Suddenly, the surroundings darkened. Zheng Lanxiang straightened up and looked up. A dark cloud slowly moved and gathered in the sky, drifting to a distant mountain.
"Is it going to rain?" she muttered, picking up fern roots from under her feet and hurrying downhill.
The dark clouds swelled and suffocated, making it hard to breathe, and a roar, like thunder, burst forth from them.
"What's that noise?" Zheng Lanxiang's face turned pale, and her legs went weak as if they were noodles. She had to hold onto her daughter's hand to steady herself. "Could it be a mutated monster? There are no patrols in this rural area. What should we do if we really encounter one?"
Jiang Shuyi grabbed the person and lifted her up: "Mom, have you forgotten what I do? You stay in the car and watch the child, I'll stay outside."
Zheng Lanxiang now regarded her as her pillar of support, agreeing to everything she said, not daring to look around, and holding the children tightly.
"Grandma, don't shake." Heimei pouted and nudged Shui Ning: "You comfort her."
Shui Ning kept a straight face as she channeled her gentle spiritual energy to cover her grandmother. The spiritual energy, invisible to the naked eye, was like water, nourishing things silently.
For some reason, Zheng Lanxiang's eyelids started to droop, and she fell asleep in a little while.
The air pressure under the black clouds increased dramatically. The black bear, already hungry and restless, roared and rushed out to find an object to vent its anger on.
The bear is blind, but its nose is exceptionally sensitive. Its sense of smell is 2,100 times better than that of humans, and it can smell the carcass of an animal about 32 kilometers away. Xing Zhengfei encountered the bear in mid-air and watched it anxiously circling on the ground, its broad paws waving through the air, making a "whooshing" sound.
Unable to reach its target creature, the bear grew utterly enraged. It unleashed its supernatural power, strengthening its body five times its original size. It leaped half its body out of the forest and stomped its foot, causing the ground within a forty-mile radius to tremble.
The car window shook violently twice. Jiang Shuyin looked up at the dark clouds overhead and murmured, "What are those two doing?"
The black bear's enhanced body was comparable to a tortoise shell. Xing Zhengfei's superpower hit it like a firecracker, igniting a few tufts of fur before extinguishing it. The black bear roared angrily and jumped up, making a volleyball-playing motion. Xing Zhengfei hurriedly dodged, but the black bear attacked again. This time, the attack failed, and he could only defend passively.
After half an hour of earth-shaking tremors, Jiang Shuyin finally understood that Xing Zhengfei was at a disadvantage. If the fight continued, it was uncertain who would win or lose, but time could not be wasted any longer.
She texted Xie Yin: "Quickly finish this, I'm leaving."
Xie Yin did not reply, but the clouds above his head moved.
The dark clouds, which had gathered and tightened again, cast large, extremely dark shadows. Several limbs extended out, their sharp tips piercing straight into the black bear's body.
Xing Zhengfei, who was nearby, could hear the "gurgling" sound.
The strong smell of blood permeated the valley, and Xing Zhengfei's mouth watered. He tentatively took a step toward his prey, as if asking if he could drink the milk of a lion cub.
One step... two steps...
Xing Zhengfei successfully approached the arrogant and savage black bear from before. His heart was still pounding. The shadow above his head moved, and Xing Zhengfei met the black bear's copper bell-like eyes. Suddenly, his neck tightened.
It's still alive?
At this moment, the limbs connecting the black bear moved, pulling out three pieces and separating the black bear's body in a manner similar to a fusion, then picking one and throwing it at Xing Zhengfei's feet.
If Xing Zhengfei wasn't mistaken, he paused for a few seconds, then tossed another leg to him.
Then the other body parts were enveloped in black mist, and a sound came from within—a roar—pain, mixed with the sound of chewing.
The flesh and fur disappeared, and the black mist on the ground rose into the air and returned to its original form.
