Chapter 133: A Total Mess
This night passed long and thrilling.
When Su Ran walked out of the room, the sky outside was already bright.
On the river beach outside, several large and sturdy corpses lay.
Those were beastmen who died in combat.
Including the flying cattle beastman that fell in the rain shelter, it was still buried under the wooden roof of the rain shelter.
As for the other invaders, they were all gone without a trace.
Su Ran glanced at those corpses a few times, then turned her gaze away and didn’t look again.
They were different from the animals she killed and ate every day; these beastmen all had human appearances, and in her eyes, they were no different from dead people.
She turned her gaze elsewhere.
Inside the room, except for the window board of the east room being smashed, there was no other damage.
But the situation outside the room was much more serious.
Almost everything Su Ran had built outside was destroyed.
The clothes rack was broken, the rain shelter had collapsed, the long table for drying ingredients was somehow broken in the middle, and the green soap fruit and small peach fruit dried fruit on the table were scattered all over the ground.
Now outside, except for the fire pit and barbecue grill built with stone bricks, nothing else was intact.
And the most serious were the chicken coop and cattle pen behind the house.
The two four-eared oxen in the cattle pen had their necks twisted directly by someone and were already dead.
In the chicken coop, half of the red birds and white wild chickens were dead, and half were missing.
When Su Ran saw this scene, she almost burst into tears.
Even if their wings were clipped and the four-eared oxen were penned up, wild birds are hard to train, and wild oxen are unruly.
In the first few days, Su Ran had spent so much energy building this small nest for them clean and comfortable! She fed them so many cleaned meat strips, wild fruit, and green grass before these wild birds and the two four-eared oxen stopped resisting her approach.
But in just one night, everything was gone!
Su Ran kicked the lifeless four-eared ox on the ground with her foot, thinking somewhat self-consolingly that at least she didn’t have to go hunting this morning!
Thinking of this, she looked up at the vegetable patch next to the chicken coop.
Fortunately, that patch of lush green plants seemed to have no appeal to the beastmen.
Except for some trampled housheng vegetable, the other wild fruit and wild vegetables were not much damaged.
She walked into the vegetable patch, picked up all the trampled housheng vegetables, kept those that could still be eaten, and discarded those that couldn’t.
Then she walked back to in front of the house.
In front of and behind the house was a mess; there was no rush to clean it up right now.
Eating was more important first.
Moreover, after eating, Su Ran still wanted to give Gray some anti-inflammatory medicine.
With so many wounds on its body, and the environment here being like this, Su Ran was really afraid that the wounds on its body would become inflamed and infected.
Walking back to in front of the house, Su Ran went into the west room and took out a backpack.
After coming out, she went around to behind the house and put all the dead red birds and white wild chickens into the backpack, then carried it back to the front.
These wild chickens plus the red birds totaled nine; Su Ran planned to roast them all using the beggars’ chicken method, which would make them more tender than direct roasting.
Then she planned to roast one of the two four-eared oxen and stew the other.
Now she had star anise and finger onions in hand, so she wasn’t afraid the stewed beef would taste bad.
But just as she was about to drag out the small four-eared ox, she suddenly felt something.
She turned her head to look beside her and saw about twenty strange beastmen slowly walking over from downstream of the river beach.
Downstream of the river beach was where the beastmen settlement was located.
Su Ran was startled and turned her head to call Gray!
But as she turned, she bumped right into Gray’s embrace, who had come out of the house at some point.
She quickly stepped back and carefully touched the white bandage on Gray’s body.
Gray’s face was wooden as he reached out to support Su Ran’s lower back, his gaze looking toward the group of beastmen walking over, his face expressionless.
The beastmen’s footsteps stopped about twenty meters away from Su Ran’s house, facing off against Gray.
The beastmen all looked very disheveled.
Su Ran even saw a beastman whose entire arm had been slashed to pieces.
Two beastmen were also carrying on their backs two beastmen who were either unconscious or already dead.
After a standoff for a while, Gray stepped forward first.
Su Ran hurriedly followed behind and gripped the long saber hanging at her side.
Gray stopped two meters away from the group of beastmen, while Su Ran stopped six or seven meters away.
This way, if something happened, she would still have time to react.
But now she was very puzzled; weren’t these the invaders?
Why could they now move freely within the settlement’s territory?
Su Ran’s gaze looked toward Gray’s tall back; although Gray’s facial expression wasn’t good, his emotions were very calm, and the muscles on his body appeared relaxed.
At this moment, Gray suddenly let out a long string of roars at the group of beastmen; the roars carried a warning tone but lacked the anger of territorial invasion.
Among the strange beastmen, an elderly wolf-type beastman who looked about fifty or sixty years old walked forward from the middle and responded lowly to Gray a few sentences.
Then Su Ran saw Gray’s tail behind him swish left and right.
Su Ran knew very well that kind of swishing meant relaxation and boredom.
Then Gray turned back and walked toward her.
While Su Ran was still curiously wanting to look at the group of beastmen a few more times, he pulled her back to in front of the house.
At this moment, Gray almost instantly shed the cold, domineering aura full of killing intent from his combat state, and even his tall, upright figure seemed a few inches shorter.
He lowered his head and let out an “Ao wu” toward Su Ran like he was acting coquettish, then pointed to the wild chickens and red birds in the backpack Su Ran had just placed at the door: “Ran Ran, eat chicken?”
Su Ran saw Gray subconsciously lick his lips and hurriedly nodded.
But she was still very puzzled about the situation with that group of beastmen.
Invasion, combat, free movement, calm conversation.
No matter how you look at it, this sequence was very strange.
Even if Gray and the others agreed to the invaders and incorporated these beastmen into their settlement, they shouldn’t allow these invaders to move freely in the territory so quickly, right?
“Gray, those beastmen, what do they want here?”
Unable to figure it out, Su Ran still pointed at the group of beastmen and asked Gray.
To stay together with a group of beastmen who had attacked them at midnight and nearly cost her her life.
Unless she asked and understood clearly, she would always feel uneasy.
Sensing Su Ran’s unease, Gray tilted his head, his tail behind him sweeping to his side and hitting Su Ran’s leg, the tip of the tail slowly drilling into the palm of her hand hanging at her side.
“They want to live here, on the bird’s nest tree behind.”
