Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The whole beast was like a balloon that had been inflated to the limit. If you poke it a few more times, it would probably explode giving a live performance.
He felt that he was really unlucky. He was obviously just injured and found a cave to sleep and recuperate in. However, when he woke up, the sea had turned into a mulberry field[1]. He was so weak that he didn’t take good care of his injuries. While the people even arrogantly built a nest on top of his head with the rations he had hoarded.
That’s right, the rations he was talking about were the Gu Diaos and Dilong.
He remembered that when he was recuperating from his injuries, he specially kept a lot of eggs and a tender Dilong and hid them in the cave, preparing to stock them up and slowly replenish his body.
As a result, when he opened his eyes, he saw that the Gu Diao eggs had hatched. There were three generations of the family, and there were many birds. The tender-fleshed Dilong had also grown up. Although there was only one, it had rough skin and thick flesh that it could not chew.
More importantly, he was injured and had not recovered well. He was weak and hungry. Not only could he not get back the food rations to replenish his body, but he was also worried about becoming their food rations. He could only hide his whereabouts in frustration.
He originally planned to hide in the tower to recuperate for a while, and then sneak out to catch a few people to fill his stomach after recovering a little.
After finally getting the chance, he met Taotie again.
It was simply God wanting to kill him!
It was probably because Tao Wu looked really down and out now. What a ferocious beast, it was chopped and charred black, and at first glance it looked like a stray animal. It was worse still when he looked dejected.
Plastic love was still love. Jiang Lan’s tone became softer: “Back then, you caused me to be sealed once, and now you have taken the blame for me. We are even. I’m just here to see you this time.”
Tao Wu turned his head and looked at him suspiciously: “Really.”
“Really.” Jiang Lan said with a sincere expression, “As long as you don’t tell anyone what happened before.”
The plastic brotherhood could still be maintained for a while.
Tao Wu snorted coldly: “Your brain has become a lot smarter, but why are you getting weaker and weaker? Didn’t you just kill the Gu Diao and the Dilong? Is there anything you dare not say? Did you eat any less before?”
Jiang Lan said that if I told you the reason, wouldn’t I give you another clue?
He smiled slightly and said: “Don’t worry about anything else. Anyway, just remember that this matter has nothing to do with me. If anyone asks you, don’t mention me.”
“I know, I know.” Tao Wu shook his ears impatiently and asked: “Why don’t I see Qiongqi and Chaos? And what is this? Those little monsters took advantage of my weakness and brought me this damn thing. I can’t even take it off.”
He tugged at the black bracelet on his paws irritably, and looked at Jiang Lan with squinting eyes: “Those little demons are dressed the same as you now. They are so weird and ugly.”
Jiang Lan’s expression was a little weird: “You don’t know?”
Tao Wu was impatient: “I woke up after recovering from my injuries. What do I need to know? How many years have passed now? Why do I see that this place has no spiritual energy? I can’t even recover from my injuries.”
“How long have you been awake?” Jiang Lan’s tone became even weirder.
This question seemed to stump Tao Wu. He raised his paw and broke it off for a long time, then said uncertainly: “Ten days, right? I was just about to find a chance to catch some people to eat, and I met you.”
His thought was clearly written on his face: why I was so unlucky.
“…”
Jiang Lan’s expression was at a loss for words. He was silent for a long time and said: “Qiongqi and Chaos are probably gone. I heard that they fell in the catastrophe a long time ago. You must have slept for thousands of years. Most of the great monsters in ancient times have all died, and the few that survived are now under the jurisdiction of the Demon Management Bureau.”
“Also,” he emphasized one point: “We are now mixed with humans, and the two races coexist peacefully. Cannibalism is illegal.”
Tao Wu: ???
“What is the great catastrophe? What is the Demon Management Bureau? If you can’t eat people, what will I eat in the future? Should I become a vegetarian? And I have been sleeping for thousands of years? Then why haven’t I recovered from my injuries?”
He stared into a pair of ignorant animal eyes, which flashed with various emotions of confusion, shock, anger, and finally shouted: “I don’t believe it. Are you still holding a grudge and trying to make up stories to coax me?”
Jiang Lan looked at him sympathetically, as if looking at an antique who was out of touch with society.
He sighed: “You will understand as time goes by. You won’t be able to go out for a while anyway, so you can seize the time to study.”
Tao Wu: …..
Jiang Lan’s expression was too heavy, and Tao Wu felt uncertain for a moment. He thought for a long time and said in a depressed voice: “I will go back to Xishan after I recover from my injuries.”
“Xishan was gone long ago.” Jiang Lan sympathized with him more and more.
Tao Wu was shocked: “Who dared to steal my mountain?”
This person hadn’t calmed down at all, so Jiang Lan decided to give up on communication, otherwise the more he talked, the more problems he would have.
He said perfunctorily: “No one is trying to rob you. There should be basic courses at the detention center. You will know after you recover and take a few classes.”
After saying that, he put the things he brought beside the hospital bed and said: “Remember what I just said, don’t drag me into it and we’ll be even. You take good care of yourself and I’ll come see you when I’m free.”
