Carrick’s luck was originally good today.
His physical condition is good, and he is still in his prime, but he did not choose to go to the employment market to find a job, ah… He seems to have been there before, and was also recruited by a robber group, seemingly serving as a striker. However, after a failed robbery, all the demons in their team who participated in that robbery died, except him.
That was a long, long time ago.
Later, he took advantage of this opportunity to retire. With the “knowledge” he learned during his time as a robber, he continued to rob in Yefar.
He only robbed in Yefar’s lower market area, never in any luxury areas, and he never even went to luxury areas.
Carrick was very cautious.
Don’t rob places where you shouldn’t rob, and don’t rob things that shouldn’t be robbed.
This is the “rule” that a senior told him when he was still in the robber group. However, that senior died after telling him this rule. He died during a robbery. He was greedy and cautious all his life, but in the end, he grabbed things he shouldn’t have grabbed, and robbed in places he shouldn’t have robbed.
Since then, Carrick has been very cautious.
After robbing things, he spent his money calmly, mainly on food. He didn’t want to go hunting on his own. After that robbery accident, he reflexively felt a bit afraid if he left the neighbourhood where he lives.
Call him a coward if you want, but he really became scared after that robbery.
The world outside is too scary!
Remembering what happened to him the only time he went out a long time ago, Carrick’s sturdy body trembled.
He reflexively pulled open his cloak and looked at his arm. The skin on that arm was covered with potholes, as if it had been corroded by something…
It will always be painful here. Thinking of what happened back then, his joint was shattered at that time. Although they have grown back, it is said that this kind of injury will be excruciatingly painful during rainy days. Fortunately, this is Yefar, the climate here is dry and it never rains, so as long as he’s here, it won’t be painful.
Carrick was startled, and then touched the pendant around his neck.
Then he stopped thinking about it.
He began to check his harvest today.
Today he went to three markets, grabbing one prey and two packages in total.
The prey is still fresh, but a bit small. He stretched out his teeth and tore off a piece of flesh from the body of the dead monster. He chewed it while inspecting the other two packages.
He is very cautious and never robs the locals in the market. After commuting between various markets for so long, he usually robs the weak and new people in the market. However, he also doesn’t target a specific stall and always lets them live their lives, this is the way to rob.
Carrick opened the first package. He grabbed this from a stall in a corner of the east market. He didn’t know what it was, and he just grabbed it casually.
The package was securely fastened, and it took him a lot of effort to open it. However, when he saw the contents inside, Carrick sneezed.
There was a lot of hay-like stuff inside, with a very pungent smell, and Carrick was just fumigated by this smell.
After wiping his choked tears, Carrick carefully sniffed it again.
“It seems to be the legendary spice… right?”
As a demon that has only been outside once, although Carrick is not young, he is still a demon with little experience.
However, the only time he went on a mission outside, he had eaten the local barbecue. It was not like the dry Yefar barbecue only sprinkled with salt, but also had wine and honey poured on it, along with “spice” sprinkled on it. That taste…
Tsk tsk! He still can’t forget it.
Although it’s not food or money, it’s still nice to grab spices once in a while.
With a whistle, Carrick put the package aside and then opened the last one…
Is it really a package?
It looks different from the packages Carrick has seen before. This package has been “sewn”! It’s like a belt, with a bulge in the middle, and there’s clearly something inside. However, after studying this package for a while, Carrick still couldn’t figure out how to open it!
In the end, he simply scratched it open with his claws.
Something rolled out of it…
What kind of monster is this?
Carrick was dumbfounded.
Poor Carrick grew up in Yefar. He had never played with any toys, let alone dolls, so he had no concept of dolls in his mind. He had never seen a frog, and even if he had seen it, he would not have recognized it—— Well, this doll of Hei Dan is made based on the doll that his uncle made for him back then, with a very rough craftsmanship.
The monster from another world, the little doll sewn by Hei Dan, rolled and landed on the dirty ground.
