In the early morning sky, the dark clouds split into light clouds and brightened.

When Nance opened his eyes, the domestic animals were crying happily in the Li family's courtyard, and the sturdy calves were jumping around their mother.

"Nance!"

Miss Su's beaming voice came from outside the door.

"Hurry up, my sister is going to go into the mountains to make a fortune."

What a money addict who doesn't change his mind!

Nance yawned and rolled down and looked out the window.

The eastern sky grew brighter, and the town, the crosses, the frozen streams, the snow in the treetops—everything shimmered in the sun. In the early days of the plague, the world was full of life.

Nance puts on boots and a fur coat in front of the mirror.

"Da~"

The door opened.

Judging from the light footsteps alone, I knew that it was Mrs. Li who came.

Nance looked back, and she walked into the room smiling, wearing an eye-catching pink T-shirt and a long dress studded with silver sequins underneath. Under the skirt, the white feet are slightly exposed.

She said "Good morning" to him in a lazy voice as if she had just woken up, as if she were greeting her loved ones who were constantly in and out of her home.

"I thought I would say goodbye to you yesterday." She smiled softly and placed a bottle of wine on her bedside table, along with a pair of suede gloves.

Nance turned around and looked at her head-on, "If you don't want to be reluctant, go back to Shin-Yokohama together."

"If you say no, don't persuade me." Mrs. Li said as she stroked the black leather gloves in her hands. She was a very exemplary housewife, standing meekly in front of Nance, with her head slightly bowed, and a little shy.

"Is it for me?" Nance looked at the glove in her hand.

"Well, the beasts are vicious, you have to fight them with weapons, and you have to protect your hands well......" As she spoke, Mrs. Li hid her face a little embarrassed and muttered, "You stretch out your hand, and I'll put it on for you."

Nance held out two hands.

His fingers were slender and distinct, and the back of his hand was highlighted by cyan veins.

Mrs. Li put the gloves in for him, her fingertips falling precisely into each finger hole, and then turned around to pick up the liquor she had just brought in.

She drank two full glasses of cold wine and said in a gentle tone, "Before entering the mountain, men have to drink a glass of practice wine, which is the custom of the town. Come, drink, drink it!"

Nance didn't ask much and drank the wine.

Mrs. Li's face flushed slightly, and she hung her head shyly. "Qingxian has to follow you into the mountain, I can't persuade you, so please be sure to protect her, this is my most sincere plea as a mother......

With that, she took a drink herself.

Because of the deep eyebrows, her drooping eyes, soft lips that fit the cup, appear more docile.

If it is possible, Nansi really wants to press the heads of the two queens and Miss Su, Li Qingxian, and Ma Lian, so that they can look good and study hard, what is what a woman should look like.

"It's not too early, so I won't bother you to pack your things." Mrs. Li quietly turned around, "Protect Qingxian, I ask you to treat her well with this one request......

There was a slight tremor at the end of her voice.

She didn't even mention anything about her husband.

Nance shrugged helplessly, this was a family matter, and he didn't want to ask.

"Goo~"

Dora-Goo laughs at him under the covers.

"If you dare to sue the queen, I will strip you of all the hair on your body and roast you for Miss Su to eat!" Nance threatened viciously.

"Goo!"

Miss Owl would rather die than give in.

Then it was pressed to the pillow by Nance, and it was forcibly opened in its pocket, and it was loaded with a bag of tools for refining medicine. The remaining weapons used before are still stored in its body, which can be of great help if necessary.

I just walked to the door

Mrs. Li looked back curiously, "Can you talk to this owl?"

"Yes." Nance replied with a smile.

"Who's the Queen?"

"My boss."

"Oh."

Mrs. Li nodded thoughtfully.

The woman who can be called the boss by Nans must be very powerful.

"This owl is amazing, like a child, and can understand what people are saying." She exclaimed in a beautiful voice.

"Don't think it's normal to think of it as an owl." Nance picked Doracoo up and placed her on her shoulder, "Honestly, it's more appropriate to call her Doracoo than an owl. Or "Trojan Eagle."

Madame Lee raised her face and looked at him puzzledly, "Trojan Eagle?"

"Have you ever heard of a Trojan horse? A group of armed soldiers were secretly stuffed into the empty stomach of the Trojan horse and transported into the enemy city disguised as gifts. That's right, this owl is a container made for a specific purpose."

"It's amazing!"

Mrs. Li's eyes narrowed, and a surprised smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"Goo!"

Dora-Goo is clearly dissatisfied with the explanation of "container".

The small, pointy mouth opened and pecked at Nance's ear.

For this person and an eagle, this kind of fight has long been a daily routine that must be staged every day, and if there is no trouble one day, there will always be an illusion that "today is in vain".

