Fantasy Farm

Chapter 109 - Keeper

Edited by Zaki

The Zhulong knew he was greedy. He wanted to have it all, especially when it comes to the things he loved.

“You don’t think he really likes you, do you?” The person who spoke was clearly blind, but the Zhulong could see the sarcasm and sneer on his face, “He likes you because he treats you as a human being, if you tell him that you are a Zhulong, how can he still like you?”

“Shut up.” Wu Ruhuo squeezed two words out of his mouth, his expression distorted and frightening, “Ao Run, what right do you have to tell me these things? You are just a loser, like a waste.”

Ao Run laughed when he heard the words, the corner of his mouth curled into a beautiful arc, the previous sarcasm disappeared, replaced by contempt that made Wu Ruhuo even more angry, he said: “You told me to shut up because you know the truth in your heart. There are not so many humans who are willing to accept a monster like you. They accept you only because of your deception.”

Wu Ruohuo let out a roar of anger, and rushed towards Ao Run. Although Ao Run was not Wu Ruhuo’s opponent at this time, it was easy to dodge his attack. Red flames danced between the two of them, like a giant dragon that had taken shape.

“You’re angry.” Ao Run had a smile that Wu Ruhuo found most disgusting, “Did I hit a nerve?”

Wu Ruhuo no longer responded back to Ao Run, his moves were deadly, and he didn’t care about himself at all, he already hated Ao Run.

Seeing Wu Ruhuo like this, Ao Run was very happy. He suffered some injuries, but it didn’t matter. The two fought more and more fiercely, and soon attracted people from Zhu Rong’s side. The Zhulong originally wanted to make Ao Run stay behind but Ao Run escaped anyway.

Helpless, the Zhulong could only choose to leave.

Ao Run didn’t take the initiative to attack the Zhulong, so there was no major wound on the Zhulong’s body. He returned home and waited quietly.

After winter, it got dark very early, and around evening, it started snowing again outside. Before returning home, Wu Xiaohang went to the supermarket to buy a lot of fruit and meat, and planned to make a delicious meal for the child at home during the weekend tomorrow. Wu Ruhuo was still growing up, so he couldn’t eat too badly all the time. He wrapped himself in thin winter clothes and secretly calculated in his heart. Chinese New Year was coming soon and he wanted to save some money to buy Wu Ruhuo an expensive down jacket.

Wu Xiaohang carried the various bags and walked to the door of his house. He saw the lights on in the house just as he hoped. He felt a little warm in his heart, then went upstairs, took out the key and opened the door.

Wu Ruhuo sat in the room with his back to him.

Wu Xiaohang called out: “Ruhuo.”

Wu Ruhuo didn’t move.

“What’s wrong Ruhuo?” Wu Xiaohang sensed something strange about Wu Ruhuo. His first reaction was that Wu Ruhuo had been bullied by his family again, and an indescribable anger rose in his heart. Of course, the target of the anger was not Wu Ruhuo, but his family, and he felt nothing but endless pity for the thin child in front of him.

“Your family was here again?” Wu Xiaohang put away his things and walked behind Wu Ruhuo. He spoke cautiously, trying to choose gentle words, “Do they know where we live? If you are not happy, we will find someplace else to move. Move to a place where they can’t find us! ”

Wu Ruhuo didn’t move or speak, like a frozen statue.

Wu Xiaohang became even more worried, he called: “Ruhuo?” As soon as he said that, the young man in front of him suddenly reached out and grabbed his wrist firmly.

Wu Xiaohang was startled. Wu Ruhuo grabbed him so hard that he even felt a pain in his wrist. With his other hand, he quickly hugged Wu Ruhuo gently, trying to make him feel better, “It’s okay, it’s okay, I will protect you and prevent them from hurting you again.” He still remembered the horrific wounds on Wu Ruhuo’s body, and he didn’t know what kind of parent would do such an excessive thing to such a cute child.

“Protect me,” Wu Ruhuo’s tone was a bit strange, “You have to protect me.”

Wu Xiaohang hummed heavily, his voice full of determination.

“You are just a fragile human, what are you going to protect me with?” Wu Ruhuo said, “Besides, no matter what kind of me I am, will you accept it?”

“Yes.” Wu Xiaohang said with certainty.

“Even if I’m not human?” Wu Ruhuo asked.

