Chapter 13: Keke, I Hurt
Qin Wanwan handed him a candy, “Don’t cry, Daddy will come to beat the bad guys. My Daddy is very powerful.”
Suddenly she heard a buzzing sound and looked up towards a brown, oval-shaped object in a nearby tree.
“Keke, can I let the bees sting the bad guys?”
She pointed her chubby hand at the beehive.
Keke followed her gaze and also saw a nest of hornets.
Its eyes lit up.
The Qilin is the king of all beasts, and Qilin language can communicate with all living beings in the world.
“We can try.”
So Qin Wanwan turned her head and looked at the Li siblings with an exceptionally sunny and brilliant smile.
Her eyes sparkled, “Let’s go beat the bad guys!”
Qilin cubs are fiercer than tiger cubs, not afraid at all.
The task of climbing the tree to pick the beehive was left to Li Little Brother.
As for the remaining two children, a young lady definitely wouldn’t be able to pick it.
Li Little Brother was clinging to the tree trunk less than three meters from the hornet’s nest, his thin face pale.
He kept swallowing, “They, they really won’t sting me?”
He was so afraid his legs were trembling.
Hornets can sting people to death.
Qin Wanwan confidently nodded her little head.
“They won’t sting, Wanwan guarantees it!”
Li Little Sister looked up, “Brother is so amazing.”
Li Little Brother wanted to cry but had no tears. However, to save his father and eldest brother, he would face death.
He climbed over while crying.
“Sister, if I die, you must tell Eldest Brother and Daddy. Don’t forget me, and remember to burn paper money for me. I don’t want to be a poor ghost even after death.”
Their family was extremely poor right now, to the point where they couldn’t even afford food.
Keke flew up and hit the back of his head with a wing.
“Stop dawdling. Just pick it if you’re told to. My cub said these hornets definitely won’t sting you!”
Li Little Brother: That’s easy for you to say, I’m scared!
But as he got closer to the beehive, he tremblingly waited for a moment. The instant a hornet flew towards him, he was prepared to endure the pain.
To his surprise, the hornet circled him once and then flew back.
Li Little Brother’s eyes widened.
He moved closer to the beehive, preparing to fight. More and more hornets appeared, but not a single one stung him.
Instead, they all flew towards the people below.
Li Little Brother suddenly became anxious.
“Sister, Benefactor, you quickly dodge!”
Li Little Sister’s thin little face turned deathly pale from fear, but seeing that Qin Wanwan wasn’t dodging, she also stood her ground.
Benefactor is a beautiful little fairy, if she says it’s okay, then it must be okay!
Qin Wanwan didn’t dodge. She stretched out her chubby hand and even caught one of the hornets.
The hornet was about the size of her finger. Although small, it was quite handsome in the bee world.
Its golden-yellow body, accented with black stripes, had a textured surface that seemed armored.
The hornet Qin Wanwan held not only didn’t sting her but instead landed on her finger.
Even though the Qilin cub could not use any of its magic power after descending to the mortal world, the spiritual charm of an auspicious divine beast still existed.
This spiritual charm benefited any spiritual beings that approached her.
Therefore, all creatures were drawn to her.
Countless hornets circled her, but none harmed her.
This astonished the Li siblings.
Keke’s tone was boastful.
“Why are you worrying? How could my cub be stung by a mere hornet? Get back to your task. Don’t you want to save your Eldest Brother and father?”
The dazed Li Little Brother was jolted back to reality by Keke’s wing, and he became extremely excited.
An immortal, Benefactor is a true immortal!
With the help of an immortal, he was sure to rescue his Eldest Brother and father today!
So he gathered all his strength and prepared to pick the beehive.
“Wait.”
He looked down at Qin Wanwan and the hornets surrounding her.
“Since the hornets have flown out, why still pick the beehive?”
Keke let out a squawk.
That’s right, why?
The human and the bird looked at each other blankly, stunned.
Keke flew away, “This has nothing to do with me!”
In any case, it certainly wasn’t that it had become stupid.
Qin Wanwan, standing under the tree, didn’t hear their conversation. Seeing Keke fly back, she asked, “Did you get the beehive?”
Keke: “Not picking it anymore, not picking it anymore. Since the hornets are out, why pick the beehive?”
Qin Wanwan blinked her eyes and said foolishly, “That seems right.”
Keke patted its head. It had followed the cub down to the mortal world and lost its own brain, failing to consider this issue.
Thus, Li Little Brother, who had finally climbed the tree, climbed back down.
Qin Wanwan walked ahead imposingly.
She was preparing to bully them with bees, being very fierce!
“Let’s go beat the bad guys!”
Along the way, the Li siblings truly witnessed what it meant to have diligent hornets.
One hornet went to pick a beautiful wild flower to give to Qin Wanwan, while a swarm of hornets raided a bee’s nest and brought back a palm-sized piece of honey for her.