It seemed that Tao Wu still wanted to ask questions, but Jiang Lan ran away quickly without giving him a chance. He didn’t want his conversation with Tao Wu turning into a hundred thousand questions.
This should give the people at the regulatory office a headache.
….
After resting at home for two days, it was already Friday when he went to work again.
Early in the morning, Jiang Lan brought breakfast into the office and heard Xue Meng talking about the terrifying night in Sanshui Village.
“That bird had bright red eyes, as big as my head. They also glowed at night. It tilted its head with one eye on the window and looked into the room. I thought it was a red lantern at first, but when I looked carefully, oh, it was an eye!” Xue Meng slapped the table: “If I were a little less brave, I would be scared to death on the spot.”
Xiao Xiaoyu applauded perfunctorily: “Then you are really awesome.”
Xue Meng was dissatisfied: “What’s your expression? Don’t you believe what I said?”
He pulled Jiang Lan over who had just entered the office: “Jiang Lan and I saw it with our own eyes!”
Jiang Lan held a fried dough stick in his mouth and nodded in agreement: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
Xue Meng held his head high and said: “Are you convinced now?”
Xiao Xiaoyu took out her phone, clicked on the latest hot search and pushed it to him: “Here, you can see for yourself.”
The third hot search on Weibo: #Poison gas leaked, villagers were collectively poisoned and had hallucinations#
Xue Meng: ???
He clicked in and saw that it was the latest news report, published by Huaguo Daily, and it was about the incident in Sanshui Village.
The news report said that on the evening of June 8, when villagers in Sanshui Village were reclaiming farmland, they accidentally dug up poison gas cans left behind by the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War. As a result, the poison gas spread. The villagers were affected by the poison gas and suffered from hysteria and hallucinations. Fortunately, two civil servants who went to the countryside to help the poor were in the village at the time. They immediately realized the seriousness of the poison gas leak and reported the situation. The government promptly dispatched armed police to the village to rescue the villagers and prevent the spread of poisonous gas.
The two civil servants were given the pseudonyms Jiang and Xue, and they were none other than Jiang Lan and Xue Meng.
What was even more dramatic was that when the armed police were inspecting the gas canisters, the villagers who had hallucinations surrendered and confessed the facts of the crime. After checking, the police found out that it was true.
It turned out that Sanshui Village was remote and closed, and many backward customs that had been banned long ago were still preserved. The villagers were deeply poisoned by feudal superstition and only believed in ghosts and gods but not in materialism. In order to make money, they actually participated in reselling corpses and abducting women.
In some backward places, it was also popular to marry the unmarried deceased. Underworld marriage required fresh and young corpses, among which the corpses of young women were in short supply and the price was high. The villagers of Sanshui Village, led by the village party secretary, resold the bodies of many young women.
After media investigation, they had formed a mature industry chain by reselling corpses. Sometimes when there were not enough corpses and the price offered by buyers was high, they would find ways to buy young women, kill them, and then sell the corpses. When villagers transported corpses, it was usually for funeral purposes, and the other corpses were hidden in the interlayer of the coffin.
When the police were investigating and collecting evidence, they found a body in an empty coffin in the cemetery north of the village that had not yet been released.
The evidence in the case was conclusive. After the villagers of Sanshui Village were discharged from the hospital, they would be taken directly into custody by the police. After a public prosecution was filed, a sentence would be imposed based on the severity of the crime.
Because the process of solving the case was too bizarre and the events involved were too bad, it attracted great attention and discussion among netizens. The online discussion had remained high, and several topics about it had been trending in the past two days.
That was to say, the two parties involved, Jiang Lan and Xue Meng, hadn’t had time to see it.
Xue Meng was shocked and read it three times. He still couldn’t believe his eyes: “Aren’t they damn good at making things up? If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought it was true.”
Xiao Xiaoyu sympathized: “Have you gone to the hospital for a checkup? Is it because the poisonous gas hasn’t been drained out yet?”
Xue Meng rolled his eyes, thinking that the truth was in the hands of a few people, and Muggles[2] like you can only look at science.
He was about to return the phone when he suddenly remembered something and retracted his hand. He looked at the line in the news report that “a body was found in the empty coffin in the cemetery.” His eyes widened wider and wider, and finally he let out a miserable wail.
“There was a body in the coffin, that’s why I was wondering why I always felt cold on my back when I was lying in it!”
He was as wilted as a cabbage beaten by frost. He wandered back to his work station helplessly and murmured to Jiang Lan: “Now I don’t think it matters that you bit off the head of the strange bird. I actually slept with a corpse, just separated by a coffin board.”
When he said this, his lips trembled, his face turned pale, and he looked extremely pitiful.
Xiao Xiaoyu was worried: “Is he hallucinating again? Should he go to the hospital?”
Jiang Lan was sympathetic and funny, and said, “Leave him alone.”
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Witty Lanlan: How could you have the nerve to say that I was stupid if you are like this?
Tao Wu: ????……
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[1] This idiom can also be interpreted as “time will bring a great change into the world” or “everything will be change in time”.
[2] A reference to Harry Potter series.