Bai Yang had gotten his driver's license when he was nineteen, and he frequently drove Bai Jianjun's car. His skills were actually quite good, but he had never driven a heavy-duty truck. However, the principles were mostly the same, and coupled with the fact that the suburban night was desolate enough to let ghosts hold a convention, he wasn't afraid of anything going wrong.
He hadn't considered the serious question of whether his driver's license was even rated for a heavy truck...
He drove the heavy truck to a desolate stretch of road where not a single ghost was in sight and parked it. Next came the crucial part!
"It's nighttime over there as well, and the timber is in the village, but when I had them ready, I told them to leave it in an inconspicuous corner. A little care and it should be fine."
As for the villagers' reactions the next day after the timber vanished, he hadn't given it a single thought...
Pondering to himself, Bai Yang formed a plan. He pulled out the keys, engaged the handbrake, closed the door tightly, walked around the vehicle, and climbed into the cargo bed.
The one he had rented was a box-type heavy truck with a good twenty or thirty wheels alone, making hauling forty or fifty tons feel like child's play.
He pulled the cargo doors shut with some effort, walked all the way to the innermost corner, looked around and nodded, then vanished from the truck bed in a flash. The next moment, he appeared in the wooden bedroom of the Wildling Village.
"Good thing lighting is scarce over here, pitch black makes work easier." Listening to the quiet village, Bai Yang nodded with satisfaction.
He cautiously opened the bedroom door. However, Bai Yang underestimated the vigilance of the villagers here. Utilizing the dim moonlight, the very moment he opened the door, Bai Yang saw the girl sleeping on the 'living room' floor immediately sit up and stare right at him.
"It's fine, go back to sleep. I'm just going to the restroom."
Regardless of whether she could understand, Bai Yang said this with a guilty conscience while gesturing.
The girl muttered a string of incomprehensible syllables, then pulled the animal pelt back over herself and went back to sleep. However, a pair of eyes blinked and blinked in the dark, and her heartbeat was a little fast.
It was pitch-black, so why was Bai Yang sneaking out the door? What was he trying to do? The answer seemed ready to come out. The girl felt a bit shy, a bit apprehensive, and also a bit expectant...
Caught in this sort of dazed state of mind, the girl waited a while, but instead of Bai Yang sneaking over to her side, she heard the barking of dogs coming from down below the house, followed by Bai Yang's panicked, frantic shouting.
All thoughts vanished. The girl flung off the animal pelt, grabbed a stick from somewhere, and rushed out in a flurry. She followed the stairs down and, by the moonlight, saw that Bai Yang was being besieged by dogs.
With a sharp cry from her, the two large dogs whimpered twice and scurried off with their tails between their legs. The girl hurried over to check on Bai Yang's condition.
Bai Yang was in a wretched state. If he hadn't jumped up and scrambled onto a clothes-drying tree branch at the very first moment, he probably would have already been dog food by now. As he looked down at the girl staring up at him, lingering fear mingled with a touch of awkwardness.
"I just wanted to come out for a stroll..." scrambling down clumsily, Bai Yang said awkwardly. Whether the other person could understand was an entirely different matter.
The girl addressed Bai Yang in a melodious voice, chattering away. Bai Yang guessed that she was probably saying he must be accompanied by someone whenever he wanted to go out...
"I didn't see any dogs in this village during the day! Good grief, are the dogs over here mutated breeds? Their size is almost catching up to lions and tigers!"
While muttering to himself, Bai Yang was also terrified. If he had been bitten, wouldn't he have lost half his life?
Would you call encountering something like this tragic or not? Fortunately, a savior arrived just in time...
Then came the next problem: with a person planted right beside him, how was he supposed to transport the timber without a sound? Knocking her unconscious wouldn't be a bad method, but the problem was that Bai Yang estimated he couldn't beat this seemingly fragile soft-hearted beauty. If he used an electric stun baton for a sneak attack, Bai Yang reckoned he had a very high chance of success, but he couldn't bring himself to do it...
Just over ten meters away was the stack of Red Sandalwood squares tucked into the corner, and right beside him was a hazy beauty under the moonlight. Bai Yang gritted his teeth, stamped his foot, and decided to risk it!
"I hope she's as obedient as usual."
