Her bloodshot eyes opened wide, and she suddenly got the strength to sit up from the straw pile and grabbed Xiao Lingyue's arm: "You are really from the imperial court..."
Is the imperial court really here to kill those beasts? Really?"
The woman's hands were so horribly thin, with almost only bones left, that they clenched Xiao Lingyue's arm tightly, and her fingers almost pinched into her flesh.
Xiao Lingyue groaned in pain.
Zhan Beihan strode over, held the woman's shoulders, and shouted coldly: "Let go!"
"Zhan Beihan!" Xiao Lingyue was startled, "Don't scare her..."
Unfortunately it's too late.
The woman screamed when she was touched, shrank back suddenly, curled up into a ball, and held her head in fear: "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I know I'm wrong! I know I'm wrong!" Like madness.
Same thing.
The token fell into the straw.
Zhan Beihan was stunned.
Xiao Lingyue patted her forehead, sighed, and stretched out her hand to push him back: "She is emotionally unstable now. Can you just stand aside and stop talking while I ask?"
"Are you sure she can still ask questions like this?" Zhan Beihan said with a frown.
"Yes, she's not crazy yet." Xiao Lingyue could tell.
The middle-aged woman has just been tortured for a long time, and her mind is not very clear. She also has a strong stress reaction and cannot bear the shock at all.
It's not crazy yet, but it's not far off.
I don't know what she went through.
Zhan Beihan was doubtful.
Xiao Lingyue ignored him, walked up to the woman again, knelt down, and softly comforted her: "It's okay, no one is going to kill you, calm down!" She tentatively stretched out her hand and pressed the woman's trembling shoulders.
The woman looked up at her tremblingly, tears hanging on her withered and swollen cheeks.
"It's really okay. We won't hurt you, we just want to ask you something." Xiao Lingyue looked into her eyes, picked up the token again, and put it in her hand.
"The imperial court didn't ignore you. They sent us here just to save you. Calm down and talk to me. Only then will I know how to help you."
Under Zhan Beihan's strange gaze, the frightened woman actually slowly calmed down.
She looked directly into Xiao Lingyue's eyes and asked hoarsely: "...What do you want to ask?"
"Are you a commoner who was kidnapped up the mountain? How long have you been coming to this bandit village?" Xiao Lingyue asked softly.
"I am from Shuitou Village. I was taken to the mountain for three years..."
How long has it been?
Xiao Lingyue frowned slightly, but the longer time passed, the more things she would know.
"How many people like you have been taken captive to the mountains in the past three years?"
The woman shook her head: "There are too many, I can't count..."
Xiao Lingyue: "Are those people still alive? Are they still in the village?"
"Some are dead, some have disappeared, and some have gone to unknown places, and I don't know if they are still there."
After answering a few questions, the woman's mental state became significantly calmer, and her eyes gradually became clearer.
Without waiting for Xiao Lingyue to ask, she took the initiative and said: "I was captured up the mountain with the people in the village. Our village is not far from Hulang Mountain and was looted by those beasts..."
"All the old people in the village were killed, and everyone else was arrested. The girl and her daughter-in-law's family were locked up in this yard just like me. The men and children were taken away. I have never seen them again.