If it was an ordinary girl, she might have been scared silly when she encountered a crime, or she might have run away in a panic. However, Megan was a very independent girl. She noticed that the bad guys hadn't discovered her existence yet, so she calmly dialed 911 and told the operator what she saw in an orderly manner. Of course, she also told him her name.
The operator told her that police officers had been sent to the scene, and that she should take care of herself and keep the line open.
So far, everything had been normal.
Due to the remoteness of the location, it took a long time for the police to arrive. By then, the crime had already ended, and the illegally detained vagrant had already been locked inside the house. However, Megan was confident because the camera on her helmet had already recorded everything. The criminal's quibbling was completely useless.
Just when she let out a sigh of relief and thought that justice was about to be served, she found that the police officers who arrived at the scene chatted with the security guards like old friends. They didn't even enter the slaughterhouse's gate before returning home.
Megan was stunned. She did not have much experience in society. She did not expect that she would be the target of the criminal.
After a while, she seemed to hear movement in the woods behind her. She quickly turned around and saw that a few security guards were searching for her.
In this situation, she finally realized that she had been betrayed. Fortunately, the security guards had not found her yet, so she might still be able to escape.
As long as she ran into the depths of the forest, she was confident that she could escape. Since she had a bicycle, the security guards only had two legs, and they would definitely be left behind after a long time.
As long as she avoided the obvious hills and depressions, the terrain in most parts of Redwood Forest was relatively flat, which was one of the reasons why she planned to cycle through the forest.
However, just as she was about to push the bicycle and leave quietly, her phone suddenly rang. It was a call from 911.
In the quiet forest, the ringing of the phone was no less than a bomb. The security guards immediately discovered her.
She desperately tried to escape, but it was useless. Soon, she was surrounded by the security guards. Faced with the taser gun, she wisely stopped resisting and surrendered. Continuing to resist would only result in physical pain, which was meaningless.
Her bicycle, sports camera, phone, backpack, and wallet with her driver's license and student ID were all taken away. They easily found out her identity and forced her to unlock her phone. Then, through the chat records of her friends on social media, they found out about her hiking plan, and they also knew that she would frequently report to her mother and friends that she was safe.
Those people discussed in front of her and decided that it was not appropriate to lock her up in the slaughterhouse, at least not before the storm died down. So they blindfolded her, tied her hands and feet, and threw her into the back of a pickup truck. After a bumpy ride in the dark, when the blindfold was taken off, she was already in a strange place. The sound of the tide told her that it was not far from the sea.
It was very strange here. She saw many people with dull expressions, wearing coarse clothes, working hard in the fields. No matter how she screamed at them for help, they turned a deaf ear to her, as if she did not exist. Some even smiled and blessed her, as if she was about to receive a blessing from God.
She was locked in a room, and every day, someone sent in the minimum amount of food through a small window to barely keep her alive.
Every day, someone entered the room with a kind smile and told her some … dogma that she could not accept. However, if she did not try hard to memorize and repeat, that person would instantly change into a ferocious face and beat her.
Both physical and mental torture, as well as hunger, could easily make people surrender. Wasn't it just memorizing some dogma? As long as she memorized it, she would not have to be beaten, and she would be able to eat her fill. How simple!
It was not hard to imagine that most people would slowly surrender and slowly brainwash themselves day after day, and finally become their loyal slaves.
Megan did not dare to guarantee that she would not surrender, but at the very least, she clenched her teeth and resisted for the past few days. That was because she was a well-educated and independent person. Most importantly, she had her own beliefs, and she would not change her ways so quickly.
She did not know whether she would starve to death first or surrender first. However, just as she was about to give up, she heard the guards in the corridor whispering to each other through the wooden walls. They seemed to be saying that her mother had not given up on looking for her, and that the commotion outside was getting bigger and bigger. Some of her friends also bravely stood up and stood on her side, calling and petitioning everywhere, requesting to restart the search and rescue operation for her.
When she heard this, she was moved to tears, and her thin and weak body was filled with the strength to fight back. Even her bruised skin no longer hurt, and her empty stomach was no longer hungry. She felt that she could hold on until the day her mother found her, and she was willing to hold on until that day.
Last night, as usual, someone came to talk to her about brainwashing, and when she firmly refused, the other party did not beat her like they usually did. Instead, they only glanced at her, shook their heads, and left, as if they had given up on the treatment.
That last gaze seemed to be filled with mockery, as if … they were looking at a dead person.
Today, the amount of food that was sent to her room was a little more than usual, and there were even a few pieces of meat.
She was even happier, and she believed that her mother's and her friends' resistance had worked. She even imagined that she would be released in a few days.
After eating this sumptuous meal, she was brought out of her room after many days.
She thought that the release that she had been looking forward to had come so quickly, and in order to make these people feel at ease, she chattered on and on, promising them that she did not know anything, and that she would keep her mouth shut when she got out. In any case, she did not even know where she was.
Those people did not pay any attention to her, and she talked to herself like a fool.
It was only when her hands and feet were tied up again, and even her mouth was gagged, and she was brought onto a boat that she realized that the situation was different from what she had imagined.
When she watched helplessly as her feet were tied to rocks, she finally understood what was about to happen.
At this time, she was really willing to give in. No matter what kind of dogma it was, she was willing to accept it. Even if she had to eat shit, she was willing. As long as she could live, there was nothing better than living … Unfortunately, her mouth was gagged, and she could not beg for mercy.
It turned out that what happened last night was her last chance, and today was her last dinner, her last meal.
In order to prevent her mother from making things worse, these people finally decided to kill her and destroy the evidence.
Her life should have come to an end just like that, but it was changed into an ellipsis by a tourist from China.
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