There were also offerings of insects, but Qin Wanwan refused them.
She accepted the honey and the small flowers. Now Qin Wanwan had a circle of colorful, beautiful little flowers on her head, looking quite pretty, with a messy charm.
They arrived at the mountaintop again, and Qin Wanwan waved her hand.
“Go sting those bad guys, those fat bad guys who eat a lot!”
The hornets surrounding Qin Wanwan buzzed their wings in unison and descended like helicopters with great momentum.
The dense swarm of hundreds of hornets gathered like a small dark cloud.
Below, the bandits were whipping an old man who had fallen.
The old man looked like just skin and bones; even when beaten, he couldn’t stand up.
Suddenly, a middle-aged man rushed out from the laborers, pushed the bandit aside, and then collapsed onto the old man, crying.
“Don’t hit him, don’t hit him, my father is dying, please stop hitting him.”
The bandit who was pushed became enraged, “Damn it, then you’ll both die!”
Then he started whipping the man.
Still not satisfied, he took a knife from a nearby bandit and raised it to strike when a hornet landed on the back of his hand and stung him without hesitation.
“Ah! What is that.”
The pain made him drop the knife.
Another hornet landed on his neck.
“Hornets, hornets are here.”
The stung people started jumping around in a panic.
Screams echoed as dense swarms of hornets descended. Instantly, both the bandits and the captured laborers were thrown into a panic, the scene descended into chaos, and everyone scrambled for cover.
“Damn it, where did so many hornets suddenly come from?”
“Fire, get torches quickly!”
Some intelligent laborers immediately thought of escaping in the chaos.
Seeing this, the bandits, enduring the pain, shouted, “Get back here, all of you. Kill anyone who runs!”
However, the bandits were under attack by hornets, and those with less willpower were rolling on the ground, dropping their weapons.
Someone immediately snatched up a fallen knife.
“I’ll kill you all!”
Their eyes reddened. During their time here, they had watched their family members work themselves to death and be beaten to death; how could they not hate them?
“Quick, light the fire.”
“Why aren’t those hornets attacking them!”
Some bandits, terrified, discovered that the hornets were only attacking them, and none of the captured laborers were stung.
This sent a chill down their spines.
This can’t be, this can’t be retribution.
As chaos erupted here, Colonel Lin and his group, who were lurking nearby, perked up.
Seeing some bandits light torches, Colonel Lin stood on a tree and drew his bow, shooting an arrow.
The arrow flew through the air with a whistling sound, and the man holding the torch fell to the ground.
“Enemy attack!”
With internal and external crises, the bandits here were completely thrown into disarray.
With hornets flying chaotically around the bandits, Colonel Lin and his group naturally wouldn’t rush in rashly and could only attack from a distance.
Coupled with the resistance from the laborers, the hornets’ attacks were so painful that they couldn’t even think straight. In the end, they either died from the pain or were beaten to death by the resisting laborers.
A few who saw the situation turning for the worse, with faces bruised like pig heads and enduring the pain, quickly fled.
“Chase!”
Colonel Lin immediately led his men to pursue.
On the other side, Li Little Brother spotted a familiar figure in the chaotic crowd and, disregarding everything else, rushed down.
“Brother, Eldest Brother!”
The cliff was steep. If not for his frequent runs in the mountains and his skill in climbing, he would have certainly fallen to his death going down.
Even with his skill, he was injured after going down, his face contorted in pain.
But he couldn’t care about that anymore.
Qin Wanwan: “How do we get down?”
Keke flapped its wings and led the way, “Follow me.”
There was no way this small matter could stop it!
Qin Wanwan and Li Little Sister were led by Keke through a rather tricky path. Their clothes were torn, but they managed to descend the mountain.
Li Little Sister’s eyes welled up with tears, and she helplessly called out to her brother.
Qin Wanwan also had tears in her eyes. Her beautiful clothes were torn, she was covered in dirt again, and her skin had been pricked by thorns, drawing blood.
“Keke, it hurts.”
How could the pampered little Qilin endure such hardship?
Her soft, mellow little voice was full of grievance.
Keke’s heart ached terribly.
“Be good, cub. I’ll blow on it for you.”
There was no medicine now, and no adult to help.
Qin Wanwan cried for a while, feeling wronged, but quickly adjusted her mood.
“Keke, it’s not bleeding anymore. I, I don’t hurt as much.”
Li Little Sister went to find her brother. Qin Wanwan saw someone lying on the ground not far away.
It was the father and son who had been beaten.
The old man’s breath was faint; his son was not much better.
“Save, save…”
Tears streamed down the old man’s face, his chicken-like hands trembling as he pointed at his son.
Qin Wanwan didn’t know what to do now. Without any magic power, how could she save them?
The helpless little milk bun looked up.
