When sunlight streamed into the bedroom, Hao Ren was still lost in a dream. But the repeated shouting from outside the door suddenly forced him awake. In a daze, he vaguely heard Lily pounding hard on his door while yelling, "Landlord! Something terrible has happened! Landlord, something terrible has happened!"
Hao Ren sat up groggily, not yet having time to open his eyes, when a loud crash came from nearby. Then, through the slits of his eyes, he saw two shattered door panels flying toward him with astonishing force. The sight nearly scared his soul out of his body. Hao Ren sprang up with the greatest agility of his life and dodged the first door panel—only to be slammed firmly against the wall by the second.
As soon as the door panel slid down, Lily pounced in after it, pinned Hao Ren against the wall, and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Landlord, something terrible has happened!!"
By then, even if Hao Ren had been a hundred-thousandth as sleepy as before, this suddenly deranged Husky spirit had completely exhausted it. He practically felt as if everything from his lumbar spine to his brain was congested. Using all his strength, he barely managed to push Lily's head back a little. "What the hell are you doing first thing in the morning?! You've almost made something terrible happen to me, you know that?! You smashed away a tenth of my shield with those two bangs, got it?!"
He had deliberately exaggerated things to scare the hundred-year-old dog demon in her crazed state. But to his surprise, the trick that had always worked before failed this time. Lily did not react at all. Still clutching his arm, she pointed frantically out the window. "Land... Landlord! Look outside!"
Only then did Hao Ren