Snake Hunting

Chapter 39

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Inside a dilapidated building, there are five men getting dressed while around a naked woman. The woman is still breathing but she seems to have lost her concisouness. On her dirt-filled body are many traces of scars and fresh wounds. The men around her are currently dressing up while laughing together as they were talking.

Then one of the men takes out a single pack of crackers and puts it on the small table.

The men then left the room carrying their weapons.

When the men left, the woman who seems to be unconscious and naked a while ago suddenly opens her eyes. Her naked figure is suddenly now wearing a regular gray T-shirt and a pair of shorts. While the many wounds on her body suddenly disappear. She then grabs the pack of crackers and hungrily tore it open and began nibbling on the pieces. Her eyes are emotionless and she did not care what just happened.

In this hell hole, she did what she has to do to survive.

A year ago, before everything turned to sh*t, she was a regular garment factory worker. She lives with her teenage son and her husband in a nice apartment.

One day after work, she came home and saw her husband and her teenage son kneeling in the living room with their faces badly beaten by a group of thugs sitting on the couch.

She found out that her husband began gambling and spent all of their savings. Now they are sunk in debt and he is unable to pay the people he owes money with.

Her son, on the other hand, has a girlfriend. One day they visited a bar and her girlfriend offended someone from the gangs. To save her, he promised them an IOU and now the same people are here to ask for the money.

The total debt of her husband and son totaled to a million credits. And since she is just a worker and her husband has already squandered their savings, she did not know how to pay them back.

The thugs threatened to sell the organs of her son and her husband, so she was immediately worried.

However, there is another option. When the thugs saw the woman they already have an idea about her. Though she is already in her late 30's, the woman took good care of herself and her figure. So she looks better and younger.

Hence, they gave her an option to work for their club as a way to pay her love ones.

She did not want to, but her husband and son begged her. They did not want to die and asked her for forgiveness. She truly loves them and did not want to see them suffering so she bit the bullet.

Xiao Rin was dragged to a bar and she was forced to become a prostitute. Her first client who took a liking to her timid and gentle appearance was the boss of the thugs.

She did not want to do it, she changed her mind, but she was dragged by the boss and was forced to bed. When she was about to be raped, something happened that she did not expect. Deep within her mind, she began to see shameless and lustful thoughts of the man.

The things he wanted to do to her were clearly shown in front of her.

She was shocked, but when she opened her eyes, she discovered that the man is lying beside her, sleeping like a log while a lustful smile is on his face.

That was the time that she knew that she has some strange ability. That night she tried the same thing and the trigger of that ability is by touching those men and closing her eyes. When she did that she and the men would enter a dream world and their deepest and darkest desire would happen.

She became an instant hit in the bar as many customers seem to like her. She began thinking of a way to avoid any of the thugs from spying on her. So she requested a room without any furniture that is where she would serve the customers.

And that was the start of living her life as a prostitute on the surface.

She began to earn money and was able to at least pay the debt of her son and husband slowly. However, who would have known that her life would turn from bad to worse.

Her husband whom she helped began to come home late, drunk. Her son seems to be avoiding her for some reason. Whenever she gives him his allowance, he would look at her with disgust in his eyes. She did not know why these people whom she sacrificed her dignity would show her such an attitude?

She was heartbroken and wanted to tell them the truth, but they did not let her. In her sorrow and pain, she began to work harder to pay off their debt. She wanted to run, but she could not. Though they are treating her that way, she still loves them.

Then suddenly, everything in the world changed. In this huge change, trouble follows. City H suddenly became a war zone and many buildings and establishments in the outskirts of the city were destroyed. The thugs began fighting against each other as the syndicates took control of the whole city.

The club she was working at was destroyed by one of these fights, and luckily, she could escape. But she lost contact with her husband and son from that time forth.

Now she is living her life in a small community under the Blue Serpent Gang rule. She acts like she is one of those ladies who are willing to offer their bodies at any cost just to be able to eat.

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"Sigh… those men are really crazy…" Xiao Rin muttered as she cleaned the small house.

She fixed her clothes and sits on the only chair in the room.

Her eyes wandered through the skies as she could see the sun slowly setting on the horizon.

Suddenly, she saw a shadow from one of the ruined buildings. She was curious who that person is, and then saw him moving like a specter and jumps towards another building and enters it.

Xiao Rin became curious and knew that the person is not a normal person. He might be just like herself who can use these strange abilities.

Though a little hesitant, she still decided to check the building out. Quickly running out of her small room from the third floor of the housing building, she crossed the road and went out of the wall which surrounds the small community of survivors under the Blue Serpent Gang's territory.

She carefully enters the ruined two-story building and carefully searches for that figure. She did not want to alert that person, so she just sneaked inside.

When she arrives on the second floor taking the stairs, a cold knife was suddenly on her neck and a strong arm held her down.

"Why are you here? Who sent you?" the low voice asked.

Xiao Rin was petrified in fear, but she decided to use her ability to escape this predicament.

She suddenly closes her eyes and activates her power.

She enters the mind of the person, but suddenly she was filled with fear. What she saw inside the dream world is pair of huge glowing eyes within the darkness.

The eyes are staring right at her and it is making her body unable to move.

Xiao Rin did not expect to see such a thing and fear immediately crept into her heart. She wanted to get out of the dream world, but she could not.

She was trapped inside and she seems to have lost control of her power.

"You have a weird ability… Who are you?" a deep voice echoed through the dream world.

"Wait… This… This is all a misunderstanding. I… I'm Xiao Rin. I live in this community. I… I saw you coming to this building and just got curious. Please… Please don't hurt me…" Xiao Rin begged.

The large shadow with glowing eyes seems to have believed her as everything suddenly return to normal. Xiao Rin found herself sitting on a chair with both of her hands bound together by a rope.

"Xiao Rin, right? Why did you follow me here?"

"I… I'm already fed up living in this hell hole. I… I wanted to escape. Seeing that you are fast and can enter this area without those guards seeing you, I think you can go anywhere you wanted to. So I want to follow you." she blurted out.

She was waiting for a reaction from the person who seems to only be a young man. When she realized this, she suddenly remembers her son.

"Hmm… Shh…" the young man is Xin Wei and he suddenly gestured her to keep quiet.

"It seems that you were followed…" the young man said and a slight smirk appears on his face.

For some reason, Xiao Rin knew that his smirk means something is going to happen… something bad.