“Keke, Keke, what should we do?”
When in doubt, ask Keke; she was just a three-year-old child.
Keke: “That old man is starving. If you give him some food and water, he should get much better. That man is injured. Cub, go look around for some herbs to stop the bleeding. Once you find the herbs, use them too.”
Qin Wanwan didn’t recognize herbs. When she was in the heavens, she was just a carefree Qilin cub who only knew how to eat, drink, play, and miss her Daddy. She didn’t even recognize heavenly herbs, let alone those in the mortal world.
But it didn’t matter, she still had the knowledgeable Keke.
Keke not only knew which herbs could stop bleeding but could also find where they were.
“Cub, walk towards the forest on the left. There’s blood-stopping grass under that big locust tree.”
Qin Wanwan first put a piece of candy into the old man’s mouth. There was no water now, so she didn’t give him the dry pastries.
Then she followed where Keke had told her to find the herbs.
While she was looking for herbs, the Li siblings returned to find her.
They also brought a young man who was as thin as a skeleton.
That should be their Eldest Brother.
However, the three of them had red eyes now.
The young man’s complexion was somewhat pale, not a healthy paleness, but a weak, ashen one.
“Benefactor, do you have any more food? My brother hasn’t eaten enough for days.”
Not only had he not eaten enough, but he also had to do heavy labor every day.
Li Little Sister had brought an apple when she came, and she gave it to her brother, but one apple wasn’t enough.
Qin Wanwan took out a few pastries and handed them over.
“Thank you, thank you…”
They kept thanking her gratefully, unable to say anything else.
Qin Wanwan still had a half-eaten apple in her small bag, which she had intended to bring back for the horse.
“Do you still want the apple?”
“Yes, yes, yes.”
The young man took the pastries and stuffed them into his mouth, eating ravenously.
He kept thanking her while eating, and he almost choked because he was eating too fast.
Qin Wanwan’s eyes widened, “There’s no water, eat slower.”
Seeing the young man eating the apple, Qin Wanwan stopped paying attention. She crouched down and picked the herbs, her small white hands stained with green herb juice.
Qin Wanwan found it a bit displeasing but didn’t discard the herbs.
The Li siblings came forward to help, and upon learning that the plant could stop bleeding, they picked more.
Li Little Brother cried as he picked, sobbing uncontrollably.
Qin Wanwan looked at him several times and offered him a handkerchief, but he refused.
“Wuwuwu, my father is dead. We don’t have a father anymore.”
Li Little Sister also cried silently.
The young man sat on the ground and wept uncontrollably, crying for his father and for himself.
Qin Wanwan, so small, felt utterly helpless; she couldn’t comfort them.
She could only do what she had done before, stuffing pastries or candy into their mouths.
Fortunately, they soon pulled themselves together, as the living had to continue living.
Even while crying, Li Little Brother didn’t delay his work at all.
Many people were injured at the mine. When they escaped, they were too weak to run.
Fortunately, the bandits had all fled, and the mine area was relatively safe now.
Li siblings and Qin Wanwan returned, crushed the herbs with stones, and applied them to the wounds of those injured.
Qin Wanwan herself resolutely refused to use the herbs; she had only broken her skin with a thorn and was no longer bleeding.
For those who were too weak from lack of food, Qin Wanwan put candy in their mouths.
Soon, the candies, pastries, and preserved fruits her father had bought for her ran out.
Her heart ached, and her spirits drooped, but saving people earned her merit, and merit could be exchanged for other good things.
When would she be able to exchange for delicious fruits and candies?
There was a small incident in the middle. A bandit who had been stung unconscious by a hornet was actually not dead.
While they were treating the injured, he suddenly woke up, staggered to his feet, started cursing at them, and even tried to find something to hit them with.
Then, the bandit was seized by the two Li brothers and beaten mercilessly, curses raining down on him as they beat him.
“You beasts, give me back my father, you owe us our father!”
The people at the mine truly hated the bandits. Some who had recovered enough strength to stand also joined in, even grabbing whips to lash them.
In the end, the bandit who had just woken up was beaten to death.
Keke flew in front of Qin Wanwan and covered her eyes.
“Wanwan, don’t look, it’s too violent.”
Qin Wanwan blinked her eyes, “I’ve already seen dead people, I’m not afraid.”
As a three-year-old child, she wasn’t particularly afraid of dead people.
Strictly speaking, Qin Wanwan had little concept of death.
Especially since the one who died was a bad guy.
Colonel Lin quickly returned after capturing some bandits. The other ordinary people at the mine were frightened, each gripping their weapons tightly.
Qin Wanwan’s eyes lit up.
“Uncle Lin~”
Colonel Lin’s expression turned one of pure shock upon seeing Qin Wanwan, his loud voice breaking.
“Wanwan, what are you doing here!”
