Chapter 16 What is in the Box

Actually, Hao Ren thought about many things in that instant.

He thought about the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation—repaying kindness. He thought about the revolutionary martyrs who dedicated themselves to their careers and the truth. He thought about the first time he bravely fought against the bully who snatched his chocolate in elementary school. He thought about... Well, actually, he didn't think that much. He only knew one thing: although this girl named Lily was unbelievable, although she "might" be an amazing person, and might even not be human, she wasn't bad. And she had just saved his life—Hao Ren was one hundred percent sure that the "weird thing" that sometimes turned into a human and sometimes into a bat was coming for him during its first attack. Afterward, "it's" attention was also focused on him several times. There was absolutely no mistake about it!

Although Hao Ren was just an ordinary person, he was quite confident and even proud of his intuition and calmness in crisis situations. Because he had been a rascal since he was a child, he had tempered this quality in countless acts of self-inflicted death, such as soldering light bulbs, and the dangers that came with them. Even though his life was on the line just now, he had noticed that the "bat" was actually coming for him from the beginning.

But Lily didn't seem to notice this. She might have had a bit of a fixed mindset, thinking from the beginning that the bat was coming for her. This could probably be attributed to the girl being a bit of a simpleton...

But no matter what, the girl who called herself a "werewolf" had saved his life, so Hao Ren couldn't just leave her alone. This place was desolate and remote with few residents, and it was late at night. Lily, a foreigner… if a wolf had nowhere to stay here, she would probably have to sleep on the streets. He couldn't do that.

Of course, he also thought about the possibility of the bat returning. But as he said just now, he felt that the bat was coming for him—keeping Lily around might be a guarantee. Even if her Tianma Meteor Brick (Heavenly Horse Meteor Brick) skill was unreliable, it was still more powerful than his family's rolling pin, right?

This idea might be a bit depressing, but facing this scene that exceeded his common sense of life, Hao Ren could only plan like this. He was still very self-aware.

"Let's go, it's getting late," Hao Ren rubbed his legs, which were a little numb from the cold, and walked ahead of Lily. "I have to get you something to eat when we get back. By the way, are you a vegetarian?"

He suddenly thought of the other party's "werewolf" identity and couldn't help but ask. This showed that Hao Ren's ability to accept things was still quite strong.

"I eat everything!" Lily nodded happily, carrying a large box weighing over a hundred pounds next to Hao Ren and walking like the wind. But she reacted after taking a few steps, "Landlord, aren't you really scared? I think ordinary people would definitely be scared when they encounter this kind of thing. Have you seen 'aliens' before? Hey, landlord, don't worry, I won't hurt people! I've seen a lot of movies, humans seem to be very afraid of us..."

Hao Ren felt that his brain was starting to ache again: this girl's true nature was exposed again, a familiar, brainless, stubborn, and talkative simpleton. He couldn't answer too many things at once, so he could only sigh slightly: "Sigh... to be honest, I'm still dizzy. Wait for me to go home and smoke a cigarette to calm down. We'll talk about everything when we get back."

So Lily finally quieted down a bit, and the two of them walked in silence all the way, finally arriving at the legendary Baishi Road, and stopping in front of a rather large two-story building that looked a bit old.

The small building was located at the end of this cement road, followed by wasteland. The surrounding area was also quite empty. It could be said to be the boundary between human civilization and the natural world—Hao Ren often used this seemingly cool way to describe his home to prove that his mentality was still very young, and at least he still retained the ability to be a chuunibyou (middle school second year disease). On both sides of Baishi Road were equally mottled and old residential buildings, and many of them were even two-story or three-story structures, but most of them were deserted, without lights or voices, like abandoned haunted houses. As this forgotten land in the southern suburbs became more and more desolate and the city center never shifted to this side, more and more local residents chose to move to the city. Hao Ren, who lived at the end of the road, could be said to be one of the few residents here.

"Luckily, the street lights here were just replaced, otherwise it would really look like a ghost street," Hao Ren muttered to himself.

"Ah? What ghost street?" Lily's voice immediately came from the side. As expected of a canine, what hearing.

Hao Ren waved his hand to indicate that he was just talking nonsense. Lily didn't care, just raised her head and looked at her new home that she was about to rent. The dull-headed rectangular old building seemed to satisfy the girl quite a bit: "Well, good place, not very noisy, there are few people around so I'm not afraid of being recognized. Living in human society is very difficult, I'm always worried about being sent to be sliced, and there are too many human liars. Fighting is endless, very troublesome."