Wu Xiaohang was at a loss when he heard the words. He didn’t quite understand what Wu Ruhuo meant when he said that he was not a human being, but he still responded reflexively, saying yes, no matter what you are, he will accept it.

“Really?” Wu Ruhuo confirmed again.

“Really.” Wu Xiaohang responded.

Wu Ruhuo turned his head slowly. Wu Xiaohang’s eyes instantly dilated when he saw Wu Ruohuo’s face, revealing a look of horror. Only to see Wu Ruhuo’s face completely changed appearance, his pupils were red, and there were even jumping flames inside, many scale-like things appeared on his cheeks, and there was a black horn on his forehead, which looked terrifying.

“Ahhh!” Wu Xiaohang let out a cry of fear, turned around and wanted to run away, but Wu Ruhuo grabbed his arm tightly, making him unable to move at all.

“Liar.” Wu Ruhuo’s voice was low, and he no longer had the crispness and tenderness of a child. Seeing Wu Xiaohang’s retreat, he said viciously, “You hateful liar.”

“Help, help!” Wu Xiaohang yelled uncontrollably. For the first time, he felt the breath of death. The strong killing intent emanating from Wu Ruhuo told him that he really wanted to kill him. Wu Xiaohang’s strong desire to survive made him constantly want to break free from Wu Ruhuo’s grasp, but compared with Wu Ruhuo’s strength, he was nothing more than a fly shaking a tree. Wu Ruhuo’s slender hands turned into an unbreakable chain, tightly clasping Wu Xiaohang, leaving him nowhere to escape.

“Didn’t you say you won’t be afraid of me?” Wu Ruhuo was extremely angry. He didn’t expect Ao Run’s words to really come true. Wu Xiaohang couldn’t accept him as not a human being. “Why did you lie to me?”

Wu Xiaohang was so frightened that he fell limply on the ground. He couldn’t speak, but just stared blankly at the person in front of him, and was so frightened that he was about to faint.

Wu Ruhuo let go, but Wu Xiaohang didn’t move. The two looked at each other for a moment, but Wu Xiaohang began to sob in a low voice. What he said next made Wu Ruhuo’s heart sink, like immersed in ice water. “Monster! Monster, quickly give Ruohuo back to me, give him back to me.”

Monster, he called him monster. Wu Ruhuo’s expression froze for a moment.

Wu Xiaohang cried so sadly that he grabbed Wu Ruhuo by the hem of his clothes and shouted, “Give Ruhuo back to me, give me back!”

Ruhuo who is Ruhuo, he was not called Ruhuo, the Zhulong was soon enveloped in red flames, he suddenly realized that Wu Ruhuo was not his name in the first place, and the person Wu Xiaohang wanted to protect was never him. His name is Ao Zhi, he was sent by the Zhulongs to the Human World to destroy everything

“Ahhhh!” Wu Xiaohang was burned by the flames on Ao Zhi’s body, he was forced to let go, a large red blister appeared on the palm of his hand, but he was still crying, calling Wu Ruhuo’s name.

“How pathetic.”Ao Zhi looked at him pityingly, the last bit of black in his eyes was also replaced by red, he lifted Wu Xiaohang’s face to look at him, watching his tears rolling down his cheeks, and then turn into mist and disappear into the air as if they never existed under the high temperature, “Since it’s so pitiful, let me help you to put an end to all of this pain.”

“Ruhuo, Ruhuo” Wu Xiaohang cried so much that he was about to pass out.

Ao Zhi stopped talking, he stretched out his hand to stroke Wu Xiaohang’s head, just like how Wu Xiaohang had stroked him at the beginning, he lowered his head slightly and dropped a soothing kiss on Wu Xiaohang’s forehead, “Don’t worry, it won’t be very painful, I’ll help you end all of this very soon.”

The flames began to spread, Wu Xiaohang looked up blankly, and saw a big mouth full of sharp teeth.

By the time Zhu Rong and the others arrived, the Zhulong had already left.

The residential building that should have been destroyed in the flames did not show any signs of destruction. On the contrary, the site was well preserved. It seemed that the Zhulong, who was supposed to be heartless and ruthless, still had nostalgia for this place.

Zhu Rong’s face was very ugly. He found a few drops of blood at the scene, which showed that the Zhulong had eaten people here.

