Warning: Description of captivity and violence.
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While something big was happening in another country, Ran Xueyi had no idea what was going on.
She was going in and out of her consciousness while her body felt light, as if airborne, and refused to move. Unfamiliar voices spoke somewhere around her, but she was too delirious to understand what they were saying.
"….Cruise ship... hunters…. Pay..."
"Alright…retrieve the master's treasure…."
The words she registered in her head were too broken and incoherent. But in the end, she finally understood their next words.
"We will go back and have a feast after the mission."
Ran Xueyi tried to keep herself awake. She bit the insides of her cheeks, drawing blood, but that still didn't weaken the invisible force that kept her body from moving and slowly descending into slumber.
It felt like an eternity.