Muttering to himself, Bai Yang walked over to the girl. After a moment of thought, he pointed to the side to signal her to move over. The girl understood this action, stood up in confusion, and watched Bai Yang.
Then Bai Yang walked right up in front of her and gestured wildly. Seeing that the girl didn't understand, he simply reached out and covered her eyes. After he let go, the girl's eyes opened again, so he covered them once more...
After doing this a few times, the girl understood his intention and closed her eyes without speaking, making no fuss and not moving. However, her breathing began to grow hurried. Beneath the moonlight, the beauty's eyelashes fluttered, carrying a unique, hazy sense of aesthetics.
Bai Yang almost forgot his main objective from watching her. Shaking off the flutter in his heart, he faced the girl and stepped backward, step by step, until he reached the edge of the stacked Red Sandalwood planks. He cautiously climbed to the top of the timber pile, and seeing that the girl still hadn't opened her eyes, he grabbed a piece and instantly vanished.
Back in the truck bed on Earth's side, he casually dropped the plank and flashed right back...
The girl hadn't opened her eyes. Excellent, continue!
After a few more trips, the girl still kept her eyes closed and stood obediently. Bai Yang grew bolder, checking only every few turns to see if she had opened her eyes.
However, shortly after, Bai Yang was dripping with sweat—half from tension, half from exhaustion.
Although the Red Sandalwood had already been split into individual square timbers, they weren't dry, and every single piece weighed dozens of catties. Transporting this stuff didn't require him to carry it on his back while running, but for a semi-recluse like him, it was still an extraordinary physical chore.
"I'm such an idiot! Why do I always have to pick it up? As long as I grab it, isn't that enough?"
While mentally cursing himself for an idiot, Bai Yang tested it out. Sure enough, it worked! There was no need to lift it; he only needed to hold onto it to take it over there. With that method, efficiency increased. He could transport two pieces at a time, and at an even faster speed!
The result of higher efficiency was that Bai Yang kept flashing, flashing, flashing. The large pile of Red Sandalwood squares steadily shrank, and in less than half an hour, it was all done. The heavy truck's cargo bed over there wasn't even full yet...
Once finished, Bai Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He looked over and saw that the girl was still standing obediently under the moonlight, but her mouth was puckered up in a pout, looking somewhat aggrieved...
"It's fine now, let's go back," Bai Yang walked over and said.
The other party didn't react, and only then did he realize she couldn't understand a single word he was saying. After a moment of thought, he reached out and pried her eyes open with his fingers.
No sooner had he done this than the girl suddenly threw herself into his arms and began to sob, her whole body trembling as she looked incomparably heartbroken...
This was awkward. It left Bai Yang completely at a loss. I didn't bully you, what are you crying for? You're making it look like I did something heinous to you...
Just pretend she's a 'girl', Bai Yang muttered inwardly.
He reached out and gently patted the girl's back, comforting her, "Be good, don't cry. You won't look pretty if you keep crying. Look, I didn't even do anything to you, did I? Besides, we don't share a language, so I have no idea what you're trying to express..."
Even though she couldn't understand, after half an hour of Bai Yang's completely nonsensical comforting, she finally calmed down. Then she lowered her head, looking utterly dejected, and walked on ahead...
Bai Yang had no clue what she meant, but he just scratched his head and followed behind.
Back in the tree house, the girl lay down on the ground, covered herself with the animal pelt, and curled up to sleep. Bai Yang returned to his room with a tangle of conflicted feelings. After closing the door and failing to figure out what was wrong with her, he sighed and vanished from this side once more.
Back in the heavy truck, he looked at the messy half-carload of lumber. In his eyes, all of this was money!
He closed the cargo doors, climbed into the cab, shut that door too, and took out his phone to check the time. It was only around twelve-some in the morning. Setting his alarm for eight o'clock in the morning, he headed back to the tree house to sleep.
Yet the sound of the girl's sobbing lingered in his ears, refusing to fade away.
"What kind of mess is this? Looks like that girl is latched onto me now, but the problem is I haven't the foggiest why she's like this. I don't know the first thing about the customs and situation over here, so I wouldn't dare have any wild thoughts..."
With a chaotic mess of thoughts spinning in his head, Bai Yang couldn't fall asleep no matter what...
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