Chapter 50 Greater Khingan Mountains - 5 Lu Yi walked out of the room...
As soon as Lu stepped out of the RV, it was snowing heavily outside, and the sky was filled with flocks of birds flying south, their cawing annoyingly loud.
Anderson was crouching on the two-meter-high stone wall where Lu Yilei was standing, looking down. The air was filled with countless animal scents. Lu Yi quickly walked over and also jumped onto the wall.
Sure enough, a large group of panicked wild animals crowded outside the stone wall, causing a stampede, and some were even forced to jump off the cliff.
Lu Yi was glad that he had nothing to do while Tang Bufan was unconscious, so he built this wall extra thick; otherwise, it would have been broken through by these wild beasts by now.
"The road is completely blocked, why are you still driving this way?" Lu Yi said impatiently.
Anderson turned to look at him and noticed that his mood was unusual. He raised an eyebrow and asked, "What's wrong? Did you have a fight with your teacher?"
Lu Yi frowned and didn't reply to him.
Anderson chuckled, unconcerned that Anderson was ignoring him, his eyes crinkling with laughter: "Not bad, not bad at all, I'm just waiting for him to torment you."
Hearing his sarcasm, Lu Yi felt depressed, so he transformed into his beast form and jumped down from the two-meter-high stone wall to start driving away the wild beasts.
Inside the car, Tang Bufan, shivering, wrapped himself in a cotton-padded coat and walked toward the driver's seat.
The car windows were blurred by frost, and cold air kept pouring in from outside, turning the car into a metal icebox. Because the temperature dropped instantly, it took Kai a while to slowly raise the temperature.
"Xiao Tang, please go back to bed." The electronic camera flashing red light looked at the extremely thin man: "You have just recovered from an illness and it is not appropriate for you to stay in the driver's seat."
The cab is not as well insulated as the passenger compartment, and in order to save energy, Kaige plans to close the partition door between the cab and the passenger compartment.
"Is the RV dangerous?" Tang Bufan asked, wrapped in a cotton-padded coat. The glass was completely white, and he couldn't see outside, so he couldn't help but feel uneasy.
“We’re on a cliff,” Kai replied in a gentle electronic male voice. “Located halfway up the mountain, this isn’t the path of the beast tide, and Lu Yi has also built a stone wall to block them. It’s safe.”
"Show me the video," Tang Bufan said.
"The camera outside the car is frozen."
Tang Bufan was speechless; he had come for nothing.
The driver's cab was surrounded by glass windows, making it several degrees colder than the passenger compartment. Tang Bufan jogged over to the metal bunk bed and grabbed a worn-out, heavy blanket to cover himself.
Kai closed the partition door of the car, and the temperature inside the car was slowly rising, but he did not set the air conditioner too high. Too large a temperature difference between the inside and outside would consume a lot of energy, and if the temperature was too high, the snow water would thaw and freeze into ice in the car, which would be troublesome. So Kai set the temperature inside the car to minus three degrees Celsius.
At this temperature, people can live normally if they keep warm.
Tang Bufan slowly warmed up and began to tidy the bed with his weak hands. The bedsheets were a little wrinkled from his sleep, and there was a thick stack of animal hides at the foot of the bed, all collected by Lu Yi.
"What's the temperature outside now?" Tang Bufan asked Kai Ge again.
Kai also had a miniature camera in the carriage, not far from the front of the shelves.
"Minus forty-seven degrees Celsius."
"So low!" Tang Bufan exclaimed with concern, "Lu Yi isn't even wearing a cotton-padded coat..."
"It's alright, Little Tang, high-level orcs are very resistant to the cold," Kai said gently.
Tang Bufan knew it was trying to comfort him, but he was still anxious and wanted to go out. However, he knew that going out would only cause trouble, so he could only suppress his anxiety and wait for Lu Yi to return.
About two hours later, Lu Yi finally returned. Because the cold wave came so suddenly, the RV door was frozen shut with frost. Lu Yi punched it a few times from the outside, controlling the force, before he was able to break the ice.
The sturdy metal car door opened, and Lu Yi, covered in snow, strode in.
Tang Bufan was waiting at the door when he was breaking the ice. When the car door opened, Tang Bufan was stunned for a moment by the cold air that rushed in.
He saw Anderson, the man in the leather jacket, walking towards a small cave a few meters away from the RV. Inside the cave, a small fire was burning, casting a red glow.
Kai quickly closed the car door, and Tang Bufan came back to his senses before looking at Lu Yi.
The orc boy was brushing the snow off his body, his eyes fixed on him, unable to hide his concern.
"..." Tang Bufan was a little embarrassed.
Two hours ago, Lu Yi told him that he wanted to be with him. Tang Bufan initially thought he had been confessed to, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that might not be the case.
Wanting to be together doesn't necessarily mean being lovers; it could also mean family, friends, partners, or even teachers. Tang Bufan had maintained contact with his teacher before he transmigrated, so... it might not be a confession.
Should he ask? Tang Bufan was conflicted, itching to find out but too embarrassed to ask.
Maybe... we shouldn't ask anymore. What good would it do to find out? He'll leave eventually anyway.
Tang Bufan's eyes then dimmed.
He composed himself and broke the silence, asking Lu Yi, "When did Anderson arrive?"
"...I've been here for several days now," Lu Yi replied, realizing that Tang Bufan was pretending to be normal, and felt a pang of sadness.
"Is he alright living in that cave?" Tang Bufan didn't particularly like Anderson, but he didn't hate him either. Human life was at stake, and the outside temperature had dropped to minus forty degrees Celsius, making it difficult for living things to survive.