Carrick carefully observed the strange-looking thing. After making sure that it was a dead object, he grabbed it and squeezed it for a long time, then he finally cut open the doll’s belly, revealing the cotton inside.
Hei Dan’s observation was very accurate. The frog doll that his uncle sewed for him was made of white cotton. Hei Dan remembered it after seeing it once. So when he “made” a doll for his uncle, he also copied it. Now there is “cotton” inside the doll’s belly.
But Carrick didn’t know anything about cotton. After hesitating for a moment, he grabbed a handful of cotton from the belly of that “monster”‘ and tasted it.
“Bah bah!” He quickly spat out what he had just eaten.
This is something that is completely useless – Carrick’s judgement is as follows.
Unexpectedly, he was chased all this way for this package!
He remembered where he had snatched this package from, from the hands of the two unfamiliar demons in the third market. It was the first time he saw those two demons, and they were carrying a strange cart with a lot of goods on it. Then they put the money in a hidden compartment in the cart.
Among the two, the shorter demon was obviously very powerful, but the tall one was just average. They usually stay together, but occasionally they will separate when going to the bathroom.
“Watching” and “observing” are very important things that Carrick learned from that robber group. Although he didn’t learn much, it was enough.
Then there is “waiting”.
After the powerful short demon went to the bathroom, he immediately went to the stall, and then decisively stretched out his hand——
When the other party ignored the stall and chased after him, he instinctively knew that he might have grabbed something he shouldn’t have.
But the things in his hand were roughly divided into two, one was a bulging package, and the other was…a little monster with a black head.
He knows this monster.
This is a demon born from the convergence of demonic energy, almost indistinguishable from a monster. However, there is a certain chance that it can grow up, so it can barely be called a demon.
In the darkest corners of Yefar, these little demons are born occasionally. They lack intelligence and are almost unable to grow up, as they often get eaten by other demons shortly after birth. There are many little demons in Yefar, and it is not illegal to eat them if you can’t catch prey.
He had eaten a few when he was a child, but they were very unpalatable. After he could catch better prey, he never ate them again.
However, for the young demons in Yefar, this kind of little demon is still a good food, so even if it is very unpleasant to eat, this kind of demon is still caught as soon as it appears, making it difficult to encounter.
Between the two things, Carrick chose to throw away the little demon.
This is a test and a choice.
The other party kept chasing him closely. It was obvious that he had snatched something very important. He didn’t know which of the two things was the reason for the opponent’s relentless pursuit. In this case, Carrick threw away the little demon.
Throw away one, and if the other party is satisfied, he can keep the remaining larger package;
If the other party is not satisfied and continues to chase, then he will throw away the remaining packages.
Fortunately, the other party didn’t continue to chase.
Perhaps that little demon was the reason for the other party’s relentless pursuit, or perhaps the other party was satisfied with being able to recover some of the lost items.
Anyway, Carrick ran away with the rest of the package.
Although it now turned out that the package he brought back was of no use.
“How could it be possible to run a business without losing money at all? Besides, you don’t have a business.” Muttering what his senior told him back then, Carrick lit up the fire and started grilling meat.
This meat is naturally the prey he robbed, and there is salt in his cave, along with spices he grabbed today.
When it was almost roasted, Carrick stretched out his claws and crushed the hay in the small package next to him. The spicy fragrance instantly filled the entire cave, and then drifted to the garbage dump outside.
The ugly frog doll lay on the ground with its cotton white belly exposed, while Carrick wolfed down the spiced barbecue.
The barbecue was very fragrant, a bit like the taste of the past.
When he was almost done eating, Carrick walked out of the cave carrying the skeleton of the prey.
There was still some meat on the skeleton, but I don’t know if he can’t eat it or just doesn’t care about it.
The night was already very deep, and the purple moon hung in the sky, like a natural light bulb. The stench of the garbage dump filled the sky, stimulating Carrick’s seventy-percent-full stomach to suddenly become full.
Looking around at the garbage pile outside, Carrick casually threw the skeleton out, then turned around and returned to his cave.
