On the way back, seeing everyone packing their things, the Su family was even more at a loss. They wondered what it was like outside the village, given the state of the village.

As we passed by Widow Zhang's house, her sobbing and desperate cries seemed to pierce through our ears.

"Mother, Mother, please don't die!"

Upon hearing this, everyone turned around and went to her house, where they saw a person lying on the ground—or more accurately, a disabled person.

It had no limbs and was covered in blood.

The children turned pale with fright when they saw the bloody scene.

"ah……"

Shi Tou quickly pulled Liu Huan into his arms, "Don't be afraid, don't look."

However, he was a step too slow; Liu Huan had already seen it.

As someone from an emerging world, she had never truly seen a dead person, especially one who had died a gruesome death.

At this moment, she couldn't help but tremble, feel a chill run down her spine, and be filled with fear.

Seeing this, Changsheng quickly grabbed the clothes hanging nearby and covered Granny Chen with them.

Shi Tou patted her head. "It's alright, don't be afraid."

Liu Huan poked his head out and saw Widow Zhang crawling out from inside. She was covered in blood, and it was impossible to tell where she was injured.

With her last breath, Widow Zhang looked at Su's mother and pleaded, "Sister-in-law... Sister-in-law, please, save my child."

He breathed his last after saying that.

With tears streaming down her face, Su's mother looked at her two children kneeling on the ground, crying, and had no idea what to do.

Liu Huan seemed stunned and stood frozen in place, she hadn't expected it to be so cruel.

In the end, they had no choice but to take the two children back with them.

The family sat in the house lost in thought, and no one spoke. The two children of the widow Zhang's family hid in a corner, looking completely lost.

Su's father, puffing on his pipe, was also unsure of what to do. "Da Shi, you're the eldest, what do you think we should do about this?"

Da Shi looked up blankly and said, "Father, I don't know either."

This is not just a choice, it concerns the lives of family members. If they run away, what will happen to all the food at home? They won't have any money if they leave their hometown.

Shi Tou clenched and unclenched his fist, took a deep breath, and said, "Dad, there are so many people in our village. I don't believe we can't fight those beasts. The town is being robbed everywhere. How can we survive anywhere else?"

Mr. Su looked around the house; besides himself and his wife, everyone else was a child. He dared not take the risk.

After thinking it through, Su's father went to find the villagers who were preparing to flee and Su's uncle, and told them about the situation in the town some time ago.

"Brother, if we go out, we'll be robbed as soon as we have any food. Going out means certain death."

Uncle Su looked at his son, "What do you suggest we do?"

Su Ming frankly said, "Father, it would be best if we could stay."

So they gathered all the men in the village who were over fifteen years old, totaling forty or fifty.

Uncle Su glanced at everyone and asked in a deep voice, "Are you really willing to go out and flee the famine?"

Seeing everyone's silence, he continued, "The people outside just loot any grain they see. Do you really think we can out-rob them?"

A boy stepped forward and said, "Village chief, what do you suggest we do? I don't want to leave. My grandparents are too old to walk."

"Yes, the child is still young, and we don't want to leave."

Seeing that everyone's intentions were so clear, Uncle Su repeated the plan that they had just discussed:

“Let’s unite, organize patrols during the day, and take refuge in the ancestral hall at night. We’ll also set traps. I refuse to believe that so many people in the village can’t defeat those beasts.”

This gave everyone a lot of confidence, because what they feared more than the wolves was being forced to leave their homes.

The group quickly formed three teams, using knives, hoes, and iron basins from their homes as tools, and patrolled the area.

One team sets traps at each intersection, with bamboo tips cut off and buried in the ground. As soon as the rope is pulled, the sharp bamboo will pierce the prey.

The last team dug a pit and buried the deceased, and burned all the blood-stained items, fearing that the blood would attract other things.

In the afternoon, everyone locked the door, took their blankets, and came to the ancestral hall. Torches were lit around the ancestral hall, and flammable materials such as straw were placed a little further away. A large log was burning in the courtyard in front of the main gate.

Two teams were responsible for keeping watch, while the other women, elderly people, and children stayed inside the ancestral hall.

Because of what happened during the day, Liu Huan didn't dare to close her eyes at night. If she closed her eyes, she would think of Granny Chen's miserable appearance, so she stayed close to the stone.

Stone could only sleep with her, patting her to sleep like he did when she was little.

"Want to sleep? I'm here, don't be afraid."

Liu Huan snuggled into his arms, pressing her face against his chest to hear his strong heartbeat before daring to close her eyes.

Stone stroked her fluffy hair, patting it rhythmically.

Liu Huan felt like she had just fallen asleep when she heard someone outside shouting, "They're here! The wolf is here!"

No one could sleep except for the babies in their swaddling clothes.

Then they heard the snarling of wolves outside. Perhaps because there were torches, they dared not approach.

They stood guard outside the ancestral hall, waiting for their chance.

Shi Tou handed Liu Huan, who was in his arms, to Cao'er and then walked up to Uncle Su.

"Uncle, we can't just sit here and wait to die. They'll attack once the torches go out."

"Then what do you suggest we do?"

"We'll throw the fireballs we made at the wolves. Even if we miss, we'll make sure they land on the straw. Today, we'll scare the wolves away and we'll make other plans tomorrow."

They lit the tinder they had made, threw it out through the window cracks, and scattered it on the tinder pile. They also banged it with iron pots and other things that could make noise.

The wolves, seeing this for the first time, were frightened and ran away.

Everyone knows this skill can only be used once, and wolves are smart enough not to fall for it a second time.

The next day, during the day.

Su Ming led everyone to board up the windows of the ancestral hall and increase the height of the outer courtyard for protection.

Everyone went home to eat, and then men, women, and children all started making things to protect themselves from wolves.

After several days of guarding against the wolf pack, they found that the wolf pack would arrive every night as promised. In order to catch all the wolves in one fell swoop, they made a very complete trap.

They took out all the nets they could find and made a large trap outside the ancestral hall. They put a chicken inside and waited for the wolves to go in. Then, the people on both sides tightened the line, and the people in the trees lowered a row of bamboo arrows that they had prepared beforehand, which fell straight into the middle of the wolf pack.

Uncle Su opened the door and gave a command: "Quick, don't let them get up."

Two or three escaped, but the others came out with hoes and knives and started hacking wildly. They caught four or five in one go.

To avenge the dead, everyone killed the wolves, stewed them until they were all cooked, and ate them together.

Because three had escaped, everyone was still worried and continued to set traps in various places, but they still hadn't come.

Just when everyone thought they wouldn't come, another villager was killed by wolves while looking for food.

The villagers wanted to prevent the disease from becoming permanent, so they agreed on a time to go deep into the mountains. Each family had to send at least one person. Da Shi injured his hand at the ancestral hall, and Su's father had a leg injury that prevented him from running, so Shi Tou had to go as the family representative.

He went out in the morning and didn't come back by evening. The other villagers stood by the roadside waiting anxiously.

Earlier in the day, Liu Huan did not have any symptoms of heart palpitations, but as the afternoon progressed, she felt increasingly palpitations, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.

Her sixth sense kicked in again; Stone was definitely in danger.