Chapter 2818: "Commodity

Tang Xu let out a strange laugh, looking at the aircraft behind them, “Such a pretty little girl, and you’re willing to? You’re going to kill her anyway, why not give her to me!”

“Shut your filthy mouth!” the other party shouted, “This woman has already been sold to me, even if she becomes a corpse, it’s up to me to dispose of her. What does it have to do with you? Give her back to me!”

Tang Xu glanced at the kneeling woman, “Lift up your skirt.”

The woman had regained some sense by now and hesitated before finally lifting a corner of her skirt. There was a tattoo of a unicorn above her right knee.

“Brother Xu, this is a bit tricky,” Tang Xu looked at Xu Huo, “Self-sale is legal in Zone 003. She’s sold herself to the person behind, and legally speaking, she is already a commodity. Her life and death are determined by the owner, and others cannot interfere casually.”

Xu Huo frowned slightly, “Exchange is also not possible?”

Tang Xu shook his head, “It might work in other situations, but not this time. I have a result with the youngest of the Hui Family behind, if I want to buy her, they definitely won’t give her up, maybe they’ll even deliberately torment her.”

The two aircrafts soon stopped, their opposite doors opened. A slender young man looked gloomily inside the beetle cabin before staring at Tang Xu, “You caused me trouble as soon as you returned, and now you want to take action?”

Tang Xu waved his hand, “Who wants to fight with you, after finally returning, I want to relax for a couple of days.”

He introduced Xu Huo, “This is a new friend I made on the train, he’s interested in this woman. Be generous, sell her to him.”

The slender young man understood Tang Xu well, knowing he wouldn’t do anything without benefit, so he also dared not underestimate Xu Huo, and merely stared at Tang Xu, “She wants to treat her parents’ illness, sold me one leg first, then her head and skin, and finally her organs. When the contract expires, she will be my property. It’s not just that I can have her kneel to serve me; even if I want her to lick my feet, she must lick them with a smile. Since she sold herself, who is she putting on airs for? If she had any guts, she shouldn’t have sold herself so cheaply!”

Tang Xu could only shrug at Xu Huo, “Brother, it’s not that I’m not helping.”

Xu Huo hadn’t spoken yet, but the woman who had regained her composure suddenly picked up a water cup from the table and chugged it down, then said to the two, “Thank you for saving me. Hui Peng is right, it’s me who sold myself. I made my parents’ final days a bit easier, but to serve you and be your slave? Dream on!”

The last sentence was directed at Hui Peng. The woman glared at him resentfully, “If it weren’t for the Hui Family deceiving my parents into participating in potion experiments, they wouldn’t have gotten sick! I’m just an ordinary person, I can’t take revenge, and I can’t do anything to you people. Even in the best case, I can only trick you out of some money… Remember, I’m not the first to want revenge, nor the last. One day, the flames of hatred will turn into a raging fire, and burn the Hui Family to the ground!”

After speaking, she jumped resolutely!

Hui Peng was furious at what she said, ordering the players around him, “Don’t let her die so easily!”

However, the two players moved slightly, then sat back down again.

“Are you deaf…” Hui Peng’s words weren’t finished, as he froze like the two accompanying players, slowly turning his head to meet Xu Huo’s gaze. Just one look, and cold sweat began to pour down.

“You can have her,” he said wisely, knowing full well this was a deserted area, if she died, she’d die in vain.

Tang Xu smiled, “Oh wow, I’ve never seen you so reasonable, not like a scoundrel at all.”

Saying so, he extended a hand glittering with gemstones, “Give me the contract.”

Hui Peng quickly pulled out the contract and threw it to him, urging his players to close the cabin doors and leave quickly.

The aircraft soon ran off into the distance. Without taking any action, Xu Huo saw the woman who had sought death being brought back into the aircraft. Looking at the contract on the table, she couldn’t help but shed tears, “As long as I’m in Liu Jin City, if I don’t die today, I’ll die tomorrow.”

Tang Xu had his female companion help her up, “That’s a small matter. Since my brother’s helping you out, I’ll definitely arrange something for you. My family has some influence in Liu Jin City, I’ll give you a position, you can work at our company, and the Hui Family won’t bother you.”

“As for this…” He held the contract, looked at Xu Huo, and upon seeing him shake his head, decisively burned it, saying cheerfully to the woman, “You’re free now.”

The woman was beside herself with emotion, thinking she was resolute in dying to disgust Hui Peng, but unexpectedly the situation turned, and she found herself still alive…

“Thank you, thank you…” She kept repeating those words.

Tang Xu had his companion take her to rest.

“It’s hard to imagine that at the Rank-B Wormhole Point, human trading is still legal,” Xu Huo said.

“Human trafficking is not a glorious thing at any Wormhole Point. The more civilized the place, the more strictly forbidden and severely punished it is, otherwise why do those mercenary groups go around capturing and selling people?” Tang Xu rotated his wine glass, “But every rule has exceptions, and the origin of this matter was merely in the pursuit of freedom.”

Seeing Xu Huo’s interest, he continued, “There are thousands of kinds of people in this world, laws can only accommodate the majority as much as possible. Some minority groups, they don’t interfere with them, but they also won’t openly provide convenience.”

“At first, some people fought for the legalization of same-sex marriage. It wasn’t a big deal, after all love ignores gender. But after same-sex marriage became legal, same-sex childbearing became the next issue, and back then the technology for artificial wombs wasn’t mature, childbirth still relied on humans.”

“And then legal surrogate motherhood appeared because many people said it’s a mutually consensual arrangement, after all one party is willing to pay for a child, and the other is willing to provide effort for compensation.”

“Eventually it evolved into absolute bodily autonomy, I can do whatever I want with my body, what’s prostitution, even selling organs is acceptable.”

“Even though technological development has allowed laws to be truly enforced, the world never lacks people in distress and those who are greedy, and although selling others is still strictly prohibited, people have absolute freedom. Nobody can sell you, but you can sell yourself.”

“As for whether you’re willing or not, who cares, there’s plenty of ways to make you ‘willing.'”

“The cheapness and diversity of humanity, along with the pleasure gained from acts of violence far exceeding other types of violence, make these matters impossible to prohibit.”

“Zone 003 has had many marches against human trafficking, but in the end, they all fizzled out.”

Tang Xu lamented, “After evolution, you hardly get sick, even if sick, mechanical organs can be replaced. Overall, people living in the current game world have very little demand for others. Sometimes I don’t understand these people, with so many fun and delicious things in this world, why do anything so twisted and meaningless?”