After he left, countless shadows suddenly jumped out from every corner of the garbage heap.
This is a group of young demons living near Carrick.
They have long been attracted by the smell of the barbecue, and have been waiting for Carrick’s “leftovers” for a long time.
Unlike other demons that even eat bones, Carrick often leaves something behind. Although it is all miscellaneous, it is just enough for these little demons with poor hunting abilities to eat.
The skeleton, which smelled of minced meat and spices, was quickly devoured by a group of young demons.
Listening to the sounds outside, Carrick huddled in the cave and half-closed his eyes, ready to sleep.
He never thinks about what to do tomorrow.
Life is the same every day, just act according to the situation.
The smell of spices still lingered in the cave. Carrick sniffed it and suddenly thought of his senior again.
He could no longer remember the other party’s appearance.
However, the other party is the only demon who shared food with him.
When he was young, once he was starving to death, at that time, that senior threw a skeleton to himself.
Just like the skeleton he threw out.
Carrick’s eyes were almost closing.
A flash of green suddenly appeared in his sight. When he opened his eyes, Carrick picked up that green thing. It was a green…. The bald demon didn’t recognize this thing as a “hairband”.
But this does not prevent him from liking green.
Growing up in Yefar, where there is no green, many local demons like green.
He remembered that he also robbed a green candy sold by a little demon before.
He still hides that green candy wrapper underground in his cave.
No, it wasn’t a robbery. He paid the money, one bone coin.
Playing with the green hairband, Carrick fell asleep again.
After he fell asleep, the pattern on the green hairband suddenly started to spread, as if it had come to life, gradually twisting upwards along Carrick’s hand, until Carrick’s whole body was covered with spell-like patterns. Carrick suddenly woke up from his deep sleep!
Sweating profusely, he looked at the patterns all over his body in surprise. He wanted to try to break free, but it was useless! Not only was it useless, the patterns actually became even more dense!
His eyes were so wide that they were almost about to burst out of their sockets. In a moment of panic, Carrick suddenly heard a voice.
“Quack!”
A crisp “quack”.
Then, he saw the strange thing lying on the ground sitting up at some point.
Its belly was still open, but it sat up.
The hind paws and buttocks were on the ground, and the two slender front paws were also propped on the ground.
“Quack!”
Another “quack” sounded.
Then with a strong push of its hind paws, the monster actually jumped towards Carrick.
At the moment it jumped over, Carrick saw a crack where the monster’s mouth was supposed to be, and then the huge black hole-like mouth suddenly opened.
And then——
There was no Carrick in the cave anymore.
He was swallowed up.
The monster that swallowed Carrick suddenly grew in size.
“Quack!” It called twice, and then jumped out of Carrick’s cave.
The heavy body jumped on the garbage dump, jumping all the way west. As the body continued to jump up and down, the size of the monster became smaller. When it finally regained its original size, it had already crossed many small paths and turned onto an exceptionally clean and secluded path.
This is the path that many people are very familiar with, the path to Ji Huan’s home.
Squeezing in through the crack of the iron gate, it landed in the yard of Ji Huan’s house with a clatter.
Eroka glanced in the direction it fell, and then turned her head back.
The monster continued to jump, its body passed through the door of the house, then went straight through the door of Ji Huan’s bedroom, landing next to Ji Huan’s bed.
“Quack!” it called again.
“Guagua.” A tender little voice came from the darkness, but it was Hei Dan sitting on the big bed.
Ji Huan was sleeping soundly beside him, but Hei Dan sat alone on the big bed, calling for Guagua for a long time.
Until Guagua reappeared in front of him.
With his little body lying on the bed, Hei Dan stretched out his paws towards Guagua under the bed.
Guagua obediently let itself be caught by Hei Dan, and then spit out a green hairband.
“Ahh~” Hei Dan was very happy.
Patting Guagua’s little head, Heidan placed it in its usual place on the bed. Then he crawled back into bed, hugged his uncle’s arm, and fell back into a dream again.
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