Xing Zhengfei stared blankly at the whole process, feeling utterly awe and admiration for his father's strength.
"Where's Xiao Xing?" Jiang Shuyin stood on tiptoe, looking into the distance, and turned to ask Xie Yin, "Is he alright?"
Xie Yin shook his head and stood a little far away.
I had just finished eating, and my clothes still smelled strongly of meat.
"He hasn't finished eating yet, and he's not injured."
Xie Yin was unaware that he was standing upwind, and the smell of blood on him was blown directly to her side by the wind, creating an indescribable stench. He said, "I'm sitting in the back of the truck."
As he spoke, he climbed over and sat on the small stool, his big head huddled together. There was a glass panel in the back seat that allowed them to see behind them, and Heimei and Shuining were tapping on the glass to attract their father's attention: "Dad! Look here!"
Xie Yin looked up and saw that the two little ones were blushing with excitement, and they giggled when they saw him looking over.
"......"
Xie Yin hesitated and lowered his head.
Heimei started knocking on the glass again, but before she could even call out, her father gave her a long, meaningful look. Her eyes glazed over, and she sat down in a daze.
Shui Ning was a little confused. She scratched her sister's palm, which was most ticklish, but her sister didn't react. She quickly looked at Ace and asked, "Brother?"
Ace guessed what that guy had done: "It's nothing, it'll be fine in a bit."
Heimei hadn't regained her senses by the time Xing Zhengfei, who had eaten his fill, slowly returned.
The car drove back to Zhong Fashun's house to visit his second aunt. After discussing business, they started gossiping about other people in the village. In such situations, whoever is absent becomes the subject of conversation.
Zhong Dazhuang didn't interact much with the villagers outside; he only heard about things from Zhong Fashun.
"Who brought you back? They look familiar, but I can't recognize them." Zhong Fashun stays at home to farm year-round, so he knows which family comes back for the New Year. Jiang Shuyin and Zheng Lanxiang didn't come with Jiang Jianli this year, and their demeanor has changed, so he doesn't recognize them.
Zhong Dazhuang gave a perfunctory reply: "My wife's sister and her family came to sweep the tomb."
Zhong Fashun looked thoughtfully at Zhong An and shook his head inwardly, thinking, "This girl is still within the fifth degree of kinship."
When Jiang Shu led the group over, she saw a large group of people come out of the house and walk around her car, pointing and commenting.
"This vehicle is great. It can carry a lot of stuff in the back, like a tractor, and it can seat all these people in the front. How much did you buy it for?"
"The chassis is also high, which is suitable for our rural land. The family that built a villa on the mountainside before, whether it was a BMW or an Audi, came back and got stuck on the road."
"If it's not expensive, tell your son to buy one. He's an official, after all."
Zhong Fashun took a drag of his cigarette without saying a word. When he heard Jiang Shuyin say that the car cost tens of thousands of mission points, he coughed from the smoke. Before he could ask, someone else asked for him.
"What kind of work can earn this much? Tens of thousands of task points are not just tens of thousands of dollars."
Jiang Shu chuckled dryly: "Luck, it all depends on luck."
Seeing that she didn't want to talk, no one asked any further. Zheng Meixiang knew that her niece was impatient with dealing with these people, so she urged Zhong Dazhuang: "Get in the car quickly, we still need to go to my parents' place to give them some money."
Zhong Dazhuang went to wait in Xie Yin's car, and the others' attention shifted to the car: "Is this a Volkswagen?" It looks ordinary.
Jiang Shu felt a chill run down her spine upon hearing these words, but she couldn't argue with them. She took a deep breath and waited for the two to leave.
Xie Yin and Xing Zhengfei emerged from the mountain stream, their stench washed away by the clear mountain spring water. After checking each other, they arrived.
"You've finally arrived," Jiang Shuyin said irritably. Zheng Lanxiang glared at her and said, "Everyone has to go to the bathroom sometimes."
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