Free Web NovelChapter 403: Chapter 295: This Thing Looks Like It’ll Kill Someone If Eaten
With the danger gone, Lin Li extinguished the Fireball in his hand. His main purpose in coming here was to save lives.
Since the gray, one-horned leopard Mutant Beast was smart enough to retreat, and he was in a hurry to get home and take a shower, he decided not to give chase.
"Boss, are you okay?" a construction worker asked as he rushed to the middle-aged man’s side, helping him up from the ground.
"I’m fine. Is anyone hurt?" the middle-aged man asked after being helped to his feet.
"No one’s hurt," replied the worker who had helped him up.
"That’s good to hear. Starting tomorrow, everyone can take a few days off to rest." The middle-aged man, still shaken by the ordeal, saw the lingering terror on his employees’ faces and decided to give them a break.
Just then, a harsh scraping sound came from the side of the road. The survivors turned toward the noise to see Lin Li standing before a large tree, pulling his Spiritual Longsword from its trunk.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man immediately approached Lin Li, his face filled with gratitude.
"Sir, thank you so much. If you hadn’t intervened when you did, I would have been killed by that Mutant Beast."
Lin Li nodded, accepting the man’s gratitude, then offered a word of caution.
"You all should be more careful from now on. It’s best not to linger so close to the wilderness, especially around sunset."
"After this, we certainly won’t..." the middle-aged man said. He then added with a puzzled look,
"It’s strange, though. We’ve worked at this hour on the edge of the safe zone before, but we’ve never had a Mutant Beast cross over and attack us directly."
Lin Li remarked casually, "It’s probably because you were throwing Little Stones at the Mutant Beast’s underlings. That’s why it got angry, charged into the safe zone, and attacked you."
"Er..." Hearing this, the middle-aged man replayed the events in his mind. An embarrassed look immediately spread across his chubby face.
He felt embarrassed because, as he replayed the incident, he realized Lin Li was right.
If he hadn’t ordered his men to attack those gray wolves, he wouldn’t have provoked their leader—that gray, one-horned leopard Mutant Beast—into jumping the fence to attack them.
But if they hadn’t driven off the gray wolves that refused to leave, they couldn’t have finished laying the wire fence. ’It really was a no-win situation,’ he thought.
Right now, all Lin Li could think about was getting home for a shower. Then he could take the red mushrooms he’d found this morning over to Su Yue’s place and have her cook them.
After exchanging a few more pleasantries with the man, Lin Li said, "I have other things to take care of, so I’ll be leaving."
"Sir, could I get your contact information?" the middle-aged man asked. Seeing his savior about to leave, he wanted to get his contact details so he could have his wife prepare a gift and pay a formal visit to express his gratitude.
"There’s no need for that, and you don’t have to thank me. It was nothing... You should just focus on getting your employees out of here.
Once I’m gone, there’s no guarantee that Mutant Beast won’t circle back for another attack.
If it does circle back and I’m not here, no one will be able to save you." Anxious to get home for his shower, Lin Li shook his head, offered this final warning, then turned and left, Spiritual Longsword in hand.
"Boss, that young fellow is right. We should hurry and finish up the fence so we can get out of here..." a worker said to the middle-aged man, tearing his eyes away from Lin Li’s receding figure.
"Right." The middle-aged man, who had nearly been killed moments before, nodded immediately. He called out to his employees, telling them to work faster and finish the remaining section of the fence.
Although the construction workers were all pale with fright and their legs felt like jelly, they answered their boss’s call.
They ran back to the site of the standoff and got to work on the unfinished section of the fence.
After all, this was a government contract, and officials would be coming to inspect their work later.
If they didn’t finish it, the inspectors would discover that the crew hadn’t laid the fence according to the requirements, and their project payment would be docked.
If the project payment was docked, it would affect their own wages. That was simply not an option. So, even though they were still scared and their legs felt weak, they gritted their teeth and pushed on for the money. Such is life.
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The sound of rushing water echoed from the bathroom. A little over ten minutes later, it stopped.
Back home, Lin Li took what was supposed to be a cold shower, but the water was already lukewarm from the heat. He felt completely refreshed afterward. He’d wanted an ice-cold shower, but the weather was so hot it had warmed the water in the pipes.
The shower washed away all the fatigue from an afternoon spent hunting Mutant Beasts in the wilderness.
"DING-DONG..."
Lin Li had just stepped out of the bathroom. He was about to take the sweat-soaked camouflage fatigues he’d been wearing to the balcony sink to soak.
He would wash them later. Just then, his doorbell rang.
