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“…Mr. Coke and Mrs. Coke… moved their family to the lower level realm….in a small town, with women farming and men weaving…and lived a happy life. Strange, did I get it wrong? How could it be women farming and men weaving?” Sitting on the garbage dump, Ji Huan was stuttering and reading a very old and shabby newspaper.

Note: Mr. and Mrs. Coke is not a typo, but some words can only be transliterated after student Xiao Hua’s literacy has been fully developed.

Before throwing it over, it was probably used to hold the bones spit out during meals. This newspaper was greasy, but this did not hinder Ji Huan’s mood of reading the newspaper.

With his literacy skills getting improved, he can already read books and newspapers, but he doesn’t have the same guts as Ah Jin to spend a lot of money to buy old newspapers. Occasionally Old newspapers that were picked up from the garbage dump would be fine. After discovering that Ji Huan likes to look at these “waste papers”, the little grey devil also began to consciously collect all kinds of waste papers for him, of course not for free. When the uncle receives the “goods” from the little grey devil, Hei Dan will take the initiative to hand over the milk bottle.

Hei Dan who can pay for his uncle is really great!

The illiterate little gray devil actually picked up a lot of waste papers without words and gave it to Ji Huan. Some were posters, some were torn pictures, but Ji Huan did not tell him that these could not be read, instead he collected them all as they were ordered, and Hei Dan “Paid” for these things.

The little gray devil has a strong self-esteem and knows how to support himself from a young age. He will not accept gifts from others, and Ji Huan does not intend to undermine this virtue, but he does not mind helping this child through Hei Dan.

After more than a month, the little gray devil seems to have gained some weight.

In fact, the little gray devil originally belonged to a demon race with strong hunting ability. But at his age, he can only catch one bone every day, and if he is lucky, he can catch two, but one needs to be exchanged with water, and whether the other end can be caught is another matter. Over time, he became dry and thin, and is still so short.

After Ji Huan stopped buying prey from him, his situation got better. Every day, he could get one or two bottle caps of neinei from Hei Dan using various methods. Although this thing called neinei (← this The name was told by the Grandpa =-=) was not delicious, but it’s very thirst-quenching, and Black Egg is a good demon. The water sold to him is more than that sold by demons in the market. As time went by, the little gray devil concentrated on doing Ji Huan’s business.

However, he is not greedy, and only needs one or two caps of water every day. If there are surplus goods to sell, he will take them back to Ji Huan and get ‘paid’ the next day.

With a fixed supply of water every day, the little gray devil began to focus more on honing his abilities. When Ji Huan reads the newspaper, he will read it out for everyone to listen to. Although the little devil is not interested in these, he likes the feeling of few people getting together, so he listens to it. In his opinion, although Ji Huan is very weak (he still can’t catch a few bones), he also has his strengths. For example, he can’t recognize any of the words in the newspaper, but Ji Huan can.

“… However, it’s no wonder that it’s a female farmer and a male weaver. This Mrs. Coke is… so amazing!” The cameras in the human world can’t take pictures of demons, but the ones in the demon world can. The newspaper also attached a recent picture of the Coke family. When Ji Huan saw the terrifying appearance of Mrs. Coke in the picture, he also nodded.

Touched by his tone of approval, the little gray devil raised his head and took a look: “she looks very strong. If I find a partner in the future, she must be like this. It looks like she can hunt and give birth to strong children.”

Ji Huan:”…”

Well, this is the world of demons. Seeing Hei Dan sitting in his arms reading a newspaper with an ignorant look, Ji Huan felt that he had to prepare himself to not be surprised at the amazing appearance of his future niece-in-law.

Setting aside the joys and sorrows of the Coke family, which occupies half of the page, there is another piece of news in the corner.

“Young tycoon, x·muxx·xir xx replaced Mr. Coke as the richest man in the city and this powerful young demon instantly became the new pursuit target of the ladies in the city.”

“Ah… this person’s name is so difficult to pronounce. By the way, there has been no news from Ah Jin…” Scratching his head, Ji Huan put the newspaper he had read into the bag.

Uh, he never expected that the name he just thought was difficult to pronounce was the name of Ah Jin who he wanted to know the most about.

After reading the newspaper, Ji Huan started another day of his daily hunting.

Nowadays, Grandpa has become a powerful bone hunter. The bone rats he caught every day can feed the whole family. If this trend continues, he may even be able to set up a stall to sell them. However, Ji Huan didn’t plan to set up a stall in the past. Judging from the Little grey devil’s previous experience, he knows that bones have no market here. If he sells that kind of prey, unless there are people like himself who can only eat bones for the time being, no one else would buy them. In other cases, it is a good thing not to be bullied by other demons.

He can’t sell water either. The two stalls selling water are very powerful demons. It’s not an exaggeration to say that they are the most powerful demons in the market. If one doesn’t have a certain strength to sell water, don’t even think about it.

It stands to reason that in this situation, there is no shortage of ‘bone’ at home that Ji Huan has to hunt, but Ji Huan still insists on practicing hunting and made a simple slingshot from the materials he picked up in the garbage dump. Now he can hit the bone, but the strength is not big enough, and those bones always run away quickly after being hit once.

