I Am Extraordinary Alone
Chapter 444 - 442 I Can Hear

Chapter 444: Chapter 442 I Can Hear

Four buses carrying 60 men and women set off from Yunzhou in Yin Country and drove to the border of Yamian Country.

These people were of varying ages, the youngest being 16 and the oldest over 40. As soon as they disembarked, six individuals armed with AK47s, all Yamian people, burst out from the surrounding factory buildings while the woman leading the group shifted from her kind demeanor on the bus and loudly urged the passengers to quickly line up.

At 18, Luo Xiaoyu was frightened and apprehensive. She walked in the middle of the line and saw a few men in their thirties step forward to ask questions, only to be struck down to the ground by stun guns.

Luo Xiaoyu was from Yin Country and lived in a small fifth-tier county town.

After giving birth to her, her mother divorced her father early on, and her father, who often worked away from home, left her in the care of her grandmother.

At the age of 14, she endured bullying at school. With her father absent, she bore the brunt of false accusations all alone, and ultimately, she was expelled from school.

At the age of 16, she graduated from a vocational school and started working at an electronics factory in the suburbs of the county town. A coworker surnamed Cai taught her to use a foreign gambling app on her phone, which led her to lose her already meager savings and go deeply into debt with online loans.

The financial loss and the intense 12-hour shifts at the electronics factory left her in a dazed state for months. Eventually, during a night shift, Luo Xiaoyu fell asleep on the assembly line and her right hand got caught in the machinery, violently ripping off three fingers.

The factory manager took her to receive medical treatment for her wounds and severed fingers. Afterwards, HR from the factory encouraged her to resign, citing the damage to the assembly line equipment and disruption of production plans, so she wouldn’t be required to pay a huge compensation.

After resigning, Luo Xiaoyu stayed at home in a dazed state for over two years.

One day, while scrolling through her phone for jobs, she saw a high-paying customer service position in Yamian Country that required no experience or educational qualifications. It only required good communication skills, patience, and the ability to endure long work hours of 10 hours, with a salary of 10,000 Civilian Coins per month.

She was immediately interested and contacted the employer right away.

Three days later, she and a large group of others like her were taken to Yunzhou by a long-distance bus.

They stayed there for a short week. The older sister leading them was very kind, and the accommodations arranged by the recruiters weren’t luxurious but were amply provided in all aspects of food, clothing, and lodging. Luo Xiaoyu also met a few young men and women her age there and became friends.

That week was the happiest Luo Xiaoyu had been in her teenage years. She and her new friends talked a lot about celebrity gossip and legends of the Divine Power Sect. They encouraged each other to work hard, save money, and collect dowries for marriage.

Luo Xiaoyu did not believe in the existence of Wei Tianyang; she thought it was a lie fabricated by government officials.

She couldn’t wait to start working. Being an introvert, she believed she could manage phone calls just fine; after all, making calls for ten hours was definitely better than working in a factory for 12 hours screwing bolts.

A week later, more and more people arrived at the hotel. Initially, there were only about 20, but by the seventh day, 60 people had gathered.

The customer service team obviously needed many people; Luo Xiaoyu guessed at that time that this company must be among the Fortune 500.

On the eighth day, she boarded the bus with the crowd.

But once they got off the bus, the nightmare had just begun.

This job wasn’t regular customer service; it was telecom fraud.

She was asked to coax others into installing a foreign gambling app over the phone and to trick them into continually betting. Luo Xiaoyu realized that she had been deceived in the same way back in the factory.

Such conscience-stricken work was too much for many to continue. Among the youths she had met in the hotel, two vigorous young men couldn’t bear such activities and seized an opportunity to escape.

However, the next day, they were captured and brought back. Luo Xiaoyu saw them beaten beyond recognition, hanging in the middle of the courtyard with blood pooling beneath their feet.

They died that very night.

Luo Xiaoyu deeply regretted, but there was nothing she could do. She tried to work hard, but a strong internal resistance made it impossible for her to start, and she stuttered when speaking.

At the monthly inventory at the end of the month, her performance was zero. The manager did not get angry but instead comforted and encouraged her, asking her to try harder next month.

However, by the end of the second month, her performance was still zero.

This time, the manager responded by fiercely striking her cheek with a rod. The blow knocked out her two upper teeth and loosened her molars.

The manager locked her in a solitary confinement room. For the first few days, everything was calm, but then people started coming in every day to draw blood.

Luo Xiaoyu had been locked in there for half a month, only eating a bowl of white rice each day and having blood drawn once a day. Each blood draw left her faint.

She had cried countless times, curling up in the dark corner softly calling for her dad; her swollen cheeks and loose molars caused unbearable pain, and her arms, from frequent and excessive blood drawing, were swollen and bruised.

A few days ago, a girl, also a peer Luo Xiaoyu had known in the hotel, was locked in the adjacent cell.

The girl told her through the wall that the manager said if she agreed to donate a kidney, he would give her some money to let her go, and she had already agreed.

Luo Xiaoyu urged her not to do such a foolish act, but the other girl could no longer endure being there.

The next day, delicious smells of food drifted from next door, and Luo Xiaoyu, having eaten only white rice for half a month, couldn’t help but lean on the door, smelling the food through a small two-finger-wide window.

After a while, she heard the sound of the iron door opening, and the manager took the girl out of the cell.

The manager, looking through the window at her although without speaking, she knew he was also persuading her to donate a kidney.

Luo Xiaoyu was filled with struggle, but in the end, she shrank back and curled up again in the corner of the room.

That night, she could no longer bear it and broke down crying.

"Why... why do I have to endure all this..." she murmured.

At that moment, she recalled discussing the Divine Power Sect with the men and women at the hotel.

They said Wei Tianyang was a True God feared by global governments, and indeed he existed. His followers worshipped him all over the world, calling him the embodiment of justice and anger.

Curling up in the corner, Luo Xiaoyu had never believed in any Gods because those were just comforting stories.

But now, how she wished that Wei Tianyang would appear and rescue her from this hell.

"Wei Tianyang... oh... Wei Tianyang... if you really exist, come save me... I am about to die... I miss my dad a lot... oh... Dad..."

She murmured and, speaking thus, fell into a deep sleep, overwhelmed by pain, exhaustion, hunger, and sorrow.

At that moment, a piercing screech sounded in the sky, as if a high-speed fighter jet had streaked across.

Then, a terrifyingly loud noise came from behind Luo Xiaoyu. She felt something very heavy fall and crash through the factory building, causing the walls of the cell to collapse.

Luo Xiaoyu woke up abruptly, the air filled with the smell of dust. In the darkness, four crimson eyes were staring at her.

"I heard you."

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