Zhulongs could  indeed eat people, but according to their picky and tyrannical personality, they usually only ate the tenderest part of people. Those human beings who were previously  killed by the Zhulong only had their most tender internal organs eaten. As for the torso and head, they didn’t even bother to touch them.

But the person here was completely eaten by the Zhulong, the meaning implied gave Zhu Rong a very bad premonition.

Bai Yuehu’s words confirmed Zhu Rong’s conjecture: “He ate his keeper.”

Zhu Rong swore.

Bai Yuehu sniffed the breath in the air: “He hasn’t gone far, chase.”

Zhu Rong sighed: “Sure enough, a beast is a beast.” High-level creatures could control their desires, but Zhulongs couldn’t. As long as they were stimulated, they would put their favorite things in their stomachs. As for whether they could take them out, it was not their concern. The Zhulong had a fight with Ao Run before, and he didn’t know what Ao Run had done, but he actually ate his keeper when he came back.

Zhulongs were very picky about their keepers and it was usually hard for them to find a second one after eating the first one.

This was a good thing but also a bad thing for them. The good thing was that the Zhulong would be more likely to show up without a keeper, and the bad thing was that the Zhulong would become stronger after eating the keeper and thus a new victim would emerge.

Bai Yuehu rushed out of the door, followed by Zhu Rong, chasing in the direction where the Zhulong had disappeared.

With difficulty, Yin Xun dragged the completely frozen Lu Qingjiu back into the house. At this time, Lu Qingjiu was as hard as an ice sculpture. Yin Xun was afraid that if he accidentally knocked Lu Qingjiu a bit, he would knock off some parts.

“Wuuwuuuwuuu.” crying helplessly, Yin Xun finally put Lu Qingjiu on the bed, and then added charcoal fire to the charcoal basin and Kang bed in the room, trying to warm up Lu Qingjiu’s body.

“You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine.” He piled up the clothes and quilts on Lu Qingjiu, and Yin Xun ran around the room in a panic. He wanted to call Bai Yuehu again, but there was still no signal.

Yin Xun had no choice but to try his own method again. He started to boil hot water, wanting to give Lu Qingjiu a bath with hot water.

Lu Qingjiu was a little tired from the ordeal, his eyes slowly wanting to close, but Yin Xun who saw this scene was taken aback.

“Don’t sleep, don’t sleep!” Having seen too many cases of death due to the cold, Yin Xun hurriedly yelled loudly, trying to wake up Lu Qingjiu,”Lu Qingjiu, don’t sleep, don’t sleep, if you sleep, you’ll be finished.”

Lu Qingjiu could hear Yin Xun’s voice, but he couldn’t express it himself. In fact, he was not as bad as Yin Xun imagined. The cold feeling only existed at the very beginning when it entered his body, after that, he didn’t feel cold, other than his body becoming stiff, he didn’t have any other feeling.

“Don’t sleep, don’t sleep.” Yin Xun was so anxious that he raised his hand and slapped Lu Qingjiu twice. The slap made Lu Qingjiu sober in an instant. He stared at Yin Xun with wide eyes and wondered if this bastard was doing it on purpose.

Seeing that the slap was helpful, Yin Xun became happy, and said, “Friend, I really didn’t mean it, but I can’t do anything about it. If you fall asleep, you will be gone. We must last until Bai Yuehu comes back.”

If Lu Qingjiu could speak now, he would definitely curse at him.

Yin Xun noticed the anger in Lu Qingjiu’s eyes, but he became amused and said, “Jiu‘er, I’m very smart, don’t worry, I will definitely not let you fall asleep.” He grabbed Lu Qingjiu’s arm.

Lu Qingjiu’s eyes hurt, and he was so angry that he almost passed out. The most frightening thing was that Yin Xun seemed to be addicted to pinching him. He would come and pinch him twice whether he was asleep or not. Euphemistically saying, it was to prevent Liu Qingjiu’s drowsiness. He enthusiastically studied the pattern, saying don’t worry, I’ll pinch a chicken for you right now.

Lu Qingjiu: “….” Yin Xun, just wait for me.

On this day, Lu Qingjiu had never looked forward to Bai Yuehu’s return so much.

