Strange Rules: It doesn't matter, the system will take care of it.

Chapter 294 Bruce

It was late May, and although it was only the beginning of summer, the sun was already scorching. It was so intense that it was almost impossible to open one's eyes, and the air one exhaled was hot. Chen Feng wiped his forehead with his hand and found it covered in sweat.

"If only Xiaomi were still here."

Chen Feng licked his chapped lips. Ever since the girl carrying the vending machine was recruited by the passing hero team, he hadn't had a soda for days.

Beside him, Sika took a small knife she had prepared beforehand and made a cut along the midline of the bear king's abdomen, cutting all the way to its neck. Then she slowly sliced ​​along the inside of its limbs, working hard for a long time before finally peeling off the most valuable part of the bear skin.

"Big brother, all done!"

As soon as Sika finished speaking, Grey pounced and began to devour the bear meat. In no time, the ten-meter-long giant bear was completely gone.

"tasty!"

"Shall we go then?"

Chen Feng stood up, preparing to walk back.

Generally, unless he has urgent business to attend to, he rarely uses teleportation to travel.

After all, the savior said that a voyager must maintain 100% mana to deal with enemies that may appear at any time.

Especially now that we've just killed the Bear King, we need to be even more vigilant.

Remember the first law of compassion: when things seem to be going very smoothly, that's when you're about to die.

The group walked halfway.

Sika suddenly stopped and said mysteriously, "I know there's a small river up ahead. How about we take a cool bath and go back after the sun sets?"

Chen Feng considered it for a moment and agreed.

The three of them arrived at the stream.

Sika cleaned the bloodstains off the bear skin, saying regretfully, "Sigh, the thought of having to use all the bounty to pay off that gambler's debts makes me very unhappy."

Chen Feng comforted her, "Think positively. After we've dealt with this, I'll take you and Xiaomei to Cihang. You'll never see him again."

Jessica asked curiously, "Brother, what kind of place is this Cihang you mentioned?"

What place is it?

The transmigrator, whose third-floor apartment is covered in teru teru bozu (Japanese teru bozu dolls), encounters five different monsters while simply smoking a cigarette on the street; there are more pseudo-humans than humans...

Chen Feng pondered for a moment, then struggled to utter a sentence: "Let me put it this way, those who have been to Cihang will never leave, even in death."

Jessica was intrigued: "That's great?"

Correct.

As for why he didn't leave, that's none of your business.

Chen Feng coughed twice and changed the subject, saying, "Anyway, don't worry about this little bit of money. We still have to deal with the Demon King later, and there will be plenty of bounties."

Sika smiled and chimed in, "That's right, that's right. The Demon King won't be smug for long. I've already matched the cards."

Is there a grammatical error in this statement?

The two stayed by the stream for a while, and when they felt the temperature drop, they called out to Grey, who was catching fish in the river, and went back to the village together.

On the way, Sika pointed to her buttocks and said:

"Brother, you have to do something about that stupid dog Bruce. Apart from Mei, look around the village and see who doesn't have his teeth marks on their butt."

"Stop complaining. You dig traps every day, and no one has held you accountable. If you ask me, even if the village chief killed you, it would be considered self-defense."

The two continued talking.

Then you can see wisps of smoke rising from the village in the distance.

Sika ran up excitedly: "Xiaomei must have prepared something delicious. I hope she's prepared ale this time, and won't be so stingy with the money."

Upon hearing that there would be food again, Grey jumped up happily: "Yay!"

At this time.

Sika turned around and found Chen Feng standing there in a daze: "Huh? Big brother, let's go, what are you standing there for?"

"Don't speak."

Chen Feng looked at the ground with a serious expression, because just now, he had stepped on the strange, blood-red admonition.

[With loyalty preceding us, please bear witness.]

A few hours ago.

In the village's butcher shop, the butcher chatted with the owner of the grocery store next door while chopping meat on the chopping board.

The two chatted about the crops in the fields and the movements of the Demon King's army, and agreed that:

"Young people these days are so naive."

"They actually got beaten so badly by the Demon King's army. Back in our day, the Demon King was crawling on the ground."

The two were chatting enthusiastically when suddenly a gentle and cheerful female voice broke in.

"Boss, do you have any cheaper meat?"

"Cheap?" The butcher looked up and saw a rare face. "Ah, it's Xiaomei. What brings you to buy meat today? There are still twenty-one days until the Sun Festival, right?"

