Volume 1 Animal World Chapter 11: The Confused Loyal Dog and the Gentle Male God
"I checked today and the soil on the lawn is quite soft," Mu said happily. "We can try to dig a trench at the edge of the fence and escape from it."
This proposal immediately excited everyone, and a glimmer of hope flashed in their eyes.
Mu Yiran turned around and glanced at Ke Xun, and saw that he was still in the same posture as before, with his eyelids drooping, motionless.
The giant bull began to distribute lunch, and all the nuts were given away by the people in the painting - because the leader wanted them, no one dared to grab them.
In order to have more energy to dig in the afternoon, everyone ate more nuts and drank the water that sprayed out of the pipe when the giant bull flushed the compartment, which everyone saved in empty beverage bottles yesterday.
Ke Xun didn't eat, but just sat there, with one leg bent, his arm resting on his knee, and half of his face buried in his arm.
Wei Dong, who was standing next to him, noticed something was wrong with him after eating for a while. He was about to ask something when he saw Mu Yiran coming over and he made way for him.
Mu Yiran sat down next to Ke Xun and said in a calm voice: "Ke Xun, look at me."
Ke Xun tilted his head, resting it on his arms, his dark eyes looking at his face.
Mu Yiran felt that at this moment, he was like a baby who had just opened his eyes to see the world. His black and white eyes were full of confusion and bewilderment about this huge world.
Facing such a face and such a pair of eyes, Mu Yiran did not notice that the lines on his face were softening unconsciously. He just met those eyes and spoke to him in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have let you go."
"It's okay." Ke Xun said. The voice came from the crook of his arms, like a tender and fragile child.
Mu Yiran pursed his lips, and his voice became even lighter and deeper: "Forget those, Ke Xun. Think of this place as a painting, as a horrible and bloody R-rated movie. You have to know... people who die in the painting do not die the same way in the real world.
“After returning to the real world from the first painting, I went to look for the people who died in the painting. Although they were no longer alive at that time, their relatives and friends still remembered them, and it was confirmed that they did not experience a terrible death in reality.
"You can regard the death in this painting as an exaggerated image. It is just rendered bloody and horrific. There is no need to substitute it into reality, and there is no need to be affected by it. Do you understand, Ke Xun?"
"I understand." Ke Xun said.
Mu looked at him in delight.
He only understood verbally. His dark, blank eyes and calm face still clearly showed that he was still deeply trapped in the hell on earth just now.
Mu Yiran finally sighed softly, raised his hand and placed it on the back of Ke Xun's neck, "Rest for a while." His hand was resting on the natural V-shaped tip of his hair, and his palm was licked by the fur. The slender fingers resting on the anterior carotid artery exerted a little force, and in just two seconds, Ke Xun's body tilted and fell on him.
When Ke Xun woke up, he heard Bi Jing's screams from afar. He got up and rushed to the gate to look out, and saw a giant bull wearing a skirt holding him high in the air.
"What's the matter?" Ke Xun asked Wei Dong, who was standing beside him with a frightened look on his face.
“I don’t know,” Wei Dong shook his head. “That female cow… that cow was brought in by the administrator. It seemed like she was selecting someone. After a while, she picked Bi Jing. I don’t know what she’s going to do. It’s still daytime. She’s not going to be eaten again…”
Ke Xun was silent, took a look and then left the fence gate.
When he turned around, he saw Mu Yiran looking at him. He paused and smiled: "I'm fine. Thank you."
Mu Yiran didn't say anything, but that didn't mean he didn't see the slight tremor in his hands when he heard Wei Dong say the word "eat" just now.
Bi Jing was taken away by the cow. His screams only caused a brief commotion among the humans, but things soon calmed down and they continued to eat, drink and have fun numbly.
The caretaker who had sent the cow away came back and released all the humans out of the farmhouse.
Off-screen, people quietly moved to the distant fence, and one person took turns keeping watch while the others started digging the ditch.
The grass here was indeed soft, and with five people working at the same time, their speed was surprisingly not slow. In half an afternoon, they had dug a shallow trench large enough for one person to lean over and crawl out.
But this was not a good time to escape, as dinner time was soon approaching. Every time the manager drove the humans back to the farmhouse, he would count their number. If six people were missing at once, he would definitely check around and catch up immediately.
Only after nightfall, when the administrator has cleaned the farmhouse and left, will there be enough time to escape and run as far as possible.
"What if they pick people from our side tonight?" Dong Dong asked worriedly.
"Wasn't Bi Jing arrested? Maybe it's him tonight..." Wei Dong felt that what he said was a little unkind. Although the facts were obvious, he still kept his mouth shut.
"Even if we have to choose from among us," Zhu Haowen obviously had no psychological burden of "righteousness" and "morality", and said directly, "It's worth sacrificing one to protect the others."
Everyone fell silent.
Although no one wants to be the one sacrificed, they have to admit that what he said makes sense.