As the day dawned and then darkened, Yin Xun kept an eye on his cell phone until the snow got smaller in the middle of the night, when the phone suddenly got two frames of signal, and he hurriedly pulled it out and called Bai Yuehu.

The phone rang more than a dozen times, and just when Yin Xun thought Bai Yuehu would not answer the phone, Bai Yuehu’s voice suddenly came from the other end. He probably saw Yin Xun’s number and knew that something must have happened at home. His voice was a bit heavy: “What happened to Qingjiu?”

“Come back soon, Jiu’er was frozen to death by his bastard Grandpa.” Yin Xun was afraid that his phone would lose signal again, so he hurriedly told Bai Yuehu the most important thing.

After listening, Bai Yuehu said that he would be back soon, and told Yin Xun not to be nervous and not to leave the yard. Yin Xun hurriedly agreed.

What followed was another long wait, the original short time was infinitely stretched at this point. Yin Xun looked at Lu Qingjiu with his eyes open on the bed, and felt that he had never waited so long, until there was a sound of footsteps outside the house on the snow, only then the breath that Yin Xun had been holding in his chest constantly fell.

“Bai Yuehu, Bai Yuehu, you’re finally back.” Yin Xun saw Bai Yuehu entering the courtyard through the window, and quickly opened the door for him, saying, “I have been dying of anxiety.”

Bai Yuehu’s head and body were covered with snow, he didn’t care, he patted it off casually, then turned his head and asked, “Where’s Qingjiu?”

“He’s on the bed,” Yin Xun said, “the situation is not very good”

Hearing the words, Bai Yuehu quickly walked to the bed, and saw Lu Qingjiu who was still stiff all over. He stretched out his hand to touch Lu Qingjiu’s face, his already serious expression became more dignified, and he asked, “His face was this red?”

Yin Xun glanced at Lu Qingjiu’s face, and after a moment of silence, he whispered: “No, it seems like it was still white just now.”

Bai Yuehu: “Then why did it turn red?”

Yin Xun: “I hit Lu Qingjiu to keep him awake.”

Bai Yuehu: “….”

Lu Qingjiu stared at him bitterly. Although his body couldn’t move, his eyes could still kill.

With a helpless expression on his face, Bai Yuehu reached out and hugged Lu Qingjiu into his arms, quickly checked Lu Qingjiu’s physical condition, and asked Yin Xun to bring over a cup of hot water.

Yin Xun quickly fetched hot water and handed it to Bai Yuehu.

Bai Yuehu supported Lu Qingjiu’s body and fed the hot water into his mouth, Lu Qingjiu swallowed with difficulty and felt the hot water enter his body before sliding down his throat all the way into his stomach, his entire body soon warmed up, a comfortable soft sigh came out of his mouth, and only then did he realize that he was actually able to speak.

“Jiu’er” Bai Yuehu called out when he heard his voice.

Lu Qingjiu drank another cup, completely feeling that he had come back to life. Although his body was still a little stiff, at least he could speak without any problem. At the same time, he also felt the burning pain on his thawed face, and he couldn’t help but feel angry. He complained: “Damn it, Yin Xun, you hit too hard, and you even hit the face.”

Yin Xun retorted, “I didn’t. I clearly did hit your arm as well, don’t believe me, take a look.”

Lu Qingjiu looked down, and sure enough, he found that his arm was also quite red, and the red marks were really in the shape of a chicken. He was utterly exasperated by Yin Xun.

Bai Yuehu also understood what happened, and advised Lu Qingjiu not to be too angry.

“What’s my situation now?” Lu Qingjiu told Bai Yuehu about his meeting with Ao Run.

Bai Yuehu frowned after hearing this, and said, “Why on earth would he do this?”

Lu Qingjiu: “I’m dying?”

Bai Yuehu shook his head: “Ordinary people would be dead, but you have a quarter of the dragon blood. Although it takes a while to recover, it won’t hurt your life.”

Lu Qingjiu felt relieved, when he saw Ao Run, he felt that his Grandfather was not malicious to him, but he couldn’t figure out why he would do this and freeze him up. Could there be some special reason?

Then, Bai Yuehu told Lu Qingjiu what happened to the Zhulong. Ao Run seemed to have had a fight with the Zhulong, and he didn’t know what method he used to stimulate the Zhulong. The Zhulong exploded immediately and ate his breeder when he went back. Now Zhu Rong was still chasing after the Zhulong, and he didn’t know what the situation was now.

