Chapter 48: Eating Day
The fox girl stared with wide eyes at the pile of things that Yu Sheng had placed on the ground. She stood there in a daze for several seconds, as if she didn't react at all to what was going on, until Yu Sheng opened a can of eight-treasure porridge and put the food to her mouth.
"Eat, I gave you all of this - if it's not enough, there's more."
The smell of food, the real taste of food.
Not stone, not soil, not bricks and wood - not those phantoms in dreams that can never be filled by imagination alone.
Hu Li's eyes slowly opened wide, and then as if suddenly coming to life from a frozen state, he reached out and grabbed the can in Yu Sheng's hand, and without using a spoon, he poured the food directly into his mouth, making indistinct humming sounds as he did so.
She ate a full can of food in just over ten seconds, and then began to lick the edge of the can carefully. But she soon became impatient because she couldn't lick the contents of the can cleanly. Just when Yu Sheng was about to help, Hu Li simply pinched the can with her fingers and tore it hard. With a sharp sound of metal breaking, she actually tore an opening in the sturdy metal can, and then carefully tore it into continuous narrow metal strips while licking every drop of food on it cleanly.
"Here's more," Yu Sheng quickly reached into his pocket and took out a piece of bread and a bottle of water, "Eat slowly."
In a flash of light, the food was already in Hu Li's hands.
The fox girl ate ravenously, and eating became the only thing she did for the next while. Neither Yu Sheng nor Irene spoke a word. The only sounds left in the ruins were the sound of Hu Li eating and the occasional unclear sound coming from her throat, as if she wanted to speak but was reluctant to stop eating.
Then, Hu Li suddenly started crying.
Very suddenly, tears flowed down the fox's face. She held the bread and stuffed it into her mouth. She did not sob or cry out loud. Only the tears flowed calmly down her cheeks, fell on the bread, and was stuffed into her mouth again.
Yu Sheng was frightened by this scene, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to rub Hu Li's dirty face: "Don't cry, you choked on the wind and your stomach hurts. Don't cry, there will be more in the future..."
Hu Li finally seemed to wake up at this time, and had extra energy to think about other things. She stared blankly at Yu Sheng in front of her for a long time, and suddenly handed over the half piece of bread in her hand: "Benefactor, you, eat too."
Yu Sheng quickly waved his hand: "I had dinner before I came here, I'm not hungry."
Hu Li did not move, but just kept on moving stubbornly. Even though all the food here was just brought by Yu Sheng, she still insisted on sharing the bread in her hand with Yu Sheng, as if doing so had some special significance to her.
Yu Sheng finally reached out and took the half piece of bread that Hu Li handed over.
The fox girl laughed and grabbed another pack of compressed biscuits from the ground. This time she didn't wolf them down. Instead, she tore open the package and nibbled on them carefully, one bite at a time, as if she wanted to prolong the eating process as much as possible.
She finally seemed less hungry, if only temporarily.
"It's delicious," she whispered, "My benefactor, it's delicious..."
"Don't add 'benefactor' before 'delicious'," Yu Sheng suddenly shuddered and remembered something bad, "Just... you can eat enough."
"Yeah." Hu Li immediately nodded slightly.
"Finally you've recovered," Irene finally spoke at this time. She looked at the fox demon whose mental state had obviously stabilized a little, and she was relieved. "It's really a relief that you can hold on..."
Hu Li was slightly startled. She seemed to have just noticed the puppet on Yu Sheng's shoulder - or rather, she just realized that this 66.6 cm tall guy could actually talk and move. She immediately showed a look of astonishment: "This, is it alive!?"
Irene's eyes widened: "...Nonsense! Of course I'm alive! I just helped you bite open a sausage!"
"She is Irene, the living doll from Alice's cabin," Yu Sheng introduced quickly, "This is the helper I mentioned. Don't underestimate her because she is small. She is actually very capable. I was able to contact you in my dream before because of her help."
Irene held a kitchen knife in one hand and put the other hand on her waist, looking very proud on Yu Sheng's shoulder.
Hu Li thought about it. She didn't know what a living doll was, nor did she understand why such a small "human figure" could speak and move. But she realized that the person in front of her was her benefactor's friend, so after a few seconds of hesitation, she handed over the compressed biscuits in her hand: "Erin, you eat too."
Irene's proud look suddenly became a little awkward: "Uh... I can't eat this. Dolls can't eat..."
Hu Li put the biscuit back in an instant and continued to nibble on it.
Irene: "...Hey, you just took it away without even giving way?! You didn't have this attitude when you gave Yu Sheng the bread just now!"
"Dolls can't eat," Hu Li whispered, "Give it to you, it's a waste of food."
Irene puffed up her cheeks and started to get angry, but no one paid any attention to her.