After dinner, people off-screen became tense. If they wanted to pick someone, it would be within the next one to two hours.
They were each waiting silently and nervously in a corner by the wall, when suddenly they felt a bright white light shining in from the window. They turned around and saw that the headlights above the lawn outside were turned on, illuminating the large open space in front of the farmhouse as bright as day. Several giant bulls were walking towards this side with several other giant bulls that had never been seen before. The giant bulls that had never been seen before had a cage on their hooves, and in each cage, there was a human being.
"What are you doing?" Wei Dong asked in confusion.
No one could answer him. Everyone just stared outside in silence and vigilance.
The door of the farmhouse was opened with a crash, and two keeper cows walked in and headed straight for the compartment where the person outside the picture was.
“No…” Wei Dong’s eyes showed great fear and despair, “It’s time to choose someone…”
The stark disparity in body shape, height and strength made people so miserable that they couldn't even think of running away. Everyone could only stand there in despair and helplessness, waiting for death to come.
The giant bulls walked to the door, looked down at the crowd, stretched out a hoof, picked up the people in the compartments one by one, and checked and selected them. From time to time, two bulls communicated in a low voice.
In the end, they selected four people in total.
Dong Dong, Mo Mao, Ke Xun, He and Mu were all pleased.
“Ke’er—” Wei Dong was shocked and heartbroken, “Why—why are there three people—”
The screaming stopped abruptly here.
Why can't it be three people? The painting never stipulates that three people won't die at the same time in one night.
"Doctor Qin, knock him out!" Ke Xun yelled at Qin Ci.
However, Qin Ci was unable to bring himself to do anything until Ke Xun and the others were dragged out of the farmhouse.
The four men were carried to the open space outside the farmhouse. There were no tables, chairs or hot pots, nor were there any sharp knives or wooden barrels. There was only an empty ground, a dozen giant cows, and the people in cages carried on their hooves.
The cows were communicating. One of them brought something like a lottery stick, and each cow drew a stick from it.
After the lot was shown, two of the cows stood out and the rest stepped back, forming a circle, leaving the space in the middle empty.
The two cows put down the cages in their hands, released the people in the cages, and then backed away with the cages and stood outside the field.
The people in the two cages were both extremely strong and tall men with ferocious looks and a bloody and murderous aura.
The two men glared at each other, baring their teeth viciously, and walked around in circles facing each other in a test. Then, suddenly, they jumped up at the same time, pounced on each other with incredible speed, punching and kicking, and engaged in a fierce battle.
"Fuck your mother... Is this cockfighting?!" Dong Dong finally understood.
He has watched videos of cockfighting on the Internet, and they are by no means as fun .
It was an extremely cruel, bloody, and perverted behavior that made people feel extremely uncomfortable.
He still remembers the video from a few years ago, the bloodstained and mutilated limbs of the defeated rooster as it died tragically.
He didn't understand who came up with this form of entertainment and where their psychological pleasure came from.
Of course, the thought only flashed through his mind, and all he said about the video was "F*ck", and the most comments the video received were jokes like "a bunch of noobs fighting each other".
He didn't have enough sentimentality to sympathize with a chicken, to think about their thoughts and emotions. They were just chickens, birds, and lower animals.
They also don't know that the roosters that die in battle with pride and dignity are just "winks" in the eyes of humans.
The two humans fighting in the circle were clearly different in strength. One of them had a bloody face and three or four teeth were missing.
However, he was still struggling to hold on and fight hard, as if fighting was the only thing in his life. In fighting, it was either life or death.
So he died, beaten to death by someone stronger than him, punch after punch.
The giant bulls clapped and whistled, creating a great noise.
The dead were carried away and thrown into the slaughter room, and the survivors were put back into the cage, and their masters fed them food through the cracks in the cage as a reward.
Some of the giant bulls took out things that looked like money and handed them to their victorious human masters, ending a round of cockfighting-style gambling.
The second round started soon, and the one released into the arena was a stronger human than the previous one, and Mo Niu from the Niu Family Farm.
As if he was used to such occasions, Mo Chen excitedly and without hesitation rushed towards his opponent: "Man, the consequences of angering me are serious. You can't bear it. I will let you taste my big thing and you will cry and beg me!"
Mo Xun, he was the last leader of the humans in Niu Family Farm. Although he was defeated by Mu Yiran, he was still strong enough. He was tall, strong, handsome, full of fighting spirit and ambition, intimidation and pride. Even Ke Xun did not dare to underestimate him.
However, the strong Mo Xun was knocked out by his opponent's heavy punch.
The opponent only threw one punch, which hit him hard on the head. He then flew backwards and twitched a few times after falling to the ground, and then he didn't move anymore.
The giant bulls watching burst into laughter, and the managers of the Niu Family Farm seemed a little embarrassed and annoyed. They weighed the three remaining people in their hands, as if choosing the one who was strong enough to fight with their opponent, and then their eyes fell on the new leader of the humans they raised, Mu Yiran.
