beds, only attached by a bit of flesh.
Mu Momo was in so much pain that cold sweat broke out all over her body, and tears welled up in her eyes.
All she could hear was Shi Tou's abuse:
"You bitch, stop pretending to be innocent. Once you're in our village, no one can escape. I gave you some face at first, but you really started to act high and mighty, huh?"
"Damn it, it's your fortune that I take a fancy to you now."
Shi Tou directly reached out and grabbed Mu Momo's hair tightly, then slapped her across the face. The young girl's delicate face was swollen in no time, and the corner of her mouth was bleeding.
But Mu Momo didn't care about this pain anymore. Nothing could be more painful than the pain in her fingers.
Suddenly, Mu Momo remembered the person she had seen in the pigsty.
A strong sense of unease welled up in her heart. She felt an answer was about to surface in her mind.
She couldn't believe it, but she was sure that if she was captured now, her fate would be even worse than that of the person in the pigsty.
Extreme panic and pain overwhelmed her, but her will to survive told her not to let go.
"Don't let go. I mustn't let go." Mu Momo thought. Tears were streaming down her face without her even noticing.
Shi Tou's eyes were venomous. He pulled her head up forcefully by her hair, forcing Mu Momo to look directly at the people in the room, trying to make her more desperate.
Mu Momo couldn't help but cast a pleading look at Qiao You and Wu Liang in the room.
The two men in the room were already beaten to a pulp. The villagers were extremely ruthless, using whatever they could find to beat them.
Wu Liang tightly hugged his head to avoid getting his most important parts injured. It was obvious that he was on the verge of death, just instinctively hugging his head and not moving.
Mu Momo saw that Qiao You was so badly beaten that he couldn't even get up from the ground. There was a small pool of blood under their bodies, and the blood was still spreading continuously.
There was a glint in Qiao You's eyes. He stared intently in Mu Momo's direction, struggling to save her. Every movement of his caused the wounds on his body to bleed continuously.
Mu Momo shook her head with tears in her eyes and hoarsely said, "Don't move. Please."
Qiao You's unyielding struggle had shifted most of the harm onto himself.
In the eyes of the villagers, his behavior was a provocation and an invitation to be beaten.
Maybe this behavior was stupid. But if he gave in, Mu Momo, a girl, would surely be in a very dangerous situation in this village full of men. He didn't even dare to think about it.
He just stubbornly and determinedly wanted to save Mu Momo. What was wrong with that?
Mu Momo was crying uncontrollably. She watched helplessly as Qiao You finally managed to lift his head again. But Shi Tou was quite satisfied with Mu Momo's current submissive state. He thought that women should submit to men.
Right in front of Mu Momo's eyes, a child beside Qiao You took the sharp corner of a broken chair and stabbed it hard into Qiao You's neck.
At that moment, time seemed to stand still. Mu Momo was instantly stunned by Qiao You's action. Then she saw bright red blood spurt out from his neck.
The bright red, scalding blood sprayed directly onto the faces and bodies of these violent villagers. It was all Qiao You's blood.
The child had an angelic face, but there was a blood - thirsty smile on his lips. He cruelly pulled out the broken chair from Qiao You's neck and even maliciously licked Qiao You's blood.
There was only numbness and satisfaction on their faces, not a trace of fear. Blood - thirsty smiles were hanging on their faces.
They were laughing and playing, feeling proud of their actions. Qiao You's body stiffened and he fell straight to the ground, splashing the blood in the "blood pool" on the ground.
Mu Momo let out a hoarse scream. She was on the verge of collapse and shouted, "No! Why! Why! What on earth did we do wrong!"
Mu Momo was completely emotional. As soon as she made a sound, all the villagers in the room turned their heads to look at her in unison.
Their faces were covered in blood, even the children's. They looked like demons climbing out of hell.
Mu Momo should have been scared at this moment.
But after witnessing Qiao You's death, Mu Momo lost her mind. She was filled with anger. Anger was like a devil, but at the same time, it gave her strength.
She clearly saw the same kind of smile on Shi Tou's face as on the villagers'. Mu Momo had forgotten about the pain. All she wanted now was revenge. She just wanted to kill them.
Red bloodshot eyes covered Mu Momo's eyeballs.
She quickly got up. Before anyone could react, she rushed into the room and picked up the kitchen knife that a villager had just thrown on the ground.
There was still blood on it, which could be either Qiao You's or Wu Liang's.
Mu Momo held the knife with both hands and pointed it at the group of "demons" in front of her. Her hands were slightly trembling.
She even had to be on guard against the children.
Mu Momo had to fight alone. Her mind was in a whirl, but there was no signal in this village. It was like an isolated island.
Now among the three of them, she was the only one who could still move.
No matter how she thought about it, this was a dead - end situation.
The villagers also knew that she couldn't hold out for long and would have to surrender obediently. Shi Tou just looked at Mu Momo provocatively.
As long as Shi Tou didn't give an order, the villagers didn't move. Once they entered the door, they had already regarded Mu Momo as a member of Shi Tou's family.
There were no women in this group of villagers. The children, the young men, all looked at Mu Momo with hungry, wolf - like eyes.
She didn't want to be desperate, but she had no way out. There was simply no way to escape.
Mu Momo's gaze passed through the crowd and saw Qiao You lying in a pool of blood. Her expression gradually became firm.
It seemed that she had made a decision.
There were no more tears in her eyes. Mu Momo gritted her teeth and decided to charge into the crowd of villagers with a determination to die. She wanted to kill as many as she could. She wanted revenge.
She wouldn't let others manipulate her like this.
Just as Mu Momo was about to charge forward and fight to the death, she heard the familiar siren of a police car.
Obviously, the villagers knew it was the police, but they didn't take them seriously.
In this remote place, with poor communication and no signal, they thought they were the kings of the mountain, as if they were the heaven and the earth.
Although there had been sporadic police officers coming to deal with the cases of abducted women here, they never came out once they went in.
These villagers were extremely cruel killers. And the process of reporting the cases and deploying police forces was always delayed. There was never a perfect way to protect the safety of the hidden girls.
This matter had been postponed again and again.
This time, with Hua Yi's intervention, the last - stage procedure was finally cleared, and finally a large number of reinforcements arrived.
By chance, all the villagers were gathered together this time. A group of well - trained armed policemen rushed in through the door. They quickly pinned down the stunned villagers.
The villagers still wanted to resist, but this time they were facing fully - armed armed policemen. They couldn't solve the problem by just throwing tantrums anymore.
Mu Momo saw Hua Yi coming out later. She suddenly slumped to the ground, completely out of strength. After being tense for a long time and experiencing such emotional shocks, she fainted.