Elder brother's garrison

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Hearing Miao Yan's voice, Xiao Bai couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

"Why not here?" Xiaobai asked Miaoyan.

"..."

Miao Yan didn't say anything more, but just shook her head while holding her bowl, and then closed her mouth.

Seeing that Miao Yan really had no urge to continue speaking, Xiao Bai could only give up for the time being.

However, Miao Yan remained silent. The children, who had just shared chicken legs and rice porridge with Xiao Bai, came over again with their mouths glistening with oil after finishing their meal.

The children's mouths were greasy from eating, and as they wiped their mouths, a rare gleam shone in their dark eyes.

Putting aside the rice porridge, the chicken legs that Xiaobai had just given them seemed to have been completely chewed up and swallowed, bones and all.

"Big sister, are you new here?"

"Big sister, the chicken leg is so delicious! Will you have more next time?"

"Big sister, your hair is so beautiful..."

"Big sister, you're so pretty, you'll definitely be sold out soon, that's great..."

The group of children surrounded Xiaobai, their eyes filled with envy and longing as they looked at Xiaobai sitting next to Miao Yan.

"Hello, everyone." Xiaobai nodded to the children in front of her and spoke gently.

Among this group of abducted and domesticated children, Xiaobai is indeed one of the older ones, so it's not a problem that the other children call her "big sister".

Logically speaking, even if someone of Xiaobai's age were abducted to a human trafficking base, she would most likely be assigned to the female college student section as a new little sister. The reason she came here to be an older sister is not only because Xiaobai privately told Gao Yang to arrange for her to be with Miao Yan as much as possible, but also because Xiaobai looks rather young.

"Have you always eaten this?" Xiaobai looked at the bowl that the children had picked up; the rice porridge inside had been licked clean.

“Yes…” the children nodded.

"Don't you think it tastes bad?"

"When we first arrived, we weren't used to the food, but we were so hungry that we gradually started to like it," the children replied. "But sometimes it's not all like that."

"What else?"

"If we behave well, the dormitory management will designate a certain day each year as our birthday, and on that day we can eat white rice and meat."

"Is there no meat to eat?"

"Yes, we get a chicken leg if we do good deeds! Some people who are going to be bought also eat chicken legs before they leave," the children said, their eyes full of longing. "But we've never seen anyone like you, big sister, who gets chicken legs as soon as they arrive, and even two chicken legs!"

"..." Xiaobai looked at the children's answers and couldn't help but feel a little regretful. "You've had a tough time."

"Hey..." The children lowered their heads.

"Tell me about this place," Xiaobai said to the children.

"Yes, do you have any chicken legs?"

"If I have enough for my next meal, I'll give it to you."

"Me, me, me, me!" The children immediately chimed in.

Sure enough, in this human trafficking base, food was the most effective way to entice these children.

Little White hugged her legs and asked the children.

"How many children like you are there in this base?"

"Um...we don't know." The children looked at each other, wiped their dirty faces, and said, "But there are more than twenty people in our class, and it seems like there are more than a dozen classes in this school..."

"With so many people, didn't you ever think about running away?"

Xiao Bai asked again.

When Xiaobai asked that question, she could clearly feel that the children in front of her were startled, and many of them even turned around and ran away immediately.

"Big sister, you can't say that, you can't say that!" The remaining children seemed to want to run away, but looking at their rice bowls, they swallowed hard and quickly waved to Xiaobai, "Saying things like that here will get you dragged to the dark room and beaten by the dorm supervisor!"

"Oh... I'm sorry, I misspoke." Xiaobai nodded, looked at the remaining children in front of her, glanced at Miao Yan behind her, and continued, "Do you know her?"

The children looked at Miao Yan.

The next second, the children nodded silently.

"How much do you know about her?" Xiaobai asked.

“She, she was just like us, I remember her,” a child said.

“She’s been living here for a while. She was often beaten by the previous dormitory manager, but we hadn’t seen her for the past few days. We thought she had either been beaten to death or been sold.”

"Originally, she had a friend who was always with her."

"..."

Xiaobai paused for a moment as she listened to the children's words.

friend?

So Miss Miao Yan has a friend here?

So her friend is now...

Xiao Bai glanced at Miao Yan subconsciously.

Miao Yan's complexion was not good. Her face was not filled with anger because her past was being questioned and her privacy was being violated, but rather with sadness, dejection, and despair.

Xiaobai sighed, looked away, and smiled at the children.

"Okay, thank you all, that's all for today."

"Big sister, what about our chicken drumsticks..."

"If I have any more, I'll give them to you."

"Big sister, it's a deal!"

The children grabbed their rice bowls and ran off.

Xiao Bai watched the children leave, lost in thought.

Just then, Miao Yan finally spoke again.

"You shouldn't have talked to them," Miao Yan said in a low voice.

"Hmm? Ah..." Xiaobai returned to Miao Yan's side and smiled apologetically at her, "I'm sorry... I shouldn't have asked them about you."

"No, that's not it." Miao Yan shook her head. "I'm not angry about what you asked me about."

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback.

While Xiaobai was still in a daze, she clearly felt a series of hurried footsteps running towards her.

Xiao Bai subconsciously turned around and saw Gao Yang, his face flushed, panting heavily, carrying a whip, his eyes wide like a bull's, running towards him while shouting at him.

"New guy! You dare to form cliques during meals again, and even discuss escaping? You don't want to live anymore! Come with me to the dark room! Today I'm going to beat you so badly you won't be able to get out of bed!!"

Gao Yang's sharp shouts drew frequent glances from the children in the cafeteria.

Seeing Gao Yang's furious expression, Xiao Bai subconsciously glanced at the children around her.

The children who had just been chatting with Xiaobai all lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at her.

"..."

