When Han Qianqian looked up, he saw that several jailers had already come over.
“What’s all the f*cking yelling about, shut your f*cking mouth.”
“You’ve all been f*cking slaves, and you’re still barking at this dog.”
“If you scream again, I’ll break your f*cking legs.”
A few of the jailers turned around and left after yelling.
The dungeon, all of a sudden, fell into dead silence again.
“It’s better to keep your mouth shut and do some useless shouting here, rather than save your strength for when you’re sold and can do more work and have a couple of full meals.”
“Yeah, what’s all this yelling and screaming about.”
“And what a young man.”
It wasn’t just the jailers’ tirade, even after the jailers had left, it was the others in the same cell who scoffed at Han Qianqian’s statement.
Han Qianqian was a bit shocked, I came to save your lives, and even if you don’t appreciate it, you’re still mocking us here?!
“Young man, sit down.”
A feeble voice came from the cell next to him.
Han Qianqian glanced back and saw a man who could not quite tell his age and had extremely long hair lying there.
His hair basically covered his entire face, and he could only be identified as an elderly man by his old voice.
“You’re right to have essence, there’s no excuse for that.”
“However, it is also true that everyone’s great fullness is also true, and I ask you not to disturb their rest.”
Han Qianqian frowned slightly, “I was just telling everyone that I would soon lead them out from here to put their minds at ease, there was no other malicious intent, so what’s wrong with that?”
“Oh, everyone has already accepted their destiny, yet you suddenly say something that is not true, and I ask you again, what kind of good intentions does this count as?” He said with disdain, “Young people, high-minded and arrogant, I can understand, but after more poisonous beatings in society, one will know what it means to be comfortable with what one has come to.”
“Don’t think that because you’re high-minded and arrogant, you’re a great big deal, everyone here was once like that.”
“We dreamed of breaking free and getting back to the life we once had, but what happened? But it just invites more beatings. So I hope that if you are really good to us, stay good and don’t say or do anything.”
Han Qianqian understood that the people here had gone numb, had given up resisting, had given up turning over, had given up everything.
For them, accepting everything was the right way to go.
Han Qianqian did not speak any more, and with a gentle glance at the various cells, they were all terribly quiet.
“When I first came here, I was just as bloody-minded as you, I didn’t just want to get out on my own, I wanted to save everyone together. But do you know what the end result was?”
With those words, he sat up from the ground, and it was then, under the light, that Han Qianqian finally saw clearly that his legs were actually no longer legs at all, but just two wooden sticks placed in his trouser legs, making it look like two legs.
“I have resisted, and this is the price.”
“Maybe, if I hadn’t resisted, my legs would have been fine, and with my physique, I could have found a good buyer and worked as a slave for someone else.”
“It’s not a good life, but at least I’m free and I can eat some meat. It’s better than being like this now, inhuman and ghostly, right?”
Han Qianqian was clear that he had a point.
It was precisely because he had resisted that he had fallen into disability, so that now no one cared, and he had become inhuman and ghostly.
Especially when he looked at Han Qianqian after he had finished speaking, and Han Qianqian realised that the face under his long hair was only that of a man in his thirties, this feeling of being in the same boat became even stronger.
“No wonder no one responded when I wanted to take you away.” Han Qianqian said.
It wasn’t that people were indifferent, but that they had long been numb.
“You do have the qualifications to scream, this girl beside you is really good looking, with her looks, she will definitely fetch a good price in the slave auction market. A figure like yours may not be desirable to anyone, but at least you can follow her and mix some oil.” The man laughed coldly.
Han Qianqian smiled, “Although I believe what you say, however, let me also tell you a little bit, I am worth a lot of money, so much so that everyone can’t afford to buy me.”
“Just by you?” He sneered disdainfully.
Han Qianqian smiled, “Not bad, just on me, don’t believe me?”
“Instead of believing you, I might as well even believe that they will look at me with pity and set me free.”
“Good, then we’ll see.”
As soon as the words left his mouth, the jailer came over once more ……