168: Chapter 168 "Fox Che, see you tomorrow."

"The Jiao Clan!" Tang Ruan was shocked.

Didn't the Jiao Clan rule the ocean, proud and wealthy, and look down upon the beastmen on land?

How could they have ended up living with these ordinary beastmen?

Seeming to notice her confusion, Shui Yin took the initiative to say, "My Lord, it was my own clan that abandoned me. When I was very young, they cut off my fish tail and threw me onto the shore to fend for myself. It was Brother Ma Er who picked me up. Everyone raised me together."

Tang Ruan frowned slightly: So that was it. The Jiao Clan was actually this cruel. However, based on her understanding, these beastmen shouldn't have left Dragon Valley. This place was a long way from the ocean. How did they manage to find this little Female Beastman?

"Sister, eat quickly!" Long Bao stuffed a duck egg into Tang Ruan's mouth, interrupting her thoughts. "Once you're full, I'll take you to my Secret Base."

After lunch, Tang Ruan took out an axe and other tools from her space. She taught the beastmen how to build a fence, only to be dragged away in a hurry by Long Bao.

She followed him, feeling increasingly familiar with the path. Finally, they arrived at the place where she had cut down trees that morning. Long Bao looked at the hole blasted into the stone wall, his beard trembling. "Wuwu, who blasted a hole in my Secret Base..."

Tang Ruan: ... Tang Ruan: "It should be patchable, right..."

She and Long Bao lifted a large rock together and barely managed to plug the hole. She heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she hadn't completely blown it up that morning. Otherwise, she really would have been neither respectful to the elderly nor kind to the young.

Long Bao dragged her around to the back of the stone wall. Just a dozen meters away, there was actually a door. The two stepped inside, but it wasn't the place she had seen before. Tang Ruan's gaze fell on a stone wall in the distance. She understood. So this wall divided the area into two sections. The side she had blasted was the other one. But Long Bao didn't seem to know that.

She looked at Long Bao. She saw him stroking his beard, talking to himself while facing the intact wall. "Long Bao is so smart, it patched so well." Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan suddenly had an idea. "Long Bao, what did you want to show me?" She deliberately changed the subject.

"Oh!" Long Bao clapped his hands as if suddenly enlightened. "Sister, follow me!" Tang Ruan followed him forward.

"Careful!" Long Bao suddenly grabbed Tang Ruan. Tang Ruan looked down and discovered that there was a two-meter-wide hole in the middle of the flower patch. The inside of the hole was pitch-black and bottomless, surrounded by flowers and plants.

"Sister, look!" Long Bao lay on the ground and shouted "Ah" into the hole. "Ahhh ahhh..." Long Bao's voice echoed continuously from within the hole. "Beast God, Brother is back!" "Brother is back..." "Back..." ...

Listening to this, Tang Ruan's nose felt slightly sore. When she was little, she had also made wishes into a well. But usually, it was a well dug by her family, with smooth walls that would produce an echo. If it was a naturally formed hole, the sound would be absorbed because the interior was rough.

"Sister, do you have anything you want to shout out? If you shout it out, the Beast God will help you make it come true!" Long Bao said seriously.

"I..." Tang Ruan was tongue-tied. The Beast God would not help her make her wish come true. Because she hoped to live happily together with her Beast Husbands. And Fentian was currently the person in the Beast World closest to the Beast God.

"The Beast God will not agree to my wish." Fentian, who had just walked to the entrance, heard exactly this sentence.

"Why?" Long Bao was confused. Tang Ruan smiled bitterly, "Because the Beast God doesn't like my wish."

"That's not true! The Beast God will help good beastmen make their wishes come true! If Sister doesn't say it out loud, how would the Beast God know?" Long Bao said anxiously.

Tang Ruan: "He knows, but he won't help me make it come true." She squatted down, feeling dejected. She looked at the hole. She really missed them so much...

"Then the Beast God must not have understood, say it again." Long Bao insisted. Having waited for his brother to return, he believed that the Beast God would help people make their wishes come true.

Tang Ruan didn't want to ruin this old child's beautiful fantasy about life. So she stood up again. "Okay! Then I'll say it in my heart. The Beast God is so powerful, he must be able to hear what I'm thinking, right?" She closed her eyes and made a wish devoutly.

"Sister, you have to shout it out, if you don't shout it out, the Beast God can't hear you!" Long Bao said, tugging at her arm in a hurry.

"Long Bao!" Fentian's angry voice came from behind. Tang Ruan opened her eyes and turned around. She saw him walk up to her in a few strides.

Fentian opened his mouth, wanting to tell her that as long as it wasn't a wish regarding her other Beast Husbands, he could help her make it come true. However, apart from this wish, what other wish could she have that the "Beast God didn't want to help her realize"? In the end, it only turned into three words — "Let's go home."

In the days that followed, Tang Ruan was busy renovating Dragon Valley every day. Occasionally, she would sneak into her space to look for the fox when Fentian wasn't around. But she never saw it again.

Two months later. Tang Ruan brought the first batch of ripe fruit from Dragon Valley to the stone wall. She pushed aside the grass that was taller than a person and crawled inside. She had deliberately let the grass grow lush here to cover the entrance. This place had now become her Secret Base.

She could be here alone, reminiscing about the past to her heart's content. She didn't have to worry about being discovered by Fentian. She needed these memories to nourish her so she could get along with Fentian properly. She looked forward to the day he would change.

Tang Ruan lay down on a wooden lounge chair, closed her eyes, and entered the space once again. Suddenly, she noticed that a small mountain in the space had changed. A hole had appeared at the foot of the mountain. A rose was blooming at the entrance of the hole. Tang Ruan's heart rate accelerated suddenly.

Her consciousness quickly entered the cave. She saw a little fire-red fox sleeping sweetly on a small bed. Tang Ruan grabbed it by the neck —

Tang Ruan opened her eyes abruptly. There was a little fox in the Secret Base. It was arching its back, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws at her. She lay on the ground, excited. "Don't you recognize me? Look at me, do you really not recognize me?"

Tang Ruan reached out her hand towards it. The little fox lunged suddenly and bit her index finger. Smelling the scent of blood, it seemed to wake up suddenly, widening its amber eyes. It let go, saw the small puncture on Tang Ruan's finger, and paced around anxiously.

"I'm fine." As Tang Ruan said this, the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The little fox's eyes widened like glass balls in surprise, looking at Tang Ruan and then at the wound. Its eyes were filled with adoration.

Tang Ruan reached out and stroked its head. The little fox narrowed its eyes in enjoyment and soon rolled onto its back. Tang Ruan: "It really is just a fox."

The little fox scrambled up, shook its fur, and tilted its head to look at Tang Ruan. The expression seemed to say: "If I'm not a fox, what am I?"

"Actually, it's good that you're a fox." Tang Ruan smiled bitterly. If it really were Hu Che, she really wouldn't know how to explain it to Fentian. However, the fact that Hu Che would appear in her space didn't make logical sense in the first place. As for that little room, it should be just like it—all products of her space generated according to her longing! She was really being too whimsical.

Tang Ruan took out some food from her space. She intended to keep the little fox here for the time being. Seeing it could alleviate her longing for Hu Che. Walking out of the Secret Base, Tang Ruan brought over a large rock, intending to block the entrance. Suddenly, she shouted on an impulse, "Hu Che, see you tomorrow."

The little fox suddenly lifted its head from the pile of food. It came sprinting towards her.