At this time, Yu Sheng's attention was focused on the dark and cold night around him.
He could feel that with his arrival, the atmosphere in the valley was gradually changing. The "entity" entrenched in the foreign land had become active, and his act of bringing food and temporarily getting rid of Hu Li's hunger had stimulated the monster.
The reason he came today was, first, to save Hu Li, and second, to find a way to get rid of the hungry entity lurking here - originally this was not a necessary thing to do, but now that he has established a "connection" with the monster, and knows that the monster is gradually learning to think, he has to find a way to solve this hidden danger.
But for some reason, the monster has not appeared in front of him yet.
A trace of doubt gradually emerged in Yu Sheng's heart, and at this moment, a faint voice came along the night wind and reached the ears of everyone at the scene -
That was the howling of a wolf in the distance.
Yu Sheng and Irene looked at each other, and the latter hesitated for a moment: "Yu Sheng, did you hear that just now?"
"It's the sound of a wolf. I thought I heard it wrong..." Yu Sheng frowned, then turned to look at Hu Li who was chewing biscuits seriously, "Are there wolves here?"
"No, there's only me and the monster here," Hu Li seemed bewildered, "This is the first time I've heard such a strange sound."
At this moment, the wolf howl sounded again, interrupting the communication between Yu Sheng and others.
The sound seemed to be a little closer.
The wolves were approaching, chasing something, or being chased.
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In the dark forest, the huge flesh and blood beast was like a horrible nightmare wandering in the woods, constantly changing its position in the shadows of the trees, sometimes appearing in the mist, and sometimes suddenly disappearing from sight.
But no matter which direction you run, the monster will strangely appear nearby and then attack from tricky angles.
A wolf emerged from the shadows, leaping out of the forest and pouncing on the giant beast of flesh and blood that was surging and sprinting in the darkness. Then more wolves swarmed in from all directions, trying to block the monster's movements.
However, countless tentacles and bony limbs with barbs suddenly stabbed out from the giant beast's body. The wolves that had just gathered were forced back in an instant, and a huge gap appeared in the encirclement.
The beast's numerous eyes simultaneously locked onto a figure outside the wolf pack - Little Red Riding Hood was riding on the largest wolf, her calm eyes confronting the monster's dozens of icy gazes from a distance.
The next second, the middle part of the beast's body suddenly split open, and a pitch-black, scaly "long tongue" shot out with a sound of breaking through the air, piercing the girl's throat like a malicious arrow.
Little Red Riding Hood just turned her body slightly, and when the long tongue was about to touch her, she suddenly raised her right hand.
The slender girl's arm suddenly exploded and swelled, and the flesh and blood made strange hissing sounds. Smoke rose up, and the blood and mist intertwined in the blink of an eye, turning into a huge black wolf's head - and then the wolf head bit down fiercely, biting down the "long tongue" that had no time to change its trajectory.
The beast reacted and retreated violently, but Little Red Riding Hood was still "biting" the other party tightly. She and the wolf under her were like nails to the ground and were in a stalemate with the monster. In this brief moment, a figure suddenly jumped out from the shadow of the dense forest -
Li Lin rushed to the side of the monster like an agile cheetah, with a dagger in his hand shining coldly in the night - it was a spare weapon temporarily lent to him by Xu Jiali - the monster immediately noticed the ambusher who suddenly rushed out, and with a few eyes turning quickly, a high-raised sharp claw had already slapped straight towards Li Lin.
However, the real ambush was still on the side. When Li Lin was halfway through the rush, he suddenly lowered his body and dodged the monster's claws in a way that ordinary people could not do. Another tall figure jumped out from the blind spot behind the monster - a burly man with a height of nearly two meters raised high the beam dagger that could be used as a dagger by others, and stabbed it towards a tumor behind the monster.
With a hiss, the scorching light blade pierced into the tumor without any hindrance, even cutting off the entire tumor.
However, the monster only let out a chaotic and shrill roar, then turned around suddenly, shook off Little Red Riding Hood who was barely holding on, and knocked the strong man, who had no time to retract his strength, out.
Xu Jiali rolled into the bushes not far away and let out a muffled groan.
Li Lin quickly ran to the bushes and dragged his colleague out. Then the two of them looked in the direction of the monster.
The monster disappeared without a trace.
The fog in the dense forest gradually became thicker. In the diffuse and undulating fog, one could vaguely see countless twisted and strange phantoms growing, emerging from the soil, and swaying slightly in the cold wind.
The shadows are numerous and endless.
The entire forest seemed to have turned into a giant mouth that was waiting to eat.
Xu Jiali gasped instantly: "We can't stay here, keep running out of the woods!"
(End of this chapter)
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