"Then, Nance," said Mrs. Lee, whose beautiful eyes were fixed on her, and raised her final note very gracefully, "if I go to Shin-Yokohama, will you hire me as a maid?"

"What?"

"I don't mind being a maid."

「…… I want you to be the boss."

"I'm not good at running a company at all, the only thing I can do is take care of people." Mrs. Li said with a smile.

The maid has Miss Su...... Nance patted Doraegoo's head and said helplessly, "Let's talk about it when we come back from the mountains."

"Hmm."

Mrs. Li meekly turned around to look for her little daughter.

Nance tidied up her things, walked out the door, and as soon as she came to the living room, she saw Miss Su in a black tight leather coat dancing aerobics. The water snake's waist swayed, releasing the style of coloring and squinting, and the bumpy plump figure wrapped in leather clothes was extremely attractive.

When she saw Nance come out, she immediately jumped over.

Biting his lip, Qiu Bo's rippling eyes looked at him without blinking, with a expression of "I like you so much".

This gesture is for the sake of money.

Nance pushed her face away, "As long as I killed it, all the fur of the beast will be given to you, so don't pretend."

Miss Su blinked, tilted her head to look at him, and said in a tired voice, "Brother Emperor......

Alas~

Nance sighed silently.

He was too familiar with this greedy woman.

"If someone else kills you, I'll try my best to win it over for you, okay?"

As soon as she heard this, Miss Su's foxy face immediately rippled like a flower.

"Ah, the emperor's brother is the best!" She put her hands around Nance's neck, and while sticking to his face, she whimpered and coquettishly: "The mourning family knows that in the whole world, it belongs to the emperor's brother who loves the most mourning family......

Mrs. Li, who was basking in the sun with her youngest daughter in the corridor at the door, saw this scene, and her face suddenly became nervous. Staring at Miss Su's gaze, it was also unprecedented vigilance and suspicion.

"Ha~"

Li Qingxian yawned.

As the most ingenious person in the family, she is adept at discerning the true emotions in people's hearts from the nuances of their intonation, eyes and facial expressions. In Miss Su's words, the smell of copper accounted for 90%, and the rest was a sincere dependence on Nance.

"Qingxian, you have to help your sister." Mrs. Li rubbed her daughter's hair.

"Ha~"

Li Qingxian yawned again.

She wore a short blouse and a nightcap, and her head rested on her mother's lap.

Her pink braided hair spread across her sleepy cheeks, and she squinted and snoozed, muttering, "Sister is clear, no one can snatch it away......

Then, her delicate little arm was pulled up by Nance.

"Hurry up and change your clothes, or you'll be waiting at home for me to come back."

"Uncle, you're so annoying!"

"Susa, let's go."

"Change, I'll change!"

The pink-haired girl reluctantly got up and walked slowly back into the room.

Looking at her crumpled little face, it really felt like asking her to take two steps was killing her.

The winter morning sun shone into the eaves, and there was an empty cushion in the corridor, and Nance sat down with Doracoo in her arms. While enjoying the rare sunshine, she groomed the feathers of Miss Owl, and her body was warm.

Next to him, Mrs. Li stacked the newspapers of the last ten days on her lap and read them one by one.

When she saw what she thought was interesting, she read it to Nance.

This is not the first time that they have gotten along like this, and Nance is used to it, and said without a match: "You read yesterday's newspaper, in fact, it happened three days ago, and it has already been spread all over the Internet."

"I don't have an electronic brain." Mrs. Li said lazily, feeling a little coquettish.

"I'll get you one back."

"Don't."

"It's a lot easier to install."

"I can't stand the stuff of stuffing a piece of metal in my head." Mrs. Li imagined the strange feeling, suddenly shuddered, crossed her arms and said, "So I'd rather be a stupid and outdated woman for the rest of my life than an electronic brain......

Actually, that's what I thought...... Nance looked at her slightly.

Madame is about forty-three or four years old, and the line from the chin to the neck is indescribably beautiful, probably due to the relationship between the ponytail hairstyle, the neck that is completely exposed to the air is particularly conspicuous, and the line is slender and beautiful.

Maybe it's because of the soft light.

Looking at it from the angle of lying down at the right distance, the lines are still flowing with a girlish demeanor.

is worthy of a woman who can give birth to a pair of daughters who are as beautiful as flowers.

Suddenly, the lady approached his face and said, "If you can hit a wolf's skin, leave me one." I'll help you cut a wolfskin coat and make you a pair of leather shoes."

After speaking, without waiting for Nance to speak, her bright eyes cast to the mountains to the north.

Under the clear sky, the snow-capped mountains sparkled, and the sun reflected her snow-white cheeks just right.

"Susa!"

Nance suddenly shouted at Miss Su, who was playing with a knife in the yard to warm up.

