Chapter 56 Return Home
Hu Li firmly told everyone that she buried her parents underground in the woods, and buried them very deep. Even though there are now holes and gullies of all sizes everywhere on the ground, the place where she buried them must still be there.
Now, she started digging.
With the power of the fox demon, as long as she was not affected by hunger, she could dig very quickly even with her bare hands.
The soft soil was continuously thrown out of the pit. Yu Sheng and Irene stood by and watched the scene quietly. Not far away were the Li Lin trio, who did not understand the situation but now vaguely understood something.
Irene sat on Yu Sheng's shoulder, watching Hu Li digging the soil below, and couldn't help but speak again: "Well...why don't we come back next time? It's been a while now, maybe the hungry entity will appear again, and we will have to fight it all over again then..."
"No, I can feel... when it appears. I have been here for many years." Hu Li raised his head in the big pit. "It is not in this pit. It should be... beside it."
As she spoke, the fox girl climbed out of the pit, stood in the middle of the wasteland to determine the direction, and soon came to the ground nearby and continued digging hard.
Irene opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but Yu Sheng patted her arm gently.
"Stop talking, let her dig. If she doesn't find it, she will be trapped in this place forever even if she gets out."
Irene pursed her lips, but her voice echoed in Yu Sheng's heart: "I'm not afraid that she will dig out something, I'm afraid that she will dig out nothing in the end."
"I know." Yu Sheng also answered in his heart.
"and you……"
"But I'm sure she'll find it."
Irene was silent for a moment: "But you have also seen her previous mental state. When the 'hunger' was the most serious, she could hardly think completely. And considering the scene deep in that dream..."
Yu Sheng just shook his head.
Then he walked forward and came near Hu Li: "Do you need my help?"
Hu Li dug quickly and shook his head stubbornly: "No, I'll dig it myself. It's here that I saw... the strip of cloth that was buried before, just a little bit further down."
Yu Sheng nodded and took two steps back: "Okay, I'll wait for you over there."
Then he took Irene and retreated to the side, to a place where they could not see the situation at the bottom of the pit, and waited quietly for the fox girl to finish what she was going to do.
Yu Sheng himself didn't know how long he had been waiting - he waited calmly and patiently by the side, but gradually felt that every passing second was as long as a year. He couldn't help but want to take a look at the situation in the big pit, but he felt that his legs seemed to be gradually growing together with the ground beneath his feet. He didn't know if Irene on his shoulder had the same feeling, but he could feel that the little doll's body had been a little tense since just now.
"I'll fix your body when we get back." Yu Sheng broke the silence and tried to divert Irene's attention.
"Okay, okay." The puppet said absentmindedly.
"But we may not have enough clay at home, so I guess I'll have to use some flour or something. Do you mind?"
"No problem."
"How about two lotus roots?"
"No problem."
"Are you sure? I'm talking about two lotus roots."
"No, I do mind!"
Irene reacted immediately and looked at Yu Sheng fiercely (she thought so).
Just then, she suddenly noticed that the sound of digging at the bottom of the pit had stopped.
It became very quiet down there, no more mud was thrown up, but no sound from the fox could be heard either.
Irene was stunned for a moment, and suddenly she exchanged glances with Yu Sheng: "Oh no! There can't be anything empty down there!"
Yu Sheng said nothing and ran towards the big pit.
He saw Hu Li.
The fox girl was curled up quietly at the bottom of the pit - her body was bent, with two furry tails in her arms, and the rest of the tails wrapped around her like a quilt.
Next to her were two neatly arranged corpses.
She curled up between the two corpses, her body slightly heaving, like a cub sleeping beside its mother.
Yu Sheng let out a breath and sat down among the rubble beside the big pit.
Irene also breathed a sigh of relief and lay directly on Yu Sheng's head.
After a few minutes, the fox curled up at the bottom of the pit slowly crawled up. She looked at the two skeletons beside her, then looked up at Yu Sheng who was sitting above, and a smile slowly appeared on her face.
Yu Sheng looked at Hu Li and asked, "Shall we go?"
"Well, let's go."
The fox nodded, then bent down and carefully broke off a sharp, non-human canine tooth from each of the two corpses, then stood up and walked over.
Yu Sheng reached out to the deep pit, grabbed Hu Li's arm, and pulled her out.
"Can we just take these?" Irene looked curiously at the two canine teeth tightly held in Hu Li's hand, "The rest..."
Hu Li shook his head: "Just take the teeth with you, that's all. Mom and Dad said that the rules of foxes... when the teeth go home, they go home."
