Stolen Love

Ch69 At The Edge of Life and Death

the completed and edited ch69

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Before her mind could recover from her horrific discovery, Li Xin's back was suddenly slapped hard, the slap sending her sprawling forward. The fiery sensation from her back made her suck in a breath of cold air as she gritted her teeth, swallowing the pain and turning around.

That severed arm man glared at her, pointing at the human thigh in front of her. That gesture seemed to be telling her to eat. Li Xin hurriedly shook her head, reaching out to hold something that looked like a coconut, pointing at it and indicating that she would eat this instead of that.

When the severed arm aboriginal saw Li Xin shake her head, he huffed coldly and took back the human thigh in front of her, starting to dig in with big bites. Li Xin lowered her head and slowly starting drinking from the opened coconut, her heart was already thumping hard, her sweat making her shirt completely wet with cold sweat.

Nobody spoke. When everyone finished eating, the severed arm aboriginal suddenly lifted Li Xin up by her neck and stood up, and the moment he did, cheers erupted from all around. When Li Xin looked up, she saw everybody giving the aboriginal behind her a thumbs up with an approving look in their eyes. Some even revealed envious expressions as they looked at him.

After the aboriginal holding her said something to the crowd, an aboriginal looking to be about 40 years old suddenly walked over. He pointed at her hand and legs, and after mumbling some gibberish, he slapped her face.

The moment they saw that slap, the originally silent aboriginals all started shouting and cheering again. Li Xin didn't understand what they were trying to do and only felt that that slap had almost split her head open. Right before she was about to react, her body swayed, and she was lifted up by the severed arm man again as he walked outside.

Walking past a big rock sculpture and past a small stream, the further they went the lower the topography. The number of aboriginals she saw also decreased, and it seemed that he was bringing her to their holy water pool to bath. Li Xin memorised her surroundings and didn't struggle because she had to take a life the moment she made a move, otherwise her secret weapon would loose its usefulness. Towards these already mutated humans, if she couldn't deal a deadly blow in a single strike, then she had to continue waiting for her chance.

"Qi Mo, where are you?" Quietly talking through her earring, Li Xin knew that the aboriginal behind her didn't understand her words, and would know even less about high-tech stuff. At the very most he would just think that she was talking to herself.

There was no sound. Nothing came back. Li Xin couldn't help frowning slightly, yet still didn't dare to change the channels because she wanted to avoid having the aboriginal notice that something was amiss. She could only quietly continue, "I'm now walking towards a low-lying area, one of them is with me, it's a grassland here. I can see a stream, and we're on the way to..." Unable to get a reply from Qi Mo, Li Xin could only continue reporting her location. If Li Hu was safe and sound, he would definitely be able to intercept this channel.

Li Xin was carried into a shallow cave. The moment she entered, her face turned green because she saw that the entire cave was made of a greyish coloured material; Technetium ore. They were the exact same ones that Qi Mo and the others dug out from the earth.

In the middle of the greyish Technetium cave was a 5 or 6 metres square big pool which's water was so clear one could see the bottom of it. The pool had been dyed into a greyish colour by the ore and could reflect light that shone on it, making the surface of the water refract rainbow coloured rays. It looked very pretty, as if it was encompassed in a rainbow radiance.