To be honest, Hao Ren thought it was extremely unreliable to let those four masters continue challenging "Man and Nature" out in the wild. The ascetic lifestyle was simply too different from that of ordinary people. In the Dream Plane, one could explain it through their devout faith, but how was he supposed to explain it in their own homeland? Modern city dwellers would probably find it hard to understand why a group of people with houses to live in would insist on digging caves in the wilderness, let alone why they would chant sutras for two hours in subzero northwesterly winds, dig pits and build bonfires in someone else's backyard, or roam the hills around a city hunting wild rabbits...
But after going through so many incidents, Hao Ren had weathered his share of storms. When it came to strange people and bizarre events, he was no longer as stiff and constrained as he had been when he was just an ordinary citizen. He was quite open-minded about it: South Suburbs was sparsely populated, and the masters' lifestyle was merely strange. As long as it did not cause trouble, they could do whatever they wanted. Besides, it was not as if there were few people doing performance art these days... Those artists did things far more outrageous than "Man and Nature."
And so, the four new tenants settled in through this marvelous arrangement. They came home to sleep every night, then ran out into the wilderness behind the house as soon as dawn broke to contemplate life. Their basic daily needs consisted of a few steamed buns and a suitable amount of tap water. In fact, if there had been underground water here, Big Beard would have been eager to dig a well behind Hao Ren's house with the