"That's fine." Yu Sheng nodded, and then raised his hand to open the door to the real world. But just as he was about to open the door, Hu Li seemed to remember something and reached out to tug at his sleeve: "My benefactor, wait a minute, there's more..."
Yu Sheng reacted before the other party finished speaking and slapped his head: "Oh, right, there is something I almost forgot, wait for me for a while."
As soon as he finished speaking, he opened another door and slipped in, leaving Li Lin and the other two not far away stunned.
But he didn't leave for long. After only a dozen seconds, another door appeared out of nowhere at the same place. Yu Sheng carried Irene out of the door with a slightly damaged plastic bag in his hand.
Inside was the food that had been left behind in the ruins of the dilapidated temple.
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"Some of them had been destroyed by those monsters. I brought back the ones that were still in good packaging."
Hu Li then showed an even happier smile on her face. She immediately reached out to take the plastic bag, then carefully counted the things inside. She checked them twice before she felt relieved.
"Okay, now there's really nothing left to be missed, let's go home," Yu Sheng also laughed, then stretched out his hand to the air beside him, and pulled it casually. A door leading to No. 66 Wutong Road appeared out of thin air and opened. The center of the shaking phantom was the familiar living room. "Li Lin, the three of you, hurry up and come back together."
"Oh... ok!" Li Lin agreed hurriedly and walked over quickly with Little Red Riding Hood. Xu Jiali, who was following behind them, couldn't help but look at the door opened by Yu Sheng with a somewhat strange expression. For a moment, she didn't know what she was thinking about. Hesitation appeared in her eyes, but in the end she took two quick steps and caught up.
After passing through the gate, the cold wind in the Hungry Valley was shielded to the other side. The familiar home atmosphere brought a reassuring feeling, which made Yu Sheng take several deep breaths as soon as he came back.
Before he knew it, he already felt like this place really was home.
Hu Li opened his eyes wide and looked at this place in surprise, which looked strange everywhere.
She had lived in that desolate valley for so many years that she was no longer accustomed to this kind of "house". The intact and closed roof and bright lights made her feel a little at a loss.
After being stunned for several seconds, she put down the food in her hand and sat on the floor beside her, carefully guarding the instant noodles, biscuits and eight-treasure porridge, but from time to time she would curiously glance around or pay attention to Yu Sheng's direction.
Li Lin, Xu Jiali and Little Red Riding Hood were also observing this place carefully. Through the window facing the street in the living room, they had immediately confirmed that this was somewhere deep in Wutong Road in the old city. However, judging from the perspective outside the window...
Even Li Lin, a professional Secret Service agent, could not confirm which house on Wutong Road this was.
At the same time, their spiritual intuition kept beating slightly in their hearts, constantly reminding them that this was not the truly stable world, but still some kind of abnormal space with a depth not equal to 0.
The three of them looked at each other, and each of them saw a hint of thought and solemnity in their eyes.
There's something wrong with this place.
But he couldn't blatantly take out the depth sounder to measure the environment - although the man next to him named "Yu Sheng" looked friendly, the evil methods he used to kill the hungry entity before and his strange ability to open the door to travel between the alien world and reality at any time all showed one thing: this man was powerful and dangerous.
It is not wise to provoke such a dangerous person with a mysterious origin. If this seemingly friendly "human" is really angered, I am afraid that none of the three people will be able to leave this place alive.
"Is this... your home?" After hesitating for a long time, Li Lin was the first to break the silence.
"Yes," Yu Sheng nodded, "Just find a place to sit first. I'll get you some bottles of water. Today was an unexpected situation, and I didn't prepare anything for you. Don't mind."
"Ah, no need to bother," Li Lin waved his hand quickly. The friendlier Yu Sheng seemed at this moment, the more uneasy he felt. After all, the scene of the hungry entities in the entire valley devouring themselves was really impressive. "We'll leave in a while, we'll leave in a while..."
Then he paused, and then casually said, "By the way, where is this place? Is this still in Jiecheng?"
"Of course I'm here," Yu Sheng said matter-of-factly. "You can recognize it by just looking outside. It's Wutong Road. Aren't you guys specifically following me here?"
Li Lin broke out in a cold sweat: "This... Don't mind it, we didn't understand the situation at that time..."
"It's not a big deal," Yu Sheng waved his hand. He really didn't mind this. "I actually wanted to look for you guys, but I just couldn't find you."
Li Lin and Xu Jiali were both startled and said in unison: "Huh?"
"You're looking for them, right?" Little Red Riding Hood reacted immediately, raised her hand and pointed at Xu Jiali and Li Lin, "I'm just a part-time worker during the holidays..."
"No, I'm looking for all of you," Yu Sheng said, his expression becoming serious, "'professionals' like you."
(End of this chapter)
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