As the Griffon Sea Eagle slowly descended in front of the Small Wooden House, Xia Chujian looked up, saw the Small Wooden House already lit with lamps, and suddenly understood the meaning of home.
Home, is probably a place lit with lamps, where someone is waiting for you...
"I'm back!" Xia Chujian pushed open the door and entered, smelling a unique fragrance belonging to Black Truffle Wild Rhino Pig.
Actually, it was still the dishes she had made before, because there was so much, she had been eating it for a week.
Weren't these people tired of it yet?
They probably weren't tired of it.
Because Li Fu and Song Mingqian were fighting over the last piece of roasted Wild Rhinoceros Pig rib.
Ping Qiong was holding a large sea bowl, immersively eating Red Lion Morel stewed Wild Rhinoceros Pig meat.
Only Ye Shijie was lying on the only wooden bed in the Small Wooden House, staring at the direction of the door.
Seeing her come in, he retracted his gaze and said faintly, "You're back, you're back. No need to shout."
Xia Chujian smiled at him and said, "Ye Dui, are you feeling better? Is your injury serious? Do you want to go back with them first and have the association's physician take a look?"
At this time, Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong raised their heads from their rice bowls, looking at Xia Chujian at the door for a while, and Ye Shijie on the wooden bed for a while, not knowing what to say.
Ye Shijie frowned and said to Xia Chujian, "Come in first. It's so cold outside, why are you keeping the door open?"
Xia Chujian turned her head and glanced at the door.
The pig-headed Humanoids San Zong had already found a corner under the eaves of the wooden house, and was nestled there, to the left and right of the Griffon Sea Eagle.
The Griffon Sea Eagle was fine, it was originally an animal native to the Exotic Beast Forest, and sleeping in the open air was its instinct and habit.
But San Zong was not.
Xia Chujian hesitated again and again, and still turned to look at Ye Shijie in the house and said, "Ye Dui, it's too cold outside, let San Zong and Small Dog come in."
She hesitated because she knew that in the hearts of normal humans in the Beichen Empire, Humanoids were not considered humans, they were Lowly People, Slaves.
Ye Shijie closed his eyes and said faintly, "Humanoids' bodies are different from humans, you don't need to worry about them."
"How are they different?" Xia Chujian bit her lip, "They are the same as us, they are also people."
"Humanoid Lowly People and Slaves are not normal humans." Ye Shijie looked like he didn't want to argue, and said everyone's consensus.
"Actually, Gene Evolvers are not normal humans either." Xia Chujian couldn't help blurting out.
She regretted it as soon as she finished speaking.
These were the words that her aunt sometimes muttered at home.
Xia Chujian had been familiar with them since she was a child, and couldn't help but blurt them out.
Her aunt had actually told her not to talk nonsense outside.
For example, saying that Gene Evolvers are not normal humans is simply a rebellious remark in the Beichen Empire.
In the eyes of the people of the Beichen Empire, this is equivalent to saying that Gene Evolvers, who are the superior people, are on the same level as the lowly Humanoids.
Ye Shijie opened his eyes abruptly, the coldness in his eyes undisguised: "Xia Chujian, watch your mouth! Don't let me hear these words again! Otherwise, you will leave our Dark Night Hunter Association immediately!"
Was he going to kick her out? Although Xia Chujian regretted saying the wrong thing, Ye Shijie's scolding hurt her self-esteem too much.
Her temper flared up, and she sneered, "Okay, you don't have to kick me out, I'll leave now!"
With that, she slammed the door of the Small Wooden House shut, not even entering the house.
Turning around and standing at the door of the Small Wooden House, the extremely low temperature of the cold hit her face, and Xia Chujian couldn't help but shiver.
The pig-headed Humanoids San Zong at the door of the Small Wooden House opened his mouth wide, staring blankly at her.
The pig face, which should have been very ugly and awkward, was not so ugly in the night.
He hugged Small Dog tightly, stood up tremblingly, and said in a low voice: "Female Sire doesn't need to speak for San Zong... San Zong can leave, it's not cold, San Zong is a Humanoid Slave, not afraid of the cold... A few days ago, following that bad guy, San Zong was always sleeping in the snow, it's okay..."
San Zong held Small Dog firmly in his arms, got up and walked out.
Small Dog was held vertically in his arms, his small head resting on San Zong's shoulder.
Seeing himself getting farther and farther away from Xia Chujian, he couldn't help but call out to her "Wu Er Fu, Wu Er Fu".
In those tiny, black bean-like eyes was a great bewilderment, as if not understanding why she had to leave.
A strong feeling of pity rose in Xia Chujian's heart, and she quickly called out to him, "San Zong! Both you and Small Dog, don't go! Let's go stay in the Flying Vehicle for one night!"
Ye Shijie, who was inside the house, heard this, and the veins on his forehead throbbed. He angrily shouted, "That's the Association's Flying Vehicle! Humanoids... can't go up there!"
He tried very hard to stop himself from saying the word "Slaves".
Inside the Small Wooden House, Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong realized the matter was serious.
