jdhmnovel Chapter 160 Malice
Chapter 160 Malice
After the two had walked far enough, Meng Fuqing released Meng Linlang.
Meng Linlang exclaimed eagerly, "It's him!"
Meng Fuqing glanced at her, then fell silent again.
She wondered if all this fleeing was just to gather the main characters so they could easily eliminate her, the cannon fodder, and Xie Jin, the villain.
For some reason, Meng Fuqing vaguely sensed a hint of malice in it.
In fact, this malice had a long history. For example, she had thought that her arrival was like a butterfly flapping its wings and stirring up a storm.
Now it seems that it was blatant malice laid bare before her eyes.
For the first time, Meng Fuqing began to doubt whether it would be safe for him to flee to Jing'an Prefecture.
but……
She looked up at Meng Linlang and suddenly smiled.
"Cousin, are you still afraid of me?"
Meng Linlang was quite taken aback by her inexplicable smile.
She instinctively gave a trembling smile, "You're my cousin, of course I'm not afraid of you."
“Then I’m relieved,” Meng Fuqing said. “My cousin has been much more well-behaved lately, which makes me very happy. Why don’t you come visit me more often when you have time? We cousins can have a heart-to-heart talk.”
Meng Linlang racked her brains, trying to figure out if she had done something wrong recently, but she couldn't find anything.
She asked cautiously, "Cousin, did I do something wrong recently? Did I upset you? Please tell me, okay? I'll definitely change!"
"No, I just suddenly realized that when my cousin is in normal condition, she's quite normal, so it might be worth getting to know her."
Meng Fuqing suddenly thought that since Meng Linlang and Shen Lianxing were the center of the dream world, did that mean that this malice could not be directed at these two people?
Although natural disasters occur frequently, they have never destroyed the world. Is this also the reason?
Thinking of this, Meng Fuqing's gaze towards Meng Linlang grew even warmer. "Thank you for today. Please take good care of yourself, cousin."
After saying that, she turned and left.
Meng Linlang stood frozen in place, taken aback by Meng Fuqing's sudden display of kindness.
When Meng He passed by and saw Meng Linlang's appearance, and then saw Meng Fuqing's departing figure, he immediately imagined his own delicate younger sister being bullied by the domineering Meng Fuqing.
He stormed up to Meng Linlang, furious. "Linlang, did Meng Fuqing bully you again? Your second brother is going to confront her right now!"
Coming to her senses, Meng Linlang grabbed her second brother's sleeve. "Second brother, no one bullied me..."
She didn't know how to explain it for a moment.
It can't be that Meng Fuqing treated her too well, that's why she acted this way, can it?
"You're still defending her?!" Meng He was shocked.
Seeing that her second brother was as stubborn as a mule and couldn't be pulled back, Meng Linlang simply let go of his sleeve and said angrily, "I already said no. Second brother, if you want to avenge me, why only argue with my cousin? Why not go and fight her?"
Meng He: ...
If he can beat them, why bother with theories?
"No, she hurt you..."
Meng Linlang interrupted him, "What happened before was my mistake, let's not bring it up again. Let's just live our own lives."
Meng He was caught off guard by his sister's sudden change, and his expression showed his astonishment.
Upon further reflection, it didn't seem so sudden; he just didn't know the reason behind it. He could only think of a time to ask him properly.
On the other side, Yan He also learned a lot about the village and Qin Su's group from Grandma Su.
After meeting up with Meng Fuqing at her place, she poured herself a glass of water, drank it all in one gulp, and then asked, "Do you still remember those cannibals we encountered in the forest?"
Meng Fuqing: "I haven't lost my memory."
Yan He rolled his eyes at her lack of cooperation, "Hmph, you little wench are quite something..."
Before he could finish speaking, someone knocked twice on the door, followed by Shan Qiyu's voice: "Have you two kids forgotten to eat? You've been running around, and I had Ali look for you, but we couldn't find you."
Yan He smiled broadly and turned to Shan Qiyu, "I'll go help right away..."
"It's so late, why are you helping out? Bring the food over, you can eat and chat at the same time."
The two got up to bring the food, and then they started talking about their previous topic.
"Grandma Su said those people came from the north of the Canglan River. They were starving and poorly clothed. Just one look at them and you could tell it was from a famine..."
The first group of refugees to reach the banks of the Canglan River, disheveled and filthy, paid no heed to the floating corpses on the river. They broke through the ice and gulped down water, as if they would die of thirst if they waited even a second longer.
Having satisfied their hunger and thirst, the group continued north. To avoid being caught by their enemies, they needed to find a secluded place to hide.
Along the way, one of their companions went mad and died for unknown reasons. In the winter, food was hard to find. They continued on with their companion until they came across a very remote little village.
Unlike the previous villages, this place is remote and sparsely populated. Although it also lacks food and clothing, its situation is much better than theirs.
Under the cover of night, they skillfully and silently bound all the men, women, and children of the village and locked them in the pigsty.
During this process, some villagers heard the commotion and fled with their children, but were discovered by the refugees. In order to resist the refugees, six or seven men and women had to hand the children over to Grandma Su, while they used the weapons they carried to try to stop them.
Among these people were Chi Ye's parents.
The children couldn't suppress their cries, but they couldn't stop and could only run towards their only hiding place—the entrance to the burrow.
After learning that the world was in chaos, Chi Ye's parents led people to use the underground cave as a hiding place. They not only stored some food in it, but also led the villagers to dig tunnels.
In an effort to expedite the process, they dug from both ends simultaneously, but they never expected to encounter these refugees before they even reached the bottom.
And so, Grandma Su and a group of children settled down in the cave. As they waited day by day, their hopes gradually faded. Whenever someone wanted to leave the cave and go back to the village, Grandma Su would stop them.
Having lived to such an old age, Grandma Su knew all too well that those people probably wouldn't be coming back.
As Chi Ye grew older, he gradually came to understand. He began to dig the hole his father had not yet finished digging, and eventually all the children joined in.
On the day the tunnel was completed, Chi Ye saw the state of the village—it was already an abandoned village.
Parents, villagers, and refugees have all disappeared.
Later, Chi Ye learned that a group of mysterious people had appeared around the village at some point. They were capturing able-bodied men and driving away the elderly, women, and children. The refugees who had slaughtered their entire village were either captured or had fled elsewhere.
Grandma Su learned all this from Chi Ye. Chi Ye had encountered this group of people before, but he always managed to escape because he was too familiar with the surroundings.
Upon hearing this, Yan He asked Granny Su what those people looked like. Granny Su told Yan He about the only person she remembered, and Yan He felt as if he had seen him before.
"...So the people we killed were the refugees who slaughtered the village."
I've heard that people who eat each other go mad, and there are plagues all along the way. Truly, wicked people live on for a thousand years; it's incredible that they've managed to survive for so long.