Chapter 9 The second day
After returning home, the portrait closed its eyes and retracted into the quilt. After a few minutes, the portrait felt a little tired and fell asleep again.
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When the first ray of sunlight shone into the window in the morning, I felt the portrait of the light that was a bit dazzling and slowly opened my eyes.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong"
Suddenly, there were noisy sounds of gongs and drums outside. When the portrait heard it, she frowned and felt bored.
After he got up, washed and put on, he came outside and found someone dancing dragons at the door. A group of people gathered next to him to celebrate happily.
"Yeah, Mu Yang gets up, come and sit down and have breakfast."
Mu Yang's mother, who was sitting on the table and chair, looked at him and said to the portrait with a smile.
"Oh," the portrait nodded at her and came to sit aside.
Because it is the New Year, the bowl of dumplings placed on the table contains the auspicious meaning of "reunion and reunion".
The portrait was eating dumplings, and the sweetness in his mouth gradually diluted his bad mood.
Soon, he finished eating the food in the bowl with the portrait of the spoon. When he looked at the iron pot, he found that there was not much left in the dumplings, so he was embarrassed to get up and serve them.
"I'm full," Portrait touched its stomach and said to the two with a smile.
"Mu Yang, do you want to serve another bowl? If you don't have enough, put it on."
The old woman looked up at him, with a little concern in her tone.
"It's okay, then I'll go out to play with Shuning."
The portrait shook his head at the two of them, turned around and walked towards the door.
"Eat less, I'm not full yet! Don't rob, you bad old man."
After the portrait disappeared into the old woman's sight, she quickly lowered her head and looked into the pot, but found that it had become empty at some point.
When I saw the middle-aged man sitting next to me and was desperately swallowing dumplings, I couldn't help but raise my index finger to point it at his head, and accused him angrily.
"Eat and eat until you eat, and do some work all day long, just like a pig."
The old woman felt a little unbalanced and glanced at him dissatisfiedly.
The middle-aged man did not dare to say anything, and silencedly ate the dumplings in the bowl.
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The portrait of leaving home searching for memories and came to Shuning's home.
I found that the other party was holding hunting equipment and preparing to go to the forest alone.
"Mu Yang, is there anything wrong?"
Shu Ning, who had taken the things, turned around and saw the portrait standing not far away from him. She was a little confused and asked.
"Shuning, I think you are going to hunt?"
"Yeah, that's right."
"Can you take me with you?"
"you……"
Shu Ning frowned and looked at the thin man in front of him with glasses, and hesitated a little.
"You forgot that we were digging bird nests together when we were kids."
Seeing the other party reacting like this, the portrait quickly played the emotional card to ease the awkward atmosphere.
"Okay, but there are some beasts in the forest that are more dangerous. Mu Yang, you'd better not be too far away from me."
Shu Ning's brows slowly evacuated and nodded to the portrait, counting as agreeing.
"That's great, Shuning."
The portrait pretended to be excited, stepped forward and raised his right hand to put his shoulder on the other person's shoulder, and said with a smile.
"I'm so suffocated at home, I just happened to come out with you to relax."
After the two arrived at the entrance of the village, the portrait discovered that the wolves that had been guarding here had left the place at some point. The falling snowflakes covered their footprints that had once stepped on the ground.
"Mu Yang, what's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"
Shu Ning couldn't help but feel curious when she saw the portrait's eyes staying at the entrance of the village.
"Oh, it's okay, Shuning, did you hear a group of wolves howling outside last night?"
The portrait hesitated for a while and said that he had encountered something last night.
"No, I was a little tired last night and fell asleep in bed very early and didn't hear any strange noises."
Shu Ning shook her head slowly to explain the reason.
"Mu Yang, look, there is a hare there, be careful not to let it run away."
Suddenly, Shu Ning looked in one direction and quickly reminded the portrait standing beside her.
The portrait's eyes looked in the direction of his finger and saw a gray-brown hare lying on the hillside, chewing on the weeds exposed from the snow.
The two of them were very slow. Just as they approached, the wild rabbit raised his ears, as if he had noticed something, ran in one direction and ran.
"Chasing!"
Seeing this, Shu Ning shouted hurriedly.
The two of them ran on the snow-covered ground, affecting their speed of progress.
"Ouch."
Just as the hare ran to the corner hillside, Shu Ning, who was chasing, tripped to the ground by something.
After hearing the shouts behind him, the portrait walking in front had to stop and turn around and look back.
"What's wrong?" The portrait frowned and asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"I want to see what tripped me. Wow, how could someone have a corpse here?"
Shu Ning, who was lying on the snow, rubbed her ankles and looked at the protruding part on the ground with some anger.
As Shu Ning continued to dig, a corpse skeleton slowly appeared in front of him.
The flesh and blood on the corpse has been gnawed clean by some creature, and there are traces of creature biting on the skeleton.
When the portrait walked in, the cold and majestic reminder of the Lord God came to my mind.
"Discovering the side plot: the remaining bones, the portrait of the Zhongzhou team, and get 500 reward points, a D-level side plot."
"Mu Yang, how could there be corpses here?"
When the portrait approached, Shu Ning, who was panicked, seemed to have found the object of her recount and asked hurriedly.
The portrait frowned and did not answer immediately. He squatted down and stretched out to observe the bite marks on the body.
"This bite mark is a bit like..." Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, and a figure of a creature slowly emerged in his mind.
Before he could finish speaking, the screams of wolves came from afar.
"Aowu~"
The scream kept ringing from all directions. When he noticed something wrong, he quickly pulled Shu Ning, who was sitting on the ground, and pulled him to run in the direction he was coming.
"Run quickly, we will be finished by being chased by the wolves." The portrait pretended to be panicked and continued to explain to Shu Ning.
"I suspect that the person under your feet just now should have been eaten alive by a wolf."
The portrait looked back and felt helpless when he saw the pack of wolves getting closer and closer to him.
He cannot use his abilities and physical attributes now, otherwise he will be deducted a thousand reward points by the main god.
But it’s not a big deal to keep running like this, sooner or later, you will be caught up by the wolves.
"Aoah."
In the distance, among the wolves, a burly white wolf kept howling at the wolves beside him.
After hearing this, the wolves immediately spread in all directions.
And just when the portrait was not far from the village, I found a gray wolf sitting in the middle of the road that was necessary, as if it had been waiting for them here.
"Aoao."
The gray wolf spread its sharp fangs and kept roaring at the two of them.
Chapter completed!