Li Fu took out a tissue and wiped his greasy mouth. He quietly advised Ye Shijie, "Ye Dui, it's just for one night... Where else can Xia Chujian stay if not in the Flying Vehicle... It's so cold outside, and she's not a Gene Evolver, she can't take it..."
Song Mingqian and Ping Qiong nodded together, cautiously saying, "Ye Dui, actually, Xia Chujian is young, not yet an adult, and still in high school. It's normal for her to have some strange ideas..."
The "strange ideas" they were talking about were, of course, the idea of saying that Gene Evolvers were not normal humans.
As for the matter of letting Humanoids into the house, compared to that sentence, it was simply not worth mentioning.
But this time, Ye Shijie was unwilling to compromise.
He said coldly, "I said long ago, you can't indulge her! It's only here, in front of our team! We can treat her nonsense as her being young, ignorant, and not hearing it!"
"But what if she gets used to it and continues to spout nonsense in front of others when she goes back? Do you know the consequences?!"
Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong looked at each other, lowering their heads in unison.
Ye Shijie said with a gloomy face, "More than ten years ago, there was a scholar who mentioned it in passing at a conference, only saying that Humanoids might also be a direction of Gene Evolution, and the result was stirring up a hornet's nest!"
"Do you know where that scholar is now?"
Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong shook their heads together.
"...He's already dead, sentenced to death, and executed that year." Ye Shijie closed his eyes and heavily sighed.
That year, he was only ten years old.
He didn't continue, because that person, that executed scholar, was his father, his biological father.
He had never told his teammates that his family was originally citizens of the Beichen Empire, and used to live in the middle-class area of the Beichen Star Imperial Capital.
Just because of his father's casual remark, his family lost everything.
His father was executed, his family property was confiscated, and his mother and he were demoted to Lowly People, exiled to the most remote and backward Guiyuan Star in the Beichen Empire.
His mother passed away in sorrow a few years later.
He struggled alone in Mulan City on Guiyuan Star. Fortunately, after a few years, his genes mutated, and he became a Gene Evolver, and only then did he return to the citizen class.
But because of his father, he could never hold a position in any government agency of the Beichen Empire in his life, and could only scrape by in a folk organization like the Dark Night Hunter Association.
"This kind of thing, not only can't be said, but you can't even have the slightest thought in your heart! Because as long as you have this kind of thought, you will say it... You don't even know when you will say it! As long as you say it, it will be a great disaster! No one can save her!"
"You say, you still indulge her, do you want to watch her die?! Tell me!"
Ye Shijie hammered the bed, shouting hoarsely.
Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong shrank their necks, not daring to breathe loudly.
They felt that Ye Shijie was overreacting, but he was, after all, the team leader, and his years of prestige could still hold them down.
Seeing that these people were all honest, Ye Shijie took a deep breath and said to Li Fu, "You go! Go stay in the Flying Vehicle, and don't let her in tonight! Unless she admits her mistake!"
Li Fu didn't dare to speak for Xia Chujian anymore. He silently stood up, put on his brown-black long-haired coat that resembled a brown bear, and got up to leave.
Xia Chujian was still standing not far from the door, obviously having heard Ye Shijie's words in the Small Wooden House.
She didn't continue walking towards the Flying Vehicle, but turned to look at Li Fu and said, "Fu Ye, can I just go to the Flying Vehicle to get my things?"
Actually, according to Ye Shijie's meaning, it was definitely not allowed.
But Li Fu couldn't bear to be harsh on Xia Chujian.
In his heart, he felt that Ye Shijie was right, and that Xia Chujian should be stricter.
But emotionally, he always felt that Xia Chujian was still a little girl, the little girl who dared to pretend to be seventeen years old at the age of fourteen to join the Dark Night Hunter Association and desperately earn money to support her family.
He was full of sympathy and gratitude for her.
"Go ahead, take whatever you want." Li Fu said quietly, "You can take one of those Small Controlled Nuclear Fusion Generators..."
Xia Chujian originally only wanted to take some weapons and ammunition, but after Li Fu said that, she suddenly had an idea.
...
Xia Chujian jumped into the Combat Aircraft, first took out the four Pig Kidneys she had put in the small refrigerator, and hung them directly on the belt outside Big Tooth, so as to ensure that they were still in a frozen state.
Then she took out the eight Big Tooth she had hidden and stuffed them into the gun case.
After that, she moved a Small Controlled Nuclear Fusion Generator from the Flying Vehicle, a box of submachine gun bullets, and ten magazines of sniper rifle bullets, and tied them all on the back of the Griffon Sea Eagle.
She also brought the Exotic Beast fur coat she had received from the association.
She planned to use it as a quilt if it was cold at night.
Li Fu also wanted her to bring a box of Advanced Nutrient Solution, but she refused.
That was Ye Shijie's, and Xia Chujian didn't want to take it.
"Xiao Chujian, don't be angry, and there's no need to be upset with Ye Dui... Ye Dui is also doing it for your own good..." Li Fu earnestly persuaded her, wishing he could hold Xia Chujian back and not let her go. "Just apologize and it'll be fine, really, Ye Dui is doing it for your own good."
"I know, I'm not angry, and I'm not upset." Xia Chujian smiled calmly, looked away, and said, "I'm just not used to the way he speaks."
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