Miss Su looked back with a big grin: "What's the matter with calling my sister?"

"How can you learn from others to be a good wife and mother?" Nance pointed at Mrs. Li and said bitterly, "Smoking, drinking and gambling, it took me eight lifetimes to know a woman like you!"

Suddenly, anger ignited in Miss Su's eyes.

As for Mrs. Li, her little hands covered her lips, she turned her back, and her shoulders trembled slightly with a smile.

When Li Qingxian changed his clothes and went out, he happened to see Miss Su's butt sitting on Nansi's chest, her legs tightly clamping his cheeks, and scolded loudly: "You pervert *** control, today I will eliminate harm for the people——"

"Goo!"

The owl clapped its wings like a clapp.

The mother held her cheeks in her palms, her eyes sparkling as she watched them play, and a gentle smile hung on the corners of her mouth.

The girl couldn't help but yawn again, thinking to herself that adults were really inexplicable creatures.

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It was a beautiful sunny day.

There is no decent wind, and the sun shines on the snow-capped mountains.

Nance took Susa and Li Qingxian out of the door and walked to the church to meet with the large army.

Houses along the way were on the verge of collapse due to snowfall.

white

The rattling sound of the snow squeezing shredded the crisp early spring atmosphere, and some of the cracked wooden beams showed dazzling new wood grains.

Because the plague is spreading, the already desolate town has become even more dead.

The people in the village may be asleep at this time, not wanting to wake up.

The emaciated inhabitants may have dreamed of the lavish feasts that the hungry often dream of, and the laborers may have dreamed of relaxation and rest. In short, the big guys don't want to wake up, they eat a lot in their dreams, and they are free.

The church stands silently over the snow.

On the ground behind the statue of God, the red tent of the window reflects the light on the snow on the ground, which looks like blood.

"Good morning, Mr. Adel." An old hunter greeted the three of them.

"Good morning." Nance replied, looking at the old shotgun in his hand, "a weapon full of battle medals."

"Haha."

The old hunter touched the shiny barrel with care.

A hound jumped up and down beside him, barking low, licking his hands at one moment, his boots and gun at another.

"If you like horses, you have horses; Dogs – there are dogs; Hunt – just hunt; Plough – plough." The old hunter named Levin grinned, a mouthful of rotten teeth in the air, "This is life! How wonderful!"

"Nothing can stop you!" Nance said with a smile.

"Mr. Adel, come here."

Li Ting shouted from there, and Nance and the old hunter said goodbye and walked over to his side.

He pulled Nance into the car and shouted, "Hurry up and get in the car, we need to get to the first camp before the snow falls!"

A few minutes later, four rough homemade farm trucks left the church and left the town's north gate along an unpaved path.

On the uneven road surface, when the wheels run over, the springs make a slight rumbling sound, and the people in the car will also keep shaking their bodies.

Li Ting was wearing a thick coat, a scarf around his neck, and a peaked cap pulled low.

Experienced hunters and mercenaries are in the download compartment, drinking liquor with a high degree of alcohol.

Entering the mountains in winter is a very dangerous thing, and regardless of the threat of foreign beasts, even experienced hunters will face two major problems: supply and disorientation. However, the hunters' homes were at the foot of the mountain, and they had to venture into the mountains.

As for the mercenaries......

Life and death are downbeat, as long as you have money.

The convoy gradually drove into the base of the mountain, entering the mountain from the south side of the mountain road.

The faint winter sun seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness underneath the ground, and the overlapping mountains became dim in vain. The breasts are white, and the unknown birds leap back and forth from branch to branch, deftly pecking at the red wild fruits of the trees.

"Remember, we're just going to gluttonize beasts this time." Li Ting had the walkie-talkie in his hand and repeated the content of the task again, "If you can catch it alive, try to catch it alive; Those who cannot live must be drawn from their blood and given to Nance. The strange beasts of the rest of the camps, if we can not provoke them, we will try not to provoke them, and if we encounter them, we will take a detour, and we will hear it clearly......

Listening to the eighth repeated nagging after he got on the bus, Nance glanced out of the carriage.

As the altitude slowly increases, the clouds are much lower than they had just been, and they become more ominous.

A few large, but thin, snow flakes float to the ground in the wind.

Soon it will snow again.

The air was getting clearer and clearer, and it was already revealing the tension of the imminent collapse.

The big guys silently clenched the weapons in their hands, and the life and death of this trip into the mountains are unknown, but it is foreseeable that there must be many people who will not be able to come out alive. Even the most fearless mercenaries of death tremble at the premonition of some unknown terrible encounter.

Nance sent one last message to Shizaki before the satellite signal was about to be interfered with by the mountain magnetic field.

[-I'll be back soon.] 】