Yin Chengyang and Mo Yan each carried a large mountaineering backpack and followed the village chief into the village.
In fact, the backpacks only contained a few beds, and apart from their intimidating size, they were not heavy at all. This also made it easy for Wen Le to take things out of the backpack from his space. After all, no one would want to personally go through the contents of the bag, right?!
Apart from the earthen wall at the entrance of the village, Li Jia Village was no different from the other villages that Xiao Wen and the others had seen before. Each household had a small courtyard with a guard dog and some chickens and ducks roaming around.
Xiao Wen and his group chatted with the villagers along the way, but secretly observed their surroundings.
Wen Le spread out his mental power, trying to find the ability user who built the earthen wall, but there was no harvest along the way.
Regarding mental abilities, they were actually quite weak when the ability level was low. Apart from having a small space, there were no attack or survival skills. However, even low-level spiritual ability users could easily distinguish between ability users and ordinary people within their mental range.
Ordinary people were gray under the scan of spiritual power, zombies were black, and ability users showed different colors depending on their abilities. For example, fire abilities were red, water abilities were blue, earth abilities were yellow, and so on. There were also some special abilities such as purple lightning abilities, golden healing abilities, and so on. In short, if the color displayed was not gray or black, it meant that there was an ability.
There was no discovery along the way, so Wen Le could only focus on the villagers. He casually approached the village chief.
“Uncle Village Chief, the earthen wall at the door was so high. How did you build it?”
As soon as the words fell, Wen Le and the others saw that all the villagers, including the old village chief, froze, and then slowly pulled out an ugly smile.
“The villagers have great strength, so building an earthen wall is not difficult.” The old village chief smiled stiffly.
Wen Le nodded and did not ask further.
Just now, he had already noticed that several villagers unconsciously looked in a certain direction after he finished asking. Wen Le bounced back to Xiao Wen’s side, pretending to be curious, and carefully looked around, paying particular attention to a certain direction.
The old village chief led them to a bungalow on the edge of the village.
“This is a house left behind by a villager who moved to the city. You can stay here for now,” said the old village chief, then directed two people, “Dazhuang, Huzi, you two go in and tidy up.”
“Okay!” Li Dazhuang responded and went into the yard with another young man.
Han Ya, as the representative, thanked the old village chief for his help. The others were not polite either and went into the house. After entering, Zhou Quan politely took the broom that Li Dazhuang had just picked up.
“Let’s clean up ourselves. We are grateful for having a place to stay, and we don’t want to trouble you anymore,” Zhou Quan said politely.
The villagers were practical people. Since they had already spoken, Li Dazhuang and the other person did not refuse. After asking if they knew how to make a fire and receiving an affirmative answer, they patted their clothes and left.
At this time, Han Ya also entered the house with two chickens that the villagers had forced on him. The villagers outside dispersed.
Among these people, Uncle Mo and Yin Chengyang could both cook on the stove. Wen Le closed the courtyard door, then closed the door facing the courtyard. Since the kitchen was in the living room, no one could see what he took out from the space, such as fish, meat, and vegetables. Since he had the opportunity, he planned to cook more, anyway, the space couldn’t spoil the food.
After looking around the whole house, Uncle Mo drove Xiao Wen and Han Ya into the house. These two couldn’t even choose vegetables, let alone cook. They were just taking up space outside, so they should go inside and do whatever they could.
“I see that there is still plenty of coal and firewood in the inner room. Let’s stew some more soup after cooking. It’s so cold in the winter, drinking some soup not only keeps us warm but also dispels the cold.”
Hearing Uncle Mo’s words, the other people who were left behind to help with the cooking were all busy nodding.
Wen Le secretly regretted forgetting about this. The prepared food in the space was either restaurant food or snacks, with almost no soup. It’s so cold these days, drinking a bowl of hot soup at every meal would be much more comfortable!
Looking at the two chickens on the ground, Wen Le sneered. How much soup could these two chickens make? Nowadays, drinking mutton soup is the warmest! As he thought about it, Wen Le waved his hand, and a goat appeared on the ground.
The suddenly released goat looked around blankly. Where was the grassland? Where were the other goats?
Not only the goat was bewildered, but Yin Chengyang’s eyes widened, staring at the goat suddenly appearing beside him. The others also looked dumbfounded at this goat. It wasn’t until the goat became restless under their scrutiny that they reacted and rushed to hold it down.
