Chapter 736 - Mommy’s Gone (1/2)

She turned her face around and shut her eyes tightly. She heard footsteps by her ear, and when she gradually got used to the light before her eyes, she opened them slowly. In the dim light, she opened her mouth; and her body started shaking.

It turned out that she did step on a person… a woman. At that time—in her surroundings, there were women sprawled everywhere. Subconsciously, she started looking for Shen Wei and felt someone touch her wrist; it seemed a little familiar. She did not even dare breathe too loudly and lowered her head carefully to take a look. In the dim light, she finally heaved a sigh of relief. It was Shen Wei.

“Time to eat,” someone said with a mix of English words. Bang! A large container was dropped on the floor. Xia Ruoxin felt her stomach grumble as she swallowed her saliva. She was hungry, very hungry.

The women around her stood up one by one and walked towards the wooden container. When Xia Ruoxin was about to stand up, a hand stopped her.

“Shh…” Shen Wei placed her finger on her lips, motioning to Xia Ruoxin to lower her head.

Xia Ruoxin moved towards her and heard Shen Wei whispering in her ear.

“Dirty your face and your hands. Don’t let them know what you look like; the dirtier the better. I have lipstick. Take it out and put some red dots on your face.”

Suddenly, Xia Ruoxin understood what she was saying.

After searching for quite some time, she finally found the lipstick. When no one was looking, she rubbed the floor for a while before putting mud on her face. Then, she took some more mud and smeared it on Shen Wei’s before dotting her face, making her face pockmarked.

Then, she used her body to block other people’s views and added quite a few red dots on Shen Wei’s face. Then, she helped Shen Wei up and followed the crowd to take their rice.

Her stomach was grumbling nonstop, and so was Shen Wei’s. Actually, she did not even know how long ago her last meal was.

A bowl of porridge was only left with clear soup at the end with no vegetable. One person had a hard biscuit each; they would not be full but would not die hungry as well.

Under the dim light, both she and Shen Wei had red dots on their black and ugly faces. The person who scooped the rice for them side-glared at them with much discrimination. It was also at this time that Xia Ruoxin had taken a clear look at everyone’s faces.

They were a group of people around thirty or forty, with some from the Eastern side, some from Western, and others were black. However, they were all women.

She then helped Shen Wei to a corner. After Shen Wei was done eating, she took out a bottle of medicine for her.

Shen Wei’s hands stopped in motion before taking the medicine, opening the cap, and pouring two out into her mouth. Then, she drank the porridge and ate the biscuit. The floor beneath them shook violently.

Xia Ruoxin was frightened until she broke out in cold sweat as she thought it was an earthquake.

“Don’t be afraid; we’re on a boat.”

Shen Wei said lightly before pressing onto her stomach and leaning against the wall. The floor below their feet kept shaking, and the rest were all used to being huddled together without much interaction.

Xia Ruoxin followed her to sit down, and one of her hands was holding tightly onto the medicine bottle. On this ship of unknown size—with women of unknown names and unknown backgrounds, they would either be killed after getting raped; or they would be floating on the ocean to an unknown location. However, that place would definitely be very far from her home country, away from everything she was familiar with.

She closed her eyes and suddenly, she wanted to cry. Her nose felt uncomfortable, and her tears fell continuously.

“Where are we going?” she asked, choking with emotions.

Shen Wei looked up and shook her head.