Uncle Mo cooked dinner for everyone, and they all gathered around the big table in the kitchen and living room, eating heartily without any pretense. A large pot of lamb soup was simmering on the stove, and a pot of pork bone soup was stewing on the side.
Originally, Uncle Mo had planned to heat water on the stove so that everyone could wash up, but Wen Le said that he had hot water in his space, so in the spirit of not wasting anything, Uncle Mo also stewed the pork bones that had been taken out earlier.
After dinner, it was already completely dark outside. Xiao Wen took advantage of his speed and ran around the village in the dark, seeing that every household had started making dinner before returning to where they were staying.
“I’ll carry you and you just need to keep an eye out,” Xiao Wen said, and he and Wen Le sneaked out of the house.
Xiao Wen carried Wen Le quickly towards the house they had noticed earlier, while Wen Le lay on his back and used his mental power to keep watch.
The village wasn’t very big, and the house they were heading to wasn’t too far from where Wen Le and Xiao Wen were staying. With Xiao Wen running at full speed, Wen Le felt like they arrived in the blink of an eye.
It was dark enough that they couldn’t see any stars or moon, and there was no light coming from the house in front of them. If Wen Le hadn’t detected an earth-based ability user inside with his mental power, they might have thought that the dark and silent house was a decoy.
Wen Le carefully climbed down from Xiao Wen’s back and pulled him around to the back of the house.
The two of them weren’t sure what was going on inside the house, so they could only crouch down cautiously against the back wall.
Wen Le directly locked onto the earth-based ability user inside with his mental power, crouching there for almost an hour without seeing any movement from the person.
Could they be dead?!
Xiao Wen raised an eyebrow at Wen Le, but Wen Le shook his head. He had just remembered that Xiao Wen didn’t have mental power and couldn’t see his movements in this pitch-black night. Wen Le gently shook Xiao Wen’s hand.
If the person was dead, Wen Le would only be able to see their silhouette through his mental power, but the color of the ability was still there, although very dim, which at least proved that the person was still alive, just extremely weak.
They waited for almost another hour, and just as the two of them were getting impatient and considering going back, Wen Le suddenly felt someone approaching.
He quickly pinched Xiao Wen’s hand, and the two of them held their breath.
The person cautiously sneaked behind the house, and was only a few meters away from Wen Le and the others. Wen Le was ready to knock him out and make a run for it if he was discovered.
Fortunately, the person was too worried about being discovered to move for a long time, and only relaxed after confirming that he was not being followed. He didn’t notice the two people staring at him less than five meters away.
The person knocked on the back door quietly, but there was no response from inside. Feeling uneasy, he began to consider breaking the door open.
At this moment, Wen Le noticed some movement inside the house.
The slight noise from inside also caught the person’s attention.
“Yao Yao? Yao Yao? Are you okay?” The person anxiously asked in a low voice.
Wen Le felt the person inside the house slowly hobbling toward the back door.
“Brother…” A weak female voice came from inside the door.
The person became even more worried after hearing the voice.
“Yao Yao? Did they hurt you? How are you now? Where does it hurt? Tell me, I’ll find a way to get you medicine.”
“Don’t… brother… don’t worry about me. How is Yan Yan?” Yao Yao asked.
“Yan Yan… Yan Yan… he’s fine! Don’t worry,” the person replied.
Xiao Wen and Wen Le both raised their eyebrows. Something wasn’t right with this conversation. Wasn’t this person being too open about everything?
As expected, the woman inside the house became even more anxious after hearing the person’s words.
“Brother… tell me the truth. What did they do to Yan Yan?”
The person hesitated for a while before telling the truth.
“They… they locked Yan Yan up and won’t let me see him. They said they’ll release him when you’re dead…”
The woman inside the house burst into tears, and Wen Le felt heartbroken by her weak crying.
“Yao Yao, don’t cry first. Listen to me. Today a group of people came to the village. They look like capable people, they must know that you are not a monster. Brother will go find them and ask them to take you away. There are old and young among them, they must not be bad people. You have divine power now, they will agree.”
Wen Le was depressed, he had turned into a child again…
“Don’t go! Brother, don’t go! If the people in the village find out… and even if I manage to get out alive…what about you and Yan Yan… they won’t let you go.” The woman in the room said a few words and then used all her strength to take a breath before continuing, “Brother, you don’t have to worry about me, just take care of Yan Yan for me. As long as I die…”
“What nonsense are you talking about! Do you think they will spare Yan Yan if you die? I heard someone say that Yan Yan is also a little monster. You have to live well. Today, I heard that there’s chaos outside, the people in the village are foolish, they think that with the earth wall you created, they can block those monsters. They didn’t think about how difficult it was to kill the monsters that the people in the village turned into. Without you, our village will be swallowed by the monsters sooner or later!”
“Brother…what should we do…”
“Wait until midnight today, I will go find those people and ask them to take you away. After you leave, I will find a chance to take Yan Yan away.” Saying this, the man slipped two thin cakes through the door crack.
“Eat first, I’m going back.”
“Brother! Don’t go…”
Ignoring the woman’s calls from inside, the man stood up carefully, looked around, and quietly left.
Wen Le climbed onto Xiao Wen’s back, signaling him to go back.
A few breaths later, Xiao Wen had already carried Wen Le back to the room where they lived.
The two sat on the kang rubbing their numb legs and began to tell others what they had just heard.
Uncle Mo brought two bowls of mutton soup to the two of them and sat down, listening carefully.
“It’s similar to what we thought at the beginning. The villagers can’t easily accept people with abilities. This person is unlucky. She awakened her ability when the villagers didn’t know how cruel the world is. After a while, when the villagers know the benefits of having abilities, won’t they treat her like a goddess?!” Han Ya sneered at the ignorance of the villagers.
“What should we do now? That man will probably come to us tonight. Should we save him or not?” Wen Le drank the mutton soup, hesitatingly asking.
According to his previous ideas, of course, he would save him, but he was a bit hesitant. What if it was a trap?
“If it’s not difficult, let’s save him. This girl is also pitiful. If we can’t trust her after we save her, we’ll find a place to put her down.”
After hearing Uncle Mo’s words, the others thought carefully. For them, it was not difficult to save people. The only concern was that they didn’t want to save a bad person.
Following Uncle Mo’s advice, they would save the person first. If the person was honest and had no bad intentions, they would benefit. If the person was cunning and untrustworthy, they could just leave them somewhere and be done with it.
“If we are going to save them, let’s save them all together. According to what they said, the earth-type ability user has a child that was taken away with her older brother by the village people. It’s better to take them all the way to the west to avoid having to come back to save them later when they’re in our team,” Han Ya analyzed as he tapped on the table.
Thanks for the update!! 😩😩😩