Although there is still a lack of strength, Ji Huan feels that his eyesight has improved significantly! The evidence is in those bones and now he can clearly see those small monsters, they have nowhere to hide from his eyes. Ji Huan doesn’t know if it’s an illusion but he always feels that he can even “see” in which direction these monsters will escape under the garbage dump!

That’s a very strange feeling, almost making him think it’s an illusion. In fact, Ji Huan really thinks it’s an illusion, so he didn’t tell anyone.

There is one more thing that Ji Huan feels a bit strange about.

About Hei Dan.

Now that there are no more hot springs at home, Ji Huan can still hold back, but it’s still a bit difficult for Grandpa and Hei Dan to manage. Especially Hei Dan, he loves to swim in hot springs the most. Several times, Ji Huan dreamt of the bathroom at home, and in the dream, he turned into Hei Dan, swimming around in the big bathtub at home, feeling very happy.

It was only then that Ji Huan realised that Hei Dan was constantly splashing on the sheets these days because he wanted to swim in a hot spring.

As he learned more about this world, Ji Huan discovered that all the demons here like to soak in hot springs. It is said that the birth of hot springs is related to the birth of the big demons. Wherever there are hot springs now, there must have been powerful demons born there before. All the inherent powerful energy melted the rocks and turned them into lava, and the groundwater boiled instantly. This is the explanation for the origin of the hot springs by the demons, and it is also what Ji Huan saw in a travel note left by Ah Jin.

There is a hot spring located in Yefar and Ji Huan has asked about the price. It costs 60 bone coins to soak in the hot spring, which is only the price for 15 minutes!

Although this price does not seem to be much compared to old newspapers and car fares, but…but…

It is still too expensive!

However, looking at Grandpa who looks sore all over and has a backache every day even though he doesn’t talk about it, and also at Hei Dan splashing on the bed sheet every night. After several days of planning, Ji Huan secretly built a pool in the backyard. It’s not big, just enough to fit one person at a time.

Anyway, they also need to water the land, wash clothes and clean the house with water. Ji Huan calculated the exact amount of water consumed everyday, and finally made such a pool. He would boil the water for Grandpa and Hei Dan to soak for a while, and they don’t need to soak every day, just every three to five times, and he doesn’t need to throw away the used water. It can be used to flush the toilet, wash clothes, and water the vegetable garden!

After two nights of busy work, Ji Huan finally gave Grandpa and Hei Dan a big surprise~

The lamb horned demon and the little demon who gets to soak in hot water again were extremely happy. Ji Huan and the two demons filled the small pool with water to the brim.

The lamb horned demon sat in the pool, trying to shrink himself into a small ball as much as possible, leaving more space for his grandson and great-grandson, and Ji Huan also made the same move as him, pressing himself against the wall of the pool, leaving a larger space for black egg.

Although there is no little yellow duck swimming ring here, black egg who once got to soak in water was very happy. He swims to Grandpa’s side, and then again to his uncle, he looks incredibly happy!

The scorching hot water made the lamb horned demon and Ji Huan drowsy after working hard for a long time. Amidst the dense mist, they seemed to have returned to their home on the mountain in Bade Town. Their tense heartstrings suddenly relaxed, and they both soon fell asleep.

In the dream, Ji Huan was soaking in the big bathroom at home with Grandpa and black egg again, the blue and white hot spring water! Constant temperature all year round, take a dip, and no worries will be left….

Wait a minute——

He seems to have forgotten something!

Ji Huan suddenly woke up.

The first thing he thought of was the water temperature: this place has high temperature and strong light radiation during the day, but it is extremely cold at night. If the water gets cold, Hei Dan may get sick!

Ah! Hei Dan——

Hei Dan is still soaking in the water! Without the swimming ring, what if something happens to him!

The first thing Ji Huan did when he woke up was to look for Hei Dan quickly. However, there was no need to look for him at all, the little black ball was lying on his chest, his little paws were tightly grasping his uncle’s right arm. Leaning in his uncle’s embrace, he was sleeping soundly.

Ji Huan picked him up very carefully, and grabbed him twice but couldn’t pull him off, so he simply let him stay like this.

After finding out that Hei Dan was fine, Ji Huan felt relieved, and then noticed another strange thing around him:

The water temperature…was hot.

Perhaps he hasn’t slept for too long, has he? Thinking like this in his heart, Ji Huan picked up the watch placed by the pool and looked at it, and was shocked: two hours have passed!

Two hours, even if the hot water is left outside, it should’ve completely cooled down. Why hasn’t the temperature of the water in their pool dropped at all? No… not only did it not cool down, but it seemed to heat up a little bit, what is this?

Ji Huan quickly woke up Grandpa, who went to sleep in the house.

Grandpa left in a daze without paying attention to the time, but Ji Huan was actually concerned about this matter in his heart. Moreover, when he woke up the next morning, he could smell a faint smell of rotten eggs from himself. This was the smell that comes after soaking in the Sulphur spring, but God knows, what their family soaked last night was clearly boiled well water mixed with cold water!

The same thing happened twice later, and after several iterations, Ji Huan finally understood who the source of the problem was.

It turned out to be Hei Dan!

As long as Hei Dan soaked in the water, the water in the pool will always be hot and smell of rotten eggs.

Well……

Has their black egg turned into a hot spring demon?

T/N note: Black egg = Hei Dan 

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