"Madam, I can see you've still got plenty of charm." Recalling the contrast between the Female Anomaly before and after, Sun Hang couldn't help teasing her. "You were a beauty—why become an anomaly? What a waste."
The Female Anomaly froze for a moment, then her whole body began trembling. It was impossible to tell whether she was embarrassed or afraid.
But Sun Hang's teasing wasn't completely baseless—the Zhou residence could be called the most lavish building on this street. The Zhou family's wealth back then was easy enough to imagine.
Even in the quarantine zone, the rich lived far more comfortably than the poor—money might not buy freedom, but it could buy many privileges ordinary people could only dream of.
For example, all kinds of conveniences, superior status, and even priority marriage rights for one's descendants.
The eldest young master of the wealthy Zhou family certainly wouldn't have married an ugly woman. This Female Anomaly, who looked just like Sadako, had most likely been one of the greatest beauties in town while she was alive.
To ordinary people, this was deeply unfair, but that was reality.
Reality had never been fair.
Unfortunately, before the tide of anomalous invasions, whether it was the Zhou family clad in silk and fed with delicacies or common folk living on coarse food and plain tea, their final fate was the same... That, too, was reality.
Money could make ghosts turn millstones, but when a wheel countless times larger than any millstone came crushing down, no amount of money would help.
"Can you tell me what happened before and after this town was abandoned?" Sun Hang asked. "And how did that Town Chief come here?"
"I... I don't... don't remember..." the Female Anomaly said, trembling.
"Don't remember, or don't dare to say?"
"...I don't remember."