As soon as she heard that she could help, Lily enthusiastically brought Hao Ren to where she lived. According to her, she had to think things through carefully. Even if the sky fell down, she would bring the guest home for a meal first.
This silly girl, who wanted to go to the south to find a big city, went all the way north to Siberia. Although she was a little silly, her ability and motivation to survive in the wilderness were definitely not for show. After she left the village, she did not rush on with her journey. Instead, as she walked north, she was full of curiosity to explore the "outside world." Along the way, she would stop and play for a while when she came across a place that she was interested in. In total, she had spent a few years on this journey.
For a werewolf girl who had lived in an isolated mountain village since childhood and had to suppress her nature during her childhood, these few years of travel were probably the happiest days of her life.
And now, she was living with a pack of Siberian wolves. The place where she lived was, of course, far away from human habitation. In the depths of the dense pine forest, there was a cabin abandoned by a hunter. The hunter who once built this cabin was long gone. The human habitation near the pine forest had been swallowed by the snowstorm. Now, the cabin in the forest had become Lily's temporary shelter.
The wolves had their own resting place near the cabin. After Lily gave them an order to disperse, the group of beasts disappeared into the depths of the forest in the blink of an eye. Hao Ren sensed that they were basically not more than two or three hundred meters away from the cabin. Along with the sound of the wind, he could occasionally hear the soft barking of the wolves. Lily, on the other hand, pushed open the door of the cabin and let her guest into the house.
The inside of the cabin was not as shabby as Hao Ren had imagined.
Although it looked old and even a little crumbling from the outside, the inside was clean and tidy. Several holes and cracks in the wall were blocked with animal fur and rough planks, and the rotten beams were reinforced with wood. The hunter's cabin was not overly complicated. It was divided into two rooms by a thin layer of wood. The inner room should be a place to store food and for the owner to rest. The outer room was a place to make a fire to process food and a lot of sundries. In the corner of the outer room, Hao Ren saw a lot of messy things: rusty axes, broken wheels, tattered furs, and even an old shotgun. The barrel had been rolled up like a ball of string. Apparently, it was broken by the husky when she was practicing her hand strength.
These messy things were piled up like a hill in the corner. Most of them did not look like the things used by the previous owner of the cabin, but more like a pile of collectibles. It seemed that the husky's habit of picking up random things was really a historical problem.
Noticing that Hao Ren's eyes fell on the pile of sundries in the corner, Lily was not embarrassed at all. Instead, she proudly showed it off. "Oh, oh, you've noticed it. These are my usual collection! Let me tell you, although I don't see many people here, there are people passing by occasionally, and they carry all kinds of strange things from the human world. I let my wolves keep watch in the woods, and if they see something interesting, I let them snatch one or two of it. But don't worry, I won't let them hurt people. Just give me something to play with. "
Hao Ren immediately understood what the ambush was about. "So, the gray wolves were going to rob me?"
Lily scratched her head awkwardly. "Hehe."
"I was almost robbed by a pack of wolves. How am I supposed to explain this?" Hao Ren was a little dumbfounded. "So, you taught the wolves to run around and change their formation when they were robbing their prey?"
"That's called the art of war. Do you know the art of war?" Lily said with a look of awe. "There was an old man in our village who was educated. He said that the art of war was very powerful. Back then, a man named Zhuge Liang used stones to set up a formation and almost killed a hundred thousand soldiers. I even borrowed a picture of the Three Kingdoms from him!"
As she spoke, she rummaged in her clothes and finally took out a thread-bound edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The old cover was almost completely worn out, and it was hard to tell which volume it was. Lily held it like a treasure. "After I learned how to read, I began to pester the old man for this book. It took me a long time before he lent it to me. Ah!"
"What's wrong?" Hao Ren was stunned.
"I was in a hurry when I left the village, and I forgot to return it to him," Lily said with a sad face.
"You just remembered it?" Hao Ren was dumbfounded.
"Well, I have to turn back after I help you find the person. I can sneak back to the village and return the book." The husky maiden quickly put the matter aside with her natural ability to relax. "Let's eat something first. I'm starving after the fight with you."
Then, Hao Ren watched as Lily lit the fire pit in the center of the cabin with flint and dry grass. She then took out an old iron pot from the inner room and put it on the fire. There was ice and snow outside the cabin. After melting a few pieces of frozen snow, it would be half a pot of hot water. Dried and frozen bacon hung on the beam of the cabin. Lily broke them into pieces with her bare hands and threw them into the hot pot. Then, she found some beans and grains and poured them into the pot. Just like that, a pot of hot meat porridge was made. Finally, she ran to the back of the cabin and dug out two frozen salmon from the snow. After melting them in the heat of the fire pit, she skewered them on iron rods and set them on both sides of the iron pot to bake.