The grocer teased, "Old Wang, have you forgotten? It's the end of the month. Xiao Mei's father said that if that kid Sika can hunt a bear back today, he'll marry Xiao Mei to him."

The butcher wiped his apron with his oily hands: "Oh dear, look at my brain. Come here, let me cut you some more kidneys to help you recover."

Xiao Mei blushed as red as an apple and complained, "Uncle Wang, please stop teasing me."

The grocer tried to sell his wares: "To celebrate, you can't just buy meat, how about some wine?"

Xiao Mei asked timidly, "Uncle Lan, do you have any wine? I've heard that rich people drink wine to celebrate, but I've never had any before. I wonder how expensive it is?"

The grocer was taken aback: "You're so old, and you've never had wine before?"

"I gave all my money to my dad."

Damn it, that gambling bastard!

The grocer looked at Xiaomei with undisguised heartache in his eyes. After thinking for a moment, he took a box out of the shop and said, "Here, girl, this bottle of wine is free for you. Take it and drink it."

No, no.

"What's wrong with that? These are leftovers from last time, they're not worth much."

That's what they say.

But as soon as Xiaomei touched the box, she knew the shopkeeper was lying, because the box felt cool to the touch, clearly indicating that it had been preserved using freezing magic and was definitely not cheap.

"My mother taught me that I should never take advantage of others."

"Look at what you're saying. We're all from the same village, what's with all this talk about cheap or not cheap?"

"Yes, Xiaomei, please accept it."

We've finished buying the ingredients and the wine.

Xiaomei was about to go home to cook when she suddenly saw her father being held down by the shoulders by several burly men and forced onto a horse-drawn carriage.

The butler explained from the side, "Excuse me, folks, this guy went to the casino again a few days ago and lost a lot of money. The boss said that if he doesn't pay back the money tonight, he'll chop off his hand. So, sorry for the inconvenience!"

Upon hearing that he would have to chop off his own hand.

Pierre let out a bloodcurdling scream: "Folks, help me!"

however.

Unlike Xiaomei's situation, when the villagers saw that it was that gambler who was being taken away, they tried to stop him, and even spat on him.

Pierre panicked and cried out to his daughter, "Xiaomei, Dad knows he was wrong, please help me!"

Xiaomei panicked and hurriedly asked the housekeeper, "Is there any way to postpone this? My boyfriend will be back soon, and then we'll have the money."

The steward thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll do a good deed this time. I still have room in my carriage. You come with me to wait outside the Monster Forest. Once we get the bear head, we can immediately go to the Adventurers' Guild in the city to exchange it for the bounty. Maybe we can still make it in time."

Upon hearing that the steward was willing to lend her his carriage, Xiaomei thanked him repeatedly.

"Time is of the essence, let's hurry up and go."

"But it's something I just bought."

"Is food more important or family?"

"All right."

The steward pushed and pulled Xiaomei onto the carriage, but after a while, Xiaomei realized something was wrong: "This, this doesn't seem to be the way to the Demon Forest."

At that moment, the carriage stopped.

Pierre, who had been being taken away, grinned and pulled back the curtain, saying obsequiously to the butler, "Sir, wasn't my acting alright?"

The butler said coldly, "Bah! You beast, you even sell your own daughter, you're a real piece of trash."

Despite being verbally abused, Pierre remained unperturbed: "How is this selling my daughter? With Young Master Raven, it's about living a good life."

Hearing what the two said, Xiaomei knew perfectly well that she had been tricked.

The original plan to go bear hunting at the end of the month was to lure Sika and the others away.

It turns out that everything just now was a charade to trick her into going out.

Thinking of this, Xiaomei trembled all over. She really didn't expect her father to be so bad: "Dad, Dad! Please let me go back. Sika is still waiting for me. Once he hunts the bear, he will definitely be able to pay you back."

"Pay back the money, or I'll live a life of poverty with you? Shut up!" Pierre remained unmoved as he looked at Mei kneeling down. "Tie her up now."

Several burly men rushed forward and tied Xiaomei up tightly with ropes.

"Let me go!"

Ignoring his daughter's screams, Pierre casually opened the wooden box containing the wine and took out a bottle.

He didn't have a bottle opener, so he picked up a stone from the roadside, casually smashed the bottle neck, tilted his head back, took a big gulp, and then spat it all out: "Pah! I thought it was some high-class stuff, it tastes awful!"