“It’s alright. He took a lot of my animal hides, and the firewood I chopped is all piled up in that cave,” Lu Yi said.
Tang Bufan said "Oh," hesitated for a moment, and then decided to ignore it. Anderson probably wouldn't let him die outside.
"How's the situation outside?" Tang Bufan asked again.
"The temperature has plummeted, freezing many animals to death." Lu Yi sighed, "Now the slope is covered with their corpses, and the grass is frozen solid, making it difficult for the RV to get down."
"No rush." Tang Bufan, who was about to die, was more composed than Lu Yi: "We'll figure something out after this cold wave passes."
Lu nodded, his golden-green eyes looking at him.
Silence returned to the carriage, and the atmosphere became strange again. Tang Bufan felt somewhat overwhelmed by Lu Yi's gaze, so he turned away to go back to bed.
“We…” Lu Yi hesitated before speaking, but was interrupted by Tang Bufan.
"Can I use these animal hides to make clothes?"
“…Okay.” Lu Yi felt bitter inside. Tang Bufan clearly knew that it was meant for him.
He suddenly understood the meaning of Anderson's word "torture".
Tang Bufan began sorting the animal hides. Lu Yi stayed in the car for a while, then went out again to burn firewood to brew medicine for Tang Bufan.
There were many animal hides, mostly fox pelts, a small portion of wolf pelts, and one hide with jet-black fur that Tang Bufan couldn't recognize. They were all roasted by Lu Yi until fluffy and soft, without any trace of blood.
Fox pelts are quite small and need to be sewn together to make clothes. Tang Bufan wasn't a professional, and his hands were shaky, so he didn't know where to start.
He hated himself for being a useless person, unable even to thread a needle.
Lu returned half an hour later with steaming hot medicine. Seeing Tang Bufan sitting listlessly on the bed, he immediately understood what had happened.
"Teacher, drink your medicine first, I'll help you later." Lu put the medicine bowl on the folding table.
Tang Bufan didn't want him to comfort him, so he forced himself to cheer up and went to drink the medicine.
Lu Yi turned and went out again. A moment later, he brought back a large piece of roasted, oily meat and placed it on the kitchen counter to start slicing.
The two then sat down facing each other at the folding table.
The atmosphere was still strange, and Tang Bufan complained incessantly, wondering when they would be able to get along normally again.
While he was eating with trembling hands and his mind was racing, Tang Bufan suddenly noticed that Lu Yi had bared his fangs.
Like a vampire's fangs, two sharp ones, appearing and disappearing between the opening and closing of his lips. Tang Bufan's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but stare straight at Lu Yi.
Lu Yi was clearly unaware that he had revealed his true colors. He kept his head down and ate his food silently until he noticed that Tang Bufan had been watching him.
Lu's heart skipped a beat, and joy washed over him.
"Teeth," Tang Bufan finally told him, "you've grown fangs."
Lu Yi was stunned, then his expression changed, and he immediately raised his hand to cover his mouth.
He stuck out his tongue and licked it, and sure enough, his canine tooth came out.
"What's going on?" Tang Bufan asked curiously, seeing such a change in Lu Yi's body for the first time.
Lu Yi covered his mouth with his hand, looking very embarrassed and a little anxious. After a while, he stammered to Tang Bufan, "I... my heat is coming."
Tang Bufan suddenly remembered that Lu Yi had a heat cycle, which occurred about once every three months. So he calculated the time and realized that three months had already passed.
"Then you..." Tang Bufan tensed up, looking at him with concern, "What should we do?"
Lu Yi was also worried about this, not about himself, but about Tang Bufan.
His heat was approaching, and he had to leave Tang Bufan, but Tang Bufan was still recovering from a serious illness and was physically weak, so he couldn't do without someone to take care of him.
Moreover, it's currently the worst, coldest time of the year.
Lu Yi covered his mouth with his hand, thought about it hesitantly for a moment, and then stood up.
"I have to leave for a few days," Lu Yi said seriously to Tang Bufan. "I'll ask Anderson to take care of you."
After saying that, he turned and walked out.
Tang Bufan panicked and immediately stood up after him, reaching out to grab Lu Yi's sweater.
"How can you go outside in this weather?" Tang Bufan frowned. "You're not allowed to go! Stay in the car!"
Lu Yi turned around with difficulty: "Teacher... my self-control is not strong enough to stay sober while in the same room with you."
Tang Bufan thought for a moment and said, "I can use chains to bind you."
“It’s no use.” Lu Yi sighed. “The chains might not be able to restrain me, and the RV probably can’t withstand my struggles either.”
"But……"
"Do you want me to bite you?" Lu Yi asked him.
Tang Bufan suddenly lost his voice.
Lu Yi looked at him with mixed feelings: "Don't you want to go back? Think it through. Once I bite you, you'll lose the door to going back."
Tang Bufan fell silent. He lowered his head, and after a moment, he slowly loosened his grip on Lu Yi's sweater.
He felt utterly hypocritical.
Seeing Tang Bufan's dejected expression, Lu Yi fell silent, but soon his eyes softened.
"Don't worry," Lu Yi said softly. It was strange; Tang Bufan didn't have to do anything. Just standing there touched his heart, making him unable to get angry or annoyed. He just wanted Tang Bufan to smile at him.
He suddenly understood what liking someone meant, like the sun breaking through the clouds in an instant.
The orc boy suddenly leaned over and placed a kiss on the man's forehead.
Tang Bufan was stunned, while Lu Yi curled his lips, revealing two small, sharp teeth.
"Be a good girl and wait for me to come back in the car." Lu Yi smiled, a sense of relief in her eyes, and then turned and got out of the RV.
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