Lu Qingjiu always felt that things were intertwined, as if something big was about to happen, and before Ao Run left, he still didn’t understand what it meant that there was no time left.

“I want to take you out of town.” Bai Yuehu said suddenly.

“Why should I leave?” Lu Qingjiu was at a loss.

“Although you have recovered now, the coldness in your body will still be stimulated continuously. If the surrounding temperature is too low, it will also affect your body.” Bai Yuehu said, “Leave Shuifu Village first, I’ll take you to a warmer place and get through the winter.”

Lu Qingjiu said: “Then where are you going to take me?”

Bai Yuehu thought for a moment: “Do you want to stay in the Human World, or go to the  Other World.”

Lu Qingjiu said frankly: “I don’t want to go anywhere.”

Bai Yuehu: “No way.”

Lu Qingjiu said: “To be honest, can I not go, I always have a bad feeling.”

Bai Yuehu silently rejected Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu observed Bai Yuehu’s expression, but he had a not-so-good guess in his heart. He felt that it was quite strange for Ao Run to attack him all of a sudden. He didn’t intend to kill him at all, so there must be other intentions. Coupled with the fact that Ao Run had always wanted to leave Shuifu Village, did he freeze him because he wanted Bai Yuehu to send him away with his own hands?

Thinking of this, Lu Qingjiu raised his eyes to look at Bai Yuehu: “Wouldn’t it be in line with what Ao Run wanted if you send me away?”

Bai Yuehu remained silent for a long time before saying: “So what if it suits him?”

These words could be regarded as confirming Lu Qingjiu’s guess. Sure enough, Ao Run deliberately froze him not because he wanted to kill him, but because he wanted Lu Qingjiu to leave this place, but Lu Qingjiu couldn’t figure out why Ao Run was so obsessed with the matter of getting him to leave.

“Ao Run said something was going to happen.” Lu Qingjiu asked tentatively, “Do you know what it is?”

Bai Yuehu shook his head.

Lu Qingjiu asked suspiciously: “You really don’t know?”

Bai Yuehu sighed, he stretched out his hand to touch Lu Qingjiu’s cheek, and felt that it was not as warm as it used to be, and had become cold: “I really don’t know, Qingjiu, please be obedient, I can’t lose you.”

Lu Qingjiu said: “I know” he inexplicably felt a strong sadness from Bai Yuehu’s body. The source of this sadness was unknown, but it was very strong.

Bai Yuehu reached out to hug Lu Qingjiu, and kissed his eyelashes.

Lu Qingjiu was about to say something, but Bai Yuehu felt something and his face changed drastically. He said, “Not good!”

Lu Qingjiu hurriedly asked what happened.

Bai Yuehu said: “Something happened to Zhu Rong.”

It was only then that Lu Qingjiu remembered that Bai Yuehu was chasing the Zhulong together with Zhu Rong, and now that Bai Yuehu had rushed back for his sake, Zhu Rong could only deal with the Zhulong alone.

“Go quickly.” Lu Qingjiu hurriedly said, “I have nothing to do here. Let’s wait for you to settle Zhu Rong’s matter before taking me out of here.”

Bai Yuehu had a complicated expression, but he didn’t speak.

Lu Qingjiu knew what he was worried about, so he quickly assured that he would leave Shuifu Village with Bai Yuehu and go to a warm place after finishing the matter

“Go quickly. Is there something wrong with Zhu Rong? What if things turn troublesome after a long delay.” Lu Qingjiu persuaded, “I’ve already warmed up, it’s really fine, go quickly.”

Under Lu Qingjiu’s constant urging, Bai Yuehu finally let go, and told Lu Qingjiu not to run around, and wait for him to come back and take him away as soon as he took care of the matter.

Lu Qingjiu nodded obediently, watching Bai Yuehu leave again.

“Are you really alright?” Yin Xun looked at Lu Qingjiu worriedly.

“It’s okay.” Lu Qingjiu exhaled a mouthful of white mist and rubbed his hands together, “Nothing can happen to Zhu Rong.”

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The author has something to say: Bai Yuehu: I love you, I love you.

Yin Xun: I love you, pinch a chick.

Lu Qingjiu: ……