Chapter 100: A Wolf Has Entered The Village
Everyone chatted idly all afternoon. Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Xin went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Mo Ziyuan followed to help. The others picked up brooms and shovels again. The snow hadn’t stopped, and the traces swept in the morning had been completely covered again.
In the evening, Lin Xin boiled a big pot of noodles, stir-fried some meat sauce, chopped vegetables, and fearing it wouldn’t be enough, also made sweet and sour ribs. She fried two sunny-side-up eggs and a piece of pork rib for each person. Everyone ate very happily.
“Sis, will it snow tomorrow too?” After dinner, Lin Nan cupped his little face and stood at the kitchen door, looking at the snow still falling outside and asking.
Lin Xin looked at the sky. “I think it won’t stop.”
“Then can I go back with Mister Meng tonight? I’m afraid it’ll delay tomorrow’s homework.” Lin Nan said seriously.
Lin Xin: “······” On the self-cultivation of an academic god.
“Sis?” Seeing she didn’t answer, Lin Nan bent his little body to look at her face.
“Okay, no problem. But will you sleep alone tonight? Or with the mister?” Lin Xin asked.
“I······ The mister said I’m still too small, afraid I’ll kick off the quilt when I fall asleep, so he wants me to sleep with him.” Lin Nan lowered his head shyly and answered softly.
“That’s good then, but remember not to wet the bed. If you wake the mister up in the middle of the night, it won’t be good.” Lin Xin’s tone was full of teasing.
“Ah~ Sis, you’re talking nonsense. I haven’t wet the bed for a long time.” Lin Nan shouted loudly in anger.
“Yo, Nan Nan is so awesome! Hasn’t wet the bed for a long time!” As soon as Lin Nan shouted, Gao Yong’s distinctive loud voice rang out from behind. His little face instantly flushed red “whoosh,” and Lin Xin felt like steam was rising from the top of his head.
“Alright, if you dare laugh again, I’ll tell Nan Nan one or two of your embarrassing childhood stories.” Mo Ziyuan reached out from behind Gao Yong, hooked his neck, and dragged him backward.
“Zi Yuan, you can’t wrong me like this. When did I laugh? I was praising him, okay!” Gao Yong retorted unconvinced, then turned around to counterattack.
The two ignored the falling snowflakes and started fighting back and forth in the courtyard.
Lin Xin helplessly twitched the corner of her mouth. Lin Nan’s eyes sparkled as he watched Mo Ziyuan, occasionally exclaiming “wow” from his little mouth to cheer for his martial master.
In the end, Mo Ziyuan gained the upper hand, pressing his arm across Gao Yong’s neck and pinning him against the courtyard wall.
“Wow! Master won, Master won!” Lin Nan jumped up happily, but in his extreme joy came sorrow. He fell flat on his butt into the snow pile, got completely stuck, flailed for a long time without getting out, and anxiously cried out loudly. Meanwhile, his unscrupulous big sister was already laughing so hard she clutched her belly and squatted on the ground, unable to get up.
In the end, Mo Ziyuan rescued Lin Nan. After brushing the snow off him, he held him in his arms and said to Lin Xin, “Then we’ll take him with us. Come over quickly and close the courtyard gate!”
Lin Xin looked at Lin Nan’s little face that had already collapsed, didn’t dare laugh anymore, closed the courtyard gate as instructed, and returned to her room. Usually, Lin Nan was always by her side, but now suddenly one less person made her feel quite uncomfortable. She tossed and turned for a long time without falling asleep, and couldn’t help but despise herself a few times.
Just as she wanted to enter the space to find something to do, she suddenly heard the sound of large animals gathering at the foot of the mountain. She got up, put on her cotton-padded jacket, came to the courtyard to listen to the sounds outside. The little white wolf circled restlessly at her feet, appearing somewhat irritable.
Lin Xin climbed onto the wall and saw a cluster of greenish glowing dots far away, swaying and drifting toward the village. Strangely, when passing by the new house built by Mo Ziyuan and the others, they didn’t stop at all and went straight toward the village.
She held her breath and watched a large pack of gray wolves pass right under her eyes, heading toward the houses built more densely. She roughly counted, and the wolf pack had thirty-seven wolves in total.
Before she could think of what to do, a person suddenly appeared beside her. She turned her head to look, and Mo Ziyuan was staring sternly at the wolf pack with his eyes, lost in thought.
“Why did you come?” Lin Xin gently tugged his sleeve and asked.
“I heard the wolf pack entering the village and came to check on you because I was worried.” Mo Ziyuan answered matter-of-factly.
“Don’t you know my skills? A mere wolf pack can’t do anything to me.” Lin Xin raised her head proudly and boasted.
“Whether you’re formidable or not is one thing; me worrying about you is another.”
Mo Ziyuan’s low voice seemed to speak to her heart. She didn’t know how long it had been since anyone had said they worried about her. It was as if she should stand at the forefront to face those zombies because she was a top supernatural ability user. Protecting the base and the people in it was her duty. Over time, she even believed herself to be indestructible.
Yet now there was a young man standing in front of her, looking at her seriously and telling her he worried about her, unrelated to how formidable she was.
At this moment, Lin Xin’s heart warmed to the point of wanting to cry.
“What’s wrong? Did I say something wrong?” Sensing her unusual emotion, Mo Ziyuan gently lifted her chin and asked while looking down.
Lin Xin shook her head. “I’m fine.” She tried to focus her thoughts on the wolf pack and asked, “The wolf pack has entered the village. What do we do?”
“You stay home obediently and don’t go out. We’ll handle the wolf pack.” After saying that, Mo Ziyuan patted her head. “In the future, in the village, it’s best if you try not to take action. To avoid trouble later, understand?”
Lin Xin blinked, nodded. She understood too well. If she went out tonight to fight the wolf pack and performed even slightly “valiantly,” she believed that whenever such dangers arose in the future, the villagers would naturally push her forward—a thorough case of moral kidnapping.
At the village end, two more figures appeared: Gao Yong and Chu Yu. With the elderly, young, weak, and frail at home, Zhou Qi was left to guard the house.
By now, the wolf pack had locked onto their attack target. What attracted them were the two big fat pigs locked in the backyard, now awakened and squealing in fright.
That family still didn’t know they had been targeted by wolves. The husband, sleeping soundly, was woken by the pigs, grumbled unhappily, picked up an oil lamp, and went cursing to check on them. As soon as he stepped out, he came face-to-face with three pairs of glowing green eyes. Frightened, he yelled “Mom!” and actually wet himself.
In the dead of night, his yell was extremely piercing, waking almost the entire village.
The weather was very cold, and his wet pants quickly turned icy. After the chill hit him, he reacted, mustered all his strength, and shouted loudly, “Wolves are here! Wolves have entered the village! Come save us!”
Households in the village successively lit oil lamps. Several sturdy young men grabbed farm tools like hoes and sickles and ran toward that family’s house, encountering Mo Ziyuan and the other two on the way.
“Heard wolves entered the village. Is everything okay on your side?” The leading young man recognized Mo Ziyuan and asked immediately upon meeting.
“Everything’s fine on our side. I checked the wolf pack’s footprints; they seem to have come straight here.” Mo Ziyuan shared his observation.
“Huh? Really?” The young man looked behind Mo Ziyuan and the others, indeed seeing neat plum-blossom-shaped footprints that became chaotic only near this house.
“Save, save me~” Another cry for help came from the courtyard. Mo Ziyuan and the young man exchanged a glance, ignored the footprints, and kicked the family’s courtyard gate. He didn’t use full strength, so it took several kicks to break it open.
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