Looking at the spilled wine all over the floor.

Xiaomei broke down: "My wine! My wine!"

"It's so noisy, just knock it out."

With a loud thud, Xiaomei was hit on the back of the head and passed out.

The butler tossed a bag of gold coins to Pierre to pay the bill: "Get out, I don't want to see you again."

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!"

After Pierre left.

The subordinate beside the steward couldn't help but ask, "Sir, she's just a village woman. Although she's pretty, is it really necessary to pay so much money?"

The butler said coldly, "Do you think I'm stupid?"

"I wouldn't dare."

"You've already dared to do it." The butler removed the wooden necklace from Xiaomei's neck. "This is what I'm after."

"This is?"

"You can't recognize it, can you? If I hadn't secretly used my appraisal skill that day, I wouldn't have recognized it either." The butler introduced, "Purple yew wood, this is a rare treasure found only in hell."

"Hell? Isn't that the world of the three Prime Evils?"

"That's right!" The butler shared the attributes with his subordinate, "Purplewood Necklace, increases spell damage by five percent."

The subordinate frowned and said, "That's it? This stuff from Hell is too trash. Only apprentices in the Magic Tower would use this level of basic equipment."

"You don't know anything. This is a divine artifact that works even for levels 100 and above."

"Level 100 or higher? 100, isn't that the maximum level?"

"You bumpkin, you know nothing. Those legendary sword saints, sages, and demon kings, aren't they all beings who have broken through level 100?"

"So that's how it is."

"For them, ordinary weapons simply cannot bear the weight of their divine power, so they must use this world-class artifact. Otherwise, given my status, would it be necessary for me to go to such lengths for a mere village woman?"

"Then let's throw the village woman down."

"There's no need to waste money. The young master would definitely look down on a country bumpkin like her. Here's what you do: sell her to a slave trader and keep the money for drinking."

"Thank you, sir!"

As the butler spoke, he suddenly frowned.

Why is there a dog barking outside?

The subordinate reported, "There's a mad dog chasing us; it probably wants to eat us."

"Then feed it some."

The housekeeper casually tossed the meat Xiaomei had bought down, but the other party ignored it and continued to roar.

At first, everyone thought the dog would stop chasing after it when it got tired.

But after one mile, two miles, three miles, the dog showed no sign of stopping.

"How annoying."

The steward waved his hand, stopping the carriage behind him. "You all go and handle it. I don't want to bring a mad dog into the city."

"yes!"

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When Chen Feng and the others arrived.

Bruce lay quietly on the ground, dead. Blood flowed like syrup, staining the soil crimson. Not a single intact bone could be found on its body.

Chen Feng squinted.

This world has become highly gamified due to the modifications made by the fragments of law. Before your health reaches zero, unless you have a skill that clearly damages a part of your body, such as blinding or severing a limb, you will never be this miserable.

This shows that those people not only killed the dog, but also desecrated its corpse.

Even with its skull flattened, the dog still clung to an arm, refusing to let go.

Rewinding must be used on living beings. The souls of dead creatures have already dissipated, so even if rewinding is performed, they will still be living corpses.

Chen Feng closed his eyes, and the image of Bruce wagging his tail seemed to be right in front of him.

"No......"

Sika's body trembled, and she couldn't speak for a moment.

Finally, he had an older brother to take care of him, acquired powerful skills, killed the Bear King, and was about to receive the bounty. Xiao Mei was waiting for him in the village, and everything seemed to be going in a good direction.

But why is this happening?

Tears streamed down her face as Sika knelt on the ground, murmuring, "It's all my fault. If I hadn't come back a little later, Bruce wouldn't have died, and Mei wouldn't have been taken away."

No ambition.

What's the use of just crying here? Will it kill your enemy?

Chen Feng kicked Sika: "Do you know that there's a saying in my hometown, 'The world kisses me with pain, and I must repay it with a song'?"

Sika wiped away her tears, looked up, and said, "Big brother, I understand. You mean that I should be positive and optimistic in the face of pain, turn my grief into motivation, and rescue Xiaomei?"

"You know nothing!"

As everyone knows, Cihangren is the most petty person in the entire universe.

Chen Feng looked in the direction of the carriage tracks: "What I mean is, if the world kisses me with pain, I'll smash the world's head in and see if it dares to kiss me with pain again."

Let's go! Let's get him!