Hao Ren opened the door while looking at Lily with surprise: "You're so powerful, but you're still afraid of being sent to be sliced?"

He had seen Lily's amazing power just now and was quite impressed by this girl. He felt that "legendary creatures" like werewolves were definitely more powerful than humans, but he didn't expect the other party to say something like "worried about being sent to be sliced."

"Yeah," Lily nodded vigorously, "I often watch movies, humans like to do this the most. You guys are very xenophobic. Aliens in America will be sent to be sliced, and aliens in China will be sent to be sliced and then tasted to see if they're salty. So scary!"

Hao Ren decided not to seriously discuss any topics with this simpleton.

One layer of security door and one layer of engineering door. The locks were a bit old, and Hao Ren spent a lot of effort to successfully open the door and enter the house. He casually turned on the light in the living room and turned to invite Lily in.

After turning back to lock the door, Hao Ren introduced the structure here to Lily: "This is the main living room. This house was designed by my dad. The structure is relatively innovative, so just understand it. The two doors on both sides of the living room are my room and the room reserved for you. The door in front leads to a small aisle that leads to the kitchen and bathroom. The stairs go up to the second floor, where there are four empty rooms, but no one lives there now, so you don't need to worry about it. I'll take you to put your luggage away first—by the way, did you bring your own bedding or use the existing ones in the house? Anyway, things here are pretty clean, but girls are generally more concerned about this..."

"Anything is fine, as long as I can sleep!" Lily shouted energetically, and reached out to pat her box, "I didn't bring bedding, this one box can't fit it."

Hao Ren swallowed back what he hadn't finished saying: it seemed that the one in front of him was not an "ordinary" girl, she belonged to the unrestrained type.

Lily didn't ask for help with settling her luggage, and it was unknown whether it was out of a girl's shyness or simply because she was hungry. She only urged Hao Ren to quickly cook, and emphasized again that she would pay for the meals, which made Hao Ren quite touched.

Arriving at the kitchen, Hao Ren found some ready-made dry noodles and some ingredients from the refrigerator, hummed a little tune and turned on the gas. Then he remembered the terrifying experience of tonight and decided to smoke a cigarette to calm down while cooking.

…Luckily, he reacted before lighting the cigarette and quickly lit the gas stove, otherwise this book would only have five chapters.

Listening to the clanging sounds coming from Lily's room, guessing what strange luggage was in her big box, Hao Ren was making noodles while sorting out his encounters today: going to the city to find a job unsuccessfully, meeting a familiar girl in the park, coincidentally discovering that this girl was his new tenant, and then on the way home with the new tenant, his normal life was shattered by supernatural phenomena—werewolves, supernatural powers, a near-death attack experience, the experience of less than ten minutes just now subverted and reconstructed his worldview of the previous twenty-five years!

What was that bat that could transform into a human figure, and carried a bloody and cold aura?

Hao Ren thought about it and shockingly judged that it might be the legendary vampire—after all, he already had a werewolf by his side, wouldn't a vampire be a qualified vampire if they didn't love and kill each other with werewolves?

But speaking of werewolves... the werewolf girl he met didn't seem to be the same as the ones in the legends. She didn't look ferocious, but she was quite cute... just a bit simple.

After thinking for a long time without any clue, Hao Ren promoted his heartless and carefree qualities and decided to put everything aside until after dinner. Lily seemed to be a pretty easy-going "werewolf", maybe he could let her explain the situation to him, at least he would have a direction when he reconstructed his worldview.

The noodles were quickly cooked, and Hao Ren returned to the living room with this quick and filling dinner, and found Lily already sitting at the dining table with anticipation on her face. She even sniffed hard when she smelled the aroma of the noodles and showed Hao Ren a bright smile. This feeling... how was it like a puppy waiting to be fed?

The two took their seats at the dining table, and Lily couldn't wait to grab her chopsticks. Hao Ren suddenly remembered something at this moment and quickly shouted in the direction of the stairs: "Come down to eat!"

Under Lily's curious gaze, a black and white shadow agilely窜 (cuàn - darted, rushed) down from upstairs, and then very skillfully rushed to Hao Ren's feet and rubbed its head against the latter's shoes: it turned out to be a black and white kitten.

What happened next was something that Hao Ren couldn't understand for a long time:

Lily, this powerful werewolf, this werewolf who had just subverted his worldview, this werewolf who had been classified as a "highly mysterious species", jumped up from her chair the moment she saw the black and white kitten, and darted behind the sofa not far away with a whoosh!

She was even forced into her werewolf form!

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