2 PROLOGUE: 02

She tried to quietly free herself from the ropes that bound her hands and legs. On top of that, the duct tape stuck to her mouth was making it difficult for her to even breathe. She forced herself to calm down a little and to rationally think of saving herself. After all, those gangsters were right. She was an orphan. There was no one left anymore to even bother searching for her anymore. She was on her own and no matter what, she had to survive.

"So, what do you all say? We can have her in turns before fulfilling the orders. No one has to know. We'll be done with everything in a little time. Why pass up such an amazing opportunity like this?" All Ru Shi could do at the moment was to try and get herself free from all the ropes.

All the others cheered in agreement. Ru Shi knew she had to escape. Their plans of sexual violence against her only steeled her determination to save herself in any way possible. Although it seemed impossible since with each passing second, she could picture the excitement in the gangsters growing. No matter how strong she was, physically she only possessed the strength of a female teenager. She couldn't fend off four burly men, each one of them ten times as strong as her. Her only option was to look for a way and run.

"Bro, pull over by the liquor shop in front. We need to have more beer if we want to make the most out of this opportunity." One of them advised. The car soon stopped by what she was guessing was the liquor shop and two of them stepped out of the car to buy the alcohol from what she gathered from their conversation.

"I gotta pee, man. I'll return in a few. Will you manage it alone with her?" One of the two left in the van enquired.

"Yeah, man. It's not like she's awake, anyway." The one remaining in the car said.

He hummed along to a song that had been playing in the car for the majority part of the ride. Since the music in the car was not too loud, he could hear some rustling sound coming from the boot of the car. Alerted, he decided to check in on the girl that they had abducted. This was a very big order for which they all were being paid very highly and he couldn't mess it up.

'This little chick must have offended someone very rich and influential. No one else goes through so much effort to make sure a little fly is wiped out.' He thought to himself as he pressed the button to open the boot of the car and made his way to the back of the car.

Opening the car boot, he sighed in relief when he stared down at the still unconscious girl. Bringing it back down, he was just about to close it, when it was suddenly pushed open from the inside and it hit him in his face. He let out a cry as he held onto his nose and forehead which were now bleeding.

Ru Shi who had managed to free herself of the ropes hurriedly climbed down the car and picked up the sand from the ground to throw it into the gangster's eyes who was still cursing her and whining in pain. The dry sand entered his eyes as he was caught off- guard by her and he let out another loud cry on being blinded by the sand.

Hearing his partner's cry, the thug who was returning from the woods after urinating rushed back to the car. Upon reaching there, he found the car boot open with no sign of the girl and his friend bleeding and trying to remove the sand from his eyes with water.

"What happened? Where is the chick, man? Did you let the b**** run off?" He asked frantically.

"Ow, man. I don't know. There was a sound coming from the back so I came here to check up on her and that b**** ran away hitting me in the face."

"Are you crazy, man? You couldn't even take care of that little fly for even a few minutes? Come on now, we don't have time for your whining. We gotta find her before she gets away." Without bothering to explain the happenings to the other two in detail, the four set out in groups of two to find that girl who would be the cause of their death today if she managed to run away.

On the other side, Ru Shi panted as she trotted along the side of the road. After all, it was not easy to run barefooted, more so when one of her feet was injured, maybe during the struggle she put up during the time of her abduction. There was no sign of life on the road. Dark jungle spread out on both sides of the road which seemed like an endless path of darkness to her.

She could hear those gangsters catching onto her. She knew she would be caught in no time but she didn't want to give up. If something happened to her tonight, she wanted to be reassured that she'd tried her best.

Glancing behind, she panicked seeing them just several meters away from her. Hurriedly, she turned around to run faster but was welcomed with a bright flash of yellow light in her eyes just before she flew up in the air to meet what seemed to be her end.

TWO MONTHS LATER

In a VIP ward of a private hospital hidden among the valleys, a middle-aged couple stood near the foot of the hospital bed expectantly. A young man, who looked like a carbon- copy of the older man, leaned against the wall expressionlessly with his arms crossed upon his chest. A man in dark-rimmed glasses wearing a white coat upon his formal pants and shirt stood by the bed taking the daily vitals of the patient.

"You can take her home now." The doctor remarked which elicited big grins from the couple. However, their eyes were stuck on the pair of beady black almond-shaped eyes hooded by a thick bunch of long eyelashes staring back at them emptily.