I Am Your Natural Enemy

Little Fox nodded. He hadn’t quite figured it out yet, but he had a general understanding that this place was safer.

But since his grandma did it and Wen Yan asked about it, there must be more reasons than just this.

Wen Yan let Little Fox move around the house freely while he went down to the basement.

There was another stone sculpture with a striking resemblance to the Xuan Beast Stone Carving.

Wen Yan put it away and then took out a box to place the book inside.

He had originally planned to place it in his grandma’s altar drawer but felt it was somewhat inauspicious.

So he put it in the drawer below the nameless tablet’s altar instead.

After lighting the incense, Wen Yan looked at the nameless tablet.

”Being treated well with good food and drink here, helping to guard the place shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

He muttered, watching the fragrant smoke rise smoothly, and left only after he was reassured that nothing was amiss.

In the living room downstairs, Sparrow Cat was lying on the sofa with a long face, observing Little Fox, who was growing increasingly nervous. After a thorough inspection, it finally nodded with certainty.

”Don’t be nervous. I’ve thought about it carefully, and there doesn’t seem to be anyone in the family who eats foxes. By the way, what do you usually eat?”

”I... I can eat anything.”

”Don’t say anything. Those who are okay with anything are the hardest to serve. Be specific.”

”Then... chicken? Actually, dog food is fine too. Some dog food is quite tasty.”

”Oh, really? Have you ever tried cat food?”

”No, I’ve only tried dog food. The best kind is soaked in milk; it’s really good, but my grandma won’t let me eat it often. She says it can easily cause diarrhea if I eat too much.”

”What brand is that dog food you eat?” Sparrow Cat stood up, pulled out a phone from behind itself, and handed it to Little Zombie next to it.

Sparrow Cat gave Little Fox a sideways glance, suddenly feeling a bit proud.

”Don’t worry, I’m treating you. I get a food allowance of over a hundred a day, and I even received a heating subsidy this month. That’s my own money! I’m the only one in the family who has it! They don’t have any!”

”That’s amazing.” Little Fox was shocked, not expecting the Sparrow Cat, whom he thought was the weakest, to actually be the family’s hidden powerhouse. Indeed, one should never underestimate anyone.

Although he couldn’t understand why Nanwu County would give out heating subsidies...

By the time Wen Yan came upstairs, Sparrow Cat had already had Little Zombie order a bag of dog food for Little Fox. The order had been placed, and it would be delivered within an hour.

Soon, Little Fox experienced the Wenyan Family’s unique dining method. A wide variety of food was available, and everyone ate their own thing. His eating dog food didn’t seem strange at all. After all, in the Wenyan Family, some members ate Paper Money and others consumed fire, making his choice of dog food seem remarkably normal.

After eating his fill, Little Fox began to worry about his grandma. She had never sent him away like this without saying when she would take him back.

Then, he began to contemplate the question Wen Yan had posed earlier: why he had been sent here.

He really couldn’t understand it. Wanting to ask Wen Yan, he found that Wen Yan was already in the backyard, wrapped tightly in gray cloth and exuding a terrifying aura that made Little Fox dare not approach.

Seeing that no one else reacted, he figured it must be some normal form of practice. It was just that he had never seen such a practice method before.

As night fell, Little Fox had no mood to play with his phone and instead lay on the floor, pondering.

Then, he saw the Gray Cloth sneakily move along the corner of the wall from the backyard into the room. It unrolled a thin box from under the cabinet and silently glided along the floor towards the stairs.

Seeming to realize it had been spotted, one end of the Gray Cloth twisted slightly and quickly morphed into the shape of a dog’s head.

It was as if a piece of cloth was tightly wrapped around a dog’s head, forming a silhouette.

The other end of the Gray Cloth transformed into the shape of a knife, dangling below the dog’s head.

The message was clear: dare to speak, and your dog head gets chopped off.

Little Fox shrank his neck and nodded repeatedly.

Only after the Gray Cloth left did he whisper timidly,

”I’m a fox, not a dog...”

The next moment, he saw the Gray Cloth suddenly reappear from the corner of the wall. This time, it morphed into the shape of a dog food bag, and the knife was now aimed at slicing the dog food bag instead of the dog’s head.

”I saw nothing.” Little Fox quickly conceded.

Satisfied, the Gray Cloth silently dragged its box bed. Taking advantage of Wen Yan’s absence, it went into Wen Yan’s room, slid the box into the farthest corner under Wen Yan’s bed, quickly crawled inside, and then covered itself with the box.

The Gray Cloth was truly frightened now. Wen Yan was simply not human—his inhuman form of practice lasted twelve hours a day, and that was him holding back.

If he didn’t hold back, with eighteen hours of practice a day, Wen Yan might endure, but the Gray Cloth definitely couldn’t.

It felt, maybe... it didn’t want to progress so much anymore.

But last time, when Sparrow Cat, Little Zombie, Chen Qimo, Shishi, Little Fire Seed, and even that batch of horses watched a cartoon together, it got curious and took a look.

It saw an incredibly awesome cloth in the cartoon and was mesmerized. That was when it felt that three hours of practice a day with Wen Yan was nothing and nowhere near its limit!

Now, with a minimum of twelve hours, it had truly chickened out.

It had tested it; this spot was the safest for today. Wen Yan definitely wouldn’t find it here.

Tomorrow, it would quietly move to a new spot and let Wen Yan find it. Then, this place would always remain a safe haven, a place where it could always catch its breath.