Uncle Mo hesitated and looked at Wen Le. “Make mutton soup?”
Watching Wen Le nod naturally, everyone else wanted to strangle him.
“Aren’t we waiting to be discovered by those people in the village if we slaughter a goat here? Can’t you smell the strong bloody smell? Don’t you think it smells like dead people outside?!” Zhou Quan was angrier than the goat on the ground. He lowered his voice and roared at Wen Le.
Wen Le blinked innocently.
Uncle Mo sighed. Does this kid even know that slaughtering a goat requires a process?!
“Is there any ready-made mutton?”
Wen Le nodded, but looked reluctant.
Zhou Quan could see what Wen Le was thinking. “Doesn’t your space keep things fresh? So, ready-made mutton is the same as fresh.”
“But I just feel that live goats are fresher,” Wen Le said reluctantly.
Zhou Quan twitched his mouth. Are you still being picky? What about those who don’t have space or whose space can’t keep things fresh? Are they going to die?
Seeing Zhou Quan’s usually mild face looking unhappy, Wen Le picked up the struggling animal and put it away. He took out some lamb and pig bones, then obediently followed Uncle Mo while he cleaned the meat and told Wen Le what ingredients he needed. Wen Le searched through his space and put everything on the table one by one.
The task of slaughtering the chicken was given to Yin Chengyang. He grabbed the chicken’s neck with one hand and used a knife with the other to start draining its blood into a large iron bucket.
Wen Le’s eyes lit up as he watched. In just a few minutes, the two chickens were killed and he immediately sent two more. Compared to slaughtering a lamb, killing a chicken was much simpler. After all, killing one or a group was the same.
Zhou Quan, who was washing vegetables on the side, took a glance but didn’t say anything.
Yin Chengyang had never imagined that he would have a day when he would be exhausted from slaughtering chickens. He looked at the pile of at least twenty dead chickens stacked on the side and then looked at the live chicken that Wen Le brought out again, feeling helpless.
Fortunately, Uncle Mo stopped Wen Le from taking out the chicken again and had Mo Yan help him pluck the feathers in a large pot of boiling water.
Seeing Wen Le’s expression of wanting more, Uncle Mo had no choice but to let him go back inside and join the two people who had been kicked out earlier.
When Xiao Wen and Han Ya saw Wen Le come in, they waved him over.
“Did you notice the reaction of those villagers on the way here?” Han Ya said suddenly, confusing Wen Le. He thought for a moment before realizing that they were talking about when they asked about the earthen wall at the village entrance.
“I remember a few people glanced in the same direction. I suspect someone is hiding in the shadows, perhaps afraid that we have bad intentions towards the village,” Wen Le said.
Han Ya looked at Xiao Wen before saying, “We suspect that person is being held captive.”
Wen Le stared at them with wide eyes.
“How is that possible?! That person has such strong abilities. In the apocalypse, the people in this village rely on him for protection! Besides, do you think it’s easy to imprison an ability user? For an earth element user, unless the house is completely welded with alloy, they can simply dig a hole and escape.”
Xiao Wen and Han Ya sighed. Wen Le’s thinking was too simplistic.
“Do you really think the people here are as easy to accept the existence of ability users as we are? Not to mention rural people, even people in the city might not be able to accept it. The apocalypse has just begun, and it’s possible that these ignorant villagers see that ability user as a monster. As for whether or not they can be kept captive, what if the ability user himself believes he is a monster? What if there is someone in the village that he can’t bear to leave behind?”
Listening to the analysis of the two, Wen Le felt that his own thoughts were too simplistic. He had easily accepted the existence of superpowers before because it was Xiao Wen who had them, and he knew that Xiao Wen would never harm him. Moreover, Xiao Wen had used his superpowers to keep him safe all the way.
However, the people here may not accept the existence of superpowers from the beginning, like he did.
“After it gets dark, Xiao Wen and I will go and explore. If it’s really like what you two are thinking, we’ll kidnap him.”
Xiao Wen and Han Ya nodded. They would definitely go and explore, but whether or not to kidnap him would depend on the situation. Even if that person had strong superpowers, they wouldn’t dare to bring him along easily. If his intentions were not good, it could be inviting danger.
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