Chapter 48: Caves and Hyenas
After dinner, they set off and sent the two elders to the carriage. The eldest and second sisters-in-law sat in the carriage, while Wu Yuetang, Ye Jingchen and their three brothers walked beside the carriage.
The entire team was walking in a hurry; even the village chief's ox cart seemed to be speeding up.
"Everyone seems to have quickened their pace today."
Wu Yuetang was a little confused. She looked up at the sun above her head, which almost blinded her eyes. There was still not a single cloud in the sky.
"Host, there are still thirty-four hours and twenty minutes until the rainstorm begins."
When Wu Yuetang heard the system's reminder, her heart skipped a beat. This meant it would rain tomorrow night.
Thinking of this, Wu Yuetang subconsciously pulled Ye Jingchen over.
"How fast can you go?"
"Um?"
When Ye Jingchen heard this, he frowned unconsciously. How fast?
"Well, how fast can you go?"
Wu Yuetang looked serious, paying attention to the people around him while asking again in a low voice.
Ye Jingchen coughed twice, feeling a bit awkward. "Um, how fast do you want it?"
Wu Yuetang glanced at the system map. "Hmm... Can we reach the highest cave on this mountain before noon?"
Ye Jingchen looked in the direction of her finger. Oh, it turned out that she was asking how fast he was. Ye Jingchen couldn't help but laugh in his heart, wondering what he was thinking.
"About that. The fastest round trip is three and a half hours."
"Then take me with you?"
"Well...it would take at least six hours to get back and forth with you."
Ye Jingchen didn't ask any more questions and answered her question directly.
Wu Yuetang counted the time on his fingers and said, "Okay, take me with you. I'll go tell my parents."
After saying that, he ran to the carriage, jumped on, and got into the carriage. He briefly told the carriage that a rainstorm was about to come and they needed to find a cave for shelter. Li was a little worried and wanted to stop him.
"Okay, just let the girl go. Besides, Xiaoye is with her, so it's not a big deal."
Wu Shoutian interrupted Li directly and changed the way he addressed Ye Jingchen from the second son of the Ye family to Xiao Ye. This change of address was too fast. The girl and he had not even started dating.
Li glared at her husband with some anger, but still listened to him and did not stop him.
Wu Yuetang took two water bags, jumped off the carriage again, and followed Ye Jingchen quietly away from the mountain road.
After the two of them walked to a place where the convoy could not see them, Ye Jingchen turned around.
"Come on up, I'll carry you."
"No, I still have the energy. Let's hurry on. When I can't run anymore, you can carry me on your back."
Wu Yuetang directly refused, and Ye Jingchen nodded. Wu Yuetang followed the fastest route given by the system map and shuttled through the mountains at high speed.
Although the original owner had poor physical strength and was small, fortunately she had been working since she came here, so her physical strength had also improved greatly.
"Up ahead, follow the path."
The path Wu Yuetang pointed out was a shortcut to the top of the mountain, but it was too steep.
"The terrain here is a bit dangerous. I'll carry you up."
Wu Yuetang tried to climb up, but he found that he couldn't do it on his own.
"Okay, you have to be careful too."
"Um."
As he spoke, Ye Jingchen turned around again and Wu Yuetang jumped lightly and lay on his back.
So light! Ye Jingchen placed his hands on her thighs and weighed her. It was so light that it was probably not even half the weight of a wild boar.
Do girls feel so good? She looks so thin, but she feels soft to the touch.
She smells so good, a fragrance I have never smelled before, it is sweet and refreshing with a mellow aftertaste.
Ye Jingchen climbed up the path skillfully, thinking of all kinds of things in his mind, while Wu Yuetang on his back felt at ease for some reason. Looking at Ye Jingchen's steady steps, she also put her consciousness into the space with confidence.
First, he replaced all the water bags with spiritual spring water, and then spent 20 points to exchange for two Snickers bars from the space mall. After arriving at the cave, he replenished his energy.
When I regained consciousness, I was getting closer and closer to the top of the mountain, and the sun in the sky was quietly rising into the sky.
Less than two hours had passed, and the speed was indeed very fast. It seemed that he had just lost his memory, and the martial arts and internal strength he had learned before were still in his body.
That’s great. As long as I hold on to this thigh tightly, I won’t have to worry about safety issues in the future, hehe.
Wu Yuetang was thinking beautifully in her heart, and her arms around Ye Jingchen's neck tightened unconsciously.
Ye Jingchen felt the movement of the person behind him, and his breathing stopped for a moment, but only for a moment, and then immediately returned to normal.
It was noon when the two of them arrived at the top of the mountain. They found the cave according to the system map. They originally thought that the cave was on the mountain wall, but unexpectedly, the top of the mountain was a large platform. The cave was on the other side of the platform, and the entrance looked a bit like an air-raid shelter.
Wu Yuetang jumped off Ye Jingchen and walked straight into the cave. As soon as she walked in, she saw the steps under her feet and Wu Yuetang frowned.
Would a proper cave have stairs? Could this really be a bomb shelter?
Thinking of this, Wu Yuetang couldn't help but get excited and walked down the stairs faster. Ye Jingchen hurriedly followed, wondering if there was any danger inside.
After arriving in the cave, Wu Yuetang was shocked. It was a huge space with some stalls made of animal skins scattered on the ground. However, they were covered with thick dust. It must have been a long time since anyone came here.
This space is nearly one thousand square meters, and there is still space for everyone in the village to live in.
Wu Yuetang was checking the air-raid shelter. There was nothing here except some animal skin blankets and some ashes left from burning firewood.
A few torch holders still remained on the walls, but the torches on them were covered with ash and cobwebs.
"Wu Yuetang, there's movement."
Ye Jingchen's voice sounded behind them. They both held their breath at the same time, and indeed they heard a faint breathing sound, so weak that it was almost in and not out.
Wu Yuetang tiptoed in the direction of the sound and saw an animal cub placed in the grass pile in the corner of the cave.
It's not just one, it's a whole litter, but only one survived.
It was lying among the corpses of its brothers and sisters, howling at the top of its lungs, as if it was struggling desperately, or perhaps asking for help from the two of them.
Wu Yuetang couldn't help but wanted to reach out and hug it, but was stopped by Ye Jingchen.
"Be careful."
He took the cub out by the thick hide of its neck and gently placed it on an animal-skin blanket.
"It's a hyena."
"Hyena?" Wu Yuetang blinked, his eyes full of confusion.
Wow, other people who travel through books all raise white tigers and pandas, but when it comes to me, I raise hyenas?
Wu Yuetang looked at the little thing on the ground, its belly heaving up and down violently, its eyes narrowed in pain. Wu Yuetang quickly used a water bag to pour some spiritual spring water into its little mouth.
The water tasted sweet and the little guy drank it with a smacking sip. His furry body didn't look like an adult hyena at all.
Its breathing gradually calmed down, and its eyes opened, blinking at the two people in front of it. Now that it had strength, it let out a howl, and seemed quite happy.
Wu Yuetang looked at the little thing speechlessly. It was a hyena. When it grew up, it would be more ferocious than tigers and wolves. Could it really be raised?
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