Lily was so skilled that her movements were so swift that Hao Ren was dazzled.
It turned out that this domestic dog, who usually just sat at home and waited for others to feed her, had this set of skills.
"This fish was sent by a brown bear that lives nearby. It is very good at catching fish. I often trade fish with it," Lily said while stirring the meat porridge in the pot with a long handle iron spoon. "But the most rare thing in this place is seasoning. Oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, everything is missing. There is a saltwater lake not far from here. You can get some salt from there, but other things are hard to get. So, you just have to make do … "
Hao Ren watched as Lily worked hard to prepare dinner. He quietly took out a bag from his dimensional pocket and handed it over. "You can't just eat your food. Try this."
Lily curiously took the bag of colorful things, pinched its plastic packaging, and sniffed it. "Sniff sniff — what is this? Is it edible? "
"Tear it open from the gap. The outside is the packaging." Hao Ren smiled. "This thing is called spicy strips. You should like it."
Lily carefully fiddled with it for a long time before she clumsily tore open the packaging. Suddenly, a strong pungent smell floated into her nostrils. She pinched a spicy strip and stuffed it into her mouth. She slowly touched it and said, "It tastes like gluten … Woo woo … This is delicious!"
Sure enough, she was so compatible with spicy strips from the very beginning!
Lily held the bag of spicy strips and snored. In the blink of an eye, half of the snack had been swept into her stomach. But in the end, she suddenly stopped and treasured the remaining half of the bag of spicy strips. "No, I have to save the remaining half. This thing can be used as a seasoning in the porridge …"
Hao Ren saw this and laughed. "Eat it. I still have a lot here."
Lily curiously looked at him up and down. "Where did you get all these strange things from? Also, where did you hide the things that you used to treat the wolf? Do you know how to do magic? "
"This is my ability." Hao Ren knew that Lily was now at the stage of her life where she was easy to fool (in fact, she had always been easy to fool), so he did not feel pressured. "Just like you can become half wolf and half human and have infinite strength, I can summon all kinds of things."
"Then can you conjure up Zhuge Liang for me? The one who can set up a stone array."
Hao Ren said, "... I don't think you understand what I mean …"
"Then can you conjure up Zhang Fei? I want to compete with him to see who is stronger! "
"There is no need for that. Let alone Zhang Fei, I don't think there is any human in history who can single-handedly swing the stone pillar in front of the Temple of Athena into a propeller like you."
"What is Athena?"
Hao Ren said, "... Why do you have so many questions?"
"Oh, then I won't ask anymore." Lily pursed her lips, but after a few seconds, she turned her head again. "What is a propeller?"
"... Let's talk about finding someone!" Hao Ren said.
One must not wander off topic when talking to the husky. The girl's divergence of topics was like uranium-235. Give her a neutron, and she would develop a chain reaction! Hao Ren had been with her for three years. How could he always forget this?
Fortunately, Lily was quick to divert her attention. Hao Ren's words reminded her again. The husky maiden flicked her ears and said, "Oh yes, help you find someone, help you find someone. By the way, what kind of person are you looking for?"
"Similar to us, not human," Hao Ren said as he thought. "I'm not sure where she is, but I can roughly guess that she is sleeping nearby, and the place where she hibernates is surrounded by a large area of uninhabited land. There should be abnormalities in the natural weather..."
As he spoke, he calculated in his mind: according to the handwritten records, Vivian's last activity in Siberia was the battle with the vengeful spirit 300 years ago, and her hibernation should have happened not long after that. On the other hand, as far as he knew, the age of Lily in the real world was almost 100 years old, and she had been active in human society for 60 to 70 years, while the "old version of Lily" in front of him had not yet come into contact with human society...
After summarizing the information from both sides, there was a huge time difference, at least a time difference of two centuries.
Why was that?
Had Vivian really been hibernating for more than 200 years? Or had Lily mistaken her age? Or, in this distorted space and time, history no longer operated according to the original "ruler"?
All three were possible.
Lily's voice suddenly sounded. "Why are you spacing out?"
Hao Ren suddenly woke up. "Oh, ahem... Nothing, what were we talking about? Oh yes, her hibernation... "
"Hibernation? Your friend is a good sleeper? "Lily scratched her chin." There doesn't seem to be a suitable place to sleep in this world of ice and snow. "
"Ugh, I think your understanding of hibernation is probably not the same as what I said," Hao Ren wiped his forehead. "Forget it, it's a bit hard to explain it to you. I have something she used, can you smell it?"
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