Xiaobai understood immediately.

It seems... I've been taken advantage of by these kids.

……

There are quite a few dark rooms in schools.

The children said that many of the dark rooms here have been converted into punishment rooms, specifically used to torture disobedient children.

In the small, dark room closest to the canteen, the room was cramped and gloomy, devoid of light. The walls were covered in dust and hung with various execution objects stained with black blood, such as whips, awls, scissors, and ropes.

Xiao Bai sat upright in the chair, her legs together and her hands elegantly folded on her thighs.

In front of Xiaobai, Gao Yang, who had just been shouting angrily at her in public, was now humbly crawling on the ground, begging for mercy in a low voice.

"Grandma Admiral, I'm so sorry... It's our duty as dormitory supervisors. We just received complaints from a few kids that you mentioned something we shouldn't have, so I had no choice but to bring you here..." Gao Yang's voice was full of grievance. "If I hadn't brought you here, another dormitory supervisor would have brought you here later!"

"Sigh, I didn't think it through," Xiaobai sighed.

"Grandma Admiral, please, please sit down first. I'll just perform for a bit, I'll be right back!" Gao Yang immediately stood up. After receiving a look of approval from Xiao Bai, he hurriedly took the whip down from the wall, then swallowed hard and began whipping the empty wooden horse next to him. As he whipped, he shouted in a fierce but cowardly tone, "I'll teach you to be disobedient! I'll teach you to be disobedient! I'll whip you to death! I'll whip you to death!"

The wooden horse was almost whipped in two.

The sound of whips cracking through the air rang out, while Xiaobai sat to the side, squinting as she listened to Gao Yang's cursing.

The “punishment” ended after half an hour.

Panting and pale, Gao Yang escorted Xiao Bai out of the dark room and back to their former dormitory. Before leaving, she pretended to leave behind a few bottles of ointment and coldly told Miao Yan, who was already waiting in the room, to apply the medicine properly.

Miao Yan, who had been looking worried, stood up and reached out to take the ointment. But when she saw Xiao Bai, who walked out from behind Gao Yang with a calm expression and seemingly unharmed, her gaze suddenly turned to shock.

Gao Yang slammed the door shut and left.

Xiao Bai walked up to Miao Yan, who was stunned, patted her on the shoulder, and smiled at her.

"You...you're alright..." Miao Yan murmured to herself as she looked at Xiao Bai.

"Yeah, you didn't do any work either?" Xiaobai asked again.

"...Before the new dorm supervisor took you away, she told me...to come back and wait to apply the medicine for you, and that I wouldn't have to work today," Miao Yan whispered.

"Oh... well, he's pretty savvy."

Xiao Bai commented, and then, under Miao Yan's dazed gaze, gently sat down on the bed next to her.

Chapter 3700 Miao Yan's Reliance

Xiao Bai is perfectly fine. Even if Gao Yang had a hundred times the courage, he wouldn't dare to lay a finger on Xiao Bai.

Throughout the entire execution, Gao Yang relentlessly whipped the wooden horse beside him, and even when he was cursing, he dared not let his spittle land on Xiao Bai.

However, Xiaobai hasn't told Miaoyan about these things yet, so it's understandable that she's surprised.

"Let me see the ointment." Xiaobai reached out to Miao Yan.

"..." Miao Yan looked down blankly at the ointment in her hand. She subconsciously stepped forward and handed the ointment to Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai took the ointment and examined it.

Goodness, the production date of this ointment is quite recent. It seems that this is a highly sought-after commodity in this school.

However, the quality of the ointment is definitely not very good. This kind of thing is probably not sold in pharmacies, but only on street stalls. It is an unlicensed product with no advantages other than being cheap.

Xiao Bai put the ointment aside, reached into her clothes, opened her ship equipment space, and took out a normal ointment that could be sold in a pharmacy.

"Sit down." Xiaobai patted the seat next to her.

"..." Miao Yan looked confused, but she still obediently walked to Xiao Bai's side and sat down.

Xiao Bai squeezed out a little ointment, dripped it onto her hand, and then extended her finger toward Miao Yan.

Miao Yan initially tried to dodge, but after dodging for a short while, she stopped silently and let Xiao Bai's fingers touch the corner of her mouth.

Miao Yan still had bruises on the corners of her mouth, which were caused when the tall man and his companions took her away from Shenzhen.

Xiao Bai applied the ointment to Miao Yan's lips, then put it down and smiled at her.

"Perfect, you can use it."

"..." Miao Yan stared at the expensive ointment on Xiao Bai's hand, "...You...you can bring things in?"

“Of course it was hidden here.” Xiaobai said, putting the ointment back into her clothes, and continued, “Now I finally understand what you meant when you said that you shouldn’t talk nonsense in the cafeteria.”

"..." Upon hearing this, Miao Yan's eyes dimmed. "These are the rules here."

"I guess it's something like those who know but don't report will be punished as well?" Xiaobai said to Miao Yan. "And the people who organized this will get chicken legs?"

“Hmm.” Miao Yan nodded, her expression exceptionally bleak and gloomy. “Everyone is like this… Everyone is afraid of being beaten, everyone wants to eat chicken legs. Some people are disfigured after being beaten, so they can’t sell for a good price and have to go to other factories. Others can never get out of bed again… I’m sorry…”

"The managers here are really heartless," Xiaobai said.

“Actually, other districts also organize children to beg… To make begging easier, they sometimes blind some children, cut off their tongues, and chop off their limbs,” Miao Yan whispered from the side. “The children here are the good-looking ones, so they are given away for adoption, and therefore their tongues and limbs are not cut off…”

"..." Xiaobai remained silent.

Xiaobai thought for a while, then looked at Miao Yan beside her, who was sitting on pins and needles on the bed.